Thread: One film for all of humanity

This came up in the pub last night. Let's say there's some massive terrible world event, loads of people die, and every single film on the planet is destroyed. That includes .avi files, DVDs, VHS's, everything.

But in some bizarre twist of fate, you have been blessed with the chance to save one.

Which would you save?

Personally, I'd probably go with Apocalypse Now. It's a masterpiece, it's a reminder of the horrors of war, and it's an insight into the nature of good and evil and human corruptibility. And it's got The Doors and Wagner in the soundtrack. All good things for the human race to witness, in my opinion.

Taboo 3?

Shit... I can not be sure anymore. Lately all I have seen is suck, most notably from JJ Abrams.

Fringe? Seriously? Every messed up ET supernatural thing ever is a result of dyslectified, semi-lobotomated doctor who can not seem to remember how to operate a comb?

I can see the next episode already...

"Yes, well, that was back when I was researching a cure for baldness. To finance this reseach, I was working as a burger-jack by night at a fast food restaurant. Between the rampaging hormones (I am always my own test subject, even back to childhood and my first lobotomy by numbers kit) and the youthful charms of some of the female employees, I developed a raging tumescence, which I relieved into a paper cup on my first break.

Upon returning, the manager took the cup from my hand and told me to get back to the grill, as she proceeded to draw a vanilla shake. Evidently, she was filling an order for a woman who was a prostitute. Somehow between my pervasive chemistry experiments, damaged genetics, and her own agressive collection of infections, it induced extreme diarrhea in her clients.

The constant flushing actually cause whole sections of Detroit to disappear completely.

"Wait a minute, you mean to tell me that you were the cause of the Brown Triangle of Detroit?

"Yes. Not only that, but if condom use had been more prevalent, Detroit might be a much larger city today."

Blah. Don`t even get me started on that stupid ass Star Trek flick. I liked Kirk and Spock. The whole rest of the film should be shit canned. 'tee hee hee, I`m gonna turn star trek completely upside down by blowing up Vulcan' >yawn<

That wasn`t innovative. It was lazy. So is time travel. In fact, time travel is the other middle finger to the audience. If your character is not referred to as 'The Doctor', your character needs to stay his ass out of time travel. Period. Lazy writing.

Meanwhile, back on topic, I wish I could be nice and say Casablanca, or Highlander. I do like those two movies. Probably pick 'Humanoids from the Deep' though. Inflict that on the future because probably someone there deserves it.