The Desert Island Game

[WS]

Okay, so if you were stuck on a desert island and could only bring 3 movies with you to watch over and over (yeah wind up dvd players or solar batteries or something, okay!?!) what three would you bring with you?

[Alendar]

The Court Jester
Roman Holiday
Love Affair (Yes, the one with Warren Beatty, I know its a contraversial pick, that's the point!)

[WS]

The Court Jester is hilarious - I haven't seen the Warren Beatty one yet, but am not generally too much of a romance person. I think Roman Holiday is an interesting pick - you get two great stars but neither in my favorite performance by them! I'll definitely check out Love Affair! Thanks!

[WS]

I'd choose Stagecoach for the John Wayne movie - I love that one. Claire Trevor is just so wonderful and who can forget Thomas Mitchell as drunk old Doc Boone! And John Carradine as the Southern gambler what a great film! I'd choose The Big Sleep instead of MF. I just love the chemistry between Bogart and Bacall! Key Largo is good, but so is To Have and Have Not!

Steven Macon said:

The Maltese Falcon, Key Largo, and some John Wayne western. (many to choose from..)- Steve Macon-

[CaliforniaNow]

I agree with The Big Sleep because it's controversial in that, to this day, people can't tell you the detailed plot and why and who?  I just like the interiors of the murdered guy's house and the rich old man's.

Assassins with Antonio Banderas and Sylvester Stallone.

Love, Actually would be the third choice.

[WS]

Those are such unusual choices, CN! You are certainly right about the Big Sleep - although I'm pretty sure I have it ALL figured out! (wink!)

[Falcon]

The World, The Flesh and The Devil

The Big Sleep

American Grafitti

 

[WS]

Interesting choices, Falcon! That first one is a much forgotten post-apocalyptic film! I'm not sure how many times I would want to see it, but it is certainly a film worthy of seeing! Inger Stevens was  a beautiful woman. I am still saddened by her death/overdose! Of course the fact that she was secretly married to a Black man adds significance/irony to this film too.

[Falcon]

Every once in a great while Turner Classics shows The World, The Flesh and The Devil.  Interesting Inger Stevens was married  to a Black man....back then that would raise more than eyebrows. She was very beautiful.

I like those shots of an abandoned downtown NYC.  The film was shot on weekends mostly on Sundays for all of those downtown shots, where it actually was that deserted!

[EddieDingo]

I would bring "The Stuntman" because I do believe there is a better way to get home for Thanksgiving.

"Ship of Fools" because I could never hit a curved ball on the outside corner.

And maybe..."Shadowlands" because Debra Winger does a much better job of dying in this one than she does in any other one.

Wait...I can't leave behind my George Romero films or my Steve Buscemi...or my Coen Brothers...and I would have to have "To Have and Have Not".

I think I'll just bring a Netflix subscription.

[WS]

Maybe you could just bring "The Ship of Barton Fink has or has not  shadowlanded the Night of the living big Lebowski Dead."  I think that should keep you occupied for a while and if not then you should watch "Terms of Endurance" repeatedly until you appreciate the nuances of Debra Winger in her death throes.

[EddieDingo]

Tons of Endurance...yes, I've sat through it.

[WS]

Whoops Imeant Endearance - I guess that was a Freudian slip!