Originally posted by seanyboy
My favourite movie is 'Scarface' starring Al Pacino. Wasn't that popular on release but has become a cult classic.

But when it comes to the "best ever film" most people in the know will pick 'Citizen Kane', 'tho I have to say i've still not got round to seeing it. Has anyone here seen it?

Yes - it's always been my Dad's favourite film and I've seen it a number of times, including a special showing at the Showroom a couple of years ago. It was incredible to see on the Big Screen.

It really is a trailblazer of a film - it's full of 'cliches' that weren't cliches when it was made - it's just that it's been copied so many times since!

The opening scene is breathtaking - absolutely beautiful cinematography. I didn't really appreciate how amazing it was until I saw it at the cinema. Kane's mansion is seen in the distance, and the camera gradually moves in closer and closer. It's difficult to convey the effect in words - you really have to see it to understand.

To me, the subject matter is almost immaterial (although very controversial in its day) - the important thing is that it is a blueprint for how to make a great film. Groundbreaking.

StarSparkle

Thanx Starsparkle!
I will now make it my mission to see Citizen Kane in the near future!

Originally posted by seanyboy
Thanx Starsparkle!
I will now make it my mission to see Citizen Kane in the near future!

:thumbsup: Hope you enjoy it!

StarSparkle

1) The Crow.
2) City of Angels
3) Starsky and Hutch.

1) The Game
2) Kill Bill (The whole thing)
3) Cube
4) Shawshank Redemption

If anyone hasn't seen 1 or 3 you just have to see them.

The Game is excellent and must have the most plot twists of any film. To be honest there are a couple of other David Fincher films that nearly made it. All his stuff is great, favourite director closely followed by Quentin Tarantino. Cube is a great use of lights and a big box which is the only set used throughout the whole film.

I've watched The Cube more than once and the word 'bizarre' comes to mind. It really didn't help matters when some clever spark thought to do another which if possible was even more 'Bizarre'
What's wrong with 'Bambi' by the way? Everyone knows this has to be the greatest film of all time even if I did forget to mention it in my previous post.

Only 3! That's not fair! Anyway I can't count properly, so ... in no particular order here goes...

Thelma and Louise
Contact
Being Jon Malkovich
Muriel's Wedding
Excalibur
Belly of an Architect
Scandal
Koyaanisqatsi
Educating Rita
The Cat from Outer Space (only cos Jake's really handsome in his sparkly magic collar thingy...)

At the minute

1. The 'Burbs
2. Troy
3. Gladiator

I am not sure if I have mentioned my top 3, and cannot look through 18+ pages so here it is anyway ....


The Green Mile (I think that is what it was called, the Tom Hanks one)

Saving Private Ryan

Aliens (all of them)

i am a 31 year old, 19 stone, 6 foot short haired bloke. now, you would think that my favourite films would be full of violence, guns, bombs and car chases. suprisingly not. my favourite film of all time is sleepless in seattle. closely followed by you've got mail. (meg ryan, is the most beautiful woman i've ever seen)

so, what is your favourite film of all time?

replacement killers
followed by last of the mohicans.
have lots of faves.

I am sure we have had a similar thread about this, but the search thing on ere is a bit "crap".... anyway


Hellraiser
Silence of the Lambs
Bambi

1. Nightmare Before Christmas
2. Edward Scissorhands
3. Evita/Jesus Christ Superstar/Godspell. (sorry cant choose!)

Originally posted by absynthfairy
2. Edward Scissorhands


Aaaaaaw I :love: this too!

Originally posted by sugarnspice
Aaaaaaw I :love: this too!

only coz of johnny depp :rolleyes: ur easily pleased

my fave is Usual Suspects...very clever film

Originally posted by MTheo
only coz of johnny depp :rolleyes: ur easily pleased

my fave is Usual Suspects...very clever film

He is a rather smashing bonus, my matey. But it's a beautiful tragic little love story.

It's when Winona says ... hold me .....

and he can't! :cry:

Oh and predictable I know, but Gone With The Wind.

And pretty much anything with Bette Davies in it. :clap:

I also like Paycheck ... but thats for Ben Affleck and any with Matt Damon in and Spiderman as well,

Originally posted by michael_v2
i am a 31 year old, 19 stone, 6 foot short haired bloke. now, you would think that my favourite films would be full of violence, guns, bombs and car chases. suprisingly not. my favourite film of all time is sleepless in seattle. closely followed by you've got mail. (meg ryan, is the most beautiful woman i've ever seen)

so, what is your favourite film of all time? Theres nowt wrong with bein a big softie michael_v2...

im 6ft 4" and something stone...;)

and i lv sleepless in seattle, you've got mail etc.... but i lv City of Angels more...;)

Meg ryan...:love:

1. As Good As It Gets
2. Animal House
3. Highlander (the original first film)!

A little diverse but I'm easily pleased :heyhey:

Kuch kuch hota hai

what film is that then intooblivion.

Originally posted by michael_v2
what film is that then intooblivion.

This one (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172684/)

thankyou alchresearch

Ooooh The Wedding Singer!!! So good, so funny!!! I think possibly the most quotable film I've ever watched.

I also have a weakness for Dumb and Dumber :hihi:

Hana Bi.

A Takeshi Kitano film where he takes his dying wife on a final trip around Japan.

It's beautiful and I never get tired of watching it.

I have a few… ‘Beautiful Mind’ is one of them, ooh and ‘The Gladiator’. I’m not a hardcore Russell Crow fan, he just happened to be in both films. I also like ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ and ‘My best friend’s wedding’

Mine are:
1) lock stock & two smoking barrels
2) Snatch
3) 51st State.

Dont tell my mates but mine is Only You (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110737/) closely followed by Leon (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110413/)

god how difficult

erm today. today they are:

Shawshank Redemption
Taxi (the &*(()())*& original)
City Of Lost Children

Mine has to be :

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

I also love:

My Fair Lady
American History X
Wish you were here

made in britain
hellraiser 1 and 2 i always love more than most
mr jolly lives next door

Three that I've seen many times and would watch again right now:

Stardust Memories (Woody Allen)
A Summer's Tale (Eric Rhomer)
Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows)

Any wartime/ based film

Joint first with Saving Private Ryan, Stalingrad, Goodbye Mr Chips

[QUOTE]Originally posted by madowl

and i lv sleepless in seattle, you've got mail etc.... but i lv City of Angels more...;)

City of Angels isn't bad but if you like it you should watch the film it's based on. Wings of Desire is truely superb. The filming is cinemagraphically outstanding. The bit with the Angels is in Black and White to reinforce their lack of emotion.

Watch it, you'll agree it's ground breaking

it's a 'mare I've so many but here goes; pulp fiction, trainspotting, a clockwork orange, one flew over the cuckoos nest, the list is endless

'Before Sunrise'....makes my heart fly!

Like most, I have a very varied list, but if we're going on pure re-watchability, then it has to be the Back to the Future Trilogy.

It's a sci-fi comedy action romance adventure - what more could you ask for?

Fellini's 'Amarcord', especially the 'big tits' scene. Then 'A Clockwork Orange' for the ultraviolence and the old in-out, in-out. Thirdly, one would choose 'Taxi Driver' for De Niro's brooding presence as Travis Bickle. Fourthly, 'Goodfellas', especially Joe Pesci's terrifying portrayal of the psychopathic 'Tommy'. Fifth might be 'Pardon Us', Laurel and Hardy's first full length feature film.

I also love 'Apocolypse Now', 'L'Age D'Or', 'Un Chien Andalou', 'The Passage'[Malcolm McDowell as an SS Officer], 'Monty Python and The Holy Grail', 'Hannibal', 'Silence of the Lambs',' Manhatten' [Woody Allen], 'Zulu', 'Brighton Rock', 'The Third Man', 'Brief Encounter', 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly', 'The Life of Brian', 'Bedazzled' [the original with Cook and Moore], and any Laurel and Hardy.

Originally posted by sugarnspice
Oh and predictable I know, but Gone With The Wind.

And pretty much anything with Bette Davies in it. :clap:

And Amelie. Love it. :)

Originally posted by sugarnspice
And Amelie. Love it. :)

amelie is a delightful movie i dont really like many french films but i do like that one and it rests proudly in my vast dvd collection:)

Originally posted by panda79
amelie is a delightful movie i dont really like many french films but i do like that one and it rests proudly in my vast dvd collection:)

Yeah mine too! It's lovely! And she's so beautiful! Right I'm watching it tomorrow!

midnight cowboy is another film i really like i can watch this film again and again and never be bored

http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1800095380&cf=info

http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Bayou/3385/MidnightCowboy.html

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0064665/

Without a doubt My fave film is The Crow

Seen more times than i can count,

I also love stupid films like Waynes World 1 & 2

I also fancy Meg Ryan Mmmmmmmm Meg ha ha ha

oh and to add.

I'm just loving Garden State at the moment.

also


If......
The Maltese Falcon
True Romance
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Battle Royale
The day the Earth caught fire
Passport to Pimlico
Big Trouble in Little China
39 Steps
My Sassy Girl

Tricky to chose but some of them are:

The Big Lebowski,
Alien & Aliens,
The Seven Samurai,
Get Carter,
The Italian Job,
Goodfellas,
Seven.

At the moment:

Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith
Batman Begins
Mask of Zorro

I recently aquired Star Wars 3 and Batman on Region 1 DVD and they're both top films... If you don't have a multi-region DVD player, Star Wars is out tomorrow, and Batman came out last week on R2.

I thought Batman Begins was fantastic. It really captured the dark nature of the character. I just hope that they don't start making a load of shoddy sequels again. If they can keep Nolen and Bale on board it's got great potential.

Originally posted by littleidea
I thought Batman Begins was fantastic. It really captured the dark nature of the character. I just hope that they don't start making a load of shoddy sequels again. If they can keep Nolen and Bale on board it's got great potential.

Hmm, the ending of Batman Begins does seem to suggest a sequel featuring the Joker.. Hope they get Jack Nicholson back for the part if they do a Joker themed sequel... He's the only guy who ever did the Joker role justice apart from Cesar Romero in the 60s camp as a Butlins in high season TV series.

TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
TED BUNDY
THE DESCENT
THE FIRGHTENERS
KILL BILL
MOULIN ROUGE
SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
AND JUST WATCHED THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST TODAY, BUT IT AINT MY FAVOURATE :partyhat:

1. Dr Strangelove
2. The Hidden Fortress
3. Empire Strikes Back

Best T.V. Film - Threads, a true lesson in balls to the wall terror!

in the ever changing panorama of personal taste, the current top 3 is.....

1: Dogma. brilliantly made, cast, acted. Thought provoking and subtle.
2:the Italian Job. still brilliant 37 years on.
3: Pulp fiction, just because......

unfair this though, I could give you a top 50 maybe, narrowing it down to three, thats harsh....

:clap:

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Withnail & I
Godfather II

Subject to mood swings!

1. Fight Club
2. When Harry met Sally
3. Se7en

And not because i like Brad Pitt either
Other good ones are....

Die Hard, Robocop, Sixth Sense, Rules of Attraction, Memento, Donnie Darko, Secretary, rope, minority report, total recall, 4 weddings, Grease, pretty woman, top gun, Snow white and the seven dwarfs, Shawshank, Running man, Rear window. Sure I'll kick myself and be forced to edit this post at a later date!

Mmmm, today I think my favourite three films are:

1. Ghostbusters.
2. The Long Kiss Goodnight.
3. Heathers.

1/Snatch-Turkish.
2/Pulp Fiction-its the metric system
3/From Dusk till Dawn-will you eat my cat

I love anything directed by Quentin Tarantino and, anything computery, I have too many to mention.

Joel

5 Best films
*Amalie
*Breakfast Club
*Mall Rats
*Clerks
*Friday

A Clockwork Orange
Pulp Fiction
Platoon
Trainspotting
Withnail and I (on a lighter note)


I think these are my faves but I have a load more I'd like to add:)

Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock (1960)
Blade Runner - Ridley Scott (1982)
Blue Velvet - David Lynch (1986)
Requiem For a Dream - Darren Aronofsky / Hubert Selby Junior (2000)
The Shining - Stanley Kubrick (1980)


Others that were close;

Pi - Darren Aronofsky (1998 )
Wild At Heart - David Lynch (1990)
Full Metal Jacket - Stanley Kubrick (1987)
Alien - Ridley Scott (1979)
Mulholland Drive - David Lynch (2001)
Baise Moi - Virginie Despentes (2000)
Downfall - Oliver Hirschbiegel (2004)
Kids - Larry Clark (1995)
Irreversible - Gaspar Noe (2002)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Dead Mans Shoes
One Flew Over the cuckoos nest
Sin City
Frankenstein

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas :love: :thumbsup: :D

Empire Records
Spirited Away
Ferris Builer
Wierd Science

Mmm...this could seriously damage me!!!...

Sister Act
Pretty Woman
Top Gun (both of these two I watch over and over and over again!)
Kinky Boots
Gladiator...if I had a son "Maximus Desimus Meridius...commander of the armies of the north, general of the felix legion...true servent to the real emperor Marcus Aurelius!"...

Although at the moment, Tweenies Song Time 1 and 2 are the only thing that I watch day in day out!!!

Mmm...this could seriously damage me!!!...

Sister Act
Pretty Woman
Top Gun (both of these two I watch over and over and over again!)
Kinky Boots
Gladiator...if I had a son "Maximus Desimus Meridius...commander of the armies of the north, general of the felix legion...true servent to the real emperor Marcus Aurelius!"...

Although at the moment, Tweenies Song Time 1 and 2 are the only thing that I watch day in day out!!! Yup! you're right! :heyhey: :thumbsup:

Yup! you're right! :heyhey: :thumbsup:


Thanks!

Although what is quite funny is although I hate all the films on your list...they are probably my other half's favourites - we have such different tastes - choosing a film together is an abolute nightmare!!!

I enjoy mine though - that clockwork orange films was horrendous - what is more frightening is the lead guy looks exactly like my brother in law who is an actor!!!

Once Upon a Time in the West
Barry Lyndon
Seven Samurai
Repo Man
Spirited Away

are what I'm feeling today. Could change any time soon, though. BTW Agent Gypo, top selection.

Only 5 huh...


American Psycho
American Pie Trilogy
Meet The Parents
Americn History X
Fight Club

Fight Club
When Harry met Sally
Se7en
Die Hard or Robocop (Can't choose)
Pretty woman

Five is difficult!

1. Fight Club
2. American Pyscho
3. Good Will Hunting
4. Scent of a Woman
5. Donnie Darko

Green Mile
Con Air
Grease
Pretty Woman
Dirty Dancing

Dead mans shoes
Pulp Fiction
Happy Gillmore
Fight Club
Training Day

American History X
Fight Club
Sleepers
Scum
The Lion King / Bambi

The Good the Bad and the Ugly
The Usual Suspects
Shawshank Redemption
Europa Europa
Excalibur

The Shining
Caddyshack
As Good As It Gets
Sixth Sense
39 Steps

Hana-Bi
Zatoichi (2003 version)
Casablanca
My Neighbour Totoro
In the Mood for Love

amilee
rear window
all about eve
central station
shadowlands

Shawshank Redemption
The Hurricane
Apollo13
Happy Gilmore
Ferris Buellers Day Off


but thats in no particular order (Except Shawshank - No.1 film), and it changes a little almost daily..

Star Wars (originals!)
Green Mile
American Pie
Road Trip
Terminator 2

^^ will change every day you ask me :D

Green Mile
Matrix
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Italian Job (original)
Grease

Fight Club
Donnie Darko
The Jacket
12 Monkeys
American History x:thumbsup:

Dawn Of The Dead
Jaws
Rocky 3
Out For Justice
Enter The Dragon

kitch list
poseidon adventure
towering inferno
Pricilla queen of the desert
breakfast at tiffinys
mildred pierce

The good, the bad and the ugly
Donnie Darko
Fight Club
Napolean Dynamite
Delicatessen

saving grace
dirty dancing
sister act 1 + 2
pretty woman
10 things i hate about you

Brassed Off
Blade Runner
Lord of the Rings (counts as 1 surely)
Breakfast at Tiffanys
Some Like it Hot

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In no particular order;

Blues Brothers
Slap Shot
1941
Jean De Florette and Manon Des Source
The Usual Suspects
Shawshank Redemption
Saving Private Ryan
Schindlers List
Forest Gump
Monsters Inc

Jim:thumbsup:

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

breathtakingly cool. Makes Pulp Fiction look like Driving Miss Daisy.

I've got more than 1:

The Green Mile
While you We're sleeping
O'Brother Where Art Thou
Man on Fire
The Bone Collector

Vanilla Sky
The Pianist
Shawshank Redemption
The Jacket
Overboard
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Practical Magic
Harvey
Saw

The Shining
John Carpenters The Thing
The Shawshank Redemption
Lost Highway
Eyes Wide Shut

Thems em!....:thumbsup:

Stormriders
the day after tomorrow
twin dragons
indepedence day
rush hour 1+ 2
armageddon
shoalin soccer
monsters inc
batman returns
goonies
oceans eleven

i could go on and on...il leave it there!

My favourite films are:-

A Sumer place
The Wanderers
Full Monty
The Entity
Sex Lives of the Potatoemen
Sound of Music
Grease
The couloiur purple

At the moment mine is,

Broken Flowers
Clueless
The Producers- (new one)
Blues Brothers
Naked Gun
Some Like It Hot

[QUOTE=sheffdan]
John Carpenters The Thing

Quality film.

Scary as hell but also very funny.

Jim:thumbsup:

mine; has got to be [ love story early 7o;s classic . a real. tear. jerker filling up; now thinking about it :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Mine would be the god father films plus goodfellas:thumbsup:

Withnail & I

wikipedia/Withnail & I (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withnail_and_I)

Fight Club

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Recently saw 25th Hour which is very good too. Edward Norton is a quality actor

Friday
Training Day
Jerry McGuire
Ray
Snatch

If you haven't seen Ray, it's killer! Jamie Foxx definitely deserved his Oscar for that one.

I did like Ali. And Will Smith's acting was top notch I must say (not a big fan of his), but I felt more could've been done with that film. An above average/decent film which could've been great.

I love so many films. My top ones are:
1. Moulin Rouge
2. Pearl Harbour
3. The birds
4. The Thing
5. The Fog
6. x men 1.2.3
7. Lethal weapon
8. Romeo and Juliet
9. The island
10. You've got mail.