Your all time top five films?
Discussion
yellowjack said:
Bridges Of Madison County
The Undefeated ( "Windage and elevation, Mrs. Langdon, Windage and elevation" )
Full Metal Jacket (or at least the first half)
A Bridge Too Far
Flags Of Our Fathers/Letters From Iwo Jima (you can't really watch one without the other, imho)
Some good lines in The Undefeated.The Undefeated ( "Windage and elevation, Mrs. Langdon, Windage and elevation" )
Full Metal Jacket (or at least the first half)
A Bridge Too Far
Flags Of Our Fathers/Letters From Iwo Jima (you can't really watch one without the other, imho)
"You went out to talk to those men! Why did you shoot them?"
"Conversation kind of dried up, ma'am".
I used to give up on the second part of FMJ, but last time I saw it I thought it as good as the first bit.
What stuns me about FMJ is the facts that you simply didn’t question its shooting locations during the film. I know many films are made a long way from their settings, in some you can tell ( like for instance, Battle of the Bulge, one of my fav war films, but utterly, utterly ruined by inaccurate location filming ) and some you just don’t see it. FMJ pulls it off superbly.
I'm basing this on films I can happily watch over and over, rather than a few films I can think of that are hugely impressive and may have had more of an impact on me, but I have little desire to watch again or regularly...
Donnie Darko
Jurassic Park
Jaws
Wall-e
Dazed and Confused
Spirited Away would be top of the list of best films I've seen, but that I don't watch that often.
Donnie Darko
Jurassic Park
Jaws
Wall-e
Dazed and Confused
Spirited Away would be top of the list of best films I've seen, but that I don't watch that often.
Edited by ukaskew on Tuesday 13th August 08:37
TTmonkey said:
What stuns me about FMJ is the facts that you simply didn’t question its shooting locations during the film. I know many films are made a long way from their settings, in some you can tell ( like for instance, Battle of the Bulge, one of my fav war films, but utterly, utterly ruined by inaccurate location filming ) and some you just don’t see it. FMJ pulls it off superbly.
Apparently the firm of international architects that designed certain cities in Vietnam also designed Beckton power station where the fighting and sniper scenes were filmed, which helps to explain your view.TTmonkey said:
What stuns me about FMJ is the facts that you simply didn’t question its shooting locations during the film. I know many films are made a long way from their settings, in some you can tell ( like for instance, Battle of the Bulge, one of my fav war films, but utterly, utterly ruined by inaccurate location filming ) and some you just don’t see it. FMJ pulls it off superbly.
There's one bit in FMJ that never ceases to set my teeth on edge and annoy the hell out of me. When they are flying in the transport helicopter with the crazy door gunner (who, incidentally, was originally cast as the Drill Sergeant until that part was given to R. Lee Emery who up until then had merely been a consultant), there is a shot of the trees below with supposedly the shadow of the helicopter. Only instead of the shadow of a honking big transport helicopter, it's the shadow of the small civilian helicopter doing the filming (looks like a Bell Jet Ranger to me).
I know some people will just dismiss me for being nerdy here, but in automotive terms it would be like a truck casting the shadow of a small car.
Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Tuesday 13th August 09:42
TIGA84 said:
In no particular order:
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrells
Pulp Fiction
Back to the Future
Duel
Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Great list. I was literally just chatting to someone about Pulp Fiction, Duel and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrells
Pulp Fiction
Back to the Future
Duel
Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
I watched The Goonies a week Sunday, Shawshank Redemption the Sunday just gone and tonight I'm thinking of watching something with a 60's or 70's flavour and it's going to be either Duel or It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
Big Lebowski - my favourite film evah, but like, that's just, er, my opinion man.
2001 - the best film ever, for me. Look at the shape of that obelisk...look at the shape of your phone...
Apocalypse Now - directors cut with the two extra scenes, one of the only war films I can watch. The Horror, the horror.
Withnail and I - I've no idea why, but Iove this one, just so grubby.
Life of Brian - so clever, prescient and funny.
The Good the Bad & the Ugly - One of the earliest films I remember watching, I was young but enthralled by the atmosphere and characters, it was like a western, but without the schtick.
One more? Pretty please?
The Grand Budapest Hotel - crackling mad story, great acting and all draped in the Wes Anderson stylistic.
Kubrick and the Coens are my favourite directors - No Country for Old Men could easily have been in there. Guy Richie for his Snatch/LS2SB & Tarantino [Pulp Fiction] get the joint close third.
Foreign films that are worth a mention - The Prophet [Un Prophète], Gomorrah and Cyrano de Bergerac with Depardieu [Manon des Sources etc also worth a watch, beautiful).
Honourable mentions to Long Good Friday, French Connection, Deer Hunter, Taxi Driver, Three Days of the Condor, Marathon Man, Airplane, Scarface etc etc - perhaps more imbued with personal nostalgic wistfulness than cinema quality, but good films anyway I reckon.
2001 - the best film ever, for me. Look at the shape of that obelisk...look at the shape of your phone...
Apocalypse Now - directors cut with the two extra scenes, one of the only war films I can watch. The Horror, the horror.
Withnail and I - I've no idea why, but Iove this one, just so grubby.
Life of Brian - so clever, prescient and funny.
The Good the Bad & the Ugly - One of the earliest films I remember watching, I was young but enthralled by the atmosphere and characters, it was like a western, but without the schtick.
One more? Pretty please?
The Grand Budapest Hotel - crackling mad story, great acting and all draped in the Wes Anderson stylistic.
Kubrick and the Coens are my favourite directors - No Country for Old Men could easily have been in there. Guy Richie for his Snatch/LS2SB & Tarantino [Pulp Fiction] get the joint close third.
Foreign films that are worth a mention - The Prophet [Un Prophète], Gomorrah and Cyrano de Bergerac with Depardieu [Manon des Sources etc also worth a watch, beautiful).
Honourable mentions to Long Good Friday, French Connection, Deer Hunter, Taxi Driver, Three Days of the Condor, Marathon Man, Airplane, Scarface etc etc - perhaps more imbued with personal nostalgic wistfulness than cinema quality, but good films anyway I reckon.
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