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Study: Your Top Five Movies Reveal Your Personality!
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Musings on the byways of popular culture
The Jerk
Duck Soup
Airplane
It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Blazing Saddles
Analysis: Miserable bastard who needs a cheap laugh as a break from wallowing in existential despair.
“God damn these glasses, boy!”
Love the Count Basie cameo in Blazing Saddles.
The Big Lebowski
Expresso Bongo
Catch-22
School for Scoundrels
Ice Cold in Alex
Like a laugh and a bit of war, also Sylvia Syms.
I watched Victim a couple of days ago, with Sir Bogarde really stretching his acting skills to play a posh, repressed homosexualist, and Sylvia Sims was stunning. Good film.
Modest Bogarde story: when I went to Chatto & Windus the switchboard boy was an elderly homosexualist who for some reason disapproved of the Dirkster, who by then was one of the writing jewels in the Shaton & Windup (copyright S Beckett) crown. One day he buzzed up to Norah Smallwood, the terrifying MD, and said, ‘That actor chap who writes books is here.’ Instant dismissal.
Fargo
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest
Cool hand Luke
Taxi Driver
The chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
Love rebellious nature/anti establishment
Jimmy Blacksmith nice left field selection Steve.
When I first saw Jimmy Blacksmith I was startled. I saw it for second time several years later and still as visceral.
Godfather 1and 2
Groundhog Day
Wake In Fright
The Castle
Wake in fright is a terrific movie
Downloading as we speak. Not normally a fan of roo-mances, but I’ll give it a try.
It’s terrifying. Donald Pleasance at his creepiest. The book is worth reading too.
Chips Rafferty is great in it.
iIRC, it was his last film
Chips Rafferty is dead. NO!
At least we’ve still got Gerry.
Sadly, Chips had his chips a good few years back
Roo-mance? Come on, come on …
“Jousting sticks? Tell him he’s dreamin’.”
Straight to the pool room
Shawshank Redemption
City of God
Roxanne
Blades of Glory
When We Were Kings
Love of an underdog?
The Apartment
Vertigo
It’s a Wonderful Life
Goodfellas
Groundhog Day
A romantic, suicidal psycho who keeps doing the same thing over and over again ….
Would have thought The Wrong Box might have made your top 5, D
Would have thought The Wrong Box might have made your top 5, D
How Green Is My Valley should be in there.
I think you’ll find Dai only hires the most experienced butlers.
*trapdoor opens under Kid Dynamite*
It’s Groundhog Day seeing repeat posts from you @Jaygee
And it’s “…*was* my valley”, but I don’t think John Ford produced an accurate picture of life in the valleys despite its wild success
Yes, I don’t know why it keeps doing that. the annoying thing, the usual editing/deleting option never appears in either of the posts
Quadrophenia
Blues Brothers
Spinal Tap
Long Good Friday
Life Of Brian
A confused personality seeking acceptance who drives an ex-Police Car. Refuses to believe popularity as waning, and the criminal empire is slowly falling.
Once mistaken for the Messiah.
It’s 106 miles to Brighton. We’ve got a gourd, a hot dog and the amps go to eleven. Welease Way Charles!
Gregory’s Girl
Blade Runner
Trust (1990)
So I Married an Axe Murderer
The Lady from Shanghai
Lots of complicated “romance” in all of those choices. Clearly I’m part Leo/part Capricorn.
2001: A Space Oddessey
A Clockwork Orange
Dr Strangelove
The Ladykillers
The Producers (original version).
Geek with dark humour. Actually, that’s spot-on.
How are we defining “movies” here….?
Would someone lke to help Moosey out? I’m too busy right now thinking about whether to pare my bunions or not.
“The pictures.”
Also…. the flicks?
A Matter Of Life and Death
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Diva
Tampopo
Hot Fuzz
Yes, yes … have you read the post? Other peoples’ answers? See anything missing? Hmm?
I’m sorry.
‘Heavenly Mr Area knows what time war starts, and fuelled by Gitanes and ramen, trolley dashes into two blokes with a f*ck load of cutlery’.
Once Upon a Time in the West
Jazz on a Summer’s Day
Fargo
Sean of the Dead
Get Carter
Still a crazy mixed up kid.
Edged out: Cross of Iron
Sons of the Desert
Captain’s Courageous
Saturday Night Sunday Morning
If….
White Heat
A sensitive soul with delusions of grandeur.
Distant Voices, Still Lives
The Long Day Closes
Comrades
Pulp Fiction
Spinal Tap
I think this selection reveals a man who prefers spliff to booze.
Die Hard
Rocky
Rambo
Toy Story
The Jungle Book
A boy who never really grew up
Brighton Rock
Schindler’s List
The Lives of Others
Brief Encounter
Lift to the Scaffold
Probably means I think too much about everything, which I do. I think.
Like CGU above, I’m going to ignore the comedic and “meta” nature of this thread and just give you my five favourite movies, and Dr Sauce can tell me my personality type from this:
** USUAL EXCLUSIONS APPLY. THIS IS OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD AND I WOULD PROBABLY LIST FIVE DIFFERENT FILMS TOMORROW IF YOU ASKED ME **
Blade Runner
The Sting
The Birds
The Third Man
Pulp Fiction
The Third Man should be in my 5
Ignoring the comedic and “meta” (“air quotes”) is ignoring the very essence of not only this thread but the Afterword as a performative construct.
“OK boomer”
I’m listing the films I regularly go back to time and again, which presumably makes them my favourites..!
American Graffiti
Independence Day
Goldfinger
Terminator 2
A Hard Day’s Night
An optimist who also ignores reality by living in the past.
That’s most of us, apart from the optimist part
The Return (Zvyagintsev)
You, the Living (Andersson)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell & Pressburger)
Ida (Pawlikowski)
Tokyo Story (Ozu)
A slow soul.
What, no Last Year At Marienbad (Resnais), Alps (Lanthimos), The Turin Horse (Tarr), or Caddyshack (Ramis)?
I am disappoint.
The Turin Horse just got edged out, because it wasn’t sufficiently slow or grim.
The line dance sequences seemed out of place.
Clockwork orange
Dead of night
The Godfather
Kind hearts and coronets
Man who would be King
Matter of Life and death
Get back to you on the analytical part later
A violent psychotic with delusions of grandeur who hopes for redemption in the afterlife.
Clockwork orange
Dead of night
The Godfather
Kind hearts and coronets
Man who would be King
Matter of Life and death
Get back to you on the analytical part later
….can’t count?
He’s doing his Groundhog Day joke. It gets funnier!
“You don’t have a personality. You just have a list of shows you like” is, I believe, a line from The Big Bang Theory.
My top 5 from those already mentioned:
The Big Lebowski
City Of God
2001: A Space Odyssey
Once Upon A Time In The West
This Is Spinal Tap
because I am (a) a dilettante, (b) lazy and (c) devoid of originality..
Le Voyage dans la Lune.
Duck Soup
Fantasia
Withnail and I
The Railway Children
Oh dear. Another Rebel Outsider too lah-di-dah to play the game by the rules. You are the chiz of this thread.
Sorry I hadn’t realised we had to psychoanalyse ourselves.
In this ever changing world a reliance on a comedic past to induce a feeling of safety, despairs of the modern world, hates change. Though I’ve changed my mind on my top five films. Can I have another go Saucepot?
Why, soiternly!
Mulhollland Drive
2001
The Conversation
Taxi Driver
Withnail and I
Vigilante eavesdropper living in a dreamworld who likes visiting the Lake District, but has deep foreboding about the rise of the machine. I’m not very good at self analysis. That’s the one thing about myself I can be sure about! LOL!
Blade runner
2001
Man who fell to earth
Once upon a time in the west
Duck soup
Harmonica playing cigar chomping maverick leading the human fight back against our robot overlords. Or more realistically scifi geek drawn to shiny things that look good.
2001 Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
The Jungle Book
The Seventh Seal
Clubbed to Death
I like humour, cartoons, and being chilled out
And being clubbed to death.
Only on Saturdays
And playing chess with Death!
While listening to Pink Floyd on acid
This is Spinal Tap
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
Nil by Mouth
The Damned United
Koyaanisqatsi
At least one Carry on film should be in there but generally they would be better if shortened to 30 minutes. Marx Brothers films can do without Zeppo/handsome male lead singing at a hapless flapper every 10 minutes.
I think I’m interesting and eclectic but I am not.
Tunes of Glory
Paris, Texas
Hobson’s Choice
Local Hero
The Cruel Sea
Grumpy eccentric shell, hopelessly romantic interior…well, hopeless anyway…
Off the top of my head, the first five I thought of:
Tampopo
The Haunting
Le Petit Baigneur
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Wonder Man
A hungry citizen of the world, enjoying the mystical and the farcical sides of life…
My Neighbour Totoro
The Big Lebowski
24hr Party People
Grand Budapest Hotel
Godfather
Fondness for quirky comedies but regressing to childhood.
That Thing You Do
The Year of Living Dangerously
Godfather 2
The Searchers
Star Wars IV
Just edged out: Subway
Gah! Yellow card! The point (such as it was) of this thread was to offer a slight but mildly entertaining variation on the “List Your Top Five Whatever” theme. Of which – I’ve just counted -there are three thousand eight hundred and twenty-one examples on the Afterword already. But, you know, whatevs.
You did well to leave out that film about the sandwich shop. It stinks (b-boom!)
I’m not very good at deciding top five or ten anythings, but as I lie in bed having my morning Earl Grey, I’ll give it a go and so today I’d choose:
Lawrence Of Arabia
Dr Zhivago
Polanski’s Macbeth
The Fisher King
Blockheads
*dash it!*
um… jolly nice chap all round, I’d say. Modest too.
Four of your five show you identify strongly with the Sacrificed King, or Messiah. The fifth shows you are daft. Niceness and modesty don’t seem to play any part.
Sacrificed king?! I’ll have none of that god of the desert lefy hippy wimpery, old son. I’m more of an Ashoka type, or perhaps Alexander The Great. Without the bum action, obviously.
… and whilst we’re at it… ‘turn the other cheek’?! FUCK OFF. D’YER WANNA KNUCKLE CIABBATTA, MUSH?! D’YER LIKE ASHRAM FOOD?! Two weeks in the company of neurotic hormonal new age hippy type women from Santa Barbara is a fate most hideous and grossly unbearable to any noble Kshatriya. Let’s get meaded up and go a-viking!! HAHARRR!!!
Casablanca
A Matter Of Life And Death
Aliens
Seven Samurai
Godfather 2
…just edged out, Midnight Run , In Bruges.
No idea at all.
A Matter Of Life And Death would be by number six.
Three are violent adventures, two are nostalgic/exotic romance. Is there someone you know with a D in his name? I’m seeing a Dave … Dick … no? Oh, wait – it’s a G. Name doesn’t have to begin with a G, it’s in there … maybe where he’s from? Gateshead? No? How about a B?
I’ve always been a sucker for a good cold reading!
It’s someone you knew in the past, were very close to … not that close … he wants to say something … I’m seeing a troubled aura … around the knee area? Do you have trouble with your knees? Not your knees, exactly, any bone joint?
I note that Tampopo has appeared a couple of times in this thread –
I feel compelled to ask: after watching it, did anyone try the egg yolk thing?
On reflection, maybe I’d rather not know…
Tampono was one of the names Neil Young considered for his audible Toblerone.
12 Angry Men (50’s Henry Fonda version)
Lee J. Cobb is terrific in that.
Night of the Living Dead
Omega Man
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Heathers
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
(Work that out, Phibes!)
The Third Man
The Ladykillers
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Thing (1982)
Street Dance 3 (not really. It’s The Odd Couple)
I WANT one more – Young Frankenstein. ‘He. Voss. My. Boyfrentt!’
Harry Lime: “You know, I never feel comfortable on these sort of things. Victims? Don’t be melodramatic. Look down there. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare? Free of income tax, old man. Free of income tax – the only way you can save money nowadays”.
A recent view from the Riesenrad.
In Vienna last week and should have had this in my list. Visited rather sewers and stood in the doorway.
PUTT ZER KENDLE BECK!!
Sedagive..?
This is frustrating. One more comment for a hamper.
Have mine. The tinned chicken is an abomination and as for the rest of it? Only fit for the skip.
Repo Man
It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Groundhog Day
Goodfellas
Scrooged
I await the analysis ….
You’re a very patient and balanced person — someone who is able to see both sides of things. You’ve been called fair before and you agree. Your optimism is one of your best qualities. It’s what your friends and family compliment the most and it keeps you in a good place. Although you are generally kind and caring, you do not suffer fools gladly. You have probably never had sex with a prostitute.
You can laugh at the absurdities of life and the ridiculous, repetitive nature of existence but there is a darkness there just below the surface ready to erupt in an explosion of brutality and hideous violence. You do live in the past somewhat.
More tea, vicar?
Your outward display of breezy confidence, at times tipping over into aggression and bullying, belies a troubled inner nature at odds with the physical form it has to inhabit. Your soul flies amongst the stars, but your arse itches.
Searching through my dvd collection today, and in no exact order of preference:
Alice In Wonderland (Jonathan Miller BBC 1966)
Blue Velvet
Sir Henry At Rawlinson End
Dr. Strangelove
Bedazzled (original, of course).