Entertainment For Lively Minds
I Don't Know How To Not Watch This Film, Damn It!
Posted by roryks on 2 July 2011 - 5:57pm.
I've just finished watching The Eagle Has Landed (BBC2 3.00-5.10pm). Saw it was on...couldn't miss it! Seen it umpteen times, might even own the DVD. Damn and blast it all to hell, there's two-and-a-bit hours I'm quite glad to have squandered!
You can skip over to YouTube and watch Robert Duvall's classic "synchronicity" spiel. How could you not? http://youtu.be/zUqFhtX4H70 (Begger won't let me embed.)
Which film do you find yourself simply unable to not watch when it turns up on TV?
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Zulu
A classic of it's time
"Why Us Sarge?"
"Because we're 'ere lad. Nobody else. Just us." - Zulu.
See also:
The Dambusters
Two Way Stretch
The Adventures Of Robin Hood
Any Carry On film
Passport To Pimlico
All the above
plus The Italian Job, The 39 Steps, and The Lady Vanishes, but these days there are fewer films shown on TV, particularly at manageable hours. Hell Drivers, starring Stanley Baker, for example, used to be on pretty much every week I'd say, but these days it doesn't get a sniff. Same goes for any number of Hammer horror films. Having said all that, Mutiny On The Buses was on today. Awful.
Oh yes!
All owned on DVD but still unmissable:
Alien (also Alien3 - I can take or leave the others)
The Great Escape
Goodfellas
Rita, Sue & Bob Too
Any Star Trek film (yes, any of them)
Fever Pitch (one of the few films that always makes me cry)
Any LOTR film except the animated one
12 Angry Men
East is East
I'll stop now, I could go on for hours...
Tremors
the Bill & Teds
Caddyshack
anything with Jay & Silent Bob
Animal House
My shout.
Some that immediately come to mind are
The great escape
The magnificent seven.
Top Gun (Sorry, but I love it)
The Commitments
Just about any Peter Sellers / Norman Wisdom, & most, if not all of the ones in various lists above.
(I havent seen hell drivers in years, is it commercially available?)
Napoleon
Dynamite
Trains....
Planes and Automobiles !
oh....
.... and Ferris Bueller's Day Off !
Any Bond
I know there are some bad ones but even the bad ones have their moments like A View To A Kill the other week.
The Jurassic Park trilogy
The Matrix trilogy
The Indiana Jones Films
Lord Of the Rings Films
The thing about watching films on TV
is that most films improve by not watching the beginning...
Ideally you should always see films from around twenty minutes in.
Especially films you've never seen before, even if the film starts with a scene that will give the audience some knowledge that the characters in the film doesn't get until the end of the film.
There are plenty of film classics that I have never seen the beginning of...
Is it just me ?
Any portmanteau horror film...
even though most of them are pretty naff.
There's something about the concept that never fails to have me watch the films whenever they show up on late-night telly (they're always on late, natch). The endings always appeal, too, whether it be Ralph Richardson turning to the camera to tell me that I might be next, as the doomed shuffle off into Hell, or Peter Cushing re-shuffling his Tarot cards, to read for a new batch of "train passengers" (I may be misremembering these endings...)
Not enough of those films shown, quite frankly, and I worry that I might one day be pointed towards an over-priced box set of DVDS. Perhaps pointed towards said DVDs...by YOU!
There was one on a fortnight ago
I'd never seen before: Vault of Horror, Terry Thomas, Tom Baker, Denholm Elliott and the Doctor in the House blokes.
Great stuff.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070868/
Yup, and I watched it, even though
I'd seen it a few times before.
I seem to remember one episode in a portmanteau film about a cursed mirror and a dinner party, but can't recall details. I remember liking that one, though, and I think there was a secret room story in the same film, which was actually a portal into some terrible place, but contained wealth (or something) too. waiting for that one to be repeated so that I can clear up my semi-memories.
Nay
I've enjoyed all the ones I've seen (and I've seen quite a few).
I watched Dead of Night recently, which still stands up very well for such an old film. Especially the section with the ventriloquist's dummy (although those things are just disturbing full-stop).
Vault of Horror is ace.
Ooh potmanteau horror! I saw one of these recently
(Asylum of Blood, maybe?) where Donald Pleasance is in charge of an asylum and the patients' stories are told in flashback. In one of the stories a bloke finds part of a tree that looks like a human torso. He brings it home intending to make it a feature in his house. In time, he grows to like the tree more than his wife. So he murders her and the last scene is of him in bed with the tree. You can't beat that for sheer mental brilliance.
Also, if I'm flicking through the channels and come across "Midnight Run", I'm staying with it til the end every time.
Jaws
I wait for the bit with the head to come rolling out
or
the bit where he says " We´re going to need a bigger boat "
or
the bit where Quegg starts telling the story of the WW2 battleship and the sharks
or the bit...
It's a flippin' masterpiece!
Ah, hell, I'll happily watch Jaws 2...too.
(Here's Jaws in 30 Seconds (and re-enacted by bunnies): http://www.angryalien.com/0804/jawsbunnies.asp)
Own the DVD, but will still watch when on TV:
Spinal Tap
Quadrophenia
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Carry On
Italian Job
Alfie
Bond Films
Life Of Brian
TV Series re-runs:
Blackadder
Young ones
Bottom
Comic Strip Presents ...
Where Eagles Dare
Broadsword calling Danny Boy!
I'm not a fan of war movies usually and the plot's daft - flush out some spies by going into the heart of Nazi territory? In an impregnable castle? With narrow corridors where it's easy to get shot? Purleease!
But it's thrilling from start to finish - from the der-d-der-d-der-d-der music to the sweaty plane escape at the end.
The Welsh-off on the cable car between Burton v Houston and cosy sitcom Peter Barkworth twatting US hardman Clint Eastwood are just a few of the highlights.
The Rock
It's on NOW on BBC3 great film real popcorn stuff
Two for me
The Outlaw Josey Wales - Clint's best? Could be.
The Day Of The Jackal - plodding in places, variable acting, predictable (yes, we know de Gaulle wasn't assassinated) - but it's brilliant.
Clints best
Surely Clint Eastwoods best film is "Every which way but loose"
I adore that film.
(Dont like the sequel tho, I found it far fetched & bordering on the unbelievable)
Yes!!
They are the two I will always watch time and again. When I was at university the night before one of my final exams, The Outlaw Josey Wales unexpectedly (well, unexpected by me anyway)came on late at night. I had loads of last minute revision to do (and sleeping as well), but I had to watch it. I just about scraped by in the exam.
Loads
Loads. Occasionally I find they are showing at the same time, like the other week when these two clashed:
Gods & Monsters
Notting Hill (yeah, sue me!)
Others include...
The Quick & The Dead, Beautiful Girls, Mad Dog & Glory, High Society, V for Vendetta, Aliens, Dawn of the Dead (original and new), Shaun of the Dead, It's a Wonderful Life, Scrooged (Bill Murray), Last of the Mohicans (Day-Lewis), The Damned United, 24hr Party People, Dead Man's Shoes, Big Lebowski, Spinal Tap....
I could go on.
I don't claim any of them to be masterpieces (well, maybe a few) and many of my favourites are not on this list but for some reason these always stand up to many viewings. I recommend any of them to the Massive.
Films?
None, really.
I, however, get snared by Mark Williams stuff. Industrial Revelations or On The Rails. I have to be dragged from in front of the box.
Top Trumps!
A Matter of Life and Death
aye thangyew
Field of dreams
Ray Kinsella: Hey... Dad?
[John turns]
Ray Kinsella: [choked up] "You wanna have a catch?"
John Kinsella: I'd like that.
Sod it, I've got something in my eye.
There was one on last night
Strange nobody
seems to have mentioned Fargo yet.
Love it.
Pretty much anything with Kevin Spacey in it, too. (Se7en, American Beauty, The Usual Suspects).
Brazil.
Once Upon A Time In The West.
Blade Runner.
The Fifth Element.
Leon.
Lord Of War.
Get Carter (original).
Amelie.
Jazz On A Summer's Day.
etc.
Well.......
Porridge and The Likely Lads, the two best Films from TV series ever made.
Quoted ad infinitum by me and the GLW still.
The Bourne Trilogy
If I see one I have to watch the other two.
Also
Cape Fear (Mitchum & Peck)
The Haunting (original b&w)
The Andromeda Strain (well over 3 hours of my life every time)
Any Studio Ghibli film - they're virtually all great but Porco Rosso
and Kiki's Delivery Service are my particular favourites.
TV series-wise I always tune in to episodes of The Big Bang Theory
old and new (Penny's from heaven).
Under Siege
starring the famous wardrobe, Stephen Seagal, and Tommy Lee Jones in best carpet-chewing mode. Oh, and Elenea Eleniak's bosom. I know it's ludicrous, but it's crying out to be watched. Oh,and
Predator
Terminator
Terminator2
Alien and Aliens
Dante's Peak (Whaat!?)
Trading Places
True Lies
and that'll do
Three with a nautical flavour
'The Cruel Sea'
'A Night To Remember'
'Sink The Bismarck!'