Must See Movies

Fiddler on the Roof

2006-05-26T22:03:00.000+08:00

Familiar songs.

MirrorMask

2006-04-28T21:59:00.000+08:00

Very cool:-)

Love Actually

2006-03-31T15:00:00.000+08:00

Late start, but pleasant film.

Cancelled

2006-02-24T14:58:00.000+08:00

Cancelled? (GhengisCon)

2006-01-27T14:55:00.000+08:00

Dr Who

2005-12-29T23:11:00.000+08:00

Some episodes... and Christmas.

A Muppet Christmas Carol

2005-12-28T16:07:00.000+08:00

Kid friendly movie... was enjoyed by all (I think?!)

Key Largo

2005-11-25T23:45:00.000+08:00

Was cancelled.

Key Largo

2005-11-04T23:46:00.000+08:00

This was postponed a week because of various happenings... but I'm not sure what happened because we didn't manage to make it. The same movie was put forward for the next one, so I'm assuming it wasn't watched.

??

2005-09-23T23:49:00.000+08:00

Don't know what was watched... one of a string we didn't make. I know Muppets was mentioned, otherwise something non-confronting. Any ideas?

Chicken Run

2005-08-26T13:21:00.000+08:00

Not sure what people thought...

Blazing Saddles

2005-07-22T11:57:00.000+08:00

Dr Strangelove

2005-06-21T11:49:00.000+08:00

Hmm... I know we watched it, but I can't remember any of the discussion.

Dr Strangelove seemed a strangely minor character to have the film named after him.

Dick

2005-05-27T20:00:00.000+08:00

Better Off Dead...

2005-04-22T20:00:00.000+08:00

Anna said: "Just like being a teenager, except made concrete."

Simon said" "Just the the right side of surreal."

Doctor Who: Rose

2005-04-01T20:09:00.000+08:00

The first episode of the new series of Doctor Who.

Was enjoyed by all - looking forward to seeing more episodes.

Super Size Me

2005-03-04T20:00:00.000+08:00

Scary feature length documentary about a man who decides to eat nothing but McDonalds for 30 days.

Chris swore she was never drinking softdrink again.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

2005-02-04T20:00:00.000+08:00

A rollicking good time was had by all.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

2004-12-27T20:00:00.000+08:00

Very cool movie:-)

Bugsy Malone

2004-12-27T16:00:00.000+08:00

Not quite as I remembered it - or at least it was, but I didn't enjoy it _quite_ as much.

We also decided that the day after Boxing Day is not such a great time for the December Double Feature... Too many days in a row that are unstructured and eating continuously.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

2004-10-29T22:39:00.000+08:00

A rollocking gangster farce noir. We all enjoyed it.

"Is it just a joke for white cunts that black cunts don't get?"

Full of lots wonderful language and cockney ryhming slang.

Next movie: Moulin Rouge!

(Others discussed: 'Flying High!', 'Smoke', 'Better Off Dead', 'The Blues Brothers'

Heathers

2004-10-02T23:44:00.000+08:00

"My teenage angst has a body count!"

Punctuation handles!

Fab movie:-)

Next movie: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Repo Man

2004-08-27T23:31:00.000+08:00

See the young Emilio Estevez!

Quirky little bits (really, the whole film is quirk...)

Next Movie: Heathers

Breakfast at Tiffany's

2004-07-23T23:36:00.000+08:00

Holly is not a sociopath, but she is definately a little broken.

Certainly the wacky directorial style of Blake Edwards (most famous for the Pink Panther series of films) comes through, particular in the party scenes and with the reporters in the police station, but most strikingly in the casting of Mickey Rooney as Mr Yunioshi, which now comes off as mildly offensive.

Most offensive is the line about "I love you - I own you". Really sours the ending of an otherwise entertaining movie.

Features the most well trained cat in cinema history. Not only did it get very wet on cue, but then was crushed between two people, without complaint!

Next Movie: Repo Man

The List so far

2004-07-23T14:38:00.000+08:00

Still a work in progress
('The Princess Bride'?
'Barefoot in the Park'?
December 2002 - 2 movies
January 2003
July 2003 (I'm _fairly_ sure it was The African Queen?)
August 2003 (was to be Harvey/Donnie Darko)
September 2003
Feb and March this year both appear to be Orlando... I suspect that means we watched it in March - so Feb?)

July 2000 Manhatten Melodrama
August 2000 Rebel Without a Cause
September 2000 2001: A Space Odyssey
October 2000 This is Spinal Tap
November 2000 Singing in the Rain
December 2000 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory/?(was it Love's Labours Lost?)
January 2001 Perfect Blue
February 2001 The Commitments
March 2001 Citizen Kane
April 2001 Amistad
May 2001 Hardboiled (on 1/6/01)
June 2001 Last Action Hero (was to be Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
July 2001 Desperado
August 2001 Groundhog Day (was to be Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
September 2001 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
October 2001 Withnail and I (on 2/11/01)
November 2001 Avalon (supposed to be Some Like it Hot)
December 2001 The Road To El Dorado/A Day at the Races (Marx Bros)
January 2002 Some Like it Hot (on 1/2/02)
February 2002 Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
March 2002 Take Over The Video Stream at Swancon
April 2002 Shawshank Redemption
May 2002 The Maltese Falcon
June 2002 Suhaag (Bollywood) (Defeated by Chicken pox)
July 2002 Suhaag
August 2002 Dark Star
September 2002 Bladerunner (Director's cut)
October 2002 Farenheit 451
November 2002 Brotherhood of the Wolf
December 2002 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (what was watched?)/It's a Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th St? (which was watched?)
January 2003 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (What was watched?)
February 2003 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (on 7/3/03, Purple Rose of Cairo as backup)
March 2003 Gosford Park
April 2003 10 Things I Hate About You
May 2003 Chasing Amy
June 2003 Casablanca/Barbed Wire
July 2003 ?The African Queen?
August 2003 ?(was to be Harvey/Donnie Darko)
September 2003 ??
October 2003 Harvey/Donnie Darko (on 7/11/03)
November 2003 Like Water For Chocolate
December 2003 Mary Poppins/Raiders of the Lost Ark
January 2004 Fargo
February 2004 ?? (supposed to be Orlando)
March 2004 Orlando
April 2004 Pirates of the Caribbean (supposed to be Purple Rose of Cairo)
May 2004 Finding Nemo (supposed to be Purple Rose of Cairo)
June 2004 Purple Rose of Cairo
July 2004 Breakfast at Tiffany's

Welcome to the MSM blog:-)

2004-07-23T14:34:00.000+08:00

I thought I'd experiment with this as a more simple thing to keep up to date:-)

Purple Rose of Cairo

2004-06-25T18:04:00.000+08:00

Breaking the boundary between real life and the movies.

Finding Nemo

2004-05-28T18:07:00.000+08:00

Father and Son movie

Pirates of the Caribbean

2004-04-23T18:08:00.000+08:00

A rollicking romp.

Orlando

2004-03-26T19:10:00.000+08:00

Stay young forever.

By Virginia Woolf

??

2004-02-27T19:12:00.000+08:00

supposed to be 'Orlando'.

What was watched?

Fargo

2004-01-23T19:12:00.000+08:00

Love the accents:-)

Raiders of the Lost Ark

2003-12-29T12:00:00.000+08:00

A classic.

Mary Poppins

2003-12-29T07:00:00.000+08:00

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocius

Like Water for Chocolate

2003-11-28T19:22:00.000+08:00

Burning hot.

Donnie Darko

2003-11-07T19:27:00.000+08:00

(October film)

Another rabbit flick.

Harvey

2003-11-07T19:24:00.000+08:00

(October film)

Imaginary friend, 6ft tall white rabbit.

??

2003-09-26T18:30:00.000+08:00

??

2003-08-29T18:31:00.000+08:00

supposed to be 'Harvey' and 'Donnie Darko' but wasn't.

?The African Queen?

2003-07-25T18:33:00.000+08:00

Bogie and Hepburn.

Barb Wire

2003-06-28T13:30:00.000+08:00

Just enough to check the similarities to 'Casablanca'.

Casablanca

2003-06-28T11:00:00.000+08:00

Bogie and Bacall plus a host of others.

Chasing Amy

2003-05-23T18:38:00.000+08:00

Kevin Smith's take on comic books and fans.

10 Things I Hate About You

2003-04-25T18:40:00.000+08:00

Retelling of 'The Taming of the Shrew'.

Gosford Park

2003-03-28T19:42:00.000+08:00

English costume murder mystery. Great cast and everything.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

2003-03-07T19:44:00.000+08:00

(February film)
(Purple Rose of Cairo as backup)

Kids musical.

??

2003-01-31T19:46:00.000+08:00

Was supposed to be 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'.

??

2002-12-28T13:00:00.000+08:00

Was possibly to be 'Miracle on 34th St' or 'It's a Wonderful Life'.

??

2002-12-28T08:00:00.000+08:00

supposed to be 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'.

Brotherhood of the Wolf

2002-11-22T19:49:00.000+08:00

French Martial arts flick.

Fahrenheit 451

2002-10-25T18:51:00.000+08:00

No text!

Bladerunner (Director's Cut)

2002-09-27T18:53:00.000+08:00

No voiceovers.

Dark Star

2002-08-23T18:55:00.000+08:00

Wasn't there... comic SF.

Suhaag

2002-07-27T17:54:00.000+08:00

Hard to follow (it was in Hindi!)

The singing and the dancing made it look like fun.

Bollywood.

defeated by Chicken pox

2002-06-28T17:53:00.001+08:00

supposed to be 'Suhaag'

The Maltese Falcon

2002-05-24T17:52:00.000+08:00

Sam Spade... this is where lots of those clichés got started?

The Shawshank Redemption

2002-04-26T17:46:00.000+08:00

A most unconventional prisoner.

Beaten by Swancon

2002-03-28T18:48:00.000+08:00

Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl

2002-02-22T18:45:00.000+08:00

Japanese film of much bizarreness.

Some Like it Hot

2002-02-01T18:43:00.000+08:00

(January film)

Fabulous comedy with Marilyn Monroe.

A Day at the Races

2001-12-29T12:00:00.000+08:00

The Marx Brothers. Long involved plot with a strange musical interlude.

The Road to El Dorado

2001-12-29T07:00:00.000+08:00

Two swindlers create havoc while looking for gold.

Avalon

2001-11-30T18:49:00.000+08:00

supposed to be Some Like It Hot

Withnail and I

2001-11-02T18:27:00.000+08:00

(October film)

Resting actors get up to mischief.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

2001-09-28T17:25:00.000+08:00

Based on the exploits of real life characters?!

Introduced 'Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head'.

Groundhog Day

2001-08-30T17:23:00.000+08:00

A weatherman relives the same day...

Desperado

2001-07-27T17:22:00.000+08:00

Larger budget remake of 'El Mariachi', by the same director.

Last Action Hero

2001-06-22T17:20:00.000+08:00

All the stereotypes are played up.

Hardboiled

2001-06-01T17:18:00.000+08:00

(May film)

Most violent (highest body count?) movie ever. So many guns around babies. John Woo Hong Kong Action Movie.

Amistad

2001-04-27T17:16:00.000+08:00

Least like a Speilberg ever... heavy going in some scenes.

Citizen Kane

2001-03-23T18:15:00.000+08:00

Just who was Rosebud?

The Commitments

2001-02-23T18:13:00.000+08:00

How to start an Irish soul band.

Perfect Blue

2001-02-02T18:11:00.000+08:00

(January Film)

Intense anime.

Love's Labours Lost

2000-12-28T12:00:00.000+08:00

Kenneth Branagh's adaptation in the style of a 30s musical.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

2000-12-28T07:00:00.000+08:00

Movie of Roald Dahl's book.

Singing in the Rain

2000-11-24T16:22:00.000+08:00

Fabulous musical.

This is Spinal Tap

2000-10-28T14:49:00.000+08:00

A Mockumentary.

Plus _all_ the outtakes - almost another whole movie!

2001: A Space Odyssey

2000-09-23T14:47:00.000+08:00

Based on a short story by Arthur C. Clarke... quite lengthy:-(

Rebel Without A Cause

2000-08-26T14:44:00.000+08:00

James Dean, Natalie Wood.
Found it remarkably applicable now - if you overlook the polite, clean cut youth...

Manhattan Melodrama

2000-07-29T14:41:00.000+08:00

The movie Dillanger was watching when he was shot.

The List (alphabetical)

2000-01-02T13:21:00.000+08:00

Please comment to add any more suggestions (or to make corrections).

~~2001~~	42nd Street	Alien
American Beauty	American History X	An Affair To Remember
Apollo 13	Arsenic and Old Lace	Bagdad Cafe (Out of Rosenheim)
~~Barbarella~~	Belle de Jour	Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Blade Runner	Blithe Spirit	Blues Brothers
Brazil	~~Breakfast at Tiffany's~~	Breakfast Club
~~Casablanca~~	Cat Ballou	Charade
~~Chasing Amy~~	~~Citizen Kane~~	Clerks
Conan, the Barbarian	Crocodile Dundee	Dark Star
Das Boot	Deliverance	~~Doctor Strangelove~~
Dracula	Duck Soup	Ed Wood
ET the Extra-Terrestrial	Fantasia	Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fight Club	Flash Gordon	Flirting
Frankenstein	From Dust till Dawn	Gattaca
Goldfinger	Gone With The Wind	Grease
~~Hardboiled~~	~~Harvey~~	Henry Fool
High Noon	Interview (I can find no links for this)	It Happened One Night
Jaws	Key Largo	King Kong
Kiss Me Kate	La Cage aux Folles/The Birdcage	La vita è bella (Life is Beautiful)
Labyrinth	Life of Brian	M
~~Manhattan Melodrama~~	~~Mary Poppins~~	Much Ado About Nothing
Night of the Living Dead	Oscar and Lucinda	~~Perfect Blue~~
Plan 9 From Out of Space	Planet of the Apes	Raiders of the Lost Ark
~~Rebel Without a Cause~~	~~Repo Man~~	Rocky Horror Picture Show
Roman Holiday	Room with a View	Rope
Run Lola Run	Ruthless People	Schindler's List
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers	Shakespeare in Love	Shane
~~Shawshank Redemption~~	Shichinin no Samurai (Seven Samurai)	~~Singin' in the Rain~~
~~Some Like it Hot~~	Star Wars	Strange Days
Terminator	The Andromeda Strain	The Birth of a Nation
The Castle	The Color Purple	The Deer Hunter
The English Patient	The Gay Divorcée	The Godfather
The Hanging Tree	The Last Emperor	~~The Maltese Falcon~~
The Nightmare Before Christmas	The Omega Man	The Philadelphia Story
The Princess Bride	The Third Man	The Truman Show
The Wall	The Year My Voice Broke	Thelma and Louise
~~This is Spinal Tap~~	Ultimo Tango a Parigi(Last Tango in Paris	Waiting For Guffman
Weird Science	Westside Story	~~Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory~~
Witness For The Prosecution	Wizard of Oz

Some people we were thinking we need to see some of, but didn't know which would be best:

Jackie Chan	Mary Pickford
Woody Allen	Marilyn Monroe

And some films we want to watch an sample of the series, but we don't know which one.

Pink Panther

And genre we don't know enough about to make a selection.

Western (1930's)

Pornography

The List

2000-01-01T10:22:00.000+08:00