Favorite Movies

[John Roberts]

Cannery Row
Blade Runner(directors cut)
Indiana Jones(first one)
Das Boat
Like Water,Like Chocolate(I may have messed up the title)
Close Encounters
The fellowship of the Ring
The two Towers( and I know I will love the Return of the King as well)
Arthur
Conan the Barbarian(first one)
The Abyss(except the very end, I hate the end)
Shakespeare in Love
I have many more but these are the ones that come to mind at the moment.

 

[RomanHans]

Maid, fancy seeing you here?

I tend to think that most old movies should be left alone in general, though, unless the original was pretty poor to begin with.

One classic film I can think of is King Kong, one of my all-time greats. Sure, we have the technology to make a "better" version. But would it? Now if it was me in this case, I would make a sequel rather than remake the original. Likewise with Forbidden Planet.

Once classic though I think could be remade well is War of the Worlds. A great film though it wasn't fully faithful to the book. Now, if they made a film which was exactly how HG visioned it...

Hey there...I believe that there is a remake of King Kong in the works, directed by Peter Jackson of LOTR fame:

http://us.imdb.com/Title?0360717

Forbidden Planet probably could be redone better--although the original is a great example of the genre for its time period!

Roman

 

[islander01]

I allready posted my favs but I forgot MASH, raising arizona and straight to hell

 

[Alas Poor Yorick]

just saw Debbie Does Dallas on DVD for the first time...70's porn is funny!

 

[Mystery Lover]

Lawrence of Arabia
Sophie's Choice
Bridget Jones' Diary

 

[sensualpilgrim]

OK, my list!

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (nothing beat the threeway showdown in middle of graveyard)
Pulp Fiction
The Thomas Crown Affair (with Rene Russo), beautiful beautiful romantic movie and the music was perfect
Airplane! (truly one of the all-timers for laughs)
The Search for Holy Grail (dosen't God look like Karl Marx's photograph?!)
The Godfather I & II
The Lord of the Ring
2001
Matrix (all of them)
Kelly's Heros (WW2 movie as music video looong before MTV)
Flashdance
Blazing saddles
Young Frankenstein (That's FRONAstein!)
Three Kings
Chasing Amy
Down With Love
Chicago
Raiders of the Lost Ark
X-men and X2 (the best superhero movie ever)
Aliens
T2 (still much better than T3)

 

[sensualpilgrim]

just saw Debbie Does Dallas on DVD for the first time...70's porn is funny!

I love that movie. It's funny alright. Debbie somehow seem innocent even after all that bjs. One of more raw erotic movies is Behind the Green Door

 

[Dragon Dreamer]

Ok, here are some of my more obscure favs that people may not have seen, and are worth a look.


Donnie Darko (Very bizarre, but cool... especially if you like guys in psycho bunny rabbit suits)

Equilibrium (Think Matrix style F/X... but with a much better plot)

Ski School (Funny as hell)

Mischief 3000 (Gumball 3000 cross country road race... the REAL Cannonball Run)