The 10 Movies You'd Want to Take into Space (or to a Desert Island or...)

While writing up the review of Ran in the 'Criterion' thread, I realized that I'd probably put it on my 10 best list. Which got me to thinking...which 10 movies would I want to take on, say, a one-year space voyage. Not necessarily my favorite movies or the movies of the highest critical merit, mind you, but ones I could rely on to not "get old," that is, to stay entertaining even on numerous viewings.

Here are my 10 picks (in no particular order):

Silence of the Lambs
Casablanca
The Third Man
Ran
North by Northwest
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Usual Suspects
Alien
Dumb and Dumber
The Searchers

I dunno if I have ten movies that wouldn't get boring after a while... I might be able to make it with ten books.

The Lord of the Rings
Serenity
Alien
Aliens
Galaxy of Terror (to frighten the natives)
War of the Worlds (1953 version)
The Birds
David Lynch version of Dune (In case Galaxy of Terror doesn't work)

That's another thread.

It's not my fault there's no good alternate history movies.

Waitaminnit. Am I to understand you're bringing a movie that has...JOANIE...in it?!?

Terrifying, ain't it?

Not to mention the caterpillar scene.

The Princess Bride.
The Empire Strikes Back.
Spiderman 2.
Forbidden Planet.
Galaxy Quest.
Big Trouble In Little China.
Army Of Darkness.
Silence Of The Lambs.
Crumb.
George Carlin: Back In town.

die hard - that film never gets old
chasing amy
life of brian
empire strikes back
blazing saddles
battle royale
serenity
TWOK
time machine (original)
a collection of good porn featurettes!

Nemesis
Gigli
Armageddon
Rocky V
Cutthroat Island
Ishtar
Blair Witch 2
From Justin To Kelly
Zoolander
Insurrection


Oh wait, these are movies I'd want to shoot into space.

How about:

1. Robinson Crusoe
2. Beaches
3. Rescue from Gilligan's Island
4. Lord of The Flies
5. Cast Away
6. Mosquito Coast
7. The Blue Lagoon
8. The Pink Lagoon (starring Ginger Lynn)
9. On the Beach
10. Boys of Lost Island

alright, depending on whether or not the island has electricity of course

1. Tombstone
2. Smoky and The Bandit
3. In The Line Of Fire (loved Malcovich in this one)
4. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
5. Godfather I
6. Only The Lonely(Ally Sheedy and Old Comiskey park)
7. US Marshals
8. The Fugitive
9. Presumed Innocent
and 10. True Grit

1. Star Wars
2. ESB
3. The Yakuza
4. The Final Countdown
5. The 13th Warrior
6. Lord of the Rings
7. A&E's Ivanhoe
8. nuBSG miniseries
9. In Harm's Way
10. A good porn flick

Oh shit, I forgot to put a Monty Python on my list!!

Okay, replace Spidey with The Meaning Of Life.

Any list of mine would have to include the Star Wars Trilogy and Romero's Dawn of the Dead.

It would be difficult to pick just 10 movies, though.

Casablanca
Some Like It Hot
Rocky Horror Picture Show
TWOK
Life of Brian
Galaxy Quest
The Sound of Music
Shrek II
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
Freaks

In the runners-up slots, and likely to move into the top 10 depending on my mood at the time of departure, are Ed Wood and TVH.

1 - Buckaroo Banzai
2 - Aliens
3 - Galaxy of Terror
4 - Big Trouble in Little China
5 - Xanadu
6 - Godzilla (original version)
7 - Forbidden Planet
8 - Caddyshack
9 - The Creature From the Black Lagoon
10 - The Howling

Flight of the Phoenix

I'd bring a lot of instructional videos:

How to make it with weird alien babes
How to repair a warp engine
How to masturbate neatly in zero-g
etc...

Don't forget, how to make that energy cloud my love slave.

Casablanca
Forbidden Planet
Bridge on the River Kwai
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The Magnificent Seven
To Kill a Mockingbird
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
American Graffiti
Rocky
Back to the Future


Edited to add the 10th movie.

1. Se7en
2. The Bone Collector
3. John Carpenter's "Vampires"
4. Labyrinth
5. All the Back to the Future movies
6. Drumline
7. Cold Mountain
8. Girl
9. Freeway
10. The Notebook

off the top of my head....

The Princess Bride
Serenity
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Braveheart
The Blues Brothers
U2: Rattle and Hum (presumes there is no other source of music)
American Grafetti
Airplane
Bull Durham
something with lots of lovely naked females (assuming I'm alone on this place)

The Enemy Below
Tombstone
Gods and Generals
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
The Wrath of Khan
The BSG Miniseries
Tommy Boy
Serenity
Patton

And my most guilty of guilty pleasures.

Friday.

Pulp Fiction
Godfather I
Blazing Saddles
The Meaning of Life
Fort Apache
Cool Hand Luke
Inherit the Wind
BSG miniseries
Goodfellas
Lone Star

1. Carl Sagan's COSMOS I-XIII
2. Star Trek Movies I-VIII
3. The Matrix
4. SpiderMan I-II
5. Goodfellas
6. Die Hard I-III
7. Frasier Seasons I-XI
8. In Too Deep
9. Blow
10. Lot's of Porn

^I think that's cheating