2006-08-13 08:38:24 · 55 answers · asked by leslie c 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Alien 1.
Frankly, it is the only horror movie that scared the crap out of me.
"Leave the cat, leave the damned cat", I shrieked.
Then the alien showed up.
-Dio
2006-08-13 08:44:53 · answer #1 · answered by diogenese19348 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have sen many wonderful films but the one that stunned me the most was 2001: A Space Odyssey. I was 14 when it was first released, in 1968, and I saw it in its original Cinerama presentation in a cinema in London. You have to remember that this was a long way before Star Wars and anything remotely like the sci-fi films we have come to expect now. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, this was a revelation of design and sound. The first half an hour of the film is without dialogue and this is the only film I can remember where the audience clapped when it finished. I made it a personal ambition to see this film in a cinema, which is the only way to see it, once a year for every year after its release, and I managed to do that for 13 years! However, it gradually faded from the cinema circuit and was eventually released on video. It was also the first video I ever bought, when they cost £40 each! I still watch it now occassionally and there is something about it that transports me back to the first time I watched it.
2006-08-13 08:57:53 · answer #2 · answered by stingmyflesh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's A Wonderful Life with James Stewart & Donna Reid. Amazing film.
2006-08-13 09:11:01 · answer #3 · answered by robin_peel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Les Diaboliques, Alien, 2001 a Space Oddessy, The Producers, Black Rain (Japanese Film), The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Zatoichi, Crouching Tiger ....... probably Last Year in Marianbad. Pretentious -possibly, bring your own plot - probably, inventive - definitely.
BTW am now about to watch My Neighbour Totoro with the toddler again. Yes, it's a child's cartoon but fantastic.
2006-08-13 08:47:26 · answer #4 · answered by Angeline S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. That film is awesome. The Shawshank Redemption gets close as well
2006-08-13 09:30:30 · answer #5 · answered by chewinggum_2001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Gone With the Wind" - I had already read the book, went to see it with my best friend and her parents in an old-time theatre. To see that film on the big screen makes all the difference - I was twelve years old and to this day the best film I have ever seen.
2006-08-13 09:11:36 · answer #6 · answered by michael c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shaving Ryans Privates
2006-08-13 08:47:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pulp Fiction and The Godfather (but only Part 1)- the camera work, soundtrack and directing in both films are brilliant
2006-08-13 08:50:09 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Graduate.
Midnight cowboy.
Not a film in the sense of a one off, but the series "Band of Brothers"
2006-08-13 09:21:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Silence of the Lambs
and
The Breakfast Club
2006-08-13 08:44:16 · answer #10 · answered by golden girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that Stand By Me is an amazing film by Stephen King. It's not one of his gory films. It's a coming of age story, and the characters are well developed.
2006-08-13 08:42:16 · answer #11 · answered by johnnac 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋