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Drowned in Sound

i had to go for a training day (work stuff) and part of it was we had to list our 5 fave films, here was mine

1. one flew over the cuckoo's nest.
2. control.
3. the fisher king.
4. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.
5. borat.

agree? disagree? whats yours?

mrstu | 12 May '08, 13:49 | Send note | Report this | Reply



I agree, they are your favourite films

Mine top 5 are all dead arty foreign ones that nobody will have heard of.

*My top 5

sorry I've been watching Czech films all weekend and I've forgotten English.

ever seen Knoflikari?

brilliant czech film. ranks in my top5 films of all time i reckon.

Yeah

loads.

doubt it

these are way obscure. And arty.

for what?

i would have a top 5 for different moods and genres.

dont really have a top 5

i like the goonies,the aristocats,21 grams all sorts really.the dark knight will be up there when its released.im hard for it

Those are some choices, right there.

1) I'm Not There
2) Dr Strangelove
3) Lost In Translation
4) Manhattan
5) Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind

Of course, this isn't definitive, except for the first one. I can't help it, I'm quite disturbingly so a fan of Bob Dylan.

something like this...

1.The Thing
2.The Deerhunter
3.Friday 13th
4.Jaws
5.Annie Hall

^ actually that's bullshit

I've just thought of so many I've missed out.

No top five for me really.

in no order

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Seven Samurai
Goodfellas
La Haine
Howard the Duck

some tit

at the training kept banging on about mac and me....i ask u

I love Leon and The Birdcage the most

Can't be arsed trying to think of the other 3 though

1. Lady Vengeance

2. Mysterious Skin
3. Little Miss Sunshine
4. Mulholland Drive
5. The Grudge

I think that's it anyway.

.

1. Bridget Jones's Diary
2. Bridget Jones's Diary 2: The Edge Of Reason
3. Bridget Jones's Diary 3: The Crumbliest, Flakiest Milk Chocolate In The World
4. Bridget Jones's Diary 4: The 40-A-Day Plan
5. Bridget Jones's Diary 5: The Only Way Is Up, Baby, For You And Me Now

Probably

Jurassic Park
Die Hard
Rashomon
Wayne's World
Oldboy

You do a

disservice to City Under Seige!

...

We live in a society of laws, why do you think I took you to see all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well I didn't hear anybody laughing! Did you?!

Something like...

Pather Panchali
Rashomon
Charade
The Shining
The Idiots

in no order

The Pianist
Pulp Fiction
Lock Stock
Castaway
Dead Man's Shoes

I watched Dead Man's Shoes yesterday

it makes me laugh, but also a bit angry at most of the characters being cunts.
The acid trip bit is still funny though.

one of the most amusing scenes for me is

when Tuff is reading the porno and asks what "Al Fresco" means.

Dead Mans Shoes

It's my Number 2.

far from definitive

American Beauty
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Stand By Me
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Mysterious Skin

...maybe.

right

1) 24 Hour Party People
2) Ghost World
3) Taxi Driver
4) Dogville
5) The Filth And The Fury

(i keep changing my mind between The Filth... and Westway To The World, but I think overall The Filth is probably better)

Gah

The Truman Show
Don't Look Now
Donnie Darko
Wayne's World
Good Will Hunting

something like that.

I've got loads of fave films

so these arn't really in any order.

1. Donnie Darko
2. The Shining
3. Stand By Me
4. The Audition
5. It's a Wonderful Life

Ok, ok, ok

1) Battle of Britain
2) Godfather I
3) Downfall
4) Goodbye Lenin
5) Casino

Thanks.

not one mention of a carry on,

tut tut!

Maybe because they're repetitive and one-dimensional.

It's too hard to make a top five-it wouldn't really reflect all the films I enjoy.

probably

Into The Wild
Good Will Hunting
Oldboy
The Pianist
Amelie

I had to do that for a Uni interview

along with top 5 films.

mine probably go something like:

1 godfather
2 true romance
3 goodfellas
4 amelie
5 raging bull

mine

1. sling blade
2. apocalypse now
3. blade runner
4. the fountain
5. donnie darko or lost highway.

i watched a bit of blade runner this morning

have you ever read the book (do androids dream of electric sheep)? i'm reading it now for a uni course. it's quite a bit different from blade runner but i'm really enjoying it.

nope, never read it

but the movie always varies from the book. (= one reason i've not read it is because i love the movie so much; exposure to both usually devalues one.

often changes

but the list usually includes:

me and you and everyone we know
amelie
battle royale
28 days later
into the wild

(dirty dancing has been known to make the list too)

(also shortbus)

you win

for 28 days later and battle royale

1. Dancer In The Dark

2. Being John Malkovich
3. Spirited Away
4. Requiem For A Dream
5. The Magdeline Sisters

these are high on my list too

although i place adaptation above being john malkovich.

Adaptation's also very good.

To be fair, compiling a top 5 is really tough; there are so many films i've LOVED. And Star Wars should really be in there, too.

even a top 10 is tough

and i try to do a top 10 each year, and that's still hard!

my top 5

(no order)

sling blade
old boy
dead man's shoes
the machinist
assault on precinct 13 (original version)

another vote for sling blade

well done. & machinist. fantastic movie; thank you for reminding me i need to buy it. wasn't he a F R E A K? seeing mr. american psycho like that was fairly disturbing.

certainly took

method acting to an uncomfortable extreme

You only need one

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

My Top 5 are dark!

Psycho
Taxi Driver
Deliverance
Vertigo
Blue Velvet

you call that dark?

blue velvet's fucked up, but not dark.
if you want dark:

happiness
welcome to the dollhouse
dancer in the dark
gummo
to name a few

& the darkest thing made:
Lilja 4-ever

watch The Ordeal if you want dark and bleak and fucked up genius

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407621/

ignore the 6.4 out of 10 rating, imdb users are twats and clearly don't know a good film when they see one

I <3 Lilja

such an amazing film, even if it is one of the most depressing things ever

Perhaps not the darkest

but they are dark and they make up my top 5!

I've seen the above. All are good but not top 5 material for me I'm afraid.

Tricky one.

1. Driving Miss Daisy
2. Anal Screamers
3. Triumph of the Will
4. I Married a Lawnmower
5. A non-existent Hong Kong action movie called "Shit/Fuck" that compulsive liar Steven Collins told me he'd seen when we were 11.

why pollute this serious and half decent thread with your lies ????

you clearly are a cunt why can't you just go and do the world a favour and set yourself on fire, i'll provide the petrol and matches if you want

^ this

hehe

a list of five films i can watch time and again

but not exactly a 'definitive' top five (in no particular order):

Rushmore (in fact, i'll go out on a limb and say that this is probably my all time favourite film. every time i watch it, i forget how long is left and get all pleasantly surprised that there's still, like, an hour left)
Spider-Man
Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
The Big Lebowski (why has this not been mentioned earlier? srsly guys - come the fuck on)

and i can't decide on a fifth, but it'll no doubt be made by Guillermo del Toro. Cronos, Pan's Labyrinth or Hellboy, most likely.

yep

what's your point caller?

^ this

p.s. HI

Yegods!

I should probably get more than 1 friend on there

1. hedwig and the angry inch

2. kids in the hall brain candy
3. bill & teds excellent adventure
4. eternal sunshine....
5. edward scissorhands

'kay

1. Gladiator
2. The Lives of Others
3. Gandhi
4. Apocalypse Now
5. Leon

The first two are the only real ranked ones... The Truman Show, Michael Clayton and The Thin Red Line were all close to making the list...

1. flight of the navigator

2. escape to witch mountain
3. ace ventura pet detective
4. the pianist
5. the goonies (such a cliché these days but i have seen it around 15 times and i <3 it just as much each time)

<3

escape to witch mountain!

oh my gosh, that film

just MADE my childhood. it is amazing. the bit at the end, FLYING CAMPER VAN.

electroma

electroma, electroma, electroma, electroma

YES!!!

it also has one of the BEST soundtracks ever.

The Shining

Eternal Sunshine
Il Posto

No other films could I possibly rank as a favourite, maybe days of heaven or once upon a time in the west?

Probably not though, I don't think i'm old enough to have proper favourite things.

i watch loads of films,

have a terrible memory and am indecisive, so as much as i'd like to do a list i can't even begin.

^ All of the above

is also true for me.

right now, i'm thinking:

- bringing up baby
- before sunset
- the philadelphia story
- north by northwest
- high noon

basically, i like films with cary grant in. and a couple of others for variety purposes.

These

Star wars 1
Star wars 2
Star wars 3
Star wars 4
Annie

In no particular order.. (and off the top of my head, so it is an unstable list)

Electroma
Knoflikari
Princess Mononoke
Blade Runner
The Big Lebowski

i really need a top ten...(20...30...?)

i've missed out

Empire records
A scanner darkly
Oldboy
Battle royale
Home Alone

..........

True Romance
My Own Private Idaho
American Warewolf in London
Dead Man's Shoes
A Scanner Darkly

Definitive-ish

Dawn of the Dead
Rushmore
Harold & Maude
Hana-bi
Serenity

Hmmm.

Blackbelt Jones
Come and See
A short film about love
Young Frankenstein
Brief encounter

here we go!

1. Schindlers Fist
2. Harry Potter And The Philosophers Bone
3. Womb Raider
4. Glad he ate her
5. Big

No particular order other than the one given...

1.Blue Velvet
2.A.I
3.Disco Pigs
4.The Legend of 1900
5.Barbarella

Honorable mentions to Return to Oz and the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Ah I wanted to

amend mine for Return to Oz :) So very good. The wheelers were terrifying! As was the King of Oz.

these are the 5 i can watch

almost anytime...
dumb and dumber
edward scissorhands
meet the parents
memento
withnail and i

.

1. All about lily chou chou
2. Dancer in the dark
3. Toy Story
4. Toy Story 2
5. Das Boot

Mine changes quite a lot, but...

Girl, Interupted
Strumpet
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Trainspotting
Secretary

Depending on my mood, this list might become more indie/foreign.

a few i always have time for

saturday night sunday morning
life aquatic
lost in translation
wall street
amelie

with honorable mention to many many other films

off the top of my head

Trainspotting, Goodfellas, Sin City, Fargo, Napolean Dynamite.

*

Gregory's Girl
Lost In Translation
The Big Labowski
North by Northwest
Lost Highway

(*correct at time of going to print)

The same

but you missed out - Chinatown -

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