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what are your top five films?

Post: # 102239Post Annpan »

My current top five are

1. Amelie
2. Harvey
3. Lord of the Rings trilogy
4. North By North West
5. Back To the Future Trilogy

But these will all change by tomorrow:wink:

what are your favourites?




The reason I am asking is I have hit a slight problemo with my film watching.

I can no longer watch anything 'scary' as it gives me the creeps to much we watched 'The Last King of Scotland' last night and I have been having flashbacks all day :( It is the image of his wife in the hospital, for those who have seen it... I couldn't watch the end 'cause I felt very ill.

Anyway we both love films and I am really ruining JohnM's ability to watch stuff 'cause I am too squeamish :cry:
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Another Back to the Future Fan. Nice one.

There was a time that I would always have Star wars triolgy in my top ten, the new flims have sullied that.

Er what else...

Repo Man is up there as is Withnail and I. I know Highlander off by heart and lastly a film that I was in that has been in production for 9 years. It is by Luther Jones, filmed in Nottingham and it is called getting some. Nope it is not a blue movie it is about a group of people trying to meet other people. I play a geek, a new labour geek,
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The Belles of St Trinian's
Rebecca (the original b&w version)
Apocalypse Now
Blithe Spirit
Kind Hearts and Coronets
but then by tomorrow.......... :wink:
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Post: # 102259Post MKG »

Giving my age away totally ...

Soldier Blue
Easy Rider
2001: A Space Odyssey
Any Marx Brothers film
And yes ... the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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Post: # 102300Post JR »

It so hard to name 5.

1. The Italian Job (1968)
2. Leon
3. Back to the Future Trilogy
4. Bad Boys I & II
5. Crash

I have a sick sense of humour for bad films too, some of the national lampoons series and old school, along with talaheada nights are classic shockers.
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in no particular order

Leon
The Emperors New Groove
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

thats probably it. i didnt think id be able to name 5, i dont really have the patience to sit through a film!
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Post: # 102310Post Mainer in Exile »

In no particular order:

Dragonheart
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Blues Brothers
Shrek
Star Wars episodes IV through VI



Honorable Mentions to:

Herbie the Love Bug films, Back to the Future trilogy, Pirates of the Caribean, Master and Commander, It's a Wonderful Life, most of the old Disney films, Narnia,
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Post: # 102325Post red »

amelie
saving grace
the princess bride
fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe
Bernard and the Genie (only at xmas)
oh brother where art thou?

technically thats more than 5.... and there are lots more I am sure...

I cant do scary films either.
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Post: # 102335Post ina »

I can't even remember five films I've seen... Oh well, I probably could. But most of them are a few years back, so don't know whether I'd remember them properly.
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Post: # 102338Post MKG »

Five films for Ina, then ...

THe Good Shepherd
Silence of the Lambs
Black Sheep
Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)
and finally (sorry ) ... The Big Sheep
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Post: # 102339Post Martin »

bet I've got you beaten on fewest cinema visits over the last 30 years - I've been twice! :mrgreen:
Have never understood the attraction of cinemas - to pay large sums of money to sit on an uncomfortable seat, to have to peer through people's hats/hairstyles at the screen, and put up with squawking kids, cellophane wrappings, the stench of synthetic pheromones and chewing gum, all to watch some blessed film that if it's any good will be on the haunted goldfish bowl in a year or three's time............. :mrgreen:
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Post: # 102363Post ina »

MKG wrote:Five films for Ina, then ...

THe Good Shepherd
Silence of the Lambs
Black Sheep
Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)
and finally (sorry ) ... The Big Sheep
:lol: :lol: :lol:

Thanks very much, MKG!
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Martin wrote:bet I've got you beaten on fewest cinema visits over the last 30 years - I've been twice! :mrgreen:
Have never understood the attraction of cinemas - to pay large sums of money to sit on an uncomfortable seat, to have to peer through people's hats/hairstyles at the screen, and put up with squawking kids, cellophane wrappings, the stench of synthetic pheromones and chewing gum, all to watch some blessed film that if it's any good will be on the haunted goldfish bowl in a year or three's time............. :mrgreen:
you dont have to like cinema to enjoy films...
of the 6 I listed.. only 'saving grace' was seen at the cinema.
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Martin wrote:bet I've got you beaten on fewest cinema visits over the last 30 years - I've been twice! :mrgreen:
Yes, I admit it - you are right there. I've been twice in the last ten years (here in Scotland); my friend dragged me along to one Lord of the Rings, and one Harry Potter film! Still prefer the books.
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1. star wars, empire strikes back
2. (family guy) Blue Harvest
3. anything directed/written by Kevin Smith
4. batteries not included
5. flight of the navigator
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