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  • RamseyNeil
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    pulp Fiction , best film ever
    Another vote for In Bruges , best film of the last few years
    Shallow Grave , another classic .

    jimjam
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    Ramsey Neil
    pulp Fiction , best film ever

    Please stop.

    Another vote for In Bruges , best film of the last few years

    ….wait. What?,No.

    Just calm down.

    redthunder
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    Wolfcop

    redthunder
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    Machete Kills Again

    RamseyNeil
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    @ JimJam Just my opinions , Pulp Fiction is usually up there in the lists of best films ever . Perhaps you are the one that needs to calm down . What , in your view is the best film ever ?

    binners
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    PSA: The Deerhunter is on ITV4 at the moment

    boltonjon
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    Feeling festive yesterday and watched Gremlins for the first time in about 15 years

    Awesome – nothing beats hundreds of Gremlins in the cinema singing along with the seven dwarfs!! 🙂

    Requiem for a Dream – brutal but fantastic

    Desperado – Salma Hayak…. 🙂

    Into the Wild. Stunning film

    redthunder
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    jimjam
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    Ramsey Neil – Member

    @ JimJam Just my opinions , Pulp Fiction is usually up there in the lists of best films ever .

    “Pulp Fiction is the best film ever” and “Pulp Fiction is my favorite film” are two very different statements. I would certainly read a well thought out argument as to why someone thought it was the best film of all time but I don’t think it’s even in the top 100 best films of all time.

    Perhaps you are the one that needs to calm down

    Invariably.

    What , in your view is the best film ever ?

    I’m not sure. I think Akira Kurosawa is the best film maker who ever lived and most of his films are masterpieces. Sanjuro is my personal favourite, but Kagemusha or Seven Samurai are more impressive films. I’d probably pick Seven Samurai.

    anagallis_arvensis
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    Butch and Sundance on now!!

    RamseyNeil
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    “Pulp Fiction is the best film ever” and “Pulp Fiction is my favorite film” are two very different statements. I would certainly read a well thought out argument as to why someone thought it was the best film of all time but I don’t think it’s even in the top 100 best films of all time .

    First list of best films ever had Pulp Fiction at number 6 . Here’s a well thought out argument as to why someone thought it was the best film ever .

    A kick ass movie. It brought back Travolta, and basically invented Sam Jackson and Uma Thurman. Best script ever. Best and most unique characters conceived of in any film. The dialogue isn’t plot driven. The dialogue has just as much care out into it as the plot, which is told in an inverted order, and in 3 different perspectives. There is so much dialogue, all of it quotable, and while most films have “that one amazing scene” this one doesn’t, because there is no tedious or in intriguing scene, it’s perfect from start to finish. This movie’s soundtrack rivals that of Saturday night fever. This movie has so many pop culture references, South Park would get a boner.

    But best of all, there isn’t a single bad performance in this movie, every performance is perfect. Pulp Fiction isn’t chronological, but itge different worlds fit together like a jigsaw, something later films would try and fail to do. This movie has been quoted to death, and Ezekiel 25:17 is now on a poster necessary to every college dorm room. This film amazes the first time, and entertains every other time. You will watch it over and over again, and it is the only film I have ever watched twice in one day, and two consecutive times (today). Pulp fiction is the pinnacle of modern cinema, my favorite movie ever, and probably the most kickass movie ever made, and Forrest jump should fork over the Oscar to the real champion, or else Jules will strike down upon him with great vengeance and FURIOUS ANGER!

    user-removed
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    The Deer Hunter has been mentioned twice now and as Binners pointed out, it was on telly again last night. I watched it again and was reminded why it’s such a genuinely brilliant film. If you haven’t seen it, put by a couple of hours over the coming week and do so 🙂

    flange
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    Was having a discussion with the chaps at work the other day about what makes a good film. IMO, a decent film should have the bare minimum of dialogue. Films such as Convoy, Bullitt,Vanishing Point, Escape from New York, most things with Eastwood (or McQueen for that matter) have pretty long ‘atmospheric’ bits with very little conversation. To me, its what makes the films although I couldn’t tell you why. The only recent film I can think of that’s similar is Fury Road, with Hardy saying very little which made him a bit more ‘bad ass’ – especially the scene where the truck gets stuck whilst being fired at and he disappears off into the fog. Most current films seem to want to fill any available space with words.

    Anyway, apart from those mentioned above I’d go with

    Get Carter
    Mad Max (No1)
    The Departed
    Das Boot
    Layer Cake
    Full Metal Jacket
    Payback

    jimjam
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    Ramsey Neil

    First list of best films ever had Pulp Fiction at number 6

    The first list? Are you sure?

    Here’s a well thought out argument as to why someone thought it was the best film ever .

    Most of that is irrelevant drivel. You could sum that up by saying “it’s a popular film with witty dialogue, strong performances and a non linear narrative”.

    The rest is pap. If you want to see a clever use of non linear narrative watch Rashomon.

    mrmonkfinger
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    Deliverance
    Goldfinger
    Dr Zhivago

    RustySpanner
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    Based on what I’d quite like to watch now, LA Story.

    zanelad
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    Get Carter
    Mad Max (No1)
    The Departed
    Das Boot
    Layer Cake
    Full Metal Jacket
    Payback

    That’s a great list…….to which I’d add, American Gangster, Gangster Squad and Gangster No 1.

    I like Gangster films. 😀

    Has anyone mentioned The Godfather yet?

    mt
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    I know its there a bit of a joke to some but I like a western (its from watching with my long gone Grandad), nearly all types but anything directed by John Ford and with John Wayne really hit the spot. Highlight for me some years ago was a John Ford season at the Cornerhouse, seeing those films on the big screen was superb. Especially the Searchers, the landscapes just fantastic.

    There a number of more modern westerns I like, by far my favorite is Jeremiah Johnson “some say He’s up there still”.

    shermer75
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    I just searched for ‘classic’ on Netflix and this little beauty came up 🙂

    alanl
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    Some that have been mentioned:
    LA Confidential
    Some Like it Hot
    Jaws.
    Then:
    Aliens and Terminator 2.
    Or maybe it’s my age!

    k-sugden
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    In no particular order
    Clear and present danger
    Blood Diamonds
    The Departed
    Ronin
    A thousand times goodnight
    Underfire

    funkmasterp
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    The Princess Bride
    That one with Elvis in a nursing home… but the title escapes me

    I second Princess Bride.

    Bubba Ho Tep? One of Bruce Campbell’s finest performances and easily in the top 10 B movies ever made in my opinion.

    I’d vote for Apocalypse Now, The Big Lebowski, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Yojimbo and High Plains Drifter as personal classics.

    mt
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    I know its my age but some of those films need a few years before classic can be added to their superlatives.

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