Apolytoner's Favorite Films

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Guynemer




Of all of Mel Brooks' films, that's your favorite? Don't get me wrong, it's a hilarious movie. (I will often find myself humming the Inquisition song... and who can forget: "He's a eunuch... HE'S a eunuch... He's dead!") But better than The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles?

You took the thoughts right out of my mind!

And while I'm at it, what's with all the love for Apocolypse Now Redux? There's a very good reason why they left all that stuff on the cutting room floor. Much of it was boring / not as high quality as the rest of the film, and even the good stuff ruined the pacing of the film while making further inroads into its plausibility. I love the original and had high hopes for the extras, but in the end 1 + 1 ended up zero. A much better film to scratch that itch is Hearts of Darkness, which is a documentary by Coppola's wife about the making of A.N.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
1. Amadeus (that no one else so far has listed this is a damning indictment of Apolyton movie taste!)
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3. The Empire Strikes Back <<===

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
10. A Christmas Story (a movie I have to watch whenever it's on)

I agree with you here, it's simply the best Chrismtas film ever made.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
1. Amadeus (that no one else so far has listed this is a damning indictment of Apolyton movie taste!)

I'd rather watch Tom Hulce in 'National Lampoon's Animal House' with Mozart playing in the background.

In fact I'd rather watch Tom Hulce playing Mozart on the kazoo. Hated the play, cordially loathed the film.

[Verres]

In alphabetical order...

Apocalypse Now
Days of Wine and Roses
Groundhog Day
Hannibal
It's a Wonderful Life
LA Confidential
Love Actually
The Usual Suspects
The Wickerman
Trainspotting

(some of those are just cos of memories attached to them though, I may not be so keen on rewatching the films without that)

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Verres
In alphabetical order...


Groundhog Day

LA Confidential

The Wickerman

I thought Bill Murray was superb in 'Groundhog Day'- like a dry run for 'Lost in Translation'. It's that melancholy, lugubrious quality he has, with the rage bubbling underneath.


I loved ' L. A. Confidential' with the 'Sunset Boulevard' narrator and the compelling performance by Kim Basinger (of all people!) as the Veronica Lookie-Lakie hooker with a heart. There were so many good performances in it- and I loved the way the whole audience gasped when Spacey's character was shot.


'The Wickerman' is one of my favourites because it's so unsettling and bizarre, in so many different ways- the fake traditional soundtrack (songs that sound like old folk songs but aren't) the Scots who aren't (Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt, Diane Cilento) and the setting and denouement, when the audience realizes it's been fooled. A success despite all its travails.

[DeathByTheSword]

1.donny darko (duh)
2.ghost in the shell
3.garden state
4. full metal jacket
5.crazy/beautiful
6.pieces of april
7.mall rats
8.star wars: return of the jedi
9.finding neverland
10.Mullholland drive

EDIT: removed bad santa for mulholland drive

[ajbera]

No particular order (except for #1):

1) Blade Runner
2) Jaws
3) The Godfather
4) Goodfellas
5) The Lord of the Rings (all 3 collectively)
6) The Thing (John Carpenter remake)
7) Raising Arizona
8) The Man Who Would Be King
9) Raiders of the Lost Ark
10) True Romance

[alva]

1.donny darko (duh)

Forgot that one..

[Donegeal]

1. LotR (I count them as one movie)
2. Spiderman (I & II)
3. StarWars (Might as well pile all the originalls in here. If I watch'em, it consecutively)
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Private Ryan
6. Diggstown (Nobody seems to enjoy this one as much as me. Great Mafia boxing movie.)
7. Shawshack Redemption
8. Aliens
9. Matrix
10. Last Crusade

For those that don't know Diggstown, I highly recomend it. One of the greatest (and funny) fight scenes ever. It really gets you cheering for good guys.

[centrifuge]

Star Wars
A Beautiful Mind
LotR: RotK
Planet of the Apes (the original)
Shawshank
Goodfellas
Private Ryan
We were soldiers
Clerks
Napoleon Dynamite
Pulp Fiction

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Donegeal
1. LotR (I count them as one movie)
2. Spiderman (I & II)
3. StarWars (Might as well pile all the originalls in here. If I watch'em, it consecutively)
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Private Ryan
6. Diggstown (Nobody seems to enjoy this one as much as me. Great Mafia boxing movie.)
7. Shawshack Redemption
8. Aliens
9. Matrix
10. Last Crusade

For those that don't know Diggstown, I highly recomend it. One of the greatest (and funny) fight scenes ever. It really gets you cheering for good guys.

Don't you mean ?



ACK!

[alva]

Being condescending are we, Tubski?

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by alva
Being condescending are we, Tubski?

No, you have to see Diggstown to understand......

ACK!

[Solomwi]

Originally posted by Sikander

And while I'm at it, what's with all the love for Apocolypse Now Redux? There's a very good reason why they left all that stuff on the cutting room floor. Much of it was boring / not as high quality as the rest of the film, and even the good stuff ruined the pacing of the film while making further inroads into its plausibility. I love the original and had high hopes for the extras, but in the end 1 + 1 ended up zero. A much better film to scratch that itch is Hearts of Darkness, which is a documentary by Coppola's wife about the making of A.N.

Because AN is a surreal journey as much as anything. I thought the extras did a good job playing to that aspect. They weren't the most exciting scenes, but the movie doesn't work on that level if they only show the highlights. In the original, we've got enough downtime shown to make it work, but I still thought it worked better with the extra scenes. For the record, I'll take either version and not complain. I simply like Redux a little bit better.

[Donegeal]

Originally posted by Tuberski


No, you have to see Diggstown to understand......

ACK!

definately. Great scene.