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

Blue850 · 15-07-2023 9:46am

Has anyone mentioned The Warriors, from 1979, a street gang falsely accused of murdering another gang leader try and cross New York with other gangs out for blood.

2 more modern ones to watch are Fury about a WW2 tank crew with Brad Pitt

All is Lost , Robert Redfords solo performance about a man trying to survive at sea on a badly damaged yacht

odyssey06 · 15-07-2023 11:35am

Death on the Nile - the Peter Ustinov adaptation. Filmed on location, top cast... not the most faithful to the 'book' Poirot on screen (that is the marvellous David Suchet) but Ustinov is so witty and charming you can't object.

Perfect sunday afternoon viewing.

pgj2015 · 15-07-2023 11:43am

The hateful eight.

odyssey06 · 15-07-2023 11:46am

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Re: The Hound of The Baskervilles

Which one?

:)

You're probably thinking of the classic Peter Cushing or Basil Rathbone versions?

While a brilliant Holmes, I didn't think the Jeremy Brett adaptation quite hit the mark.

Ian Richardson (UK House of Cards) did a solid enough version.

There was a BBC miniseries version a few years back which was almost perfect but in a bizarre spot of casting had Richard E Grant in a minor role instead of as Holmes!

My favourite version is actually from Russia (with love). There are subtitled versions knocking around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles_(1981_film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3hb9fnyeyk

Flinty997 · 15-07-2023 12:00pm

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Too young to be a golden oldie. Though I did enjoy it.

Greyfox · 15-07-2023 12:04pm

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Good but one of Tarantino's weaker films, nowhere near as good as Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Diango unchained or Inglorious basterds.

Flinty997 · 15-07-2023 12:07pm

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I think its a closer to a classic film. The others might better be mainstream movies.

Riddle101 · 15-07-2023 4:51pm

A Bronx Tale is another great movie I can think of. I love the conflict in this scene between Lorenzo and Sonny arguing over C while also showing a heartwarming scene between father and son later. Also, you can't help but respect Lorenzo here. Such a respectable man that he's willing to confront Sonny even though he knows who he is and how dangerous that could be.

https://youtu.be/6C8cm-l8Xcc

Hippodrome Song Owl · 15-07-2023 5:17pm

The Eugene trilogy based on Neil Simon plays is worth a watch. The second one, Biloxi Blues starring Matthew Broderick, is probably the best known. But I prefer the first one, Brighton Beach Memoirs. The third one, Broadway Bound, isn't bad either.

Raysin · 16-07-2023 11:37am

1990's Falling Down - Michael Douglas has a very bad day.

1980's Local Hero - The meaning of life as seen through the lens of American capitalist who comes to Shetland to exploit but reforms instead, Dire Straits theme tune.

1990'a Shallow Grave - Young Ewan McGregor and his flatmates make regrettable decisions.

Watched them semi recently for the first time. A+

Flinty997 · 16-07-2023 11:48am

Shallow grave I had forgotten that one...

Hippodrome Song Owl · 16-07-2023 11:54am

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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 · 16-07-2023 11:55am

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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 · 16-07-2023 12:18pm

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

toggle toes · 16-07-2023 6:55pm

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 · 16-07-2023 7:24pm

How the west was won...

o1s1n · 17-07-2023 11:37am

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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 · 17-07-2023 11:47am

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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 · 17-07-2023 8:03pm

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.

brokenbad · 18-07-2023 4:07pm

Some good movies from the last decade:

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
Sicario (2015)
Prisoners (2013)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Captain Philips (2013)
Creed (2015)
Hell or High Water (2016)
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
The Revenant (2015)

toggle toes · 19-07-2023 2:58pm

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 · 19-07-2023 8:32pm

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 · 20-07-2023 6:44pm

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 · 20-07-2023 6:58pm

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 · 21-07-2023 12:59pm

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.

toggle toes · 22-07-2023 2:28pm

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 · 22-07-2023 3:18pm

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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 · 22-07-2023 3:23pm

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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 · 22-07-2023 3:25pm

Couple of random Horrors:

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

The Wicker man - 1973 - the Perfect horror movie imho

toggle toes · 22-07-2023 7:06pm

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 · 22-07-2023 7:30pm

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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 · 22-07-2023 8:03pm

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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 · 22-07-2023 9:39pm

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 · 22-07-2023 9:53pm

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 · 23-07-2023 8:50am

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.

23-07-2023 12:10pm

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 · 23-07-2023 8:20pm

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 · 24-07-2023 5:07am

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

Capt'n Midnight · 24-07-2023 6:29pm

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

Capt'n Midnight · 24-07-2023 6:47pm

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.

Capt'n Midnight · 24-07-2023 7:08pm

Films and books that influenced Star Wars. By influence I they were blatently ripped off.

Dune - provided the setting - the book had a desert planet, hokey religion with superhuman abilities, emperor, stormtroopers, the chosen one etc. etc. somewhere out there is a longer cut of the 1984 film.

Hidden Fortress - Kurosawa again. The whole plot and sword fighting. Jedi comes from “jidaigeki” Japanese for “period drama"

The Dambusters - for the flying down the trench with flack towers at either side aiming for a tiny target

Battle of Britain - for the aerial dogfight scenes.

Silent Running - special effects and robots like R2D2

Metropolis - C3PO is Maria but everyone and their mother copied that film.

New Home · 24-07-2023 7:11pm

Tron (the original one) was really groundbreaking, when it came out first.

Hippodrome Song Owl · 24-07-2023 7:12pm

The Dead is a fantastic film. John Huston directs his daughter Anjelica and a great Irish ensemble in the brilliant Joyce short story set on the Epiphany. It's one of my all time favourites. RTE usually show it after Christmas to tie in with the date.

Mehaffey1 · 24-07-2023 7:21pm

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Like the look of this, gonna give it a try

New Home · 24-07-2023 7:39pm

Paper Moon

silliussoddius · 24-07-2023 7:56pm

I watched The Fog, last night. Very good ghost story type horror from John Carpenter.

MeisterG · 24-07-2023 8:32pm

Anything with "Big" in the title

The Big Sleep, The Big Lebowski, Big Trouble in Little China, The Big Short, Big

New Home · 24-07-2023 10:29pm

Good grief, not The Big Lebowski... one of the most idiotic things I ever had the displeasure to endure, on par with There's something about Mary.

That's just me, though.

New Home · 24-07-2023 10:29pm

Good grief, not The Big Lebowski... one of the most idiotic things I ever had the displeasure to endure, on par with There's something about Mary.

That's just me, though.

toggle toes · 25-07-2023 8:25am

Smokie and the Bandit. Classic Burt Reynolds. Also Cannonball Run. Movies you don't see on TV anymore.

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

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