Best Ever Movies

GaryKelly · Post by **GaryKelly** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 7:54 am

dubhlinn wrote: The Ninth Configuration.

Don't...eat...the...swordfish!

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 8:44 am

dubhlinn wrote: "The Quite Man" is the worse film I have ever seen.

Try reading the book D, I think you'd probably enjoy that. The original title was Green Rushes but it normally gets put out as the Quiet Man these days.

PhilO · Post by **PhilO** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 9:43 am

dubhlinn wrote:In no particular order.....

Annie Hall.
Chinatown.
The Maltese Falcon.
The Big Sleep.
Seven.
Kill Bill (1 + 2.)
The Ninth Configuration.
The Last Waltz.(OK..I Know it's not a movie.. as such..)
Manhattan.
The Long Good Friday.
The Odd Couple.(Lemmon /Matthau)
Manhunter.(Hannibals debut!)
Goodfellas.
Twintown.(Hilarious - Google it up.)

I could go on all day here but there is something that I have been trying to hold back from another thread - Here goes...

"The Quite Man" is the worse film I have ever seen.

There,I feel better now.

Slan,
D.

Some great movies that we all forgot! Although, I love "The Quiet Man." Ah, Trooper Thornton, Ward Bond and the gang. Dragging that lovely redhead across the fields by her hair...Seriously, I think there are some movies and songs that you Irish may find trite, maybe some find them silly or stereotypical, but I love them. Yes, I love Danny Boy. I'm not Irish (I just take advantage of your music, your literature, and your spirits), but it's stuff like that that probably first attracted me to a culture that I realize goes way beyond that stereotypical stuff. Even if stereotypical, I always got a really positive feel from that movie - serious yet lighthearted, reality of some pigheadedness, clash of tradition v Americanization, and I'm a sucker for a happy ending. The sight of parish priests and older women leaning out windows rooting combatants on, if that's the stuff that you didn't like, I found it all just sort of warm and fun.

Then of course, maybe you just didn't like the movie; and I'll shut my big mouth.

As for "worst film [you've] ever seen"; have you tried:

The Thing WIth Two Heads with Ray Milland and Rosie Grier (yes, the former NY Giants lineman)

David Lynch's first and worst, "Eraserhead."

or my all time worst "Ishtar."

Happy Holiday All.

Philo

mujo · Post by **mujo** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 9:55 am

Eternal sunshine on a spotless mind
Miracle on 34th St.
Christmas carol(Alister Simm)
American beauty
almost any Cheech and Chong movie (I wasn't looking at your eye man)
Animal house

LeeMarsh · Post by **LeeMarsh** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 10:00 am

I qualified my favorites as movies that I've watched more than 5 times at one point or another. I've included a couple of combined movies or mini-series that are available as CD. I'm sure I've left out a few but here is a start.

Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Extended versions)
Song Catcher
Jeremiah Johnson

Starwars (I)
Blade Runner
Princess Bride
A Knight's Tale
The Sound of Music
Ninja Scrolls
Heavy Metal (animated)
Tarzan (animated)
The Godfather (I&II combined)
The Stand
The Keep
Wolfen
The Gangs of New York
Risky Business (Every teenage boys dream)
Silverado (w/Scott Glenn not John Wayne)
Outlaw Josie Wales
Lethal Weapon
Silence of the Lambs & Manhunter
Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein
When Harry Met Sally.
Rob Roy
Shogun
Children of Dune
To Kill a Mocking Bird.
Conan the Barbarian
The Great Escape (Steve McQueen)
Taming of the Shrew (Burton and Taylor)
Swiss Family Robinson (Every boys dream tree house).
Lawrence of Arabia
Ben Hur
Ong-Bak

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 10:01 am

Ah Jaysus,Cheech and Chong....
That takes me back a bit..

Anybody tell where they hooked up with Joni Mitchell?

(and I can prove it!!)

Slan,
D.

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 10:46 am

Will O'B wrote:The 1964 movie Zulu with Michael Caine and Stanley Baker as two British Junior Officers actually received good reviews and is an action-drama well worth watching. It's based on an actual battle in 1879 between a group of British soldiers and an overwhelming force of Zulu warriors. The event sort of has a Custer's Last Stand scenerio, only the "good guys" eventually win the battle by default. I don't know if this is the movie to which you are referring, Weekenders, but it is a good movie.

Will O'Ban

[Edited to add: I see Philo and I cross posted with the same feelings about the movie ]

Yeah, Zulu. I get it confused because I think there might have been some other movies with Zulu in the name.

I always watch that movie! Though I feel terrible for both sides, it is ennobling to view and the director succeeded in portraying real bravery that most can only imagine.

norseman · Post by **norseman** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 11:24 am

FJohnSharp wrote:
NicoMoreno wrote:Shawshank Redemption

Yep.

It wasn't until I had seen the movie a couple of times that I found out it was based on a Steven King story. It's one of those movies I can watch over and over again when they show it on cable. It's a masterpiece! My favorite scene is when they discover the tunnel and stand there with their mouths open!

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 2:54 pm

In no particular order:

Harvey (Jimmy Stewart at his best)
Dogville
Touching the Void
The Magdelene Sisters (partly for the bodhran playing singing priest!)
Bladerunner (Original WITH the voiceover!)
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
All Marx Bros
All Stan and Ollie
American Beauty
The Last Samurai
The Quiet Man! (...he trod on the tail o' me coat)

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 2:55 pm

Oh, and...

Forbidden Planet
The Day the Earth Stood Still

trisha · Post by **trisha** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 3:48 pm

Well done to Dekkard and Slowair, the only two who answered the question

.

My question is where on earth do you find the time to sit around watching all this stuff?

Trisha, who hasn't even seen TV for two years and hasn't missed it for a minute.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 4:59 pm

Takes years of practice Trish.

It ain't TV.

Slan,
D.

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 6:14 pm

norseman wrote:
FJohnSharp wrote:
NicoMoreno wrote:Shawshank Redemption

Yep.
It wasn't until I had seen the movie a couple of times that I found out it was based on a Steven King story. It's one of those movies I can watch over and over again when they show it on cable. It's a masterpiece! My favorite scene is when they discover the tunnel and stand there with their mouths open!

"Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" that would be. A great story and film. Edited to add that if I remember correctly that short story is found in his book " Night Shift".

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 6:18 pm

I realized today as I was watching it for the umpteenth time-

A Christmas Story

and I should have had the following on my list too-

Meet the Parents

Slingblade

jonharl · Post by **jonharl** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 7:02 pm

Lots of good movies mentioned so far. I like a lot of them.

Cool Hand Luke