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Wes Anderson films
, especially rushmore.
Unsurprisingly this is very subjective – to me many of the films could constitute a list of “tedious bollocks nobody should waste any time on”.
Mmm. I hope someone's keeping track of who should be ridiculing who.
My brain's not really switched on right now but I shall submit Die Hard. It's getting to the right time of year anyway.
The Man who Would Be King
Agree with many of the above but I'll add
Just about any Hitchcock film
Life is beautiful
Schindler's List
Apocalypse Now
The Green Book
eddiebaby
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Office Space.
Definitely. Essential watching. If my son hasn't watched it he would have had no idea what I meant when I said I was going to go full on Office Space on the HP printer he had lent me a couple of months back. Lol
I hate that printer.
But...
I love that film. 😁
Mmm. I hope someone’s keeping track of who should be ridiculing who.
My brain’s not really switched on right now but I shall submit Die Hard. It’s getting to the right time of year anyway.
I am. There are a few names on ze list already.😉
A Matter of Life and Death (and The Red Shoes too)
House of Flying Daggers
Pain & Glory
Volver
(also Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!) I’m a fan of Pedros.
In the Mood for Love
Arrival
+1 for Clueless and The Sure Thing
Sharknado.
But only the first one, the later ones were just silly
Sharknado
The thread was not
"Movies that must be ridiculed for ever more" 🤪
Although you are right the sequels were a new level of silly
no country for old men
the gods must be crazy (1 & 2)
the chaser
hot tub time machine 😉
EDIT How could I forget "Twintown" ... not seen it? it is usually on YT
the gods must be crazy
That crops up on on Talking Pictures sometimes.
Not watched it all and not seen the second one at all but I was curious enough to look for info on Wiki.
Pretty interesting. I think the main actor (can't remember his name) only passed away in 2003 aged 58. Edit: His name is N!xau.
I'll have to watch it properly one day and the sequel.👍
The first one is my wife’s all time favourite.
Back to the Future - To this day I’m still on the edge of my seat hoping Doc Brown can reconnect that cable.
First Blood - None of the sequels. They should’ve stuck to the ending from the book. Some fantastic stunt work too.
Am I the only person who doesn’t find Monty Python funny?
Convoy.
It's got everything;
Love story
Politics/unions
Humour
Brilliant theme tune
Freaking awesome American trucks with massive shiny exhausts.
CB talk
"Breaker one-nine, this here's the Rubber Duck"
Came here to say Back to the Future but @funkmasterp just pipped me to it
Do you realise that if Back to the Future was made today Marty McFly would be travelling back to 1993?
13th Warrior - so bad it's good.
Bevvare ze firevurm
You really don’t need to watch lots of Wes Anderson films, they are all the same so go
The Royal TenenbaumsFantastic Mr Fox and then ignore the rest.
Not enough love for animated movies so far so…
Kubo and the Two Strings.
Nightmare Before Christmas.
Best puke scene ever
No, that was Team America.
On Powell & Pressburger, Colonel Blimp. Not at all what I expected.
I'd add The Prestige, Nolan's best film.
No one seems to have mentioned Aliens. The best sci-fi action film ever made.
Alien is probably the better piece of cinema, but James Cameron took the premise of Alien and expanded on it massively, as an exercise in world building its really brilliantly done. Although you could also argue that laid the ground for all the pretty dreadful sequels.
Go back to the start of this thread. How many of the titles listed here were made in the last (say) 20 years?
I'll give you one - Moana, yes its a "kids film" but its brilliantly made, it like going on holiday somewhere warm for two hours, I encourage my 8 year old daughter to pick it whenever we are stuck for a film to watch.
Lots of good stuff here already. Not mentioned AFAIK are a few more of my faves:
Dog Soldiers
Fallen
Fury
Angel Heart
And another vote for Ghost Dog, Twin Town and Ronin
Best puke scene ever
No, that was Team America.
No, that was Stand by me.
Thread closed
No one seems to have mentioned Aliens. The best sci-fi action film ever made.
Alien is probably the better piece of cinema, but James Cameron took the premise of Alien and expanded on it massively, as an exercise in world building its really brilliantly done.
True.
You can apply the same logic to the first 2 Terminator films. One low budget, nasty, brilliantly effective monster movie. One mega budget, sci-fi, action epic with ground breaking visual effects. Both excellent.
Haven't seen a mention of the best ever monster movie yet. Predator.
All Tarantino films, IMO he is a genius.
Whereas IMO he is massively overrated.
All Tarantino films, IMO he is a genius.
You sound like you might also be an Elon Musk fan...
A couple of his films are good but he is basically a plagiariser
Whereas IMO he is massively overrated.
and a bit creepy
You can apply the same logic to the first 2 Terminator films. One low budget, nasty, brilliantly effective monster movie. One mega budget, sci-fi, action epic with ground breaking visual effects. Both excellent.
the opposite of anything other than the first two movies from each is also true. They just get worse and worse.
After bumping into it last night, may I add The Breakfast Club? It's a cracking film and I had almost completely forgotten about it.
I watched All The President's Men last night. Wont be for everyone but still a good docudrama.
Yeah, The Breakfast Club. It should be mandatory viewing for all teenagers.
Yeah, The Breakfast Club. It should be mandatory viewing for all teenagers.
I was a teenager when it was released but never got around to watching it until last year, with my 19 year old daughter. It finished, we went 'hmmm'. I'm not sure what I'm missing here.
Ah, Twin Town!
You do know the difference between a two-tone 525 and an AC Cobra don’t you?
What a film.
A lot of this was filmed in or close to the area I grew up in, so I spent most of my only viewing looking at the scenery rather than following the plot. 😀
Ambition is Critical/Pretty sh*tty city! By complete coincidence, the Ambition is Critical podcast on Spotify has Kevin Allen (Twin Town director, brother of Keith) on the latest show released yesterday:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5OOJPm5ksEf0MUKjQuS8Yn?si=qkzHBdRaSBaShiEZSj0-xg
It finished, we went ‘hmmm’. I’m not sure what I’m missing here.
Nostalgia is what you're missing. You don't remember it being life changingly brilliant in the 80's so now you're viewing it objectively and discovering that it's just a movie.
Some of the people on this thread could do with a bit of objectivity!
Layer Cake has to be a film everyone has to watch just for Micheal Gambon's monologue and Sienna Miller
but James Cameron took the premise of Alien and expanded on it massively, as an exercise in world building its really brilliantly done.
Hmmm, or; James Cameron took an genuinely inventive and innovative Horror/Sci-fi and turned it into a pretty unremarkable US-centric Cowboys and Indians/ Vietnam War movie procedural. I like the movie don't get me wrong, but all the "world building" was done in the original. Terminator was the Cameron movie that ranked along-side's Scott's Alien for breaking new ground, and like Alien all the subsequent sequels are incrementally less good.
Some of the people on this thread could do with a bit of objectivity!
Nah, enjoying a film is a subjective experience and imo that's what this thread's about.
I do agree that many of these films people are professing to love are objectively dreadful though!
Some of my favourites Twin Town, Human Traffic, The Waterboy and Kelly's Heroes have all been mentioned i think.
I only skimmed the 5 pages but quite surprised there wasn't someone on here twisted enough to suggest Threads...
Has Point Break been mentioned? (The Bigelow, Reeves, Swayze one obv.)
Only reason I didn't include it earlier it that it transcends film and is more the code we live by, woven into the fabric of the universe.
and is more the code we live by, woven into the fabric of the universe.
Big wave riding is for macho assholes with a death wish? 🤷♂️
Side question. Am I the only person who watches a film, not a 'movie'?
Why yes, I am a boring old boomer. Thanks for asking!
Big wave riding [shitly] is for macho assholes with a death wish? 🤷♂️
Did someone call? And yes fillum.
Some that need mentioning
Nikkita - The Luc Beeson original (obvs)
Has Blade Runner been on yet? Must have surely?
The Gentlemen, just for Hugh Grant and Charlie Hunnam's pieces really
My Neighbour Totoro/ Spirited Away/Princess Mononoke - Can't make up my mind, any one of them will do.
Seven Samurai
Unforgiven/ True Grit/ The Cowboys -again, any one of them will do, and ither True Grits, they're equally good
The Graduate.
Nostalgia is what you’re missing. You don’t remember it being life changingly brilliant in the 80’s so now you’re viewing it objectively and discovering that it’s just a movie.
Oh yeah, I get that, and that's why I don't contribute films to these lists because they mean nothing to anyone else, unless you were the same age as me and my friends at the time. (Highlander, Restless Natives, Monty Python, Gregory's Girl etc). Some of these films are genuinely good, and some are only good because of the nostalgia. But Breakfast Club regularly comes up on must-see lists, and it really isn't. (Unless you watch it in 1985 as a 17 year old in some sort of time travelling movie adventure.. But them, why would a film set in an American high school mean anything to me, a teenager in a rough Welsh comp? 😀 )
Has Point Break been mentioned? (The Bigelow, Reeves, Swayze one obv.)
Big wave riding is for macho assholes with a death wish? 🤷♂️
I watched it recently, maybe fuelled by some wine, and yes, there's macho crap built in and there's also a load of cod-philosophy, as you know. But what struck me was Patrick Swayze. Suddenly I could see how people fell in him love with as a star, which is an odd thing for me to say a completely heterosexual man! 😀 He had a presence in that film which massively outweighed how good or bad the film was.
But what struck me was Patrick Swayze
Yes, he was a memorizing actor. 👍
Edit thanks @IdleJon Bloody autocorrect--mesmerizing
Side question. Am I the only person who watches a film, not a ‘movie’?
I bet you wear trousers as well, rather than pants.
I meant to mention Point Break earlier. Amazing stuff and definitely one of my own personal nostalgia triggers.
I seem to remember that Strange Days by Bigelow was also amazing but it doesn't get repeated as much because some of the subject matter is a little graphic. I need to rewatch it.
I've been away and haven't really kept up with this thread, but I assume that someone will already have said Withnail and I.
That person is an idiot, the fact that it is so lauded amazes me, it's just crap.
Anyway, in the spirit of the thread, Goodfellas
the fact that it is so lauded amazes me, it’s just crap
Agreed.
Anyway, in the spirit of the thread, Goodfellas
I see your Goodfellas, and raise you a Casino 😉
I see your Goodfellas, and raise you a Casino
I have still never seen Casino. Not really sure why, I want to, I just haven't.
I did make the mistake of starting to watch Godfather 3 though. Lordy, that was bad, I gave it about half an hour
Anyone said the breakfast club?
That person is an idiot, the fact that it is so lauded amazes me, it’s just crap.
You're full of Scotch you silly tool.
^ I assume that's one of the (many) lines from it that isn't funny
me was Patrick Swayze. Suddenly I could see how people fell in him love with as a star,
Wtf this must be sarcasm right? Its been a very long time since I watched Point Break and only seen it twice but, can't say I recollect that being close to my viewing experience! 😂
I assume that’s one of the (many) lines from it that isn’t funny
Sigh I feel so cancelled now. I'm going to cry in a corner to myself and think about how I too can learn to un-appreciate a film I've has many laughs over. Thank you for your cultural guidance.
Anyway, in the spirit of the thread, Goodfellas
I see your Goodfellas, and raise you a Casino
They all blur in to one really long and boring film for me. Goodfellas, Godfather, Casino, Donny Brasco etc. Joe Pesci was better and more believable in My Cousin Vinny
Patrick Swayze’s mullet in Point Break is the only cool mullet to ever exist.
They all blur in to one really long and boring film for me. Goodfellas, Godfather, Casino, Donny Brasco etc
God yes, mob films are the dullest shit
^^ Dead Mans Shoes?
Yeah, gritty as hell, its one of the best revenge movies I've ever seen.👍
I have to be in the right mood for it though as it's very bleak.
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I am a fan of old Bogart films such as Casablanca and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.I watched Bram Stoker’s Dracula the other day and it was better than I remembered.
Me too, love the old stuff on Talking Pictures. We don't get TCM as it's not on Freeview. Boo!
TCM ended as a channel in July; Warner/Discovery (them again) pulled the plug. A**hats, the lot of them.