Lord of the Rings Trilogy-Best films of all time?

**tiktok** · 23/12/2003, 9:21 AM

Originally posted by A face
Has anyone seen "Le Haine" .... brilliant film !!

it's class, not too many films have a special government screening to see what all the fuss is about. vincent cassel is absolutely brilliant in it, one of the better actors knocking around today.

**A face** · 23/12/2003, 10:25 AM

Originally posted by tiktok
vincent cassel is absolutely brilliant in it, one of the better actors knocking around today.

yeah .... he is alot more aswell. All spiraled from a film festival flick.

"special government screening" .... some guy resigned after it aswell wasnt there ??

**Dodge** · 23/12/2003, 10:48 AM

Best fantasy films yeah. Although in no way would I be a fan of that genre

Best Films (in no particular order) Dog Day Afternoon, La Haine, Groundhog Day, Out of Sight, Resevoir Dogs, Goodfellas, The Godfather(I and II), City of God, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Bonnie & Clyde, Raging BUll and Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Best this year Kill Bill, Donnie Darko and City of God

Oh and Terminator 1 was very good, terminator 2 was ****e and temrinator 3 was decent fun

**A face** · 23/12/2003, 11:01 AM

Originally posted by Dodge
Best Films (in no particular order) Dog Day Afternoon, La Haine, Groundhog Day, Out of Sight, Resevoir Dogs, Goodfellas, The Godfather(I and II), City of God, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Bonnie & Clyde, Raging BUll and Ferris Bueller's Day Off

The deerhunter !! ..... and maybe Devils Advocate

**Dodge** · 23/12/2003, 11:25 AM

Originally posted by A face
The deerhunter !! ..... and maybe Devils Advocate

maybe and hell no! Good film but doubt it'd be in even pacino's top ten...

**A face** · 23/12/2003, 11:29 AM

Originally posted by Dodge
Good film but doubt it'd be in even pacino's top ten...

You're right ... i had seen it again recently, thats why i said it.

I swear ... i cant think ...... there are loads of other good quality films out there.

**tiktok** · 23/12/2003, 12:28 PM

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Jerk
Airplane
Best in Show
The Princess Bride

Three colours Red
Jean de Florette/Manon de source
Rebecca
The Birds
The Italian Job
Alien
The Desk Set
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Wild Bunch
Twelve Angry men

I'll stop there, otherwise I'll be still here in an hour.

**Macy** · 23/12/2003, 12:32 PM

The Great Escape, The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Pulp Fiction....

**DolansWaistcoat** · 23/12/2003, 12:41 PM

Top 3(any films.)
1.Forrest Gump
2.Rocky(first 4 brilliant,5 OKish)
3.Braveheart.

Whoever said terminater 2 was Sh*t and part 3 was decent fun should have their head checked.

**Ruairi** · 23/12/2003, 1:00 PM

one of the best films of recent years is Fight Club.

For sheer entertainment value alone you can't beat Indiana Jones.

And Star Wars rules.

**MikeW** · 23/12/2003, 1:54 PM

Almost every film with Clint Eastwood in it is watchable, the best being:

Dirty Harry (one of my favourite all time films)
The Sergio Leone trilogy (A fistful of Dollars, For a few dollars more and GB&U)
Outlaw Josie Wales
High Plains Drifter
Unforgiven

Other Westerns:
The Magnificent Seven
The Wild Bunch (my favourite Western)
Once upon a time in the west
A fistful of Dynamite

Comedies off the top of my head that may not have been mentioned:
The Blues Brothers
This is Spinal Tap (love the the scene at the airport with Harry Shearer and the cucumber!)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

**DolansWaistcoat** · 24/12/2003, 12:41 PM

I don't know if it's been mentioned but the 'Shawshank Redemption' has to be the greatest prison film ever made.

The twist at the end is one of the greatest endings ever thought up for a book/film.Brilliant stuff.

Stephen King wrote the 'Shawshank' and I think the man is a legend.Some more of his books that have made great films.

The shining
Misery
Carrie
It
The Stand
Stand by me(ORIGINAL CALLED,the dead Body,I think!)
Pet semetary
Saloms Lot
Apt pupil

There's more and I can't think of them now.

**DolansWaistcoat** · 28/12/2003, 10:14 PM

Taxi Driver is a great DeNiro film maybe his best ever.

I went to see road kill a few years back in the cinema,I didn't know anything about it,just went in and thought it was a great show.

**Dodge** · 29/12/2003, 9:17 AM

Originally posted by Conor74
Devil's Advocate features some of the hammiest acting ("Gaaaawd is an AB-SENT-EEEEEEEEEE Landloyid") and worst acting (Keanu, as usual) in any film.

Keanu's perfect in that film as the little boy in the biog bad world and so to is Pacino as, well, the, eh, Devil... Acting doesn't have to be about realism all the time...

**Dodge** · 29/12/2003, 10:46 AM

Originally posted by Conor74
Cheers, but kinda guessed the film/role wouldn't be 'about realism' when the Devil turned up and inanimate objects sprang to life...

And here's me thinking you went along hoping it was a film based on the 1996 Fianna Fail Ard Fheis...