I love a good film. I go through phases. Recently I have been watching Frozen over and over (a classic). I also quite like Nanny McPhee, and I love the Lion King. What are your favourites?
I love a good film. I go through phases. Recently I have been watching Frozen over and over (a classic). I also quite like Nanny McPhee, and I love the Lion King. What are your favourites?
Hope said:I love a good film. I go through phases. Recently I have been watching Frozen over and over (a classic). I also quite like Nanny McPhee, and I love the Lion King. What are your favourites?
1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
2. Seven Samurai (1954)
3. The Host (2006)
4. Sanjuro (1962)
5. High Noon (1952)
Anything directed by Quentin Tarantino really, but I feel like Kill Bill Vol. 1 is the crown jewel of his movies. It's definitely my favorite. Also, The Spirit is a good movie. I haven't watched it in a while, but it's kind of a more grown up superhero movie. I also really like the aesthetic of it.
Got to be "As good as it gets" with Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt. Always makes me cry.
and "Good Will Hunting" because of the way he makes good in the end.
The original "Jungle Book" always makes me laugh and "Aladdin". Brilliant fantasy and escapism.
One of the first films I ever saw was "A square peg in a round Hole" with Norman Wisdom which had me rolling in the aisles with laughter. Slapstick as good as Chaplin.
Laurel and Hardy films were shown in our local church hall on a saturday morning back in the 50's. Sixpence to get in. Some of them I found a bit scary I must admit like the one where Hardy is hanging out of the hospital window. Ha ha.
So many. ?.
Orginial star wars return of the jedi Saw 13 Times In The Cinema at in my teenage years
All time favourite has to be it's a wonderful life Jimmy Stewart story of a man realising his life he has although not how he imagine is "a wonderful life". I love this because even when life gets tough you can win through.
Witness starring Harrison Ford out when I just wanted to runaway to join the amish Very young adult at the time.
Independence day. Daft self effacing doesn't t take its self seriously and well the goodies win and the alien well find out for yourself.
Lastly chick flicks where they fall in love and although life is tough they win through. E.g sleepless in settle.
loving the disscuson here.
The shinnig film is considered by some as viechle for telling a different story, this is well told in the documentary Room 237. I shudder of the thought of remaking his work, some things ashould be left alone.
Saying that despite being a Hitchcock fan there is a version of The Birds where all the birds were removed from the film and it strangly works...long shots of empty climbing frames , telegraph wires and folk running from a invisable foe.
ASDfighter said:My all time favorite has to be Harry Potter! I am utterley obsessed with it and I'm not afraid to say so I know all the facts and all the spells! I also love The Breakfast Club!
I've always found Harry Potter a bit creepy because of the general atmosphere of malevolence in the stories. Too many strange creatures in it for my taste, I'm afraid.
My all time favorite has to be Harry Potter! I am utterley obsessed with it and I'm not afraid to say so I know all the facts and all the spells! I also love The Breakfast Club!
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I think the very formulaic aspect of Pixar movies and their copies got old fast: it's the same exaggerated facial expressions used over and over, the shoutiness, the basic premise of slightly annoying animals hamming it up and so on. I dunno, I sound like I'm just being an old fart, but I've always felt that way about that sort of stuff, by which I mean the cartoon equivalent that pre-dated it (although not Tom & Jerry, obviously, since that was awesome).
Disney's offerings have often kinda bothered me from the cultural appropriation aspect, though. Then again, the same can be levelled at much of Hollywood and film-making in general, Jackson's de-anglicised version of Lord of the Rings being a fairly recent example.
Well, once you've established a 'brand' you can milk it till it's dry. This can apply from movies to David Beckham!
Look what dinosaurs did for the film industry.
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ah Stanley Krubrick, always makes one think, great film maker, lots of intersting theroies about his film making.
And I think it is so difficult to make successful re-makes of his films because he was such a perfectionist.
Stephen King thought he got 'The Shining' fundamentally wrong, though - even though it was a good film in itself. It just wasn't at all faithful to the book. King was hugely disappointed by it. He thought Kubrick missed something fundamental about the Jack Torrance character. But I suppose it was Kubrick's vision as a film-maker, reinterpreting King's vision as a writer.
I love both the film and the book. But they are quite different in the sensibilities behind their execution. King is a religious man. Kubrick wasn't. I think this is evident in the differences between the book and the film. I don't think Kubrick had a full enough grasp on the supernatural and spiritual, so in is vision Torrance became the architect of all the horror. King saw Torrance more as a channel, or cipher.
To be perfectly honest, Tom, I wasn't totally happy with the Kubrick version but then, artistic license and all that!
Did you know they brought out a 'made-for-TV version' (I forget exactly when) that was shown over several installments? It built up the story much more gradually and I think King had more control over the screenplay so that it was more faithful to his novel. Of course, it's not really fair to compare a movie that people have to sit and watch over a couple of hours or so to a TV version that can be drawn out but perhaps the original movie was meant for more general consumption rather than to cater for King's fans.
As I recall, King himself made a cameo appearance as a bandleader or something as the hotel 'came alive.' (Echoes of Alfred Hitchcock).
Martian Tom said:I just find everything Disney, in a contemporary context especially, to be deeply sinister. It's ultra-conservative thinking couched in nauseatingly-appealing cutesiness...
That's a wonderfully cynical song! But yeah, I get that impression too. It seems that they've corrupted so much stuff so it can be adapted to promote their own values.
I am in such a bad mood today though, I probably shouldn't comment about anything else. At this rate I'll just end up growling at random people.
Martian Tom said:I don't like anything Disney, unless it's the early stuff: 101 Dalmatians, Snow White, Peter Pan, etc. I can't stand Pixar movies, for some odd reason. Just can't watch 'em. Not even Toy Story!
I think the very formulaic aspect of Pixar movies and their copies got old fast: it's the same exaggerated facial expressions used over and over, the shoutiness, the basic premise of slightly annoying animals hamming it up and so on. I dunno, I sound like I'm just being an old fart, but I've always felt that way about that sort of stuff, by which I mean the cartoon equivalent that pre-dated it (although not Tom & Jerry, obviously, since that was awesome).
Disney's offerings have often kinda bothered me from the cultural appropriation aspect, though. Then again, the same can be levelled at much of Hollywood and film-making in general, Jackson's de-anglicised version of Lord of the Rings being a fairly recent example.
Cm114 said:In repy to Mlle Lermontova,is it the re telling of the same story by different people/medium that interests you? I ask as Ive enjoyed the different stances in telling the same story e.g Invasion of the body snatchers has been retold through many different lenses, very interesting.
I do think the way an original story is interpreted is very important because the person or persons doing the re-telling have latitude in placing their own perspectives on the basic framework of the plot.
I liken it to a piece of music: No two interpretations of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, for example, will be identical because the conductor will want to 'sculpture' the work in his own, subjective manner. This is what art is all about. This goes for any piece of music, movie, book, etc.
Stanley Kubrick seemed very dedicated to interpreting whatever he did in his personal style, and we are richer for it.
ah Stanley Krubrick, always makes one think, great film maker, lots of intersting theroies about his film making.
In repy to Mlle Lermontova,is it the re telling of the same story by different people/medium that interests you? I ask as Ive enjoyed the different stances in telling the same story e.g Invasion of the body snatchers has been retold through many different lenses, very interesting.
blessed be the cheese makers
Barry Lyndon ... for the beauty of the photography ... and the tensest duel scene ever!
2001 - a film you need to watch over and over again to try to figure out what it is about!
The first 20 minutes of Up .. oh, so sad!
Pinocchio and Dumbo ... some of the best animation ever done by Disney ...
Jack Frost ... how a stupid film about a snowman has me in floods of tears every time I see it I don't know!
Witchfinder General. Another beautifully photographed film, shows that the real horror was in the events of the past not in the film itself.
.. and many more that I can't think of at the moment!
