Top Films

[Bluefish]

What films would the org reccomend to watch/obtain in any catagory.
I like films like schindlers list, shawshank redemption, gladiator etc

[leesh00]

one of the best films ive seen recently on dvd is the bio pic of ray charles - jamie foxx plays an excellent part. But then there are so many

[fizzwheel]

Warning both the wikipedia links will contain spoilers...

Brick

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brick_(film)

OK its weird, it doesnt make a whole heap of sense the first time you watch it, but I really like it

This is also a very good film

The Ice Storm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ice_Storm_(film)

Again its a bit weird and a bit slow paced, takes a bit of time to get into but again I really like it.

[fizzwheel]

one of the best films ive seen recently on dvd is the bio pic of ray charles - jamie foxx plays an excellent part. But then there are so many

Yep thats very good as is the Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the line"

[Sally]

Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, American Gangster, Shooter, We Were Soldiers, Saving Private Ryan, Training Day, The Football factory.

Some of my favourites! :)

[Bluefish]

Yep thats very good as is the Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the line"

yes seen walk the line, was good.

[Bluefish]

Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, American Gangster, Shooter, We Were Soldiers, Saving Private Ryan, Training Day, The Football factory.

Some of my favourites! :)

seen all those apart from shooter, we were soldiers is ace. shooter looks ok will watch that, cheers.

[sinbad]

The Departed

[Bluefish]

The Departed


bloody hell, all star cast or what looks good.

[leesh00]

The Departed

Yeh I went to the cinema to see that with 3 other people and even though a long film it held my attention and has one of the biggest casts in recent times. Yet on the way out as I was about to give my verdict evrybody said it was absolute ****?? However 1 was my girlfriend - 1 my sister and it is probably more of a bloke film - as for my brother in law under the thumb:smt075 good film though.

Try apocalypto - bit different

[gruntygiggles]

Yep thats very good as is the Johnny Cash biopic "Walk the line"

Yes that is a very good film ad if you've seen that and are feeling silly, watch Walk Hard, the Dewey Cox Story. A bit of a Hot Shots for walk the line and there are some incredibly funny laugh out loud moments in it.

[sinbad]

Yeh I went to the cinema to see that with 3 other people and even though a long film it held my attention and has one of the biggest casts in recent times. Yet on the way out as I was about to give my verdict evrybody said it was absolute ****?? However 1 was my girlfriend - 1 my sister and it is probably more of a bloke film - as for my brother in law under the thumb:smt075 good film though.

Try apocalypto - bit different

I've seen split opinion too but I liked it, and the academy thought it was alright too iirc.

At least worth a watch for anyone that likes "that kind" of film.

[gruntygiggles]

Crash & Traffic if you like ensemble cast films that are edgy, gripping and clever.

K-PAX if you want to be suprised. You read the blurb and think...nah, not for me, but when you watch the film you'll be very pleasantly suprised with a fantastic story, great acting and lots of the unexpected!

Stand by Me.......old but classic!

Taken with Liam Neeson.....enjoyed that and made a nice change from the norm.

That'll do for now!

[Welsh_Wizard]

Just watched Michael Clayton - quality.

Pan's Labrynth is really good.

Cleaner - Samuel L Jackson

Pixar's Wall-E and Cars. Both amazing..

[fizzwheel]

K-PAX if you want to be suprised. You read the blurb and think...nah, not for me, but when you watch the film you'll be very pleasantly suprised with a fantastic story, great acting and lots of the unexpected!

Yep thats a great film.

One Hour Photo with Robin Williams is also similar just because its weird seeing him play a straight role and not being funny all the time.

[Bluefish]

Hi gg will try taken usuall like anything with liam neeson in, great actor.

[leesh00]

Ok some oldies but goodies - One flew over the cukoos nest - full metal jacket - goodfellas - and I sometimes have a thing for 80s kitsch so here goes Roadhouse with patrick swayze playing a bouncer so corny its funny :smt005

[gruntygiggles]

Yep thats a great film.

One Hour Photo with Robin Williams is also similar just because its weird seeing him play a straight role and not being funny all the time.

It was a bit strange, but you should watch a film called Autumn Rush. He's in that and is playing a character totally against type. A very good film that Dan and me enjoyed, but not for all blokes I wouldn't have thought.

As for Cleaner with Samuel L. Jackson, watched it 2 nights ago and thought it was very good.

[gruntygiggles]

Hi gg will try taken usuall like anything with liam neeson in, great actor.

He's on top form in it. I think he's taking a couple of years out to decide if he wants to continue acting now after Natasha Richardson died. I was so shocked by that, his poor family.

I take it if you like him, you have seen Rob Roy???

[Bluefish]

Ok some oldies but goodies - One flew over the cukoos nest - full metal jacket - goodfellas - and I sometimes have a thing for 80s kitsch so here goes Roadhouse with patrick swayze playing a bouncer so corny its funny :smt005


ok, seen em all can't get into one flew over, love roadhouse whats that blokes name the other its ok just remembered sam elliot excellant actor, and the blonde doctor is ok, ok she is luverly.

[Bluefish]

[quote=gruntygiggles;1891849]It was a bit strange, but you should watch a film called Autumn Rush. He's in that and is playing a character totally against type. A very good film that Dan and me enjoyed, but not for all blokes I wouldn't have thought.

Is that film for intellectual types, if so not me.;)

[gruntygiggles]

Oooh, Sam Elliott. It doesn't matter how old he gets, he's got to be one my longest standing crushes...he's gorgeous. He's just got that twaaang and edge that mmmmm mmmm mmmmm I like.

Mask......he's in that with Cher...an oldie but a fab film too!

[Bluefish]

Oooh, Sam Elliott. It doesn't matter how old he gets, he's got to be one my longest standing crushes...he's gorgeous. He's just got that twaaang and edge that mmmmm mmmm mmmmm I like.

Mask......he's in that with Cher...an oldie but a fab film too!

well kind of know what you mean, i would say he is a mans man, and you would say he is a womens man so do we fight over him now, haha.
Saw mask donkeys ago, cher is ok too, well i would, she can sing as well.

[appollo1]

rocketman - one of the funniest films i have ever watched.

Ronan - best car chase ever

Taken - fantastic action

[gruntygiggles]

[quote=gruntygiggles;1891849]It was a bit strange, but you should watch a film called Autumn Rush. He's in that and is playing a character totally against type. A very good film that Dan and me enjoyed, but not for all blokes I wouldn't have thought.

Is that film for intellectual types, if so not me.;)

No, not intellectual, but it's about a young boy that was given up for adoption ending up on the streets. He's taken in (if you can call it that) by a homeless man played by Robin Williams.

He's a musical genius and so were both his biological parents. He thinks if he can make them hear his music, he'll find them. So.....it's a bit of a soft film on the surface, but when you watch it, it's actually really good.

[leesh00]

ok, seen em all can't get into one flew over, love roadhouse whats that blokes name the other its ok just remembered sam elliot excellant actor, and the blonde doctor is ok, ok she is luverly.

so mandatory quotes time from roadhouse:

You got the wrong temprement for the job your outta here
what the hell am i supposed to do now
theres always barber college

listen up people its my way or the highway

after huge bar brawl waitress says - who the hell is that guy
cut to man on stage - the name is dalton (swayze)

etc etc you gotta laugh

doc is hot

[Bluefish]

[quote=bluefishman;1891859]

No, not intellectual, but it's about a young boy that was given up for adoption ending up on the streets. He's taken in (if you can call it that) by a homeless man played by Robin Williams.

He's a musical genius and so were both his biological parents. He thinks if he can make them hear his music, he'll find them. So.....it's a bit of a soft film on the surface, but when you watch it, it's actually really good.


ok, will look out for that sounds ok, cheers.

[Bluefish]

so mandatory quotes time from roadhouse:

You got the wrong temprement for the job your outta here
what the hell am i supposed to do now
theres always barber college

listen up people its my way or the highway

after huge bar brawl waitress says - who the hell is that guy
cut to man on stage - the name is dalton (swayze)

etc etc you gotta laugh

doc is hot


and the blind guitarist is?

[Bluefish]

so mandatory quotes time from roadhouse:

You got the wrong temprement for the job your outta here
what the hell am i supposed to do now
theres always barber college

listen up people its my way or the highway

after huge bar brawl waitress says - who the hell is that guy
cut to man on stage - the name is dalton (swayze)

etc etc you gotta laugh

doc is hot


another one, can't remember exactly but something like, balls as big as a dumpster.

[leesh00]

:-k you got me im not gonna cheat it on google - hes a real musician part of a band with his name in it - johny lee band or something - damn it

[gruntygiggles]

I might get blasted for this but what do I care...I liked it.....

Slumdog Millionaire - so long as you watch it knowing it's quite a harrowing film, not the feelgood film that it's advertised as you won't get an unpleasant shock. If you know it's hard watching, you'll love it.

[Bluefish]

:-k you got me im not gonna cheat it on google - hes a real musician part of a band with his name in it - johny lee band or something - damn it


jeff healy of jeff healy band, good sounds. allthough you were on the right lines.

[leesh00]

another one, can't remember exactly but something like, balls as big as a dumpster.

yep thats the big curly haired barber college guy " They say your balls are so big they have to arrive in a dumpster, but so far you dont look like **** to me"
"opinions vary"

What a guy a lover, fighter and a philosophist

[Bluefish]

Roadhouse is an ace film, along same lines as top gun.
i'll have you flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog**** out of hong kong.

[Razor]

Idiocracy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0yQunhOaU0)

Appaloosa (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw1XFu-mFVk)

[Bluefish]

any more peeps, any horror films, war etc

[Bluefish]

Idiocracy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0yQunhOaU0)

Appaloosa (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw1XFu-mFVk)


Idiocracy watched trailor, looked good at first but then got totally stupid, how many buckets have you got it's obviously 3 innit. might watch it could be good, cheers razor.

Appaloosa maybe, remember first film i ever rented was a 2nd ww film looked really good synopsis, ha just remembered name of it Partisan was really rubbish, just goes to show you can't really tell till you watch it.

[leesh00]

couple of horror films ive seen at pics and thought were good but got panned by critics or not really mentioned ( as is normally the case with horror snobery )
mirrors - keifer sutherland
room 931 or something cant remember the exact title its a room number that adds up to 13 - stars samuel e jackson and john czushack - about a haunted hotel room not much gore but creepy.

[Bluefish]

couple of horror films ive seen at pics and thought were good but got panned by critics or not really mentioned ( as is normally the case with horror snobery )
mirrors - keifer sutherland
room 931 or something cant remember the exact title its a room number that adds up to 13 - stars samuel e jackson and john czushack - about a haunted hotel room not much gore but creepy.


ok have seen room whatever no it is, was very good, and i have mirrors allready just have not watched it yet.

[davepreston]

war movies
wild geese, bravo two zero, a day in iraq
comedies
bucket list, life of brian, mrs dought fire
thinkers
12 monkies, blow away, seven
new ones
max payne, startrek, angels and demons

[Bluefish]

To GG, seen sdm was ok but a bit long, well long is not the problem but a bit boring/lost in places, on the whole good film, wouldn't have given it 12 BAFTAS or whatever it got, imho, ha thats first time i've done that imho haha thats twice now, sorry.

[Razor]

Defiance - war film (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIO8OI0JP50)

[Bluefish]

war movies
wild geese, bravo two zero, a day in iraq
comedies
bucket list, life of brian, mrs dought fire
thinkers
12 monkies, blow away, seven
new ones
max payne, startrek, angels and demons


Hi dave will look into a day in iraq, have seven great film, ps like your sig.

[davepreston]

and you gotta watch tarintino's 4 rooms

[Razor]

Juno... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0SKf0K3bxg)

[Bluefish]

Defiance - war film (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIO8OI0JP50)


well done razor top bloke, this story was done by ray mears a while ago way before the film came out it's about the berlinsky brothers or similer name rescuing/freeing pow's and living in the forest self sufficient, brill story. i knew they were doing the film but didn't realize it was out yet, could be the best film daniel craig has yet done, cos he makes a crap bond.

[leesh00]

yeh i saw that ray mears doc - been seeing the trailers in poland where i am for a couple more days so couldnt understand a word of it - but somehow thought it was connected to that - will defo watch

[Bluefish]

Juno... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0SKf0K3bxg)


Razor does it again, good soundtrack too.

[Razor]

Outlander - vikings vs alien... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewBIp8uv58I)

[Razor]

Outpost - nazi super zombies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEI-v5pdivA)

[Bluefish]

Outlander - vikings vs alien... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewBIp8uv58I)


slamdunk

[Bluefish]

ok, got some good films there sure there are plenty more, but if you had to and you do name your all time tippyty top film numero uno, There can be only one, GO

[leesh00]

tricky but ..... gonna cheat a little - british - italian job
rest - scarface

[Razor]

Street Kings (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdHjrd4P9Rs)

[Razor]

My all time fave one film only is Bound (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzAtuprN3tg)

[Bluefish]

bound Seems a good film, street kings looks ace.

[pete m]

Comedy - Some Like It Hot
War - Saving Private Ryan
Western - The Good the bad the ugly
Vietnam - Apocalypse Now , Deerhunter close 2nd
Tarantino - 1 - Pulp Fiction, 2 - Reservoir Dogs 3 - Grindhouse 4 - Horrinble Barstewards (?) or something, im hoping it will be another good un
Foreign - Loulou, La Dolce Vita, La Luna, La Haine, Stalker & Solaris
Ealing - Lavender Hill Mob, Ladykillers
Bad taste funny - Happiness
Bad taste sick - Cannibal Holocaust
Best of all time - Chinatown
Worst - Last Days ?

should keep your Love Film list full for a while :cool:

[gruntygiggles]

My fave film of all time has got to be Stand By Me. It's old, but it has humor that can make you need to change your pants, drama, suspense, nostalgia, a dead body and all backed up by a brilliant cast and an incredible script.

A little bit of the story Gordie tell around the campfire about the local fat kid in a pie eating competition.......classic stuff!

Gordie (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000696/): What the audience didn't know was that Lardass wasn't really interested in winning. What he wanted was revenge, and right before he was introduced he'd gotten ready for it.
[Cut to flashback scene showing Lardass drinking a quart bottle of Castor Oil and eating a raw egg just before the start of the contest; cut back to the contest in progress]
Gordie (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000696/): Diving into his fifth pie, Lardass began to imagine that he wasn't eating pies. He pretended he was eating cow-plops, and rat guts in blueberry sauce.
Crowd: Lardass! Lardass!
Lardass Hogan (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511339/): Done!
[Lardass prepares to dive into his sixth pie, but then his stomach starts rumbling]
Gordie (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000696/): Slowly, a sound started to build in Lardass' stomach. A strange and scary sound, like a log truck coming at you at a hundred miles-an-hour. Suddenly, Lardass opened his mouth, and before Bill Travis knew it...
[Lardass barfs all over Bill]
Gordie (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000696/): ... he was covered with five pies worth of used blueberries. The women in the audience screamed. Bossman Bob Cormier took one look at Bill Travis and barfed on Principal Wiggins, who barfed on the lumberjack that was sitting next to him. Mayor Grundy barfed on his wife's tits. But when the smell hit the crowd, that's when Lardass' plan really started to work. Girlfriends barfed on boyfriends. Kids barfed on their parents. A fat lady barfed in her purse. The Donnelley twins barfed on each other, and the Women's Auxiliary barfed all over the Benevolent Order of Antelopes. And Lardass just sat back and enjoyed what he'd created-a complete and total barf-o-rama!
Vern (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005278/), Teddy (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000397/), Chris (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000203/): [Cheering and laughing] Yeah!

[fizzwheel]

My fave film of all time has got to be Stand By Me. It's old, but it has humor that can make you need to change your pants, drama, suspense, nostalgia, a dead body and all backed up by a brilliant cast and an incredible script.

Agreed I love that film :cool:

[Wideboy]

top ones for me

road to perdition (my fav ever)
saving private ryan

[leesh00]

:compress: yeh i couldnt really remember stand by me, though i knew id seen it and thought it was good, it was a long time ago. Now you mention it though can vividly remember the fat kid puking scene :)

[Razor]

top ones for me

road to perdition (my fav ever)
saving private ryan

You can spot a tom hanks fanboy a mile away...

[Magnum]

If you like shawshank, then the Green Mile is brilliant. But youve probably already seen it.

[petevtwin650]

The Kingdom

Jarhead

Collateral

All Jamie Foxx ones which I've enjoyed, and you may have missed.

*Edit Lissa, not Pete. Forgot he was logged on!*

[Bluefish]

If you like shawshank, then the Green Mile is brilliant. But youve probably already seen it.

sure have, all tom hanks films are good, the big chap is excellant as well. green mile would be in my top 10.

[Bluefish]

The Kingdom

Jarhead

Collateral

All Jamie Foxx ones which I've enjoyed, and you may have missed.

*Edit Lissa, not Pete. Forgot he was logged on!*

had to look up collateral, but yes have seen them all, collateral is v good as is jarhead

[Bluefish]

Comedy - Some Like It Hot
War - Saving Private Ryan
Western - The Good the bad the ugly
Vietnam - Apocalypse Now , Deerhunter close 2nd
Tarantino - 1 - Pulp Fiction, 2 - Reservoir Dogs 3 - Grindhouse 4 - Horrinble Barstewards (?) or something, im hoping it will be another good un
Foreign - Loulou, La Dolce Vita, La Luna, La Haine, Stalker & Solaris
Ealing - Lavender Hill Mob, Ladykillers
Bad taste funny - Happiness
Bad taste sick - Cannibal Holocaust
Best of all time - Chinatown
Worst - Last Days ?

should keep your Love Film list full for a while :cool:



some good uns there, love clint e

[Magnum]

sure have, all tom hanks films are good, the big chap is excellant as well. green mile would be in my top 10.

Its number two for me. Shawshank is by far the best film ive seen.
Have you seen Leon? Thats my number 3.

[Bluefish]

HI Magnum, no not seen leon, whats that about/like?

[sinbad]

HI Magnum, no not seen leon, whats that about/like?
Brilliant, Jean Reno is an assassin and a young Natalie Portman the troubled girl living in the apartment next door.

[Magnum]

HI Magnum, no not seen leon, whats that about/like?



You havnt seen Leon?! Its amazing.
Natalie portman in one of her first films, brilliant young actress (12/13 at the time).
Her character Mathilda's family are killed in a drug deal, so is her 4 year old brother. She meets the man in the room next to her flat where her family was killed, and he turns out to be a hitman but he's the only person she can turn to.
Seriously its one of those films you just want to stand up and clap for at the end!

[Lissa]

This thread may give you some ideas!

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=111161

[leesh00]

you gotta love 1st blood with sly some great bits

who in gods name created a man like rambo?
god didnt create rambo... i did

quality :)

[Bluefish]

This thread may give you some ideas!

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=111161


good stuff, thanks lissa, allthough some peeps choices leave a lot to be desired, must be the younger folks lol.:thumbsup:

[Bluefish]

you gotta love 1st blood with sly some great bits

who in gods name created a man like rambo?
god didnt create rambo... i did

quality :)

don't push me leesh, got the rambo collection, and rocky.

in these lists nobody has mentioned quadrophenia yet, great film with great soundtrack.

[Magnum]

Garden State! Almost forgot that one... has to be joint second/third.

[leesh00]

don't push me leesh, got the rambo collection, and rocky.

in these lists nobody has mentioned quadrophenia yet, great film with great soundtrack.

yeh quad is a pretty cool film and british to boot.

but bluefishman - push me and ill give you a war you wont forget.

Just remember to take a good supply of body bags :smt067

:)

[Razor]

The 1st Rambo fillum was ok, but in David Morrell's book Trautman shoots him in the head... That wouldn't work well for sequels but it would have saved us from Rambo 2 and 3 which just got progressivley worse... Rambo 4 was great, if we could erase all memeory of the previous 2 movies... The first and last watched back to back work together..

Kinda like the Rocky movies, watch 1, 2 and 3 and the the very last one, makes more sense, has more heart and avoids all that rubbish cold war flag waving bollix from the 80's!

[leesh00]

keep hearing good things from everone about rambo 4 - but havent been able to bring myself to watch it yet - will maybe add it to my love film

[Razor]

Rambo 4 is uber violent! Something like 300 kills in one movie, not all by Rambo, he has help in this one.

If you like violent films, Punisher war zone (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRyfcC1BgU0)

Or mebbe one of my all time faves The Boondock Saints (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8Mt5yDqngM)