If you could bring five movies to a desert island

[WI_DEM]

which would they be?

mine:
"Duck Soup"--Marx Brothers
"The Music Box"--Laurel & Hardy
"Bringing Up Baby"--Grant & Hepburn
"Singin in the Rain" Gene Kelly
"Dr. Strangelove"--Peter Sellers

but how would I be able to watch them on a desert island?

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. On your solar powered DVD player, silly

Powered by the solar collector backpack in which you used to carry the movies http://tinyurl.com/unftj

[WatchWhatISay]

2. Portable DVD player and a LOT of batteries

but a Zen Vision:M/Ipod/Iphone would be even better for the tunes

[On the Road]

3. Here's Mine:

Spirited Away
Memento
Fight Club
I Heart Huckabees
It's a Wonderful Life

Kind of an odd list, but that would be it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. I'd bring:

1. The Shawshank Redemption

2. Young Frankenstein

3. Hoosiers

4. Razor's Edge

5. To Kill a Mockingbird

[livvy]

5. Here's my choices:

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Harvey
Philadelphia
What About Bob?
Kelly's Heroes

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. As of this moment?

Amadeus
The Year of Living Dangerously
A Man for All Seasons
This Is Spinal Tap
Dr. Strangelove

[QMPMom]

7. Only five?

Okay...
McLintock
My Girl
Blues Brothers
Gone With The Wind
Oklahoma

(This list may change depending on mood!)

[DainBramaged]

8. five

Slapshot
City of Angels
Raising Arizona
The Truman Show
Predator

[av8rdave]

9. hard to list just five, but ok...

Jacob's Ladder
Shawshank Redemption
A River Runs Through It
2001
Dr Strangelove

[Allenberg]

10. I certainly wouldn't take Forrest Gump

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[Lilith Velkor]

11. hmmmmm

Finding Nemo
Princess Mononoke
Ran
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Goodfellas

[lost-in-nj]

12. I would bring

1) Powder

2) Armageddon

3) original Jaws

4) Rebbecca

5) some porn film for pleasure :)

lost

[stuntcat]

13. just FIVE :\

Amadeus
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Being There
Fargo
and Star Wars (the BOX SET :)

[GenDem]

14. These would be my choices --

--Fargo
--Meet the Faulkers/Meet the Parents - boxed set
--Casablanca
--Shawshank Redemption
--To Kill a Mockingbird

[CrazyForKucinich]

15. Mine

The Beach
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Good Will Hunting
Gattaca

[LibraLiz1973]

16. My List

1. JFK

2. Anchorman

3. It's a Wonderful Life

4. The Breakfast Club

5. The Shawshank Redemption

[anti-everything]

17. Only 5?

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Clerks
3. Fargo
4. Hellraiser
5. Run Ronnie Run

[swag]

18. Not necessarily the best movies, but a good mix to last a few minutes

The Big Lebowski
Bad Santa
Blue Velvet
La Dolce Vita
Woman in the Dunes

on edit: I should probably substitute something with "in her first anal" somewhere on the front of the box.

[Generic Brad]

19. Can I cheat and bring collections?

Like:
1) the Star Wars films
2) Lord of the Rings Trilogy
3) Harry Potter films
4) the Star Trek movies
5) the suite of Pink Panther movies starring Peter Sellers

[XemaSab]

20. Dude.

O Brother Where Art Thou
Mulholland Drive
Harry Potter 1-4
Shallow Grave
Sneakers

:)

[XemaSab]

21. And fight club and dr strangelove

:)

[bicentennial_baby]

22. Ok....

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breathless (in French, with subtitles)

Amelie (again...)

What About Bob?

Night of the Living Dead

:)

[Broken_Hero]

23. Nice post...:)

1. Superman The Movie

2. Sin City

3. Conan the Barbarian

4. Gladiator

5. Batman Begins

[Zookeeper]

24. I'm going to qualify my choices....

by saying I'm sure I'll think of something else after a good night's sleep.

1) Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
2) Children of Men
3) The Music Box or Sons of the Desert or Bringing up Baby
4) Johnny Guitar
5) Shaun of the Dead


Goodnight, all...

:boring:

[enigmatic]

25. How about 10?

My Dinner With Andre

Gates Of Heaven

Ikiru

Magnolia

Texas Chainsaw Massacare (the orginial)

Man Facing Southeast

Betty Blue

Eraserhead

Carnival Of Souls

El Topo

[Va Lefty]

26. My Five:

Blazing Saddles
Goodfellas
Caddyshack
Stand By Me
Casablanca

[YankeyMCC]

27. LoTR

The Magnificent 7
Blazing Saddles
The Big Sleep (that's a tough choice, I would want one Bogart movie and normally I'd pick Casablanca but I wanted one with Bacall)
The Great Escape - hmm, actually maybe that wouldn't be a good idea :) Let's change that to Forbidden Planet