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Your desert island movies
Topic Started: Aug 30 2013, 07:18 AM (344 Views)
JazzGuyy
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Your desert island movies may be quite different from what you consider to be the greatest movies. They are the movies you know you could watch over and over again and would entertain you and make the lonely time go by if you were stuck on a desert island with only a dozen or fewer movies available to you. Entertainment value is especially important here.

Here are my dozen (in no particular order and subject to change without notice):

The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Wizard of Oz
Duck Soup
Fighting Devil Dogs (gotta have one serial, at least)
Dumbo
The Seven Samurai
Ran
North by Northwest
Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
Dracula (1930)
12 Angry Men
Superman: The Movie


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Good thread idea, Jazzy.

My Top 12, in alphabetical order and subject to change:

Airplane!
Batman (1943)
Blade Runner
A Christmas Carol (1951)
The Dark Knight
The Empire Strikes Back
It's a Wonderful Life
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Star Wars
12 Angry Men
Watchmen
The Wolf Man (1941)

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panzer the great & terrible
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Ok, I'll play.

The Wizard of Oz
Only Angels Have Wings
Children of Paradise
Flash Gordon (aka Space Soldiers)
Notorious
The Outsiders (had to have a Coppola movie and this one is certainly rewatchable)
La Dolce Vita
Letter From an Unknown Woman
Intolerance
Meet Me in Saint Louis
Jules and Jim
Atlantic City

I picked them because they have so much content and wouldn't get tiresome over the long haul. These are not necessarily my favorite movies, though. Dumbo is certainly one of those, but I wouldn't want to see it every month. I didn't list any Japanese movies because I'm still researching them. So far my picks there would be The Bad Sleep Well by Kurosawa and Sansho the Bailiff by Mizoguchi, not to mention most of the Eclipse set Late Ozu, all winners except Early Spring. Polish movies, Knife in the Water and Wajda's trilogy of A Generation, Kanal, and Ashes and Diamonds.

Unfortunately I can't have cartoons on my desert island. Too programmed: marooned, I want ambiguity.
Edited by panzer the great & terrible, Sep 10 2013, 06:40 AM.
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Wow. Really hard decisions here, but here goes. Based on pure repeated entertainment value, my picks would probably be:

Casablanca
Animal Crackers
Intolerance
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Citizen Kane
Drums of Fu Manchu
A Hard Day's Night
The Lodger (1927)
Moonrise Kingdom
Ghostbusters
The Mark of Zorro (either version)
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
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Well, off the top of my head... A Hard Day's Night, Singin' in the Rain, Branaugh's Hamlet, King Kong, Seven Samurai, Notorious, The Music Box, Modern Times, Beauty and the Beast (both versions), John Waters' Hairspray, God's Little Acre.
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I was just thinking, a couple of days before Jazzy posted this thread, how I never participated in "desert island" lists because I found the concept so ludicrous. But, this one got me thinking about the films I seem to never get tired of repeat viewings. Predictably, none of them are very deep. I came up with 12, but given more time, I'm sure I could come up with more. Oh yeah, these are in no particular order:

1. THE LAST OF SHEILA
2. THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (1940)
3. YOU CAN'T CHEAT AN HONEST MAN
4. CHARLIE CHAN AT THE OPERA
5. THE THIN MAN
6. SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS
7. HOLIDAY INN
8. THE BLACK CAT (1934)
9. NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK
10. MONKEY BUSINESS (1931)
11. THE GHOST BREAKERS
12. AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
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mort bakaprevski
Sep 2 2013, 10:34 AM
I came up with 12, but given more time, I'm sure I could come up with more.
We all could, Morty.
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JazzGuyy
Sep 2 2013, 10:58 AM
mort bakaprevski
Sep 2 2013, 10:34 AM
I came up with 12, but given more time, I'm sure I could come up with more.
We all could, Morty.

Amen to that.
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Guess it's time to drag out The Last of Sheila again.
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Not going to think too much so I can be organic here because the list could change by the minute.

Batman (1943)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
North by Northwest (1959)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Wolfman (1941)
My favorite Brunette (1947)
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1996)
Ed Wood (1992)
Pee Wees Big Adventure (1985)
Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)
King Kong (1933)
Godzilla (1956)

Most of these I had on my iPad while I flew to Japan to kill time. Also watched Citizen Kane on the plane. That's a long flight.
Edited by AndyFish, Sep 9 2013, 07:08 PM.
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I don't know if it would change anything.... but what about those films you've seen before; accidentally come across on TV & simply can't turn off.

Saw one of those last nite:

EVE'S BAYOU - I know exactly what's gonna happen, but I want to watch it happen again.
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What more often happens to me anymore is catching a movie I know I've seen, but can't remember what happens.Posted Image
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Why is this man laughing?
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