Rear Window
Vertigo
The Godfather Trilogy
The Goodfellas
Notorious
Rebecca
North by Northwest
L.A Confidential

I wasn't sure what category to put this one in either, but it is set in a prison and it has to go somewhere as it's like my favourite film ever :D

The Shawshank Redemption

another fab film...

:blink: I love loads of films but then, when I try to think of them in categories like this... they all disappear....

O dear Pebs the categories are supposed to encourage disucssion not inhibit it :blink:

Just look at the type of films I've put in each section and they should come to you, I mean there are some like the Shawshank that is just difficult to place...

I know hun, I am thinking bout them all :D

You might have to get a holding thread for you to move films into!

oh, and a 'quotes thread' should be good :D

Ye I know keep any ideas for threads coming (or just start one lol)

You're right, I could do with a sub forum-sub forum soon for all these film genres :lol:

roflmao Yeah my fave movie of all time doesnt; fit any category! :D

Copycat- Sigourney Weaver is a psychologist investigating a serial killer. It is realyl well done and has soem truly gripping suspense in it. She is great as always, and it's good to have all female gritty leads (I think Holly Hunter is a cop). I'd highyl recommend this one, it is so much better than Silence of the Lambs (which I dont; care for I must say).

Rear Window is an excellent piece of cinema. So claustrophobic isnt; it. Apparently it's spin is to cleverly turn the audience into voyeurs too, just like the lead.

I saw a great crime road movie the other week and cant; remember what ti was called now. :(

oh yes, I've seen that SB - Copycat was good - I love films which can make me jump... What Lies Beneath is another goody.

Have to say - I did like Silence of the Lambs (the sequel was terrible) but again, preferred the book.

Oooh glad someone else has seen it. :D And Lies Beneath isnt; bad really, very Hitchcock!

The books are often better. If you like Silnce of the Lambs then the earlier film by Michaal Mann I think, Manhunter, is good (and better IMO). I think it might be based on a book called Red Dragon? Yeah the sequel - hannibal, well I fell asleep so that was enough to tell me I wasnt; too interested in ti and I deleted it off my recorder drive to make way for new stuff as I can onyl store abotu 50 films on there - you'd think that woudl eb enough but nto for me! roflmao

That is George (my partner)'s favourite movie. I think it is good, but I would not watch it too many times. We have the video. Glad ti has now got a huge followign as it was a flop when released think. Tim Robbins is very good.

I wouldn't say it was flop SB but it certainly didn't do as well as expected :)

Oh right. I think they exaggerated on the programme I saw cos they said it was not very successful. I dont; even remeber it coming out i must say, but I take it that it gained popularity later like a cult status as many films do. :)

its my favourite film as well. I was way too young to watch it when i did but i loved it and have watched it soooooooo many times since!

:bow: Awesome film. Robbins and Freeman were great in that :bow:

Lots of John Grisham adaptations do it for me ( but i love the books too)

Pelican Brief
The Chamber,
Runaway Jury

Those three are the ones which i think match up to the books - some of the rest of the adaptations haven't been so great.

I love a good courtroom drama/thriller, as long as it is good. And yes those ones are quite good. I enjoyed the Client with Susan Sarandon as her charcter and acting where really great, and I liek the Firm but I have to say the book (which I read even after seeign the movie) was better, I could not put it down ! He weaves the tale so well, much better than in the movie, and I did not see the character of Mitch and hsi wife being anythign liek they were in the movie. The book built up much better and more interesting characters than were in the movie IMO. grisham is liek the legal Stephen King. King's books are often better than the movies too, I'm a huge fan.

John Grisham books are generally amazing, although i do think he may just be running out of ideas now, although he's written some pretty interesting stuff recently - one called skipping xmas, which i could see being made in to some wholesome family movie of some type, but it's very good and really nothing like his other books. (omg, i've just checked imdb and they already have - it's called Christmas with the Kranks!!! with Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis)

i read one recently called The last Juror, and it really wasn't as good as i thought it was going to be.

In terms of movies they always tend to be good, but another one i forgot its A Time to Kill.....

I think you'll find it did do rather badly at the UK box office. It was generally thought that the title put people off and some thought it had a religous story to it.

As I understand it, once it came out on video (after its appearance at the Oscars ceremony) it started to do well as a rental video and by word of mouth on top of the post Oscars chat it stayed as the number 1 rental film in this country for over a year. I purely watched it because someone told me too and was blown away by the performances, I then told my neighbour to borrow it before I took it back to the shop and she too thought it was afabulous movie (even her tearaway son, about 14 at the time, walked in, sat down and was immediatley glued... it snowballed from then with us telling people you simply MUST hire this movie. :D :(

I think Mo may be right. from what i';ve heard Shawshank really didn't do well at the box office, and it's only been since it was released on DVD and video that it got such a phenomenal following. I'm at work at the moment, so i can't check, but there's an old empire with the story of shawshank which they did at the time of the 10 year anniversary, so i'll dig it out and see if I can check what they have to say!

Thanks DJ I heard it on one of those 100 top movie shows a few years back on the TV.

Of course it had many Oscar nominations including Best Actor, Director and Picture but lost out on every nomination, mainly to Forest Gump.

It did pick up Golden Globes later in the year though, so the movie finally got some recognition.

I also just remembered that the poster advertising the film was also thought to be off putting and again suggested a possible heavy religious story line to the movie.

IMO its a shame it was given better recognition at the awards, as I thought Forest Gump was as dull as dishwater. :blink: :blink:

Still each to their own. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Absolutely ! How that film became such a huge hit, I've never been able to understand.

Ok, from an interview with Frank Darabont (the director of Shawshank)

"The movie cost $28 million...and our domestic gross was $28 million. We managed to basically cover the negative cost, whcih was not a great result."

"Ww went from being a film that barely recouped its negative cost theatrically to being the most rented video of 1995, and i'm absolutely certain it was because of the Oscars"

It was nominated for 7 oscars but didn't win any of them :blink:

The fugitive :unsure: roflmao

ahhh thanks Dinky, just what I was trying to say earlier. :rolleyes: :D

Maybe is was the chat amongst people after the Oscars that got a few people wondering '...what IS this movie that got 7 nominations and won none, maybe I should go check it out' Word of mouth etc is a wonderful thing. :D

I think that's exactly what Frank Darabont thought in all honesty. I mean, it was nominated for best picture and Morgan Freeman for best actor (or supporting actor, can't remember) so thaqt's bound to get a few people talking.

SPOILERS ALERT
On the subject of the title, Darabont mentions in the same interview that in France it was called "The escapers" or something, which he reckoned kinda gave the film away a bit roflmao He said it did very badly in france, and that *could* be the reason.

The Thin Man (all 5 movies)
The Maltese Falcon - the stuff that dreams are made of
The Big Sleep
North by Northwest
Rear Window
Chinatown
The Third Man
Usual Suspects.

yep, seen Manhunter and it was based on The Red Dragon - but again, the book was waaaaaay better than the film - if I remember correctly, they changed the film quite alot from the book.

roflmao you would think thats enough indeed hun, but some just cant get enough it would seem ;)

I actually really liked the film Red Dragon, (not Manhunter), but i've never read the books, and i'm also a fan of Ralph Fiennes and Ed Norton so that could be why.

I saw that DJ - thought it was better than Manhunter, think it remained more faithful to the book.

Ye it didn't do particularly well but it took in nearly £3 million in the UK, and did break even over all, so I would still be reluctant to dub it a flop, most movies these days tend to only manage to skim 10 million or so dollars off the top at most. So breaking even isn't THAT bad. And considering the amount of movies out there that actually lose money I would just tend to call them flops over something like the Shawshank, which just didn't do as well as expected; obviously it pales in light of its later success and overall popularity and acclaim, but £3 million in the U.K aint that bad. Even with inflation only the very biggest movies today make over £5 million in the UK.

Can't believe I forgot the Usual Suspects! Divine film making :ok:

An early masterpiece from Singer, mystery suspense, and drama its best and most terse unless Hitchcock is directing :)

One of Spacey's best performance also, he was the man of the 90's :bow: in so many great films.

I couldn't find a thread for this genre but if tere is one apologies SW, just wanted to comment on two films i saw recently both of which i recommend

Lucky Number Slevin and The Departed both were really good IMHO.... :ok:

Here you go SG, hope you don't mind me merging them :)

This thread has been at the back for quite a while so it's a good chance to bump it up.