Your Favourite Movies...?

[Aviador]

My top 5 favorite movies, not in any order...

Weird Science, a film where two teenagers make their dream girl using a computer.

Ferris Buller's Day off, Ferris, a guy who is everybody's best friend at school who get's away with everything.

Gremlins, the little mogwai pets that turn the town into a nightmare from hell.

Independence Day, I first watch this film in a cinema in Malta in St Julian's Bay.

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.

I can't really say which movie I like best because I still like watching all of these even today.

 

[Aviador]

The first ever cinema trip I remember was to watch E.T. I'd still say it was probably the best movie from that era.

 

[David_itl]

Independence Day, I first watch this film in a cinema in Malta in St Julian's Bay.

When I went to Malta, I stayed in St Julian's! I couldn't believe how cheap the cinema tickets were compared to here in the UK - saw a film every night for the 5 nights I was there.

Here's a couple of mine to be getting on with.

"Twelve Angry Men" with Henry Fonda. Jury members debating if someone was guilty or not with Fonda convincing the rest of the jury that the accused wasn't guily beyond all reasonable doubt. Still not remade for some reason.

"Good night and good luck". How McCarthy and the anti-Communism movement took hold of centre stage in the US in the 1950s through the eyes of 1 TV station and it's lead broadcaster

 

[Aviador]

The Eden Cinema in St Julian's I think might have replaced the cinema I remember when I visited Malta the first time. Just checking the prices there now and an Adult is 7.75 euros. I guess that would have been around a fiver but with the state of the pound it's probably around the same in pounds right now. I think it might have cost about £3 back in 1996 when Independence Day was first released.

 

[Jerry]

Saving Private Ryan, Star Trek:Wrath of Khan, Star Trek:First Contact, Paul and Hot Fuzz! Action and Sci-fi and comedy gotta love it!

 

[Aviador]

Star Trek:First Contact

Got to admit, I'm a bit of a treckie fan myself. First Contact is a great film.

 

[Jerry]

Got to admit, I'm a bit of a treckie fan myself. First Contact is a great film.

The Borg episodes and film are the best ones and I especially like the Scorpion episodes! Nice to see the Borg get their arse kicked!

 

[Aviador]

I've enjoyed the latest ones with Chris Pine as . Into The Darkness & Beyond are especially good.

I managed to watch Beyond in 3D a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it. It was my first experience watching a modern 3D film. Although it was expensive I thought it was worth it. The last film I watched in 3D was with the old style red and green glasses, a truly shocking experience.

 

[Jerry]

Haven't seen the latest one yet. I tend to get movies when they go to dvd. The others i liked as movies but I'm not a fan of them doing a new kirk and a new spock and so on as even though i came into Star Trek via Next Generation there was already a Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Sulu and others so I felt it should be left alone. Personally I wanted to see Enterprise movies set during the Romulan war and then showing the birth of the Federation after that but then i'm a purist! I'm looking forward to the new series that comes out and to watch new movie but Chris Pine will never be Kirk to me it's just not the same! Sorry went on a bit there!

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I can't say that I have five or ten particular favourites but I certainly enjoy these (in no particular order):

The Grapes of Wrath (Henry Fonda)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (James Cagney)
The League of Gentlemen (Jack Hawkins)
The Sting (Robert Redford and Paul Newman)
Any Gene Autry B Western. Thank goodness some are on YouTube. They really are dire to a modern audience but they were lapped up by young boys in the English-speaking world during the years following WW2 and still bring back cherished memories of a young boy's world before he entered the grown-up rat race.

 

[Aviador]

I felt the same about a new Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest at first but I actually think they work and they work surprisingly well so they've won me over.

Just realised we have our very own borg smiley

 

[Aviador]

I can't say that I have five or ten particular favourites but I certainly enjoy these (in no particular order):

The Grapes of Wrath (Henry Fonda)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (James Cagney)
The League of Gentlemen (Jack Hawkins)
The Sting (Robert Redford and Paul Newman)
Any Gene Autry B Western. Thank goodness some are on YouTube. They really are dire to a modern audience but they were lapped up by young boys in the English-speaking world during the years following WW2 and still bring back cherished memories of a young boy's world before he entered the grown-up rat race.

I don't think I recall any of those... although I'm sure my old man would.

 

[David_itl]

If there's one thing wrong with Hollywood is that they don't really like to generate too many new movies with rehashes of old ones. So anyone young looking at the original would think how rubbish they are, but at the time they were the best you could see,

What they are doing with Star Wars and Star Trek is more praiseworthy in providing a range of films. In particular, the characterisation of the Star Trek crew with them portraying as youngsters showing the mannerisms of the original cast is very good.

Forgot another excellent one is Terminator 2. One of few sequels which is better than the original movie

 

[Jerry]

They are good movies and the actors are good (i've always liked Simon Pegg) i just think i'm a bit of a purist with Star Trek as it's always moved forward to a new series and new Captains and never been recast up until now and I suppose i was hoping for something new as a fan.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

I don't think I recall any of those... although I'm sure my old man would.

I mentioned in the favourite music thread that I was never a great lover of contemporary music at any time in my life, preferring compositions from earlier periods.

The same applies to films. The Grapes of Wrath was made three years before I was born and Yankee Doodle Dandy one year before I was born, and many Gene Autry B Westerns are pre WW2. I never saw Grapes of Wrath or Yankee Doodle Dandy at the cinema, only on television many, many years after they were made.

I used to visit the cinema a few times a year but the last time I went was in the early 80s. I remember that Gandhi and Gorky Park were the last two films I saw at the cinema.

People tell me that you no longer get two full-length films, a short and a newsreel at the modern cinema, but just one film. If that's so it seems very short change to me.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

David_itl said:

If there's one thing wrong with Hollywood is that they don't really like to generate too many new movies with rehashes of old ones. So anyone young looking at the original would think how rubbish they are, but at the time they were the best you could see,

When Hollywood or the British film industry for that matter makes a modern version of the cinema it rarely lives up to the original. That's certainly my opinion and also often the view of some so-called cinema experts; there will doubtless be exceptions although I can't think of any.

The original film of John Buchan's book The Thirty-Nine Steps was made in the 1930s and starred a great British cinema actor of the day, Robert Donat. Another version was made in the late 1950s starring Kenneth More and a third in the 1970s with Robert Powell. They were pale imitations of the original; their only advantage to some people was that they were made in colour whereas the Donat version was in monochrome.

And how many films have there been about the Titanic? Do any of them come close to A Night To Remember made in the 1950s?

 

[JENNYJET]

I have not attended a Movie Theatre since Earthquake was released I digress, my favourite is 'The usual suspects ', a gem rarely broadcast.

It has an absorbing story with a devastating twist.

 

[Poshgirl]

Only really watched Star Trek when got a Freeview telly. Perhaps one day I'll see the new movies.

Really enjoyed A Few Good Men and The Firm. Also Mamma Mia, Here I Go Again, Sully, Titanic, The Bodyguard, Evita. I'll even admit to seeing one of the Emmanuelle films and (in the privacy of my own home) all the Fifty Shades

 

[JENNYJET]

I have resisted the temptation to view the new Star Trek offering, prequel work needs serious work in the screen writing department.

 

[Kevin Farnell]

2001 A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick

An absolutely amazing film that we leave you pondering consciousness, intelligence, God/or and existence of higher lifeforms. It also has special effects that were decades ahead of it's release date (thanks Stanley Kubrick!).

Kevin