Favourite Films

[OracleOfQuantico]

Evil Dead
Coming to America
Ferris Bueller's day off
Goonies
When Harry Met Sally
Napoleon Dynamite
Notting Hill
Gran Turino
Spirited Away
The Blind Side
Pride and Prejudice

[Steve1960]

Pretty Woman - bit of a chick flick but Julia Roberts in a Lotus, come on thats what wet dreams are made for

Hangover - the flim had me laughing out loud but the credits at the end tipped me off my chair!

Hangover II - difficult to top the original film but I still liked it 'Bangkok has him now' hahaha

One flew over the cuckoo's nest - Jack at his best

Midnight Express - left a lasting impression on me, dark, sinister, scary in the old fashioned way

All of the Lord of the Rings films. I have read the book many times and I think they did justice to it when they put it on the big screen

Borat - nothing else to say really, or nothing that could be printed here. Roll into this the Dictator, I loved that too

Dukes of Hazzard - just because I loved the old series when I was young and the film brought back memories

Four weddings and a funeral - quaint british humour

I know there are more, they are in my DVD collection at home. Just can't bring them to mind now.

[the lynx]

Oh gawd, JR8, a 2-year old thread?

Anyway I saw that Tigerslayer's choice of Inception got shot down (I know it was 2 years ago) but I must say that it is a very complex movie to understand and appreciate. Chris Nolan's art. And I loved it (shame that my ex slept throughout the entire movie).

Another movie to stomach, Source Code. For those who like to play with ideas of quantum leap theory.

[JR8]

Oh gawd, JR8, a 2-year old thread?

Don't know how that happened, as I only pick up active topics via the 'View posts since last visit' button.

I think I must have replied to something, that that poster subsequently deleted? Oh well... who knows

[JR8]

Apocalypse Now
A story within a story within a story.
In fact my missus calls it 'my war film'. Er, I do watch it quite often. But that completely misses that it is pornographically anti-war. An exploration of might and right, hypocracy, good and evil.
Anyone who considers it simply a war film has only scratched the 1st of 20 layers.
(The Spectator in a poll last year voted it the 2nd greatest film ever made. Quite a surprise for such a high-brow mag (it took some flak for that!!). But then again.... maybe not, and I'm just in good company )

And here a few years later.... a really interesting analysis.
Apocalypse Now | ANALYSIS (Part One)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r23wOiCHK5E
[Part 2 - in the sidebar]

Fascinating, looking at it (the cinematic interpretation) a coldly technical literary/analytical way. The roots of the story go back about 130 years (Joseph Conrad). Read Conrad's Heart of Darkness to have a hope of understanding the film... watch the film.... several times, to have a hope of understanding the book.

30+ years on I'm still caught in this loop.

[JR8]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4nY2J1gRzg
Apocalypse Now - Interview with John Milius [The writer]