“Tora,Tora,Tora
Gladiator,
Godfather I,
Heat,
The Italian Job ( original version).”

“What type of films are you thinking of?

My favourite comedy film is Life of Brian. I can (have) watch that over and over again and still find new bits to laugh at.

A good animal/weepy one is Fly Away Home about a girl who help some orphaned Canada Geese. Sounds boring but I don't want to give the game away by telling you too much. It's lovely!

Another amusing film is Galaxy Quest. A bit of a take off on Star Trek where the has-been cast are mistaken by an alien race for the real thing and kidnapped to help them against invaders.

I also like Memento about a man with memory loss looking for his wife's killer. It runs 'backwards' as it were and keeps going back to an earlier moment in time and the end/beginning is quite a shock.

One more? Well my favourite genre is horror - modern rather than old school - so anything where people are thrown into a pit of man eating zombies suits me.”

“Looking at Film4 listings to try and remember that really good horror film they had on recently and saw:

Brazil - really good

Night at the Museum (I assume you will be watching with children)

The Final Destination fims are good for horror.

Sixth Sense

The Railway Children (with Jenny Augtter - again for the kids)”

“g69 - No weepies this weekend ... not keen on horror ... no saw or hostel or demons or exorcisms... I get too scared

I have got the monty python box set which needs to come out from the gas cupboard tho...

I like
Taken
Limitless
Airplane
Blazing saddles
Zorro”

“Harry
Gladiator ... not keen on Russell Crowe but he makes this film...”

“bt,
It's a great film. I like Russell Crowe ( not sexually ), he seems to be a proper man's man, much like Oliver Reed, I reckon both together would have been good company on a lads night out.

Just glad nobody's mentioned Star Wars, yawn.”

“I like Airplane. Saw it with my cousin just after it was released on a visit to Canada.

Fly Away Home isn't too weepy and it has a good ending.

Horror films don't scare me and sometimes I get angry at their stupidity at trying to escape especially when they are running through a forest at the dead of night. How can the baddie always see them in the pitch black and end up in front of them?

I did see Loved Ones the other night (Film4) which was more realistic so slightly more scary. AND it had a pit with starving, man-eating almost-zombies in.”

“In no particular order:

Amelie
Memento (good call Ghost)
Blues Brothers
Withnail & I
Rocky Horror Picture Show

That's what I fancy today. Tomorrow will be different. 'Life of Brian' of course, 'Edward Scissorhands' and many of the Burton/Depp collection.

What do we think about 'The Shawshank Redemption'? I really like it but know many intelligent people who deride it and I worry I'm missing something. The reason being, I liked 'The De Vinci Code' even when most people hated it, but then read other Dan Brown novels and realised how bad they are.

I don't want to sound like I'm easily influenced by others but I sometimes miss stuff that needs pointing out.

So, 'Shawshank' - poo or marvy?”

“Sorry for the double post but I have to say, I cannot BEAR horror films, especially zombies and screaming and tearing flesh... GAH!

I had to close my eyes during 'Jurassic Park' at times - total wimp!

ghostwriter - one of my friends isn't bothered by this kind of thing because, in her view, it's not real or realistic so it's not scary. I tend to close my eyes because I'm scared which, of course makes it worse because my imagination takes over.

I'm fascinated to know how you can look at these images, hear the screams (and sometimes rewind them to look again) and not be scared. What is the pleasure in it? I'm not criticising you, I'm genuinely intrigued.”

“jenoh

Like your friend I know it's not real or realistic. I'd love to discuss this further with you but it will just leave me open to nasty comments from some of the pond life that post on here. It was bad enough when I said that I'd picked up a size 20 item instead of a size 12 in M&S.

It doesn't bother me, but it's not fair on the moderators and why should I give those people the satisfaction?

HOWEVER, horror is a very popular genre so I'm not the only one out there who enjoys it.”

“I love horror movies! Absolutely adore the old Universal classics - they're being released on Blu Ray now which is excellent!”

“Thank you facedontfit! I knew I wasn't the only one out here to like them.

I'm not interested in the old ones though. Hitchcock's Psycho is supposed to be a classic but in the shower scene, why was there no blood?

I have a thing about films/TV programmes making some sort of sense and get really annoyed when they don't. Mama Mia was completely spoiled for me by the age discrepencies. The film producers were praised by using people of the right age for the story. The flash backs of Meryl Streep with the three potential fathers were all around the late 1960's/early 1970's. They said she was scared to go back to her mother when she found she was pregnant so stayed in Greece, the film was set in the present BUT the daughter was only about 20 years old. If Streep had had her baby in her late teens then by now the daughter would have been 40 plus. If the daughter was in her 20's then Streep would only have been 40.

To make sense the girl should have been her grand daughter looking for her grand father.”

“Usual Suspects... Er... Yeah.”

“I can`t think of many really great films. Not that there hasn`t been any, just that I`ve a rotten memory until I`m reminded.
However...

Life of Brian....my dog`s named Brian after the film...long story I`ll tell it one day.
E.T... Great family film IMO.

Then there was a brilliant horror/comedy thatI think was called Soldier Dogs but I`m probably wrong. About some SAS somewhere in Scotland that come across a pack of werewolves. Very gory but really funny.

Can`t think of any more at the moment but no doubt I will later.”

“flossy

Dog Soldiers. Yes I saw that too.

I must admit I like the horror films which are a bit tongue in cheek. Like Final Destination when there are so many incidents that could kill them but don't.”

“Somewhere In Time (Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour)
Love Story
Avatar
The Aristocats (if watching with the kids)
The Sting”

“Steel Magnolias; P.S. I Love You ; Autumn In New York; Dying Young; Sophie's Choice...should keep you smiling all the way to the shrink. Enjoy!”

“The Last Snows Of Spring (just make sure you have plenty of hankies) instead of The Aristocats if you're watching with hubby. Saw it in the 70's so probably a bit dated now but a very sad movie.”

“Can`t be doing with weepies. Although I have been known to cry at a film it`s rarely at the parts I`m supposed to.
I can`t stand Danielle Steel type romances.

Give me a good psychological thriller any day.”

“flossy

Have you seen Memento? I bet you'd like it as it's very cleaver.

Agree with you on weepies - can't stand them. I described Fly Away Home as a weepie but thinking about it, it isn't. The film has a lovely ending and you want to cry because the good guys (Canada Geese) win in such a lovely way.

And while we are talking film

1. Why does the dog/cat/rabbit always get killed?
2. Why do Americans never eat their breakfasts? The 'mom' spends ages cooking breakfast, pours the orange juice into the glasses, scrapes the scrambled egg onto the plates, the kids sit down to eat it just as the school bus arrives outside and jump up from the table, grab their stuff and run out. Then mom happily collects all the uneaten food and scrapes it into the bin.”

“g69,

No I don`t think I haveseen that film. I`ve just read a book that sounds very similar but ofcourse I can`t remember the title :-(

Another thing that annoys me in films...why does the victim always walk, alone, into the dark room/ cellar/forest.
They always give the baddie clues to let him know they`re onto him and then wonder why they end up either beaten up or dead.”

“flossy

Then watch it - Memento that is. It starts at the end and you see so much then it leaps backwards in steps to replicate how the lead character feels with his short term memory loss.

He tattoos reminders to himself all over his body, which links to the forum on tattoos. Spooky!

I get annoyed at people in films who describe someone to a police artist who is then able to draw a picture of the suspect that almost looks like a photograph.

And people who can remember what a neighbour that they hadn't seen since they were 5 years old looked like when asked 40 years later.

Or is it just me who's bad at facial recognition???”

“What also annoys me is when the victim is being chased by the killer and manages to knock the killer out. The victim never finishes the killer off and they don't even pick up their weapon so when they stand there getting their breath back (or carry on running) the killer comesback to life, grabs their weapon which is lying on the floor next to them, and kils the victim.”

“g69,

Maybe we should get our heads together and write a really good, true to life film script.”

“The Green Mile - Brilliant performances by all involved.”

“flossy

Yes, full of monsters and zombies (in pits) and mad killers.

We will make it really realistic.”

“CabinetMerlot

The 'hero' (Michael Clarke Duncan) has just died aged 54 so a tribute to him.”

“jz

Have you decided on the films that you are going to watch then?”

“g69,

Yeah, really realistic !

Actually if you could see some of my customers first thing in a morning, the zombies wouldn`t be a problem ;-)”

“flossy

We are on to a winner here.

A horror movie set in a pound shop.

The cast roll out of bed, pull on their trakkies and leave home without preparing any breakfast.

They stagger to the shops.

They enter the pound shop. The lights go off but they aren't alone and although they know that the baddie is behind aisle 3, they don't let him know that they know.

He attacks them holding a set of plastic coat hangers and a packet of ball point pens. They fight back, knock him to the ground and remove the coat hangers and pens from his grasp.

They open a cellar door and throw him into a pit full of man eating zombies and watch him being eaten.

The power failure is fixed, they take a basket and continue shopping for giant sized packets of crisps, sweets, biscuits and bottles of fizzy pop which they take home and eat for their breakfast.”

“forgot one piece.

They have a dog. They take it to the shops, tie it up outside and it's still there when they leave and they take it back home again.”

“Sounds like a regular thursday morning to me. You forgot the bit about not getting a wash or combing the hair.
Oh they have three kids that they screech at constantly.
Exchange fizzy pop for energy drinks and you`re spot on.”

“watched a horror film from last night. Cute white dog belonging to the heroine - killed. First bad man stabbed but comes back to life.

At least when the heroine shot the second bad man she made a good job of it, especially where she aimed the first shot!”

“Didn't make it to blockbuster. Watched Albatross and shallow hall ... both had laugh out loud moments

I am going to hire memento tho and give it a whirl”