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Started by Flo in Chit-Chat

What is the best film you’ve ever seen? I like those independent British or mostly non-American films. The ones you can see in small theatres.

Posted on Sun, 23 June 2002 at 16:01

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#1

Flo wrote:

I had to think about some titles: Some of my favourites are
Heavenly creatures, the Commitments, One flew over the cookoo’s nest, Gangster films (Italian mafia) etc…

Posted on Sun, 23 June 2002 at 16:06

#2

say10 wrote:

the crow
clerks
mad love
stand by me

Posted on Sun, 23 June 2002 at 17:31

#3

zm wrote:

The Game
Acid House
Memento
The Breakfast Club

Actually I love American Highschoolfilms…

Posted on Sun, 23 June 2002 at 17:43

#4

Barbie wrote:

The Labyrinth, Bridget Jones’ Diary, The Moulin Rouge, The Man Who Fell To Earth, You Were Never Lovelier, American Pie…I could go on..ooh, and that James Bond film with Grace Jones and the sexy blond guy in it.

Posted on Sun, 23 June 2002 at 19:36

#5

mr self destruct wrote:

Withnail and I
The Exorcist
The Omen
The Wicker Man
The Shining
Hellraiser

Posted on Sun, 23 June 2002 at 19:52

#6

aoife wrote:

generally, I like alternative films.. like, maybe you’ve seen Italian for Beginners or Amélie. What I also like watching are British Comedies, but my favourite films are:
Braveheart
Michael Collins
Lost Highway
U-Turn

Posted on Sun, 23 June 2002 at 20:20

#7

penn wrote:

everything by stanley kubrick and films from northen europe of different genres.

Posted on Sun, 23 June 2002 at 20:45

#8

hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

Some of mine have already been mentioned so well done those people, you have exemplary taste:

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Breakfast Club, Deuce Bigalow, Die Hard, The Goonies, The Lost Boys, Man on the Moon, Rat Race, Reservoir Dogs, Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me, Wayne’s World, The Wedding Singer, Whole Nine Yards.

Posted on Mon, 24 June 2002 at 02:08

#9

hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

I forgot The Italian Job :)

Posted on Mon, 24 June 2002 at 02:08

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mr self destruct wrote:

hoochalobster wrote:

Some of mine have already been mentioned so well done those people, you have exemplary taste:

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Breakfast Club, Deuce Bigalow, Die Hard, The Goonies, The Lost Boys, Man on the Moon, Rat Race, Reservoir Dogs, Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me, Wayne’s World, The Wedding Singer, Whole Nine Yards.

You don’t like Withnail and I? Shame on you, black comedy fan!

Posted on Mon, 24 June 2002 at 02:11

#11

hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

lol, okay, I know I’m going to take a beating for this but I have never managed to sit all the way through that film. I have tried repeatedly and I always fall asleep :(

I’m too scared to watch anything else on your list so I’ll give Withnail & I another shot, promise!

Posted on Mon, 24 June 2002 at 02:16

#12

mr self destruct wrote:

hoochalobster wrote:

I’m too scared to watch anything else on your list so I’ll give Withnail & I another shot, promise!

Heh heh, you bid scaredy-cat!

You fall asleep in W&I…no way! A comedy classic…

Posted on Mon, 24 June 2002 at 02:20

#13

hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

So people keep telling me, lol

Do you like anything that isn’t scary or sleep inducing?

Posted on Mon, 24 June 2002 at 02:24

#14

mr self destruct wrote:

hoochalobster wrote:

So people keep telling me, lol

Do you like anything that isn’t scary or sleep inducing?

Nope, I like dark music, dark films, dark art, and dark literature. I will broaden my horizons at some point in the future, but just not yet :)

Posted on Mon, 24 June 2002 at 02:27

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hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

There’s a scene with some skeletons in The Goonies, does that tempt you any?

What’s your favourite book?

Posted on Mon, 24 June 2002 at 02:30

#16

mr self destruct wrote:

hoochalobster wrote:

There’s a scene with some skeletons in The Goonies, does that tempt you any?

What’s your favourite book?

I like The Goonies. And some of your others, just not as favourite films.

My favourite novel is Dracula by BS, but these days Irvine Welsh and Charles Bukowski are my favourite writers. And yours?

Posted on Mon, 24 June 2002 at 02:35

#17

hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

I read Dracula years ago when I was about 12. It probably gave me nightmares. Did you ever read Polly and the Wolf? I was convinced that Wolf was going to eat me for years.

I loved Trainspotting, the film was lame compared to the book but I haven’t read anything else by Irvine Welsh and I don’t know Charles Bukowski.

My favourite authors are Robert Rankin (makes you cry tears of joy he’s so funny), Aldous Huxley (On drugs but facinating stuff), Simon Green (magical lands of dragons and castles etc) and I just finished reading a book by a guy called Martin Millar called Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me which was fantastic.

Posted on Mon, 24 June 2002 at 02:46

#18

mr self destruct wrote:

Yep, you’re a big softy, it’s official.

IW other novels are great, as good as Trainspotting.

CB, I guess is a bloke’s writer. He’s a poet but I doubt whether many women would relate to his stuff.

Haven’t read any of the other ones you mention, but know about AH, I’ll read some sometime. :)

Posted on Mon, 24 June 2002 at 02:53

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hoochalobster (Sarah) Super Moderator wrote:

I know, I’m a complete wuss.

Aldous Huxley’s essays are pretty interesting, The Doors of Perception I would recommend but if you read anything then read Brave New World. I think that ranks as one of my all time favourite books.

When you decide to adventure out of your coffin then try Robert Rankin, he’s strictly for the sunny people ;)

Posted on Mon, 24 June 2002 at 03:04

#20

mr self destruct wrote:

hoochalobster wrote:

When you decide to adventure out of your coffin then try Robert Rankin, he’s strictly for the sunny people ;)

I shall. Laters :)

Posted on Mon, 24 June 2002 at 03:07

#21

Dermot (The Derm) wrote:

When I read Brave New World it seemed familiar, but it just proved how influential Huxley was, and still is.

fave film: Natural Born Killers cos its one of those movies you can watch again and again and still notice something new, with a great cast, director, writer, and what a soundtrack!

fave book: still Trainspotting, I’ve never enjoyed reading a book so much, swinging between laughing out loud and feeling disgusted and sad.

Posted on Tue, 9 July 2002 at 10:24

#22

Sabotage wrote:

Fave films…
Dial M for Murder
best of Hitchcock IMO

Forbidden Planet
best sci-fi ever I reckon. Way ahead of its time

Terminator 2

1984

Most black and white sci-fi films…Day the Earth Stood Still, It Came From Outer Space etc.

Bank robbery and other “job” films

Beavis and Butthead
Bill and Ted
Wayne’s World

huh huh dude

Posted on Tue, 9 July 2002 at 11:25

#23

Shra-Mee wrote:

Films?
Well,
1. Magnolia,
2. some Tarantino stuff
3. Barfly
4. Flash Gordon (what a funny film!)
5. some Jack Nicholson film…

Posted on Tue, 9 July 2002 at 11:59

#24

irishlady wrote:

*the hole
*american beauty
*the birdcage

Posted on Tue, 9 July 2002 at 12:20

#25

Galos wrote:

Ok, me too.

Batman (the one from 1989)
Fight Club
The Decline of the Western Civilization

Posted on Tue, 9 July 2002 at 12:42

#26

White Psycho wrote:

Withnail & I

Posted on Tue, 9 July 2002 at 16:28

#27

mfgeorge wrote:

fav. childhood movie: ferris bullers day off
fav. current movie: requiem for a dream
fav. book: purfume by patrick suskind

Posted on Tue, 9 July 2002 at 17:30

#28

Michael wrote:

Fav film is The Matrix, just got the DVD, good stuff. Second best is The Exorcist, a true classic, but by far the scariest movie ever made. Memento is also brilliant.
Favourite books are It by Stephen King, and All Quiet On The Western Front. I’m still reading Lord Of The Rings, I still have 800 pages to go…

Posted on Tue, 9 July 2002 at 20:13

#29

Dr. Bigjoint wrote:

Stealing Beauty
Matrix
So Fuckin’ What
All Austin Powers stuff
Up In Smoke, it is true that the movie has 8 sequels? I’ve seen only just “Up In Smoke”.

Posted on Tue, 9 July 2002 at 21:48

#30

Michael wrote:

Oh, almost forgot my fav comedy: Zoolander! I’ve seen in four times during my stay in Sydney, and the more I see it, the more I love it. Some of you probably think I’m a moron for loving the movie, but you gotta admit Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell (and also Ben and Jerry Stiller) are damn funny in this movie. That Hansel, he’s so hot right now…

Posted on Tue, 9 July 2002 at 22:46

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