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by **Mr Irrelevant** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 3:36 pm

Just noticed a very long thread on another board which is worth replicating.

Dirty Doris 2
Mississippi Burning (a lazy feelgood film)
Heat - it don’t get much better

I watched the alleged greatest film of all time, Citizen Kane, and thought it was utter shite!

by **Bluestreak** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 4:05 pm

by **Snowy** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 4:12 pm

The Cruel Sea
Any Ealing comedy
Casino

by **Ozzy Saltburn** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 4:57 pm

Saving Private Ryan got to be in the top few.

by **Kettering Poolie** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 5:14 pm

The Italian Job
Snatch
The Goonies

by **Hartleblue** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 5:54 pm

Lord of the rings
Terminator 2
Titanic
All the bond films with Daniel Craig the rest are utter shite ( IMHO )
Jurassic Park
It's a Wonderful life

by **Snowy** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 6:33 pm

I forgot about Wonderful Life ..the ending is brilliant…. clappp

First time I saw it on the telly I was in the Juniours, the first film to make me think.

by **Leggie43** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 6:53 pm

I enjoyed the Rocky films and the Vigilante ones.

by **Hartleblue** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 8:11 pm

Snowy wrote:I forgot about Wonderful Life ..the ending is brilliant….
First time I saw it on the telly I was in the Juniours, the first film to make me think.

Never fails to bring a tear or two to my eyes.

by **Bostonpoolie** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 8:51 pm

Yeah it's a wonderful life and then maybe pulp fiction , what a contrast!

by **barriewardrobe3** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 10:20 pm

Jason & The Argonauts
Falling Down
Shawshank Redemption

by **Flying Hogans** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:53 am

The Godfather
Taxi Driver
The Last of the Mohicans

by **harrogatepoolie** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 3:27 am

Schindlers List

by **Snowy** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 6:18 am

Mind you there’s the films that were top box office but for some reason I never fancied or never watched…for me it The Godfather.

by **Jamie1952** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 6:41 am

Any Ken Loach fillum or TV stuff he made very hard hitting and true to life, I was in tears watching I Daniel Blake on a flight, The Angels Share was a good watch as well, comedy by Ken Loach, yes he is and old fashioned leftie dinosaur probably similar to me.

by **Flying Hogans** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:51 am

Snowy wrote:Mind you there’s the films that were top box office but for some reason I never fancied or never watched…for me it The Godfather.

It's never too late... if Casino (also a brilliant fillum) is in your top 3, there's more than a fair chance you'll enjoy it.

by **accrington fan** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 10:10 am

The Third Man. the original version of The 39 steps and a little known film Once A Sinner which shows that a woman can look really sexy with her clothes on. played by Pat Kirkwood. Watched the first so many times now that i could play a part as i know most of the dialogue.

by **accrington fan** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 10:13 am

Snowy wrote:Mind you there’s the films that were top box office but for some reason I never fancied or never watched…for me it The Godfather.

I have watched em but never know why they recieved the publicity they ever did. the di caprio titanic comes the first to mind and thinking come back kenneth more after suffering it.

by **Hartleblue** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 10:35 am

Forgot about Alien's (Alien 2) fantastic film!

by **Snowy** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 11:09 am

accrington fan wrote:
Snowy wrote:Mind you there’s the films that were top box office but for some reason I never fancied or never watched…for me it The Godfather.

I have watched em but never know why they recieved the publicity they ever did. the di caprio titanic comes the first to mind and thinking come back kenneth more after suffering it.

The Kenneth More version was excellent, the other stuff was patent bollocks, typical yanks… if it had run aground leaving leaving Cobh in Ireland we’d have been spared De Craprio…..

by **Snowy** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 11:13 am

Those On the Buses kept the kids quiet along with Indiana Jones and Star Wars first three….. before it became a tedious cash cow (it was only ever Cowboy’s and Injuns in Space)
Even I liked Toy Story. :laugh:

by **frankie1966** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 11:13 am

Pulp Fiction, Last of the Mohicans, The Godfather, One flew over the Cuckoos nest, Platoon

by **Snowy** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 11:16 am

accrington fan wrote:The Third Man. the original version of The 39 steps and a little known film Once A Sinner which shows that a woman can look really sexy with her clothes on. played by Pat Kirkwood. Watched the first so many times now that i could play a part as i know most of the dialogue.

39 steps with Robert Donat, great film.

by **Grayhoundend** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 11:40 am

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Woody outstanding as is Frances McDormand.

by **Snowy** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:20 pm

Stopping at the Station Hotel in Carnforth last week opposite the station where they filmed ‘Brief Encounter’….. been there a few times over the years and the station buffet is decked out as it was at the time of the film and open to the public…..was in there with the wife ( or should have been my bit on the side given the location?) and two women walked in and asked for two fancy Dan coffee’s…the man behind the counter told them…..”Ladies, this is a 1940’s railway buffet, you can have tea or tea, which would you like”…they were gob smacked until he suddenly started laughing…along with the rest of us in there.

by **accrington fan** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:32 pm

it never stops giving me joy when i ask assistants if they just sell coffee when i see that list of names i cannot pronounce being listed. then i,ll go on to do the biggest crime now known to catering and ask for a well done steak. there reaction is worth the money on both.

by **Jamie1952** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:37 pm

TBH I prefer a good book rather than watching a fillum.

by **accrington fan** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:00 pm

Jamie1952 wrote:TBH I prefer a good book rather than watching a fillum.

saying that you are right as films never seem as good as the book they are based on especially the ones written by raymond chandler like the big sleep where a lot of chandlers sarcastic humour is lost by the casters who wanted big names for parts that do not really fit to the ones portraid in the books plus others who are not mentioned on the screen but had a decent presence in the books.

by **JohnnyMars** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:09 pm

Blade Runner (the sequel isn’t bad either)
Apocalypse Now
Get Carter
The Ipcress File
Withnail and I

by **barriewardrobe3** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:15 pm

Snowy wrote:Mind you there’s the films that were top box office but for some reason I never fancied or never watched…for me it The Godfather.

Mine are Forest Gump and Saving Private Ryan. Never fancied watching Gump because it seems to far fetched and I've no idea why I never watched SPR.
Should I remedy this situation?

by **Flying Hogans** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:23 pm

Grayhoundend wrote:Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Woody outstanding as is Frances McDormand.

Three Billboards is really good. We go to the pictures regularly for a night out but it's rare that you see something memorable. Had high hopes for Napopleon but it's bang average.

by **derwent** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 1:35 pm

Chisum, Ghandi, Dambusters, Shawshank, Sink the Bismarck, Schindlers List. A Time To Kill. The Train. The Longest Day. Battle of the Bulge. Mutiny on The Bounty ( with Charles Laughton playing Bligh). The Sting. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. The Old Man and The Sea. The Cruel Sea.

by **Bluestreak** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 2:38 pm

No ones mentioned Barbie yet

by **Grayhoundend** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 3:21 pm

Jamie1952 wrote:TBH I prefer a good book rather than watching a fillum.

You must have a pretty decent imagination, Jamie.
As we all do of a certain age.

by **Grayhoundend** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 3:25 pm

Flying Hogans wrote:
Grayhoundend wrote:Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Woody outstanding as is Frances McDormand.

Three Billboards is really good. We go to the pictures regularly for a night out but it's rare that you see something memorable. Had high hopes for Napopleon but it's bang average.

To me its a film that really persudes you to see different points of view.
Top notch acting always helps, And the depth of the Characters.

by **Jamie1952** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 3:25 pm

The Chinamen book written by Stephen Leather was made into a film called The Foreigner which I thought was a decent watch with Jackie Chan and Peirs Brosman who was playing a character who looked very much like Gerry Adams.

by **Snowy** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 3:33 pm

Bluestreak wrote:No ones mentioned Barbie yet

Your secret’s safe

by **Grayhoundend** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 3:44 pm

Bluestreak wrote:No ones mentioned Barbie yet

Is that you KEN

by **JohnnyMars** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 5:00 pm

JohnnyMars wrote:Blade Runner (the sequel isn’t bad either)
Apocalypse Now
Get Carter
The Ipcress File
Withnail and I

Rosemarys Baby
Also, The Conversation is very good , as is The French Connection, both starring Gene Hackman

by **Johnjo1** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 5:37 pm

It’s an age thing,good old westerns, Randolph Scott, John Wayne etc.Dont know how many times I’ve seen Shane.

by **BarryHarris57** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 6:35 pm

War - Paths of Glory
Drama - Brassed off
Comedy - Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Horror - The Wicker Man

by **JohnnyMars** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 8:30 pm

Just watching The Wicker Man now as it was on bbc4 the other night. Seriously weird and ranked by some critics as the best British horror film of all time.

by **Mr Irrelevant** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:19 pm

By the way, am I the only person on the planet whi has never watched Star Wars?

by **Infidel** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:59 pm

I find going to the cinema on holiday abroad to be very rewarding.

I saw Alien in Durban, when the alien thing pops out of that blokes innards the whole double decker theatre (kinema) jumped off their seats, this was back years ago - whites only!

And U2’s Rattle and Hum (good film)in a redneck town in America. When Bono starts dissing the American bombers a section of the audience misunderstand, stand up and chant USA/USA/USA, like they do.

Nobody’s mentioned the Aristocats! An absolute classic. Funny and everything.

by **Grayhoundend** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 10:22 pm

Mr Irrelevant wrote:By the way, am I the only person on the planet whi has never watched Star Wars?

Well, This planet anyway.

by **Flying Hogans** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 11:37 pm

JohnnyMars wrote:
Rosemarys Baby
Also, The Conversation is very good , as is The French Connection, both starring Gene Hackman

Watched him in a very dark Lee Marvin fillum from the 70s called Prime Cut the other week. Hackman was the baddie - great performance as ever.

Marvin just did his Point Blank turn as usual, but you've got to love those old school Hollywood stars who could do that and never disappoint - same with Clint Eastwood and John Wayne.

by **Flying Hogans** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 11:38 pm

JohnnyMars wrote:Just watching The Wicker Man now as it was on bbc4 the other night. Seriously weird and ranked by some critics as the best British horror film of all time.

Saw the Wicker Man when it came out - it was on as the B fillum with Don't Look Now! Two brilliant films on the same bill for about 40p - I don't often say 'those were the days' but just this once I will

by **Infidel** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 11:47 pm

Speaking of Clint, The Eiger Sanction is a good film.

Snow, mountains, saucy women, suspense, OTT baddies, what more do you need?

by **Snowy** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:02 am

Infidel wrote:Speaking of Clint, The Eiger Sanction is a good film.

Snow, mountains, saucy women, suspense, OTT baddies, what more do you need?

Whenever the old man was watching a one of his cowboy or war films film you’d hear the shout…”Aw NO..,there’s a woman in it :angry-screaming:

!,”.

by **Snowy** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:08 am

How did I forget Das Boot…..the best representation of a submarine at war…you could smell the diesel fuel and fetid atmosphere.
Always like how they showed it how it really was from the food to the clothes…contrast that with yank fillums where everyone was in immaculately laundered outfits and the submarine was the size of a dance hall with living conditions akin to a floating gin palace….a smudge of oil on the odd character’s nose was fooling no one

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