Apparently my list is low and I need to add some titles.

Its fair to say that my finger has slipped somewhat from the pulse of popular culture. Last one I had was ‘Fair Game’ which was very good. Before that ‘Thor’ which was truly and absolutely bloody awful!

What have you watched recently that’s worth a viewing? You’re recommendations please? Maybe with an exploding helicopter count? Always the benchmark of any motion picture experience

This:

Monsters is a 2010 British science fiction film, written, shot and directed by Gareth
Edwards. Whitney Able and Scoot McNairy star in the lead roles. …

I watched it last night on Film4 and it was excellent.

They’re running an English Directors season, well worth keeping an eye out.

Unstoppable is good. Tony Scott film with Denzel Washington and Chris Pine.
Monsters, watched it last night too. Not and action film but very good still.

From a brief perusal of the World Cinema Section:

Let The Right One In
The Lives of Others
Mesrine I & II
Tell No-one
Un Prophet
The Secret In Their Eyes
The Killing Series 1

Anyone giving him any ideas about anything with subtitles shot almost in the dark with a morbid theme will be taken outside and shot….

…..just a warning….the last few films have been depressing and shockingly ‘on trend’ but boring as hell I’d actually prefer some exploding helicopters

AND my choices keep disappearing from the list…. funny that….. 😈

Anyone giving him any ideas about anything with subtitles shot almost in the dark with a morbid theme will be taken outside and shot….

Irish stew (mutton, not lamb please) for my last meal then. 🙂

Sorry.

I liked Let the Right one in if it was the proper old version you mean and not the remake by the Americans that was good.

Carrots?

Super is quite good.

Unstoppable is on SKY at the moment??

Oh and can’t you have two lists on LoveFilm?

Carrots?

Yes purleease. And some turnips…or swedes as they seem to be called here. 🙂

We don’t have SKY we’re very very poor up north

We don’t have SKY we’re very very poor up north

No – we just have ‘cloud’ now. Not seen this thing called ‘sky’ in weeks.

🙂

I get some of my tv from the cloud too *shush* 😈

Obligatory pimp for my mate’s film review website: http://iwfsydht.blogspot.com/

I get some of my tv from the cloud too *shush*

Very good. (-:

drive is good
the guard is funny

I’d actually prefer some exploding helicopters

The exploding helicopter scale is exactly how Mrs Rusty and I rate our films.
Pride and Prejudice 0/10
Black Hawk Down 6/10
Die Hard 4 11/10 (triple points for John McClane vs F35 fighter jet)

The Darjeeling Ltd
A Life Aquatic.

box sets will fill up your list pretty quickley.

mesrine
true grit
max manus
just another love story
The Beat That My Heart Skipped

lebanon

Elle

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*sniggers as they all have subtitles*

I saw the title of this thread and thought – Monsters, typical its the first suggestion – great film, works really well and not what you’d expect from the title

Cheers for the suggestions folks. I have handed over responsibility for choosing over to the better half and I await exploding helicopters aplenty 😀

Attack the Block. Has monsters, also a moped crashes.

try Mephisto if you can find it. a german film.

the usual Faustian story but set in 1930s Germany with an actor selling his soul to the nazis in return for eternal fame.

only ever seen it once but remember it being very good.

Some oldies

Momento, some really nice twist in the plot to keep you guessing.

Identity, Great plot with an ending that has you thinking.

The JLS DVD.

“The Perfect Host” – bonkers film but no helicopters though.

If you haven’t seen it How I Ended This Summer is very very very good. I think it has a helicopter too but don’t think it explodes.

Quite enjoyed The Mist, which I probably wouldn’t have watched if I had read about it first (Stephen King – egads !) but is good.

I pad mine out with TV Series – Spartacus Blood and Sand was good dirty fun, more for me playing “spot the kiwi Actor/Rugby league player” game and the hilarious accents and the surprising historical accuracy. Nothing to do with the beefcake. No no no…

Twin Peaks was released recently on DVD – and I think you might have been around the first time. Not too dated either I didn;t think, no cell phones but thats about it.

Dead mans shoes, wag the dog and la haine. Dms is a revenge flick – shane meadows,low budget and ace. Wtd is about a spin doctor getting the president out a sticky situation and is very funny with a hugge cast and la haine is a french subtitled movie about some young hoodlum types who end up with a cops gun. Also get fargo which you have probably seen.

I have mentioned this site before, but now that it has won a national award for writing, it is worth consulting on movies:

http://moviewaffle.com

It’s not my work, but I know the writer and I love his take on films.

Man, I could bore you to tears with my lovefilm list, but I’ll try not to. Some of the more recent that I can remember:
In Bruges
Monsters (as above)
District 9
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1978)
Dorian Gray
The Hustler
Miller’s Crossing
A Shot in the Dark
The Messenger
True Grit
Choke
Glengarry Glen Ross
Fish Tank
The Messenger
An Education
The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
Predators
Best in Show
French Connection 1 & 2
Death at a Funeral (the British version)… and so on.

Also check out series: Bored to Death, The Wire, the Shield, 6 Feet Under, Breaking Bad, Deadwood, the Sopranos, Dexter, Fletcher, True Blood, Arrested Development and so on

I have handed over responsibility for choosing over to the better half and I await exploding helicopters aplenty

You’re not worried you’re going to get loads of tender romances ? With subtitles ?

Just finished watching Mesrine 1 & 2 over 2 nights after adding it based on Deadly & Jools recommendation…ta for that as they were both superb films. I know there is a bit of artistic licence but amazed the films are based on a true story…top stuff.

Insomnia?
The last supper is quite nice
Limitless was much better than I expected it to be.
Cape Fear (the 2nd one)