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[Terry May]

The Flintstones
Police Academy 7 : mission to moscow
Battlefield earth
showgirls
all martin lawrence films
scary movie
pearl harbour
gone in 60 seconds (remake)
birdy
exorcist 2



All undoubted classics the likes of which we may never see again!

Hopefully!

[Deuce Bigolo]

Police Academy(any number) a classic....you surely jest...I'll grant you all the films have their moments just like all comedy films

Deuce Bigolo
The Naked Gun
Flying High
Blazing Saddles

My best gong after a long time thinking

The Good,The Bad and the Ugly.....Spaghetti Westerns don't get any better
IMHO but I'm sure Woodgnome will disagree

cheers
B....OZ

[WillieBo]

I'm sorry, I wrongly transposed the phrase 'The Last Word wrote' to another part of the text when all I wanted was to copy your excellent method of introducing personal favourites by way of a list. And we do all like lists don't we ? The quotation is from The Mikado.

I came to praise your intention, not to bury it.

And yes, Jour de Fete is for me - marginally - Tati's best work. It is certainly my favourite with M. Hulot's Holiday a close second. As for Kurosawa's earlier work, I do enjoy 'The Seven Samurai', 'Throne of Blood' and 'Yojimbo'. But digging out some old taped films in the attic yesterday, I found a tape of 'Dersu Uzala' from 1975, which we watched last night and is extraordinary.

[WillieBo]

Absloutely woodgnome. In fact I should said 'watch on dvd/video' because we can't get a couple of the films in the versions we want. As I said, my list was written immediately as they sprang to mind. I'm just winding myself up for some more categorised lists, saddo that I am.........

[Holden MacGroyn]

I'd have to say

The Crow
Equilibrium
The Matrix (1st one only)
Midnight Express
Kes
Gregory's Girl
The Lost Boys
Highlander
The Breakfast Club
Subway
Betty Blue
Terminator (again only the 1st one)
A Chinese Ghost Story
Enter The Dragon
Vanilla Sky

...and that's just for starters.

[Ace]

Pope of Greenwich Village, Kes, Snatch, High Plains Drifter, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Scum, Long Good Friday and Trains,Planes and Automobiles are the ones at the top of my head. Im sure others will follow

[Ace]

................oh, and Diner is a MUST see also

[goldenballs]

'Nuts in May'.

[WillieBo]

There are some fantastic films in these lists. And there will be plenty more to come , I hope.

Just a few : 'Kes', 'Diner', 'Gregory's Girl', 'The Magnificent Ambersons', 'The Wages of Fear', 'Black Narcissus'. All classics.

More for the critical eye :

- Paths of Glory (Kubrick 1957)
- The White Sheik (Fellini 1952)
- Badlands (Malick 1973)
- The Fireman's Ball (Forman 1967)
- Rififi (Dassin 1954)
- The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel 1962)
- I Solit Ignoti (or Persons Unknown, Monicelli 1958)
- The Third Man (Reed 1949)
- Bullit (Yates 1968)
- Citizen Kane (Welles 1941) Yes, I do think it's brilliant.

Unfortunately there is more where this came from.

[Deuce Bigolo]

Ferris Buellers Day Off.....brilliantly quirky with great performances from all the cast

Planes,Trains & Automobiles...one of the few Steve Martin films I actually watched all the way through

Animal House....says it all about getting an education

cheers
B....OZ