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themagicwand wrote:

Lord Freddie wrote::shock: You must have liked Olive? And Blakey?

Yeah, but the two main characters. Gah!

Come on, don't you wish you were as ugly as them but could still pull the young 'clippies'?

On the Buses was rancid...bet you fancied Olive though

anyway, citizen kane is a classic, as is bladerunner, especially the speech given by the Hauer at the end...and the production of the dove...very poetic...

im sure there was a previous thread on favourite films though? withnail and I should be in it if there's any justice...

Critics faves to look cool eh? I'm suprised you didn't mention Shawshank Redemption!!!

Yes, Olive is a beauty, but not as lovely as Yootha Joyce.

Anyone seen Tommy Trinder in 'Champagne Charlie'?

nah...shawshank was shocking...

Anyway, all time best film ever in the entire universe has to be a french film called, or rather, translated from the rude original title - Going Places..

sordid, beastly, pathos, funny, freaky and all other things in between...

EDIT: by the way Lord Freddie, you don't happen to be related to Ivan Dobsky and Mr. Hoppy by any chance?

No, but I am the illicit love-child of Charles Hawtrey and Hylda Baker....

No, but I am the illicit love-child of Charles Hawtrey and Hylda Baker....

BROTHER!

My favourite film of all time changes almost on a daily basis. However a box set of the collected works of Tim Burton would see me a happy man for a very long time.

Bladerunner-top 5

Goodfellas #1

David The Cryptic wrote:Well according to AFI- which I think is a USA thing.

#1 movie is Citizen Kane.
#2 is the Godfather
#3 is Casablanca

Star Wars is #13

And Blade Runner is #97

And these are out of the top 100.

I just cannot accept that Citizen Kane is the best movie ever. I've watched it twice and I don't see what makes it so exceptional (apart, I guess, from the technical stuff but I'm more interested in the effect, not the sleights behind the effect).

One movie that often gets left out in discussions of the greatest movie ever is 12 Angry Men, the 1957 original not the rubbish remake. Last I checked it was in the imdb.com top 15 movies of all time. Was very good and I highly recommend it to anyone.

great expectations, the very first one with a young alec guiness. The atmosphere at the begining in the misty graveyard is truly frightening even today. But then I am a bit of a whimp

One of the best Sci Fi movies ever !
I just placed my order.

Of more recent films, Sin City really does it for me.

Can't wait for Sin City 2!

I guess if I rated films as artistic, Bladerunner ranks pretty highly. But it's not the kind of film I'd say is re-watchable apart from the visionary aspect.

From an artistic point of view, I'd definately rate Eraserhead as being one of my most memorable movies.

For sheer re-watchability, I have to agree with Freddie about the old Ealing type comedies... they're great, and were pretty much the staple TV diet of kids in my day (Along with Minder, the Professionals, Sapphire & Steel, Monkey, etc.).

Ranking in my top movies of all time are definately Star Wars, Jurassic Park (the first one), Zulu, etc.etc.etc.

The list is too long really. And yes, because my tastes are eclectic, I can't really pinpoint a favourite. All depends on mood really.

However, even though I have hundreds of movies on VHS, DVD, etc., there's a select bunch of films which when on TV, I actually make an effort to re-watch—even though I've got them on DVD/Video.

And those include Jaws, Misery, Alien, The Thing, Bond (Connery), Carry on (Everything except 'Columbus'), 'Doctor' (yeah, you remember the ones), and mostly anything with 'Hammer House' or 'Hammer' in the credits.

Growing up in the 'video age' when all teenagers used to borrow mum & dad's video membership card, I really did watch a heck of a lot of movies as a kid. Countless £££sss spent on videos—usually 'video nasties'—with mates around, crowded round the 14 inch portable in the bedroom with the drone of the betamax or vhs whirring in the background. Savoury days, those were.

Blue Velvet- David Lynch (Eraserhead was his student film I believe, and a most disturbing classic piece of cinema)

I don't care what anyone says, The Exorcist is still the freakin scariest most disturbing movie I've ever seen.

watched it once and will never watch it again

I can knock it down to about 5, can't choose a favourite though

Sin City
Goodfellas
The Usual Suspects
Almost Famous
Clerks

I am a big comedy fan, but generally have pretty wide ranging tastes that vary based on movies rather than genre