Trival conversational Q

[steishigh]

Just for something new to post on here, on those rare days where you have a sick day off work and all you can do is lay about and watch films and relax what films do you tend to stick on to waste the day.
To start of i tend to be
Any bond film
Evil Dead
A Bourne Film
A Quentin Tarrantino flick
How about your good selves

[rm082e]

When I'm ready for some quiet time, I will frequently load up one of the following comfort films:

Gladiator
Rounders
High Fidelity
Any Bourne movie
Any Harry Potter movie
Lost Highway
Fight Club
Shawn of the Dead

[Flex Mentallo]

When I get some good me time in I like to pop in -

Hustle and Flow - a little Whoop That Trick does wonders for the soul.

Mission: Impossible - a great, and highly underrated, Depalma film

Star Trek: The Motion Picture - great flick and Jerry Goldsmiths score stirs the soul

Up the Academy - everytime I watch this movie I crack up like I'm watching it for the first. Great for when I'm feleling down.

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - gets me pumped up everytime I watch it.

Three O'Clock High - when I'm in the mood for some quirckiness with a dash of Tangerine Dream thrown in for good measure.

Sixteen Candles - doesn't get any better on a rainy day.

Band of the Hand - everything you hated (and loved) about the eighties is in this movie. Just a good time that takes me back to my youth. I know somebody out there wants to remake this.

[underoath]

Predator + Alien (quadrilogy, yes I love David Fincher's too ) marathon

[Centauri]

Originally Posted by Flex Mentallo

Star Trek: The Motion Picture - great flick and Jerry Goldsmiths score stirs the soul

*Claps*

Glad to see another TMP fan. I'm absolutely shocked by the number of people who flat out don't like it. I think it's probably the most consistent and well-thought of the Trek films. I'm not sure it's my favorite, but I do like it more than the traditional favorite; Khan.

And yes, Goldsmith's score is magnificent. At least as good as anything Williams did for Star Wars. Very chilling. And of course it set the tone for all Trek music that followed.

[cleeve]

Originally Posted by underoath

Predator + Alien (quadrilogy, yes I love David Fincher's too ) marathon

oh man, david fincher is pretty much my favorite director but alien 3 was just awful. he disowned it himself, saying that he doesn't consider it his creation because he was so rushed and pushed around by the studio. that cgi alien was some of the worst computer animation i've ever seen in my life.

[steishigh]

Got to say i havent seen many star trek films. Nothing against them just never really seen them all the ones i did see were generations (which i liked even if there should have been more stuff in the nexus), first contact, excellent and i vaguely remember a whale in one of the films but thats all i remember.
Also whats Three O'Clock High

[pob14]

From my avatar you might guess that it would be the LOTR trilogy.

And you'd be exactly right.

Others include My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, and Breakfast at Tiffany's.

And NO, I am NOT gay!

[Marvin the Martian]

Seeing "my good and dear friend" post above, I could hardly let a thread like this pass without mentioning my own household's guilty pleasure on days off and weekends - ploughing through such staples of televisual sci-fi and fantasy as Buffy, Angel, Babylon 5, Stargate SG-1 and Farscape.

Most recently we've waded through Star Trek: TNG, we're up to season five of Deep Space 9, with Voyager left to "do" and mulling over a possible purchase of Star Trek: TOS.

On the movie front I'd have to recommend Hot Fuzz to the person who mentioned Shaun of the Dead. If you like Bill Bailey (Hot Fuzz) and Dylan Moran (Shaun of the Dead) you might also want to check out the television series Black Books, as well as Bill Bailey's stand-up effort Part Troll.

[Flex Mentallo]

Originally Posted by steishigh

Also whats Three O'Clock High

Check it out.

www.fast-rewind.com/3oclockhigh.htm