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Well, the votes have been cast... (see: http://www.thepompeychimes.net/forum/vi ... =2&t=63852)

The #1 film (with a whopping 13 votes, 36% of voters including it) was....


1) The Shawshank Redemption (voted #1 on the imdb site also)

a very credible 2nd, and only 3 votes behind came:

2) The Life of Brian (#165 on the imdb)

ooh! A 3-way tie for 3rd place! But the 3rd of the 3 only comes in by 'default' - being part of a 'box-set':

=3) Blazing Saddles

=3) Pulp Fiction

=3) The Godfather Trilogy

Another tie for 6th place, with 5 votes each. Again, the 2nd of which creeps in just under the radar by being included in a box set (hmm.. said the bloke who put Kill Bill vol 1/2 in...):

=6) Casablanca

=6) The Lord of the Rings Trilogy


Completing the top 10, err... 13, a SIX-way tie (with 4 votes each) for 8th place:

=8) It's a Wonderful Life

=8) Jaws

=8) Leon

=8) The Green Mile

=8) The Third Man

=8) True Romance

Honourable mentions go to the following, all getting the votes of at least 3 of us:

Back to the Future (I, II & III)

Dead Poets Society

In Bruges

The Jungle Book

Monty Python & the Holy Grail

Once Upon a Time in the West

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Saving Private Ryan

Star Wars

The Italian Job

The Killing Fields

The Princess Bride

This is Spinal Tap

To Kill a Mockingbird

West Side Story

Withnail and I

The rest? (give me a minute...):

"Could be worth a punt" (2 votes each):

Airplane

Amelie

American Beauty

Apocalypse Now

Apollo 13

Bladerunner

Bullitt

Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid

Dances With Wolves

Dark Knight

Forrest Gump

Gladiator

Grease

Gremlins

Groundhog Day

L.A. Confidential

Lavender Hill Mob

Lawrence of Arabia

Meet Joe Black

Papillon

Seven Samurai

Sleepers

Some Like it Hot

The Big Lebowski

The Blues Brothers

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

The Great Escape

The Longest Day

The Shining

Toy Story

Usual Suspects

Bear in mind, there is a very slight "stripey skew" to the list, (courtesy of Jasp), who needed 2 goes, plus a couple of other mentions. But drawing attention to that would be unkind, as there were others who can't count to 10 either.. As for "box sets" I don't know who started that.

Oh - bear in mind that the rotary generator that runs the TV (the former you have to pedal whilst watching the latter), can't power the DVD player unless you also run the secondary generator above your head (powered again by pedals - use your arms).

Now the good news. (Not wishing to exclude anything or anybody). On good days, with the wind blowing in the right direction (and other atmospheric considerations going your way), and your bit of coat-hanger you found pointed in the right direction, you can pick up TWO channels (albeit with plenty of static). One continuously cycles (bit like you) through the entire catalogue of "The Simpsons", and the other is dedicated to showing Italian porn. Once again, though, this proves a bit of nuisance - as you hands are busy working the secondary generator in order to work the "high gain" aerial...

The Sound of Music
South Pacific
My Fair Lady

I don't do films. I think from that lot I have watched about 2 and a 1/2.

And the rest (could be chancing it a bit, we have some right weirdo's on here):

2001
A Chorus Line
A Knights Tale
A Matter of Life And Death
Adolf Hitler: My Part in his Downfall
American Graffiti
An American Werewolf in London
Anchorman
Annie Get Your Gun
As Good As It Gets
Batchelor Party
Batman
Battle of Britain
Battle Royal
Bedazzled
Being There
Big Wednesday
Black Dynamite
Bring It On
Brotherhood
Bubba Ho-Tep
Captain Courageous
Captain Horatio Hornblower
Carry on Cleo
Catch 22
Champions
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
Clerks
Clerks 2
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Contact
Control
Cool Hand Luke
Crimson Tide
Crocodile Dundee
Cross of Iron
Dark Star
Das Boot
Dead Man Walking
Dial M for Murder
Dogma
Don't Look Now
Dr Zhivago
Enemy at the Gates
Enter the Dragon
ET
Excalibur
existenz
Face Off
Ferris Buellers Day off
Field of Dreams
Fight Club
Finding Forrester
First Blood
Forbidden Planet
Four Brothers
From Dusk to Dawn
From Hell
Full Metal Jacket
Get Carter
Ghost Dog
Gone with the Wind
Good morning vietnam
Goodbye Mr Chips
Goodfellas
Gremlins
Hard Boiled
Harry Potter box set
Heat
High Plains Drifter
High Society
Hot Fuzz
How the West was Won
Ice Cold in Alex
In which we Serve
Inception
Jurassic Park
Kellys Heroes
Kill Bill box set
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Kurosawa
La Belle et la Bête
Lassie Come Home
L'Atalante
Legend of Drunken Master
Les Visiteurs
Let the Right one in
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Lost in Translation
Magnificent Seven
Mamma Mia!
Mans Favourite Sport
Mary Poppins
Memento
Mister Roberts
Moby Dick
Muppet Christmas Carol
My Cousin Vinny
National Velvet
Night of the Living Dead
Now Voyager
Obsession
On the Waterfront
Once Upon A Time In America
One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest
Open Range
Out of Africa
Parenthood
Piaf
Pricilla Queen of the Desert
Priest
Quai des Orfèvres
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Reach for the Sky
Rear Window
Regarding Henry
Reservoir Dogs
Romancing the Stone
Scarface
Schindler's List
School of Rock
Scott of the Antarctic
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Shrek
Silent Running
Singin in the rain
Sleepy hollow
Soldaat van Oranje
Sound of Music
Spies like us
Spirited Away
Spring and Port Wine
Stand by Me
Stanley & Iris
Star Trek - Insurrection
Stardust
Swordfish
Take The Money and Run
Taken
Taxi Driver
Terminator 2
Tess of the D'Ubervilles
The 39 Steps
The African Queen
The Apartment
The Big Country
The Blind Side
The Blue Max
The Bourne Trilogy box-set
The Bravados
The Conversation
The Crow
The Devils
The Elephant Man
The Empire Strikes Back
The English Patient
The Goonies
The Hitcher
The Hustler
The Ipcress File
The King's Speech
The Lady Vanishes
The Last of the Mohicans
The Lifes Of Others
The Lion King
The Matrix
The Michael Shepard Story
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
The Prestidge
The Prisoner of Zenda
The Quiet Man
The Railway Children
The Ring
The Rock
The Square Peg
The Star Trek series
The Sting
The Unforgiven
Thunderheart
Time Bandits
To Sir with Love
Tootsie
Top Gun
Total Recall
Touching The Void
Trainspotting
Transamerica
Transformers
V for Vendetta
Vanishing Point
Walk the Line
Wall-E
Waterloo
WestWorld
What Women Want
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane
Whistle Down the Wind
White Heat
White men can't jump
Wise Blood
Wizard of Oz
Yojimbo
Zac and Miri make a porno

Should keep you lot busy in front of the box, beer in one hand, cock in the other, during the close season!

Knocked up!

LoyalskitoPFC wrote:Knocked up!

Cheers Loyalski!

Any chance of "stickying it" for 2 or 3 days please?

My conclusions from the 'content' of the films lists...

We like a long, drawn out story, preferably with a happy ending. Has to be morally & ethically 'right'. We are quite tribal, enjoy a good fight (so long as we win), and enjoy some 'eye candy' (especially with a bit of flesh on display) at half-time. We can be a noisy bunch, and definitely like a good sing-a-long whilst in the company of others (dancing optional).

When things 'go bad' we turn to humour to lift our spirits, we're not afraid of 'the big bad monster' - but respect it's power. We have little time for our enemies, but yet still show compassion & empathy. We feast on some strange food, and long for a wealthy messiah.

Finally, if all else fails, we like to dress up in women's clothing, and stand around telling jokes we've heard before many times.

Sounds about right...

Brilliant effort WW

Interesting viewing , this thread is to good to lose IMHO .

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Concur, thanks Mr Wally. This is fascinating.
One of the favorites I haven't seen - True Romance and will check it out at the earliest opportunity.
The lower numbers also contained some fascinating choices; Citizen Kane, for example.
But some weirdos in the remainder? There are a couple I don't recognize but I think you need to name and shame

Thanks WW

I like films, but some of these I've never heard of, will have to Google them later!

I want to know (and its not because I think its an awful film, because its not!) who put Romancing the Stone, was it one of the guys??

Plastic Blue wrote:
I want to know (and its not because I think its an awful film, because its not!) who put Romancing the Stone, was it one of the guys??

Sadly, yes it was, but I think/hope he was taking the ******. You don't see too many "fave film" lists featuring both Mary Poppins & Terminator 2!

Cheers for the thanks chaps. Heh, my "c & p" fingers were busy for an hour or so there, but interesting reading I think.. Worthy winner, and I think 2nd place represents the board overall!

Nice to have a list where so many have contributed, and has definitely given me plenty of films that I will keep an eye out for/get the DVD now. Thanks to everyone who posted up their top-tens! Appreciate it's a tough choice, but even if I'd have made it 50, we would've found it just as tough I think. Aware that our choice is 'skewed' somewhat by two things: age range, and also the male:female ratio.

Can we sticky this please mods? Just for a few days (so that the 'not at weekends' crowd can catch it?) Many thanks!

Great work, WW. Been hanging on that result from the jury.

'Ice Cold in Alex' ? - Only one vote??? The World's gone mad!