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Desert Island Movies
On the most recent GLoP podcast, the crew discussed “desert island” movies. That is, the five movies you would want with you on a desert island to watch for the rest of your life.
Now the guys named some incredible movies — among them, The Godfather, Singin’ in the Rain, The Best Years of Our Lives, A Face in the Crowd, Groundhog Day, and Casablanca — but I don’t think you would pick those movies to watch over and over and over again. I think they would get old. Here are mine in no particular order:
- Zombieland (funny and highly re-watchable)
- Scott Pilgrim vs the World (see above)
- The Godfather Part 2 – An amazing and highly re-watchable movie
- The Incredibles – Best Pixar movie
- The Ten Commandments – How can you not?
What is on your list?
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If I were truly on a Desert Island, Groundhog Day would be my number 1 choice for reasons both obvious and non-obvious.
My top 10 list favorite movies prepared for a discussion on another site where favorite was defined as are movies that you can watch many many times over and still enjoy and hopefully catch stuff you didn’t see before, which seems to work well with the desert island theme.
1)Raising Arizona
2)Pulp Fiction
3)This is Spinal Tap
4)Animal House
5)Caddyshack
6)The Matrix
7)Pink Floyd The Wall
8)Stripes
9)Austin Powers
10)Apocalypse Now
I once watched M*A*S*H five times in one day.
I’d have some that are on other lists. Plus:
The Blues Brothers
Master and Commander
The Right Stuff
The King’s Speech
Chicken Run
The Incredibles
(Sorry, but some of the best movies are animated.)
Everytime Roadhouse comes on cable I’m mesmerized.
Without putting too much serious thought into it, here:
The Lego Movie
The Incredibles
The Avengers
The Star Wars Trilogy (original)- I’m going to cheat and count it as one movie
The Fiddler on the Roof
Hollywood Knights
Spring Break
Zapped!
Roller Boogie
Jokes My Folks Never Told Me
Wouldn’t you want movies that would motivate you to get out?
1) The Piano
2) Out of Africa
3) Heartbreak Ridge
4) My Dinner with Andre
5) 8 1/2
Definitely these:
The Empire Strikes Back (one of the greatest movies ever made)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Watchmen
Once Upon a Time in the West
and
Perfect Blue (by Satoshi Kon)
Field of Dreams
The Godfather
Shawshank Redemption
Star Wars Trilogy
My Cousin Vinny
Castaway for obvious reasons
and if I can add a TV miniseries, Band of Brothers
Yeah, like I am going to have a big screen television and electric power on the desert island. I want Netflix if I have to choose.
Papillon
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
The entire Lord of the Rings trilogy, and maybe the Hobbit ones. The music alone is worth the price of admission.
Spirited Away
Ponyo
Hmmm. Forgot one: Midnight Run.
not gonna play along. :) Can I bring a few books?
I want the sherlock holmes series.
but seriously. Can I have TV shows?
1) Survivorman
2) Man vs. Wild
That, some books, and a bunch of model ships to build.
Seawriter
Band of Brothers
From the Earth to the Moon
Yeah if we’re including TV shows, then:
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Firefly
Pushing Daisies
Pinky and the Brain
Vanishing Point (of course), but must be the UK release
Major Dundee
Serenity
Master and Commander
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Unforgiven: the best morality movie of all time.
The Great Escape;
The Unbearable Lightness of Being;
The Last Remake of Beau Geste;
The Power and the Glory with Lawrence Olivier.
You don’t need a big screen. The movies will be on your iPad.
If I could take a few more, they would be:
And Denzel Washington in tight leather pants!
I’d like to add Double Indemnity. I used to just play it in the background because of how the characters spoke.
Any list without Patton should be smacked — or shot.
A dear happiness to women. ;)
Honestly, I think I’d give it a vote as the sexiest movie ever. Certainly among the top five.
Star Wars: Episodes IV-VI (Empire for those demanding it be only one)
The Lord of the Rings & Hobbit Trilogy (Not narrowing this down, it’s one long movie. I’m assuming Battle of Five Armies will be good)
The Incredibles
Groundhog Day
The Fountain
Honorable Mentions:
The Dish (Sam Neill, Patrick Warburton. Australian movie about the Apollo 11 landing and the radio dish that transmitted the video signal of the first moonwalk.)
Joe Versus the Volcano
Open Range