British Expatriate Network

So, we probably all love at least one film that is generally considered pants! lol But for some reason you just love it...
I have a couple -

Cocktail (Tom Cruise - so hot!)
The Craft (Just intriguing!)
Time Cop (JCVD - even hotter! lol)

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It's time to fess up! Which films do you reach for when noone else is watching? wink

ukm

The Third Man. I like black and white. I love the photography. I'm quite partial to the music too. roll

Wings of Desire.
La Dolce Vita
Belle de Jour

I know, naff! oops

Why is Wings Of Desire a "guilty" pleasure?? It's one of my favourite films ever..... (

I love Dirty Dancing, Top Gun, Platoon, Hamburger Hill, Mash and Good Morning Vietnam, not necessarily in that order. Also True Lies and the Die Hard movies.

Call the trick cyclist! D

but that said, if I watch them once every 3 years, I'm doing well these days......

I quite like those - often really awful, and I mean awful - low budget films that were made to promote, or made on the back of, 1970s British sitcoms, such as Steptoe And Son (the movie), Steptoe And Son Ride Again, Man About The House, Dad's Army, Porridge etc.

A local video shop with an excellent British section (un)fortunately has them all. Even if the comedy series wasn't too bad, it always got a wierd, overlong, meandering but somewhat fascinating treatment in these films.

Maybe it was because there was no laugh track and they were shot on cheap film, that gave them a strange surreal quality. They were made at a time when the British film industry wasn't doing so well and they were churning this stuff out by the bucketloat. But many of the actors were actually quite good, against the odds. It was interesting to see, for instance Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett out of their familiar TV set.

I similarly have a soft spot for Carry On... films. They were truly dreadful in almost every way. But again, those actors, like Kenneth Williams, Sid James and Frankie Howard were actually brilliant and made the most of the restrictive material they were given. They really don't make them like that any more........well actually they do. Anyone seen Ali G the movie, actually set in Staines???? It's naffness is sort of wonderful.

Much the same as the *movies you see over and over again *thread but added a few that were a little titilating with a adult theme.

Sex and Lucia.
The Image .
Belle de Jour .
Quiet days in Clichy.
Postman only knocks twice.
Emmanuelle
Animal instints .

Dirty Dancing? Monster? Well I'm gobsmacked, and that doesn't happen often as you know :wink: :lol: That's probably my most worn out movie too :lol: , also Platoon,Top Gun , and Hamburger Hill :o Oh and Full Metal Jacket Too......

anything with JCVD gets my vote :oops: :lol:

I know, but you try getting anyone to sit and watch it with you. I have it down to an art now. Mid afternoon, cold wine, nibbles and wotnot but no one to watch it with. My American girlfriends are like,.... when is something going to happen, and why is it such an old movie,

it's guilty, cos I don't share :P

Of course!

Eraserhead. 8)

Debs x )

An Officer and a Gentleman and Love Story roll

(and The Champ....Jon Voight at his best wink )

I've always liked "Waterworld" and watch that when no one is around. Seemed to be more the victim of an orchestrated whisper campaign, the film you had to hate that season, rather than genuinely "bad".

I'm with you there Pilgrim, I liked Waterworld. I liked The Postman as well. I guess Costner was just hated for a few years for some reason.