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Biker Pat
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What's your 5 favourite movies. Like me there's a lot more than 5 but lets keep it to 5. Mine are Easy Rider The Quiet Man Schlindler's List Dances With Wolves Bonnie and Clyde (1967 version with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway) Biker Pat Edited by Biker Pat |
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eejit91
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Memphis Belle Driving Miss Daisy Schlindler's List Toy Story - have kids ya know yourself but love that Monsters Inc. - again have kids, no giggles from the peanut gallery |
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Rolo
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Another great topic. In no particular order Deerhunter Godfather Schindler's List Once upon a time in America Tin Drum Rolo Edited by Rolo |
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Ann Whelan
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The Wedding Singer-Adam Sandler Dangerous Liasons (Love the costumes!) Dr.Zhivago-Keira Knightley version Little Women (Sorry Boys..I KNOW that won't go down well!) There's something about Mary-Cameron Diaz |
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xgrovehead
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5 that come to mind immediately are Alien and Aliens. Grosse Pointe Blank Magnolia Peter Jacksons TLOTR Trilogy Which is actually 7 but there you go, sums were never my strong point. |
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Rolo
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Hey xgrovehead, Reckon LOTR only counts as one. Were you a fan of the book going to see the movies having already decided that the movies could,under no circumstances possibly do it justice and were then gobsmacked ? or... did you go along with no preconceived notions and enjoy them as just great adventure movies ? Rolo. |
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xgrovehead
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Big fan of the books, thought the movies would be a travesty and probably should never have been made. Went along to see the NZ scenery (big fan of NZ) thinking I'd be tut tutting my way through and was blown away. Peter Jackson is a legend for making them the way he did. Was lucky enough to see Two Towers in NZ and went to see a few of the locations including Hobbiton set. The official movie exhibition was in Wellington when I was there too and that was amazing. Unfortunately it never made it to Dublin closest was London I think.
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Sounds fantastic, tell me this though, were you not disappointed that the Great Tom Bombadil did not make an appearance in the Fellowship? For me,that was the only criticism,as I thought he was a great character. Was also blown away,particularly with the battle scenes. |
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xgrovehead
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I never liked Tom Bombadil........found him a bit boring to be honest. The elevated role given to Arwen bothered me slightly too, and I thought that Faramir wasn't as tempted by the ring as they made out in the film, however I'm probably being too nit picky. Overall though very impressed, excellent casting and attention to detail. THey wrote a computer program for the battle scenes and had all the different races programmed to fight in a particular style. Massive I think it was called, anyway they discovered that at a certain point in the battle, when it was looking like one side was winning, the losing side would start running away! And they hadn't programmed that into it! Whats the story with filming the Hobbit? Two more films for my list, Cinema Paradiso Theres Something About Mary. |
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Lenny3fingers
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mine would have to be: fight club - totally great film once you know whats happenning the 6 star wras (well count them as one) the godfather part 1 platoon convoy. you got your ears on good buddy (have it on both dvd and vhs.
scariest film ive ever seen was blair witch project. i dont normally get scared at films, but that one totally creeped me out |
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Rolo
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Lenny, Did you not think Full Metal Jacket was better than Platoon ? Rolo.
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no - i did actually think platoon was a better film than full metal jacket. dunno why, i think the music in platoon has a lot to do with it (and the fact the fat kid in FMJ is called lenny. Tis unfair on lennys I tells yis!!)
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tony99
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1. Goodfellas, 2. Midnight Cowboy, 3.Truly,Madly,Deeply, 4. The Sweet Hereafter. 5. Godfather 1 & 2 but not 3.
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Rolo
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Hi Tony, Well done for outing Biker Pat and his musical disasters. We all thought he was so cool. What's " The Sweet Hereafter " , don't know it at all. Totally agree with you'bout Godfather 3 though. Rolo. |
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The Sweet Hereafter - A Canadian movie by Atom Egoyen about a schoolbus crash interspersed with narration of different passages of "The Pied Piper of Hamelin". Sounds boring but I bet you'll be surprised and I guarantee you will remember it long after any of those awful Hollywood blockbusters.
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Lenny3fingers
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tony, i have to say i was prepared for a completely crap godfather 3, but i really enjoyed it. it wasnt as good as 1 or 2 but it wasnt far off imho.
went to see a film last night in the pictures, in her shoes. biggest load of rubbbish ever. Fell asleep and had a homer moment where i started snoring. woke up with an elbow in the ribs. dont think anyone in the audience minded tho, cos they thought the film was crap also.
saw harry potter on friday and it started slow but got much better all of a sudden! recomended. altho hermione is very bloody annoying |
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Biker Pat
I spend too much time here!!! 72-75 Joined: 26-April-2005 Location: Swords, Co Dublin (ex Celti Status: Offline Points: 39164 |
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Anybody go see the Johnny Cash movie...Walk The Line.
Everybody says its great but my problem is I have been watching and recording a lot of the documentaries on Johnny Cash that came out after his death and they show him in real life nad go through his life story. So I'm finding it hard to go see someone else doing Johnny Cash as the real JC was such a character and his life story so brilliant that I'm not sure how a movie can capture the reality of what was Johnny Cash. One of my biggest regrets in life is that I never saw him live. Did you see the last video he made "Hurt". Christ, it's the more amazing piece of film I have ever seen. I well up every time I watch it. JC was one of the all time greats and he was one of the first artists I ever listened to. |
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May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride.
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kbannon
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Any Monty Python, esp Life of Brian
Ronin erm, Im stuck |
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Sharon
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Biker My mam and dad really into JC so we heard alot of him as we were growing up..I havent seen the movie yet but the folks went they said it was good but wasnt as good as they were lead to believe they wished it showed him later in life aswell My folks seen him live a few times last time they saw him was in the National boxing arena and they said he was helped onto the stage he was so sick/old they reckoned he wouldnt be as good as he use to be but yet they said he still had it and he was fab Must admit i did buy his Cd at xmas time for the dad and burnt a copy for myself and i enjoy listening to it I think my 1st memory of listening to JC is around the early 70s my folks got a new stereo and the Dad proudly putting on a record god knows which one but i recall it being recorded in a prison( folsom perhaps?) and hearing all the inmates roar when he broke into another song....must look into that The Man in Black...will always be remembered.... a legend Shar Oh best movie hmmm 70s has to be saturday night fever and i did like the rocky Horror picture show a 70s movie but didnt get into it till the 80s 80s lost boys, Top gun,nightmare on elmstreet,the blues brother..I should mention the elephant man seeing as it was my 1st movie i went to with the hubby..lol well boyfriend then 90s The sixth sense.goodfellas,schindlers list,the Shawshank Redemption.....think that was the best of all Titanic has to get a mention but not my fav jeez i think im waffling a bit there must really sort out my 5 top fav films of all time..will post it when i have a good think...lol Shar |
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Blondie
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Think mine would have to be Legends of the Fall (for Brad of course) Empire Strikes Back Shawshank Heat Toy story but would also like to have all LOTR's as well agree with Shar its really hard to do top five if I did this on another day would prob have slightly different list |
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Blondie
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