Your Desert Island Movie List

[Walks_At_Night]

IMO the Hobbit series is part of it all. You are supposed to watch all 6 on a binge watch movie day. Start at about 8AM and order in lunch and dinner along the way.


Glad to see a few of us adding Casablanca to the list.

Ok - The Hobbits go in with LOTR

[KSM]

Ok - The Hobbits go in with LOTR

LOL  that was easy, but you get my point. I think..

[Walks_At_Night]

As TV movies are fair game, I am going with Cocoon - 1968  This was a two hour TV movie that served as the pilot episode of the original Five-O TV series. I am definitely a Five-O fanatic and this jewel started it all.  It is good one for sure - the only failing was that they had some stiff playing the Danny Williams character. This was corrected in the regular series when James MacArthur took over the roll. 

The plot is quite good. An American intelligence agent is found dead on the beach. It has been made to look like the man drowned but McGarrett was friends with the guy and knew that he did not swim.  McGarrett and Five-O dig in and investigate the death as a homicide. This leads McGarrett to a student that the dead agent was dating played by the lovely Nancy Kwan. Remarkably, McGarrett takes her out on a date!  This is highly unusual as through out the series, McGarrett is typically a bit of a hard ass and doesn't have time dalliances.

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Also during the date, one can actually see  Helen Kuoha-Torco's face.  She is the hula dancer whose hips are shown in the intro to every Five-O episode from then on:
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McGarrett continues to clash with US intelligence agents played by Leslie Nielsen and Andrew Duggan.

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 As the investigation continues we learn more about the Five-O team.  As McGarrett enters the Five-O offices we get a view of the Iolani Palace where the Five O's offices reside.:

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As McGarrett walks in from parking his bad ass black Mercury, there is a tour bus parked outside whose operator is played by Yankee Chang. They exchange pleasantries in Cantonese.  AFAIK this is the only time in the 12 year run of the show that we hear McGarrett speak anything but English.

We also get to learn more about the Five O team.  Chin Ho Kelly was played by Kam Fong and Kono Kalakaua was played by Zulu.
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  One of the neat things about the original series was with it being filmed on location in Hawaii there was not a huge pool of acting talent to utilize. So they had to look around.  Kam Fong was a Honolulu police officer at one time and Zulu had a night club act in a Waikiki club. While not appearing in the pilot other examples of this are the criminalist Che Fong whom was played by Harry Endo - he was a local banker.  Kwan Hi Lim was an attorney who played lots of bad guys during the series.  He was picked because he looked 'sinister':
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Five-O's investigation eventually ends up on a rust bucket of a freighter where McGarrett encounters his nemis, the Chinese agent named Wo Fat who is played by Khigh Dhiegh
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BTW - the name Wo Fat was derived from the oldest chinese restaurant in Honolulu.  Mrs. Walks and myself had a memorable meal there on our first visit to the Islands.
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It turns out that the US agent played by Duggan is a traitor and working with Wo Fat to roll up US assets through out Asia.  In order to break captured agents, Wo Fat uses a horrifying sensory depravation chamber - hence the name Cocoon.  McGarrett is prepped for this torture and dunked in.
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Everyone else eventually breaks down but McGarrett being McGarrett does not, and turns the tables on the traitor.
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Wo Fat escapes of course and remains a thorn in Five-O's side until the final episode of the Series which aired in 1980 - Woe to Wo Fat.
When McGarrett finally arrests him. 

[Rikki Gins]

@Walks_At_Night    That was great, WAN.  Very well presented.

[Zetaspeak]

1 - Naked Gun -
2 - 12 Angry Men - (1957)
3 - Indiana Jones Temple of Doom -
4 - Dr. Strangelove -
5 - Mulholland Drive
6-  Young Frankenstein -
7-  Batman (1989)
8- Cloak and Dagger (1984 movie)

9. Who Framed Roger Rabbit It's a movie that I watched when I was younger and it was such an original concept I watched it recently and still wows me. The mixture of actors and animation, the blending of kids and adult content. WB and Disney sharing screen time. Very cool movie

[JUAN]

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

[Billy Joe Mulgreavey]

1. JAWS (1975)
2. Florida Straits (1986)
3. The Invisible Man (1933)
4. Flashpoint (1984)
5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
6. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
7. Escape From New York (1981)
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
9. Kogarashi Monjiro-Withered Tree (1972)
10. Time Bandits (1981)
11. My Fellow Americans (1996)
12. Casablanca (1942)
13. Slayground (1983)

14. The Last Detail (1973)   The movie follows two career sailors assigned to escort a young emotionally withdrawn recruit from their Virginia base to Portsmouth Naval Prison in Maine.  Based on the novel by Darryl Ponicsan.  Both the book and movie are good, though they differ from one another.   

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[sean92008]

My choices are based on the memories of watching them with my children or my ability to watch numerous times and still enjoy them:

Spinal Tap
Madadayo
Kiki's Delivery Service (the original Japanese release, not Disney)
Totoro (also not Disney)
The Life of Brian
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
All of the Harry Potter movies
Pulp Fiction

[Rikki Gins]

5  Breakfast With Curtis  2014

This picture is my go to movie when I'm in need for some cheering up.  It follows a group of Providence, Rhode Island neighbors from summer to winter and the plot centers on Curtis, a young, introverted boy who has a hard time breaking out of his shell.  He is helped by his quirky neighbor Syd who sells mail order books from his upstairs rooms at what is called the Purple Citadel.  Curtis likes to film things with his video camera and Syd gets the idea of utilizing Curtis and the camera to make videos on YouTube that will aid in his bookselling business.  Great film, and Theo Green (Syd) is fun to watch, as are all the other neighbors.  The movie was beautifully filmed and one can really feel the atmosphere as time progresses from summer to winter. 

I purchased the movie from Laura Colella, the lady who wrote and produced the movie.  She was kind enough to have autographed the DVD case.  She also acted in the movie.  That's Laura in the trailer, talking to young Curtis about the importance of summer.

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[Walks_At_Night]

Moby Dick [1956] - My all time favorite movie.  Let's just say the Ahab and me, well we share some personality quirks. There have been several movies/mini-series made of the book but I think this is the best and of course Peck is awesome.

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Also is there a better rendition of the song Hill and Gully Rider anywhere?

[Walks_At_Night]

So that's a wrap for me.  Here is the breakout:

1. Northwest Passage [1940]
2. Caddyshack [1980]
3. Stalag 17 [1953]
4. Cool Hand Luke [1967] 
5. The Enemy Below [1957]
6. Enter the Dragon [1973]
7. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [1998] 
8. Mr Hobbs takes a Vacation [1962]
9. The 'Burbs [1989]
10. Apollo 13 [1995]
11. Rio Bravo [1959]
12. The Right Stuff [1983]
13. War of the Worlds [1953]
14. Manchurian Candidate [1962]
15. Back to School [1986]
16. Jaws [1975]
17. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World [2003]
18. Lord of the Rings [2001/2002/2003] | The Hobbit [2012/2013/2014]
19. Hawaii Five-O Coccoon [1968]
20. Moby Dick [1956]

[Billy Joe Mulgreavey]

1. JAWS (1975)
2. Florida Straits (1986)
3. The Invisible Man (1933)
4. Flashpoint (1984)
5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
6. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
7. Escape From New York (1981)
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
9. Kogarashi Monjiro-Withered Tree (1972)
10. Time Bandits (1981)
11. My Fellow Americans (1996)
12. Casablanca (1942)
13. Slayground (1983)
14. The Last Detail (1973)

15. The Prodigal Son (Miami Vice)  (1985)  A two episode story, the first two episodes of season two, later released as a movie on VHS.  Crockett and Tubbs travel to New York to take down a powerful Colombian cartel.  C-O-O-L.  Crockett is so cool, he can get 13-14 rounds out of a Detonics Combat Master without changing magazines.  How cool is that?

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[KSM]

I have no idea what my count thus far comes to and I cannot say for certain that I am entirely happy with said list! Who started this damn thread anyway!? 

Now I have to go back and take stock of my movies and get back on track.

[Billy Joe Mulgreavey]

1. JAWS (1975)
2. Florida Straits (1986)
3. The Invisible Man (1933)
4. Flashpoint (1984)
5. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
6. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
7. Escape From New York (1981)
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
9. Kogarashi Monjiro-Withered Tree (1972)
10. Time Bandits (1981)
11. My Fellow Americans (1996)
12. Casablanca (1942)
13. Slayground (1983)
14. The Last Detail (1973)
15. The Prodigal Son (Miami Vice)  (1985)

16. Rumble Fish (1983)  S.E. Hinton was required reading in school.  We had to read The Outsiders but I preferred Rumble Fish.  Book was good and so was the movie.  Disaffected and restless, Rusty James (Matt Dillon) is spoiling for a fight. Abandoned by his mother and living with his alcoholic father (Dennis Hopper), he hangs out with his girlfriend, Patty (Diane Lane), and his similarly aimless friends Midget (Larry Fishburne), Smokey (Nicolas Cage) and B.J. Jackson (Christopher Penn). When his brother, the Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke), returns to town, Rusty hopes to gain guidance and wisdom from someone most people think is crazy.  Stewart Copeland and Stan Ridgway on soundtrack!

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[KSM]

I'm backing out of this thread.