The desert island: Movies

[Rockstar]

I can't pic just 5.

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

This seems to imply we are going to the same island. So go ahead and pick five you don't see already listed here. That way when everybody shows up to 'the island' we will have brought different movies.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by RickC Sniper

OK, my 5. I'm biased because I love westerns and war movies.


The Searchers

To Kill a Mockingbird

Shane

The Thin Red Line

Saving Private Ryan............. I just like this movie, ok?

Four of these things are just like the others;
Four of these things are kind of the same;
One of these things is not like the others;
Now it's time to play our game...time to play our game.

[kiwi_2005]

Enemy at the gates
Primer
Das Boot
Conan the Barbarian
One flew over the cuckoo's nest

[krashkart]

Stranded on a desert island and I have the option to watch five movies? Hmmm... you make this too easy for me Takeda. Now I have to think about it.

Restrepo

The Fifth Element

The Secret of Santa Vittoria - Entertaining film. Anthony Quinn FTW.

Unknown Title - I don't remember the title - it was a PBS special on the civil war in Spain during the thirties and fourties.

Die Hard - It will remind me that running over emptied crustacean husks is almost as bad as running over shattered glass on hard floor tile.

[HunterICX]

• Patton - George C Scott..nuff said
• The Longest Day - one of my all time favorite war movies
• Predator
• Fracture - Just love how Anthony Hopkins potrays someone who manipulates the Justice system.
• The Fountain

HunterICX

[nikimcbee]

Unknown Title - I don't remember the title - it was a PBS special on the civil war in Spain during the thirties and fourties.

Faulty Towers?

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Faulty Towers?

Don't mind Niki... he's from Barcelona.

[Jimbuna]

Couldn't even attempt to only name five but seeing as I collect DVD films and have most of what's already been posted I'll simply agree with other peoples choices on the majority of those listed.

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Faulty Towers?

Heh. Actually it was a PBS documentary about Pablo Picasso, and for the life of me I can't remember the name of it. It was interesting, but now that I think about it I'm not so sure it's a happy enough film for someone stranded on a desert island. Maybe I'll switch it out for something more inspirational: The Meaning of Life.

[Penguin]

Koyaanisqatsi (amazing pics)
Monty Python & the Holy Grail (obligatory MP film)
The Big Sleep (slightly before To Have And Have Not)
Live and Let Die (best Bond movie of all times)
The Longest Day (still one of the best war flics)

...and I also take the "Das Boot" mini-series with me, since there seem to be no restrictions on TV-series

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by Penguin

...and I also take the "Das Boot" mini-series with me, since there seem to be no restrictions on TV-series

No restrictions on TV-series?

In that case I'll add BSG, Firefly, and House (no desert island would be complete without a cranky doctor).

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by krashkart

No restrictions on TV-series?

In that case I'll add BSG, Firefly, and House (no desert island would be complete without a cranky doctor).

I said movie, not any DVD. A TV series is not a movie. Das Boot was made into a motion picture, and therefore permissible. BSG, Firefly and House were not.

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

I said movie, not any DVD. A TV series is not a movie. Das Boot was made into a motion picture, and therefore permissible. BSG, Firefly and House were not.

Aww dang. Well, I still have the five movies that I picked.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

Fracture - Just love how Anthony Hopkins potrays someone who manipulates the Justice system.

Interesting choice. I like that movie a lot, but it's not one I'd want to watch every week. I'll say the same about another favorite of mine, Changing Lanes.

But I have dozens of movies in that category, so I can't take them with me.

Originally Posted by Penguin

Live and Let Die (best Bond movie of all times)

I see our tastes differ widely, at least in some areas. The Longest Day came very close to making my list, as while I don't like war movies in general, I do love historically based movies.

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Interesting choice. I like that movie a lot, but it's not one I'd want to watch every week. I'll say the same about another favorite of mine, Changing Lanes.

But I have dozens of movies in that category, so I can't take them with me.

I doubt I would be able to rewatch any of the movies I listed every week
Also if you would ask me this question again of which 5 movies you would take with you to a island the next year I would probally change 3 out of the 5 I listed. Patton and The Longest Day will remain listed thought.

HunterICX