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Reservoir Dogs
Requiem for a Dream
Withnail & I
Citizen Kane
All completely genius for their very original way of story telling 🙂
Excalibur, Raging Bull and the first Rocky
Police Academy 5, stunning plot lines and one can never tire of Michael Winslow's beatbox sound effects/machine gun impression.
Bachelor Party, some say this is Tom Hanks' best acting performance, a real heavyweight role for arguably the finest actor of his generation.
Crocodile Dundee, Paul Hogan showing off for 2 hours, who wouldn't want to see that?
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That Mick Jagger Ned Kelly film.
It was Easter, I was about six and we thought we were going to see Pinocchio....
Certainly made an impression!
Requiem For A Dream. Some films I can watch over and over again. That film I could only ever watch once.
Harrowing movie, great to let your mates watch when they are off somewhat worst for wear - mushroom season + requiem for a dream = traumatised friends
Quirrel - thats an evil thing to do. Well done 🙂
Interesting to see Three Fish mentioned Stalker - it's one of the most memorable films ever made IMO. In fact any film by Tarkovsky is breathtaking!
My all time most memorable and the greatest film ever made though I reckon is Satantango by Bela Tarr! A true life changing experience (and total endurance fest).
[i]some say this is Tom Hanks' best acting performance[/i]
Only those who haven't seen Toy Story 2
some say this is Tom Hanks' best acting performanceOnly those who haven't seen Toy Story 2
He only voiced that role. 😛
"Let him have it"
Bitish injustice at its finest.
FMJ
Watched Requiem for a Dream last night, I liked it, the scene where Marion leaves the apartment, goes in the lift and out into the rain was stunning...
Local Hero
Wicker Man.
Death in a French Garden
Diva
Kajaki. A war film where no one fires a gun. It's slow, hot and the stuff of nightmares. The humour underlying the horror of what's happening is great. As a paramedic I felt the medic was brilliantly scripted, making the right decisions, managing an increasingly futile incident until he just wants to pull his hair out. A real current of fear
Ah yes, Platoon...one of the best!
I suppose when you are young you are more open to being 'blown away' by films, so Rocky, Enter The Dragon, Pulp Fiction, Star Wars, Friday 13th, Grease to name a few.
These days I'm hugely critical of films and it takes a very good one to satisfy me. Which is why I hardly ever bother now! 😕
Here's my list of Usual Suspects -
Star Wars the opening sequence in Worcester Odeon.
Pulp Fiction just for the WTH is going on here for the first 15 minutes...
The Usual Suspects.
Dersu Uzala - Hardly ever shows up on TV but it's (one of) Kurosawa's masterpiece. Beautifully shot.
The French Connection
The Thing (John Carpenter) - Made a very big impression when I was 10!
A Simple Plan - Fargo-esque. You spend most of the film dismissing Billy Bob Thornton's character as being the village idiot and then in one chilling piece of acting you realise you've been had and he's the scariest character in the film.
Excalibur
A few good ones already mentioned. To add to those would be Wolf Creek, but not in a good way. It's the only film that has properly freaked me out. Its about 12 years since I watched and I still can't bring myself to watch it again. I remember shouting at the TV, "get the * out of there, no don't go back, what the * are you doing". Financially there's not much chance of me going to Australia but as long as I can remember Wolf Creek there's no chance of it happening.
Good call. I remember being amazed that there were old mining towns so remote that they could not be found. Just how remote can a place be 😀
Who could forget "head on a stick"
Also, the scene in The Wild Bunch where they decide to go an rescue Angel. They're aware that they are probably going to their deaths, but do it anyway.
The Crying Game
Good Will Humting
As Good as it gets
Jaws
[u]Tricky stuff[/u]
Irreversible. Tough film.
Pretty much anything by Lars Von Trier (not always for positive reasons.)
[u]Modern Classics[/u]
Goodfella & Casino are etched into my mind. Pulp Fiction etc.
[u]Childhood[/u]
Superman / Star Wars etc. Mad Max II - the first 'X' my dad let me watch.
[u]For all the wrong reasons[/u]
Nothing But Trouble
+1 Local hero
I think it's a wonderful combination of innocence, quirky humour and downright good story .
More recently, a couple which sit on my mind are:
Les Miserables - think its shot very true to how the book reads, and the ending gets me every time.
The Imitation Game - the searing injustice of Turing's treatment after the war.
Gregory's Girl is a classic, valuable lesson in it is that the girl everyone wants is never worth the trouble and your mate who is a girl is way better in every way.
I give you Clare Grogan
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