Tell us what your favourite movie is and give a short breakdown on why it sits at NO1# on your list. This could be good!

My personal favourite is 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'.

Starring Humphrey Bogart, it explorers the depths of men's souls.

Basically Bogart is broke and wins a small lottery, enough to get gold prospecting supplies. He and some shifty acquaintances set out to find their fortune.

Was an still is the most insightful movie into the motives of greed that drives people I have ever seen.

Well, I love "Pretty Woman." Its a romantic movie, and it shows love in a different light. It has a unique story, and I just think it has an amazing plot and characters. I also love Julia Roberts, so that helps.

"The Notebook" is great too. It has a great message, and it always makes me cry. I love Rachel McAdams, and she's my favorite actress. I can watch that movie over and over again.

One more that's amazing is The Mummy. The first one is the best. It has action, adventure, and romance. It kick ***! So those are my top 3!

I liked Gladiator, firstly because of the music. The theme music is difficult to get out of your head. They really tried to get it as historically accurate as possible from the point of view of costumes and customs. Of course the actual history was totally wrong, but it didn't actually matter too much. It was credible. I'm involved in ancient re-enactments, and some of the people I know were involved in the filming, which is good, because they have been researching and improving for years. 

Unlike many other films of this genre, there were not too many gaffes or anachronisms.  The only two I noticed were the turbans in Carthage (They didn't wear turbans) and the use of a crossbow, which hadn't been invented. My Italian friends noticed a few others, but they were minor.

The barbarity and corruption of the Roman empire came across pretty well,  and some of the scenes were extremely evocative. The part where Maximus walks through a field of wheat with his hands running through the wheat ears evoke the Roman belief in the Elysium fields. (so what if the wheat was too short for the time?)   The film started and finished like that. Because I understood the symbolism,  it was one of these spine tingling moments.

not in this particular order, but i enjoy these...



Pretty Woman
Master and Commander
Bourne - trilogy
LOTR - trilogy
The Last of the Mohicans [the music in the last scenes!]
Devils Advocate
Millers Crossing
Elizabeth [Cate B]
Get Shorty
Starship Troopers
Walk on Water [an Israeli, English lang film]
Man From Earth [not well known, but a good movie, imo]
The Reader
Amelie
Hard Candy
Lincoln Lawyer
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - trigogy
Serenity [and the Firefly TV series]
Pride and Prejudice [Jennifer Ehle vers.]

These are what pop into my head:

Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels (for comedy)
Enemy at the Gates (for suspense)
Natural Born Killers
Pulp Fiction
Ronin
The Shining (has to be Jack)
The Notebook
Grease (has to be the original - for singalongs)
An Affair to Remember (for making me cry)

Ronin: Jean Reno.... add to that list The Professional.

The Villiage
Come and See - a Russian WW2 movie.... horrific stuff, but beautiful to watch.

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Very perceptive.
Although, not a case of "don't like".... just don't rate them highly - and in the case of Grease, I've never seen it.

Because it's the word, I suppose?

A Zed and Two Noughts!

Trippy, a visual feast and an ending you'll never forget.

Obviously.

We can't all be perfect.

I've seen a sneak peek now.

Have you seen Labyrinth?

David Bowie knocks Jude Law out of the park.

I hope you're willing to share...

The dad with the kid - I forget his name. He's great.

He really was a terrible player.

How the hell he played for decent sides like Leeds and Sheffield United I will never know.

That Wimbledon side that won the FA Cup were a bunch of thugs too as well - John Fashanu knew when to leave the elbow in going up for a ball, Lawrie Sanchez wasn't shy in the tackle and Alan Cork also made no attempt for the ball on numerous occasions.

That's a good list Frances but you left a few out, Casablanca, for instance

Also on my list:



Great cast (all of them), plus I love good wine and the Californian wine region   

Yadda wrote on Mar 11^th, 2012 at 3:42pm:





After reflection, and with respect to the title of this thread....

If i could only choose one movie, at this time, it would probably have to be the LOTR trilogy.

Because imo, LOTR was such a very large and difficult project, and yet, Peter Jackson succeeded in doing a superb job, in the 'execution' of [i.e. making it] the story, of putting it 'on film', for all time, for us all.

Awww they just don't make'em like that anymore. 

bobbythefap1 wrote on Mar 13^th, 2012 at 12:55pm:


Did you see that link to 'salt of the earth' I made near the begining PolPup? You'd enjoy that I'm sure, and the story behind the movie

A bitt off-topic, but I find this scene from 'Pacific Rim' both profound and inspiring.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv73Me9hTQs

Can't decide between three......

Presumed Innocent

The Life of David Gale

Zero Effect

...great twists and turns in the plot....

bogarde73 wrote on Feb 20^th, 2014 at 11:12am:



Do you have a vagina?   

One of my favourite battle scenes in film. The invincibility of truth.