Best movies ever

[Cort Haus]

Molly, I presume you mean the Christopher Lee / Edward Woodward version of Wicker Man. And yes, Get Carter is excellent. Caine's finest hour (or two) imo.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Jackass 2 just debuted at number 1 this weekend.

[Japher]

The Apocolypse is upon us!

[Wezil]

Originally posted by reds4ever
Goodfellas
Heat
Green Street
Quadrophenia

And Godfather 3 was not a great film.

Neither was Quadrophenia. Great album but the movie was less so.

[Dis]

Originally posted by molly bloom
Matewan
The Ladykillers
One False Move
Tokyo Story
The Last Days of Chez Nous
Culloden
Nuit Et Brouillard
The Grifters
Point Blank
Dead Of Night
Small Faces
Public Enemy
Kind Hearts And Coronets
Get Carter
The Wicker Man
The Parallax View
A World Apart
The Vanishing
The Maltese Falcon
Shadow Of A Doubt

Vanishing? Do you mean the dutch version? I've tried finding a version of this (english dubbed hopefully). I want to see it. The american version wasn't bad. But I felt it could have delivered a bit more.

[Maquiladora]

Weird Science

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Dis


Vanishing? Do you mean the dutch version? I've tried finding a version of this (english dubbed hopefully). I want to see it. The american version wasn't bad. But I felt it could have delivered a bit more.

Man, the Hollywood version seriously sucks. If you ever get to see the original, don't watch it just before you go to bed...

Okay, some of my favourites are already mentioned so I'll continue with:

Way out West - Laurel and Hardy
The Big Sleep - Bogart and Bacall
The Shootist - John Wayne's last movie, with Bacall
The Day The Earth Stood Still - Best SF movie ever
Plan Nine From Outer Space - Worst movie ever, can't get enough of it
The Usual Suspects - Best plot ever
The General - Buster Keaton

And a lot more, Marx Brothers, Chaplin, Vincent Price/Roger Corman, the list goes on and on...

[TCO]

link to counterglow.

[Peter Triggs]

Originally posted by molly bloom
Matewan
The Ladykillers
One False Move
Tokyo Story
The Last Days of Chez Nous
Culloden
Nuit Et Brouillard
The Grifters
Point Blank
Dead Of Night
Small Faces
Public Enemy
Kind Hearts And Coronets
Get Carter
The Wicker Man
The Parallax View
A World Apart
The Vanishing
The Maltese Falcon
Shadow Of A Doubt

What happened to "Lianna"?

IIRC, the last time we had one of these you listed it, and I thought to myself "Holy cow, someone else saw that movie (and can remember it)."

[Kuciwalker]

The Spanish Prisoner

[Drake Tungsten]

And Godfather 3 was not a great film.

I agree, but no one's going to take your opinion seriously after you called Quadrophenia a good film...

Lost and Translation was Laaaaaaaaaaaaaame!

QFT

[Straybow]

My all-time favorite is The Princess Bride. I find that Silver cancels out Capa Ferro, even if your opponent has studied his Agrippa.

(Upper right image: me cancelling out Capa Ferro/Agrippa with Silver.)

[Addled Platypus]

Monty Python- Holy Grail/ Life of Brian
Saving Private Ryan
Zulu
A Clock Work Orange
Gattaca
Ran
Young Frankenstein
Silent Movie
Blazing Saddles
Aniaml House
Contact
Big Trouble in Little China
Snatch
Pink Floyd-The Wall
O Brother Where Art Thou
Memento

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Molly, I presume you mean the Christopher Lee / Edward Woodward version of Wicker Man. And yes, Get Carter is excellent. Caine's finest hour (or two) imo.

I think Caine is very good in 'Sleuth' and 'Zulu' too.

Unfortunately playing an upper class British officer is as bizarre a casting choice for Caine as playing an Irish American cop was for Sean Connery.


And yes, 'The Wicker Man', as opposed to the abomination recently shat out by Hollydriftwood and Neil LaButt.

What happened to "Lianna"?

Peter Triggs


I recently watched 'Matewan' again, that's all.

Of Sayles's films that and 'Passion Fish' and 'Lone Star' are the ones I've watched most frequently, but I also very much enjoyed 'Brother From Another Planet', 'City of Hope' and 'Limbo' and 'The Return Of The Secaucus Seven'.

'The Secret of Roan Inish' also proved to be such a favourite with my nieces and nephews that I never did get my copy of the film back...

Vanishing? Do you mean the dutch version? I've tried finding a version of this (english dubbed hopefully). I want to see it.

Dis


Yeah.

The film was originally a Franco-Dutch production and released over here with English subtitles. The atmosphere builds up slowly, as does the sense of creeping menace and the revelation at the end when Rex gets to find out what really happened to Saskia is like having ice cubes slowly slide down hot skin.
It was on the Connoisseur label over here.

It gets 'good' reviews:

'The Vanishing' is the most terrifying movie I have ever seen in my life, I had nightmares for a week after I watched it.

Perhaps I would have been better off if I had never seen this film.

...be prepared for a sleepless night or two. This is one that just isn't going to leave you alone...




It was very reminiscent of a British film set in France which featured Michele Dotrice and Sandor Eles, ' And Soon The Darkness ':

One would have thought that writers Brian Clemens — who made his name on series such as Danger Man and The Avengers — and Terry Nation — the doyen of Doctor Who scripters — would have come up with something more memorable than this nasty chiller. The voyeuristic approach to both the killer's crimes and the peril in which nurses Pamela Franklin and Michele Dotrice find themselves as they cycle through a French wood is most regrettable, not to say, at times, downright objectionable. Director Robert Fuest ensures that it's also an uncomfortable watch from the suspense point of view, but it's not a film one can view with much pleasure.

http://www.screenselect.co.uk/visitor/product/43980-And-Soon-the-Darkness.html

Well I disagree, of course...

What I liked about the film was that it took a comforting pleasurable experience, a pastoral cycle ride through sunny leafy French countryside, and subverted one's expectations, in more ways than one.


This is a more balanced review in my opinion:

http://www.dvdmaniacs.net/Reviews/A-D/and_soon_darkness.html

Lovely view of the girls cycling happily into what looks like a Dutch landscape by Hobbema :

http://shillpages.com/movies/andsoonthedarkness1970dvd.jpg

The lovely Pamela Franklin also appeared as a psychic investigator in the film 'The Legend Of Hell House', the first unsatisfactory remake of 'The Haunting' :

[Arrian]

Originally posted by Straybow
My all-time favorite is The Princess Bride. I find that Silver cancels out Capa Ferro, even if your opponent has studied his Agrippa.

(Upper right image: me cancelling out Capa Ferro/Agrippa with Silver.)