Your favourite 5 Films... EVER!

[Deleted member 59730]

A low budget film which slipped under the radar is Jawbone. Very gritty. Directed by a friend of mine. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3582020/?ref_=ttawd_awd_tt

 

[owas]

empire of the sun
Jurassic park
independence day
dumb and dumber
stephen king dreamcatcher
stand by me
The dark knight

 

[Ian J]

empire of the sun
Jurassic park
independence day
dumb and dumber
stephen king dreamcatcher
stand by me
The dark knight

Numeracy isn't your thing I see

 

[owas]

Numeracy isn't your thing I see

honestly it really isn't, I'm just very glad my maths teacher was wrong when she said we have to learn maths as we wouldn't be carrying a calculator around with us all the time!

I suppose you could say that the stand by me obviously the young lads, they grow up, have a reunion hence the movie dream catcher. Then the general from dream catcher (Morgan Freeman) retires from public service and gets a role at Wayne enterprises. So really these three could all be counted as one movie

 

[Kaapo Jed]

Dumb and Dumber
lone survivor
The Godfather
Rocky
independence day
suicide squad

 

[CaveMoons]

The avengers
Matrix
Suicide squad
Jurassic Park
Drunk master

 

[Ellyndel]

Thor
iron Man
Suicide squad
Jurassic Park
Bohemian Rhapsody

 

[Chris Ashdown]

Battle of Britain
Hobson's choice
Alien
Morning departure ( a sunk submarine drama)
Goodbye Mr Chips (original film)

 

[okkkorniieko]

All films by Quentin Tarantino!

 

[Jasondb]

I liked a lot of Kubrick films too.

 

[The Byre]

A low budget film which slipped under the radar is Jawbone. Very gritty. Directed by a friend of mine. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3582020/?ref_=ttawd_awd_tt

Yes! Good cinematography too! Great movie and well worth watching -

BUT

Jawbone suffers from being a gritty urban drama - and the punters don't want to see gritty urban dramas. And therein lies the problem!

You open the paper, look at what's on TV or whatever you are about to be entertained and you get ONE LINE that describes the movie. That deadly Tag-Line that decides if the movie sinks or swims.

"Tough New York cop finds himself trapped in his wife's office building when it is taken over by terrorists." or "Tough female FBI agent goes undercover as a contestant in a beauty pageant!" both sound like fun.

"Homeless alcoholic boxer fights to get his life back on track!" does not sound like fun!

Two I watched recently (yet again!)

District 9 (Aliens land, only to be banished to a slum outside Johannesburg)
The Road to Perdition (Hit-man and his young son seek vengeance against a mobster who murdered the rest of their family.)

 

[Ian J]

Two I watched recently (yet again!)

District 9 (Aliens land, only to be banished to a slum outside Johannesburg)
The Road to Perdition (Hit-man and his young son seek vengeance against a mobster who murdered the rest of their family.)

I don't normally partake in these threads that are designed for new members to get their post counts up without actually contributing anything useful to the forums but I do like both of those films

 

[Chawton]

Rosemary's Baby
The Graduate
Jaws
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Mary Poppins (original, obviously)

 

[simon field]

Dead Man’s Shoes
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
Amelie
Pulp Fiction
Sexy Beast

 

[CaveMoons]

The Shawshank Redemption
Green Mile
1 + 1
Cards, money, two trunks
Back to the future 1,2

 

[mikespencer]

Silence is exciting

 

[Victoria_V]

Utterly shocked Martin Scorsese's old masterpieces are overlooked in this thread! Hands down one of my favorite directors

Goodfellas (1990)
Gangs of New York (2002)
The Departed (2006)

Honorable mentions:
The Pianist (2002) directed by Roman Polanski
Inception (2010) directed by Christopher Nolan