On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:27:40AM +0100, Matthew Jones wrote:
The Sleeper
- But it's tobacco, one of the best things for your body!
No The there. Also, I just watched this again recently and, although
it has much in it that is quite funny, it's gotten *really* dated. And
I've been a
At 12:13 pm -0400 24/9/01, David H. Adler wrote:
Barbarella
- *cough*
I once frightened myself after seeing a double feature of this and
Goddard's Alphaville by thinking hm.. yes, there *are* some interesting
points of comparison here. Eek.
'everything that can be said has been said,
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 05:48:19PM +0100, william ross wrote:
since this film chatter is so much more fun than what i'm supposed to
be doing, how about the best double bill(s)?
I'll try to get to a serious attempt at this at some point, but I always
remember this double bill that I read in
David H. Adler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Warning, film geekage follows.
It's A Wonderful Life cannot be fully understood outside of the context
of the similar films that preceeded it.
[...]
This brings us to It's A Wonderful Life. How this turned into the
feel-good christmas film
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:58:17PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote:
The Godfather series is the single most overrated pile of trash of which I
am aware.
No.
I don't usually make blatant arguments like that, but...
I think 2 is quite good (3 is
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 08:15:00AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
David H. Adler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Warning, film geekage follows.
It's A Wonderful Life cannot be fully understood outside of the context
of the similar films that preceeded it.
[...]
This brings us to It's A
* David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington follows, wherein a country bumpkin gets
Is this the one where Mrs Smith smoke a pipe, and eventually gets
caught and shamed in the press as a pipe smoker?
And know, I'm not joking about this plot twist.
The absence of
From: David H. Adler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More to the point, they did more with less in Kane than anyone else in
90% (and I may be low on that number) of the films ever made otherwise.
To this day, people are mistaken about how most of the trick shots were
acheived (if they even realize they
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 08:23:50AM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington follows, wherein a country bumpkin gets
Is this the one where Mrs Smith smoke a pipe, and eventually gets
caught and shamed in the press as a pipe
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 08:00:30PM +0100, Andrew Wilson wrote:
2001 totally overhyped...
snip
Speaking of which, I saw Battle Royale last night. Sick, sick film.
Especially the 2001-esque bit.
L.
Foo bah humbug.
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:14:04PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote:
Warning: this is me being (void)y on the wrong list, but it makes a
change from p*l*t*cs. Anyway, Dominic told me to.
On 17/09/2001 at 16:48 +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 04:41:42PM +0100, Greg McCarroll
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 04:53:28PM +0100, will wrote:
to have and have not
lawrence of arabia
Both excellent films, although THHN is shorter and lighter. :-)
fight club
I have trouble with this as a best of all time, but it is certainly
fascinating, and (over here at
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:59:43PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote:
Musicals are generally overrated anyway.
Bad musicals certainly are.
There *are*, however, good musicals. This, however fits in with my final
comment of this mail...
So is anyone going to mention films from more than 10-20 years
Difficult call. I just hope I'm never in a burning building
with the last remaining copy of each, and only enough time to rescue
one.
You have just reminded me of an excellent BT Health and Safety quiz
I once had while there. In a large building in which we assume is on
fire... we have
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:45:37PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
I've never seen what people see in this. Here's my top few, in no
particular order:
Paths to Glory
Don't know this one ...
Do you mean Paths of Glory?
Tony
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, James Powell wrote:
How about the worst
Course, I have tried to avoid the real howlers (mad cows, up 'n' under,
etc).
X-Men generation X, for showing *so* much promise but falling over every
time it nearly got good.
Hawk the Slayer, but I did like the bits with the
Almost forgot...
In the Heat of the Night
Yes, and, worst of all to forget (but not in terms of chatty volume):
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Alex Gough
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 08:28:09AM +0100, Tony Bowden wrote:
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 10:45:37PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
Paths to Glory
Don't know this one ...
Do you mean Paths of Glory?
Yes, as I said in a later post :-)
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Paul Mison wrote:
On 17/09/2001 at 18:31 +0100, Jasper McCrea wrote:
Not replying to too many posts here, because it'd be controversial (esp.
since someone mentioned a Peter Greenaway film (and they were being
serious!!))
Of course I was. His films are good, even if that is in a slightly
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, will wrote:
How about the worst
How about the 'so bad they're good'?
L.
I suffer from acute nymphomania and own a brewery.
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:06:58AM +0100, Alex Gough wrote:
X-Men generation X, for showing *so* much promise but falling over every
time it nearly got good.
Gah, and Emma Frost was *so* wrong.
My vote goes for 'Lost in Space'. Awful.
m.
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Sugar and spice
Leading Disco
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Lucy McWilliam wrote:
[0] Due to $boyf[1]
That sounds like my second boyfriend :) (Hm, I wonder what 'scalar @boyf'
is, then?)
Not to mention length $boyf[1]
:-O
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
For me the best films of all time would be,
Just caught up with this thread whilst eating possibly the largest baked
potato I have ever seen. Yum :-)
Anyway, in addition to lots of good films already mentioned, I would add:
Shawshank Redemption #
Most if not all of my top films have been mentioned already...
memento
rhps
dr strangelove
leon
the breakfast club
The princess bride
shock treatment [0]
Red
[0] or at least it would be if I could find ANYWHERE where I could
buy it on DVD (or VCD).
For me the best films of all time would be,
Its a wonderful life
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Rocky Horror Picture show
Highlander
Star Wars
One of the godfathers, not sure which
Moulon Rouge
and maybe the Exorcist
but
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 04:41:42PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
For me the best films of all time would be,
Its a wonderful life
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Rocky Horror Picture show
Highlander
Star Wars
One of the godfathers, not sure which
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
For me the best films of all time would be,
The Rocky Horror Picture show
Highlander
One of the godfathers, NOT THE LAST ONE
but what are your top films? I ask because I feel the need to buy
some more DVDs soon.
Keeping
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 9/17/01 4:41:42 PM
For me the best films of all time would be,
Its a wonderful life
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Rocky Horror Picture show
Highlander
Star Wars
One of the godfathers, not sure
Monday, September 17, 2001, 11:41:42 AM, Greg McCarroll wrote:
GM but what are your top films? I ask because I feel the need to buy
GM some more DVDs soon.
Citizen Kane
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mike
thing.
Moulon Rouge
Firstly, that's Moulin Rouge. Secondly, which version (I'm assuming the
2001 from now on). Thirdly, any film needs time to be called a 'best
film of all time' and this hasn't had enough. Fourthly, anything that
gives Elton John more money has to be seen as dubious
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 04:41:42PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
For me the best films of all time would be,
Its a wonderful life
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Rocky Horror Picture show
Highlander
Star Wars
One of the godfathers, not sure
Greg McCarroll wrote:
but what are your top films? I ask because I feel the need to buy
some more DVDs soon.
Cabaret
Delicatessen
Pele the Conqueror
Tron
Bladerunner
Alien, Aliens
City of Lost Children
The Kid (Charlie Chaplin)
The Charlie Chaplin one about Hitler (The Great Dictator?)
All
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, will wrote films (and I've added comments):
das boot - everybody dies!
fight club - mad, mad, mad...
terminator 2 - huzzah! C5 are showing it this week and have a
surprisingly good trailer for a change.
L.
If we don't get no tolls then we don't eat
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:02:52PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote:
Brazil
Actually, I'm wondering whether Casablanca might be better.
Difficult call. I just hope I'm never in a burning building
with the last remaining copy of each, and only enough time to rescue
one.
.robin.
again it speaks for itself ;-)
Thirdly, any film needs time to be called a 'best
film of all time' and this hasn't had enough. Fourthly, anything that
gives Elton John more money has to be seen as dubious. Fifthly, um, I
have to admit I enjoyed it. Damn, that's that flame defused.
Next you
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:14:04PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote:
I love the Flash Gordon remake for its completely hilarious camp
cheeziness. And the Queen soundtrack.
Oh, please. It's got the crap Blue Peter presenter from the early 80s
in. And Timothy Dalton. Sheesh. Mind you, Brian Blessed
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
From: Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 04:41:42PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
For me the best films of all time would be,
Its a wonderful life
Oh, please. It's so cheesy, and that's not just because
You'll have Barry
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Andrew Wilson wrote:
You're bored aren't you Greg?
Beat me to it ;-)
The Shawshank Redemption, The Blues Brothers, True Lies, The Usual Suspects
The Princess Bride, Rocky Horror Picture Show, This is Spinal Tap
Agreed. Not saying the following are the greatest, but
* Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Agreed. Not saying the following are the greatest, but I sure find them
amusing -
The Crow
Goff ;-)
, The Matrix,
Goffish ;-)
Dark City,
Goffish ;-)
Contact,
beautiful beautiful film, but probably not as beautiful as Moulin Rouge
or
How about the worst
Godzilla (recent Hollywood version, biggest cinema arse-acher ever)
Armageddon
Bottom the Movie (what possessed me to rent this I do not know)
Deuce Bigalow (ditto)
Lethal Weapon 4
The Idiots
Anything with Eddie Izzard in it except recent vampire flick (Nosferatu?)
Anything
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 04:41:42PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
One of the godfathers, not sure which
Godfather Part I. Obviously.
Tony
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all history is
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Contact,
beautiful beautiful film, but probably not as beautiful as Moulin Rouge
or American Beauty
a/k/a 2001: The Cliff Notes Version :)
I liked it, but couldn't help thinking it was just a
OK, yet another disclaimer: I'm going to reply to lots of posts in one
and thus mess up threading, rather than sending far too many messages
to the list.
On 17/09/2001 at 17:31 +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, will wrote films (and I've added comments):
das boot -
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:14:04PM +0100, Paul Mison wrote:
The Pillow Book- let's go ar(t|se)y in top British form, with bonus
low-flying jets, Ewan Mcgregor nudity, and a typically disturbing
streak (runners up in this category: The Cook, The Theif, His Wife and
Her Lover)
Ooh. Nice
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:58:17PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote:
Fifth
Element,
who was the black host, he was wonderful!
Chris Turner, possibly the single most annoying person alive IMHO :)
I loved that movie except for the bits with him in it. Avoided Rush
Hour for exactly the
* James Powell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
How about the worst
good call, i nominate
The Fast and the Furious
Armageddon
you can't be serious, this was a great action/tear jerker, its
got stuff for the blokes and the little ladies ;-)
Bottom the Movie (what possessed me to rent this I do
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
Fifth Element,
who was the black host, he was wonderful!
Chris Rock, now showing in Rush Hour 2 in all god cinemas.
That's not Chris Rock! Chris Rock Chris Tucker couldn't be much more
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Chris Devers wrote:
Contact,
I liked it, but couldn't help thinking it was just a cheaply annotated
review of the (to me) much more interesting pretty 2001
:-P
Fifth Element,
who was the black host, he was wonderful!
Chris Turner, possibly the single most
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 04:41:42PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
but what are your top films? I ask because I feel the need to buy
some more DVDs soon.
La Double Vie De Veronique.
But I doubt you'll find it on DVD :(
Tony
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* Lucy McWilliam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
Goff ;-) Goffish ;-)
You starting summat?
I did a long time ago cider drinker!
;-)
Got Danny John Jules in. Speaking of whichLabyrinth!
goff!
;-)
greg, the anti-goff also the
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:59:43PM +0100, Paul Mison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
So is anyone going to mention films from more than 10-20 years ago?
I thought I did (checks). Yeah, I did:
Annie Hall, Vertigo, The Big Sleep, Casablanca, African Queen, Breakfast
At Tiffany's.
And, of course,
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:59:29PM +0100, Tony Bowden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:04:41AM -0700, Dave Cross wrote:
I recently saw both Memento and Dancer In The Dark for the first
time and they were both great.
Memento was excellent. Probably the best film I've
Monday, September 17, 2001, 1:31:13 PM, Jasper McCrea wrote:
JM Worst movie of all time:
JM Citizen Kane or the Piano. It's a toss up between these two.
Bah! Citizen Kane changed filmmaking forever. Not just from a
technical standpoint (although it did that...check out the low shot of
Kane
How about the worst
good plan.
but plain badness isn't enough. i vaguely recall a definition of
kitsch that said it has to combine badness with lofty aspiration:
that true kitsch is the result of falling tragically, abysmally short
of a grandiose vision. schadenfreude is an essential part.
, Dune totally uncomprehensible. If I need to have
read the book to understand the film, then there's no way it's best
film of all time material.
cheers
Andrew
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 05:19:35PM +0100, Patrick Carmichael wrote:
Does this count? I know it's 14 hours long but you *can* see it all
in one go sometimes.
That was the reason I left out Das Boot. Directors cut, in German if
you please. If you need it in English, use subtitles.
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From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For me the best films of all time would be,
Did this a little while ago ...
My Fair Lady
The Abyss (Director's Cut)
The Usual Suspects
Dogma
Alien
followed by ...
Twelve Angry Men
Suspect
Roman Holiday
Dr. Strangelove
Barbarella
It's A Wonderful Life
Almost forgot...
Stigmata
Shooting Fish
Meet Joe Black
Sixth Sense
Only You
The Big Country
Just Cause
In the Heat of the Night
and if I sat here long enough I could think of many more :)
Barbie.
On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Damian Conway wrote:
My Fair Lady
Roman Holiday
How could I possibly have omitted these two ?
/J\
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:10:44PM +0100, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
Alls Quiet on the Western Front
Didn't know there was a film adaptation. As good as the book?
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