What's your favourite film of all time

Spock

11/11/2006 at 00:20

So, what's your fave film of all time and tell us why.

For me, it's The Ladykillers, a classic Ealing comedy, beautifully produced, shot and cast: Alec Guinness is sooo-perb as a sleazy "professor of music", actually the rains behind a gang of robbers. Add in to the mix Jack Warner in a cameo role as the local head of police (what else?), Danny Green as the "heavy", Herbert Lom and Peter Sellers as lesser members of the gang (could this be the precursor to their long-running antipathy in the Pink Panther series?) and you have a winner.

Having seen it on the telly a few times and bought it on video, I went to an Ealing Season at the Glasgow Film Theatre, spent a wonderful day watching several films back to back. Last one was The Ladykillers and it was standing room only. Gags which made me chuckle when watching on TV had all of us laughing out loud in the cinema. When Alec Guinness got his final comeuppance the place roared with laughter and rose to a standing ovation!

How powerful must a film be to still achieve that 50 years after it was made?

Right then, top that!

Al.

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Stig 2

11/11/2006 at 00:22

I think mine would have to still Shawshank redemption - though the film I can just repeate over and over is payback

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Greenzeph

11/11/2006 at 00:23

mine is Goodbye Mr Chips.

Woman: without her, man is nothing.
Woman without her man, is nothing.

Olly

11/11/2006 at 00:25

Heat

Absolutely superb performances from DeNiro and Pacino. And the most ludicrous street shootout scene ever

The Great Escape. Just classic

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Spock

11/11/2006 at 00:25

Reasons, people, give reasons!

I didn't hold back, so tell me what it is about your particular favourite that makes it your particular favourite!

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Stig 2

11/11/2006 at 00:28

Spock wrote

Reasons, people, give reasons!

I didn't hold back, so tell me what it is about your particular favourite that makes it your particular favourite!

you are as bad as my bloody tutor "you have to give reasond reason as to why you like it"

here, its a simple answer "I like them because I do"

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fulltilt

11/11/2006 at 00:30

Top Gun.

It's either the fighter planes and rock music or the gay tension, I can't decide.

moth

11/11/2006 at 00:30

Stig wrote

you are as bad as my bloody tutor "you have to give reasond reason as to why you like it"

In essay format using no more than 900 words. Provide arguments for and against

Yawn! It's wearing a little thin now, don't you think?

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Olly

11/11/2006 at 00:30

fulltilt wrote

Top Gun.

It's either the fighter planes and rock music or the gay tension, I can't decide.

Pah! There's not even any spaceships in it

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Spock

11/11/2006 at 00:31

Stig wrote

you are as bad as my bloody tutor "you have to give reasond reason as to why you like it"

here, its a simple answer "I like them because I do"

And you haven't even named which one you like most, let alone why you like it.

Bring your books and schoolbag and sit in this front desk where I can keep my eye on you, young man! [/schoolmaster mode]
(ps, reasoned, not reasond!)[///schoolmaster mode!!!

]

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11/11/2006 at 00:33

moth wrote

In essay format using no more than 900 words. Provide arguments for and against

well, the for argument goes like this:

"My view and belief in why I like it is correct because it is my belief, a natural reaction not a taught one. Now if you or anyone else on the course tells me again that I am wrong for liking something just because I do, we'll all be seeing just what reaction the human digestive system has when introduced to developing fluid and fix"

the end.

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moth

11/11/2006 at 00:33

fulltilt wrote

Top Gun.

It's either the fighter planes and rock music or the gay tension, I can't decide.

Berlin?

Kenny Loggins?

Jeez

Yawn! It's wearing a little thin now, don't you think?

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Stig 2

11/11/2006 at 00:34

Spock wrote

And you haven't even named which one you like most, let alone why you like it.

Bring your books and schoolbag and sit in this front desk where I can keep my eye on you, young man! [/schoolmaster mode]
(ps, reasoned, not reasond!)[///schoolmaster mode!!!]

Shawshank - because its the only non cartoon film that can make me cry

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fulltilt

11/11/2006 at 00:36

moth wrote

Berlin?

Kenny Loggins?

Jeez

Stobbit, I'm feeling the need

moth

11/11/2006 at 00:37

fulltilt wrote

Stobbit, I'm feeling the need

I have a Berlin album

and the 12 inch of "Take My Breath Away"

*sob*

Yawn! It's wearing a little thin now, don't you think?

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Spock

11/11/2006 at 00:38

Stig wrote

Shawshank - because its the only non cartoon film that can make me cry

So what aspects of Shawshank create such emotion within you? (genuine question btw, I really want to know what it is about different films that affects different people in differrent ways).

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fulltilt

11/11/2006 at 00:38

moth wrote

I have a Berlin album

and the 12 inch of "Take My Breath Away"

*sob*

{HUGZ}

I've a 12" that would take your breath away, etc

Stig 2

11/11/2006 at 00:39

fulltilt wrote

Stobbit, I'm feeling the need

seriously fella, dont.

I did this over on Pistonheads and it turned into a 120 page thread

www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=141&t=324078

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Stig 2

11/11/2006 at 00:41

Spock wrote

So what aspects of Shawshank create such emotion within you? (genuine question btw, I really want to know what it is about different films that affects different people in differrent ways).

I think its the betrayal of the story, cant really say.

If I mentioned Ice Age or Iron Giant I could talk for hours why I cry at them

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moth

11/11/2006 at 00:42

Spock wrote

So what aspects of Shawshank create such emotion within you? (genuine question btw, I really want to know what it is about different films that affects different people in differrent ways).

Can one not enjoy a film (or any other media) on a purely visceral level, as a spectator, without feeling the need to identify with any or all parts of it?

Like that?

Yawn! It's wearing a little thin now, don't you think?

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