Best Films

Obviously not a ..... · 06-08-2008, 05:15 AM

Your top 5.

mine:

1. The day the earth stood still. (remake coming)
2. Life of Brian.
3. Star Wars.
4. 6th Sense.
5. Driving Miss Daisy.

poppy · 06-08-2008, 12:20 PM

1, The Wall
2, silent running
3, Chocolat
4, Casablanca
5, The life of Brian

But they change depending on my mood

Obviously not a ..... · 06-14-2008, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by poppy

1, The Wall
2, silent running
3, Chocolat
4, Casablanca
5, The life of Brian

But they change depending on my mood

Number 2. is that the Sci-Fi one ?

poppy · 06-16-2008, 10:07 PM

yes old black and white sci fi

The Relic · 08-05-2008, 09:17 AM

Jean de Florette/Manon de Source.
The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
O Brother Where Art Thou?
The Love Match (with Arthur Askey)
A Hard Days Night

poppy · 08-05-2008, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by The Relic

Jean de Florette/Manon de Source.
The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
O Brother Where Art Thou?
The Love Match (with Arthur Askey)
A Hard Days Night

Love them all exept the Lord of the rings, which is probably unfair because no one could make a film as good as the one that has lived in my head for the last 50 years.
I think it OK to read a book after seeing a film, but watching afilm about folk that are so well established in your brain is not going to work.

The Relic · 08-08-2008, 07:38 PM

I don't know, I think it was a near-as-dammit effort. The scripts certainly drew the story threads together and made them work. Tolkien was a towering fabulist, bless his tweed trousers, but he was a terrible novelist. The way The Return Of The King reaches a natural conclusion then sort of creaks back into action with The Scouring Of The Shire seemed to unblance the whole thing.

poppy · 08-08-2008, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by The Relic

I don't know, I think it was a near-as-dammit effort. The scripts certainly drew the story threads together and made them work. Tolkien was a towering fabulist, bless his tweed trousers, but he was a terrible novelist. The way The Return Of The King reaches a natural conclusion then sort of creaks back into action with The Scouring Of The Shire seemed to unblance the whole thing.

I missed Goldberry and Bombadill, I cant remember them in the film, I do agree Tolkien did ramble a bit I was was used to it, like an old pair of shoes, new shiny ones are never as comfy

The Relic · 08-09-2008, 05:40 PM

Some of the Bombadil/Goldberyy stuff was conflated into the films: teh carnivorous tree, and parts of speeches, but I understand why they were dropped as they would have killed the pace at the exact moment when the momentum was gathering. I think the Barrow Downs should have got in there though!

A mate of mine reckons that Tolkien originally saw The Hobbit as an extended bedtime story and the trilogy as a campfire saga, more like the Silmarillion, but the success of the former forced him into turning the Rings trilogy into something approaching a novel. I do wonder if the trilogy and even the genre it spawned would ahve sunk without trace if he'd written it like the Silmarillion and the ephemera, which I read almost out of duty.

(I have a compulsion to read books right through. Amonst others I've read Das Kapital, Finnegans Wake and that wretched, tedious thing Foucalt's Pendulum form beginning to end. I must be punishing myself for something.)

skinny · 08-10-2008, 08:44 AM

Shawshank Redemption is one.