Recommended Films

**TonyD** · 14/06/2007, 9:00 PM

Originally Posted by Paddy Garcia

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** · 14/06/2007, 9:04 PM

'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** · 14/06/2007, 9:15 PM

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** · 14/06/2007, 9:40 PM

Originally Posted by John83

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

It was "remade" as Payback with Mel Gibson

**Dodge** · 14/06/2007, 9:43 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

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

**Soper** · 14/06/2007, 9:49 PM

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** · 15/06/2007, 12:39 AM

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** · 15/06/2007, 1:42 AM

Originally Posted by Ceirtlis

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** · 15/06/2007, 1:52 AM

Originally Posted by pete

It was "remade" as Payback with Mel Gibson

Almost as good as Ransom

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

**Dodge** · 15/06/2007, 7:22 AM

Originally Posted by Risteard

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>!!!"

**Aberdonian Stu** · 15/06/2007, 9:32 AM

I don't know if I've mentioned it before but Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence is a superb film, about British prisoners in a Japanese POW camp.

Somebody mentioned The Warriors, I agree it's class. From around the same period I'd recommend the original Assault on Precinct 13 and Escape from New York.

**passinginterest** · 15/06/2007, 10:34 AM

Was looking through my DVD collection the other day and 'Dazed and Confused', 'Wonderland' and the original 'Wicker Man were ones I had picked out to mention. Then I get back here and find I've been beaten to it.

**jebus** · 15/06/2007, 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by pete

It was "remade" as Payback with Mel Gibson

Was what that line Homer said to Gibson in the Simpsons? "Would Braveheart ever quit? Did Payback quit"?

**SaucyJack** · 15/06/2007, 12:33 PM

would recommend The Devils' rejects, written and directed by Rob Zombie, but you gotta watch House of a thousand corpse's first to get it.

**pete** · 15/06/2007, 12:37 PM

I think Razing Arizona was mentioned already & like the Big Lebowski is always watchable.

The Blues Brothers is great but alcohol helps.

**gustavo** · 15/06/2007, 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by SaucyJack

would recommend The Devils' rejects, written and directed by Rob Zombie, but you gotta watch House of a thousand corpse's first to get it.

Thought that was fairly crap

But then again I amn't a fan of the genre too much
Another film I would highly reccomend it Amadeus , tells the life story of Mozart , cant rate it highly enough even if you have no knowledge or interest in classical music.

**Newryrep** · 16/06/2007, 2:09 PM

In no particular order some recommendations

Downfall - had to go to Dundalk to see at as Newry omniplex didnt have it
Cross of Iron - James Cobern, James Mason peckenpah directed, Germans on the Eastern front
Gaslight - B/W husdand (french actor) tries to drive wife (ingrid Bergman ?insane by messing with the gas supply/lights
Brighton rock - B/W Richard Attenborough plays Pinky small town mobster
Ace in the hole - Kirk Douglas plays a former big time reporter manipulating a cave rescue

**osarusan** · 16/06/2007, 3:49 PM

Originally Posted by gustavo

Thought that was fairly crap

But then again I amn't a fan of the genre too much
Another film I would highly reccomend it Amadeus , tells the life story of Mozart , cant rate it highly enough even if you have no knowledge or interest in classical music.

Really? Decent but I thought it went on forever. Also, Salieri was a far more likeable character then Mozart. Great acting by F.Murray Abraham though.

**Lionel Ritchie** · 16/06/2007, 4:13 PM

Originally Posted by gustavo

Another film I would highly reccomend it Amadeus , tells the life story of Mozart , cant rate it highly enough even if you have no knowledge or interest in classical music.

Not a bad film for the music on it's own but, as even Lisa Simpson was able to point out, it's full of historical inaccuracies. I'd go further and say it's deliberately misleading.

I watched Hannibal Rising last night and thought it was quite good.

**gustavo** · 16/06/2007, 4:59 PM

Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie

Not a bad film for the music on it's own but, as even Lisa Simpson was able to point out, it's full of historical inaccuracies. I'd go further and say it's deliberately misleading.

I watched Hannibal Rising last night and thought it was quite good.

Fair enough , I suppose that might be a turn off to some but I dont mind a little dramatic licence

Originally Posted by osarusan

Really? Decent but I thought it went on forever. Also, Salieri was a far more likeable character then Mozart. Great acting by F.Murray Abraham though.

Well i think the opposite really , I thought it painted Mozart to be a genius who was an annoying so and so but at the bottom of it was a decent guy and that Salieri was made out to be a bitter guy who was jealous of Mozarts ability and his flippant attitude to it