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johnno42000 Flag 29 Jul 15 5.07pm Send a Private Message to johnno42000 Add johnno42000 as a friend

Quadrophenia
Aces High
The Warriors
The Wanderers

 


'Lies to the masses as are like fly's to mollasses...they want more and more and more'

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fed up eagle Flag Between Horley, Surrey and Preston... 29 Jul 15 5.14pm Send a Private Message to fed up eagle Add fed up eagle as a friend

1) High plains drifter-Clint Eastwood
2) A few good men
3) Falling Down
4) The Departed
5) Pale Rider
6) Dirty Harry
7) Road House
The Firm
9) Midnight Run
10) Trading Places

 

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Superfly Flag The sun always shines in Catford 29 Jul 15 5.17pm Send a Private Message to Superfly Add Superfly as a friend

Quote johnno42000 at 29 Jul 2015 5.07pm

Quadrophenia
Aces High
The Warriors
The Wanderers


Was fuming the other week. I bought the directors cut of this, not much difference except they've added comic strip sequences to link some of the scenes together. And it totally ruins the whole film!!! It might sound a bit petty but this is a film that relys on the superb atmosphere is creates and these added bits just kill it!

I'm debating slinging it in the bin and buying the original.

 


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johnno42000 Flag 29 Jul 15 5.28pm Send a Private Message to johnno42000 Add johnno42000 as a friend

Quote Superfly at 29 Jul 2015 5.17pm

Quote johnno42000 at 29 Jul 2015 5.07pm

Quadrophenia
Aces High
The Warriors
The Wanderers


Was fuming the other week. I bought the directors cut of this, not much difference except they've added comic strip sequences to link some of the scenes together. And it totally ruins the whole film!!! It might sound a bit petty but this is a film that relys on the superb atmosphere is creates and these added bits just kill it!

I'm debating slinging it in the bin and buying the original.

You're right. Why you would mess around with the original of this is beyond me. Not sure if you've seen it but the Simpsons did a parody of it called The Winter of His Content [Link]

 


'Lies to the masses as are like fly's to mollasses...they want more and more and more'

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Y Ddraig Goch Flag In The Crowd 29 Jul 15 5.47pm Send a Private Message to Y Ddraig Goch Add Y Ddraig Goch as a friend

As well as some of those mentioned already:

Battle of Britain
Apocalypse Now
Milagro Beanfield War
Blazing Saddles
Stir Crazy

 


the dignified don't even enter in the game

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pefwin Flag Where you have to have an English ... 29 Jul 15 8.00pm

For a out there choice, I go "Outland" (1981)

 


"Everything is air-droppable at least once."

"When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."

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Dan Theolmesdaleroad Flag Up north 29 Jul 15 8.55pm Send a Private Message to Dan Theolmesdaleroad Add Dan Theolmesdaleroad as a friend

Quote Superfly at 29 Jul 2015 4.20pm

A Streetcar named Desire
The Turin Horse (Tarr)
12 Angry Men
Stalker (Tarkovsky)
Manhattan
Seven Samurai
Bullitt
Dr Strangelove
Ghost World
It's a Wonderful Life
Whistle Down the Wind
The Wild Bunch
Lost in Translation
Once Upon a Time in the West
Brazil
West Side Story
Naked
The Third Man
The Last Picture Show
Amadeus
Dawn of the Dead
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Happiness
The Killing (Kubrick)


This!

Some cracking films in this list, especially these three. I haven't seen The Killing for about 20 years, but when I read this post it was one of the first I thought of. A cult classic.

Another one I'd add to this list is Fail Safe. I'd never heard of it until I came across it on TV very late one night and couldn't stop watching it. I saw a TV interview with George Clooney several years later in which he said it was his favourite film, and the way he described how it had made him feel when he first saw it was exactly the same way I had felt when I watched it. He later appeared in a version of the film made for TV.

Honourable mention also goes to:

North By Northwest
The Apartment
Charade
The Manchurian Candidate
The Fortune Cookie
The Odd Couple
The Sting
LA Confidential
Jackie Brown

 

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lankygit Flag Lincoln 29 Jul 15 10.14pm Send a Private Message to lankygit Add lankygit as a friend

Dr. Strangelove

 


Is this a five minute argument, or the full half hour? [Link]

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sa_eagle Flag Just outside Cape Town 29 Jul 15 10.54pm Send a Private Message to sa_eagle Add sa_eagle as a friend

The Fisher King is up there on my list.

As Good As It Gets is another cracking film.

 


Cynic or realist? It's a fine line!

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Superfly Flag The sun always shines in Catford 30 Jul 15 8.57am Send a Private Message to Superfly Add Superfly as a friend

Quote Dan Theolmesdaleroad at 29 Jul 2015 8.55pm

This!

Some cracking films in this list, especially these three. I haven't seen The Killing for about 20 years, but when I read this post it was one of the first I thought of. A cult classic.

Another one I'd add to this list is Fail Safe. I'd never heard of it until I came across it on TV very late one night and couldn't stop watching it. I saw a TV interview with George Clooney several years later in which he said it was his favourite film, and the way he described how it had made him feel when he first saw it was exactly the same way I had felt when I watched it. He later appeared in a version of the film made for TV.

Honourable mention also goes to:

North By Northwest
The Apartment
Charade
The Manchurian Candidate
The Fortune Cookie
The Odd Couple
The Sting
LA Confidential
Jackie Brown


Added those two to my wishlist Nice one - Not seen either

If you don't mind me taking berties, I reckon what would also look good in your list would be Barefoot in the Park, and possibly also The Goodbye Girl (which seriously needs a dvd reissue). Neil Simon was a genius!

 


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31 May to 3 June 2017

John McIntosh Arts Centre
London Oratory School
SW6 1RX

with Superfly in the chorus
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dannyh Flag wherever I lay my hat....... 30 Jul 15 9.30am Send a Private Message to dannyh Add dannyh as a friend

Things to do in denver when your dead
Usual suspects
My cousin Vinny
True Romance
Escape to victory
Time Bandits
Life of Brian
We were soldiers
Outlaw (the Nick Love one)
Esacpe from Sobibor
The eagle has landed

Edited by dannyh (30 Jul 2015 9.31am)

 


"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'"

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jimruss Flag Sidcup 30 Jul 15 10.11am Send a Private Message to jimruss Add jimruss as a friend

Babel (Brad Pitt)

Surprisingly good film, expected it to be utterly 5hite

 

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