2000 AD Online Forum

the previous thread got me thinking, dangerous to do I know.  But hear me out.  If you had one film that you can watch over and over again.  What is it?

Ill have a think as Im stuck on 3 at the moment.


Slips

I might change my mind,but the first film that sprang to my mind was The Goonies.

It'd have to be The Empire Strikes Back.

The Third Man. Or Sweet Smell of Success. Or Vertigo. Or The Curse of Frankenstein (well, how can you expect me to pick just one?)

Shankshaw redemption

Im stuck between Rear Window, Taxi Driver and Point Break (I know, but it just makes me smile)


slips

Wait, out of all the Hitchcock films you're going to go for Rear Window? Fun, sure, but it hardly compares with North By Northwest or Psycho. It's better than The Birds, but not as good as Rebecca.

Yes I really like it.  Always have....  Never really liked Psycho much.  But yeah Ill give you N by NW, its probably better...  you see Im starting to doubt my own selections.

Slips

N by NW... Vertigo... Citizen Kane... King Kong... Jaws... Empire... Goodfellas.

One?
Are you mental?

yep.  and it stimulates great debate


Slips

Star Wars: A New Hope.

Repo Man.

M*A*S*H! No, Mystery Men! No, Empire Strikes Back! No, Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD!

Ooooh, hard this, innit?

"Not many people got a code to live by anymore..."

the Big Lebowski just edges out Fight Club.

Huh? Fight Club is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better than The Big Lebowski, IMHO

Hmmm...

It's either, in no particular order:

Leon
Pulp Fiction
Aliens
Empire Strikes Back
Chocolat
Spirited Away
Akira
or The Chronicles of Riddick*
there's prob more in there as well...












* LOL only kidding on that one :-)

Dirty Harry just for the opening gambit.

Oh, forgot the Usual Suspects, just for the bit at the end, but you have to watch the whole movie to appreciate it.

What about La Regle Du Jeu? Or Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid? Dr. Strangelove? Das Kabinet de Dr. Caligari? Se7en? Brazil? The Ladykillers? If...? Kind Hearts and Coronets? Stlaker? Battleship Potempkin? Performance? Don't Look Now? Anything by John Sayles?

Although there are *loads* of films I can watch over and over again, the first one that popped into my head was The Thing.

Excellent Carpenter remake (though it does borrow heavily from Dracula Prince of Darkness in terms of technique).

I think after the momentum has died down this thread needs to be collated into a top 50, big up to Slipps for coming up with this one...

...I may have to go home soon and dig around in the DVD's.

Mstery Men can be watched again and again.

que human beatbox

The Terminator

I can't chose just one so I really shouldn't contribute to this thread but I#d have to chose one of the following - Ring of Bright Water, Carry on Don't Lose Your Head, Animal Crackers, Moulin Rouge, and Oh Brother! Where art thou?

Tarka :-P

Holy bum flaps! That is a good one. A cop out answer would of course be to edit sections of your favourite films together to create one amazing uber-movie!
In which case mine would be "The Confidential Jedi Return of Incredibles Hard Wars and the Redemption of the Dead Quest"

Er, or alternatively Return Of The King (not the Elvis promo)

:)

Take Tarka the Otter and stick him up your bum.

After hes only just dropped him of at the pond?

Gonna show that I am an old fart. Battle Of Britain, Zulu or Silent Running. To choose between the three of them would depend on the time of day, but would usually opt for Battle Of Britain (the only one that I have gone out of my way to buy)

Karen's choices are ST3:The Search For Spock or anything with Sean Connery in it (where he doesn't die)...

If it had to be one, it'd be Broadway Danny Rose.

Broadway Danny Rose and Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (originally relesed without the Carry On prefix due to the switch between Anglo Amalgamated and Rank) are both extremely good choices, though it might be worth adding Manhatten and Carry On Up the Khyber as well.

Everybody knows that CARRY ON CLEO is the best Carry On film.

I'd stand by any one of my five on my Profile page which, iirc, are:

Raiders of The Lost Ark
Robocop
Apocolypse Now
Miller's Crossing
Fellowship of the Ring
Empire Strikes Back.

Oh hang on, that's six.

Miller's Crossing.

"Where's me hat?"  

A Matter Of Life And Death or perhaps The Bishops Wife.

Oh, and The Snowman at Christmas time.

Just love 'em

first one that jumps into my head is Ghost Busters, favorite movie as a kid or maybee The Crow. Nah fak it I'd never take just one.

CU Krestel

Blues Brothers
Citizen Kane
Blues Brothers
Citizen Kane
Blues Brothers
Citizen Kane

Bollocks. If I had to choose it's Blues Brothers because its got more music.

M*A*S*H or Evil Dead 2 or Goodfellas.

M*A*S*H just has the edge.

Show Me Love (swedish lesbian film-not porn) would be my one with Sound of Music and a Fistful of Dollars behind it.

Will

Blade Runner (The Director's Cut).

That's a bloody difficult question, Oh Slippery One.  Many many other films went under my mental spotlight but Blade Runner wins out as a film that I cannot not watch if it comes on.  It's also one of the few example where the term "Director's Cut" means exactly that, and it is a (pretty much proveable) higher quality version than the original theatrical release.

If I want to watch a movie and I look through my entire collection, that's the only one that will win out every single time.

Runners up would be the usual suspects:

The Usual Suspects
The Godfather (I & II)
Highlander
Aliens
The Empire Strikes Back
Goodfellas

Movies that are great but don't do it for me in the mulitiple repeat viewings stakes (needing to be given time to re-mature for additional viewings):

Citizen Kane
The Third Man (actually, I could repeat view the scene in the square and the "cuckoo clock" scene just about forever and never get tired of them).
Apocalypse Now
The Thing (Carpenter version)
Once Upon A Time In The West
The Wild Bunch
Seven Samurai

(And if you think that's too many to mention, it's been difficult to narrow it down this much.)

(There's nothing too new in there because only time will tell.)

Escape from New York. I never get tired of Cabbies music.





Oh and even though theyre both great The Big Lebowski is so much better than Fight Club its frightening.

Peeping Tom. Curse of the Demon. I Walked With a Zombie. A Shot in the Dark. The Vanishing. Get Carter. Sonatine. My Neighbour Totoro.

You're having difficulty with the title of this thread, aren't you, Byron?

Make.  A.  Choice.

The idea of just chosing one film is patently ridiculous and completely unecessary, so I'm ignoring it.

Just one film, and I've got to watch it over and over again?

The Man With Two Brains.

Army of darkness

That i could watch anytime without being bored

Yellow Submarine
Will Wonka and the Chocilate Factory
The Crow
Sergio Leone's entire output

That i could watch anytime without being bored

Yellow Submarine
Will Wonka and the Chocilate Factory
The Crow
Sergio Leone's entire output

Oooh now how did i manage to do that i wonder???

Apocalypse Now

Argh now the double of this thread had vanished i look like a plonker

Damn - I forgot that one - can I steal Usher's idea?

Mr Huffuhuhur...Ms Almalmaheyyyy.

Going off-topic, but It might be interesting to see how long it takes somebody to answer this....

What actor links both Revenge of the Sith and American Werewolf in London?

Bolt-01

Frank Oz?

yeah, checked IMDB, it's Frank Oz

One film I could watch over and over:
The Wizard of Speed and Time

Mike C

I thiiiiiiink it would be Evil Dead 2, but runners up would be Pulp Fiction, Donnie Darko, The Punisher, Kill Bill and Big Trouble In Little China. And Bubba Ho Tep. That's off the top of my head so I'll change my mind.....now.

Nice one Ed.

Bolt-01

What do I win?

My respect.

Bolt-01

Damn!

The Wizard of Speed and time is such a fun movie.

Havn't seen it in years but must really track a copy down.

One more for the list: Withnail & I (insert fave quote here)

OK

'I'll have you if it means burglary!'

Kes.

M@

Hmmmm. Well i'm stuck at 2, but as mbanners has already picked Kes (i'm from a South Yorks council estate and relate so much to it - no kestrel tho) i'm gonna go with....

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly!

Alan!

Big, Gregory's Girl, War Games, Ferris Bueller, Crocodile Dundee.

ADE

Wings of Desire; a long Wim Wenders movie, which features a good Nick Cave performance, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk, Solveig Dommartin, haunting music, nice black and white photography, Solveig Dommartin, poetic dialogue and Solveig Dommartin

none of em, would drive me crazy, i like loads but again and again, on an endless loop ?

your nuts

Withnail & I.

And I klaim my five pounds Tanky!

shit
Which fucker said that!

you probally expected this but the crow

Death Race 2000!

just to be different & just because its on my to get list
last seen when my mum made me watch it when i was like 9 or summet at glastonfest one year
bloody brilliant if a tad french in its approch