Recommended Films

[the 12 th man]

Devdas
21 Grams
Crash
The Coneheads
Alien
The Blues Brothers
Silence of the Lambs
Traffic
Blue Velvet

[tetsujin1979]

Watching American History X on BBC2, long time since I saw it.
The discussion at the dinner table about Rodney King made me think of the film "Dark Blue" - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0279331/ - check it out if you find it. It's a cop drama set in the run up to the Rodney King trial in LA, and the boy's club attitude in the police force, covering for each other, etc.
Best film I've seen Kurt Russel in, in a long time.

[Paddy Garcia]

I rented Running Scared with low expectations. Was really surprised - a really great chase movie. Well worth watching if you like a thriller, never let up for a moment. Fantastic.

Red Sorghum delivered a hefty punch on the big screen.

[Risteard]

Snakes on a Plane

[the 12 th man]

Snakes on a Plane has its own thread here ...

http://foot.ie/showthread.php?t=38678&highlight=Snakes

[TonyD]

It probably comes under the "too obvious" category, but Hot Fuzz is out on DVD this week. I thought it was a hoot. "Shaun of the Dead" is great too. And if you've never seen the Pegg/Frost sitcom "Spaced" that's well worth checking out too.

[gilberto_eire]

i taught ''Hot Fuzz'' was terrible.... i went the cinema with a friend when it came out and i said to him it should be good looking back at ''shaun of the dead'' which i taught was genius...but it was terrible...no word of a lie with about 20mins left, a few ppl left(and there was only bout 20 there) and id never seen that before with a film!
was nowhere near as good as shaun' and it wasnt even funny in the slightest(not sure were they even trying to make it funny, it didnt look like it anyway!!)

[BohsPartisan]

I thought Hot Fuzz was funny. Can't see why anyone would walk out tbh.
If you want to see a terrible film look no further than Smokin Aces.

[Dodge]

I enjoyed Hot Fuzz, as did the fairly full audience I seen it with

I watched "American Splendor" in the cinema and thought it wa excellent but at least 15 people walked out of it.

[tetsujin1979]

Only film I've ever seen people walk out of was "Closer".
A few girls I know told me they walked out of "Heat", couldn't believe it

[BohsPartisan]

Only film I've ever seen people walk out of was "Closer".


I liked Closer too.

I fell asleep during Apollo 13.

[Dodge]

I fell asleep twice in the cinema. One of the Star Wars (the 5th/2nd one) and the second Pirates of the Carribean. The things you do for girlfiends....

[BohsPartisan]

I fell asleep twice in the cinema. One of the Star Wars (the 5th/2nd one) and the second Pirates of the Carribean. The things you do for girlfiends....

Has she got a narcolepsy fetish? :D

[Dodge]

Nah, just a cheesy blockbuster fetish

[jebus]

Only film I ever walked out on was Meet the Fockers, due to a combination of a stomach bug and the movie being God awful.

Personally I liked Hot Fuzz and Closer so don't see why people would walk out, that said I was a screening of Soy Cuba recently and people walked after 20 minutes, maybe after years of Capitalist oppression they just couldn't get into a good ol' Communist propoganda movie ;)

That reminds me of people walking out of Zidane:a 21st Century Portrait, I mean what did they expect? A 2 hour thriller that culminates in Raul being unmasked as the mystery headbutter?

[BohsPartisan]

Oh, forgot about Brotherhood of the Wolf. Decent "leave your brain at the door" entertainment disguised as something deeper.

[jebus]

How about Dog Soldiers actually, quality low budget movie, or Me, and You and Everyone we Know, and (although people will probably disagree) I Heart Huckabees

[BohsPartisan]

Yeah, Dog Soldiers was pretty cool in a 28 days later kinda way.

[Wolfie]

Oh, forgot about Brotherhood of the Wolf. Decent "leave your brain at the door" entertainment disguised as something deeper.

It was a massive hit with the Wolf community, Bohs!! :D

[Dodge]

Another film I love that I've just remembered is the 70s cult classic "The Warriors"

Completely cheesey, totally unbelievable but for some reason it just rocks...

[pete]

The original Wicker Man (one of the best movie endings if you have not seen)

The Taking of Pelham 123 is a classic crime movie, often shown on tv.

[RogerMilla]

Saw Brother, Very good film What is the sequel like?


much the same , he goes to america , very enjoyable and loads of action/assasination set-pieces

[First]

The Searchers.

Saw it again recently and still enjoyed. Saw it along long time ago and didn't really get the racist bigotry at the time.

[Lionel Ritchie]

I'd well recommend Pierrepoint to anyone who's not seen it.

it's about Britains (and ours actually) last hangman.

[Paddy Garcia]

Black Hawk Down - a quiet classic.

[finlma]

2 very funny films possibly mentioned here before are Best In Show and A Mighty Wind. Both are mocumentary style and have the same cast and directorship.

For anyone who saw them: "Wha happened?"

[Dodge]

2 very funny films possibly mentioned here before are Best In Show and A Mighty Wind. Both are mocumentary style and have the same cast and directorship.


Seconded.

A simple egyptian style graphic in Best of Show made me fall off my chair laughing. One of my all time favourites

[pete]

Being John Malkovich, Adaptation (bit complicated so never to concentrate) & Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind all written by Charlie Kaufmann.

:cool:

[TonyD]

The Taking of Pelham 123 is a classic crime movie, often shown on tv.

That's a really good "little" movie alright. Starring the ever dependable Walter Matthau. He's also in a really good film with Jack Lemmon, where he plays a hitman, and Lemmon is a suicidal man in the apartment next door to where Matthau is waiting to carry out a hit. The name escapes me though. A real classic British film from the early sixties is "Whistle Down the Wind" with Hayley Mills, where a group of kids become convinced that an escaped convict hiding in their barn is Jesus. Really good.

[sligoman]

That's a really good "little" movie alright. Starring the ever dependable Walter Matthau. He's also in a really good film with Jack Lemmon, where he plays a hitman, and Lemmon is a suicidal man in the apartment next door to where Matthau is waiting to carry out a hit. The name escapes me though.Buddy Buddy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082111/)

[gustavo]

I'd well recommend Pierrepoint to anyone who's not seen it.

it's about Britains (and ours actually) last hangman.

Its very good , but highly depressing really , the final "Hello Tish , Hello Tosh" scene will always stay with me

[TonyD]

Buddy Buddy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082111/)

Yep, that's the one. Cheers.

[Wolfie]

A Mighty Wind.

For anyone who saw them: "Wha happened?"

Another class quote:

"The abuse was mostly musical in nature" :D

[jebus]

Genuinely one of the funniest movies you'll ever see is Batman: The Movie, as in the 60s TV show spin off movie. So knowingly camp its great, plus once you're done laughing at the movie turn on the commentary by Burt Ward and Adam West and laugh even louder! :) This is just one of many quality scenes in it, but gives a real taste as to what the movies about :D:D

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[SaucyJack]

I thought Hot Fuzz was funny. Can't see why anyone would walk out tbh.
If you want to see a terrible film look no further than Smokin Aces.


hard to believe the same guy(Joe Carnahan) wrote and directed "Narc", though I gotta say Alicia Keyes looked pretty hot in Smokin Aces, even if I didn't think much of her before.

[pete]

Another old favourite of mine - Point Blank.

[First]

Point break was also good I thought.

[John83]

Another old favourite of mine - Point Blank.
This one? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062138/

I thought you might mean Grosse Pointe Blank for a moment, which is fun, though I wouldn't expect it to come up here.

[SaucyJack]

I liked Wonderland with Val Kilmer and Dylan Mcdermott, Kilmer plays John Holmes as his life really starts to hit rock bottom.(not a gay porn reference)

[Paddy Garcia]

This one? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062138/

I thought you might mean Grosse Pointe Blank for a moment, which is fun, though I wouldn't expect it to come up here.

Highly recommend Grosse Pointe Blank. Pogues track included.

[TonyD]

Highly recommend Grosse Pointe Blank. Pogues track included.


Agree. Great fun. And a good soundtrack. Whats the name of the song at the beginning ? (it's also used at the end I think)

[Soper]

'The Producers' is a good film too. I should have had it on my list. The original of course, because I'm not a fan of Matthew Broderick.

[Paddy Garcia]

Tony

Soundtrack :

Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes
Rudie Can't Fail - Clash
Mirror In The Bathroom - English Beat
Under Pressure - David Bowie, Queen
I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
Live & Let Die - Guns N' Roses
We Care A Lot - Faith No More
Pressure Drop - Specials Lis
Absolute Beginners - Jam
Armagideon Time - Clash
El Matador - Los Fabulosos Cadillacs List
Let My Love Open The Door (E. Cola Mix) - Pete Townshend
Blister 2000 Violent Femmes
Message to You Rudy - The Specials
Cities in Dust - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Killing Moon - Echo & the Bunnymen
Monkey Gone to Heaven - Pixies
Lorca's Novena - The Pogues
Go! - Tones on Tail
Let It Whip - Dazz Band
Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight - Dominatrix
War Cry - Joe Strummer
White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) - Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel
Take on Me - a-ha
You're Wondering Now - The Specials

[pete]

This one? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062138/


It was "remade" as Payback (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120784/) with Mel Gibson :(

[Dodge]

'The Producers' is a good film too. I should have had it on my list. The original of course, because I'm not a fan of Matthew Broderick.

One of my top 10. Also love Broderick for Ferris Bueller (and to a lesser extent Election, which is a great little film)

[Soper]

Oh yeah, I do like Election, very good film. Broderick wouldn't be very high in my disliked actor list, so I can watch some of his films.

[Ceirtlis]

I l second Goodbye Lenin about a family in Berlin who pretend to their mother that the Berlin wall has not fallen after she wakes from a coma. The Basketball Diaries also a very good film. Alot of the best films i have seen were on late at night and were subtitled. I know its a long shot but did anyone see a film that was on rte late one night about 6 or 7 years ago set somewhere in former yugoslavia about two fellas who were friends before the war but then ended up fighting each other? I havent a clue what it was called, class film though.
Absolutely love Kevin and Perry Go Large as well but it is probably a bit mainstream for this thread.

[tetsujin1979]

Alot of the best films i have seen were on late at night and were subtitled.
Yeah, that's happened to me too, come home from the pub and flick on the TV, it's how I saw Chasing Amy, Office Space and Dazed & Confused. All recommended.

[Risteard]

It was "remade" as Payback (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120784/) with Mel Gibson :(
Almost as good as Ransom

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which happens to have a line thats almost as good as "Get off my plane!"

[Dodge]

Almost as good as Ransom which happens to have a line thats almost as good as "Get off my plane!"

I use that line to describe numerous bad revenge films

"Give me back my <insert whatever is missing here>!!!"