Be Excellent To Each Other

I was listening to the Mayo and Kermode Film review Podcast. He listed his fav top 10 scary films.

It got me thinking what are your top movies to watch or recommend for a lock down.

I will think on my list.

I did Days of Thunder last week, it's still great (obviously) but it hasn't really stood the test of time...

Second best film ever made.

If you Save The Last Dance, so help me God...

Using condoms to explain drafting has to be hands down the most excruciatingly cringemaking piece of cinema in all history

Point break.

I watched Groundhog Day last night.

Maybe an obvious choice, but I came out of it surprised by the relevant messages there was it in for 2020. Being stuck in a situation outside your control for sure and coming to terms with that. But also it covers male self loathing and how that affects Phil and his relationships.

Good call.

I'm partial to the Ocean's Trilogy (less so Ocean's 12 though)

They're just so damned watchable, the cast is great and clearly all get on really well.

I have started doing the MCU films with the boy, as he can't remember the older ones.

Fairly sure they were packets of sugar.

Do the films have to reflect lockdown or is this just a list your fave films thread?

And that, girls and boys, is How The Grimlet Came To Be Born.

Nope

Fav films.. please

That’s some Barenstein shit going on there. I remember seeing it (probably on ITV) then looking it up on the internet and someone complaining about it. Then I just searched for it now to make sure I didn’t make it up and found at least two sites mentioning it.

Trooper flexing his OLED there.

Working through the Hammer and Amicus films is nice. I like to do that. Then through Romero and Fulci. I have three book-type films that go together with Capote, The Ninth Gate, and Naked Lunch. Always a go-to when shit brains attack, those. Then there's Big Lebowski and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas that have to be watched back-to-back to remind me of Uni days.

Pan’s Labyrinth*
Breathless
The Big Lebowski
The Shining
AI
There Will Be Blood
12 Angry Men
Gone Girl
Goodfellas
Superbad/Pulp Fiction

The Mirror (1975, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky)

Persona (1966, directed by Ingmar Beegman)

The Piano Teacher (2001, directed by Michael Haneke)

Au Hasard Balthazar (1966, directed by Robert Bresson)

Barry Lyndon (1975, directed by Stanley Kubrick)

Oldboy (2003, directed by Park Chan Wook)

Seven Samurai (1955, directed by Akira Kurosawa)

Taxi Driver (1976, directed by Martin Scorsese)

Carrie (1976, directed by Brian De Palma)

The Thing (1982, directed by John Carpenter)

10 Cloverfield Lane
Kick-Ass
The Hurt Locker
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Planet of the Apes trilogy
Arrival
Sicario
Prisoners
Death at a Funeral
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Moonrise Kingdom
Big Hero 6
Drive
Ex Machina
Gone Girl
The Social Network
Mad Max: Fury Road
Edge of Tomorrow
Nightcrawler
Moon
In Bruges
The Man from Earth
Avatar (Fight Me!)
The Big Short
Sunshine
It Follows
The Road
Mr. Nobody
Snowpiercer
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Dark Knight
Inception
Interstellar
Whiplash
Oblivion
Django Unchained
Your Name
Wall-E
Up
Inglourious Basterds
Some personal picks;

Nocturnal Animals
The One I Love
Prometheus
Perfect Sense
Swiss Army Man
Grave (Raw)
Margin Call
Triangle
Melancholia
Antichrist
Borgman
The Tree of Life
Pandorum
Eden Lake
Jagten (The Hunt)
Panique au village (Panic in Town)
Kynodontas (Dogtooth)
The VVitch
Take Shelter
Death Proof
Bone Tomahawk
Foxcatcher
Inherent VIce
Ah-ga-ssi (The Handmaiden)
Mommy
The Lobster
Life
Chappie
Elysium
Only Lovers Left Alive
Enter the Void
Thelma
Shame
Relators Salvajes (Wild Tales)
La piel que habito (The Skin I Live in)
Ich seh ich seh (Goodnight Mommy)
Dans la Maison (In the House

Children of Men
Her
Under the Skin
The Mist
Blade Runner 2049
Shutter Island
12 Years a Slave
Deadpool
Black Swan
The Revenant
Gravity
Watchmen
Get Out
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
District 9
Iron Man
Tropic Thunder
Fury
Superbad
10 Cloverfield Lane

Yes, they're wrong too.

To be fair, if they were condoms it would make a lot more sense. I mean, why did they have sugar packets?

But I can see American censors going nuts if someone tried to put contraception into a film.

In no particular order
Gregory's Girl
Dark Star
What's New, Pussycat?
The Pink Panther
2001 - A Space Odyssey
LOTR
Dune (the one with Kyle McLachlan)
Three Weddings and a Funeral
Knotting Hill

Box sets
The Beiderbecke Trilogy
Watching
Auf Weidersehen, Pet
G.B.H
Cracker
The Prisoner
Green Wing

According to my Flickchart:

1 Mulholland Dr. 2001, 147 min.
David Lynch • Starring: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller

2 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 2010, 111 min.
Edgar Wright • Starring: Chris Evans, Michael Cera, Anna Kendrick

3 Hero 2002, 99 min.
Yimou Zhang • Starring: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung

4 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2000, 120 min.
Ang Lee • Starring: Ziyi Zhang, Cheng Pei-Pei, Chow Yun-Fat

5 Amélie 2001, 122 min.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet • Starring: Amélie, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus

6 When the Last Sword Is Drawn 2003, 143 min.
Yôjirô Takita • Starring: Kiichi Nakai, Kôichi Satô, Yui Natsukawa

7 Kill Bill Vol. 1 2003, 111 min.
Quentin Tarantino • Starring: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox

8 The Fountain 2006, 96 min.
Darren Aronofsky • Starring: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn

9 Princess Mononoke 1997, 134 min.
Hayao Miyazaki • Starring: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka

10 The Godfather Part II 1974, 200 min.
Francis Ford Coppola • Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

Admittedly, 2-6 could do with a rewatch, as they are kind of legacy positions at this point. I'm sure I still love them, but how much?

I feel like Guardians of the Galaxy 2 might sneak in there, or at least top 20.

I really should watch the god father...

Yes! Perfect for when you're locked down: you'll never have as much time to watch Godfather I and II.

Sky have a "100 favourite movies" list up at the moment on the home page. I think I had seen 97 of them...