Michael Crichton -- Liked The Andromeda Strain as a kid...Barry Levinson's Disclosure was okay and Sphere was decent...Congo was horrible but not much worse than Pet Sematary, Jurassic Park, then you have Carrie, Christine and The Shining (which is nothing like the book), so I would say they are dead even.
David Lean: The Bridge on the River Kwai or Lawrence of Arabia?
"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love."
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Young Travolta (Grease) or older Travolta (A Love Song for Bobby Long)?
Neither...okay, older Travolta...
okay: Wes Anderson: Rushmore or The Life Aquatic?
"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love."
Ah, tough one.... ok, Rushmore...
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) or Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)?
Ok I'll guess '78.
ET or The Last Starfighter?
E.T.
Three hour movie...intermission or no intermission?
No intermission...
Audrey Hepburn or Katherine Hepburn?
Audrey, Audrey, Audrey. I love Katherine Hepburn, and she totally kicked ass, but the romantic part of me wins this one.
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Do you watch a film a number of times, or is once generally enough?
Hmm .. split down the middle. Films I find agreeable I'll watch again and again over the years. However, 'generally', as you say, once tends to be enough. There is a great deal of dross out there.
Once is generally enough.
Black and white films or films with subtitles?
Beauty is momentary in the mind -
The fitful tracing of a portal;
But in the flesh it is immortal.
The body dies; the body's beauty lives.
So evenings die, in their green going,
A wave, interminably flowing.
So gardens die, their meek breath scenting
the cowl of winter, done repenting.
So maidens die, to the auroral
Celebration of a maiden's choral.
Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings
Of those white elders; but, escaping,
Left only Death's ironic scraping.
Now in its immortality, it plays
On the clear viol of her memory,
And makes a constant sacrement of praise.
('Peter Quince at the Clavier' by Wallace Stevens)
I don't remember the scores but since the thread has died down a little... let's try something new ;-)
(something old rather!)
Gone With The Wind or Casablanca?
Bobi 1 Kenobi
B. Beware
O. Of
B. BOB
Casablanca
And speaking of classics...
Terminator I or Robocop I?
(careful now, there were a couple of TP actors in one of them!)
Looks like the cutting is done mate - might need to start stitching...
Oh...and...white meat. (am I missing something? Is this a movie question?)
Meet the Feebles or Braindead?
Braindead
Rocky or Raging Bull?
Raging Bull.
Choose Rowan Atkinson's (a.k.a. Mr. Bean) best performance in the last 10 years between these two films, which i found to be the most remarkable: Bean or Keeping Mum.
"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey)
"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)
Bean
Monty Python or Are you being Served?
I don't know "...served". If anyone knows, please answer.
In the meantime:
the use of S. Barber's Adagio in Platoon or Elephant Man?
Bobi 1 Kenobi
B. Beware
O. Of
B. BOB
Platoon - classic stuff indeed...
Saving Private Ryan OR Band of Brothers?
Haven't seen Band of Briothers, so SPR...
Sunset Boulevard or Double Indemnity?
"Every day holds a new beginning and every hour holds the promise of an Invitation to Love."
Haven't seen Band of Briothers, so SPR...
Sunset Boulevard or Double Indemnity?
Jail House Rock
Animal House or Caddyshack?
Animal House (if only because Susan's sis Martha is one of it's stars) Bela Lugosi or Christopher Lee (as Dracula)?
Christopher Lee
Dracula or Frankenstein?
Dracula!
Taxi driver or The Assassination of Richard Nixon?
Note: the second is not a remake, it's just very similar.
"Did they scoff the whole damn Smörgåsbord?" (Audrey)
"Gimme a donut!" (Coop)