You know when you’re going through old junk and find something really awesome that you completely forgot about? Well that’s what happened to me the other day, and lucky for you it’s free e-copies of Beginning Python Visualization. Four of them, actually.
Simply leave a comment below by Sunday, March 28, 11:59pm EDT for a chance to win, and then come back to this post on Monday to see the winners. Let’s make it a round of desert island. Name the five movies that you would want to take with you if you were stranded on a desert island.
I’ll get it started:
- Back to the Future
- Forrest Gump
- Billy Elliot
- Shawsank Redemption
- The Sting
Good luck!
P.S. Here’s my review of Beginning Python Visualization, in case you missed it.
Winner Announced
Congratulations to the four following people. You should have received your redemption codes via email by now.
Thanks everyone else for participating, and good luck next time.
want!
I want it
1. Star wars Episode II
2. Star wars Episode III
3. Star wars Episode IV
4. Star wars Episode V
5. Star wars Episode VI
yes please!
That’s Easy:
The Bourne Identity
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Stardust
Moulin Rouge
Munich
So, about that book…
Avatar
The Dark Knight
Terminator – Judgment Day
Minority Report
Up
oh…missed that part:
Life is Beautiful
Forrest Gump
LOTR
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
Everything is Illuminated
gimme gimme please.
1. Brazil
2. Annie Hall
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. City Lights
5. Taxi Driver.
Wall-E
Juno
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
The Castle
Bladerunner
Schindler’s List
A Clockwork Orange
The Wall
Star Wars: A New Hope
Pulp Fiction
The Matrix
The Dark Knight
The Hurt Locker
Pulp Fiction
Se7en
the hangover
hurt locker
the reader
avatar
up in the air
1) Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2) Requiem for a Dream
3) The Sound of Music
4) Pi
5) The Life of Brian
Please?
* Face Off
* October Sky
* Golden Eye
* The Matrix
* 300
Robinson Crusoe
Mutiny on the Bounty
Dr. No
The Blue Lagoon
Jurassic Park
Everything you need to know on a tropical island.
Dead Man
Before Sunrise
O’ Brother Where Art Thou
A Prophet
Pirates of the Caribean
Pick me, pick me!
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Firefly
Star Wars (when I saw it there were no modifiers)
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
plus a home theatre, generator and fuel of course.
1) repo man
2) the big lebowski
3) friday
4) goodfellas
5) the shawshank redemption
1. Blade Runner
2. Brazil
3. Dr Strangelove
4. Office Space
5. High Fidelity
office space! i forgot about that one. i choose that too, replacing the sting.
Greetings. I’ve been lurking for quite a while, bad habit that. I’ve been surprised at how just a small bit of this information has led me to some amusing ideas. Keep bringing it. :)
Transformers: The Animated Movie (1984)
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Watchmen
Serenity
The Hangover
Looks like a great book!
I would love to have this book
– Rambo
– Random 3 Picks for James Bond
– Schindlers List!
1. Lord Of the Rings (that counts as one, right?)
2. The Incredibles
3. Dr. Strangelove
4. The Godfather
5. Cast Away (this one seems to be the most practical)
The Sting
Syriana
Munich
The Good Shepherd
Harvey
Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind
Paranoid Park
The virgins suicide
The Fall
Tokyo
I want the book really badly!!!
1. Laurel and Hardy in The Music Box
2. O Brother, Where Art Thou
3. The French Connection
4. Eraserhead
5. Frankenstein
Spaceballs
Blazing Saddles
The Producers
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Basically, I’d be happy with either Mel Brooks or Quentin Tarantino on the island, forget the movies.
Well, I’d have time to make it through them!
1. Cinematon (150 hrs)
2. Matrjoschka (95 hrs)
3. The Cure for Insomnia (87 hrs)
4. The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World (48 hrs)
5. **** (25 hrs)
1. The Bourne Ultimatium
2. Toy Story
3. Lord of the Rings
4. Where the Wild Things Are
5. The Matrix
Oh man how do I decide.
The Matrix
Slap Shot
Goonies
Independence Day
Ghost Busters
Mmm. Words on paper.
1. Cinema Paradiso
2. The 39 Steps
3. Blade Runner
4. Pulp Fiction
5. The Incredibles
well… e-paper :)
1. Castaway # What Else
2. LOTR extended Edition: The Two Towers # The first one is a bit too slow
3. LOTR extended Edition: The Return of the King # But #2 and #3 are so long they’ll help pass the time
4. MacGyver box set # Inspiration to build a raft out of god-knows what
5. Pirates of The Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl # Sea Turtles
Rudy
Waterboy
Big Fan
The Wedding Singer
Pirates of Silicon Valley
1) Blade Runner
2) Full Metal Jacket
3) Ghost In the Shell
4) City of God
5) Baraka
I want one plz!
Rudy
Rain Man
Caddyshack
Office Space
The Usual Suspects
… no particular order. I love Netflix.
Amelie
Royal Tenenbaums
Requiem for a Dream
The Brothers Grimm
Mirrormask
1. Chariots of Fire
2. Hoosiers
3. The Princess Bride
4. The Bourne Identity
5. Oceans 11
1) Fellowship of the Ring
2) The Two Towers
3) Return of the King
4) Peter Brook’s Mahabharatha
5) The Fountain
Into the Wild
One Week
The Wall
The Assassination Of Jesse James
Star Trek!!!
1. Donnie Darko
2. Heat
3. Being John Malkovic
4. Pan’s Labyrinth
5. Castaway (for the irony)
1) Dr. Strangelove
2) Children of Men
3) The Maltese Falcon
4) Jurassic Park
5) Some porn
Maborosi
Ermo
The Matrix
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Pulp Fiction
Since even in a worst case scenario I would remember to have my laptop:
– The Shawshank Redemption
– Wall-E
– Serenity
– Paprika
– Amelie
The trick, I think, is keeping a charge on the laptop (an e-book wouldn’t help on a deserted island without it!). I bet a beach’s palm trees would make a great wind farm.
1. Clue
2. The Matrix
3. Ocean’s Eleven
4. The Sting
5. V for Vendetta
1. Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain (Amélie)
2. Avatar
3. Stigmata
4. 赤壁 (Red Cliff)
5. Babel
hmm, that’s tough. Only 5?
1. The simple life of Noah Dearborn
2. Forrest Gump
3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
4. Star Wars
5. Wild Hogs
1. Donnie Darko
2. Monsters Inc
3. Starwars episode VI
4. Three times
5. Casino Royale
1. Mall Rats
2. Batman (Keaton, Nicholson, Basinger, the good one)
3. Usual Suspects
4. Up
5. Children of Men
1. Primer
2. Son of Rambow
3. The Matrix
4. Zoolander
5. Amores Perros
Children of Men
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Amelie
District 9
Recently found the site and have been enjoying the content – keep up the good work.
The Matrix
LOTR – The Two Towers
Boondock Saints
The Rock
The Bourne Identity
Requiem for a Dream
Serenity
300
The Dark Knight
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Blade Runner
Raising Arizona
Moulan Rouge
Star-ship Troopers
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Pi
Disney’s Robin Hood
The Lion in Winter
Shaun of the Dead
Dark Knight
Tough call. Probably:
The Matrix
Donnie Darko
Blade Runner
The Terminator
Hackers
Pulp fiction
it’s a wonderful life
ferris buellers day off
goodfellas
the goonies
The Yearling
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Sound of Music
South Pacific
It’s a Wonderful Life
All Quiet On The Western Front (Original)
The Yearling
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Sound of Music
South Pacific
All Quiet On The Western Front (Original)
sorry for the double post :)
Star Wars
The Bourne Identity
Der Krieger und die Kaiserin
Bringing Up Baby
Top Hat
Hmmm, only five..? :)
City of Angels
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Chicago
Avatar
The Matrix
Army of Darkness
Fight Club
The Usual Suspects
LA Confidential
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Life of Brian
Holy Grail
The Meaning of Life
Live at the Hollywood Bowl
And Now for Something Completely Different
1. Alien
2. Aliens
3. Run Lola Run
4. La Femme Nikita
5. 5th Element
Well…
* The Big Lebowski
* Mars Attacks!
* Monty Python & The Holy Grail
* Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
* No Country For Old Men
would love to win one!
e-books are the best!
1) The Matrix
2) Lord of the Rings
3) Clerks
4) Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
5) Office Space
The Classics:
– Ghostbusters
– The Sandlot
– Jurassic Park
– Home Alone
– Rescuers Down Under
would luuuurv the book…
Brain Donors
Hero
The Blue Planet
Spring Summer Fall Winter… and Spring
Fantasia
(I couldn’t use the book, just wanted to play too!)
Ha! Easy. I want!
My movies are
Pulp Fiction
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
No Country for Old Men
The Incredibles
the Matrix
oooooh, awesome!
the dark knight
o brother where art thou
lord of the rings (is the box set allowed?)
district 9
miller’s crossing
Seems like a great book!!
Cool! *want*
The Last Emperor
Horton
As it is in Heaven
Honey
No te mueras sin decirme adónde vas (Argentina 1995)
PS: With the book, I’d make astronomical data visualizations!
These may not be the best films I’ve seen, but they’re the ones I can watch over and over again until the battery runs out on the portable DVD player and I’m left with semi-useless round mirrors.
In no particular order:
– The Fifth Element
– Taxi (the original french one – but with English subtitles)
– 10 Things I Hate About You
– Donnie Darko
– The Usual Suspects
C’est arrivé près de chez vous
Casablanca
Bladerunner
Apocalypse Now
Nueve Reinas
Bladerunner
Back to the Future
Dark City
Matrix
Brazil
Lost Highway
Fifth Element
Shrek
Night on Earth
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Léon
Amélie
The Usual Suspects
The Sixth Sense
Ice Age
Matrix
Annie Hal
Requiem for a Dream
Apocalypse Now
Monty Python – The Meaning of Life (a must for any pythonistas ;-))
Since I love Python and information visualization I will be really happy to win this book.
* The Usual Suspects
* The Shawshank Redemption
* Apocalypse Now
* Monsters Inc.
* No Country for Old Men
Had a flick through this book the other day, looked good.
1. Dark City
2. Fargo
3. Night of the Hunter (Robert Mitchum version, duh)
4. Finding Nemo
5. Brain Donors
Obviously, Lord of the Rings should be on that list, but I figure it counts as three movies, and I can’t justify burning three slots on that, despite the fact that it represents the pinnacle of human artistic achievement.
Dark city
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Bladerunner
Terminator
La guerre du feu
i. The Big Lebowski
ii. King Rat
iii. Anchorman
iv. Kagemusha
v. The Great Dictator
A nice cross section I think. I’m assumin’ I don’t have to bring my own DVD player?
1. Matrix I
2. Bladerunner
3. Star Wars ep 4
4. Star Trek Generations
5. Lord of the Rings I
Me !!
1. The Party
2. A Serious Man
3. Airplane!
4. Leon
5. Up in the air
Nathan, I suspect you of assembling a dataset that you will visualize in a forthcoming post :)
I like netfoo answer a lot but won’t plagiarize!
anyway, considering it’s on a desert island i’d get
– cast away
– into the wild
– lord of the flies
– swiss family robinson
– lost (all seasons)
might as well learn a thing or two :)
It’d be:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Godfather
Shawshank Redemption
12 Monkeys
Groundhog Day
For me. Thanks!
Thanks for the opportunity!
Die Hard
Unforgiven
The Hurt Locker
The Hangover
The Matrix
Bladerunner
The Godfather
The Godfather: Part II
Casablanca
Lost Horizon
The Life of Brian
The Big Lebowski
Vertigo
Amélie
Spirited Away
Godfather
ET
Zombieland
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Kill Bill
Big Lebowski
Blade Runner
In Bruges
The Maltese Falcon
Inglorious Bastards
High Fidelity
The Aviator
Gattaca
Kill Bill 2
Fight Club
– “Underground” by Emir Kusturica
– Dark City
– Dawn of the Dead
– The meaning of Life (it shouldn’t surprise that there are many Monty Python fans answering here, since you are giving a way a book on Python)
– The others
Kinda hard, but here it goes. Sort of…
1. The Goonies
2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
3. Godfather II (actually the trilogy, but if I had to pick one…)
4. 12 Angry Men
5. Lord of the Rings – Fellowship of the Ring (also, the trilogy, but if I had to pick one…)
I know, I know… Doesn’t make much sense to have movies like 12 Angry Men and The Goonies in the same list, but hey; I’m a child of the 80’s =)
the lord of rings
the matrix
star wars
god father
harry potters
in no particular order:
the princess bride
rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead
real genius
o brother where art thou
pirates of the carribean
1. Casablanca
2. Citizen Kane
3. Lord of the Rings
4. Dr. Strangelove
5. Play It Again, Sam
Sigh, I guess this shows that I’m an old guy. Well, old guys need visualization more than young whipper-snappers cuz’ our eyes aren’t so good any more.
1. E.T.
2. Dark Knight
3. Shawshank Redemption
4. M.I.B (for the Pug, Frank)
5. Slumdog Millionnaire
What a great prize. I have been enamored with data visualization for the past year. I think it’s about time to jump in and contribute.
Back to the Future
Top Gun
Tommy Boy
Boondock Saints
Donnie Darko
Speaking of Python, I still need to work on my Beautiful Soup skills.
For everyone who said this was easy it’s not. Yes I am another lurker too
1) Ocean’s 11
2) The Usual Suspects
3) Castaway (with directions on how to escape a desert island)
4) Pineapple Express
5) Fight Club
Others under heavy consideration:
Gladiator, and The sting both of which originally made the list. Sorry Citizen Kane
1. Blade Runner
2. Fight Club
3. Repo Man
4. Taxi Driver
5. Dr. Strangelove
american beauty
big labowski
princess bride
matrix 1
crouching tiger hidden dragon
doesn’t seem fair, but would be great to have this be boxed sets since there’s all that time
john adams
earth to the moon
lord of the rings
star trek
colors (krzysztof kieslowski)
Castaway (obvious reasons – training manual!)
Contact
LOTR – Fellowship (extended version)
LOTR – Two Towers (extended version)
LOTR – Return of the King (extended version)
That’s tough man! I’ll give it a shot…
Buffulo ’66
Bagdad Cafe
The Pillow Book
No Country For Old Men
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I can go on…
1. Fight Club
2. Blade Runner
3. 12 Monkeys
4. Batman: The Dark Knight
5. Solyaris (Solaris)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Christmas Story
Blues Brothers
Muppets from Space
Muppet Movie
Boondock Saints
Beetleguese
SLC Punk
Hmm.
The Big Lebowski
The Matrix
The Shawshank Redemption
The Natural
Unbreakable
have the data visualization w/ processing book… but prefer python dev over java any day. would love this book
– Lost in Translation
– The Bank Job
– 2001: A Space Odyssey
– City of God
– The Seven Samurai
1. There Will Be Blood
2. Good Will Hunting
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Kill Bill I & II
5. Vanilla Sky
The Lion in Winter
Clockwork Orange
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Godfather, pt 1
A Fish Called Wanda
Oh boy! Can’t wait to see what you do with all of this reader data ;).
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Waking Life
The Big Lebowski
Jurassic Park
I guess maybe if I win this book it’ll have to be my excuse to learn python…
Goonies
Indiana Jones – Raiders
Indiana Jones – Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones – Last Crusade
Young Sherlock Holmes
I just started learning Python (with my 12 year old son) and I am finding it to be extremely useful and powerful, so this book would be a great addition to our growing collection of Python manuals.
Movies:
1) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
2) Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
3) Sneakers
4) A Hard Day’s Night
5) What the Bleep Do We Know?
if ted wins:
me = “happy”
– Fitzcarraldo
– L’ Armata Brancaleone
– Match Point
– Lost in translation
– The Darjeeling Limited
My faves:
* Enter the Dragon
* Empire Strikes Back
* Fight Club
* Being John Malkovich
* 2001: A Space Oddessy
I’m visualizing myself winning this book.
Movies:
1) Wargames
2) The Matrix
3) Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark
4) Big Trouble in Little China
5) The Big Lebowski
Off the top of my head in no particular order:
Magnolia
Pulp Fiction
The Big Lebowski
Annie Hall
American Movie
1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. Avatar
3. Fight Club
4. Pulp Fiction
5. The Big Lebowski
Wall-e
The Wedding Singer
Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Matrix
Godfather
Python/iPython/Numpy/Scipy/Matplotlib have saved me from banging my head against matlab. Would love to learn more.
•Survival Island
•Lord of the Flies
•The Beach
•Castaway
•Survivorman Series
Pulp Fiction
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
The Dark Knight
Fight Club
The Usual Suspects
The Princess Bride
Star Wars Episode IV – A New Hope
Star Wars Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars Episode VI – Return of the Jedi
Big Trouble in Little China
Fight Club
Dodgeball
The Shawshank Redemption
Clerks
Ong Bak
Pick me! I’m a young aspiring data analyzer in need of more than Excel and Matlab!
1. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
2. Hoosiers
3. Empire Strikes Back
4. His Girl Friday
5. 12 Angry Men
Shawshank Redemption
Fight Club
Pulp Fiction
Dark Knight
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1. Nim’s Island
2. Swiss Family Robinson
3. Sneakers
4. Contact
5. Sound of Music
1) Finding Nemo
2) Shortbus
3) Before Sunset
4) I heart Huckabees
5) GO
WANT
1. Young Frankenstein
2. Office Space
3. Memento
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. Fight Club
My five:
1. The Day of the Jackal
2. Airplane!
3. The Big Lebowski
4. Casablanca
5. The Battle of Algiers
Secretary
Contact
Amelie
Breakfast Club
Chinatown
* Powers of Ten
* Touch of Evil
* A Streetcar Named Desire
* North by Northwest
* The Apartment
*Any Survivorman episode about living on a desert island
*10 ways to cook a DVD
*How to turn your DVD player into a ham radio
*101 useful things to build with coconuts
*Idiocracy
* Revolver
* Ghost in a Shell
* Scarface
* The Green Butchers
* Monsters Inc.
* 10 Things I’d Lick About You
* An Officer and a Genitalman
* Indiana Bones and the temple of Poon
* Sister Acts
* Three Men And A Babe
your followership sees a lot more movies than i do.
not a fan of the cinema? how about books
Yes. I want it, too.
1. MicroCosmos
2. The Neverending Story
3. Tombstone
4. Tommy Boy
5. Casino Royale
1. Castaway
2. Robinson Crusoe
3. Six Days Seven Nights
4. Into the Wild
5. Alive
Monty Pythons Flying Circus
The Importance of Being Ernest
Mask of Zorro
Better Off Dead
Oceans 11
pretty please?
OK, forgot my movies:
1) Waiting for Guffman
2) Wet Hot American Summer
3) Now and Then
4) Roman Holiday
5) Forest Gump
Speaking of snakes. Anaconda is the best movie ever!!!
Hmm:
1) Pitch Black
2) The Beastmaster
3) Finding Nemo (Pixar movies have incredible rewatchability. I know, I used to work retail)
4) Ghostbusters
5) Something something something something dark side
I’ve wanted this book since your review.
My picks:
When Harry Met Sally
The Godfather
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Big Lebowski
Lost in Translation
– Oh brother where art thou
– Joe v. the Volcano
– Army of Darkness
– The big lebowski
– Shawshank redemption
I use your site for the University of Oklahoma’s Facebook site. I love the maps you bring up for discussion.
Top 5 Movies for desert islands
1) North by Northwest
2) Blazing Saddles
3) Robin Hood- Men in Tights
4) Hot Shots!
5) Hunt for Red October
– The original Star Wars trilogy (counted as one)
– The Godfather
– The Wedding Singer
– Battlestar Galactica (not a movie, I know, but better than most)
– an instructional video on how to escape a deserted island
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Army of Darkness
Serenity
The Princess Bride
The Matrix
Citizen Kane
Dr No
Apocalypse Now
Dr Strangelove or :How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2001: A Space Odyssee
* The Hunt for the Red October
* Shawshank redemption
* Fight Club
* Raiders of the Lost Ark
* Matrix
* Bottle Rocket
* The Royal Tenenbaums
* Amelie
* Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
* The Philadelphia Story
I’m currently learning Python, and trying to absorb everything I can on data visualization. This book would go far for me.
La Battaglia di Algeri
The Deer Hunter
Dr. Strangelove
In the Heat of the Night
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
No particular order:
Royal Tenenbaums
Shawshank Redemption
The Princess Bride
Swingers
Clerks
1. Anaconda II: Day of the Python
2. The Life & Times of Edward Tufte
3. How to Get Ahead in Visualization
4. Escape from Data Mountain
5. Forrest-for-the-Trees Gump
1. The Kite Runner
2. The Fellowship of the Ring
3. The Two Towers
4. The Return of the King
5. Munich
Rushmore
O Brother Where Art Thou?
A Thousand Clowns
UHF
Fist of Legend
Young Frankenstein (never gets old)
The Jerk (a tale of redemption!)
Strictly Ballroom
The Thin Man (banter will be refreshing while I’m waiting for rescue)
Brazil (to help me appreciate being stuck on a desert island)
hmm…
The Incredibles
Chocolate
Life of Brian
Brother, Where Art Thou
High Fidelity
Love python!
These are movies that don’t get old when you watch them over and over again. Like almost anything by the Coen Brothers.
* No Country for Old Men
* Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
* Dr. Strangelove
* Usual Suspects
* In Bruges
(Someone above listed 2001: Space Odyssey, and wow, that’s appropriate. But I’d put that one in the 5 books list instead.)
* Blade Runner (Director’s Cut)
* Clockwork Orange
* Spaceballs
* The Empire Strikes Back
* Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Plus Star Wars, Full Metal Jacket and The Apostle.
* Mulholland Drive
* The Big Lebowski
* Hackers
* Boyz in the Hood
* Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Departed
It’s a Wonderful Life
The Godfather, Part II
Wall Street
The Breakfast Club
Try to guess the theme?
1. Animals are Amazing: Secrets of Survival/Living on the Edge
2. Secrets to Survival
3. Man Vs. Wild Season 1
4. Man Vs Wild Season 2
5 Survivor Man Series 1
Hopefully I would learn something to stay alive, because if I was on a desert Island right now without my Internet connection…
Big Lebowski
Royal Tenenbaums
Forrest Gump
Eternal Sunshine
Where the Wild Things Are
Sweet! Thanks Nathan.
WALL-E
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Smoke
Goodnight, and Good Luck
White
Hummmm, only 5….
1. Apocalypse Now
2. Bladerunner
3. (Any one of) Earth, Fire, Water by Deepa Mehta
4. Fargo
5. Dark Star
1. Shawshank Redemption
2. The Matrix
3. Back to the Future
4. Rainmaker
5. Primer
1. 12 Angry Men
2. Chariots of Fire
3. Judgment at Nuremberg
4. Apollo 13
5. The Mouse that Roared
1) Empire Strikes Back
2) White Men Can’t Jump
3) Serenity
4) Disney’s Robin Hood
5) 300
1.) Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man
2.) Blade Runner
3.) Apocalypse Now
4.) The Matrix
5.) Miller’s Crossing
The Big Lebowski
Office Space
High Fidelity
Rudy
Boondock Saints
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Departed
Rushmore
The Apartment
Memento
Shawshank Redemption
Clerks
Forrest Gump
Falling Down
The Dark Knight
500 Days of Summer
X Men 2
The Incredibles
Legend of Drunken Master
* English Patient
* Chinatown
* Lawrence of Arabia
* No Country for Old Men
*
Fifth Element
Easy Virtue
How to Train Your Dragon
Thank You for Smoking
Spirited Away
1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Swingers
3. Braveheart
4. The Brave Little Toaster (that’s right, the brave little toaster)
5. Casablanca
If I’m going to be on a desert island, I want movies that will eat up lots of time by spurring inordinate amounts of contemplation.
1. Why has Bodhidharma Left for the East?
2. Hero (the one with Jet Li starring)
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Blade Runner
5. Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (need a break from the contemplation)
* Lost in Translation
* Jurassic Park
* Rocky
* Lord of the Rings
* Fantastic Mr. Fox
Miller’s Crossing
Radio Days
The Apartment
Some Like it Hot
Adaptation
Miller’s Crossing almost made my list. “what’s the rumpus?” is a common expression around here.
1. Cool Hand Luke
2. Being There
3. Friday
4. The Gods Must Be Crazy
5. Terminator Salvation
1. space odyssey 2001
2. apocalypse now
3. no country for old men
4. once upon a time in the west
5. twelve monkey
on a second thought though…
1. briana loves jenna
2. virtual sex with jenna jameson
3. actiongirls.com: volume 1
4. the private life of silvia saint
5. japan fuck 1 race
1. The Boxer
2. Training Day
3. Star Wars ep 2
4. Hotel Rwanda
5. In America
Err… ep 2 up there, should have been episode 5… The Empire Strikes Back.
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. Kung Fu Panda
4. Raiders of Lost Ark
5. Hellboy 1
If given the choice between five movies and five books, it’d be books hands down, and I’d have a hard time figuring out what movies I’d want.
Books:
Starship Troopers or Time Enough for Love
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Snow Crash
And then I’d have to think about it.
But I’d love that book…
1 – indiana jones: raiders of the last ark
2 – vertigo
3 – charade
4 – talented ripley
5 – lawrence of arabia
5 Desert Island Movies?
5: 5th Element
4: Star Wars
3: Brazil
2: The Matrix
1: Casablanca
A beautiful mind
Star wars episode 3
LoTRs 1-3
1. Lord of the Rings (the trilogy)
2. Good Fellas
3. Fifth Element
4. No Country for Old Men
5. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Pulp Fiction
Back to the Future
Not Another Teen Movie
The Big Lebowski
O Brother, Where art thou?
1) Mac Gyver series (perhaps I’d come across a solution to get my ass out of the desert)
2) BBC Planet Earth series
3) The Neverending Story
4) Avatar
5) Mary Poppins
1. The man from Snowy River
2. Bourne identity
3. Ruthless People
4. Cars
5. The Count of Monte Christo
I guess.
1. The butterfly effect
2. The godfather
3. The fountain
4. 2010 a space odyssey.
5. A beautiful mind
1. Howard the Duck
2. Leonard Part 6
3. Waterworld
4. Glitter
5. The Adventures of Pluto Nash
Mostly because the pain of watching these movies would make me forget about the pain of being stranded on a desert island.
Godfather
Indiana Jones
Apocalypse Now
Casablanca
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
E.T.
Crouching Tiger, HIdden Dragon
Tender Mercies
Empire Strikes Back
Up
Gone in 60 Seconds
The Matrix
Hard to Kill
Under Siege
Dumb and Dumber
1. big lebowski – I can attest that this movie is highly re-watchable.
2. amelie – this is a cute movie, and more than that could be used to study french. you’re going to be bored.
3. pan’s labyrinth – same as 2.) but for spanish.
4. 2001: space odyssey- beautiful music and visually stunning. this is also a movie that I have found that I liked more the more i watch it.
5. a home video. keep sanity would probably be the largest key to survival and anchoring to previous happiness would be important.
1) Groundhog Day
2) Die Hard
3) Shawshank Redemption
4) First Blood
5) Animal House
1. BraveHeart
2. LOTR Fellowship of the Ring
3. The Matrix
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Dive Into Python
Python from novice to pro
I’d like that.
Casablanca
Rain Man
Chinatown
The African Queen
North by Northwest
I’ll have to go with:
1) Children of Men
2) Wall-E
3) Star Wars
4) Casablanca
5) The Big Lebowski (narrowly over The Fountain or Garden State)
Star Wars
Godfather 1
Godfather 2
Shawshank Redemption
Barry Lyndon
Really enjoying the lists I’ve seen. Mine:
Almost Famous
The Incredibles
Run, Lola, Run
Tron
Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark
That book will be really helpful for my current project, thanks! :-)
Clerks
Princess Mononoke
Wall-E
The Big Lebowski
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
1. As Good as it Gets
2. Good Will Hunting
3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
4. Malice
5. Caddyshack
– Not Another Teen Movie
– Pulp Fiction
– Koyaanisqatsi
– The Big Lebowski
– Usual Suspect
* To Kill a Mockingbird
* Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (my favorite of the HP movies)
* Milagro Beanfield War
* Winged Migration
* Some kind of box set of Dorothy Sayers / Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries from Masterpiece Theater or BBC or what have you
1. Blade Runner
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
(In no particular order)
Lista de Espera
Gattaca
Train of Life
Spirited Away
Some subset of survivor man episodes…preferably ones where he is stranded on a desert island…
1) To Live
2) Rashomon
3) The Magnificent Seven
4) Citizen Kane
5) A Day at the Races
The Big Lebowski
Pulp Fiction
Scarface
Napoleon Dynamite
Blood In, Blood Out
Focusing on titles that I know from experience can withstand dozens of screenings:
1. Coming to America
2. A backup copy of Coming to America
3. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (P. Almodovar)
4. Berlin Alexanderplatz (it’s 50 hours long)
5. Something for the children one would eventually have to have to keep civilization going — for example, Duck Tales the Movie
the ones I watch again every few months,
Fight Club
Lost in Translation
The Bourne Ultimatum
HIgh Fidelity
Innocence: Ghost in the shell
Only 5?!
Serenity
Shawshak Redemption
Mystery Men
Dream Girls
The Sixth Sense
They definitely have to be movies that I’ve enjoyed watching many times:
1. Donnie Darko
2. Blade Runner
3. The Big Lebowski
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Fight Club
1. Robinson Crusoe (for instruction)
2. American Beauty (for beauty)
3. The Matrix (for excitement)
4. Pi (to remind me not to let my brain melt into a pile of mush while on the island)
5. Primer (to know for sure whether my brain has melted into a pile of mush)
Yes please!
1. Pan’s Labyrinth
2. Imagine Me and You
3. Dogma
4. Return of the King
5. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
1. Office space
2. Sneakers
3. The Matrix
4. The Terminator
5. Swordfish
Whee!
1. Lost in Translation
2. The Muppet Movie
3. It’s a Wonderful Life
4. Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
5. Fight Club
1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Annie Hall
3. Garden State
4. Hable Con Ella
5. The Usual Suspects
1. Green for Danger
2. Ice Cold in Alex
3. The Italian Job (1969)
4. Shackleton (1982)
5. The Wooden Horse
How would we be watching the movies? Little or big screen? If little screen, then:
1. Bladerunner
2. Big Lebowski
3. Shawn of the Dead
4. 2001
5. Death in Venice
Can’t win if you don’t enter, I guess…
1. Flashdance
2. Top Secret
3. Sixteen Candles
4. Deuce Biggalow, Male Giggalo
5. Showgirls
Hmm…maybe can reconsider…does Netflix deliver to this island?
I love this book! I borrowed it temporarily from a friend, but no longer have it :-( I should have kept it!
1. Manhattan
2. Miller’s Crossing
3. Real Genius
4. The Matrix
5. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
1. Shawshank Redemption
2. The Big Lebowski
3. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
4. Monsters Inc.
5. When Harry Met Sally
1. Forest Gump
2. Wall-E
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. The Usual Suspects
5. Rounders
Blade Runner
Apocalypse Now
The Hangover
Kill Bill vol. 1
Kill Bill vol. 2
1. Fifth Element
2. English Patient
3. Shawshank Redemption
4. Sin City
5. Christmas Vacation