Apologies if this has been done before.

2001: A Space Odyssey
Erin Brockovich
Silence Of The Lambs
Kramer vs Kramer

I'm surprised you can't be bothered to watch Silence of the Lambs. It's an enjoyable easy to watch sort of ting.

For me:

anything by Charlie Chaplin
any `classic' Iranian film
any silent film
any Westerns
any Horror films
any film that is over 3 hours long - I just can't still that long

Well, I've seen all of those....

2001-great at the time but very dated.
Erin Brokovic-Totally overrated. Julia Roberts' performance is all over the place.
SOTL-Not bad at all. Hopkins is great.
K v K-Saw it when it first came out. Complete and utter shit.

anything by Charlie Chaplin
any `classic' Iranian film
any silent film
any Westerns
any Horror films
any film that is over 3 hours long - I just can't still that long
I'll give you Chaplin, but you're just being silly on the rest.

I'm surprised you can't be bothered to watch Silence of the Lambs. It's an enjoyable easy to watch sort of ting.
It's one of those films where I've always thought about watching it but can't be bothered to go out of my way for it. If they show it on tele I'll most likely watch it.

More:

Casablanca
Citizen Kane
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
A Clockwork Orange
The Shining

Stevie, are these films you haven't seen at all, or just wouldn't bother watching again? That last lot, I'd recommend that everybody watch them at least once.

Can I nominate

Sound of Music
Wizard of Oz
Rocky Horror

They're just films I've never seen but heard are great, and yet don't feel the need to go out of my way to watch them.

Rocky Horror is another

Casablanca
Citizen Kane
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
A Clockwork Orange
The Shining

Citizen Kane is fantastic but you need to see it alone, best in a cinema. Watch it at home with others and you'll last 5 minutes. The Shining needs to be seen at night. Scary as shit. Casablanca I can take or leave. Same for OFOTCN.

2001: A Space Odyssey - Masterful. Makes most other films look like they're not even trying.

However:

Erin Brockovich
Silence Of The Lambs
Kramer vs KramerAye, you can avoid that shite.

Casablanca, I reckon, gets better the more you watch it. One of the most quotable films ever.

Sound of Music
Wizard of Oz
Rocky Horror

I think you definately should give these ones a try. I love them all, even though Wizard of Oz is really tacky. Rocky Horror is real good but the show is better, you should go see it at the theatre ;) great fun! I went all by myself recently and was scared shitless but it was the most fun I'd had in ages.

Brokeback Mountain is one that I've been told is really good but I just can't be bothered to watch it.

Mulholland Drive is something my film teacher always tells me to watch along with 2001 - I've seen clips but not all of it

Citizen Kane is fantastic. As for Chaplin films , in historical perspective , some were radical and subversive . But if I had to watch any ( except for the Great Dictator ) I think I would have to chew my legs off.

there are ltos of films that i don't catch at the cinema but eventually get round to seeing and i wish i had bothered to see them at the cinema, Like lord of the rings, watched it ona crumy 16 inch tv, liked it enough that i wnet and rented the other two and watched them back to back

Star Wars was one set of films that i never got round to watching until about 2 years ago, never realy had any motivation for them, thta i think i could take it or leave it

Casablanca,...... One of the most mis-quoted films ever.

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Gone With The Wind.

Citizen Kane and Casablanca both. i feel like a half-assing undedicated film buff since i haven't seen either, but i just can't be assed... i'll get around to it sometimes.
Star Wars... fuck, everyone's always going on about how great it is. i bought the trilogy (the originals) and had to flick it off after about 5 minutes. it's for nerds, anyway.

Loki, I'd give "Modern Times" by Chaplin a go, and possibly "The Gold Rush." Both extremely enjoyable, very sweetly funny and with excellent original scores.

I'm not much one for Bogart films, "The African Queen" and "The Big Sleep" aside.

Watched about a half hour of "Blow-up" before losing interest.

Woody Allen's earlier "funnier" films do nothing at all for me, and I have skipped most of them, with the exception of "Love and Death," which is actually pretty good.

Silence Of The Lambs

As is so often the case, the original was better imo.

I saw Manhunter (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091474/) after I had seen Silence of the Lambs and I was suprised at how much better it was.

I think SOTL is pretty run of the mill in comparison to Manhunter.

Genuinely love Casablanca.

I think it was years ahead of its time.

As is so often the case, the original was better imo.

Eh? SOTL the book/film is the sequel to Manhunter, which in book form was originally published as Red Dragon (1985), and is by far the best book from Thomas Harris. An absolute cracker if you haven't read it.

To confuse matters further, Red Dragon/Manhunter was remade in 2002, and despite a strong cast (plus Hopkins doing his schtick once more of course) was very much a jobsworth adaptation from a jobsworth director (Brett Ratner). Audiences weren't much bothered.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, there's more of this guff coming soon.

Sorry, that was my klutz way of saying the first in the 'series' was better.

despite a lot of my mates being big fans & raving about his films & i personally won't watch anything with woody allen in it. i've endured short bursts of a few of his films and found them stupendously tedious.

it doesn't help that i think he's a self-obsessd mysoginistic egomaniac with a misplaced persecution complex (& generally a bit of a cock tbh)

ditto peter sellers "pink panther" films which, if childhood memories are correct, last for at least 15 hours each & contain nothing but a lot of 3rd rate slapstick and some "hilarious" misunderstandings on account of a funny accent

Woody Allen is a cunt. The only good thing is that his recent films have included the delicious Scarlett Johannnsnenenensnnenonsnneonon in.

Woody Allen is a cunt. The only good thing is that his recent films have included the delicious Scarlett Johannnsnenenensnnenonsnneonon in.

Woody Cunt is an overly large cunt.

Format for a typical WA film: Big nose toss-bag wanders round New York perving at girls and talking in that ''FUCKING NORA! SHOOT ME IN THE HEAD!!!'' voice.

despite a lot of my mates being big fans & raving about his films & i personally won't watch anything with woody allen in it. i've endured short bursts of a few of his films and found them stupendously tedious.
I like some of his films, but he really should've called it a day after Hannah and her Sisters because he's been almost invariably rubbish since.


ditto peter sellers "pink panther" films which, if childhood memories are correct, last for at least 15 hours each & contain nothing but a lot of 3rd rate slapstick and some "hilarious" misunderstandings on account of a funny accent
A Shot In The Dark is the best by far. You don't really need the others.

re Woody Allen

I remember going to see Annie Hall at the cinema when it was released. It wasn't bad, very much a film of it's time, otheriwise I can't think of anything he's done that I've enjoyed

La Dolce Vita.
Tedious long-winding overrated drivel about uninteresting characters doing uninteresting things for 3 hours. I sat through it once, bit it was torture.
NEVER again.

who said Clocky Orange - you seriously have got to see that film. Altho I realise thats the point of this thread.

I wouldnt watch:

The Matrix
Mission Impossible
Gone with the Wind
Bourne Identity

or basically anything my parents go to see at pictures on a Tuesday afternoon and come back and say 'Oh we were the only ones in, it was like a private screening'.

ditto peter sellers "pink panther" films which, if childhood memories are correct, last for at least 15 hours each & contain nothing but a lot of 3rd rate slapstick and some "hilarious" misunderstandings on account of a funny accent

Never has the term 'genius' been so fitting for someone as it is with Peter Sellers. I still say that Dr Strangelove (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the atom bomb) is the funniest film ever made. Sellers is fantastic in it.

The Matrix
Bourne Identity
The Bourne Identity is good and I'd say worth a watch.

As for the Matrix, the original one was great when it came out, but the other 2 are disappointing.

the rocky horror picture show was on TV saturday night, i tried to watch it but i managed less than 10 minutes before wanting to throw the TV or myself out of the window

I've had Dr Strangelove DVD in a cupboard for about a year, i've not watched it

Watch it Hugo. You'll love it.

'Tis a shame Sellers cops all the praise for (the very great) Strangelove, as George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden are easily his match.


"............precious bodily fluids.."

Strangelove is a great film. I watch it whenever it's on. Must've seen it 50 odd times.

Anyway, I've never seen Deer Hunter all the way through. Seen the end and the first four hours or so. I give up every time. The music doesn't help. As great a score as it is, it's just a little too dry.

Can't be arsed watching Hitchcock, although I know I should watch some. Also Zulu is another movie I can't get through.

Anyway, I've never seen Deer Hunter all the way through. Seen the end and the first four hours or so. I give up every time. The music doesn't help. As great a score as it is, it's just a little too dry.

Can't be arsed watching Hitchcock, although I know I should watch some. Also Zulu is another movie I can't get through.You really need to see Hitchcock, who embraced the fakery and manipulation of cinema like no one else, and while in some ways very conventional, he also turned cinema inside-out. Start with the big 'uns (Psycho, Rear Window, North By Northwest, Vertigo, The Birds) then find your own way about.

The Deer Hunter is an odd one. Bearing in mind its post-Star Wars appearance, this is one of the last great stabs at epic, almost romantic storytelling, shot through with '70's US cynicism. Some find it overblown, but when it's good it's exceptional, with Cimino's handling sometimes breathtaking. Again, one you really need to see for yourself.

Btw - there are only two films men actually want to watch on a Bank Holiday. One is Spartacus, the other is Zulu. Grand stuff both.

Btw - there are only two films men actually want to watch on a Bank Holiday. One is Spartacus, the other is Zulu. Grand stuff both.
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well said fella

Love Casablance, Silence of the Lambs and Citizen Kane, and would recommend the latter to any person with even the remotest interest in films.

The film I've yet to see is Sch8indler's list - the other half bought it a couple of months ago and I can't even bring myself to take the cellophane wrapper off it. I'd rather watch my Mighty Boosh box set, much more of a laff, innit.

Btw - there are only two films men actually want to watch on a Bank Holiday. One is Spartacus, the other is Zulu. Grand stuff both.

I agree but would add, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

Btw - there are only two films men actually want to watch on a Bank Holiday. One is Spartacus, the other is Zulu. Grand stuff both.
You're forgetting James Bond films (Sean Canary only)

I can't be bothered to watch Forrest Gump. And because so many people over the years have told me to watch it, now I really don't want to. And Schindlers' List.

Another one was The Exorcist, which I finally was convinced into seeing a few weeks ago. And it was actually pretty damn good.