Thursday, July 25, 2013

Favourite Films

Continuing with the "list" theme - here is my list of favourite films.

I am no major film critic and have a very wide range of genres that I watch - in fact there are some fairly odd combinations here ranging from extremely popular to a few "cult" types. I have missed out Star Trek ..... and Sky Captain and some others as although I really liked them my main criteria was "would I watch again and again"

I have also not yet included some I would like to see - and there are still a few !

Only 60 + on this list too so not quite as laborious as the 100 and have done in alphabetical order as I would find it quite hard with some of them to actually position - I'd have about 8 number 1's !!!!


6th Sense
Along Came a Spider
American Tail (Fieval)
An Officer and a Gentleman
Avatar
Big Trouble in Little China
Blood Diamonds
Bone Collector
Bourne Trilogy
Breakfast Club
Cool Runnings
Die Hard
Dirty Dancing
Dogma
Educating Rita
Erin Brokovitch
Fallen
Ferris Buellers Day Off
Forrest Gump
Full Monty
Gladiator
Heat
Hercules (Disney)
High Plains Drifter
Ice Age
Inception
Indiana Jones
Karate Kid
Last of the Mohicans
Legends of the Fall
Leon
Lethal Weapon
Lion King
Lock Stock and 2 smokin barrels
Long Kiss Goodnight
Lord of the Rings 1/2/3
Love Actually
Lucky Number Slevin
Mad Max 2
Moonlight & Valentino
Pelican Brief
Pirates of the Carribbean
Pitch Black
Pretty in Pink
RED
Resident Evil
Santa Claus the Movie
Saving Private Ryan
Schindlers List
Shawshank Redemption
Shutter Island
Sleeping with the Enemy
Sleepless in Seattle
St Elmo's Fire
Sum of all Fears
Swordfish
T4
Terminator 2
The Italian Job
The Lovely Bones
The Rock
The Untouchables
Titanic
UP
Usual Suspects
Withnail and I
Young Guns 1 & 2


Saturday, July 6, 2013

A more realistic book choice ....

Ok ...so after the last post and several friends laughing at me for actually putting in that I would read .....War & Peace ..... and Crime & Punishment ..... I guess I never will really.

Maybe I was trying to be too highbrow ..... after all - I actually missed off a couple of my absolute favourites!

The Sword by James Herbert -  I have read all of his books .... my favourite author.

The Burning Shore by Wilbur Smith - again another of my favourite authors although I have not quite read all of his.

BUT also ... maybe I was not highbrow enough ...... I missed out Shakespeare and YES I genuinely do like most of his plays and have read many - My favourite being King Lear

So - like many Lists ....sometimes you get caught up in the actual writing of them and miss the obvious items .... just going through the motion of getting to the "100" or "50" or "25" - whatever number you have set and therefore putting pressure on yourself to complete the list!

However, ...it won't stop me from doing these lists - I have my top 50 films etc and love the process  ..... right - back to my "things to do" list LOL !!!