The desert island: Movies

[Takeda Shingen]

So, you can only take 5 movies to the island with you. What are they? Why?

Mine:

Seven Samurai--Akira Kurosawa's epic 'eastern' western
A Fistful of Dollars--Arguably the greatest spaghetti westen ever made
The Big Lebowski--What I have always considered to the the Coen brothers' masterwork
Monty Python and the Holy Grail--The seminal work for the comedy troupe
The Thin Red Line--My favorite war epic of all time

[Dowly]

Tough one.

• Seven - Kevin Spacey is awesome as the killer
• Hurt Locker - Great cast, just makes me want to see it over and over again
• Gladiator - Ridley Scott + Hans Zimmer + Russel Crowe = Awesomeness
• Kingdom of Heaven - One of the best movies in the genre IMHO
• Alien - Just a great movie

[Rockstar]

The Great Race; it's an all time favorite of mine
A Boy and His Dog; survival guide
Monty Python's Holy Grail; could watch it over and over again
The Omega Man; would keep me sane knowing there are worse things than being stuck on a deserted island.
All of the Road Runner shows (on one reel of course). Simple good ol' fashion slapstick

[the_tyrant]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Tough one.

• Seven - Kevin Spacey is awesome as the killer
• Hurt Locker - Great cast, just makes me want to see it over and over again
• Gladiator - Ridley Scott + Hans Zimmer + Russel Crowe = Awesomeness
• Kingdom of Heaven - One of the best movies in the genre IMHO
• Alien - Just a great movie

I would take the same movies as Dowly, except i prefer Swordfish over the Hurt Locker

[Sailor Steve]

Movies I watch over and over, desert island or no.

Casablanca - the best movie ever made
Tora! Tora! Tora! - hey, I like what I like
Battle of Britain - for me the best airplane movie ever
The Three Musketeers (and The Four Musketeers) - the Lester movies are the best versions of the novel (I claim the right to include both because they do tell the complete story of the book, and because my copy has both in one slim case, so there )
The Duellists - a fairly unknown movie that I love with a passion.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Movies I watch over and over, desert island or no.

Casablanca - the best movie ever made
Tora! Tora! Tora! - hey, I like what I like
Battle of Britain - for me the best airplane movie ever
The Three Musketeers (and The Four Musketeers) - the Lester movies are the best versions of the novel (I claim the right to include both because they do tell the complete story of the book, and because my copy has both in one slim case, so there )
The Duellists - a fairly unknown movie that I love with a passion.

Cheater.

The hardest thing about this is narrowing it down to 5.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Cheater.

Well, I have this problem. Every so often I'm overwhelmed by a disire to watch the first movie up to the fight in the convent yard, simply because up to that point the movie follows the book almost perfectly. And then I can't stop untill I've watched both in their entirety. And they were originally filmed as one movie and then divided into two, and together they are only three hours, so for me it really is one.

So yeah, I can think up all sorts of justifications, real or not.

[nikimcbee]

Run Silent, Run Deep: Clark Gable, subs... what's not to love.
Blazing Saddles: mongo just a pawn in life.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Gotta love the music and all the funny quotes.
Planet of the Apes: Just watched it with the boy, A planet where apes evolved from men!
The Empire Strikes Back: Remember when SW movies didn't suck. Snow speeders, Boba Fett, nerf herders.

Honorable mention: monty Python HG (not on list cause everybody else mentioned it, any spaghetti western, Any old, classic war move, pre-1970. oh yeah, Das boot directors cut. (sorry, love RSRD more)

[ReFaN]

hmm, Tough.

Leon
Lion King
M*A*S*H
in the name of the king, a Dungeon siege tale
Titanic

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

oh yeah, Das boot directors cut.

The SHORT version? Eeewww!

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by ReFaN

Leon

I had six on my list, and that was the one I ended up leaving out. Great film.

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

The SHORT version? Eeewww!

I like the remastered sound


I forgot to add: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: I love all the characters.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

I like the remastered sound

Well, there is that.

[TLAM Strike]

The Empire Strikes Back
Aliens
The Hunt For Red October
Serenity
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Well, there is that.

My parents have a nice TV/audio set-up. So the first day they weren't home, I went over to watch Das Boot. I turned the volume up as loud as I could stand it, and durning the depth charge scenes, the pictures on the walls were bouncing/ vibrating!