Famous films you HAVE watched...

[peterNYC]

Not easy for me to choose because I've got 3000 DVDs back home and since I really LOVE movies I can watch most of them again and again...

But definitely anything Monty Python, especially Life of Brian!

[pacman]

Always looking on the bright side of life...

(Great movie BTW. A classic that only the Python boys could have pulled off)

[kahuna]

(seanbeag7 @ Jun. 09 2010,21:55) And here are a few that might make some people  

Sound of Music

I like the old musicals...South Pacific is one of my favorites that I watch and sign along to...

France Nuyen who plays Liat in the film is to die for...It was also filmed on my favorite Hawaiian Island, Kawaii where JD's backyard beach is...

I also like Guys and Dolls with Marlon and Frankie, and Gypsy and Westside Story with Natalie the most beautiful mouth ever...

[pacman]

And midnight showings of Rocky Horror Picture Show where the audience arrives dressed in costume to sing along with all the songs.

I went several times over the years (it ran for over 10 years on a Friday night) & had a great time.

I didn't know half the words but do you think I let that stop me?

[jimslim]

(pacman @ Jun. 09 2010,23:08) And midnight showings of Rocky Horror Picture Show where the audience arrives dressed in costume

Or daytime in Soi 8

[laputanegra]

i don't normally watch movie again no matter how i love it. but there are some that i enjoy watching over and over again. like

My Bestfriends Wedding - I just love love this movie and i always watch it whenever its on and sometimes watched it online when i feel like it.

The Hangover- Whenever i want to laugh i just put it on and i will be laughing hard over and over again. and also another thing i love about this movie is it is very memorable for me saw it in bangkok with someone special to me and still special to me up to now. (thats so cheesy lol)

Serendipity- When im feeling romantic

Brady Bunch,The Stupids and The Nerds- Same reason as the hangover whenever i want to be happy this movie does it for me too.

The Breakfast Club and 16 Candles- When im horny for the 80's

Mean Girls and Clueless- When im feelin mean.

To Wong Foo and Priscilla Queen Of The Desert- Whenever i feel gay

Sex And The City- When i need inspiration for new shoes and horny for Chris Noth

The Pianist and Black Hawk Down- When i want violence and profanity

Click- Whenever i want to cry

American Pie- When im reminiscing my high school life

Scream- Whenever i wanna feel scared

Breakfast At Tiffany,The Devils Wear Prada And Coco Avant Chanel-  When i need some fashion inspiration

Jerry Maguire and James Bond (Daniel Craig)- Whenever im horny  

And

The Beach,Bangkok Dangerous, and Brokedown Palace- Whenever i miss Thailand  

[TTChang]

1.  Groundhog Day
2.  Groundhog Day
3.    

[Lefty]

(laputanegra @ Jun. 10 2010,02:08) Serendipity- When im feeling romantic



To Wong Foo and Priscilla Queen Of The Desert- Whenever i feel gay

Serendipity is a cool movie. I watch about anything with Kate Beckinsale in it, to at least give it a chance. This one was worth seeing a few more times.

Wong Foo is a poor copy of Priscella and does not deserve to be mentioned in the same breath. I saw Wong Foo one time. That was more than enough. I can watch Priscella about once every year and still find it entertaining and funny.
Guy Pearce made a cute drag queen.

Seeing Patrick Swayze dressed as a woman made me want to

[Lefty]

Four movies from the 60s I'll watch over and over, are To Kill a Mockingbird, Merrill's Marauders, True Grit, and Cat Ballou.

Gregory Peck is one of the all time greats, who seems to get overlooked when such lists are compiled. TKAM was an Oscar winning performance and highly deserved.

Merrill's Marauders tells the story of the only US combat unit in the Burma Campaign and had some of my favorite actors from the 60s.

Like her or hate her, Jane Fonda was a fine actress and Cat Ballou is my personal favorite. Lee Marvin won a best actor Oscar for his role and off the top of my head, I think it's not too common for the best actor Oscar to be given for a comedy role.

I liked John Wayne's movies. Still do. True Grit and Rio Bravo are as much favorites as any. He got an Oscar for playing Rooster Cogburn and IMO he deserved it.

[pacman]

There have been none (or very few) non-English speaking films mentioned among BMs favourites. I suspect European films aren't well loved around here.

Three I enjoyed very much are -

Fitzcarraldo - the story of an eccentric European in Peru in the early part of the 20th century who needs to shift a 320 ton paddle steamer from one river to the next over a steep part of Amazon jungle. Klaus Kinski (Natassja's father) wears a white suit & plays his beloved Caruso on a phonograph while steaming down the Amazon. What makes the movie special is that Herzog pulled the actual boat from one river to the other. A still beautiful Claudia Cardinale plays the brothel madam & paramour of Klaus. There are so many memorable scenes in this classic.

Dancer in the Dark - Bjork's debut movie that won the Palme d'Or for best movie at Cannes & she won the best actress award. She plays a mother & worker who fights to keep her job even though she is going blind. She needs the money to pay for an operation for her son so he doesn't suffer the same fate. This gets a bit hard to take yet Bjork is so good that I was hooked. And she gets hung in the end even though she is innocent. Who would've guessed?

The Unbearable Lightness of Being -  Have you ever watched a movie that you didn't want to end? This was such a film for me. Three hours long & I still remember how elated I felt when I left the cinema. I can't recall what specifically about it that moved me but that memory lingers strongly. The nude scenes with Lena Olin & Juliette Binoche weren't too awful either.

It has been a long time since these films were released & there have been many great films since. I am not mentioning these films to entice anyone to watch them. That I like them is why I bring them to this thread but whether I would feel the same about them today, I can't say.

To put my taste into perspective, I remember the girl I took to see Fitzcarraldo hated it. My friend who saw Dancer in the Dark couldn't watch it & I am yet to meet anyone who saw the last one. But this is about favourite films & these are some of mine. Weird or what?

Top to bottom - Klaus Kinski in the Amazon

Bjork before she goes blind

Lena Olin without Juliette Binoche

[Tomcat]

Sorry Paccers ...I tried to swop your pics over but the Baby went out with the bathwater.. more Bumpas territory that fiddly stuff

Anyway, I Ilke" Once Upon a Time In America ", seen that around 4 times now..

[seanbeag7]

I have never heard of this one "Fitzcarraldo" pacman, I love the 3rd one and i have watched it at least 5 times now, it will always be a lovely film, (and speaking of that scene)

[f0xxee]

Hi Paccers,

I went looking for a clip and reviews about "The Stoning of Soraya M" and found a couple on Youtube.

That's not what this post is about however.

What really disturbed me was that the Movie Trailer had a lot of links to various other vids, all of them graphically violent: Stonings, beheadings, floggings and the like.

Now I ask you: where the fuck are we as a society where a set of tits cannot be broardcast on Youtube, but the beheading of some poor bastard by Extremists, or stonings of a 12 year old Kurdish girl, or flogging of women is not seen as being pornographic and is readily visible to any person old enough to access a computer?

This world is seriously fucked. We have lost track of what matters and what doesn't. Fucking is fun. Killing and torture is not.

[El_hefe]

Like your list paccie, good stuff there...... have you seen "Burden of Dreams" to complement "Fitzcarraldo"? If not see it.... & "My Best Friend" Herzog's film about his relationship with Kinski. (I have the feeling you've seen them...)

Can't bring myself to see the Stoning Of Soraya, I hate Islam as it is without viewing it, don't see the point in getting all worked up again. I remember watching the cellphone videos of that poor girl who was stoned by the Kurdish men, & boys, in her village for dating the "wrong" guy.... Stomach churning stuff. Humans love to brutalize weaker prey.

[pacman]

I haven't seen either El hefe, but I will make an effort now. I knew of his film about his best friend but it was only shown at the cinema for a week or so, then gone.

Burden of Dreams sounds wonderful, I just read a review. All about the making of Fitzcarraldo & Herzog's personal obsession. And I had forgotten that Jason Robards was the original star till he got sick along with Mick Jagger as his sidekick.

It was the most fortuitous of moves to bring Kinski in as the star though. Now you have a film starring a madman about a madman being directed by a madman.

As for The Stoning of Soraya M, up to you but if you like powerful cinema that you won't forget in a hurry, watch it. It isn't all bleak. It is your classic good versus evil story with those demanding justice taking huge risks. And you'll love the nice little bit of irony at the end. At least I did.

Here's a few scenes from Fitzcarraldo -