Film recommendations

Discussion in 'The Lounge Bar' started by marcus69x, Jan 13, 2010.

  1. marcus69x

    marcus69x I love WW2 meah!!!

    We're always on the lookout for good films to pass the time.

    So what's the best film you've seen recently, (or ever)?

    We watched 'The Hangover' recently.
    YouTube - The Hangover Trailer

    Four blokes celebrate the start of their stag night in Las Vegas with a shot of
    Vodka(?).

    The movie starts the next morning in their hotel room. In the room with them is a Chicken, A Tiger, a Baby and the groom is missing. They have no recollection of the night before. What the hell did they get up to? :D

    Watch it and see.

    5 Stars.
     
  2. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Love Honour and Obey - (The Best London Gangster Movie Ever !)
     
  3. Gerard

    Gerard Seelow/Prora

    Frost v Nixon - Excellent story about the famous interview between the 2 men.
     
  4. marcus69x

    marcus69x I love WW2 meah!!!

    Just to bump this thread.

    I don't believe for one minute that of all the members who frequent this site every day, that not one of you doesn't have a favourite film?

    Cheers to Andy and Gotthard.

    Now come on guys, it's Sunday and TV is boring these days. I need some good fuel to keep the boredom out. :rolleyes:

    What good film have you seen recently and what would you recommend?
     
  5. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Have you watched Come & See yet ?
    What about The Third Man?
    A classic post-war film.
     
  6. IzzyR

    IzzyR Junior Member

    Stand By Me - based on the short novel by Stephen King is one of my all time faves along with Grosse Point Blank.

    Of the newer films, Avatar in 3D was amazing, and I also really liked Moon, which is about a miner on the moon but suddenly things start to get strange..
     
  7. beccajade

    beccajade Member

    I second the hangover is brilliant! The history boys is good if you want something slightly different,
     
  8. marcus69x

    marcus69x I love WW2 meah!!!

    I wouldn't mind seeing Come and see.

    Kelley won't entertain black and white films.

    Stand by me's a classic. That Love honour & Obey looks quite good.
     
  9. wtid45

    wtid45 Very Senior Member

    Some of the best films I have ever seen have been in black and white and thats from when I was a kid to the present day:)
     
  10. Gage

    Gage The Battle of Barking Creek

  11. wtid45

    wtid45 Very Senior Member

    Shawshank Redemption a fantastic film!
     
  12. Gage

    Gage The Battle of Barking Creek

  13. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    I wouldn't mind seeing Come and see.

    Kelley won't entertain black and white films.

    Stand by me's a classic. That Love honour & Obey looks quite good.

    Trust me you won't regret it and you can't go wrong for 3 quid !


    Love, Honour And Obey [DVD] [2000]: Amazon.co.uk: Sadie Frost, Jonny Lee Miller, Jude Law, Ray Winstone, Kathy Burke, Sean Pertwee, Denise Van Outen, Rhys Ifans, Dominic Anciano, Ray Burdis, John Beckett, Trevor Laird, David M. Thompson, Jane Tranter

    ^^^^^ Look at the cast for starters.There's even an Ex-SAS chap in it for you Marcus ;)
     
  14. Gerard

    Gerard Seelow/Prora

    Well am in the middle of watching Gods and Generals and I really like it, its a good Civil war film (The American Civil War that is, not the Cavaliers and Roundheads stuff!)

    Other good films:

    Shawshank Redemption
    American History X
    In the Heat of the Night
    Get Carter - Michael Caine version, not the Stallone muck
    Day of the Jackal - Edward Fox version
     
  15. marcus69x

    marcus69x I love WW2 meah!!!

    Some of the best films I have ever seen have been in black and white and thats from when I was a kid to the present day:)

    Couldn't agree more. Some people are too naive (if that's the right word) to appreciate them. Kel.....? :lol:

    Some good ideas coming here people.

    I'll keep bumping this thread now and then because it's good to advertise films to watch while we're all chilling out in the barracks. ;)

    keep 'em coming.
     
  16. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    I know what you mean Mark, Mrs D won't watch ones with subtitles.
    Her loss, means I can enjoy them in peace & quiet.
     
  17. phylo_roadking

    phylo_roadking Very Senior Member

    I'm a big film fan, but have very varied tastes - for me, sometimes the crappiest have really good moments or scenes that put them above others!

    Fave war films are
    Dunkirk
    They Were Expendable
    The Dambusters (for obvious reasons)
    The Guns of Navarone
    Ice Cold in Alex
    They who dare - I've still to work out WHY it's good! :mellow:
    and
    Anzio - which is SO bad it's great!

    But right up there are things like the cut-down "film" version of the 1990's The Odyssey with Armand Assante which I picked up for a whole quid in Tescos and is absolutely brilliant in places, including Homer's classic Denoument moment at the end...So tasteLESSly done with buckets of blood!

    A fave of longstanding is the 1930's-era gangster piece Miller's Crossing, it's just SO well done it's brilliant - how to have buckets of "period" violence and detail and NO swearing!!! :mellow: Just period language.

    Fahrenhiet 451 is a fave too, both for its morals and its just-so-kitsch Sixties-ness view of the "future" :lol: And of course the wonderful Cyril Cusack.

    The Quiet Man just HAS to be watched at least once in a liftime...then a second one after watching an episode of Father Ted and realising nothing has changed in religious comedy!

    Beowulf and Grendel - NOT the crappy half-animated one, the "parallel" one with Gerard Butler.

    An Ungentlemanly Act - with Ian Richardson, Ian McNeice and Bob Peck about the night the Falklands were invaded. It is just so "real" funny in places...

    By Dawn's Early Night with Rebecca DeMornay and Powers Boothe. Almost forgotten now, it's an absolutely excellent low-budget WWIII end-of-the-world story.

    And for anyone who's ever NOT liked reading subtitles on a French film, there's one that makes the entire History of French Cinema worth it once you get your head around it, Jen Luc Goddard's Alphaville for THE coolest secret agent/hero you ever did see!
     
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    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

  19. marcus69x

    marcus69x I love WW2 meah!!!

    Seven Samurai
    And hugely improves ones skills at grunting in Japanenglish.


    :lol:
     
  20. Gage

    Gage The Battle of Barking Creek

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