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

Paddy Samurai · 11-07-2023 2:40pm

Valdez is coming (the full version) -not even sure it’s around anymore

the Duelists

where eagles dare

Scalphunters

the French connection

cool hand Luke

The Mulk · 11-07-2023 2:42pm

After Hours (1985)

The music of chance (1993)

These two movies have stuck in my head over the years. The actors in The music of chance are really strong.

Also True Romance (1993), a cracker of a movie.

I see sheep · 11-07-2023 2:49pm

Still good movies made imo if you ignore the Marvel tripe/remake tripe.

A lot of great foreign language movies have been mentioned already.

Couple more -

Loveless (2017) (Russian)

Memories of Murder (2003) (Korean)

bullpost · 11-07-2023 2:52pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120836817#Comment_120836817

Google play or youtube do one-off rentals.

bullpost · 11-07-2023 2:54pm

The Third Man

Double Indemnity

Amarcord

Goodbye Lenin

Volver

Any Hitchcock

Betty blue

Diva

Static

Android

waynescales1 · 11-07-2023 3:15pm

Anyone mentioned "Patton" yet?

"Rommel, you magnificent bastaaaaard...... I Read Your BOOOOOOOOOK"! 🤣

brokenbad · 11-07-2023 3:59pm

A few timeless classics from the 80's worth checking out below:

First Blood
Predator
Die Hard
Lethal Weapon
Sudden Impact
Commando
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
The Terminator
Southern Comfort
Mad Max

howsshenow · 11-07-2023 4:33pm

Try "HUD"

JupiterKid · 11-07-2023 4:58pm

There are so many amazing classics of film made in the 20th Century. Where to even start?

Some "oldies" that I love:

Vertigo (my favourite film of all time)

2001: A Space Odyssey

A Clockwork Orange

Easy Rider

Citizen Kane

Bridge On The River Kwai

Rebecca

War Of The Worlds (the 1953 original)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Mike Litoris · 11-07-2023 5:03pm

All the Presidents Men, Jacobs Ladder and Get Carter are 3 I watch at least once a year.

cj maxx · 11-07-2023 5:09pm

The Motorcycle Diaries. A great film about a young medical student and his friend travelling from Argentina through South America. And the inequalities of imperialism . The young man became a doctor and was the major reason why Cuba had a great health system. The young man was Ernesto Guerva de la Serna Lynch . Or as he became known Che.

hoodie6029 · 11-07-2023 6:50pm

All the great movies here reminded me of this - many mentioned here already.

https://youtu.be/NFuBaRiKwD4

others to watch

The Departed

Into the Wild

Road to Perdition (only watched it last year - fantastic)

Goodbye, Lenin. German comedy about the fall of the Berlin Wall. Genuinely funny

More recent one worth watching - Dolemite is my name starring Eddie Murphy.

DonegalBay · 11-07-2023 7:07pm

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Some of my favourite film noir on that list. Yes that Orson Wells accent is legendary for all the wrong reasons.

I will throw in Battleground(1949), a great war movie about the Battle of the Bulge

The Big Heat(1953) another classic film noir

The Best years of our lives(1946) fantastic movie about 3 soldiers returning to ordinary life after WW2.

Has anybody mentioned any Billy Wilder yet

Some Like it Hot(1959) The Apartment(1960) Sunset Boulevard(1950)

teediddlyeye · 11-07-2023 7:16pm

Falling down

Blazing saddles

Young Frankenstien

SuperBowserWorld · 11-07-2023 7:16pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120836817#Comment_120836817

Yep, Google movies. Think it's incorporated into YouTube now. Think Apple TV and Amazon Prime also allow you to do it. I.e. rent it for a day.

waynescales1 · 11-07-2023 7:41pm

The Ipcress File (1965).

cj maxx · 11-07-2023 8:02pm

Yeah , amazon prime paramount, you can rent for a day or until you watch the film

Jack Daw · 11-07-2023 8:04pm

Westerns

Unforgiven

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Searchers

Hondo

Red River

Rio Bravo

The Proposition (Australian Western)

Shane

High Plains Drifter

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Pale Rider

Fistful of Dollars, For a few Dollars More The Good The Bad and The Ugly

Rosalinda Eyes · 11-07-2023 9:06pm

'Rope' - my favourite Hitchcock movie

'Office Space'

'Unfaithful'

'Bitter Moon'

fatherted1969 · 11-07-2023 9:31pm

Beginning to lose hope one of my all time favourites don't get a mention then I see someone post True Romance - one of the greatest cast of actors ever assembled. Astonishing the amount of big names in this film. Coupled with of the the greatest scenes, Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken, the sicilian scene. Brilliant movie.

https://youtu.be/Wax15NklZh4

Also The Departed

Count Dracula · 11-07-2023 9:58pm

Unforgiven ( 1992 )

Empire of the Sun ( 1987 )

The Cassandra Crossing ( 1976 )

Oh Brother Where Art Thou ( 2000 )

The Wizard of Oz ( 1936 )

9 1/2 weeks (1986 )

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Alien ( 1979 )

You could be here all night. But most importantly, get your arses off sites that claim to amalgamate critics's choices. Not because of their sinister motivations for marketing contemporary dross, but because critics are generally just chunts? They will outdo each other to malign a production to achieve their own futile vanity. There are ooooooodles of great movies with abysmal ratings, that are victims of ill-conceived, thoughtless, bland diatribe, written by arseholes who regrettably were utilised by morons who hadn't the ability to make up their own mind, it happens everywhere.

Honourable mention to The Great Train Robbery , the one with Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland and of course Lesley Anne Down looking as fit as **** in 19th century underwear and see through low flying blouses.

Tazium · 11-07-2023 10:31pm

Star Wars original trilogy

Rocky 1, 2, 4, and Balboa

The Fisher King

Warrior

Dead Poets Society

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Ferris Bueller’s day off

High Fidelity

Intermission

My cousin Vinny

Pulp Fiction

The end of the affair

The Goonies

The Sixth Sense

Hippodrome Song Owl · 11-07-2023 10:37pm

I know what you mean OP. I feel like the there's nothing for me in the cinema the majority of the year now. Superheroes seem to dominate and there's maybe two decent options a year outside that.

My favourite oldies are:

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The African Queen
Heaven Knows, Mr Allison
Kelly's Heroes
The Blue Max
The Night of the Hunter

These are the ones I can't resist any time they're on TV.

A couple of recent ones that have stood up to re-watching a few times for me are:

The Drop

Hell or High Water

Capt'n Midnight · 11-07-2023 10:55pm

Some vampire films

The Fearless Vampire Hunters

Mr Vampire 1985

¡Vampiros en la Habana! / Vampires in Havana 1985 (not politically correct)

Nosferatu 1922 AND Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979

What We Do in the Shadows (2014) and the series, obviously

Daywalkers 2009

Salem’s Lot (1979)

Let the Right One In (2008)

Blade (1998)

Byzantium (2012)

Innocent Blood (1992)

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)

Priest (2011)

Capt'n Midnight · 11-07-2023 11:03pm

Stop Motion if you like that stuff

King Kong 1933

Mighty Joe Young 1949

Lots of Ray Harryhausen movies , Valley of Gwangi is Cowboys vs Dinosaurs

Capt'n Midnight · 11-07-2023 11:04pm

Kung Fu Hustle - "like Jackie Chan and Buster Keaton meet Quentin Tarantino and Bugs Bunny."

I.am.Putins.raging.bile.duct · 11-07-2023 11:27pm

Under the skin - Unsettling sci-fi horror that went under the radar for a lot of people

mojesius · 11-07-2023 11:29pm

One flew over the cuckoo's nest

Schindler's List

Stand by me

Smokey and the bandit

bnt · 12-07-2023 8:04am

The Ice Storm is an underappreciated classic to me at least.

brokenbad · 12-07-2023 8:19am

Some of the best movies from the 90's worth checking out:

Pulp Fiction
Ronin
The Rock
Patriot Games
The Shawshank Redemption
The Field
Saving Private Ryan
Heat
The Fugitive
In the Line of Fire

hoodie6029 · 12-07-2023 11:06am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120839234#Comment_120839234

Love Office Space!

https://youtube.com/shorts/aWcztQ14zI4?feature=share

Jack Daw · 12-07-2023 12:07pm

North by Northwest, Vertigo, Rear Window , Psycho, Shadow of a Doubt , Spellbound, Notorious, Rebecca and Suspicion all Hitchcock classics.

Danny2580 · 12-07-2023 12:13pm

Shampoo (1975) - Great script (Hal Ashby), this film is a cousin of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood if you read about their backgrounds but actually better IMHO.

Apocalypse Now (1979)

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

Bullitt (1968)

The Day Of The Jackal (1974)

Riddle101 · 12-07-2023 1:07pm

Jaws is a movie I can watch time and time again and never get sick of it. Such a well made, well casted film.

https://youtu.be/xO60RohuARY

o1s1n · 12-07-2023 1:18pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120839727#Comment_120839727

I only watched that recently for the first time.

From the name and images I thought I was in for a cheap, cheese piece of nonsense.

it's actually very very good. Like surprisingly 'how have I never seen this before??' good.

Badly Drunk Boy · 12-07-2023 2:48pm

I don't think anyone has mentioned the great Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb).

o1s1n · 12-07-2023 4:50pm

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Any time someone says Empire of the Sun I think they mean Man Behind the Sun.

Also a war film but a very different type!

Speaking of war, had the Russian war film Come and See been mentioned? A must for any war film fan. Pioneered shakey camera / silence and temporary deafness from explosions through the soundtrack before saving private Ryan.

Really harrowing stuff though but worth a viewing.

NewbridgeIR · 12-07-2023 5:07pm

Straight Time (1978)

Dustin Hoffman as an ex-con trying to go er, straight

Here's the greatest scene - watch from 1:10 to the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kmdjx9kBho&t=70s

waywill1966 · 12-07-2023 5:26pm

https://youtu.be/7aVpiGzsCBI

The Time Machine (1960) Rod Taylor

https://youtu.be/sdFUpPAApJQ

Dracula (1958) Christopher Lee

https://youtu.be/MXq-NuS24fg

The Wicker Man (1973) Edward Woodward

https://youtu.be/Zksp3h0sUro

Bad Day At Black Rock (1955) Spencer Tracy

https://youtu.be/58ylrJ0cH2w

Dead Mans Shoes (2004) Paddy Considine

https://youtu.be/UaVTIH8mujA

Godfather 1 & 2 (1972/74) Marlon Brando

Montage of Feck · 12-07-2023 5:31pm

Trying to think of something that hasn't got a mention. But anything from Terence Malik, his movies are more of a religious experience than actual movies. Don't think Bonnie and Clyde got mentioned.

The 1970's was the highpoint of Hollywood cinema, until the excellent Heavens Gate broke it's studio, but the decline in recent times is acute.

Montage of Feck · 12-07-2023 5:38pm

A Bridge Too Far is my favorite WWII movie but rarely gets shown. An Attenborough directed all star epic depicting the most daring action of the war.

toggle toes · 12-07-2023 6:34pm

I'm a big movie fan so I go to my local Omniplex cinema 🎥 on a regular basis. Before I signed up for the Omniex pass which I might add is excellent value I would stick to two or three genres of movies such as Action, horror and comedy.

Now I go to most genres. First of all I find CGI has totally ruined the movie sector. And second it's been dominated by Marvel and DC super hero movies. I know movies 🎬 studios have to move with the times a I don't have an issue with super hero movies and I know they are box office hits but I hope at some stage all major movie studious will revert back to using stunt men and women when it comes to action movies. Wishful thinking on my part.

PokeHerKing · 12-07-2023 6:44pm

Devils advocate

Scarface

Blow

Dazed and confused

Detroit rock city

Caddy shack

toggle toes · 12-07-2023 6:49pm

My favorite war movie is The Wild Geese. Roger Moore was excellent. Also I would recommend The Guns of Navorne with Gregory Peck. Other movies I would personally recommend are as follows:

Halloween 1978 and the Excorcist 1973 both movies lead the the way for many slasher movies and supernatural movies of today.

Regarding comedies I like to go way back to the 1930s as there were some comedy geniuses such as the Marx Brothers and of course the hallirous duo Laurel and Hardy. Both are my all time favorite comedy actors. If you haven't seen either of these acts I would suggest checking out some of their clips on YouTube.

waywill1966 · 12-07-2023 7:11pm

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Laurel and Hardy movies, absolute classics and the best comedy duo ever! The Music Box in my opinion was their best film!

https://youtu.be/PoMjiTrx9I8

toggle toes · 12-07-2023 7:31pm

Brilliant 👏 We will never see their likes again. Pure comedy geniuses. As I mentioned in a previous post The Marx Brothers my favorite out of all comedy actors. My favorite movies are A Day At The Races and Duck Soup.

briany · 12-07-2023 7:39pm

Not being smart with the OP or anyone here, but there are filters on various film aggregator sites just for this kind of thing. Pretty much the way I'd find good films was to head over to IMDB and filter some film lists by year, score, genre etc. It's really not hard at all. It's actually far easier than posting this kind of thing on a forum, simply because here you end up getting more recommendations than you know what to do with.

o1s1n · 13-07-2023 11:42am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120843493#Comment_120843493

Ah sure look, threads like this are really just an excuse to talk about old films, it's not really just a list per se.

Feisar · 13-07-2023 12:01pm

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Made me think of Das Boot.

brokenbad · 13-07-2023 2:34pm

Some good movies from the 2000's worth checking out:

Gladiator
The Perfect Storm
Casino Royale
No Country for Old Men
Inglorious Basterds
Collateral
The Transporter
Contagion
The Bourne Identity
Arlington Road

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

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