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andym World Chat Champion
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Posted: 02:58 - 14 Jan 2018 Post subject: Classic movies *hic* |
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I've just spent the last hour or so trying to explain "I'm a shakin' it boss" to a friend.... who's the same age as me
So this is just a random (drunken) post about classic movies that you could watch over and over again without getting bored (and looking for some recommendations).
OK not all before my time, but still classics in my book: Shawshank Redemption, Goodfellas, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Crossroads (very recently watched), The Graduate, Rain Man, Empire of The Sun, Platoon (was never really into war movies)....
*hic*, as you were, nothing to see here |
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Posted: 03:06 - 14 Jan 2018 Post subject: |
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I watched Being John Malkovich this evening and it was better than I remembered, although it's probably not old enough to be a classic. I agree about Shawshank (probably my fav' film), I remember Rain man being good but not sure if I could watch it over (and over). Forest Gump I've always enjoyed when its been on.
So what film is your reference from? |
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stevo as b4 World Chat Champion
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Posted: 10:20 - 14 Jan 2018 Post subject: |
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Any of the old Spaghetti westerns, all films with inspector Callahan in, and Mad Max for a start. Jaws, 48 hours, vanishing point, Bullet maybe also?
There are some classic good war films, but you have to be in the right mood to watch them, and you probably wouldn't want to watch a cluster of war films back to back.
Thing I like most about Dirty Harry is that the scenes are shot in a far simpler less complicated USA. You had whites, blacks and a few orientals and Italian's, and that's it. The crimes were pretty conventional and everything just seems like normal city life with a few problems and gang issues, but alot of law abiding masses too.
Basically a simpler nicer America, and well before the days of Islamics blowing themselves up or crashing planes into buildings, and school kids flipping out and shooting all their class mates etc.
Would have probably liked to visit most US city's in those pre fucked up days, and Also seeing things at the height of organised crime by the big Five families too. |
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andym World Chat Champion
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Posted: 10:52 - 14 Jan 2018 Post subject: |
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I never really got into the old westerns, unfortunately I was brainwashed with 80's horror movies (which has spoiled anything since 2000).
I thought Bullitt was boring and over rated tbh
Most of the films listed I've seen.... and forgotten about, so might go on a downloading spree
M.C - it was a scene from Cool Hand Luke |
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Posted: 11:19 - 14 Jan 2018 Post subject: |
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The great escape
Zulu
The Italian job
Watch those again and again when they come on the telly.
Escape to victory and most Bond films are not quite in the same class but I’ll usually put them on if I notice. ____________________ Current bike: Kawasaki Z750S |
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andym wrote: |
M.C - it was a scene from Cool Hand Luke |
"What we have here, is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So we get what we had here today. Which is how he wants it. Well, he gets it. And I don't like it any more than you men."
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syl wrote: | The great escape
Zulu
The Italian job
Watch those again and again when they come on the telly.
Escape to victory and most Bond films are not quite in the same class but I’ll usually put them on if I notice. |
Lol! I used to complain so much when they put those three on every Christmas, but actually found myself wishing they had been on this year
Bond films you can always catch up with on ITVBond - seem to be about the only movies they show
The Man Who Would Be King - brilliant story by a brilliant writer, with two great British actors. Or maybe three...
Donnie Brasco - maybe too soon, but I think destined for classic status on the basis of Pacino's performance.
Heat. As above, but DeNiro and Pacino on top form.
The Godfather 1 & 2.
Enter The Dragon - coming out of the cinema as the world's greatest martial artist
What was the one with Michael Caine and Lawrence Olivier...Sleuth, that's the one.
Kelly's Heroes. "Will you knock it off with them negative waves, man!" I dedicate this to M.C - a glass half empty if ever I saw one ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Aliens - I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. |
Always thought that was a classic suspense movie, only let down by the fact that you saw the Alien for what they always are at the end - a bloke in a costume. EDIT: Oh, you're talking about the second one aren't you? I'd nominate the first.
Saving Private Ryan. I actually prefer Band of Brothers, but that's a mini series, so doesn't qualify. But these changed the way war movies should have been made. I say "should have been", cos then Brad Pitt came out with that bollocks called "Fury" ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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stevo as b4 wrote: | and Mad Max |
The first one, yes.
"Oh my God, what happened?"
"I dunno man, I just got here myself!"
The Song Remains The Same
Oh, and on the subject of music movies, The Last Waltz. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Enter the Dragon sparked my love for Bruce Lee, then Hong Kong movies generally and now Asian movies as a whole. |
I watched it again after years recently, thinking I'd be disappointed now. But I wasn't (especially as they showed the uncut Nunchaku scene). Lee has a real 'presence' in that movie. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Never seen Zulu |
Not possible.
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The original Thomas Crown Affair with Sean Connery is a good old classic worth a second watch.
As someone already mentioned Zulu,
What about my favourite old film , Get Carter, I never tire of watching that. ____________________ I am the sum total of my own existence, what went before makes me who I am now! |
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What I find a pity is that my kids (in their 20s; and I'm sure they aren't unusual) all refuse point-blank to watch any films at all which were made in black-and-white, instantly ruling out loads of the old classics like Psycho (and many of the other Hitchcocks), Casablanca (and most contemporary WWII films), and all the 'golden age of Hollywood' stuff. When I was their age there were only 4 TV channels and no method of recording and/or watching films at home other than on live TV (hard to believe eh?) , and the 'midnight movie' was always a thing to watch. There was always an old B&W film to watch - the 1930s Bogart/Edward G Robinson/Jimmy Cagney gangster movies were always my thing as a teenager - and I saw loads of them.
But nowadays the kids' reaction is 'why would I want to watch that boring old crap in black-and-white when I can choose from a thousand recent films on cable TV, Netflix or DVD, all in glorious colour HD? Progress, I suppose ____________________ KC100->CB100N->CB250RS--------->DL650AL2->R1200RS->R1250RS |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 97 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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