Desert Island movies

[bob]

If you were stuck on a desert island, what are the 10 movies you couldn't live without?

If it makes any different for some reason there is a  bluray player on the desert island.

There are mine: Inception, The Big Lebowski, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ben-Hur, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, The Dark Knight, A Clockwork Orange, The Usual Suspects, Pulp Fiction and Jaws.

[A_Dubya]

Friday, Big Lebowski, Clockwork Orange, Malcolm X, Star Wars Episode V: Empire Strikes Back, Taxi Driver, Fargo, Scarface, The Rise and Fall of ECW and Devil In Miss Jones 3 (gotta have some porn, right?).

I'm set. 

[RCMerchant]

1.DRACULA (1931)
2.the GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY
3.TAXI DRIVER (just to remind me why I don't miss the human race  )
4.SON OF FRANKENSTEIN
5.A porno 

What about electricity? 

[JaseSF]

Hmm very tough to just pick 10 films but off the top of my head, I'd probably go with the following:

1) Soylent Green (1973)
2) The Omega Man (1971)
3) Planet of the Apes (1968)
4) The Maltese Falcon (1941)
5) 12 Monkeys (1995)
6) Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
7) Metropolis (1927)
8) The Wolf Man (1941)
9) Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
10) Foxy Brown (1974)

[voltron]

Rituals
Nightmare City
Just Before Dawn
Maniac (1980)
Eyes Wide Shut
Deep Red
Dawn Of The Dead
Rock N' Roll Nightmare
The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane
This Is...Spinal Tap

[bob]

1.DRACULA (1931)
2.the GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY
3.TAXI DRIVER (just to remind me why I don't miss the human race  )
4.SON OF FRANKENSTEIN
5.A porno 

What about electricity? 

everything is solar powered 

[ChaosTheory]

Hmmm....

THE IRON GIANT
RESERVOIR DOGS
THE MUPPET MOVIE
THE BIG LEBOWSKI
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT
THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS
THE PRINCESS BRIDE
SE7EN (if for some reason I started to miss the human race...)
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
300 (hey, if I'm on a desert island, I gotta have something else to do.... )

[tracy]

True Grit
Fiddler on the Roof
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Star Wars Episode IV
The Trouble With Angels
Donavan's Reef
Lawrence of Arabia
The Good,the Bad and the Ugly
The Incredibles
Yellow Submarine

[The Burgomaster]

* CASTAWAY
* RESCUE FROM GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
* THE CASTAWAYS ON GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
* THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS ON GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
* THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
* SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
* LORD OF THE FLIES
* THE BLUE LAGOON

[Kaseykockroach]

Sons of the Desert
The Apartment
Duck Soup
North by Northwest
To Be or Not to Be (original)
Dumbo
The Great Muppet Caper
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Harry & Tonto
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

[joejoe]

Vanishing Point
The Blues Brothers
The Driver
Night of the Living Dead
Mitchell
Death Rides a Horse
Between God,the Devil,and a Winchester
Airplane

and something with Christy Canyon in it

[ChaosTheory]

* CASTAWAY
* RESCUE FROM GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
* THE CASTAWAYS ON GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
* THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS ON GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
* THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
* SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
* LORD OF THE FLIES
* THE BLUE LAGOON

[alandhopewell]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5cJuAtNcJA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aifeXlnoqY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN3YaybNJ2s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzh1SCy3Sbk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhyuey4xU3Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHVvnEWez1M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXQ7wqd93aA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfpSXI8_UpY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi88P7KfaMA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjJlBnfyiI4

[Nakuyabi]

I was kind of hoping this thread would be on the subject of movies set on a desert(ed) island, such as Blue Lagoon (1980). Heaven knows, I haven't seen enough of that kind of movie.

As for a movie favorites list, I'm inclined to agree with opera comedienne Anna Russell's opinion that no matter which ten favorite anythings you chose (in her case, referring to musical scores), assuming an electrical coconut tree with an electric outlet into which to plug your entertainment appliances, you'd soon get so sick of playing those same few things over and over again that you'd grab an electrical coconut from that tree and smash all your records (or tapes, or DVDs, or whatever) with it out of frustration.

As she went on to say, if you did end up stranded on a desert island, a better thing to have than any collection of music would be a guitar or a piano washed up with you. Even if you sang horribly off key and didn't know how to play any instruments, you could entertain yourself forever singing and playing (atrociously) anything that came to mind.

As for movies, I'd take Anna Russell's approach to them as well. Rather than be stranded with, say, ten favorite movies on an i-Pad and a lifetime's supply of super-durable batteries to power it, I'd rather have a huge crate of writing supplies, an even larger crate containing a lifetime's supply of paper, and some binding material. Then I'd spend any time I didn't use foraging for food and shelter writing up stories and movie scripts from memory and maybe improving on them a bit.

[From one of these unreleased scripts:]

Darth Vader: "No Luke, I am your father!"

Luke Skywalker: "Oh yeah? Well screw you anyway, Dad! You abandoned Mom and left me to rot with Uncle Owen on Tatooine! Some father you turned out to be!"

[bob]

so randomly started thinking about this topic late last night when I couldn't sleep and I'm revising the movies I'm bringing with me to the island: Inception, The Dark Knight, The Prestige, 2001, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange,  Ben-Hur, Pulp Fiction, Ikiru and Sunset Blvd.