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

BattleCorp · 10-07-2023 9:31pm

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Ah lad. I'd have guessed Inception was no more than 5 years old. Fcuk I'm getting old.

Potential-Monke · 10-07-2023 9:34pm

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I mean, yeah, they're brainless popcorn movies. But still better than John Wick since 2... is it 2 holds the record for the most shotgun rounds fired from a Benelli semi-auto shotgun before having to reload? And I may have been under the influence at the time, which probably enhanced it a bit. And only recently got an OLED so maybe that helped a bit. But for brainless popcorn films, they're pretty good.

mikep · 10-07-2023 9:37pm

Sleepers

American History X

Doubt

amacca · 10-07-2023 9:37pm

Donnie Darko

Fargo

The usual suspects

LA Confidential

Gladiator was a cracking film

I'll probably get lynched but I enjoyed the original independence day

And speaking of will Smith

Enemy of the state....dunno if it has aged well but an enjoyable film at the time

Vertigo

North by northwest

Singin in the rain...I normally hate singing dancing shite but you can't deny the entertainment/talent/skill

Silence of the lambs

Fight club

And speaking of Brad Pitt...seven

Die hard

Predator

Heat

Goodfellas

....

AllForIt · 10-07-2023 9:40pm

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Oh brilliant movie. Anything with Donald Sutherland. Don't Look Now is another great one of his, a horror.

Watched the The Nuremberg Trials the other day with Spencer Tracy and Montgomery Clift. Captain Kirk is in it too.

Strumms · 10-07-2023 9:46pm

there are great films but the aforementioned Once Upon a Time In The West is maybe the best film I’ve ever seen.

Day Of The Jackal, 12 Angry Men, North by Northwest are all gold.

taylor3 · 10-07-2023 9:57pm

Judgement Night 🙂

Apocalypto 😬

The Field 😊

Capt'n Midnight · 10-07-2023 10:12pm

Tora! Tora! Tora! https://archive.org/details/1970-tora-tora-tora The Japanese bits were done by the Japanese different style , different music.

Excalibur https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082348/

In addition to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (when watching remember the characters can't see what's just off the screen) check out For A Few Dollars more, great music.

Also The Good the Bad the Weird https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0901487/ it's a cowboy movie with Koreans vs Japanese in China.

Ong Bak no CGI , no wires

The Ladykillers (review has spoilers, read it if re-watching) my favourite Ealing Comedy.

Another fan of the Day of the Jackal, Cyril Cusack's does a good bit part in this.

accensi0n · 10-07-2023 10:17pm

The Matrix

Cool Hand Luke

newmember2 · 10-07-2023 10:22pm

Heat is a great shout.

I was entranced by Apocalypto the first time I watched it.

Also, most Woody Allen.

The Green Mile

10-07-2023 10:28pm

Hell or High Water is from 2016, but is a brilliant movie if you haven't watched it.

YellowLead · 10-07-2023 10:31pm

Basically, anything Clint Eastwood started in or directed- quite a few have been mentioned but ‘Play Misty for Me’ is one of my favourites - it’s a dark stalker movie that I believe was his directorial debut and he also played the leading man.

‘Out of Africa’ with Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. Adapted from a book and quite incorporates some nice scenery.

If you want to see an excellent villain, Laurence Olivier in ‘Richard III’.

antfin · 10-07-2023 10:34pm

I really enjoyed 3:10 to Yuma. I'm not usually a fan of westerns or even action movies but that had all of the right ingredients and was filmed beautifully.

o1s1n · 10-07-2023 10:36pm

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Hah that's absolutely gas, I was only just watching Stalker this evening.

Watched it for the first time about a month ago with a severe hangover on a Sunday afternoon and was blown away. Surprised I'd never heard of it before.

BornSkippy · 10-07-2023 10:39pm

Dark of the Sun - 1968. Mercenaries hired to recover diamonds from a Simba-threatened town in the Congo. Popular with Scorsese and Tarantino, whose Inglorious Basterds was influenced by it.

Boiler Room - 2000. And Scorsese's Wolf of Wall Street was clearly influenced by this, with DeCaprio's phone-selling monologue lifted straight from Vin Diesel's. Well worth a watch.

The Bedford Incident - 1965. Cold War Drama with nuclear stakes. A clear influence on Crimson Tide, along with Run Silent, Run Deep. Watch both if you like CT.

Breaker Morant - 1980. Military courtroom drama, a bit like A few Good Men only darker.

Les Miserables - 2019. A worthy spiritual successor to La Haine.

Emperor of The North - 1973. Depression-era Hobos struggle with a murderous Train Conductor across the Pacific North-West. Great craic really.

Charley Varrick - 1973. A crop-duster turned bank robber stumbles into Mob money and strives to escape with his life.

The Killing - 1956. Kubrick's Heist film. Tight, cynical, perfect.

BloodSport & Kickboxer - 1988 and 1989. Seriously entertaining double-tap from John-Claude Van Damme, crack a beer and enjoy the cheese.

Hard Target - 1993. John Woo's US debut starring JCVD. Face-Off is a better, and better known, film from Woo. But this film deserves to be more widely seen. The premise of Lance Henriksen and the bad guy from Blood Diamond hiring homeless veterans for rich assholes to hunt would probably resonate better with audiences now, 30 years on.

Flinty997 · 10-07-2023 10:44pm

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Such a great film...

sully123 · 10-07-2023 10:47pm

If you liked Lawrence, then try Khartoum with Charlton Heston

cj maxx · 10-07-2023 10:48pm

Some of my favourite films recently

Free Solo .

Naploean Dynamite

apart from that most of my favourite films are oldies

Flinty997 · 10-07-2023 10:51pm

The American

daithi7 · 10-07-2023 10:52pm

The latest Indiana Jones movie in the cinema now is well worth a watch if you like the Indiana Jones series of movies. A bit nostalgic in places maybe but a great watch overall imho.

Blue850 · 10-07-2023 10:56pm

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And a real golden oldie The Four Feathers from 1939

Flinty997 · 10-07-2023 11:04pm

The cruel sea

Platoon

Unforgiven

silliussoddius · 10-07-2023 11:37pm

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John Carpenter's The Thing is actually a remake of an oldie called The Thing from another world, I saw it yonks ago and thought it was good. BUt the 80's version is great, I'd be interested to hear the reaction of someone who heard nothing about it before hand.

batman75 · 10-07-2023 11:40pm

Telefon is a cracking thriller as is Last Embrace both from the 70s.

Dirty Harry is iconic along with the French Connection and Get Carter with Michael Caine.

Shadowlands is excellent from 1993 as is Witness from 1985.

amacca · 10-07-2023 11:50pm

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I didn't realise that, thanks I'll check it out.

I was trying to remember a vampire film that reminded me a bit of it

30 days of night...not bad

That reminded me of another good superhero film

Blade....it might have aged a bit special effects wise but brilliant opening scene and still remember enjoying it in the cinema

And for some reason that reminded me of tropic thunder .. might have just been the day that was in it but I can honestly say it's the most I've ever laughed in a cinema at a film...probably helped by an unexpectedly enthusiastic crowd at 3 o clock in the afternoon that liked inappropriate/silly humour as much as I do

Fugitive and us marshals. ...not bad

And o brother where art thou.

waynescales1 · 11-07-2023 12:17am

"I'm an oil man, ladies and gentlemen..."

dickdasr1234 · 11-07-2023 1:10am

Citizen Kane

Apocalypse Now

Good Morning Vietnam

One Upon A Time in America

The Deer Hunter

and my all-time favourite feel-good movie: As Good As It Gets

Duckworth_Luas · 11-07-2023 1:20am

The Third Man

Goulies III: Goulies Go to College

The Maltese Falcon

Billy the Kid Versus Dracula

One eyed Jack · 11-07-2023 2:44am

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)

The Butterfly Effect (2004)

Predestination (2014)

RRR (2022)

silliussoddius · 11-07-2023 3:11am

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I liked 30 Days on Night. There’s another vampire film called Near Dark that is supposed to be very good. It’s part of a must watch list I had pre kids. I need to revisit that list.

Beefcake82 · 11-07-2023 4:41am

Kelly's Heros

Patton long film but very worth the watch.

The Color of Money

Hacksaw Ridge

A Clockwork Orange

Logans Run

The Outlaw Jose Wales

You Only Live Twice (James Bond)

Barbarella

The Day the Earth Stood Still

War of the Worlds 1953 version, still love the Jeff Wayne musical.

Apache

Star Trek The Wrath of Khan

These are a bunch of my old school favorites.

mikep · 11-07-2023 6:02am

The killing fields

Sgt Hartman · 11-07-2023 6:38am

Midnight Cowboy with Dustin Hoffman and John Voight is an absolute classic

Excalibur in my opinion is the only decent movie adaptation of the King Arthur legend

The Wicker Man (1970s original, not the awful Nicholas Cage remake) is another of my all time favorite movies.

Spartacus with Kirk Douglas is amazing also

I bought a James Cagney box set a good while back which contains some real classics such as White Heat, The Roaring Twenties, Angels with Dirty Faces and Public Enemy

amacca · 11-07-2023 7:29am

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There will be blood is an undeniably excellent film, its almost oppressively good.

I second as good as it gets, just fantastic.

Baybay · 11-07-2023 7:39am

Thelma & Louise

The Accused

Benny & Joon

brokenbad · 11-07-2023 7:39am

A few timeless classics from the 70's worth checking out below

The French Connection 1 & 2
The Day of the Jackal
Dirty Harry
Marathon Man
Capricorn One
Taxi Driver
The Exorcist
Don't Look Now
The Taking of Pelham 123
Jaws

Jequ0n · 11-07-2023 10:31am

Irréversible

Jack Daw · 11-07-2023 10:57am

Some easy to watch enjoyable classics

The Third Man - Starring Joseph Cotten, brilliant noir style mystery set in Vienna

The Lady From Shanghai - starring Orson Welles , features the greatest Irish accent in the history of cinema

Double Indemnity - Starring Edward G Robinson, Fred McMurray and Barbara Stanwyck, classic film noir

The Big Sleep - starring Humphrey Bogart based on the classic Raymond Chandler novel

The Maltese Falcon - Starring Humphrey Bogart, based on the Dashiell Hammett novel, directed by John Huston

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Starring Humphrey Bogart, incredible enjoyable adventure film Directed by John Huston

The Man who would be King - Starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine , another very enjoyable adventure film directed by John Huston

Le Cercle Rouge and Le Samourai , both starring Alain Delon

z80CPU · 11-07-2023 11:18am

Lawrence of Arabia - 1962

An American President - Michael Douglas

Fatal Attraction - Michael Douglas

Das Boot

Saving Private Ryan

The Passion

DVD-Lots · 11-07-2023 11:19am

Some that I hope haven't been mentioned, forgotten classics I think..... :)

Last of the Mohicans - Daniel Day with his method acting.

History of the World Part I - you can't make comedies like this anymore. Better than Blazing Saddles IMHO.

STRIPES - Great comedic cast, just a lot of fun.

The Princess Bride - Seriously? Have you not seen this?

The Bear - French foreign language but the Bear deserved an Oscar for this one!

The Edge - Classic thriller with Baldwin and Hopkins

Sneakers - Classic comedy thriller with a stellar cast for the time.

Deadly Pursuit - Classic thriller with Tom Berenger and Sidney Poitier.

BalboBiggins · 11-07-2023 11:22am

Went on a bit of a Mickey Rourke binge recently. I recommend Angel Heart and The Pope of Greenwich Village. Also watched Brian De Palma's Blow Out recently as it was recommended by Tarantino. Good film.

Girly Gal · 11-07-2023 12:00pm

A lot of great films already mentioned, one that I don't think has is Run Lola Run, late 90's German film, haven't seen it in ages, but, remember enjoying it.

I think a big problem for most films over the last 10-15 years is that they are soulless CGI, filled crap with little or no plot or originality. Still the odd decent film being made, but, certainly less than before.

timmyntc · 11-07-2023 12:04pm

Black Dynamite is a recent one most have missed - great parody of blaxploitation films of old

Jack Daw · 11-07-2023 12:11pm

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Run Lola Run is a brilliant film very enjoyable, soundtrack is great aswell.

Jack Daw · 11-07-2023 12:17pm

Some great non english language films

Cinema Paradiso - Italy

The Lives of Others - Germany

Mesrine - France

High and Low - Japan

Volver - Spain

Abre Los Ojos - Spain

Amores Perros - Mexico

City of God - Brazil

The Secret in Their Eyes - Argentina

Parasite - Korea

Padraig Mor · 11-07-2023 12:41pm

Some absolute belters mentioned so far (hat tip to whoever posted The Gift (2015) and Prisoners - under the radar crackers). A few curious omissions (apologies if I missed them); these are all wide appeal films and should please most watchers:

Carlito's Way.

The Untouchables.

A Few Good Men.

Se7en.

The Terminator.

The Shining.

In the Name of the Father.

Reservoir Dogs.

pgj2015 · 11-07-2023 12:42pm

American made.

teediddlyeye · 11-07-2023 1:24pm

Kellys Heroes

Dog day afternoon

Airplane

Paddy Samurai · 11-07-2023 2:29pm

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Jeremiah Johnson ,Zulu ,Man who would be king and 3 days of condor were all top notch.👍

AyeGer · 11-07-2023 2:38pm

Some great suggestions here, but where can you watch these without having to sign up to all the streaming subscriptions.

Is there anyway to just pay for a movie once and watch it.

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

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