Forgot about Snatch and Lock Stock as well.

I want fight club to get a lot more. It’s not about fighting and it’s actually a very clever film, something that is missed by a lot of people because they focus on the fighting.

I’ll add gladiator, blackhawk down and full metal jacket, maybe braveheart and platoon to my ever expanding list. Oooh bad taste and all the evil dead films, GROOVY!

I want fight club to get a lot more. It’s not about fighting and it’s actually a very clever film

It’s badly named. I didn’t watch it for ages because I “wasn’t interested in a film about boxing” and I know plenty of people who’ve never seen it, and won’t, for similar reasons.

Fear and Loathing, Dead mans shoes, Stranger than fiction, I could keep going and going, so I’ll stop.

Goodfellas
Gladiator
Last of the Mohicans

cougar – with memento, try watching it thinking: black and white scenes are in correct order, any scenes shot in colours are moving backwards 🙂

it’d be impossible to pick 3 films, do i pick 3 enjoyable silly films, or 3 films that thrill, or 3 films that make tears roll down my face? do i pick 3 films with ray winston in, 3 with forest whatshisface in, or 3 with complete unknowns? 3 love stories, 3 epic adventures or 3 psychological mindbenders? or 3 completely niche films for the sake of appearing clever (surprised nobody has done this it being STW!)

2 things these threads always make me realise: 1) i love films, and 2) perhaps people aren’t joking about ‘the princess bride’ and i should ignore the title and maybe check it out.

Andrei rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky
Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky
Blade runner by Ridley Scott

Fight Club
Usual Suspects
Aliens

3 good recent-ish films I’ve enjoyed are:

Source Code
Limitless
Inception

the big lebowski
the life of brian
fight club

the good the bad and the ugly
Apocolypse Now
Blade Runner

philconsequence – Princess Bride is awesome, no doubt about it.

Apocalypse Now.

Heat or Ronin.

Fargo.

To have and to have not
Life of Brian
Toy story

with memento, try watching it thinking: black and white scenes are in correct order, any scenes shot in colours are moving backwards

Hm. Guess it’s time for a rewatch.

perhaps people aren’t joking about ‘the princess bride’

The thing with TPB is, ostensibly, it’s a family film. If you go in expecting The Godfather you’re going to be disappointed. However, as family films go, it’s tremendous.

Ages ago now, there used to be a website where you could submit your favourite movie quotes. The front page carried a disclaimer that The Princess Bride was banned from the site, on the grounds that they’d have to submit the entire script otherwise.

Apocalypse Now
Animal House
Snatch

i like family films 😀 will borrow a copy of torminalis when he’s not looking 😉

Blade Runner
Deer Hunter
Empire Strikes Back

**and about 300 other films that I love**

N.E.Ds
Leon
Oldboy.

The Cruel Sea (1953)
Thirty Nine Steps (1935)
Big Lebowski

The Shawshank Redemption
Star Wars
Blues Brothers
American Werewolf in London

I know, I can’t count.

Zoolander
Zoolander returns
Zoolander final conquest.

er two of them are not made yet but they’ll be cool and I know I’ll love them.

Damn, I forgot Southern Comfort!
and… 3 is impossible!

Nobody said The Thing yet?

The Big Lebowski
John Carpenter’s The Thing
Alien

Interesting. Blade runner in the lead closely followed by alien(s) so far. Both by Ridley Scott.

TPB
Star Wars
either who dares wins or local hero.

glad to see TPB getting so much love.

Blade Runner
Restless Natives
Serenity

Next week will probably be a different 3!

It has to be
Usual suspects – all time classic
Animal house
Apocalypse now

Oh and when I remember now Silver dream racer

Baraka
The 39 Steps (1935)
24 Hour Party People

Vanilla Sky
The Departed
The Dark Knight

How come Point Break’s not on here yet?

You guys! 🙄

perhaps people aren’t joking about ‘the princess bride’ and i should ignore the title and maybe check it out.

Ah but I know something that you do not

Full of utterly quotable lines
Superb
Seriously.
Mail me and I will send you a copy

😀 cheers for the offer junky! i’ll be barging into torminalis’ house this evening without knocking to steal his dvd’s, abduct his dog and drag his fiance to a pub quiz so i’ll be all set for a copy 🙂

Dr Strangelove
The Godfather
Life of Brian

with a special mention to North by North West, Vertigo, Rear Window etc

1st Zodiac – proper creeply thriller and based on true story.

2nd Jackie Brown, love the mood of the film, excellent music, perhaps best supporting role ever by Michael Keaton.

3rd Road trip, the grandad taking viagra and knocking over ornaments with his boner, stealing the blind school bus. Jumping the bridge, never fails to make me laugh until it hurts.

Princess Bride – is class. (the sword fight where he annouces he is in fact right handed! – brilliant).

Three is very difficult so I’ve gone by the criteria of would I watch them again tonight.

Starship troopers
The life of Brian
Jaws

you killed my father … prepare to die 😀

For me, my list of fav films will always have:

Shawshank – The record scene playing out over the tannoy – best scene ever in my books.

Blue Brothers – Always just loved the relaxed feel to it.

Blade Runner – To me, that is how the future will look and feel.

As for others … you cant have just 3 ….

Star Wars
Dark Knight
TPB

Dead of Night.
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly.
A Matter of Life & Death.

rusty spanner about time

A matter Of Life and Death, all time clasic

Life Of Brian

Bound.

And for me the ultimate relationship test:-

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead .