Favorite Films (lists up to participating site members)

[lynn cates]

versatile

Hello Jeff. Thanks.

Yes, he was quite versatile.

Cheers.
LC

[Abby Normal]

Couple of additions:
Jacobs ladder for horror/monster/thriller
The Fall for fantasy-gorgeous movie

[Abby Normal]

Drama/action/suspense/adventure

Apocalypse Now
Fargo
The untouchables
Dead Again
JFK
Thunderball
The right stuff
The usual suspects
Gone with the the wind
Raiders of the lost ark
Body double
Hannibal ( I find it superior to silence of the lambs)
Casablanca
Body heat
North by northwest
LA confidential
The cats meow
Maltese falcon
Peggy sue got married
Blue velvet
Moonstruck
Enter the dragon
True Romance!!!!
The illusionist
Saturday night fever
Ben hur
The game
A river runs through it
taxi driver
Sound of music
Glengarry glen Ross
Trees lounge
After hours

[Steadmund Brand]

Drama/action/suspense/adventure

Apocalypse Now
Fargo
The untouchables
Dead Again
JFK
Thunderball
The right stuff
The usual suspects
Gone with the the wind
Raiders of the lost ark
Body double
Hannibal ( I find it superior to silence of the lambs)
Casablanca
Body heat
North by northwest
LA confidential
The cats meow
Maltese falcon
Peggy sue got married
Blue velvet
Moonstruck
Enter the dragon
True Romance!!!!
The illusionist
Saturday night fever
Ben hur
The game
A river runs through it
taxi driver
Sound of music
Glengarry glen Ross
Trees lounge
After hours

another great list.. this time you took one of my films that I was going to mention.. Body Double....far better film then most people remember... as most just remember the controversy about it when it came out and never actually stopped to watch it.. I think it is De Palma's best work (Scarface is WAY overrated!!!)

Steadmund Brand

[Abby Normal]

another great list.. this time you took one of my films that I was going to mention.. Body Double....far better film then most people remember... as most just remember the controversy about it when it came out and never actually stopped to watch it.. I think it is De Palma's best work (Scarface is WAY overrated!!!)

Steadmund Brand

Agree and agree. Pacinos overacting just takes me right out of this movie, it was a cliché as soon as it came out.

And since we are on the subject of overated movies, here's mine. I know im going to get me head ripped off, because a lot of these are beloved and considered classics but I just cant get through these films. Anyway, this could be fun!!

Most overated:
Pulp Fiction-Tarantino is a dick and totally overated director-the only good thing he ever did was write True Romance. and maybe Resevoir Dogs.
ET (For Extreme Tripe)
The Big Chill-The Big Bummer
A beautiful mind-A Beautiful mess. Russel Crowe and Jennifer connally as scientists-yeah right!
Do the right thing-Do the Wrong Thing (in which everyone does)
Pretty Woman-Pretty Awful, and she's not even pretty.
Bonnie and Clyde-Bonnie and Warren Beatty
Halloween-Boooooooring
Night of the living Dead-even more boring
Avatar-why was this movie a big deal again?

Flak jacket on-fire away. : )

[Steadmund Brand]

How about a list of the Best Boxing films-- again in no order

1-Requiem For A Heavyweight (Almost did not include as it really is NOT a film about boxing at all)
2- Fat City
3-the Prizefighter (Tim Conway Don Knotts comedy.. actually kind of funny!!)
4- Body and Soul ( 1947 version)
5- Diggstown
6- Gentleman Jim ( gotta love Flynn)
7- Rocky (original only!!)
8- The Harder They Fall (dark film, and Bogarts last movie!!)
9- Raging Bull
10- Sombody up there Likes Me ( actually not great film.. but always great watching a young Paul Newman)
11- the Champ ( 1931 version)
12-The Great White Hope


Steadmund Brand

[sdreid]

My favorite boxing film is The Set-Up from 1949.

[Mayerling]

How about a list of the Best Boxing films-- again in no order

1-Requiem For A Heavyweight (Almost did not include as it really is NOT a film about boxing at all)
2- Fat City
3-the Prizefighter (Tim Conway Don Knotts comedy.. actually kind of funny!!)
4- Body and Soul ( 1947 version)
5- Diggstown
6- Gentleman Jim ( gotta love Flynn)
7- Rocky (original only!!)
8- The Harder They Fall (dark film, and Bogarts last movie!!)
9- Raging Bull
10- Sombody up there Likes Me ( actually not great film.. but always great watching a young Paul Newman)
11- the Champ ( 1931 version)
12-The Great White Hope


Steadmund Brand

01. Champion (Kirk Douglas's first really big lead role)
02. The Set-Up (a rare film with Robert Ryan as the good guy - by the way he was a very good amateur boxer in real life)
03. Rocky
04. Gentleman Jim (Dandy Flynn, I agree, but Ward Bond's final scene steals the film as Sullivan gives Corbett the belt.)
05. The Great White Hope (When Darth Vadar was just Mr. Jones - but still a terrific actor as (really) Jack Johnson).
06. Cinderella Man (Crouse as James Braddock)
07. Requiem For a Heavyweight
08. The Harder They Fall (Bogie's last film - with a rising Steiger - and a take on the Primo Canera tragedy.)
09. Battling Butler (Buster as a millionaire trying to prove his manhood in the ring - he sometimes claimed it was his favorite film.)
10. Rocky III (not a great film, but I was impressed by the reality of Mr. T as a boxer in the initial bout with Stallone - watch it. You see a professional beat the pants off a movie star.)

Honorable mention: 11) The Champ (Wallace Beery)
12) City Lights (Chaplin's great fight in the ring.)
13) Any Old Port (Stan's Laurel bout with Walter Long)

Unfortunately I still have not seen Fat City or Million Dollar Baby, both of which are considered first rate. But I can't judge them.

[Robert]

Not boxing films, but a couple of entertaining fights :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrzdFT_vuUQ

With this one, go from 1 hour 19 mins :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5MtiQ1pjXc

McGoohan seems very attached to his cigarette!

[sdreid]

Boxing and baseball fans are quite fortunate that there are many good films about their sport. My motorsports film list only had five on it because that's about all that were any good.

Regarding films with a memorable boxing scene - The Quiet Man.

[Dupplin Muir]

I don't watch many films but here are some I've liked - in no particular order.

- Forbidden Planet
- Tora.Tora, Tora
- The Third Man - far superior to Citizen Kane in my opinion
- Les Diaboliques - a psychological thriller with a spooky twist at the end
- The Warriors - Xenophon in New York!
- Murder by Decree - Christopher Plummer makes a surprisingly good Holmes
- Predator - 'There's something out there and it ain't no man...we're all gonna die'
- The Usual Suspects
- Arlington Road

[lynn cates]

theme

Hello Duplin. Music in "The Third Man" is certainly better.

Cheers.
LC

[lynn cates]

Anton Karas

Hello (again) Dupplin. You inspired me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8jN1treRKQ

Cheers.
LC

[DVV]

- Les Diaboliques - a psychological thriller with a spooky twist at the end

Excellent

[Robert]

Anton Karas - fantastically skilful.