Movies for a desert island.

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<p>What are the movies that you would want on deserted island, or would take on a mission to Mars? Not the “greatest “ – e.g. Citizen Kane (bor – ing). The ones you can watch over and over even though (or maybe because) you know every scene. The ones that, when you come upon it channel surfing, you watch the rest of it – even if you own it.</p>

<p>Here are a few of mine:
Classics: - Casablanca, African Queen, Dr. Zhivago, Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz, Bridge over the River Kwai</p>

<p>Contemporary: Usual Suspects, Pride and Prejudice, Apocalypse Now</p>

<p>Kids: Toy Story (saw this with my wife and kids (ages 4 and 6) in the theater – we were laughing harder than any kids there), Finding Nemo</p>

<p>A few that come close: Pulp Fiction, Out of Africa, Rear Window, To Have or Have Not, 2001 (not including the ending)</p>

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<p>Fun question. The movies I can watch over and over include Zoolander and Love Actually. Not great, but fun!</p>

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<p>Mean Girls, White Chicks, Lost in Translation, Little Miss Sunshine, Candy Man, etc…</p>

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<p>Schindler’s list - If I’m stuck on a deserted island it doesn’t get much more depressing, perfect time to watch it. </p>

<p>I think I would take Office Space.</p>

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<p>The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The extended editions. I’ve got time.</p>

<p>Mary Poppins. Mostly for Dick Van Dyke.</p>

<p>The Godfather. Only the first one.</p>

<p>Star Wars. Also only the first one.</p>

<p>Troy. On a desert island, nobody would make fun of me for being one of the dozen people in the world who truly loves this movie.</p>

<p>And if TV is included, I would love the DVDs of the full seven seasons of The West Wing. In fact, if you let me have them, I might even hide if a boat showed up to rescue me before I finished watching them all again.</p>

<p>Also Hill Street Blues, but only the episodes before the roll-call sergeant died.</p>

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<p>Yeah, forgot Little Miss Sunshine.</p>

<p>Also the first Alien. Still scares the crap out of me.</p>

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<p>Most of drb’s selections, plus The Godfather (I <em>and</em> II), The Apartment, Shakespeare in Love, Annie Hall, The Shawshank Redemption, Lawrence of Arabia, When Harry Met Sally, and You’ve Got Mail.</p>

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<p>Barefoot in the Park (Jane Fonda & Robert Redford), Plaza Suite (Walter Matthau), The Odd Couple (Walter Matthau & Jack Lemmon), Some Like it Hot (Marilyn Monroe & Tony Curtis), Dirty Dancing (Patrick Swayze), This is Spinal Tap (Christopher Guest & Harry Shearer), The Wizard of Oz (Judy Garland), Annie Hall (Woody Allen & Diane Keaton) and if TV is included, every episode of I Love Lucy (because I do).</p>

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<p>willy wonka and the chocolate factory, the nightmare before christmas, it, the wizard of oz…</p>

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<p>All the Bergman films, most of the Fellini films, the first Alien, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Contact, Dr. Zhivago, Sideways, Don’t Look Now, Lost in Translation, Dead Poet’s Society, Blade Runner, City Lights</p>

<p>if on the deserted island:
not Cast Away and not Jaws, and not Jurassic Park</p>

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<p>Oh and Guess Who’s Coming for Dinner, just for Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn</p>

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<p>Shawshank Redemption, Some like it Hot - good choices. Harry met Sally not so much - doesn’t age well - Sleepless in Seattle or French Kiss if I have to bring a chick flick.</p>

<p>Love the music and the Borsht Belt in Dirty Dancing, but I’d probably be heading for the airlock if I have to watch that much Patrick Swayze.</p>

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<p>while I don’t want to hijack the thread, a must movie on my list to buy when it eventually comes out, is a movie we saw tonight, Juno. I loved almost everything about it (one scene felt sort of contrived), and it’s one of a few movies I could watch again and again and again.</p>

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<p>^^^ Juno is a movie I’m looking forward to seeing. According to the reviews I’ve read, it’s excellent on many levels.</p>

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<p>Not sure how well thought out this list is, but these are the movies I DO watch every year or so: Slingblade, The Year of Living Dangerously, Pulp Fiction, Fargo, The Godfather, The Usual Suspects, Airplane!, They Might Be Giants, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, Goodbye Mr. Chips, American Graffiti, Full Metal Jacket, Chariots of Fire, In the Heat of the Night, A League of Their Own, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Local Hero .</p>

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<p>Every Christopher Guest mockumentary, every movie Kevin Kline has been in (LOVE “A Fish Called Wanda”), Woody Allen’s “Zelig”, and Warren Beatty’s “Heaven Can Wait”</p>

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<p>Rocky I
Raising Arizona
Saturday Night Fever</p>

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<p>If I was stranded on a deserted island the only DVD I would want would be: Complete Instructions On How to Build a Boat</p>

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<p>Lord of the Rings trilogy, extended edition
Shawshank Redemption
Remember the Titans
Sound of Music
It’s a Wonderful Life (if stranded at Christmastime)
Seabiscuit
The Black Stallion (They are rescued from desert island.)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
probably several others that I can’t think of at the moment</p>

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<p>To Have and Have Not. All the screwball comedies. All the Hitchcock movies. Casablanca. The Russian War and Peace that came out when I was in highschool. Cabaret. Star Wars (the first three). American Graffitti. Sliding Doors. The Lord of the Rings (unless I have the book instead.)</p>