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.
Oh well, I'm dead to you 🙂
Ladri di biciclette
Master and Commander?
Nope never seen it.
The Big Lebowski
Goes without saying Dude.
Napoleon Dynamite
No again.
Star Wars (IV) - the first one.
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.
slowoldman
Napoleon Dynamite
No again.
It's ok mate, on this occasion, Pedro offers you his protection.
Don't make a habit of it though.
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
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......
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.
The Big Blue
Leon
Four Lions
In Bruges
Shallow grave
Filth
God bless America
the guard
Rollerball
hunt for the wilderspeople
free fire
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.
Good shout on Four Lions. Brilliant film.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Lots of others of course, but that’s the one I reckon everyone should watch.
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!
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)
God bless America
idiocracy
tucker and dale vs evil
Alien
Shawshank
Blazing Saddles
Run Lola run
Das experiment
Irreversible
Southland tales
I need to find irreversible to complete my collection 🤔
I’m dead to the OP too - not watched either of them! Probably never will either.
Almost Famous
Grosse Pointe Blank
Paul
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.
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.
namastebuzz
Free Member
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.
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.
American history X
Leon, but not the directors cut.
The Bicycle Thieves
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
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.
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.
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
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.
llama
Full Member
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!
We screwed every night…the forecast was for storms
The Shawshank Redemption
I have always wondered why this is so popular
Clerks
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Office Space
Interstellar
Under the Skin
Dazed & Confused
The Death of Stalin
In the Loop
Ex Machina
The Fifth Element
Moon
Both in German with subtitles.
Downfall
All Quiet On The Western Front (2022)
There's something harrowing and disturbing about both these films, the ugliness and brutality of war and the human suffering it brings.
And What Happens in Vegas as you'll need cheering up with something light hearted after (and worth it for the judge's line about lighting his wife on fire alone).
have always wondered why this is so popular
It’s beautifully narrated, a great story, well acted and Andy WINS!
Prucilla Queen of the Desert.
What we did on our holidays.
Live at Pompey
Pride
Broadsword calling Danny Boy…
Dambusters? Iirc.
What we did on our holidays.
Fab film.
As an experiment,
Go back to the start of this thread. How many of the titles listed here were made in the last (say) 20 years?
garage-dweller
Full Member
Broadsword calling Danny Boy…Dambusters? Iirc.
My God, you monster!
Ridiculed for evermore 🙂
No eventually all of you and I will be dead and it will stop until then (or you get bored) I accept my fate graciously. 😭
My God, you monster!
See above. Although wondering if I can sneak in a stealth edit following some googling. 🤔
What was it - at least tell me that.
Broadsword calling Danny Boy…
A film that is more hole than plot yet is somehow held up as a masterpiece... It's shit - shockingly bad in fact.
The Big Lebowski
One of my housemates at uni had this on video, raved about how brilliant it was, wouldn't shut up about it, kept quoting lines from it. So we all sat down to watch it once evening. And we were all like... "I'm sorry, I thought you said this was good...?!"
Go back to the start of this thread. How many of the titles listed here were made in the last (say) 20 years?
I'd guess less than half from a brief skim.
Burn After Reading
The Long Good Friday
Goodfellas
Black Mass
Bladerunner 2049
Nobody has said Withnail, you perfumed ponces
Sorry I was busy having a few light ales.
Ah @garage_dweller puts me in mind of another German war film - Das Boot.
And we were all like… “I’m sorry, I thought you said this was good…?!”
Yeah but that was just like your opinion man.
Last train to Busan
The Host
Parasite
Ran
Jackie Brown
Dredd
Logan
District 9
Ridiculed for evermore 🙂
No eventually all of you and I will be dead and it will stop until then (or you get bored) I accept my fate graciously. 😭
You will be permitted to jump from the aircraft without a parachute rather than suffer the endless ridicule.
Drac
Full Member
Burn After Reading
Ah yeah, good call.
I also like The Darjeeling Limited
"The tiger killed the Sister's brother"
John dies at the end.
The wicker man.
Performance.
When eight bells toll.
Rosemarys baby.
The Monkees ‘head’.
Police squad trilogy (frank drebin).
Walt Disneys ‘fantasia’ (original).
The naked lunch.
His kind of woman.
Chinese ghost story/ Warriors if Zu mountain.
Les intouchables.
And not the recent US remake. Any film that starts with drugs and a car chase can’t be bad. Perfect subtitled film for teenagers who “won’t watch that sort of thing”. I told them watch first 5 minutes and I’d turn it off. They begged to keep it on.
and of course Belleville Rendezvous since we are talking French films.
As an experiment,
Go back to the start of this thread. How many of the titles listed here were made in the last (say) 20 years?
For recent films I’d still recommend the Spider-verse movies. Groundbreaking animation, fantastic sound, acting and storytelling. Put all the live action superhero fodder to shame in my opinion.
I honestly can’t think of many films I’ve seen in the last ten years that have really struck me. Hunt for the Wlderpeople, Mad Max Fury Road and err, nope, struggling.
I'll second Interstellar, great film. Donnie Darko for the win, flop at the box office, huge following now. Very deep and you probably need to watch the version with tips to get it's depth.
Oh and as mentioned above br2049 and all quiet on the western front which is a cinematic Masterpiece.
Rocky 1
Once Upon a Time in America.
Raging Bull
Lord of the Rings.
Come to think of it, when people start listing films there are quite a lot of good ones.
slowoldman
Full Member
Come to think of it, when people start listing films there are quite a lot of good ones.
Must admit, there are a few that have come up I've never watched and after a bit of googling now really want to and some id almost forgotten that I really want to watch again.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Predestination
okay i'm just going to list films i've watched and enjoyed if i continue, without thought for all the ridicule it will incur upon my fellow stwers. so will stop