Favourite Films

[Asmodean]

Ah..! Didn't like it much.

[Guardian85]

- This one, or the Celine Dion one?

The Celine Dion one With Leoardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/

Saw it. Fell asleep.

[Piratenerforsej]

May I ask why? Too romantic?

[Yodas_Apprentice]

Transformers: The Movie (1980s Animated, no new crap!)

I remember that one...

...And again, true to myself, I prefer the new ones.

Oh no!    But the new ones are so ridiculous, Bay-splosiony, and, well, bad!

[Ecurb Noselrub]

My wife just took our oldest granddaughter to see "The Hunger Games."  She read all the books and said the movie was good. Apparently, it's breaking records.  I personally have no desire to see it.

For favorite (USA spelling) films, it depends.  If I want pure entertainment, I would have to judge by the number of times I've watched the film.  So, my top ones, in no particular order, would be:

1.  Monty Python's Holy Grail
2.  Braveheart
3.  Start Wars (first one)
4.  Gladiator
5.  Indiana Jones - In Search of the Lost Ark
6.  Wizard of Oz (must have watched it a 100 times as a child)
7.  All the Pink Panther stuff -
8.  The Jason Bourne trilogy.

So I go either for comedy or action.

For pure quality, my top 5, in no particular order, are:

1.  In the Heat of the Night
2.  Dr. Zhivago
3.  Doubt
4.  Citizen Kane
5.  The Godfather Trilogy   

[The Magic Pudding]

1.  In the Heat of the Night

I saw that as a young kid, it was a formative experience I think for my view of racism.
It has such a cool song too.

[Ecurb Noselrub]

1.  In the Heat of the Night

I saw that as a young kid, it was a formative experience I think for my view of racism.
It has such a cool song too.

Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger put in stellar performances.  Now, here's a song from the movie that most people have probably never heard. "Foul Owl on the Prowl."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2LedoHwygE

[Asmodean]

Transformers: The Movie (1980s Animated, no new crap!)

I remember that one...

...And again, true to myself, I prefer the new ones.

Oh no!    But the new ones are so ridiculous, Bay-splosiony, and, well, bad!

But have you seen those pwetty gwafics?!

[Yodas_Apprentice]

But have you seen those pwetty gwafics?!

I find them too distracting.  Michael Bay tries to overcompensate for having no plot and bad acting by making it look busy (and even then, I don't even think it looks good - too confusing).  It makes me sad to see how he's bastardized what should by all standards be awesome (I mean, how hard is it to screw up giant, transforming, fight robots?  Yet somehow he does it).

[Asmodean]

I find them too distracting.  Michael Bay tries to overcompensate for having no plot and bad acting by making it look busy (and even then, I don't even think it looks good - too confusing).  It makes me sad to see how he's bastardized what should by all standards be awesome (I mean, how hard is it to screw up giant, transforming, fight robots?  Yet somehow he does it).

While I find the cast disagreeable, I think the movie was made quite right within its genre, what I call time-wasters. As far as those go, it was one of the best in the past five years. Such movies are not supposed to have a great story to tell - just look good. And, a personal preference, be heavy on CG.

[Yodas_Apprentice]

I find them too distracting.  Michael Bay tries to overcompensate for having no plot and bad acting by making it look busy (and even then, I don't even think it looks good - too confusing).  It makes me sad to see how he's bastardized what should by all standards be awesome (I mean, how hard is it to screw up giant, transforming, fight robots?  Yet somehow he does it).

While I find the cast disagreeable, I think the movie was made quite right within its genre, what I call time-wasters. As far as those go, it was one of the best in the past five years. Such movies are not supposed to have a great story to tell - just look good. And, a personal preference, be heavy on CG.

Fair enough.  I guess I just take issue with the fact that the continuity was remediated into that genre to begin with.

[Guardian85]

May I ask why? Too romantic?

To much lovey-dovey stuff. Woke up when it hit the iceberg.

[Piratenerforsej]

xD
80% of all boys may probably think the same as you

[Velma]

In no particular order:

Raise the Red Lantern
The Wizard of Oz
All of the LOTRs
Secretary
Serenity
All the Pirates of the Caribbean movies
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Blade Runner
O Brother, Where Art Thou?

There's more, but it's nearly 4 am here.

[Guardian85]

May I ask why? Too romantic?

To much lovey-dovey stuff. Woke up when it hit the iceberg.

Which mostly mirrors my opinion of the movie Pearl Harbour.