and how old was u when u saw it
2006-11-15 04:40:38 · 30 answers · asked by clyde w 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Zulu, starring Michael Caine and Stanley Baker and a host of others including, of course, a lot of Zulus!
I must have been 13 when I first saw this, and I saw it as often as I could even before the age of the video and the DVD.
It is an excellent ensemble piece, with a strong narrative, powerful camerawork, humour and good music. Everything combines together, and nothing is wasted. The pace is exactly right. The introductory narrative (Richard Burton's voice) leads you directly into the action, and it hardly seems five minutes before you hear the closing narrative about how many VCs (Victoria Cross medals) were handed out after the battle.
2006-11-15 04:47:44 · answer #1 · answered by PhD 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay this may sound pretentious, but Federico Fellini's "8 1/12" - it's just stylish and beautiful and funny and profound and just amazing. I saw it when I was 19 years old and it totally changed my ideas about what film could do.
I also like:
Apocalypse Now (Coppola) ... best anti-war film EVER
Rebecca (Hitchcock) ... Creepy and romantic
Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)... The kid in that is so great, so sad...
Raiders of the Lost Ark - because it's just a humdinger!
and
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee) - saddest film ever made, and also one of the most beautiful.
Yep, that's my picks.
:D
2006-11-17 02:28:24 · answer #2 · answered by Greta B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really can't pick just ONE...there are so many excellent ones! But if I had to take one on a desert island, it'd be "The Night of The Iguana", dir. John Huston, starring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr and Sue Lyon. (1964)
First saw it when I was around 28 and it changed my view of life!
It's the beautiful and sad story of a broken man, running from his addiction to booze and young women, who ends up with a tour bus full of old ladies from a Baptist college, at an inn in Mexico, run by the lusty widow of his best friend. He has a nervous breakdown and is helped through it by a spinster from Nantucket and her 92-year-old poet grandfather. It's REALLY hard to explain!
Probably the best play by Tennessee Williams, too.
2006-11-15 13:03:32 · answer #3 · answered by Gwynneth Of Olwen 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My favorite movie would have to be edward Scissors hands or The crow (the first one) i love edward scissor hands because he just happened to be the sweetest artistic guy that happen to be the born with scissors fpr his hand which made everyone think he was a monster....*tear* it had the whole beauty and the beast complex in it. plus the crow was the perfect sorrow/avenger movie....totally classics i think i was around 9 or ten when i saw both of them
2006-11-15 14:44:53 · answer #4 · answered by *Punk&Disorderly* 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Lion King.
Without a doubt.
It has everything: humour, love, action, scary stuff, good songs....amazing film.
Some Like It Hot does come a close second tho! Jack Lemmon is ace! xD
2006-11-15 13:43:45 · answer #5 · answered by *Kate* 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Big Friendly Giant (The B F G). I was 7 years old.
2006-11-15 13:26:33 · answer #6 · answered by Bubbles24 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carry On Cowboy. Great british lavatorial humour. First saw it about 1969. I would have been 14.
2006-11-15 12:49:12 · answer #7 · answered by The BudMiester 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Has to be Gladiator for me. The scene where he removes his gladiator helmet for Commodus is brill. Not sure how old I was when I first saw it, but it was my first DVD purchase!
Another one I dont own but can watch anytime its on telly was one I first saw as a teenager - Rita, Sue & Bob too! Ace!
2006-11-16 21:05:19 · answer #8 · answered by CrunchyCookies...Leeds...x 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Above the Rim. Staring tupac amoungst others. Film about basketball and gangsters. Like the soundtack and reminds me of being young......er.
2006-11-15 12:44:36 · answer #9 · answered by Mike A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My all time favourite is Forrest Gump-a simple story for ordinary people handling the most important life lessons.
And That's all I have to say about that
2006-11-15 16:09:24 · answer #10 · answered by Senka M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋