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  1. gembo
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    Watched this film with family last night. Went down well with 12 year old and 16 year old, if anyone is looking for a holiday family movie. I can lend it to you. Features a lot of bicycles in the early stages. Jim Carrey uses one to try to beat his fake wife to work. He has the saddle two foot too low. They are all those nice USA curved top tube types. I am guessing the real place it is set in - model village called Seaside in the Florida panhandle has a good deal of cycling around going on.

    Directed by Peter Weir who also made Witness and written by Andrew Niccol who went on to Gattacca ( darker).

    Posted 7 years ago #

  2. rider73
    Member

    I quite like that film, and also Gattacca is one of my favorite movies!

    Posted 7 years ago #

  3. Roibeard
    Member

    Much better than EdTV (released around the same time)...

    Robert

    Posted 7 years ago #

  4. jdanielp
    Member

    I should really rewatch this at some point since I have owned it on DVD for years, yet have still only seen it once when it was released at the cineama back in 1998.

    Gattaca is one of my favourite SF films. I never did see EdTV - that was way before Matthew's 'McConaissance'...

    Posted 7 years ago #

  5. gembo
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    The Truman show gets 8.1/10 on IMDB, 90% rotten toms. That means it is in the category Universal Acclaim.

    Whilst they were waiting to get Carrey, Weir got Niccol to rewrite it as sunnier.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  6. PS
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    Gattacca's got terrific production design. The cars in it are exactly what I want electric cars to be - retro 1950s/1960s style (esp Citroen DSs), and making that whiny humming noise that means they don't sneak up on you unannounced.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  7. Stickman
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    Jim Carrey is brilliant in the two films I've seen him in: The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  8. minus six
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    See also "Pleasantville" and "Dark City"

    as with Truman Show, all three films released same year.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  9. rider73
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    @PS - too right! although i think it will more likely be square box electric cars with a big 'G' on the side of them :(

    Posted 7 years ago #

  10. jdanielp
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    @bax those are two of my top ten favourite films of all time (Dark City is number one despite having briefly been displaced by Donnie Darko until it was tarnished with the release of the unfortunate Director's Cut). Movie night?!

    Posted 7 years ago #

  11. minus six
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    top ten favourite films of all time

    interesting topic... ever-changing, natch..

    top ten a bit ambitious? lets go top seven

    ok for now i'd say:

    1) Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

    2) The Turin Horse

    3) The Ascent

    4) Stalker

    5) Werckmeister Harmonies

    6) Come and See

    7) Satantango

    with honourable mention to

    A Field in England

    Posted 7 years ago #

  12. gembo
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    Bax-San, if you like A Field In England you might like the 1998 Vincent Ward movie The Navigator

    Posted 7 years ago #

  13. minus six
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    @gembo

    will certainly take that under advisement

    Navigator, Navigator rise up and be strong
    The morning is here and there's work to be done.
    Take your pick and your shovel and the bold dynamite
    For to shift a few tons of this earthly delight

    Posted 7 years ago #

  14. minus six
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    forgot to include this one

    the ugly swans

    Konstantin Lopushanskiy, in tha house

    Posted 7 years ago #

  15. gembo
    Member

    @bax

    They never drank water
    But whiskey by pints
    And the shanty towns rang
    With their songs and their fights

    CCE curated a trip to the Ratho Climbing Centre a few years back on the resurfaced towpath and I treated the pArticipamts to these very verses and chorus. Restrained myself from following up with The Band Played The Flowers of the Forest

    However, it is the Billy Connolly ditty that springs to mind

    John Stonehouse went swimming
    Cause his life was a failure
    He went in at Miami
    And came out at Australia

    Obviously The Navigator is a medieval odyssey

    Posted 7 years ago #

  16. jdanielp
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    @bax that is an impressively high-brow top seven! I've only seen Stalker from your list (fairly recently) and I didn't get on all that well with it I'm afraid to say.

    My current seven are all relatively 'mainstream' English language films released within my (adult) lifetime, but I can assure you that there's diversity bubbling under!

    The Wrong Trousers
    Dark City
    Pleasantville
    Donnie Darko
    United 93
    Rabbit Hole
    I, Daniel Blake

    (listed in chronological order)

    Posted 7 years ago #

  17. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Not only have I never seen any of @bax's films I've never even heard of any of them. That said, here are a number of films I can remember watching more than once;

    1) Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Cyrano de Bergerac. Faithful to the text, which is genius and therefore so is the film.
    2) Henry Hathaway's True Grit. I want to be all of the characters.
    3) Das Boot. The encounter with Thomson is the essence of my life in one minute.
    4) To Kill a Mockingbird. I cry at an unexpected point.
    5) Die Hard. You enjoyed it too.
    6) The Wizard of Oz. Crystalline perfection with mad music.
    7) Être et avoir. I cry at the expected point.
    8) Blade Runner. Tears in the rain, dude.
    9) Silent Running. A film that feels like I feel all the time.
    10) The Blues Brothers. A film that feels like I'd like to feel all the time.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  18. gembo
    Member

    @iwrats, nice list, do you feel like Huey, duey and luey?

    On a Blues Bothers spin off LP Dan Ackroyd as Elwood, introduces Belushi as Jake who is about to give a great version of Randy Newman's Guilty, as follows -

    And now my brother Jake would like to become increasingly intimate with you. Look, he's taking his coat off. When I put this dude to bed at night, he don't take his coat off.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  19. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Cheers @gembo. Really opened up there, huh?

    Do I feel like Huey, Duey and Luey? When he tells them how to dig a grave, a little bit yes.

    Can you spot the common theme to my ten films with your professional antennae?

    Posted 7 years ago #

  20. gembo
    Member

    @iwrats They are all going on a journey. However, that might apply to @bax's list too.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  21. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    I knew you would not fail me. Journeys. And the contradictions of masculinity.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  22. Arellcat
    Moderator

    Silent Running made a big impression on me when I was young. I haven't watched it for at least 20 years because it makes me so sad.

    I'm not much of a film connoisseur, but some of my favourites are:

    Rollerball. Brutal and futile distopian futurism. John Beck did most of his own rollerskating stunts. Speedball on the Atari was a homage, and I played it for hours and hours.
    The Running Man. Wisecracking, distopian futurism fluff.
    Paul. Slovenly alien meets English sci-fi nerds. Pegg and Frost were old hands while Kristen Wiig hadn't yet hit the big time.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  23. gembo
    Member

    I like a lot of old black and white films and older films with some colour

    double Indemnity
    The Maltese Falcon
    His girl Friday
    A bout de soufflé
    Derzu Usala (kurosawa's Russian movie)
    Chinatown
    Singing in the rain
    And probably because I am watching top of the lake
    The Piano

    Probably still also go with Raging Bull
    Favourite cowboy is probably still Rio Bravo
    For personal reasons
    The Big Lebowski

    Posted 7 years ago #

  24. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @gembo

    Nearly went with Rio Bravo. Big Lebowski should have been there, though that's just like, my opinion, man.

    Duck Soup, Jour de fête....Laurel and Hardy's The Music Box...

    @Arrelcat

    Unwise to watch Silent Running alone. Support group required. Should really come with a warning - it is powerful stuff.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  25. gembo
    Member

    Septober, Octember, Nowonder

    I like Stan's months of the year.

    Lighting his cigar with his thumb

    Trying to sell Fresh Fish at the docks.

    Jour de Fete lovely.

    Duck Soup quackers.

    Silent Running is existential I guess?

    Posted 7 years ago #

  26. jdanielp
    Member

    On the subject of existential films, I enjoyed A Ghost Story at the cinema at the weekend. It's a slow burner.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  27. PS
    Member

    Sometimes there's a man. And I'm taking about the Dude here. The Big Lebowski is so far ahead in my favourite films list that it is out of sight. Completely unspoiled.

    Left trailing in its wake:
    Chinatown
    Withnail & I
    Rushmore
    The Third Man
    Master and Commander
    The Elephant Man
    There Will Be Blood

    And, at the risk of over-Coening it, I'd probably throw in The Hudsucker Proxy and Miller's Crossing ahead of old favourites like The Sting and one of Clint's spaghetti things.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  28. jdanielp
    Member

    I'm feeling bad about not having a Coen Brothers film in my list now. It would be one of The Hudsucker Proxy, No Country For Old Men and True Grit if I had to pick one.

    Rushmore is the closest to my top seven of anybody else's film picks so far (of those that I have actually seen), but I have a growing list to look out for on iPlayer...

    Posted 7 years ago #

  29. I were right about that saddle
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    Withnail & I. Good pick. Elemental like the Big Lebowski. I saw a guy with a plastic bag tied round his foot just yesterday and immediately had a flashback.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  30. PS
    Member

    No trip in the vicinity of the Lakes is complete without "Are you the farmer?" being directed at a passing agricultural vehicle.

    Posted 7 years ago #

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