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You only ever need one tape in your video collection

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Warrington Minge

23:26 / 21.10.01

11.26pm

Time for bed soon...need something to watch before I sleep.
Always the same.
Never changes.
Choose a film,
watch ten minutes,
choose another,
watch ten minutes,
choose another,
watch ten minutes,
choose another,
watch ten minutes,
choose another,
watch ten minutes
and after that I'll still end up watching my tape
of Good Life episodes.

You only really need one tape in any video
collection.

Anyone else have a constant repeatable fave?

Big Furry Bear

17:17 / 22.10.01

Know how you feel DW.

It's weird isn't it? There are just some times when those shelves at Blockbuster or home look really uninspiring and only that one film that you can watch time and time again does the trick.

The Big Lebowski for me.

Bear

17:47 / 22.10.01

I was just coming in to write the big lebowski, are we related?

Graeme McMillan

18:40 / 22.10.01

Beyond the Valley of The Dolls.

Or Head.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

Grosse Point Blank

Mad Max

I have 3 that do the trick:

Blade Runner - Director's Cut
Rosemary's Baby
Angel's Heart

Consistantly Keggers
(prev. Keggers. Classic.)

21:23 / 22.10.01

Grosse Point Blank
The Hunt For Red October
Blade Runner (dir. Cut)
Usual Suspects
Stigmata
Pillow Book (ok, i just really really like this one)

Also known as my films I never get tired of watching sellection)

[ 22-10-2001: Message edited by: kegboy ]

MJ-12

21:24 / 22.10.01

Conan

Cop Killer

21:33 / 22.10.01

For a while it was Strange Brew and before that it was Brazil, but now it's Oh Brother, Where Art Though.

Cherry Bomb

21:45 / 22.10.01

That is a great fucking movie (O Brother).

And it gets in your head like a virus, too..

The Sinister Haiku Bureau

21:52 / 22.10.01

Slacker's good on the grounds that you can just watch a bit, and then fuck off and do something else, and not even bother about turning the video off, because you won't have to worry about losing the 'plot'. See, people make too big a thing about movies having crap plots, but really they should just kick that whole 'plot' concept out the window... just makes movies full of cool pictures and people saying weird stuff... You don't even have to pay attention, you can like, talk over it and stuff, and get completely monged, and if theres a lull in the conversation, it's like, 'oh, wow, some womans trying to sell some guy's maddonna's fluids'... great stuff.

Warrington Minge

23:28 / 22.10.01

Nightmare before Christmas for me tonight. I dont even have to watch I can just listen to Danny Elfmans wonderful songs.

Probably will still end up watching the good life though!!

Agree with all above especially Cohen films ( Hudsucker Proxy a fave along with O Brother ) and with respect to Guy Grands post I havent seen beyond the valley of the dolls for ages. That rocks. The Carrinations are great!!

mondo a-go-go

10:59 / 23.10.01

don't have o brother on vid yet, but i did see it 3 times at the cinema (ditto crouching tiger). need to get the big lebowski too.

i'll generally return to
l.a. confidential
l'appartement
kitchen

for short spaces when series episodes would do, it was blackadder but i don't have that anymore.

Cat Chant

11:17 / 23.10.01

For some reason, Todd Haynes' "Safe": I find it comforting.

Series episodes: I usually go with whatever's on UK Gold. Or Buffy.

rizla mission

14:10 / 23.10.01

Secondary to Dazed & Confused, but still worth mentioning:

If..
Bladerunner
Mallrats
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas

moriarty

14:45 / 23.10.01

quote:Originally posted by MJ-12:
Conan

Agreed.

"Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, and why we died. All that matters is that today, two stood against many. Valour pleases you, so grant me this one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, the HELL with you!"

The Return Of Rothkoid

14:51 / 23.10.01

Vertigo.

E. Randy Dupre

17:10 / 23.10.01

It's A Wonderful Life.

Yeah, I know...

Cherry Bomb

17:20 / 23.10.01

Oh, E Randy Dupre, you know that scene where George and Mary are on the phone to Sam Wainwright and George grabs Mary and says, " Now you listen to me! I don't want to get married or anything! And you're, you're...." and they end up holding each other?

Gets me every time.

And now to further embarrass myself, I will say that "Holy Smoke" is the film I could see about 8 million times.

Don't ask me why.

Well... do if you want.

E. Randy Dupre

17:27 / 23.10.01

Also a pretty erotic scene, that. Serious tension.

Cherry Bomb

18:02 / 23.10.01

That's what makes it such a great scene, Dupre! That and the fact that Jimmy Stewart was a serious hottie in his younger years...

moriarty

05:23 / 24.10.01

Oh, please. As if you ever have to apologize for loving a film as near perfect as It's a Wonderful Life. The only people who I know who hate it are the ones who have never seen it.

agapanthus

08:46 / 24.10.01

Godfather II
The "Minnesota Brands" double episode of 30something.

e-n

09:22 / 24.10.01

it's gota be my series 1 video of spaced.Last time I watched it was at 5.30 ona saturday morning.It's even better than sleep!!

The Return Of Rothkoid

13:06 / 24.10.01

Based on a rewatching last night, I'd have to say that Amadeus is coming in as a near-perfect contender, also. I don't know how to explain it, but the whole thing just works; wonderful music, F. Murray Abraham, gorgeous visuals and some of the most natural direction I've ever seen. Wonderful, wonderful stuff, with equal doses of delight and tragedy. An awesome film.

Cherry Bomb

14:59 / 24.10.01

quote:Originally posted by agapanthus:
Godfather II

Oooooh....

Godfather II is a fucking work of art!!

>>sigh<<

A great, great movie, and definitely better than the first one. The ending gets me every time. And Al Pacino is such a cold bastard! BUT HE JUST WANTS TO BE LOVED!! Ahh.

While I'm hear I'm just gonna give a shout out to "Chinatown, cuz I can.

Bear

15:40 / 24.10.01

how bout the Viva Las Simpsons video, watched so many times, sober drunk and stoned, great everytime

ahh precious memories

Lothar Tuppan

17:57 / 24.10.01

I hearby add Angel Heart and Conan onto my list as well.

Cars, magic, swords, camel spit. What else do you need in life?

No star here laces

18:25 / 24.10.01

Ummm

Groundhog day. Definitely.

No, wait, it has to be Miller's Crossing.

But.... Bill Murray.

But Albert fuckin Finney.

And we've not even got into IAWL, Treasure of the Sierra Madre or The Bad and the Beautiful yet.

I refute this one tape theory.
No... no use, I need at least two.

pinstripe fictionsuit

20:11 / 24.10.01

All the Star Wars films definitely.

And Red Dwarf and Mallrats would be on my list, if I even had them on video...

ghadis

21:16 / 24.10.01

porn

mondo a-go-go

10:07 / 25.10.01

and that was clive's 69th post.

Tamara Willett Hurt

11:17 / 25.10.01

Props to Godfather II...

"Did you hear what happened in my home?"

"Michael, I almost died myself - "

"IN MY HOME! In my BEDROOM where my WIFE SLEEPS! Where my kids come and play with their toys."

You tell him, Mikey.

For a while at university I was living in a house where we'd often watch bits of the same handful of films over and over again... I remember Six Degrees Of Separation, Quiz Show and The Hudsucker Proxy being favourites.

Then again, you could go for a trio of classics: To Have And Have Not, It's A Wonderful Life, 12 Angry Men.

Or there's always Swingers, probably my "personal" favourite feelgood film...

The Return Of Rothkoid

11:45 / 25.10.01

quote:Originally posted by Flyboy:
Props to Godfather III've only seen the version that was floating around on two videos a couple of years ago. It's the first two movies recut so that the story unfolds chronologically. Have you seen this version - and is it stronger or weaker than the standalone films?

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