A film survey...

[The Cosmic Balance]

Please let us know:

1. One film that changed your life
2. One film you have watched more than once
3. One film you would want on a desert island
4. One film that made you laugh
5. One film that made you cry
6. One film you wish had been made
7. One film you wish had never been made
8. The last film you saw
9. One film you have been meaning to see

Write as much or a little as you like (but preferably the former).

[Talisant]

1. One film that changed your life
Vormittagsspuk

2. One film you have watched more than once
La Jettee

3. One film you would want on a desert island
That film that shows you how to make all the stuff you need on a desert…

4. One film that made you laugh
Way Out West

5. One film that made you cry
Old Yeller

6. One film you wish had been made
Disney’s A Princess of Mars (the 1932 project)

7. One film you wish had never had been made
Red Dawn

8. The last film you saw
Dark Portals: The Chronicles of Vidocq

9. One film you have been meaning to see
Uh…uh…dunno

[Runs with Scissors]

1. One film that changed your life
A Patch of Blue
2. One film you have watched more than once
The Color Purple
3. One film you would want on a desert island
The Color Purple
4. One film that made you laugh
Police Academy
5. One film that made you cry
Amistad ( sob is more of an adequate description)
6. One film you wish had been made
My uncle's WW2 experience
7. One film you wish had never had been made
Nuke 'Em High
8. The last film you saw
The doors
9. One film you have been meaning to see
300

[The Dark Mage Of Melnibone]

1. One film that changed your life
Hmm... I will have to think of that one.

2. One film you have watched more than once
The Labyrinth! I love David Bowie.

3. One film you would want on a desert island
Labyrinth, Willow, Army Of darkness, LOTR, and Harry Potter. I had to add all of those. Oh, and Sweeney Todd. Anything by Burton.

4. One film that made you laugh
Recently, Labyrinth.

5. One film that made you cry
LOTR.

6. One film you wish had been made
darkness is beauty: What goes on within my mind.

7. One film you wish had never had been made
All these teenager movies with way too much sexual content.

8. The last film you saw
Labyrinth.

9. One film you have been meaning to see
Sweeney Todd!

[David Mosley]

1. One film that changed your life
Star Wars - not that it made me a Star Wars nutter (well, it did but I outgrew that phase) but rather it opened my eyes (and mind!) to what it was possible for film as a medium to do. As such it's the seed that grew into my abiding love for cinema as an art form (see below).

2. One film you have watched more than once
Where Eagles Dare - another formative childhood experience that - unlike Star Wars - I never grew out of.

3. One film you would want on a desert island
Citizen Kane - the greatest movie ever made, so why would you need anything else?

4. One film that made you laugh
M. Hulot's Holiday - much funnier than I expected it to be.

5. One film that made you cry
Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy - or if I can only pick one of the three then The Return of the King. I blubbed like a baby.

6. One film you wish had been made
The Magnificent Ambersons - which more strictly speaking is one film I wish had been released as the director intended and not slashed and mutilated by the Studio.

7. One film you wish had never had been made
Star Wars - largely responsible for the infantilisation of Hollywood in the '70s and '80s.

8. The last film you saw
It would have been The Golden Compass if I hadn't watched Viva Knievel! on TV last night.

9. One film you have been meaning to see
Would have been The Golden Compass if I hadn't seen it yesterday with my daughter, so I'll say Pan's Labyrinth, which has been sitting unwatched on my DVD shelf for the past month.

[Rothgo]

1. A film that changed your life
Tombstone. How so? Well, near every third word I ever say is a lift from this movie, done in a suitably poor rendition of a southern drawl.

2. One film you have watched more than once
Airplane. Still funny, no matter how often you see it.

3. One film you would want on a desert island
Brazil. Long runtime and eminently re-watchable.

4. One film that made you laugh
This is Spinal Tap. Who says a comedy can't be the best film ever?

5. One film that made you cry
Rings of Bright Water. Howled.

6. One film you wish had been made
Elric...?

7. One film you wish had never had been made
License to Drive. You haven't seen it. Pray you never will.

8. The last film you saw
Casino Royal. Best Bond in ages.

9. One film you have been meaning to see
Napolean Dynamite. Have the DVD. Don't have the time to watch it.

[Dead-Air]

1. One film that changed your life
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (I watched it when I was very young, like six, on t.v. and the ending was one of the most horrifically shocking things I've ever experienced because I'd never thought of that concept before then.)

2. One film you have watched more than once
The Man Who Fell to Earth (and I'd watch it again right now if it were handy; it's brilliant!)

3. One film you would want on a desert island
La Dolce Vita

4. One film that made you laugh
Leprechaun in the Hood

5. One film that made you cry
Midnight Cowboy

6. One film you wish had been made
An adaptation of Now Wait for Last Year by PKD with a good director, say Richard Linkletter, but not animation.

7. One film you wish had never had been made
Independence Day

8. The last film you saw
Eraser Head (with my pregnant wife; not a good plan despite her being a huge Lynch fan)

9. One film you have been meaning to see
The Birds (it's in our Netflix queue!)

[Groakes]

1. One film that changed your life
"The Wizard of Oz" - I was young and it was so vibrant and fantastical.

2. One film you have watched more than once
John Carpenter's "The Thing". To my mind the greatest science fiction horror movie ever made

3. One film you would want on a desert island
Theodore Roszak wrote a hugely entertaining novel enitled "Flicker" being a secret history of film. Read the endo fthe book to find what I would want to do on a desert island....

4. One film that made you laugh
"The Princess Bride" - wipes the floor with Shrek each and every time

5. One film that made you cry
"The Lives of Others" - majestic and redemptive. A film of immense humanity.

6. One film you wish had been made
Sergio Leone's film of the seige of Leningrad. Though Guissepe Tornatore's "Leningrad" might cut the mustard

7. One film you wish had never had been made
"Blues Brothers 2000" - What were they thinking????

8. The last film you saw
"My Fair Lady" - and I loved it! Shavian wit and great tunes!

9. One film you have been meaning to see
Alain Resnais' "Hiroshima Mon Amour"

[UncleDes]

...

1. One film that changed your life

Truman Show (just a great movie)

2. One film you have watched more than once

Koyaanisqatsi plus about 1,000,000 others

3. One film you would want on a desert island

"How to build a satellite TV system out of driftwood"

4. One film that made you laugh

The South Park movie, amongst others [I laughed so hard at the "UncleF Song" that people thought I was having a heart-attack]

5. One film that made you cry

One of the Planet of the Apes films when I was young (ended with the baby ape saying "Mama" in a cage)

6. One film you wish had been made

"UncleDes and Dana Delany meet Claudia Christian at the Baby Oil Store"

7. One film you wish had never had been made

"The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen": Because it tried so hard, but was complete tot

8. The last film you saw

"Little Miss Sunshine"

9. One film you have been meaning to see

"300"!!!!

[Doc]

1. One film that changed your life
Star Wars. Like David, I outgrew it. I was 8.

2. One film you have watched more than once
The Outlaw Josey Wales. I could watch it again tomorrow.

3. One film you would want on a desert island
Do I have a DVD player and television?

4. One film that made you laugh
Knocked up. Silly can be smart.

5. One film that made you cry
Pan's Labyrinth. Oh my...

6. One film you wish had been made
The Land of Laughs. An amazing book. Jonathan Carroll sold the rights outright, and the owner cannot make it.

7. One film you wish had never had been made
The Godfather part 3. Back to the well one too many times.


8. The last film you saw
Slightly embarrassingly, The Breakfast Club. Good for nostalgia. No Country for Old Men was the last I saw at a theater. Absolutely amazing.

9. One film you have been meaning to see
Citizen Kane. I feel like there is a huge gap in my cultural experience.

[Ilium]

1. One film that changed your life
Like a few others Star Wars - maybe it's the age I was at, was 6 when I saw it.

2. One film you have watched more than once
The Fountain.

3. One film you would want on a desert island
The Usual Suspects

4. One film that made you laugh
The Producers

5. One film that made you cry
Truly Madly Deeply

6. One film you wish had been made
Elric! :)

7. One film you wish had never had been made
Batman and Robin

8. The last film you saw
A Night At The Museum

9. One film you have been meaning to see
Das Boot

[YoungGod]

1. One film that changed your life

Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan

2. One film you have watched more than once

Mad Max - always a pleasure, and started a lifelong obsession with post-apocalyptic settings

3. One film you would want on a desert island

2001: A Space Odyssey

4. One film that made you laugh

Stephen King's It

5. One film that made you cry

The Wall (Pink Floyd) - can't remember why - this was years ago.

6. One film you wish had been made

A 100% accurate, faithful adaptation of Dune

7. One film you wish had never had been made

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

8. The last film you saw

Chronicles Of Riddick

9. One film you have been meaning to see

Akira Kurosawa's Ran

[SERPNTA1267]

1. one film that changed your life-
The Who's Tommy. Mom took me to see it when I was 7 in the theater.
2. one film that you have seen more than once-
A Clockwork Orange. Even played in a band called Ludovico's Technique form almost six years.
3. one film you would want on a deserted island-
Pink Floyd's The Wall. Great movie and you get music too!
4. one film that made you laugh-
Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure. Stupid but funnier than hell.
5. one film that made you cry-
The Last of the Mohicans. Russell Means is great.
6. one movie you wish you had made-
Star Wars. I never would have revised it. It should have been left alone.
7. one film you wish had never been made-
The Sword and the Sorcerer. I hated the sword.
8. the last film you saw-
Batman Begins. Best new version of Batman, looking forward to the new one coming out.
9. one film you have been meaning to see-
Pan's Labyrinth

[Lucid Sirius]

Seems like it will be fun to try to reinvigorate this sticky thread.

1. One film that changed your life

• Amadeus - Don't really know why but something in that movie uncorked a creative streak in me that hasn't slowed since. Must have been the music.

2. One film you have watched more than once

• A very, very great many in this category, so most recently: House of Flying Daggers. An incredibly beautiful production on many levels with a great story and some superb acting.

3. One film you would want on a desert island

• How To Build A Boat

4. One film that made you laugh

• Blazing Saddles. Also in the watched-more-than-once category. Just brilliant comedy of the kind not seen since Aristophanes staged his plays. When Mel Brooks gets it right, it's a masterpiece.

5. One film that made you cry

• House of Flying Daggers

6. One film you wish had been made

• Mercedes Lackey's The Last Herald Mage trilogy. I would say an Elric book but I'm not sure it's ready to be made quite yet.

7. One film you wish had never had been made

• Starship Troopers.

8. The last film you saw

• Jumper. Terribly disappointing to see what those two did with essentially unlimited abilities but some interesting CGI work I'd not seen before.

9. One film you have been meaning to see

• John Woo's Red Cliff. It's not really out in the US yet but I am looking forward to it.

[Kyrinn S. Eis]

1. One film that changed your life -- John Carpenter's They Live
2. One film you have watched more than once -- The Ninth Gate
3. One film you would want on a desert island -- There's no power on a desert island
4. One film that made you laugh -- The Naked Gun 2.5 (The Smell of Fear)
5. One film that made you cry -- Ninja Scroll
6. One film you wish had been made -- n/a
7. One film you wish had never had been made -- most of them
8. The last film you saw -- Casino Royale (Remake)
9. One film you have been meaning to see -- Pan's Labyrinth