Always a difficult one to answer but ... push comes to shove what is your all time favourite film?
There's a prize for the most obscure!?
Reckon I'd go for (none of which are that obscure) "Play it again Sam" but then again "Annie Hall" "Manhattan" and "Deconstructing Harry" are classic Woody Allen, "Once were warriors" is powerful and "Star Wars" had a big effect on me as a kid "Wild at Heart" rocks so does "Twin Peaks Fire walk with me", "Dune" is good "Eraserhead" is vile, the original version of "The Vanishing" pi**es all over Hollywood's rehash, "Run Lola run" is fun in a German type way, "Jean de Florrette" and "Mannon des Source" are cheshnuts...
...I give up I can't pick a favourite - don't reckon anyone else will be able to either?
plastikman (off to read 100 Bullets vol 4 - hurray - thankyou Chester Comic Co)
?no there isn't
It's gotta be Transformers the Movie (because we all love big, Japanese robots), Predator (only the 1st one), Blood (the only genuinely adult film I've ever heard of), and Judge Dredd (mainly for the Rico/Hammerstein bits).
I freely admit to being a gibbering, fangirl escapist, and already appreciate the flaws of my selected films. I do not need to be re-informing of this. Thankyou.
It is very hard to chose a film, isn't it?
For me it's (in no definite order) "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly", The Godfather (and II), Blade Runner, Alien, La Haine, Seven Samarai, Yojimbo, Rashamon, The Hidden Fortress, Kes, Onibaba, The Excorcist, Monty Python's Life Of Brian.... God I could go on for ever! Tho Run Lola Run is aslo bloody excellent ;)
Alan!
La Haine is on my list of films to see - hmm never seems to be in the local Blockbuster though!
I love Monty Python (but HATE the dead parrot sketch!).
"Blessed are the cheesemakers"
plastikman
Apart from my Star Wars fixation, some of my favourites are Escape From New York,12 Angry Men,The Big Lebowski,Silent Running,La Haine,King Kong,Jason and The Argonauts,Dawn Of The Dead,Goodfellas,Buckaroo Banzai.Thats off the top of my head,I'll give you a different ten tomorrow!
The best film I have seen in the last year would have to be Requiem For A Dream.
Jenny-mek scores 1 with "Blood" never heard of it!
But wrighty's ahead with 3 - "Yojimbo", "Rashamon" and "Onibaba" ...eh come again? (Although these will be disallowed if they're Manga!)
I'm an ignorant fool!
plastikman
Broadway Danny Rose is my fave Woody Allen flick...
Other faves include....The Day The Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, Anything with Jenny Agutter gettin her kit off, A Matter Of Life And Death, Unbreakable, Bedazzled (not the new shit one), Time Bandits (or any Terry Gilliam film)....Ohh the list goes on....
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Taxi Driver, Rushmore, Fight Club, The Big Lebowski, Blade Runner and LA Confidential
Jaws, The Wicker Man, Witchfinder General, Hell Drivers, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Magnum Force, Holiday on the Buses. (too many more)
Ed
Rashomon & Yojimbo are films from the legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, and both are absolute masterpieces - they've also been extensively copied in the West, as have most of his other movies. Both films also feature the magnificent Toshiro Mifune - almost a recommendation to see them in itself.
Onibaba is another classic Japanese movie, written & directed by Kaneto Shindo, and it's a wonderfully spooky tale set in 14th century Japan.
All three come highly recommended, and if you enjoy them, then check out:
Hell in the Pacific
Dersu Uzala
Kagemusha
The Seven Samurai
...and just because it's the best bloody horror film I've seen in years:
Ring
The Thing - Back when John Carpenter could do no wrong. It's dated badly in places but still gets by on sheer verve.
First of all, no they are not manga, but simply some of the best movies ever made. Obviously I agree here with Blackblood. Yojimbo was remade as A Fistful Of Dollars (some scenes copied axactly). Rashomon is one of the most original, thought provoking, and gripping movies ever made. It centres around a rape and murder, and the trial that follows. It tells the story from 3 points of view, the accused, the accuser and the victim. Anyone interested in Kurosawa should check out Arena on BBC2 on Saturday night, which is all about the great director. Other classics of his include The Hidden Fortress, Throne of Blood, and Ran. Onibaba tells the tale of 2 peasant women who survive by killing Samarai and selling their armour & weapons. One of the most visualy amazing films i've ever seen.
I too would recommend Ring, along with Uzumaki, Keiro (aka Pulse), Battle Royale, Sonatine, Hani-Bi, The Violent Cop, Tokyo Drifter as superb examples of Japanese cinema. Also missed off my list Fight Club, The Wicker Man and at least a 100 more ;)
Alan!
Buckaroo Banzai
Wings of Desire
Mad Max (Johnnytheboy`s done it again/when do we go for a ride)
Bedazzled (the original with Pete and Dud)
>>>I too would recommend Ring, along with Uzumaki, Keiro (aka Pulse), Battle Royale, Sonatine, Hani-Bi, The Violent Cop, Tokyo Drifter as superb examples of Japanese cinema
>>>I too would recommend Ring, along with Uzumaki, Keiro (aka Pulse), Battle Royale, Sonatine, Hani-Bi, The Violent Cop, Tokyo Drifter as superb examples of Japanese cinema
Sorry about the multiple posts - something weird's going on with either the board or my computer. Anyway, here's the rest of my post:
Beat Takeshi! Good taste :-) Remember the sumo scenes in Sonatine? Boiling Point would have to go on my favourites list as well - another excellent movie.
I haven't picked up Uzumaki yet, but I've heard very good things about it, and the comic of the same name. Battle Royale is on the list as well, but it's damn hard to find a good copy at the moment.
There's a lot of interesting stuff going on in Japan at the moment, and they're definitely leading the way in the horror genre.
Jenny-mek, did you cry when Optimus Prime died? And the matrix of leadership gets dropped and Hot Rod catched it? It was a fair tear jerker for me!
Anyway...
Braindead, The Legend of Fung Sai-yuk (for a laugh), Crouching tiger...,The Princess Bride, Hardboiled, Bladerunner, Alien, The Big Lebowski, absolutely nothing by David Lynch, The Terminator, any many more.
Some of these have been mentioned previosuly:
Ring - one of the few films that really scared me.
Angel Heart - I really like the twist, even if it is kinda obvious.
Blue Velvet - dennis hopper at his very best
Dune - I just like it. Liked the book too.
Shallow grave - For christopher ecclestons performance alone
Rear Window - Its my favourite Hitchcock film, its just slick.
Also more recently seen:
Ravenous, LA Confidential, Memento - all guy peirce - The Royal Tenenbaums and Ali. Deserve an honourable mention at least
I did the first time, but Transformers is one of my stock pieces of infant-conversion material, so I'm usualy too busy explaining the plot and Manga film techniques. The things I do for the sake of furthering my cause.
Most films I like seem to hail from the seventies, here's a few of the faves...
Excalibur
Rollerball
THX 1138
Gregory's Girl
Silent Running
The Wicker Man
The Final Programme
Dawn of the Dead
The Omega Man
Dark Star
The Thing
The Dunwich Horror
Conan The Barbarian
Hawk the Slayer
Bedazzled (The Pede and Dud one for me too)
Fave Woody Allen Movie: The Sleeper
Heh, yeah those sumo scenes were excellent. God, I forgot Boiling Point :O
If you can do R3 dvd's both Uzumaki (and I would highly recommend the trades for this, which are available from Amazon or Page45) and Battle Royalle are available from somewhere like dddhouse.com (it's in Hong Long and v. reliable) for around ?8 each. The R3 Battle Royalle is a decent disc. Light on extras, but picture and sound are fine.
The Japanese are prbably the best in the world at the moment for horror. The next one I wanna check out is Tomie, which is a ghost story based on another comic by the same writer as Uzumaki.
Alan!
>Holiday on the Buses
sorry, esoteric ed, bot i've got to disagree with you there, esoteric ed. the first film from 1971 is far funnier, & the theme tune's an absolute cracker!
i've wet my knickers!
steven l'enfant terrible
Repo Man.
"Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. When they canceled the project it almost did me in. One day my mind was full to bursting. The next day - nothing. Swept away. But I'll show them. I had a lobotomy in the end."
My fave movies would have to be an 'orrible mix of all of the above:
Bedazzled (Original of course, Elizibeth Hurley as Peter Cook?! Idiots)
Akira
Blood(The last vampire manga thingy)
Monty Python and the holy grail:)NI!
My favourite movies include the following:
- Apocalypse Now (Top War Flick!)
- Holy Grail
- Life of Brian
there are many others but they just reveal the fact that i'm not really an arty type into all this weird cult movie stuff and my penchant is for war films and comedy.....