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This Is A List Of All Of My Favourite Films

by: Filmnutsam Filmnutsam from Wolverhampton

Average rating: 3.83   76.6% from 6 members


The Lord Of The Rings - The Return Of The King

This is the best film ever made because it is based on freedom for lands, dramatic turns in the film, and Frodo and Sams quest to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring; led by the villainous Gollum. It is really well-directed by Peter Jackson. He is one of my favourite directors. The acting was good, particularly from Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen. All of the battles, confrontation and adventures are all at the perfect time in the film. The script is very good for a fantasy film. The best quotes have to be the long King Theoden when Rohan are joining forces with Gondor to fight off Saurons army. I love the Nazgul because they are hooded, they look so evil and you feel for them in some ways because of the easily-seductive Rings of Power. Gollum is my favourite character in the trilogy and of all time because he has a nice side to him and a vile one too. He makes me laugh in some places because of his voice and the way he moves. The art in this film is amazing, especially Mount Doom, the Winding Stairs and Minas Tirith. The make-up is brilliant particularly on Frodo and Sam, also all of the Orcs. The visual effects are amazing especially Gollum, Shelob and the battle scenes. I am not surprised that it won best picture of the year. But I am quite shocked that it won all 11 oscar and became the 3rd film to have won 11 Academy Awards along with Ben-Hur and Titanic. There is no leader at the moment. It is a tie between those three films. I have watched this film more than 500 times. I cant wait to watch The Hobbit which is scheduled for release in 2009. I love the animated film of Lord Of The Rings which was released in 1978. When I watched the trailer 5 years ago for the first time at the cinema I thought that this looks very good but not as good the first two. But when I watched it at the cinema I thought Wow!! That is the best film I have ever seen!!. I am sure this will remain my all-time favourite film forever. The first thing we see is a maggot wriggling on the end of the hook, and behind it, the grinning face of Smeagol. It's a typically incisive piece of picture-making and storytelling, taking us back before the Fellowship to a time of supposed innocence and the moment of corruption - the rediscovery of the Ring on the river bed. What follows may be the longest climax in film history: More than three hours of mad kings, massing troops, battle cries and ballyhoo. In therms of spectacle, there's nothing like it. Jackson has weight of numbers on his side. But for the first time in this mammoth undertaking, The director seems overwhelmed by logistics - and if he isn't, we are. Return Of The King is no less dynamic than the previous chapters, but too much of the dialogue sounds like an orientation exercise. Some story strands are cruddly abbreviated; Others fail to develop elements that were already well-established. Given the inordinate running time, it's hard to avoid the feeling that we've already been here, done this. As to how the trilogy's themes of leadership self-sacrifice, loyalty and honour speak to our own troubling times, Tolkien's anti-fascist allegory doesn't allow for ambivalence or ambiguity.

Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Tim Burton is my favourite director because I love his films but I havent watched them all though. He doesnt just do fantastic films. He also designs good drawings for people to draw and colour, and he evens tells short stories and poems. Anyway, about Sweeney Todd: without a doubt one of my all time favourite films. The songs are brilliant, it is weird but it is absolutely fantastic to hear Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter sing. I was shocked when Johnny said that he probably wont want to star in another musical ever again because I thought he was a really good singer. But I bet he is glad that he did the film because it is a really popular film at the moment and obviously he got his 3rd oscar nomination. And also, that his daughter was very ill and I bet he was glad that he didnt give Sweeney Todd up. I think Johnny Depp is perfect Sweeney Todd/Benjamin Barker because he has a creepy voice and an evil yet nice-looking face. He is probably one of the nicest looking male actors of all time even though he is 44 years old. Johnny uses the exact same style of voice as Captain Jack Sparrow from the Pirates Of The Caribbean trilogy. That is my favourite style that Johnny uses in his films. I love his hair. It is a haircut that a male barber probably wouldnt have. And also, it suits Johnny as does Jack Sparrows hair style does aswell. When you watch this film, when it looks like Sweeney is going to kill someone it is really tense. It is always wondered how hard and how fast Sweeney kills his victims with his razors particularly when he is with Judge Turpin, Beadle and Pirelli. Helena Bonham Carter is perfect for Mrs. Lovett aswell because she is evil in some ways and she is beautiful aswell. I was admired that she always wanted to play Mrs. Lovett since she was 11 years old. I bet she didnt expect her partner to be directing it. Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall and Sacha Boran Cohen were awesome in it. And so was Ed Saunders who played Toby. I was shocked that Tim Burton wasnt up for Oscar nomination for Best Director. If this film was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay it would have probably been nominated Best Picture. It was a shame that Johnny Depp didnt win Best Actor for this film. But he did deserve his Golden Globe for Best Actor - Musical/Comedy for this film. The make-up was amazing and so was the costumes. The Oscar winning art direction for this film is just like Tim Burtons previous film Sleepy Hollow. I could watch this film over and over again.

Pinocchio

I love Walt Disneys animated classics. But this is my favourite Disney film because it is a warm-hearted family story that everyone would enjoy. It is a good example of a father wanting to cling onto his child and to tell him what is right and wrong. I love all of the songs in this film. My favourite has to be HI-DIDDLE-DEE-DEE because it is really catchy and it is a bit like a rap. I love the characters. Jiminy Cricket rocks. I love the scene at the beginning inside Geppettos house when they are singing and that. It is so magical. Love the scene when Coachman was telling Honest John and Gideon about his plan for the boys. When he says THEY NEVER COME BACK?AS BOYS! Coachman pulls the scariest face that I have ever seen in my life. It is scarier than Hannibal Lecter in Silence Of The Lambs. He zooms in on the camera, widened eyes, pink face and smiling evilly. I am unsure about where this film is set but I think it is Italian. This film proves a point that we have a right to choose what power we choose to act on - good or evil. Also, what a person would do for his family. This is a film truly based on adventure and friendship. It is a shame there isnt a Pinocchio 2. I know that there are some other Pinocchio films but I am not interested in those because this is the only Pinocchio classic in my opinion. Disneys second cartoon feature film is a rum old mixture of the excellent and the awful. The story itself has the harsh morality and cruelty of Victorian childrens literature, but Disney orchestrates his queasy material with some stunning animation of a monster whale wile trashing about and much delightful background detail (the candle-holders and clocks in the toymakers shop). However, one also has to suffer the cavorting of a cute Goldfish called Cleo, and several appearances of an odious fairy. Pinocchio, in fact, probably shows Disneys virtues and vices more clearly than any other cartoon. This film makes me feel really good. Whenever I have a nerving day the night before I watch this film to calm me down and cheer me up. It really brightens me up.

Forrest Gump

It is funny and dramatic aswell. Best Tom Hanks performance. He was also brilliant in Philadelphia (even though I didnt like the film that much), The Green Mile, Cast Away, Big and Saving Private Ryan. Robin Wright-Penn and Gary Sinise were Oscar worthy performances too. When Gary Sinise was up up for his oscar nomination I thought the winner was going to be either him of Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction (but the award actually went to Martin Landau for his role as Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood). But I was disappointed that Robin Wright-Pen wasnt up for nomination. It is good that he has special needs and he has achieved all of that as he put his mind to it. The connection that brought Forrest and Lt. Dan as best friends was that they both didnt want to be judged because they were different. Forrest - with his disabilitie. Lt. Dan - without his legs. I know someone with a simiar sort of disability, so thats why I love this film so much. This is a perfect example of people getting through life. This is one of my favourites also because it has all types of genres: Action (army), comedy (His mistakes and way he speaks), drama (Missing Jenny, his mama, the way his life is and Jenny's life aswell and the way he is really) and romance (Jenny). The visual effects on the film are amazing. Particularly Lt. Dan's missing legs when Gary Sinise really has legs. Tom Hanks is Forrest Gump. It is simple as that. Can't be anyone else better than Tom Hanks. The same with Jenny and Lt. Dan. I am unsure what sort of disability Forrest had. I think it is either Autism or Savant Syndrome or maybe even both!! I went to New York 4 years ago and went inside the Bubba-Gump Shrimp Restaurant but never ate any shrimp!! I have never tried it!! I thought to myself I have to watch this. This film will become a phenomenon for hundreds of generations to come!! This film is played by Hanks with a sing-song Southern drawl and an evangelical earnestness, Gump is the quintessential simpleton, his only characteristic the inert righteousness instilled in him by his mama. Gump's story is as extraordinary as he is banal. He conducts us on what amounts to a virtual-reality tour of late Twentieth Century American history. Beneath its Baby Boomer soundtrack, its restive feel-good aesthetic and conventional liberal veneer, this is a dismayingly reactionary work. Consider Forrest's one true love, Jenny, a 'nice' girl who takes a wrong turn when she abandons home for show-business. Throughout director Zemeckis contrasts Gump's charmed progress with Jenny's unhappy engagement with the counter culture. It's only when she's dying that she should have stayed with Forrest all along. He's asexual, square and a tedious conversationalist, but God knows he loves his mother - as this mawkish conservative movie ultimately goes to prove: Ignorance is bliss. Winner of 6 Oscars (Best picture 1995, Best actor, Best director, best film editing, best visual effects, best adapted screenplay).
  • Forrest Gump
  • Forrest Gump on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Sam Anderson,  Sally Field
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: £2.49
    The title character leads viewers through an accidental travelogue of American social history from the early 1960s through the present in this revisionist fable. Vietnam, desegregation, Watergate and more are presented from the perspective of Hanks' lovably slow-witted character as he finds himself ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 74% from 49,710 members

Star Wars Trilogy

Very Good!! Worst Of Trilogy But Not Worst Of Saga!! I Don't Think The Story Is As Strong And Heavy As The Last Two Films!! Best Scene Has To Be Luke's Journey To Destroy The Death Star!! I would say that The Empire Strikes Back is the best Star Wars out of all six. Most people would say either Episodes 3,4 or 5 are the best Star Wars films. Love Yoda training Luke because you learn a lot about the Force and two styles of the Force. Yoda is my favourite Star Wars character because he is so small and so different (species) and yet he is the most powerful person/thing in the galaxy. Also, the way Yoda speaks aswell, like when he says: HELP YOU I CAN. In the normal English language the last two words or the last word should be the first. Also, his voice is really cool. I love R2-D2 and C-3POs friendship. They are completely different types of druids and yet they bond so well together. I love R2s style of speaking. Like In Revenge Of The Sith, He Beeps UH-OH and he beeps chuckling sounds aswell. Also, C-3POs stubbornness of what his job is with his masters. On the other side of the film, I love the Empires searching for the Millennium Falcon. It is very tense. I love the scene where Han, Leia, Chewie and C-3PO are inside this giant worm which lives on a very large asteroid. When Han wants to fix the light speed inside the shop, he acts like he knows what he is doing with it even though he really has no idea. The I AM YOUR FATHER quote has to be nearly the most famous moment in film history. When Vader says this to Luke, it completely changes the plot of Episode V and also of Episodes VI, I, II and III. This is the number one rip-off film of all time. Other film use the quotes of the action from this film. Here are some examples: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (Dr. Evil and Austin Powers on the moon), Toy Story 2 (Buzz Lightyear and Emperor Zurg on top of lift and quite a few more. Another famous quote, when Leia says to Han before he is going to be frozen in carbonite I LOVE YOU and Han says back I KNOW. That sounds better than I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU TOO. The battle of Hoth is my favourite Star Wars battle out of all six. The visual effects are brilliant in this scene for a film that was made in 1980. Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher were all excellent in this film. Love Vader against Luke on Death Star. The Emperors make-up, voice and character is so dark and scary. And the return of Anakin Skywalker. When the Emperor, Vader and Luke are on the Death Star in the same room together, it is like a difficult situation for Luke; but even more for Vader because he knows how deadly the Emperor can get; but it is his son who is with them. The chase in the woods on the speeders on Endor. The visual effects are brilliant and so is the battle of Endor (In space outside Endor and on Endor with Han, Leia, Chewie, 3-PO, R2-R2 and the Ewoks fighting the Storm Troopers and the moving machines like robots or whatever you want to call them.

Casablanca

I rented this film for the first time and I only watched 45 minutes of it. But when I watched it again, this is one of my all-time favourite films. This is a classic masterpiece that everyone would enjoy. No wonder it is IMDBs number 9 film of all time. It is my favourite black and white film. This film shows that the classics can never die. This is a film that all of the classic songs and phrases can be remembered forever like SEE YA GAIN KID and WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS. After this film, I think they made it into a song. Humphrey Bogart was brilliant as Rick Blaine in this masterpiece. And so was Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa. When Rick sees Ilsa again, and when she wants him to help her and her husband, it is like a total clash of personality between Ricks tough character and Ilsas soft character. The flashbacks were really clever with Rick and Ilsa in Paris. This is nearly one of earliest masterpieces of all time along with Gone With The Wind, Citizen Kane, It's A Wonderful Life and The Wizard Of Oz. What an awesome classic masterpiece this film is. This film will become a classic phenomenon for generations!! After I have watched this and Gone With The Wind, I am going to start watching the old classic films. R.I.P: Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
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  • Casablanca on DVD (1943)
    Starring: Ingrid Bergman,  Joy Page,  Leonid Kinskey
    Director: Michael Curtiz
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The classic story of the owner of a nightclub in Vichy-controlled Casablanca and of the return of his former lover who is now a member of the Resistance. Based on a play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 76% from 26,914 members

American Beauty

All of the Oscars that this film has won and been nominated for are deserved universally for the cast and crew of this film. This is one of the best film directing debuts of all time. This is without a doubt a film that can easily catch peoples attention and it has challenged with a lot of other brilliant films for the film of the year. 1999 was an amazing year in film. Kevin Spacey is brilliant with his edgy, almost psychotic creation. Lester makes my laugh alot with his sarcasm with his wife because I know how much he hates his wife. It is hard that Lester and Carolyn dont get on with each other but nobody can tell who is the victim between the two of them. Some say that Spaceys performance as Lester Burnham offets for the scripts weakness. When Lester was beginning to imagine having sex with his daughters friend Angela, this moment in this film became a major turning point. Lesters wife Carolyn is a bit like but obviously a woman. She is under stress and she doesnt love Lester anymore because they dont get along with each other anymore. Lester and Carolyns daughter Jane is like under a lot of stress in this film because she is a teenager and she doesnt really like her dad that much anymore because he doesnt really do anything fun with her like a normal father would do. American Beauty is about self-discovery of what a man can create when he rebuilds his life when he is the middle of a mid-life crisis like Lester is. Teenagers, Thora Birch (Jane), Wes Bentley (Ricky) and Mena Suvari (Angela) also take reprising roles in this dramatic masterpiece. After 14 years working in the same office, Lester Burnham is about to get canned. After two decades married to the same woman, he cant stand her anymore. Carolyn is no more fond of him. And as for their daughter, shes just dying from the embarrasment of it all. Quitting his job, he takes stock of what hes lost, and he begins to bench press, smoke pot and have fun flirting with Jane?s best friend Angela. It might be madness, but at least he can look after himself in the mirror without cringing. Director Mendes guides an artful path between desire and self-disgust, playing youth against experience, male against female. Its a shade too pat to be truly revelatory (and as a suspense film its frankly unconvincing), but it repeatedly transcends its apparent limitations to insist, after Arthur Miller, ATTENTION MUST BE PAID.
  • American Beauty
  • American Beauty on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Kevin Spacey,  Sam Roberts,  Annette Bening
    Director: Sam Mendes
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    AMERICAN BEAUTY tells the story of Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), a suburban father who snaps when he becomes disgusted with his stale, repetitive existence. Burnham lets us know in voice-over from the film's opening that this is the day he dies (using the SUNSET BOULEVARD flashback approach), a ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 74% from 62,837 members

The Green Mile

Love it. This is the sort of film that everyone would wish is real that a man can create miracles for the world. The characters are really cool in this film too. I think the film is really funny aswell because of the prisoner William WILD BILL Wharton. Hilarious that he pisses on, spits on and throws pie back at the guards from his mouth, even though he is really evil. I think it is better than The Shawshank Redemption because I think it has a darker and a more dramatic story to it and I dont really like Tim Robbins but I do like Morgan Freeman. Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan were fantastic in it. Shame that Tom Hanks wasnt nominated for Best Actor and shame that Michael Clarke Duncan didnt win Best Supporting Actor. It is really sad when French prisoner Del was killed in the electric chair A.K.A. Old Sparky because he really regretted his crime and also of the way he died in the chair. I felt sorry for Mr. Jingles (the mouse) because it is in a place where it can easily get killed (Percy) and also a place of where it can be saved (John Coffey). It is really dramatic that John Coffey has problems like some sort of disability and he is a really good person. It is good that he is big but if smaller people are mean to him he doesnt take advantage of that he can easily kill or beat them up because he is a miracle from God. This film was on TV a couple of months ago and I thought NO I DONT WANT TO WATCH THIS, BUT THEN MY FAMILY CONVINCED ME and I bloody loved it. Tom Hanks best performances are this, Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away and Big.

Mrs Doubtfire

An absolutely hilarious film. This is probably what made Robin Williams such a famous actor along with The Birdcage, Aladdin, Jumanji, Good Will Hunting and Dead Poets Society. Brilliant make-up. The film deserved its Oscar for the award. I bet the mask and the body suit that Robin had to wear was very uncomfortable. It is brilliant that Robin Williams can use different accents and imitate people. Accents like Scottish (Mrs. Doubtfires voice), German, Spanish and Swedish. I think Robin Williams looks pretty cool as a lady. Ha ha!! Sally Field and Pierce Brosnan were good in it too. And so were the kids. Will probably be one of the funniest family films ever for generations to come. This film makes me laugh every single time I watch it.
  • Mrs Doubtfire
  • Mrs Doubtfire on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Sally Field,  Robin Williams,  Pierce Brosnan
    Director: Chris Columbus
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When an irresponsible and child-like dad (Robin Williams) is barred from seeing his kids, he disguises himself as a woman and applies for the job of housekeeper for his ex-wife (Sally Field). The disguise of a sturdy matron works a beneficial change on him as well...but how long can he keep the act up
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 13,713 members

Saving Private Ryan

This is another very close favourite of mine too because I love the characters in the film. The acting is very good. I am not surprised that it won Oscars for the sound and visual effects. Tom Hanks deserved his Oscar Nomination for Best Actor. Matt Damon, Jeremy Davies or Tom Sizemore should have been nominated for Best Supporting Actor but Steven Spielberg deserved its Oscar for Best Director. The story is really mad that 8 men are risking their lives to save ones life. This film is very well directed by Steven Spielberg as he has directed some of the most famous films of all time, e.g. Jaws, E.T, Indiana Jones trilogy and more. This is probably the best war film of all time. I love all of the battle scenes. The best are definitely Omaha Beach and the one in the town towards the end of the film. This is my favourite Steven Spielberg film. This film also proves a point of how serious war is and how horrible it was for all the families in those days, particularly the soldiers who died/survived in the film and the real WWII. I think Tom Hanks is with Spielberg and Zemeckis like Johnny Depp is with Tim Burton and Robert De Niro is with Martin Scorsese (actor co-starring in most of directors films). I could watch this film over and over again. This is my favourite action film that involves guns, cannons, bombs, etc. Captain John Miller, a decent school teacher in another life, is among the unfortunates storming Omaha Beach. As men are mown down and blown apart, the visceral editing and urgent camera work tug us into the heart of chaos. No viewer can doubt that war, however justified, is hell. Only after 30 minutes does the pace ease and the story begin, with Miller and his platoon assigned to find and bring back Private James Ryan, the brother of three soldiers killed in the same week, whos missing behing enemy lines. Thereafter the film becomes more conventional and mercifully, less relentlessly gory, at least until Ryan and a few other soldiers are finally found, and Miller and his surviving men join them in defending a bridge, at which point the nightmare begins again. Except for a redundant epilogue, sentimentally is mostly held at bay, but the film remains an utterly American take on WWII, with the lack of politicial, ethical and historical perspective which that imples. Why did Spielberg make it? He wants us to imagine we can feel the terror of being there, but does that make us wiser about this or any other conflict?



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