Three favourite movies

[TimeMachine]

  On 10/11/2023 at 12:00 AM, georgegeorgia said:

Yes best Australian movies Muriel's Weddings 

 

What was the one with the ladyboys in the Australian Desert dancing ? Forget the name now 

 

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Priscilla Queen of the dessert.  Australia unable to keep up with Britain and US with Movies. I would say Australia makes films and not movies.

[stupidfarang]

  On 10/10/2023 at 10:51 AM, scubascuba3 said:

He wasn't in Sicario

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Ahh my mistake, was thinking of Benicio Del Toro 

[rwill]

Baby's day out  "That's how you put out a campfire."

 

 

[ignore it]

So many grape movies:

 

Shaving Ryan’s Privates

Star Whores

Forrest Hump

 

Honorable Mentions:

Full Metal Jockstrap 

Top Gums

Roast Busters

Jeremiah's Johnson 

Drilling Miss Daisy

The Boner Collector

The Lizard of Oz.

Live Hard

Brokebutt Mountain

 

[newnative]

The Sound of Music

The Wizard of Oz

Titanic

Casablanca

[RayWright]

  On 10/11/2023 at 12:00 AM, georgegeorgia said:

 

What was the one with the ladyboys in the Australian Desert dancing ? Forget the name now 

 

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The movie I think you're referring to is, "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert". 

An Australian Road Movie staring Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce as Drag Queens and Terence Stamp as a transgender woman, on their bus called Priscilla.

Terence was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actor, but he, Tom Hanks ( Forrest Gump) and John Travolta (Pulp Fiction) were pipped by Hugh Grant in Four Weddings.

Did win the Oscar for best costume design though.

[georgegeorgia]

The Sound of music ????

Do Ray me 

[georgegeorgia]

Who remembers BABE?????

[thaibeachlovers]

  On 10/11/2023 at 12:00 AM, georgegeorgia said:

Yes best Australian movies Muriel's Weddings 

 

What was the one with the ladyboys in the Australian Desert dancing ? Forget the name now 

 

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Probably Priscilla, Queen of the desert.

 

Mentioning Oz made me remember one of the best movies I have seen- Picnic at Hanging Rock. A truly great movie, and the music was wonderful.

[kingstonkid]

Apocalypse now REDUX  The redux has a lot more scenes than the original

Altered states If you do not toke you should leave the theater thinking you had

Sergeant York - real world 

[Grusa]

Lawrence of Arabia

Bridge on the River Kwai

Those Magnificent Men (in their flying machines)

[EVENKEEL]

Platoon

Shawshank Redemption

Yes, that's only two but so many great films.

 

Easy Rider is a classic.

[NoshowJones]

  On 10/10/2023 at 4:38 AM, georgegeorgia said:

I must admit as I get older my patience level to watch movies has waned if that means anything.

 

But give me your 3 in any order favourite movies !

 

Mine are *The Departed 

     * No place for old men 

   * Transamerica

*  The Guardian ( security guard one in condo building)

*Falling Down 

 

Anyone was into teenage mutant ninja turtles???????

Who remembers ????"babe "?????

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To Hell and Back.  Audie Murphy.

The Charge at Feather River.  Guy Madison.

Flaming Star.  Elvis.

 

[thaibeachlovers]

First time I saw Barbarella I thought it was fantastic. Watched it again a while back and it was total junk.

[NoshowJones]

  On 10/10/2023 at 5:30 AM, georgegeorgia said:

They say Casablanca was the best movie of all time .

 

My late father was into   Westerns ,every Saturday he used to watch the midday western cowboy Indians  movie ,who were they John Wayne ,Gene Autrey,Roy ..,? Rogers??

 

Bonanza ?,I couldn't stand any western movies ,I don't think they make Westerns anymore ??? Surely no one here is into Western movies 

 

I wonder if they have been banned by the Woke crowd ??

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I'm into Western movies, but from the fifties and sixties, not modern ones.

[The Theory]

The Sting  1973

Aliens  1986

The good, the bad and the ugly  1966

Captain Ron  1992 

 

[moogradod]

  On 10/11/2023 at 3:09 AM, georgegeorgia said:

Who remembers BABE?????

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Of course we do. And the sequel "Babe: Pig in the City".

 

My wife and myself are collecting pigs from all over the world. We even own an original Haekelschwein (one of about 15000 worldwide all hand made by a German Granny alone). No idea how many we have all in all.

 

That's a 68 year old higher educated guy with a place of childhood in his chest. We (that includes my wife) love our pigs.

[Burma Bill]

  On 10/10/2023 at 4:38 AM, georgegeorgia said:

But give me your 3 in any order favourite movies !

 

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Slum Dog Millionaire

Richard Attenborough's "Ghandi"

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

 

[Dexxter]

I love Studio Ghibli animes.

I have so many movies that I rarely have time to watch any of them more than once. Exceptions are Blade Runner (original) and The Matrix (first one only). There are a few others I would watch again if I had the time.

[LarryLEB]

  On 10/10/2023 at 5:07 AM, The Fugitive said:

Wages of Fear (1953)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Blade Runner (1982)

 

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Yes!  The original Wages of Fear (directed by Clouzot).  What a great choice!

[LarryLEB]

  On 10/10/2023 at 5:29 AM, Felton Jarvis said:

1. Shawshank Redemption

2. The Green Mile

3. Desperate Living

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WOW!  Desperate Living.  We have another John Waters fan:  great!  Edith Massey (known to many as the "egg lady") as Queen Carlotta.  That was the only feature film Waters made without the great actor/actress Divine before Divine's death in 1988.

[LarryLEB]

First, what a great thread!  Someone mentioned Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone) with one of the all-time best musical scores by Ennio Morricone.  It certainly deserves to be highly rated.

 

So many great flicks were listed by other posters, including Mulholland Drive, The Big Lebowski, Unforgiven, True Romance, The Wages of Fear (1953).  The only poster who mentioned a movie on my all-time top-10 list mentioned Les Enfants du Paradis.

 

So difficult to choose only 3, but here goes:  Grave of the Fireflies (a Studio Ghibli film, 1988, directed by Isao Takahata), Tokyo Story (1953, Yasujiro Ozu ), and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974, Rainer Werner Fassbinder).  

 

Ozu is my favourite director of all time.

[FruitPudding]

In no particular order:

 

Heat

Pulp Fiction

There Will Be Blood

[cdemundo]

  On 10/11/2023 at 12:18 AM, Gandtee said:

Wages of Fear. Bitter Rice. African Queen.

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Watched African Queen recently and it did not seem dated at all to me.

Sometimes I go back and watch movies I liked in the past and they don't seem to have aged well.

But African Queen was great.

"Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we were put here to rise above".

[cdemundo]

For Sci-fi I like:

12 Monkeys or 5th Element since can only have 3

Blade Runner

Alien

[moogradod]

I cannot but add one more entry to my list above:

• Tampopo (The movie is even available on YouTube in full length (Japanese with English Subtitles)

It helps to enjoy the movie if you have been in Japan yourself, then you will understand many of the fine jokes better. But highly recommended.

[Felton Jarvis]

  On 10/11/2023 at 7:48 AM, LarryLEB said:

WOW!  Desperate Living.  We have another John Waters fan:  great!  Edith Massey (known to many as the "egg lady") as Queen Carlotta.  That was the only feature film Waters made without the great actor/actress Divine before Divine's death in 1988.

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Yep, I have all the Waters movies.  Truly fine trash cinema. ????

[Lancelot01]

  On 10/10/2023 at 4:45 AM, scubascuba3 said:

Out of interest are you and Bignok working as a relay team?

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Crikey , I thought everyone here was a fogy? Where are the classics, Gone With The Wind, Casablanca etc..

[OneMoreFarang]

 

[kwak250]

  On 10/11/2023 at 12:00 AM, georgegeorgia said:

 

What was the one with the ladyboys in the Australian Desert dancing ? Forget the name now 

 

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You sure that wasn't off a certain xxx site?

 

best Aussie movie i always loved is The Castle.