The Yanks don’t do realism. Even their tramps (refuseniks) have ironed shirts and white teeth.

no at 63 I have never watched or wanted to watch any of them

no you are not. two here plus my lad who hates that type of thing. not all youngsters were excited about harry potter either but did not like admitting to it.

and their women look to have at least 4 teeth on both sets more than enyone else. farah fawcett majors always comes to mind.

I haven't either.

Midnight Express

Good shout forgot about that one as well, and probably loads more, is it an age thing? I can't remember.

with a title like that many younsters will think its really OTT fiction when they think of our train services now. Midnight replacement bus service would add some reality to it.

Saw that when i was a youngun at the ABC, Class fillum

Midnight Express great film...and it took me over 40 years to pluck up the courage to visit the place after watching it.

Here’s one. Slade in Flame.

It came to mind as a kind of joke but it is in fact a very good film and recognised by critics as one of the best rock band fiction films ever.

It’s gritty, with a number of true stories mixed in that paint an accurate picture of a band being exploited and falling apart. It has some good music in too.

I felt the same with going to Ashington.

Midnight Express is a great film - but I then made the mistake of reading the book and 'Billy' is a right twat at the end of the true story.

The book was much better than the film, they can’t squeeze all the events into a film and the ending was different.

Back in the 70's in the days of two films being shown, I saw a 'B' fillum called 'Duel'.
I thought it was a great suspense film and it was not until thirty years later that I discovered that the director was Steven Spielberg. With a minimal cast, Duel keeps one glued to the big screen demonstrating SS's skill that led to his great career.

The Odessa file
Training Day
Fallen
Bridge on the river Kwai
Unforgiven
Patton
The good the bad the ugly
The deer Hunter
Fargo
Duck Soap

There's a few good 'uns in there - so there should be if you pick 10

Training Day - one of Denzil Washington's best, along with Flight, but he's worth watching in every film he makes.

funny mentioning a B fillum or a second feature as they were called. Usually not much more than one hour in length there was less padding out and kept you interested unlike some long drawn out main feature did. back in the days of only having 2 channels to watch i remember an old fil director being interviwed who stated even back then there was research into how long the average person can concentrate in the cinema. it was more or less 90 minutes which is possibly why most lasted about that long at the time.

That's one possible explanation. The other is that each reel of 35mm film used for cinema projection lasted about 45 minutes. 90 minutes or a bit less became the standard fillum length because it was cost effective - it had to be a film by big-name director or a Biblical epic to justify the expense of going longer

it can be more than just a coincidence that these really long high budget stuff started to come out when cinema visiting was getting less and less a popular past time. possibly trying something different to woo the audiance by their increased length and use of colour at every single opportunity. for me films became more visual with poorer dialogue from those days onward.

I recently went to watch Killers of the Flower Moon which is three and a half hours long - while it’s a decent film it is way too long in my opinion. I was thinking of going to see Napoleon which is two hours and forty minutes but it doesn’t get great reviews.

They do it to give their films a bit of extra credence and make the public think they are watching a classic rather than a standard offering. I’m not sure they always live up to it though.

It’s been a trend for years stretch mediocre films and TV drama’s further then a bunjee rope to improve it’s status.

Didn't realise I picked 10..its the excitement of beating the mighty Liverpool city.

The Longest Day-Saving Private Ryan-Heat-Midnight Express-Mad Max 2-The Warriors-The Godfather -The French Connection-Leon-War of the Worlds- The Exorcist.

Anything with Paul Newman . Especially a question of malice

With a decent sized TV you can watch a good film at home now.

The fire on, glass of wine, nobody chomping crisps or wibbly wobbling around on a creaky chair. I've caught up on some classics over the lockdown period like this and enjoyed it.

memento
Tombstone ( Val Kilmer should have won an Oscar)
Arlington Road

Arlington Road is great, If you like that you,ll like Swordfish.

The Dambusters, complete with Nigel the dog if you watch on BBC

Reach for the Sky…Kenneth More as Douglas Bader.

when you see the names of those last two war films you realize how crap hollywood war films actually are.

The thing I like about the Cruel sea had little ‘ Hollywood Style’ action or bullshit but gave a good grounding of the men who manned the ships.

Cruel Sea - Snorkers!

‘Good oh!’…. Stanley Baker…and…’Hands to stations for leaving harbour, sea duty men close up”.

Kelly’s Heroes, a few famous names in the cast.

A product of it’s times, an oxymoron a war comedy.

I went to see Napoleon. To really appreciate it you need to have some idea about Napoleons career. the battle scenes were very realistic, unfortunately the colour was very dark even the daylight shots were dingy. I was impressed with the Vue , the recliner seats are very comfortable and spacious

Restless Natives

Awesome soundtrack.

"Do you believe in ghosts?"

Realistic? Every shot from a cannon in the entire fillum is explosive. You'd don't have to read much about Napoleonic warfare to know that roundshot (solid cannon balls) was used far more frequently in battles. It's the usual Hollywood stuff - lots of big bangs (but enough about Josesphine's bedroom) and gimmicks like an entire army disappearing under a frozen lake. Last time I saw that it was a horde of nasty Anglo-Saxons chasing King Arthur's brave lads.

it will be more realistic than the next version where napoleon or wellington and josephine will be played by a person of colour.

Surprised they didn’t have some belt fed machine guns….they have form for it.

I actually enjoyed ‘From here to Eternity’ oddly enough when I finally saw it.

i didn,t but does go to show its worth giving things a go that might not be your thing. ones i,ll never give a go on no matter how good are ones dogs get killed in or die like seven below. don,t mind a few humans getting blasted away but no dogs especially huskeys or rotties.

What about ‘A Matter of Life or Death’ with David Niven as the bomber pilot who should have died…really exercises your imagination.

Plus those 1950’s Dickens classics featuring John Mills and the Oliver Twist one with Alec Guinness….. and the best of all, Scrooge with Alistair Simms.

Casablanca if not already mentioned

Whisky Galore.

stockport v aldershot cup replay last night.

Aldershot managed by ex Poolie Tommy Widdrington as well,

I can honestly say I have never seen that film, like

The poster was referring to the game which was apparently a good watch, albeit he is just being sarcastic, Challinor post match interview was even better, he was seething, I have posted the link on the Gateshead thread.