L.A. confidential
Aaah come on guys...
Ferris Bueller's Day Off 🙂
bmx bandits
Oh oooh nearly forgot Weekend at Bernie's
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kevin and perry go large
+1 for Die Hard
Christmas isn't Christmas until I've heard the strains of Dean Martin[i] "oh the weather outside..." [/i] and [i]"happy trails Hans"[/i]
Not sure if its from 90's or crept into 00's but loved 'Killing Zoe'
Mars Attacks!
Even though I own it on DVD I will happily sit there and graze if its on tv
Lot of Awesome films mentioned already, late 90's but...
Can't beat this as a start to film. You just know you're in for a treat...
reservoir dogs
Hold on a sec, has anyone said
Usual Suspects
Have to say Con Air is probably one of my [u]worst[/u] films of all time!
And here's the ending music too.
If you want me to recount the script I'm more than happy.
DezB - that's its beauty!
The Blues Brothers is my fave film ever - just qualifies as 1980.
and The Commitments.
and Evita with Maddona
I guess I prefer music to films.
Bad Taste
Subway
To live & die in LA
Hardware
Cherry 2000
Nikita - original French version of course
Delicatessen
run Lola run
The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover
La Haine
the waking of ned devine - might not make your date restiction, though
Wings of Desire.
The Three Colours trilogy.
The Vanishing.
And, of course, Dumb and Dumber.
Bad Boy Bubby
Betty Blue
MSP's choices: Top.
Back To The Future.
"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."
stargate - watched in an open air cinema with planes landing at the airport next door (Broome, Western Australia)
Things to do in Denver when you're dead
Ronin..
Manhunter, Heat, escape from NY & LA, the warriors, cat in the brain, blade runner,
stargate - watched in an open air cinema with planes landing at the airport next door (Broome, Western Australia)
I've tried to watch Stargate three times; once at the flicks and twice at home.
Each time I've fallen asleep before they actually go through to wherever it is they end up.
Is it any good?
Oh, & I forgot The Crying Game earlier.
anyone said "true lies" yet?
toy story
rain man
ghostbusters
schindlers list
american beauty
se7en
the piano
jurassic f***ing park!!!
fightclub
12 monkeys (the fisher king too)
leon
+1 Thelma and Louise
+1 Usual Suspects
Yoshimi, Zilling Zoe was mid nineties and a good film I recall, came out around the time of Leon, True Romance, Kalifornia IIRC.
Weekend at Bernies
hmmm for some reason i just thought of an 80s film i watched but cant remember its name now. set in a scrap yard with a load of dropouts living in it. and they get their hands on some bottles of poison/acid which melt them when they drink it or something like that.
had a vietnam vet in there and someone got stabbed with a thigh bone, someone else had their n*b either cut off or bit off and then they played catch with it :-/
classy eh?
anyone help me out with its name? not that i particularly want to watch it again, its just bugging me now 🙂
Angel Heart
JFK
Mississippi Burning
Repo Man used to be a favourite of mine, but can't imagine it being on many peoples classic list.
Gremlins
Many good ones so far.
Can I add The Hitcher?
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Con Air? That's a joke right? About the most samey, derivative, lazy, stupid, action movie to come out of Holywood. And Holywood does a strong line in samey, derivative, stupid action movies (with as much special effects in lieu of a storyline as possible).
Other than that can't argue with any of the above, although I haven't seen them all. My fav's, both already mentioned, Local Hero and Brazil.
[i]Con Air? That's a joke right?[/i]
Apparently, that's the appeal 😕
Can I add Miami Blues. Cos I bloomin love that film. (another Fred Ward classic)
rusty spanner - stargate was quite good; but the setting made it fantastic when there was a space shot and the screen melted into the night sky. Add in a plane coming in very low to land and it was almost surreal.
another suggestion:
crocodile dundee
In defense of Con Air
It is uterly demented - I wouldn't describe it as lazy and derivative
It is not high art in any sense - but it is very entertaining if you just sit back and enjoy the daftness.
I saw 2012 the other day - not that is ridiculous. Its like watching someone crossing a busy motorway, with each car missing the person by 1cm. When the person gets to the side, they turn around and go back again. For like 2.5 hours)
The Cannonball Run
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Time Bandits
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The Matrix
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I'll go with the John McTiernan trilogy of Die Hard, Predator and The Hunt For Red October, not made a good film since though
