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There are plenty but if you have never watched Master and Commander?

Well, you are dead to me.

Whilst we are at it:

The Big Lebowski and Napoleon Dynamite.


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 8:26 pm
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Oh well, I'm dead to you 🙂

Ladri di biciclette


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 8:27 pm
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Life of Brian


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 8:27 pm
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Master and Commander?

Nope never seen it.

The Big Lebowski

Goes without saying Dude.

Napoleon Dynamite

No again.


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 8:28 pm
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The Princess Bride


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 8:29 pm
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Star Wars (IV) - the first one.


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 8:31 pm
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Footloose. Best film ever made.

(Original, not remake)


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 8:31 pm
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Life of Brian and Master and Commander are a no from me. The Big Lebowski is a big yes. I’ll add Apocalypse Now, High Plains Drifter, Enter the Dragon, Ong Bak, the two Spider-Verse movies and the Oscar worthy masterpiece that is Weekend at Bernie’s.


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 8:32 pm
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Napoleon Dynamite

No again.

It's ok mate, on this occasion, Pedro offers you his protection.

Don't make a habit of it though.


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 8:32 pm
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Hot fuzz.


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 8:37 pm
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There are plenty but if you have never watched Master and Commander?

Well, you are dead to me.

Whilst we are at it:

The Big Lebowski and Napoleon Dynamite.

No

No

No

I don't watch films or very much TV tho.  Prefer a book any day.  The pictures in my head are much better than on the screen


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 8:37 pm
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Robocop, The Crow, Predator, Terminator, Point Break, Super Bad, Goodfellas, Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Life of Brian, An American Werewolf in London, etc, etc......


 
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Master & Commander - what an absolute gem. Russell Crowd's best film. They taught all the cast how to sail properly & even used the Royal Navy manuals of the time to perfect all the gunnery.

It's a shame they didn't develop a franchise as there was a ton of great source materials from the Patrick O'Brian novels.


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 8:46 pm
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The Big Blue


 
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Leon
Four Lions
In Bruges
Shallow grave
Filth
God bless America
the guard
Rollerball
hunt for the wilderspeople
free fire


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 8:51 pm
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They taught all the cast how to sail properly & even used the Royal Navy manuals of the time to perfect all the gunnery.

Love how music and movies are so different for each person. Glad you enjoyed it. I found it to be utterly boring. That description of using manuals probably helps explain why.


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 8:51 pm
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IMG_8360


 
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Debbie does Dallas


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 9:01 pm
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Good shout on Four Lions. Brilliant film.


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 9:05 pm
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Lots of others of course, but that’s the one I reckon everyone should watch.


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 9:06 pm
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Crash.

Not the David Cronenberg one, the 2004 one.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375679/

It's pretty heavy watching though, you've been warned!


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 9:06 pm
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Some great suggestions already. But to add some more:
Blues Brothers.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
Snatch.
Terminator(s)


 
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God bless America

idiocracy
tucker and dale vs evil


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 9:17 pm
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idiocracy

A friend lent me that one, it lasted 5 minutes.

Agree with Leon and In Bruges.

I shall add Tampopo and Pan's Labyrinth.


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 9:25 pm
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Local Hero


 
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Alien

Shawshank

Blazing Saddles


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 9:27 pm
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Run Lola run

Das experiment

Irreversible

Southland tales

I need to find irreversible to complete my collection 🤔


 
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I’m dead to the OP too - not watched either of them! Probably never will either.


 
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True Romance 


 
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Almost Famous
Grosse Pointe Blank


 
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Paul


 
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Master and Commander                           Cold Mountain                                           Where the Crawdads Sing                       Gladiator                                                     Snatch                                                           Pale Rider                                                   The Revenant                                             Troy                                                             Thor                                                            Thirteen Hours                                           Hannah

They'll do for me.


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 9:38 pm
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Well, I reckon I've seen about 80% of the films posted so I need to do some catching up!

Good call on Good Bless America. Truly f** up. Almost as f*** up as the world it portrays.

Anyone seen Detachment? It's aout a deeply disillusioned supply teacher in a totally messed up system/ world.

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Master & Commander – what an absolute gem. Russell Crowd’s best film. They taught all the cast how to sail properly & even used the Royal Navy manuals of the time to perfect all the gunnery.

It’s a shame they didn’t develop a franchise as there was a ton of great source materials from the Patrick O’Brian novels.

I love historical movies/books and the brutality of historical naval warfare will likely never be better portrayed on the screen again. I mean, I've heard and read about most canon damage to the crews being through the shards of wood flying around but... well, just it hell on earth basically. I agree, a real shame no sequels were made. I must read the books one day.


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 9:46 pm
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A fair number of those listed I’ve seen, plenty more I haven’t, because I just wasn’t interested.

Nobody’s mentioned 2001 - A Space Odyssey. I went to the cinema and saw it on its first release. Pretty mind-blowing to a 15yo.


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 9:49 pm
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American history X

Leon, but not the directors cut.


 
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The Bicycle Thieves


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 9:52 pm
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Is it good then Master and Commander?

Not seen Napoleon Dynamite either, but I'd get round to it, there's so many memes.

Nobody has said Withnail, you perfumed ponces


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 9:52 pm
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Withnail 

The Three Amigos


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 9:54 pm
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2001 - Yep. Never bettered.

Had a mate at uni who'd watched it but didn't get the ending.

He called international directory enquiries and got Arthur C Clarke's number in Sri Lanka. (You could do that in those days).

Calls up his house but gets his houseboy who says Mr Clarke has gone to the beach. Never called back. Shame.


 
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The Matrix (there’s only one film)
LOTR TFOTR - again, the first film is a triumph that was never surpassed.
The Goonies - because it’s bloody awesome!
The Shawshank Redemption - again, becuase it’s awesome and because it one of the very few films that better than the book it’s based on.
Green Lantern - as everyone should know what the bottom of the barrel looks like.


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 9:57 pm
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Star Wars IV

Leon

Life of Brian

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

The Fifth Element

Grosse Pointe Blank

The Blues Brothers

Pretty in Pink

Infernal Affairs

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Betty Blue

Bladerunner

Boyz in the Hood

Chinatown

Die Hard


 
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Came here looking for a film, stupidly wondered why no one had mentioned it. Then I remembered, the first rule is you don’t talk about it.


 
Posted : 10/11/2023 10:01 pm
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Is it good then Master and Commander?

Not seen Napoleon Dynamite either, but I’d get round to it, there’s so many memes.

Nobody has said Withnail

As this thread proves, it's very subjective but yes, Master and Commander is about as close as you'll ever get to going back in time to a Royal Navel ship during the Napoleonic wars as you will ever get. You can almost smell the stench, sea and gun powder. I've watched it dozens of times.

Napoleon Dynamite? You'll either hate it completely out just love it's quirkiness. I think it's a brilliant little indie film that deserves it's cult following.

Good call on Withnail by the way!


 
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We screwed every night…the forecast was for storms

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The Shawshank Redemption 

I have always wondered why this is so popular 


 
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