10 Desert Island Movies

[Parker36]

I've been trying to come up with my own real life version of this list the last couple of days - not a desert island for life, but in the mountains of Africa for 2 1/2 years - and thought it would be fun to play and share ideas. There are a few bonus rules to play by, though: you have to watch them on a video iPod, so tiny screen size and if it is a 2disc DVD they count as 2 movies (stupid Godfather II and Gangs of New York).

Here is my list so far in no particular order:

1) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2) Anchorman
3) Troy
4) Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
5) Grandma's Boy
6) Tombstone
7) Super Troopers
8) Blazing Saddles
9) Indian Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
10) Futurama: The Beast with a Billions Backs


What 10 movies would you want to bring with you?

 

[Brooklyn-Brewtality]

1) Shawshank Redemption
2) Big Lebowski
3) Beerfest
4) Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings
5) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
6) Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
7) Jaws
8) Ratatouille
9) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
10) Finding Nemo


it is not just about great movies, but movies you can watch 1000 times each and still like. all these have stood the test of time with me. I would say I agree with every choice you made, too.

 

[Parker36]

it is not just about great movies, but movies you can watch 1000 times each and still like. all these have stood the test of time with me. I would say I agree with every choice you made, too.

Exactly right with the rewatchability. I have Finding Nemo on my short list also and the Lord of the Rings (except I only have the extended versions right now which are 2 discs)

 

[dontman]

Cast Away
Swiss Family Robinson
Robinson Crusoe
Six Days Seven Nights
Rescue from Gilligan's Island
Blue Lagoon
Lord of The Flies
Hell In the Pacific
Return to Blue Lagoon
The New Swiss Family Robinson

 

[ChshreCat]

1. The Princess Bride
2. Better Off Dead
3. LA Story
4. The Jerk
5. Kill Bill (I'm counting both as one movie)
6. History of the World Part I
7. Blazing Saddles
8. Young Frankenstein
9. Real Genius
10. Pink Floyd's The Wall

 

[carbon111]

1) The Last Wave
2) 2001: A Space Odyssey
3) Horror of Dracula
4) Aguirre, the Wrath of God
5) Wall-E
6) Monsters Inc.
7) 5 Million Years to Earth
8) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
9) Ghost in the Shell
10) Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence

 

[JVD_X]

Screw that... how about the complete series of survivorman and Ray Mears videos!

 

[HillbillyDeluxe]

Outlaw josey wales
Princess bride
Pulf fiction
we were soldiers
patton
heavy metal
debby does dallas(Alone right?)
far and away
Holy moses

 

[Mike M]

Sounds very XPNish

 

[MeatyPortion]

I have Beerfest, Jaws, Anchorman, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Borat, Slapshot, 13th Warrior, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, and Imaginationland here in Iraq with me. I am already bored with all of them 4 months into my deployment. Fortunately I have the internets so it's ultimately a win.

 

[Ksosh]

1-3: LOTR Trilogy
4: Left open for 'The Hobbit' if Peter Jackson's involved, place holder: 1 DVD of Garfield and Friends, any season
5: Matrix (just the first one)
6: Boondock Saints
7: Forrest Gump
8: Dawn of the Dead (remake)
9: Usual Suspects
10: Shawshank Redemption

 

[Ksosh]

2) 2001: A Space Odyssey

Carbon, just a quick question: The first time you saw 2001, was it in a movie theater shortly after it came out, or did you see it on a VHS/DVD on a regular sized screen?

 

[Ksosh]

Screw that... how about the complete series of survivorman and Ray Mears videos!

While I commend you on your choice of Survivorman over ******* vs. Wild, since the episodes are 1 hour each, you're looking at probably 5 spots *per* season (there are 3 seasons, right?).

I'd personally combine them to have a good selection that varied the type of location covered. For instance, the swamp vs. amazon was a little too similar IMO, same with some of the colder ice/snow climates.

So I'd probably do 1 desert episode, 1 swampy/amazon, 1 forest, 1 mountain, 1 snow covered whatever, and 1 tropic/island/ocean, for a total of 5 hours or ~2 video spots.

 

[Revvy]

1) Casablanca
2) To Have and Have Not
3) The African Queen
4) Key Largo
5) The Quiet Man
6) The Replacements
7) The Commitments
8) Touch of Evil
9) Gangs of New York
10) Master and Commander

 

[Scooby_Brew]

1. Pulp Fiction
2. From Dusk Till Dawn
3. Nosferatu
4. Shadow of the Vampire
5. Jaws (that would keep me away from the beach on the island)
6. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
7. Life of Brian
8. The Shining
9. Alien
10. Big Lebowski

 

[carbon111]

Carbon, just a quick question: The first time you saw 2001, was it in a movie theater shortly after it came out, or did you see it on a VHS/DVD on a regular sized screen?

Movie theater.

...but not shortly after it came out. I didn't get to see it until 1976.

 

[Joker]

1. Monty Holy Grain
2. Matrix
3. Princess Bride
4. Transformers
5. Pron something with 5 hours worth of girl on girl scenes
6. Bucket List
7,8,9. LOTR
10. Blazing Saddles

 

[Ceedubya]

1. Outlaw Josey Whales
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. O' Brother Where Art Thou?
4. Strange Brew
5. Young Guns I & II
6. Spinal Tap
7 -10. Porn (I"m assuming I'm stranded alone?? )

 

[Ksosh]

Movie theater.

...but not shortly after it came out. I didn't get to see it until 1976.

I figured as much. Everyone I've talked to either:
A) Loves it, and saw it in the theater a relatively long time ago (i.e. 25+ years), hence being blown away by the grandness of it.
B) Can't stand it, because they watched it on a regular TV and were bored by the 12 hours of people walking around doing nothing and/or looking at blinking lights.

 

[dontman]

I saw it 25 years ago and was bored senseless by hours of people walking in super slo-mo.

Even now I am amazed that space travel could be made boring. Holy crap! It is traveling . . . IN SPACE! Now, I understand that in the reality of traveling in space there would be vast expanses of incredibly boring sameness but really, was it necessary to show every second of that boring nothingness?

 

[carbon111]

1) Casablanca
2) To Have and Have Not
3) The African Queen
4) Key Largo
5) The Quiet Man
6) The Replacements
7) The Commitments
8) Touch of Evil
9) Gangs of New York
10) Master and Commander

Revvy, parts of your DVD collection must look a lot like mine!

I love Touch of Evil! Very underrated Welles flick.

Also, the Bogart movies are must-haves - SWMBO and I always put Key Largo in when there's a good windstorm.

 

[Revvy]

Revvy, parts of your DVD collection must look a lot like mine!

I love Touch of Evil! Very underrated Welles flick.

Also, the Bogart movies are must-haves - SWMBO and I always put Key Largo in when there's a good windstorm.

You know what's cool? The African Queen is actually in Key Largo Florida...

I touched the African Queen in Key largo.
(I know someone is gonna make a comment about that)

Touch of evil is amazing, especially the opening tracking shot.

I'm a bogie junkie.

 

[thataintchicken]

1. Schindler's List
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Bridge on the river Kwai
4. Jaws
5. Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
6. Auntie Mame
7. Unforgiven
8. Young Frankenstein
9. Ben-Hur
10. Kelly's Heroes

 

[JohnnyO]

No love for Lucas?

1. Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars: A New Hope
3. Goodfellas
4. Shawshank Redemption
5. Anchorman
6. Shaun of the Dead
7. - 8. JFK
9. Tombstone
10. Silence of the Lambs