Six favourite films (Movies)

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

I turned 16 in 1977. I was more into books. The films I liked:

1. The Ten Commandments
2. Ben-Hur
3. Ludwig (Visconti)

And I must have seen some Hitchcock on tv...

[SonicMan46]

Let's try a new angle.  What were your six favorite films before you turned 16?

Bill - of course, that is a question of relativity! 

I turned 16 y/o in 1962, thus the sci-fi films from the '50s and movies from preceeding decades would be my only choices - earlier in this thread I posted a bunch of '30s & '40s flicks, may need to add a new list from the '50s & '60s which would cover this area of my life? 

[Hector]

Six more to die before seeing:

Rocky,

Rocky II,

Rocky III,

Rocky IV,

Rambo,

Rambo II.

[DavidRoss]

Let's try a new angle.  What were your six favorite films before you turned 16?

I grew up in towns with one cinema in an era before DVDs, VCRs, multiplexes, or even much in the way of movies on broadcast TV (before cable, too!).  I didn't begin to appreciate movies until I started college.

[Haffner]

Six more to die before seeing:

Rocky,

Rocky II,

Rocky III,

Rocky IV,

Rambo,

Rambo II.

I agree with all but Rocky I and III. The third was hokey, but there were a couple of inspiring moments within that made it worth seeing,at least to me.

[Danny]

Let's try a new angle.  What were your six favorite films before you turned 16?

1) Citizen Kane
2) Treasure of the Sierra Madre
3) Maltese Falcon
4) Lawrence of Arabia
5) Patton
6) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Discovered classic films at about 14 or so; before that particular age I suppose The Goonies would have topped the list.

[George]

I agree with all but Rocky I and III. The third was hokey, but there were a couple of inspiring moments within that made it worth seeing,at least to me.

You ain't so BAD!!! 

[Pierre]

What were your six favorite films before you turned 16?

For me, that was up to 1981.

Again, not in any particular order:

1. The Railway Children
2. Tales of Beatrix Potter (Royal Ballet)
3. Sleuth (Caine and Olivier, of course)
4. The Eagle Has Landed (Caine again)
5. A High Wind in Jamaica
6. King Kong (1933)
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[lisa needs braces]

The Seven Samurai

Vertigo

Dark City

Being John Malkovitch

The Godfather

Magnolia

[Bogey]

Dark City

Great call.

[Hector]

I agree with all but Rocky I and III. The third was hokey, but there were a couple of inspiring moments within that made it worth seeing,at least to me.

I think that you should read what I put, again.

Six more of those to avoid at all costs:

Any adaptation of a Jane Austen novel. There must be six! Six novels, six films, right?

Yesterdays great literature is todays soap!

[DavidRoss]

I think that you should read what I put, again.

Six more of those to avoid at all costs:

Any adaptation of a Jane Austen novel. There must be six! Six novels, six films, right?

Yesterdays great literature is todays soap!

Thanks for the reminder--terrific recent films include Ang Lee's gorgeous adaptation of Sense and Sensibility and the recent BBC productions of Pride and Prejudice and Emma.  So refreshing in comparison to the all the pretentious crap many try foisting on us as "art!"

[Bogey]

Thanks for the reminder--terrific recent films include Ang Lee's gorgeous adaptation of Sense and Sensibility and the recent BBC productions of Pride and Prejudice and Emma.  So refreshing in comparison to the all the pretentious crap many try foisting on us as "art!"

Just picked up two for the Mrs. from the BBC set for Mother's Day David.  She enjoyed them all.  Some less than previous adaptations (thogh P&P was the Firth one), but it was a fun way to spend Sunday nights watching Masterpiece Theater (though they have deleted the "Theater" from their title...and changed the intro music! 

[vandermolen]

Before I was 16:

West Side Story

El Cid

2001 A Space Odyssey (saw 8 times at cinema)

Where Eagles Dare

The Great Escape

Sink the Bismarck!

[Hector]

Thanks for the reminder--terrific recent films include Ang Lee's gorgeous adaptation of Sense and Sensibility and the recent BBC productions of Pride and Prejudice and Emma.  So refreshing in comparison to the all the pretentious crap many try foisting on us as "art!"

I squirm in my seat at the very thought.

The Beeb recently subjected us to a dramatisation of the 'Life.'

Guess what? Yeah, she was thwarted in love.

Tell yer wot, Jane, why don't you tell us about it?

However, if it ever goes outside these realms, try and get a look at 'Larkrise to Candleford' which was utterly beguiling and I normally hate costume-drama!

[Kullervo]

Embarassing list of childhood favorites:

Contact
GoldenEye
Star Wars Trilogy
Indiana Jones Trilogy
The Fifth Element

 

[DavidRoss]

I squirm in my seat at the very thought.

The Beeb recently subjected us to a dramatisation of the 'Life.'

Guess what? Yeah, she was thwarted in love.

Tell yer wot, Jane, why don't you tell us about it?

However, if it ever goes outside these realms, try and get a look at 'Larkrise to Candleford' which was utterly beguiling and I normally hate costume-drama!

Sounds as if you've not read her, except perhaps as a schoolboy too young to appreciate Ms Austen's droll comedies of manners.  The good adaptations--like those I mentioned above--are neither costume dramas nor romances, though they might pass as such with the particularly shallow and dull...neither of which you seem to be.

[Great Gable]

Possible list of six chilhood faves (I say possible - it's too far back in the memory bank to know for sure)

Random Harvest
Mask Of Dimitrios, The
Ice Cold In Alex
Matter Of Life And Death, A
Double Indemnity
Green for Danger

[Hector]

Sounds as if you've not read her, except perhaps as a schoolboy too young to appreciate Ms Austen's droll comedies of manners.  The good adaptations--like those I mentioned above--are neither costume dramas nor romances, though they might pass as such with the particularly shallow and dull...neither of which you seem to be.

True to an extent.

It is not so much the books that I object to but the never-ending filmed dramatisations!

Anyway, here's six more worth anyones time with one thing in common:

Bugsy Malone;

Midnight Express;

Alien;

Thelma and Louise;

Blade Runner;

Angela's Ashes.

[Shrunk]

Sounds as if you've not read her, except perhaps as a schoolboy too young to appreciate Ms Austen's droll comedies of manners.  The good adaptations--like those I mentioned above--are neither costume dramas nor romances, though they might pass as such with the particularly shallow and dull...neither of which you seem to be.

The best Jane Austen adaptation, bar none:



Clueless