Six favourite films (Movies)

[karlhenning]

Of the 'second trilogy', I'd really only be interested in watching the third movie.  But, I must admit, I'm in no hurry.

[DavidRoss]

Of the 'second trilogy', I'd really only be interested in watching the third movie.  But, I must admit, I'm in no hurry.

I saw them all and don't think you've missed a thing, Karl.  Better to spend your time with Charlie Wilson's War, or the hundredth repeat viewing of Casablanca!

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I saw them all and don't think you've missed a thing, Karl.  Better to spend your time with Charlie Wilson's War, or the hundredth repeat viewing of Casablanca!

I always liked the original trilogy, which the newer one doesn't surpass. I found the Phantom Menace terrible, at a first viewing. Attack of the Clones was an improvement, and the last instalment was the best. Then I watched the first two again to see if they were perhaps better than I at first thought. And they were.

But if you don't like it, you don't like it, whatever I say!

[Hector]

Can't agree here.  Lean was a superb director and his maturity and delicate handling of that story is why its an excellent film.  The leads were also terrific. 

He was a superb director but, like most, prone to the occasional bummer.

I've sat through 'This Happy Breed (1944)' twice in the past two years with ever-increasing annoyance.

Deirdre Irondrawers, sorry, Celia Johson, was in this one about a lower middle-class (the worse kind)family in the inter-War years. Co-starring Johnny Mills and the best Long John Silver there ever was, Robert Newton, and Stanley Baldwin, sorry, Holloway.

Another six;

'Seven' if only for the delicious thought of Gwynethh Pawltry's head in a box!

'The Proposition.'

'The Others.'

'Pans Labyrinth.'

'The Cook, the Thief, the Wife and her Lover'.  This is a reason why some of us find Helen Mirren so adorable!

'LA Confidential.'



Working against the General Strike in 1926, voting Baldwin...ugh! Lean and Coward, who wrote it, antagonised the majority of their audience

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

I always liked the original trilogy, which the newer one doesn't surpass. I found the Phantom Menace terrible, at a first viewing. Attack of the Clones was an improvement, and the last instalment was the best. Then I watched the first two again to see if they were perhaps better than I at first thought. And they were.

Haven't had a repeated look at the first 2. Also liked the 3rd most.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Haven't had a repeated look at the first 2. Also liked the 3rd most.

Btw - thanks for those two clips!

[Bogey]

I saw them all and don't think you've missed a thing, Karl.  Better to spend your time with Charlie Wilson's War, or the hundredth repeat viewing of Casablanca!

Or the 200th......

[MN Dave]

Or the 200th......

Or the first. 

[karlhenning]

Or the 200th......

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

[DavidRoss]

Or the 200th......

"I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."  Or would be, if it hadn't already begun. 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Gentlemen - I love Casablanca, too (the 'Marseillaise' scene is the absolute high point for me). So I'm quite cultured...

[DavidRoss]

Gentlemen - I love Casablanca, too (the 'Marseillaise' scene is the absolute high point for me). So I'm quite cultured...

I doubt that any of us who have enjoyed your thoughtful comments on a number of subjects would ever have imagined otherwise. 

[karlhenning]

So I'm quite cultured...

That was immediately apparent from your apprecition for the Irreplaceable Doodles 

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I doubt that any of us who have enjoyed your thoughtful comments on a number of subjects would ever have imagined otherwise. 

I was joking a bit, without sign-posting it by a smiley... But thanks for this vote of confidence all the same! 

That was immediately apparent from your apprecition for the Irreplaceable Doodles 

"Show me Irreplaceable Doodles, and I'll tell you who you are..."

[Haffner]

Of the 'second trilogy', I'd really only be interested in watching the third movie.  But, I must admit, I'm in no hurry.

I need alot more distance before trying the second trilogy (you know, another dozen or so years). I thought the first two in the '70's (especially Darth's paternal proclamation) were really good, but the Ewoks pretty much sunk the "Return..." for me (wasn't particularly wild about Yoda either, now that I think of it).

[MN Dave]

Star Wars 

The Empire Strikes Back was okay though.

[DavidRoss]

I need alot more distance before trying the second trilogy (you know, another dozen or so years). I thought the first two in the '70's (especially Darth's paternal proclamation) were really good, but the Ewoks pretty much sunk the "Return..." for me (wasn't particularly wild about Yoda either, now that I think of it).

Seconded!

[Renfield]

Re: Star Wars, I also think Episode III was the series' apex, in many ways.

Although interestingly, I've only seen it a mere four times, next to 8 for Episode II, 12 for Episode I and 11 for the original trilogy in its various incarnations (I almost always watch those three "en suite").

My second favourite is Episode V, and my least favourite is probably the Ewok half of Episode VI, or Episode II if I can only choose a whole movie. But as might have already become apparent, I really love the Star Wars films.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Re: Star Wars, I also think Episode III was the series' apex, in many ways.

Although interestingly, I've only seen it a mere four times, next to 8 for Episode II, 12 for Episode I and 11 for the original trilogy in its various incarnations (I almost always watch those three "en suite").

My second favourite is Episode V, and my least favourite is probably the Ewok half of Episode VI, or Episode II if I can only choose a whole movie. But as might have already become apparent, I really love the Star Wars films.

'The Empire Strikes Back' is for me the best of the bunch - it has an epic feel, humour and tremendous variety. And 'Darth's paternal proclamation' (AndyD., the poster formerly known as Haffner) astonished me the first time I saw it. Apart from having become part of popular culture, it remains one of the great moments in film, I think.

[Renfield]

'The Empire Strikes Back' is for me the best of the bunch - it has an epic feel, humour and tremendous variety. And 'Darth's paternal proclamation' (AndyD., the poster formerly known as Haffner) astonished me the first time I saw it. Apart from having become part of popular culture, it remains one of the great moments in film, I think.

Indeed.

The reason I put Revenge of the Sith first is that, as an overall conception from start to finish, it succeeds even more than ESB, in my view. But content-wise, perhaps "Empire" does go first.