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I just watched Leon for the first time in donkeys years and forgot how great it was.

What else would you recommend that I should re watch?


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 8:26 pm
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One flew over the Cuckoo's nest.

Jaws.

The Green Mile.

Batman Forever (seriously)

Poltergeist 2 (God is in his ho-l-ee temple, earthly thoughts be silent now)

& what was that one where Peter Fonda and some friends got chased across counrty in the 70s after witnessing a satanic ritual?


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 8:30 pm
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Just been up the loft to dig out the Christmas decorations and ended up bringing down a few DVDs to re-watch:

-Reservoir Dogs.
-Monty Python's Life of Brian.
-Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
-Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

Sorted for a few evenings now 🙂


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 8:39 pm
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King Kong (1930s)

Back to The Future

Treasure Of The Sierra Madre

Cinema Paradiso

Blade Runner

Chinatown

Shawshank

Rear Window


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 8:39 pm
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& what was that one where Peter Fonda and some friends got chased across counrty in the 70s after witnessing a satanic ritual?

Race with the Devil


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 8:40 pm
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The Third Man


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 8:41 pm
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Bad Santa

To kill a Mocking Bird


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 8:43 pm
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what was that one where Peter Fonda and some friends got chased across counrty in the 70s after witnessing some carpenters fashion a neat sloping edge?


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 8:44 pm
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Everything pre 2000, back in the days when film makers actually had an imagination and making a film wasn't about reboots and having people stand in front of green screen for the whole film.

Sadly the shitness of modern films has made me lose all appetite for watching films. That and lack of time, or so I argue but then I'll go waste it anyway (STW for example 😉 )


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 8:48 pm
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How about Nikita?
Or The Day of the Jackal.


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 8:55 pm
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Or The Day of the Jackal.

Good Shout!


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:01 pm
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Sadly the shitness of modern films has made me lose all appetite for watching films.

Have you considered that you might just be watching the shit ones?


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:03 pm
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Nikita, as long as it's the original French version.


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:04 pm
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Anything David Lean.

Would love to see Great Expectations, Lawrence of Arabia or Dr Zhivago on the big screen.


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:06 pm
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Nikita, as long as it's the original French version.

Definitely. In fact, anything Luc Besson pre 2000.


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:07 pm
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Early Michael Caine, Funeral in Berlin, Ipcress File, Get Carter, The Italian Job and Alfie (for the Carterusm bits). But not bloody Zulu!


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:09 pm
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Toy Story (so disappointed that now children are getting older they don't want to watch it).


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:09 pm
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Pressburger and Powells 'a Canterbury tale'

Rewatched it recently and its just charming


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:13 pm
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Classic eh.....

It happened one night
Bringing up baby
Philadelphia Story
Who shot liberty valence
Maltese Falcon
39 steps
Lady vanishes
The third man
Citizen Kane
The day the earth stood still not the keanu reeves one
Invasion of the body snatchers both the fifties and seventies version
Parellex view
Butch classify and the Sundance kid
All quiet n the western front
French connection
The general busterkeaton
Cyrano de Bergerac


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:13 pm
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The life and death of colonel blimp
Matter of life and death
Blithe spirte

The prisoner of zenda


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:15 pm
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IF,

The Lavender Hill Mob,

The Railway Children,

Goodbye Mr Chips,

War Game,

Schindlers List,

The wizard of Oz


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:18 pm
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Blithe Spirit
Harvey
It's a Wonderful Life
Duck Soup
High Society
Guys n Dolls
Brazil

(One of these is not like the others...)


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:27 pm
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Deer Hunter
True Romance
Stand By Me


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:30 pm
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[i]Them[/i]


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:30 pm
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A few of my faves...

Sullivan's Travels
My Name Is Nobody
Repo Man
Dazed and Confused
Bring It On

All uplifting in their own way.


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:32 pm
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Fitzcarraldo, Betty Blue and how about a bit of classic sci-fi, Fifth element?


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:35 pm
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The Third Man "

Correct


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:35 pm
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I watched "a Canterbury tale" again recently.
It is excellent.
My suggestion,as usual ,The Fifth element .


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:37 pm
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Kind Hearts & Coronets


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:37 pm
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Ice Cold in Alex

Enjoy.


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:37 pm
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And not to forget Singin' In The Rain - even if you don't think you like musicals.


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:38 pm
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Some like it hot
Dr Strangelove (or how I ...)
Kes


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:41 pm
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The Green Mile is a great shout. Watched it on an oil rig earlier this week and there were more than a few blokes quietly sniffling into their sleeves.

For me:
Lethal Weapon
Moulin Rouge
Fargo
12 Monkeys
Ghostbusters
Carlito's Way
Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade (all-time favourite film ever, of all time)


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:41 pm
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Flying down to Rio
Top Hat - best film ever
The Producers
Wages of Fear (50s not the Sorcerer remake with the TG soundtrack)


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 9:46 pm
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a clockwork orange.


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 10:12 pm
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The Princess Bride

That one with Elvis in a nursing home... but the title escapes me


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 10:19 pm
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Ferris Buellers Day off.
Heat.
The Goonies.
The Lost Biys.
Ronin.
Ghostbusters
And yup, Leon..


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 10:19 pm
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I watched "a Canterbury tale" again recently.
It is excellent.

Powell and Pressburger did a lot of good films. Maybe I'm old but I would only regard pre 1970 films as "Classic".


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 10:56 pm
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The Deer Hunter

Apolocalyse Now

The quiet american


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 11:06 pm
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Pan's Labyrinth.


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 11:13 pm
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Anything by the Coen Brothers.
The original Blues Brothers.
Anything with Gene Wilder in it.


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 11:41 pm
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Jaws and Planet of Apes 1968


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 11:42 pm
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Ice Cold in Alex

great film, but I'll raise you The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 11:48 pm
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It's a Wonderful Life

As the festive season approaches, this film must be watched by everyone. And when I say "everyone", I say it in exactly the same way Stansfield says it to Malky in Leon.


 
Posted : 06/12/2016 11:51 pm
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It's a wonderful life is a just about as perfect a film as you can get, the premise hasn't dated at all.

Heat
Seven
Trainspotting
Cool hand Luke
Top gun


 
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