Favourite films

Blade Runner is great but needs to the directors cut.

Recently "the lobster" stands out as a brilliant film, very very dry homour though.

Also very dry and brilliant is "Dr Strangelove" cold war comedy

From being very young I haved loved "the day the earth stood still" home of the classic quote "Klaatu barada nikto" 

WALL-E will forever be a favourite of mine. I normally find characters and people difficult to understand but that movie does it beautifully with characters that are almost mute. I've seen it thirty nine times and I still cry with how glorious it is.

The Wicker Man, says it all about 'belief systems'.

'Blade Runner', an absolute must.

'Soylent Green', ooh, scary, and I can see the growing potential for it...

'A matter of Life and Death', cheap philosophy but an interesting exploration. As if...

'Dead Poet's Society', yup, NTs...

With all the comments about Blade Runner, I'm definitely going to have to put that on my "to watch" list - I've never seen it before!

Technophobe23, I agree about editors, and IMHO they are the great unsung heroes of film production - they can really make a difference to a film!

Apparently the original version was Harrison Ford's favourite too. The 'director's cut' did away with that brilliant flying out of the grim technolopolis (made that word up but seems to fit) into another green world, and it also cut the brilliant line: "They didn't know how long they'd have together. But then again, who does?"

Anyone who likes Donnie Darko - my advice is to avoid the Director's cut of that too - it is absolutely terrible in comparison, and an excellent demonstration for the need for editors!

Telstar, I will look out for 'A Matter of Life and Death.'

The 196o's  Time Machine was a brilliant film, and I won't give the ending away either.

Technophobe23,

The original Blade Runner was the best one in my opinion too, and the music by Vangelis really suits the film.

Regarding my earlier post, "A Matter Of Life And Death" was actually 1946, not 1945 as stated.

Also worth mentioning is that it co-starred Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Marius Goring, and Kim Hunter, great actors all.

I love Blade Runner too. I also love Donnie Darko, Mulholland Drive, and most Coen broithers films.  I really hate Star Wars and just about every other sci-fi film I've seen, but Blade Runner stands out on an altogether higher level (in my opinion). Has to be the original version though, not the 'director's cut', which ruins the ending.

I love Blade Runner, and AI (Artificial Intelligence) and The Bicentennial Man.

Not sure why I chose three films about androids though. 

The best film is 'The Royal Tenanbaums' by Wes Anderson who also made 'The Grand Budapest Hotel', awesome flims!  

Thanks for the recommendations. I will check out those films 

Life of Brian! The funniest film ever made, surely?

Hi Hope,

My all time favourite film is "A Matter Of Life And Death", made in 1945, starring David Niven.  It's a wonderful film, and one poll opined it was the second greatest British film ever made.

Another firm favourite is "The Time Machine" made in 1960, based on the H.G. Wells book of the same name.  It has a wonderful final line at the end, which I won't quote as it will spoil it if you haven't seen the film before!

There are many others (mostly 30 years or older) that I enjoy, but the two films above are ones I watch every time they are shown on TV.