Your favourites movies. ( Top 5 )

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Fri Apr 23, 2004 9:50 pm

Sorry, this is the only way I can do this and not spend my entire night tossing and turning in agony.

1920's:
1. The General
2. The Crowd
3. Our Hospitality
4. The Gold Rush
5. Nosferatu

1930's:
1. Bringing Up Baby
2. Fury
3. It's A Gift
4. The Bride of Frankenstein
5. M

1940's:
1. The Lady Eve
2. Treasure of The Sierra Madre
3. Citizen Kane
4. The Bicycle Thief
5. Shadow of A Doubt

1950's:
1. The Night of The Hunter
2. Kiss Me Deadly
3. The Seventh Seal
4. The Sweet Smell of Success
5. Sunset Boulevard

1960's:
1. The Wild Bunch
2. Long Day's Journey Into Night
3. Lolita
4. Salesman
5. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1970's:
1. The Godfather I-II
2. Jaws
3. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
4. Taxi Driver
5. Annie Hall

1980's:
1. The Ninth Configuration
2. Secret Honor
3. Raising Arizona
4. Tootsie
5. Heartworn Highways (made in 1975 but not given a commercial release till 1981)

1990's:
1. Rushmore
2. Three Kings
3. Goodfellas
4. The Big Lebowski
5. Eve's Bayou

2000's: (so far)
1. The Lord of The Rings Trilogy
2. Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2
3. Ghost World
4. Memento
5. The Royal Tenenbaums

I haven't seen Birth of A Nation or Intolerance so there is no point in my putting up a 1910's list.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 3:42 am

Probably just as well, I think we can all do without a debate on whether a celebration of the KKK is great art or not.

BWAP: I loved the scene where Hooch pierces the beer can and has a good old slurp!

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 5:42 pm

Top 5 films that are so bad they're good..

Kindergarten Cop
Santa Claus the movie
Twins
Short Circuit
Mary Poppins

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Sat Apr 24, 2004 8:21 pm

I really hate using "trilogies" and "volume 1s and 2s" as ONE slot. It doesn't work that way. Different release dates - different films.

Post by **BlueChair** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 12:13 pm

wehitandrun wrote:I really hate using "trilogies" and "volume 1s and 2s" as ONE slot. It doesn't work that way. Different release dates - different films.

I agree with you in terms of films like The Godfather and The Godfather, Part II, but those are indeed different movies.

Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2 were only released seperately so they could cash in. They are two halves of one film.

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 12:51 pm

Well, Kill Bill Volume 1 and Volume 2 are also completely different. One is a full on action film, the other is actually story driven.

They may be different parts of the same story, but they're different films. Same with Star Wars, Lord Of The Rings, and American Pie.

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 1:01 pm

i'd argue LoTR could count as all one movie, 'cause it was shot all at the same time. unlike American Pie, or Star Wars.

here's my top of my head, i read everyone else's first, list:

IN NO ORDER:

Blue Velvet
LoTR (all of them? any of them? whatever)
Roman Holiday
Heathers
Pulp Fiction

Post by **BlueChair** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 1:06 pm

wehitandrun wrote:Well, Kill Bill Volume 1 and Volume 2 are also completely different. One is a full on action film, the other is actually story driven.

They may be different parts of the same story, but they're different films. Same with Star Wars, Lord Of The Rings, and American Pie.

Dude, Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2 were filmed as a single movie and written as a single movie, originally intended to be released as a whole, but marketing reasons prevented Tarantino from having it happen that way.

oily slick · Post by **oily slick** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 2:41 pm

dr strangelove
local hero
fail-safe
raising arizona
i dream of jenna 2

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 2:51 pm

El Vez --

You really had me worried with that first list....

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:08 pm

BlueChair wrote:
wehitandrun wrote:Well, Kill Bill Volume 1 and Volume 2 are also completely different. One is a full on action film, the other is actually story driven.

They may be different parts of the same story, but they're different films. Same with Star Wars, Lord Of The Rings, and American Pie.
Dude, Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2 were filmed as a single movie and written as a single movie, originally intended to be released as a whole, but marketing reasons prevented Tarantino from having it happen that way.

I am aware of this.

But, just because it started a certain way, doesnt mean that it didn't happen as it did.

Goodbye Cruel World started as a live/folk rock album, but it didn't end up that way, did it? (figured I'd use an elvis reference, given our battlegrounds).

Fact is, Marketing reasons prevented the film from being ONE film, and it is two films.

It isnt exactly quantum physics, Blue. One was released in October, the other in April.

Tim(e) · Post by **Tim(e)** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 5:31 pm

wehitandrun wrote:
Fact is, Marketing reasons prevented the film from being ONE film, and it is two films.

It isnt exactly quantum physics, Blue. One was released in October, the other in April.

Can we wait until this is released on DVD as the single film it was meant to be (Tarrantino has stated his intention to do so)?

pip_52 · Post by **pip_52** » Sat May 01, 2004 9:21 am

Dr. Strangelove
The Royal Tenenbaums
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2001 A Space Odyssey
The Big Lebowski

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Sat May 01, 2004 11:53 am

Tim(e) wrote:
wehitandrun wrote:
Fact is, Marketing reasons prevented the film from being ONE film, and it is two films.

It isnt exactly quantum physics, Blue. One was released in October, the other in April.
Can we wait until this is released on DVD as the single film it was meant to be (Tarrantino has stated his intention to do so)?

Well, first, we'll just buy the two seperate dvds that're coming out first.

Kind of like what we'll have to do with Star Wars, being they're seperate films and all- they come out alone first.

Post by **BlueChair** » Sat May 01, 2004 12:08 pm

Star Wars Episodes 1 through 3 are seperate films in a series.

Kill Bill Vol. I and II are one movie that was cut in half due to length and marketing reasons. It's being released as seperate DVD's for the same reason, and so that people who missed seeing Vol. I in theatres, can rent Vol. I and then see Vol. II in theatres.

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Sat May 01, 2004 12:41 pm

Blue, they're two different movies. I really don't care why they are... yet you keep telling me why. I get it, marketing reasons... they're not one film.

The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy was all filmed together... same movie? No.

"Deal with it. Rock and Roll."

Post by **BlueChair** » Sat May 01, 2004 12:46 pm

Lord Of The Rings was written as three seperate books as part of a trilogy.

Even in early promotional materials and interviews, Kill Bill was just referred to as Kill Bill. There was no issue of Vol. I or Vol. II. The original tagline was even "In 2003, The Bride will Kill Bill." Obviously had they known it would end up as two movies they would have saved that tagline for the 2nd film. It was only in post-production that they decided to split it into two seperate releases.

So stop being a know it all, and deal with it

Uncomplicated · Post by **Uncomplicated** » Sat May 01, 2004 3:29 pm

.....adding another trilogy to the mix.

1. The Wizard of Oz
2. The Meaning of Life
3. Back to the Future Trilogy
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Grand Canyon

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Sat May 01, 2004 4:27 pm

Personally, for the purposes of lists, I think it's really up to list maker.

I, for example, choose the consider the entire James Bond series one movie. Started out okay, got really good, got less good, got way less good, got okay, got less okay, got better, got worse, etc.

wehitandrun · Post by **wehitandrun** » Sat May 01, 2004 11:14 pm

BlueChair wrote:Lord Of The Rings was written as three seperate books as part of a trilogy.

Even in early promotional materials and interviews, Kill Bill was just referred to as Kill Bill. There was no issue of Vol. I or Vol. II. The original tagline was even "In 2003, The Bride will Kill Bill." Obviously had they known it would end up as two movies they would have saved that tagline for the 2nd film. It was only in post-production that they decided to split it into two seperate releases.

So stop being a know it all, and deal with it

Repeated talk about the 'early' everything is what gets me. I admit, it started out as one film... but it changed.

One Story, Two Films.