General Whats the best book and movie you have read and seen?

[JonB_old]

Love to hear what people like.

My favourite books are blood crazy and dragons of spring dawning.... Blood crazy is great real page turner.

My favouite movie is alot more dificult to decide at this time i am going to go with Good Will Hunting, I thought the lanky chick, i can not recall her name was great.

 

[Guest]

Favourite movie - Top Gun
Favourite book - I read mostly sports autos, and id have to say Tawera Nikau's is one of the best ive read.

 

[AliN_old]

Fav Movie - Shawshank Redemption
Fav Book - Needful things - Steven King, love the twist he puts on human nature

hgmm, there seems to be a trend..

 

[Ronnie_7_old]

Favourite Movie - Armagedonand White Chicks or the Disney Classics ( Snow White & 7 Dwarves, Beauty & the Beast etc.....)

Favourite Book - Worry warts and Misery Guts by Morris Gleitzman (I read them when I was like 10 and really like them) and Stacey Jones' 'Keeping the Faith' and 'Kiwi Warrior'

 

[iceman_old]

Just watched Water world again. Gotta be the biggest waste of time and money a clown fool like Costner could come up with. Movie? I liked "I am Sam". Because, I am Sam. Book, "Maori Sovereignty" written by Donna Awatere was my bible when I was a youngster. b4 you flame up. Remember this was the 80's and apartheid was a reality on this planet.

 

[Ronnie_7_old]

Oh yeah another favourite movie is 'Saw"

 

[iceman_old]

Just thought of another movie. "Good Will Hunting". And I'm glad the foreigners here ask me about "Whale Rider", rather than "Once were Warriors". LOR was great... I watched Lee Tamahori's James Bond movie yesterday. It was not the best.

 

[Swanley_old]

Favourite Book - I will change that to Author - David Gemmell.

Favourite Movies - LOTR trilogy

 

[PHANTOM MENACE_old]

My favourite book is Band of Brotheers by Stephan E Ambrose

Awesum true story account of Easy company in WW2. Some of you may have seen the Mini Series. Best Ever

 

[AliN_old]

yeah, got the dvd set, just haven't had time to watch it..

 

[Woop Woop_old]

Fav Movie - Chopper, based on the life of Notorious underworld hitman Mark "Chopper" Read..I would watch it all day everyday if I had my way.

Fav Book - Not really a reader aye guys, would rather read up on Sports/Magz and what have you.

 

[Woop Woop_old]

and "The Green Mile" thats another fav but boiled my eyes out.

 

[PHANTOM MENACE_old]

American Pie 1 and 2 and Jackass are my favourite Comedies

The Rock, Con Air and Scorpion King are great Action

Band of Brothers best Drama

Debbie Does Dallas best....well we dont need to go there

 

[Kav_old]

One memorable film from my childhood:

The Magnificent Seven had stirring music, gunslingers turned into heros against the odds,
sadness as four of them met their deaths and a fitting conclusion as the baddies were routed and Yul Brunner and Steve McQueen rode off into the sunset.

Just the stuff to enthral a youngster - they don't make movies like this anymore.

Kav

 

[Ronnie_7_old]

and "The Green Mile" thats another fav but boiled my eyes out.

haha yeah I like that movie too.

Its sad these days how little kids don't know things like Pinnochio, Cinderella, Jungle Book etc. etc. I try to sit my nephews down to watch them and they go off and play or bug me to let them play the X Box. Sad sad day when they don't know about Walt Disney classics or childrens classics

 

[Wiki_old]

If you guys haven't seen Friday Night Lights yet then your missing out! This is the most amazing true story of a Texan football team.

Powerful movie that I would urge you to see. Favourite movie of all time.

Came out in 2004 and I can watch and watch and watch.

 

[iceman_old]

Woop, didn't see the movie but at Uni my staunch bro who played for Turangawaewae gave me the Chopper book to read. I finished it that night. A classic.

 

[JonB_old]

Has anyone seen King Kong?

 

[warriors_ballboy_CEO_old]

Book: (Havent seen the moive yet) Flower in the Attic by V.C Andrew's

Movie: probably the longest yard 2005
and you got served

 

[KeepingTheFaith_old]

Too many movies to choose from, but after taking a look at the dvd collection here's what I came up with.

Action/Adventure - Blade trilogy, Indiana Jones trilogy, Bad Boys (Just the first one), and the Terminator trilogy (more 1&2 than 3).

Comedy - Rush Hour 1&2, Ace Ventura 1&2, Big Momma's House, Friday (The first one).

Horror/Thriller - The Thing, Aliens Quadrilogy, The first Predator, The Ring, The Grudge.

Children Classics - Lion King, Watership Down, Transformers (movie sux, but it's high on nostalgia), The 2 Ewok movies (cheap attempt to cash in on Star Wars mania, but I loved them as a kid nonetheless).

Drama - Boyz In The Hood, Remember The Titans, Higher Learning, Blood In Blood Out (A must see), Menace II Society.

There's too many to name, but those ones stand out for me in some way or another. And after looking through my dvd collection again I seem to be saying " how could I leave that out" to every second movie. lol. But that'll do.