Films you've watched again and again

[Tim Hall]

Yup. Until this moment it had entirely escaped my notice that there was a recent remake of Brighton Rock. How bad is it?

"Not terrible". A sight better than, for example, Get Carter with Stallone. (I see you mention that turgid pile of dung in a later posting)

 

[Haitch]

it's just statistically likely that a given remake will be terrible

Toni Erdmann is a German film released last year that won shelfloads of awards and accolades, was entered for the Oscars and touted all over this bit of the Continent as the rebirth of comic cinema, and German comic cinema to boot. It's cringeworthily dire in every respect. I've seen it twice, so can't enter it for this thread. The remake will star Jack Nicholson. And will be better.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0uwi5EPnpA

 

[threebikesmcginty]

In fact I think it's less interesting than that. Most Hollywood movies are just pretty bad, and a lot of them are remakes of very good movies, so it's just statistically likely that a given remake will be terrible.

One remake I thought was pretty good was Pyscho, it's almost a frame by fame re-shoot, maybe that's why it is ok because it doesn't try and outdo or rewrite. On that basis you could also say that it's pointless. It is watchable though but ultimately given a choice of one or the other I'd go for the original. Says it all...

 

[theclaud]

One remake I thought was pretty good was Pyscho, it's almost a frame by fame re-shoot, maybe that's why it is ok because it doesn't try and outdo or rewrite. On that basis you could also say that it's pointless. It is watchable though but ultimately given a choice of one or the other I'd go for the original. Says it all...

Interesting - by way of experiment at least, which is the only point I can think of. I've just looked it up - I didn't know it was Gus Van Sant. I see it got panned.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

And how could I omit The Railway Children ? Makes me cry every time.

 

[smutchin]

Yeah I've got a Vol 1 and 2 of The Carl Stalling Project.

I may have listened to those CDs a few times myself...

 

[mikeymustard]

Not all of these are brilliant, but I'm taking the thread title literally...

Singin' in the Rain
North by Northwest
Don't Look Now
The Court Jester
Wonder Man
The Happiest Days of Your Life
Murder, She Said
The Ladykillers
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Sleepers
A Night at the Opera
E.T.
Jurassic Park
The Princess Bride
Young Frankenstein
The Green Man
Two-Way Stretch
The Owl & the Pussycat
For Pete's Sake
What's Up Doc
Funny Girl
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
High Society
Brighton Rock
Dr Strangelove
Once Upon a Time in the West
Beat Street
Top Hat
Swing Time
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Trading Places
On the Town
The Wizard of Oz
The Sound of Music
Victor Victoria
Dial M for Murder
Murder by Death
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
My Fair Lady
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Some Like it Hot
Jesus of Nazareth
Presenting Lily Mars
Charade
Summer Madness
The Italian Job
Blithe Spirit
Oliver!
Gaslight (1940)
Strangers on a Train
Night of the Hunter
Irma La Douce
The Breakfast Club
Ordinary People
The Cotton Club
The Yellow Rolls Royce

View attachment 343779

Someone that likes Singin' in the Rain and High Society AND Young Frankenstein? Marry me!
Singin' is my all time favourite musical - one for a wet Sunday afto, makes me feel all warm and tingly
However, I think I prefer Philadelphia Story to High Society, even if it's only got one song in it, the interplay between Grant and Hepburn is sublime

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Interesting - by way of experiment at least, which is the only point I can think of. I've just looked it up - I didn't know it was Gus Van Sant. I see it got panned.

A panning can oft be the sign of a good film. Or one that's utter bollocks.

 

[swee'pea99]

only got one song in it,

That being this one?


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d15JOd75uG8


(The way Jimmy Stewart recoils from the girl is just perfect!)

I agree, it's a joy of a film, with Grant, Hepburn and Stewart all right at the top of their game. And that's about as top as it gets.

 

[mikeymustard]

That being this one?


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d15JOd75uG8


(The way Jimmy Stewart recoils from the girl is just perfect!)

I agree, it's a joy of a film, with Grant, Hepburn and Stewart all right at the top of their game. And that's about as top as it gets.

yeah that's the one! Literally crying laughing now

 

[iateyoubutler]

I have a few failsafe favourites:

Oliver
Rita, Sue and Bob too
The Jazz Singer
Clockwise
The Carry ons

These are all antique, but I love them, and any like them. I`m easily pleased!

 

[Rapples]

And how could I omit The Railway Children ? Makes me cry every time.

Daddy!

See what I did there

 

[Profpointy]

I have a few failsafe favourites:

Oliver
Rita, Sue and Bob too
The Jazz Singer
Clockwise
The Carry ons

These are all antique, but I love them, and any like them. I`m easily pleased!

Whilst we can all enjoy Up the Khyber, which has claims to real greatness, ditto Cleo "infamy, infamy, they've all got it in-fa-me", but some of them were ropey even at the time, and are, sadly, utter dross now. Khyber stands up though, agreed!

Clockwise is an underrated gem indeed, and Oliver is great. Reed's brooding menace, Ron Moodey's brilliant and genial Fagin (kinder than Dickens's version I'm told) and I can even forgive the appalling masacre or "who will buy". Why dub in another voice when the dubbed in person can't sing.

Rita Sue is a fine filme too

 

[Rapples]

The "What's the best thing you can do with a potato" thread just reminded me of Goodbye Mr Chips the original of course, although the Clunes version isn't unwatchable.

Last furrin film I watched was Kalinka. I highly recommend it

 

[swee'pea99]

Clockwise is an underrated gem indeed

With one of the truly great one-liners: "It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand."