Favorite Films

[trackaghost]

Harvey
Harold And Maude
Brazil
Paris, Texas
King Of Comedy
Rushmore
Halloween
Pan's Labyrinth
An American Werewolf In London
Jaws
A Touch Of Evil
Gilda
It's A Wonderful Life

[Dodfather]

Originally Posted by Erin

Gone with the Wind
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Star Wars episodes 3-6 (I like to pretend the prequels don't exist)
Lost in Translation
Beauty and the Beast (Disney)
The Lion in Winter ("Peace? How about eternal peace?")
The Princess Bride
Pride and Prejudice (BBC Colin Firth version, okay technically a made for tv miniseries, but I'm counting it!)
North and South (Another BBC miniseries, not the 80's miniseries with Patrick Swayze which I also own)
Sliding Doors
Shaun of the Dead

I'm apparently living in the wrong country.

Oh my God!! You mean the BBC series from about 5 years ago with Daniella Denby-Ashe as Margaret? I have that dvd. It's wonderful. Second only the BBC's Pride and Prejudice. It's absolutely fantastic!

[Erin]

Originally Posted by Dodfather

Oh my God!! You mean the BBC series from about 5 years ago with Daniella Denby-Ashe as Margaret? I have that dvd. It's wonderful. Second only the BBC's Pride and Prejudice. It's absolutely fantastic!

Yes! I go back and forth between that and P&P as well. I love the score by Martin Phipps as well, too bad it's not comercially available.

[Zombie]

Ooo, fun!

Oldboy - I never get tired of watching this film. Contains one of the greatest fight scenes EVER made, wherein they manage to make one dude with a hammer taking on about 20 other dudes and winning look realistic. And it was shot all in one take. Park Chan-Wook for the WIN. (Here's the scene, if you're interested, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wha0brbb_44 )

And some more, in no particular order:

Halloween (The original. Go away, Rob Zombie.)
Clerks & Clerks 2
The Hitcher (The original. Go away, Sean Bean. I want to like you, but you are not Rutger Hauer. Stick to Sharpe's Rifles.)
The Shining (Kubrick's)
Silence of the Lambs
Escape from New York
Carpenter's The Thing
Audition
Martyrs
Dawn of the Dead (The original. Go away, Zack Snyder.)
Night of the Living Dead
Teeth
Feast
Midnight Express
The Departed
Reservoir Dogs
Labyrinth
The Princess Bride
Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
The Evil Dead series
Lost Boys
Tale of Two Sisters
Original Star Wars trilogy
Robert Rodriguez's Mexico trilogy
Hard Candy
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Three Extremes
The Descent (with the original UK ending, not the American theatrical release ending)

Guess I should stop now. Many of those are horror films, because that's kind of my thing.

[starshine]

Wow alot of great posts in this thread. I'm not a 'big' movie watcher. Heck there's probably a list long of movie's I've not ever seen yet...but know all about them....but some of my favorite movies are:

** Shadow Of A Doubt -Alfred Hitcock/b & w...wonderful, suspenseful....one of those movies of his you don't hear about...has Joseph Cotton and Teresa Wright in the leads...watch it...awesome!!!
**House On Haunted Hill/original b/w with Julie Harris (she later played on Knots Landing /Val's mother....not seen the remake but I'm sure it can't compare to the orginial....very suspenseful....love it...
**Halloween---original 78 /no sequels either....the first will always be the best... & I don't really like 'scary' movies either.
**The Glass Menagerie--another old b/w with a very young Kirk Douglas & Jane Wyman--its wonderful....
**Its A Wonderful Life....always a classic & always timeless....Jimmy Stewart rocks....wonderful b/w ...a movie with heart & soul....
**Gone With The Wind...another classic
***The Wizard Of Oz....ditto....I repeat myself again.....
**Goldfinger-with Sean Connery....the #1 James Bond
**Batman with Micheal Keaton (1st 2 only)
Well....can't think of anything else right now.....I love older movies.....I have seen other movies but nothing that I just have to watch again & again really....I used to love the Star Wars orginials but when Lucas messed with them....and all the stupid prequels....lost interest .....I guess there ok....but I haven't watched them in sometime.....if I think of others I'll post another one......

[GoldDustOrphan]

Zombie, this was released today. Mean Magazine's cinemash of Old Boy with Milo Ventimiglia from Heroes.

[Macfanforever]

I was a movie buff. up to the mid 1990s.until acting and the storylines went awash.
I love old movies from the heyday of films,they are some newer films out there that are good, but at the time im posting this message ,i cant think of any.

[Gypsy-Rhiannon]

Originally Posted by starshine

**Halloween---original 78 /no sequels either....the first will always be the best... & I don't really like 'scary' movies either.

***The Wizard Of Oz....ditto....I repeat myself again.....

AGreed with Halloween.. thought I didn't mind the second one.. and Jamie Lee was in it too!

It's the 70th anniversary of the Wizard of Oz this year. All sorts of celebrations going on

[GoldDustOrphan]

SPOLIER for The Descent...




In the American version of The Descent the film ends with the heroine escaping from the cave and driving away. In the original version as she is driving sort of wakes up and is still in the cave. In the forthcoming sequel, the same actress returns to the cave, but I'm not sure of the circumstances. Here's the leaked trailer for the sequel which hits UK theaters next month.

[Zombie]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

I didn't realise America got a different ending. Did they make it a happy ending instead? One of the best parts of The Descent is the bleak ending.

Have you seen Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance? Lady Vengeance was my avatar here for years. Those films are amazing.

****here there be spoilers for The Descent****

Yeah, as GoldDustOrphan said, the theatrical release ended on the "jump scare" bit with her in the car, Juno going "boo!" and the girl getting away, instead of continuing like the UK one does, which I prefer greatly, due to its sad, slow weirdness.

I also have a bad feeling about the sequel, but I am willing to give it a shot because I was so enamored of the first one. Why do they show us Juno is still alive in the trailer? That should be a good surprise, even if she ends up being a hallucination or something. Meh.

And yes! I have seen all of the Vengeance films. Park Chan-Wook is a damn genius.

If you haven't seen it, check out "Three Extremes," which is also on my list. One of the segments is Park Chan-Wook (he wrote it and directed), the one called "Cut."

And another segment is called "Box," which was directed by Takashi Miike, another damn genius (he directed "Audition," also on my list).

And you have Pan's Labyrinth on your list! I should've put that on mine, too. I quite enjoyed that one. Good call.

[Zombie]

Originally Posted by GoldDustOrphan

Zombie, this was released today. Mean Magazine's cinemash of Old Boy with Milo Ventimiglia from Heroes.

It might just be me, but I can't see anything in your post - there's a box, but nothing in it. Got a direct linky, maybe?

[Zombie]

Originally Posted by trackaghost

I haven't seen Three Extremes but I thought Audition was amazing. Have you ever see Takashi Miike's The Happiness Of The Katakuris? That's one of the most bizarre films I've ever seen.
I used to love a lot of J-horror but then Hollywood came and watered it down. They completely ruined Ring. The original is so terrifying.

Edit: here's the link for The Descent sequel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6liEvCe-R0

I've seen Happiness, yeah. Miike is just awesome. Have you seen Ichi the Killer? Also bizarre in all the right ways.

Agreed about Hollywood watering it down. They keep remaking great Asian horror films and screwing them up. I was so annoyed at "The Uninvited," which was just a bad knock-off of "A Tale of Two Sisters" (also on my list - see it! Creepy abounds! Yay South Korea!).

I think I remember flailing around on the Ledge before in another thread about the planned remake of Oldboy starring Will Smith (*twitch*). Just...quit it! Ugh.