Today’s movies are just crap, help me delve into some golden oldies.

Flinty997

Shallow grave I had forgotten that one...

Hippodrome Song Owl

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I absolutely love Local Hero. Early brilliance from Peter Capaldi. Love the soundtrack - Mark Knopfler rather than Dire Straits. He has some fantastic film music.

Arthur Pants

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Local Hero is available to watch on channel4.com for anyone who hasn't seen it.

Falling Down is great, may re watch this afternoon.

The Game (1997 with Michael Douglas) is also worth a watch.

Akrasia

Battle Royal

A tale of 2 sisters

Old Boy (and the other 2 vengeance movies)

Bunch of other cool Korean and Japanese films from the 2000s that I can't remember the names of right now

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Apart from the Death Wish Movies Charles Bronson made some other forgotten gems The fllowing three movies I would definitely recommend These are as follows.

Death Hunt also staring the brilliant Lee Marvin. It's set in the American wilderness wher Charles lives as a loner. When he comes accross a group of hunters betting on dogs fighting each other he offers to buy one of the dogs who was badly injured.

The owner refuses to sell the dog and continues to beat him. Charles takes the dog but the owner is not happy. The owner decides he wants his dog back and teams up with the other owners. From ther an ensuning game of cat a d mouse continues accross the American wilderness.

The second movie is Ten to Midnight about a serial killer with Bronson trying to track him down. It is a bit graphic in nature but it has a great story line.

The final movie is Mr. Majestic which was made in the early seventies. Charles Browson owns a small waremelon plantion but when the local watermelon company finds out they threaten to destroy plantation. Charles takes things in to his own hands and deals out his own form of justice. Classic Bronson. Check they trailers out on YouTube. You won't be disappointed.

Flinty997

How the west was won...

o1s1n

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I think Falling Down is one of my most watched films. Don't know what it is about it, never gets old.

I know Michael Douglas is obviously the main attraction in that one but I think it's one of Robert Duvall's best appearances.

Always remember the standee posters for that one in video shops with Michael Douglas standing on some ruined steps with a briefcase in one hand and a shotgun in the other.

Always gave me a bit of an Apocalypse Now vibe. Which is interesting given Robert Duvall and Frederic Forrest are in both!

Ah no way that's mad, I was just googling Frederic Forrest there to see if he was still alive and he died last month, nooo!

Arthur Pants

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The Conversation is another great film, with Harrison Ford, Frederic Forrest and Duvall, all from Apocalypse Now. I think it's also currently on Paramount+.

Hangdogroad

TG4 used to show some interesting films in the early 00s. Two that stand out,

Cruising (1980). Little seen slasher thriller with Al Pacino as a cop who goes undercover among NYs S&M gay scene to catch a serial killer. Very sleazy snapshot of this subculture just before Aids.

Vice Squad (1982). Another scuzzy, sleazy thriller, LAs Vice Squad try to track down a vicious redneck pimp played by Wings Hauser, who's one of those familiar faces from a lot of 80s horror, sci-fi fi, straight to video stuff. Nasty scene involving a coat hanger.

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Some good movies from the last decade:

1. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
2. Sicario (2015)
3. Prisoners (2013)
4. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
5. Captain Philips (2013)
6. Creed (2015)
7. Hell or High Water (2016)
8. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
9. Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
10. The Revenant (2015)

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If you are an action geek you might like some of these classics from the 80s:

Missing in action two: Chuck Norris

The Delta Force: Chuck Norris.

Lone Wolf Mc Quaid Chuck Norris and David Carradine of Pulp Fiction fame.

Nico: Steven Segal

Out for justice: Steven Segal

Marked for Death: Steven Segal.

Markus Antonius

The china Syndrome (1979)

coma (1973)

The day of the Jackal (1973)

Wallstreet (1987)

The odd Couple (1968)

The Ipcress File (1965)

Cape Fear (1991)

Kelly's Heroes (1970)

Rivers Edge (1986)

American Psycho (2000)

Soylent Green (1973)

The Verdict (1982)

Dark City (1998)

Mystic River (2003)

A clockwork orange

2001: A space odyssey (1968)

Count Dracula

Some worthy mentions

Dead Poets Society ( 1989 )

The Sixth Sense ( 1999 )

Shallow Grave ( 1995 )

Platoon ( 1987 )

Tootsie ( 1982 )

Midnight Cowboy ( 1969)

a nightmare on elm street ( 1984 )

StupidLikeAFox

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet but True Romance is a very underrated film. Tarantino directed/wrote it and the cast is incredible - Christian slater, Patricia arquette,Christopher walken, Gary oldman, James gandolfini, Brad Pitt, Michael rappaport, Samuel l Jackson - probably others I'm forgetting. V dark in parts but funny as well. Need to give it another watch

New Home

A mixture of oldish and newish films, in various genres:

• Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
• Bread and Tulips
• Driving Miss Daisy (Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman)
• The Color Purple
• Incendies (it's a brutal film - not in the sense of being bad, but it's very hard to watch, I found it traumatising, but it's amazing).
• Wadjda
• Bagdad Café
• How to steal a million (with Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole)
• Crash (this has already been mentioned)
• Coma

TV series:

• BBC's "The Lakes", both series 1 and 2, from the mid-to-late '90s, are gems. Every time you watch them you find another layer.
• BBC's (or was it CH4? Definitely, DEFINITELY not the US remake) "State of Play". Excellent.

I'm sure I forgot a few, I'll add them later if I remember them.

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If you like a good western you can check out the following:

The Wild Bunch: William Holden

Rio Lobo: John Wayne

Tombe Stone: Kurt Russell

The Outlaw Josey Wells: Clint Eastwood

Hard Plain Drifter: Clint Eastwood

The Quick and the dead: Gene Hackman.

Unforgiven: Clint Eastwood and Geane Hack man

Shannadeogh: Jimmy stewart

The Magnificent: Seven Denzel Washington

The Sheep Man: Glen Ford.

3.10 to Yuma Russell Crow and Christian Bale.

As you can see there is a selection of old and more recent movies. Enjoy.

BlueEyeGleams

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That might be my most affecting film I remember watching it on acid, so engrosssd was I that was almost climbing into the telly like in videodrome. Though the whole gaf was tapped but it was just me! Wasn’t quite pulling up floorboards like gene at the end but was gettin there

Did you smash it

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10 to midnight has one of the most unintentionally hilarious pieces of dialogue in cinematic history ; https://youtu.be/ONhA915mkSI

Bracken81

Couple of random Horrors:

Possession 1981 - Sam Neill & Isabella Adjani - Weirdly strange and intense

The Wicker man - 1973 - the Perfect horror movie imho

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John Carpenters 1976 thriller Assault on Precinct 13th. I remember watching it on one of those rear Saturday nights my brothers and sisters were allowed to stay up and watch the late movie on RTE. For me a very underrated John carpenter movie but one of his best 👌

NewbridgeIR

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State of Play and The Lakes - both great John Simm performances.

Also in the same era, The Crow Road.

New Home

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That's why I watched State of Play (so many twists and turns, it's a masterpiece!). John Simm's performance in The Lakes made me realise how superb an actor he is, I've been trying to watch everything he's been in since then.

Hangdogroad

Hardcore (1979). Written and directed by Paul Schrader who wrote Taxi Driver. George C Scott as a father searching the LA porn underworld for his daughter. Its one of the great non porn movies where the porn industry takes centre stage.

Montage of Feck

Bring back the Last Picture Show! Surely with competition from streaming the likes of RTE should be more of a curator of film of cultural or aesthetic importance.

NewbridgeIR

Just ordered State Of Play on DVD. £6 on Amazon. Haven’t seen it since original broadcast. Looking forward to re-visiting. Thanks for reminding me about it.

There are a lot of **** movies out now op tbf but I think years ago... say if you had something on tape or watched it on tv any time it was on ...you watched movies several times...either cause you'd nothing else and it was on or just cause watching films over and over was grand or you wanted to watch with someone who hadn't seen it etc..people don't do that anymore cause theyve so much to choose from so you have very fond memories of great films but films that you see now that are good...you only watch them once so they don't have as much impact as a great film would have years ago.

trashcan

Has anyone mentioned Papillon yet ? Superb stuff with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman. Speaking of McQueen, The Great Escape is a very entertaining watch. The original Cape Fear from the early 60’s is very good too. Robert Mitchum is a sly, sleazy villain in the De Niro part. Not as showy a performance, but equally as dangerous. Gregory Peck is more upstanding than Nick Norte, as you’d expect, but very good too. They both had cameos in the remake as I recall. And speaking of Gregory Peck, To Kill a Mockingbird is also great, with a very young Robert Duval as Boo Radley.

silliussoddius

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The Boys from Brazil, not a soccer documentary. Good against type turn from Gregory Peck.

Capt'n Midnight

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Once upon a time in the West. Henry Fonda's time to turn against type.

Capt'n Midnight

Red Cliff - John Woo's epic in ancient China

Akira Kurosawa

Ran - epic version of Shakespeare's King Lear with Samurai. Great composition and colours. Anything that's not a battle scene could be a painting.

Yojimbo - it's A Fistful of Dollars with Samurai. But years earlier. Also remade as Last Man Standing (only for die hard Bruce Willis fans, not Die Hard fan.)

The Seven Samurai - it's the Magnificent Seven with Samurai. But years earlier. Battle Beyond the Stars was another copy.

Rashomon - some deconstruction of Samurai films , in 1957.