Top Ten Tuesdays

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

FILMS YOU WOULD LOVE TO SEE ON THE BIG SCREEN

I would love to see 2001: A Space Odyssey on as big a screen as possible, and then again to take some LSD and take a trip during the trip! I think it would be awesome to see the astonishing photography of Once Upon a Time in the West on a huge screen and listen to Ennio Morricone's score coming from a brilliant cinema sound system. Similarly, Lawrence of Arabia would be spectacular, making a great film even better.

If time travel is permitted, I'd love to go back to 1960 and see Psycho when no one knew the ending. The same goes for 1999 and Fight Club, a film I didn't see when it was theatrically released and wish I had. With Hitchcock's macabre masterpiece, I think the shock of the shower scene would be incredible in a packed cinema with people who've never seen it, and watching the culmination of 'Project Mayhem' whilst the Pixies' 'Where Is My Mind?' fills the auditorium would be brilliant.

On a lighter note I loved seeing Withnail and I with an audience of people who love the film, so watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail in a cinema full of Monty Python fans would be fantastic, as would seeing This Is Spinal Tap with an audience of people like me who know all the lines and I think the atmosphere would make the film even funnier.

I'm unsure whether an audience would improve the film, but seeing Casablanca on a big screen and with many people who love the film would be a great experience. It's completely different, but The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is terrifying when I'm watching at home, so to have it on a big screen and with the sound turned away in a cinema with some similarly-minded gorehounds at its premiere would take some beating.

Finally, I loved watching Intruder at the Glasgow Film Theatre with people who knew exactly what it was and responded accordingly, so to do the same with Zombie Flesh Eaters would be awesome.

So there you have it; my top 10 is:

• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Psycho
• Fight Club
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• This Is Spinal Tap
• Casablanca
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
• Zombie Flesh Eaters

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Thanks to all who contributed a list of the films they would most like to see at the cinema; there were some really interesting and varied lists which made for good reading.

The topic for this week is for films which are principally set on board a spaceship. It doesn't matter how far out into space it is or whether it's futuristic sci-fi or a dramatisation of a real spaceflight, just that most of the action takes place on board a spaceship or space station.

FILMS SET ON A SPACESHIP OR SPACE STATION

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

For this topic i take it space ship also means space station. Going off the 2001 Gif. One is something that travels through space whilst the other is a stationary object?

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

For this topic i take it space ship also means space station. Going off the 2001 Gif. One is something that travels through space whilst the other is a stationary object?

Yes, space stations are included. I've edited my original post accordingly.

The topic doesn't include colonised planets or bases on planets, moons, or other solid objects in space.

[Deadite]

Event Horizon
Solaris
Alien
2001 A Space Odyssey
Gravity
Galaxy Quest
Sunshine
Dark Star
The Black Hole
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Top Ten Films set on a Spaceship or Space Station.

Star Wars (1977)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
The Black Hole (1979)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Moonraker (1979)
The Green Slime (1968)
Event Horizon (1997)
Jason X (2002)*
Ender's Game (2013)
Apollo 13 (1995)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Ha, ha. Going off my list i'm really not the biggest fan of the Alien series.

Not one gets into my top ten.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Ha, ha. Going off my list i'm really not the biggest fan of the Alien series.

Not one gets into my top ten.

Not even Ridley Scott's 1979 film?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

Not even Ridley Scott's 1979 film?

I think that's the one i've seen least of all followed by the overlong Aliens.

I can appreciate the Giger production design for Alien but bugger all happens for fifty minutes so when you've seen a group of astronauts bicker and marvel at a grounded space ship once then that's enough.

I know that's contrary to popular opinion but they don't really grab me and never have done. Prometheus was good but follow up Alien: Covenant was dreadful.

I've said before on the forum, think it was to B_e. I'm not really the biggest sci-fi movie fan.

Of more recent films i thought Gravity was okay, Passengers was dross, but Ender's Game (basically a reworking of Full Metal Jacket) was good.

I hated the remake of Solaris so won't go near the original which is probably so arty farty i'll be nodding off.

[Deadite]

Ooh, i forgot Moon. Might have that displace Star Trek in 10th.

Edit: Actually, that might not qualify. Can't remember whether its set on a base or not. Good film though.