Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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If you are looking at the Carry On films the best has to be 'Up the Khyber', the dinner scene alone makes it a classic. On a personal note, I liked them up until Barbara Windsor's breasts took over and the quality went rapidly downhill.
For enjoyable, light-hearted films 'Some Like it Hot, 'Father Goose' and 'Bringing up Baby' stand out, although Simon Pegg's 'Paul' is a new favourite.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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one of the more memorable lines from "up the khyber" came from bernard breslaw playing an indian rebel.
he opined to his comrades that the english were "domestos", quizzical looks came back and he explained "clean round the bend".
i always thought that kenneth wiliams held the whole thing together with his ability to change voice and face mannerisms in the same sentence.
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Some Like It Hot is timeless, for me Jack Lemmon stole the film along with Joe E Brownl.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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have been watching the remake of "king kong" earlier on itv 2.
have seen it before but enjoyed it more tonight despite the ridiculous "jurassic park" style sequencies.
special effects and scenery were top drawer, somehow it didn't quite match up to the 1930's classic in the atmosphere department.
having said that the actress person who played the fay wray character got it spot on.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Lord of the Rings, have seen all the series and read all three books! The ring in particular is fascinating, as everything, the whole destiny of kingdoms, is centred around it!
The counter-part to this all-time classic would one involving a good ring, bound to a promise of marriage ...
Guest 652- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Clark Gable, gone with the Wind, Magnificent Seven, Yul Bryner and the King and I, Kathryn Grayson Showboat, Gregory Peck, Moby Dick
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I love far too many films to mention and in many ways it's easier to list the films I don't like, for instance the current fascination with comic book hero movies.What makes grown up people pay good money to see these movies baffles me.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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Bit of a generalisation there Marek. Comic books cover far far more than just Spider-man. I will say with some certainty that you will have watched and enjoyed some films without ever knowing that they are based on 'comic books'. 300, Men in Black, Road to Perdition, Red, The Losers and the brilliant animation Persepolis are all based on graphic novels.
Only this last Saturday my whole family had an enjoyable afternoon watching Green Lantern, a fun family film and not really any more 'silly' than James Bond or Indiana Jones.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Marek I know what you mean but I did like the Superman movies, Iron Man and Thor. I really can't stand the Batman movies while X-men and Spiderman just fail to hit the spot. Like most genre's there are good and bad.
Changing the subject to bad films and those that are over-rated.
For me the most over-rated film I have ever watched and the dullest and most boring is The English Patient.
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Lost in Translation, I want those two hours I wasted watching it back.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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no we're talking "the english patient" should have been put down in the first reel.
as for "sleepless in seattle" i was comatose in ilford within 10 minutes of it starting.
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I agree about The English Patient what a waste of time. I can watch Sleepless in Seattle over and over again, I suppose most men dislike it as it is a chick flick, not enough punchups for most of them
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I can also do without Bridget Jones
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I'm a girl!! And I loathe chick flicks AND beat em ups!! Favourite movies? A River Runs Through It, Into The West, Some Like It Hot, The Field, True Grit, all John Wayne/Ford movies, the Coen Brothers movies............
.............Fight Club, Reservoir Dogs, The Three Burials......., Dirty Harry (ok, that counts as beat em ups).......
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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reservoir dogs was particularly memorable.
it is always remembered for being blood thirsty, however the best bit was the team breakfast in the diner on the morning of the raid with the lengthy debate on tipping waitresses.
Guest 666- Registered: 25 Mar 2008
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If you had to pin me down to one film to take with me to watch forever it would have to be Pressberger's 'A Matter of Life and Death' with David Niven and Kim Hunter, sublime...
But there are so many I would also watch again and again, to name a few off the top of my head..'Animal House' with J.Belushi and 'Porkys' plus the 'Airplane' films with Leslie Nielson, I could go on forever..
One flew over the Cuckoos nest also mentioned here - superb
Oh Boy!, That'll be the day.........
A Matter of Life and Death is one of my favourites as well - timeless.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i must look that one up, to be honest i cannot remember it.
how about the late 60's and early 70's?
we had "butch cassidy", "the graduate" and "bonnie and clyde".
as a non sci fi fan i actually enjoyed "2001 a space odyssey" and "close encounters of the third kind".
