I really enjoyed it. Laughed out loud a few times, few tears, you know the format. It had everything. I had forgotten how good it was

 

Raise The Titanic - I have watched this film so many many times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raise_t...nic_%28film%29

The book is better but I still love the movie.

 

Films are not the same anymore.

I watched a film called Fubar last week. A bit odd, and not everyones cup of tea, but I liked it because it was different.

 

Films nowadays are all too broad in their catchment. When was the last time u seen a god 18 rated film?

I watched Expendables on Monday night and loved it but couldn't help think of how much better it could have been if it didn't have to appeal to younger people too.

 

Yeah I agree with you there, it's been a while since I did watch a good 18 cert movie, but I suppose it's hard to give films that rating now.
Society isn't as sterile as it once was, you take the kids to see toy story 3 and they see a tramp ****ting in a carrier bag around the back of the odeon.

Youngsters see a lot more now in life, films etc than I did.

 

I agree and don't. Yes people in general are a bit more unshockable but I couldn't see a film like Hellraiser making it to your local cinema nowadays.

 

It was good at the time, like nightmare on elm street. They were fresh and new.
Things like this paranormal activity are not a patch on that type of film.

You obvioulsy know what sort of thing you want to see.

I watched a fm called triangle last year that was good, a bit of a thriller but something a bit different to the norm.

 

Going back a bit. goodbye mr. chips , a matter of life and death.

 

I enjoyed Hellraiser. As for shockable, I could not stomach watching Hostel, again. That blokes achillies heel

 

for anybody who hasn't seen "Point Break" -- it is on bbc1 this friday (11.30)

 

Slightly off topic, but I just noticed your postcount and thought it was amusing:

"4737, CARLING, SIR!!"

 

Grease

From my childhood, First Blood

I too was blown away by Matrix

I really enjoyed I am Legend

Loads really too many to choose just one

Maybe a thread with the different genres would make it easier

 

It's quite something isn't it! lol

 

I've seen the film Dune probably more times than any other - more times than any of the Aliens films which are my favorite series.


One film I really liked recently was In the Electric Mist. Its got Tommy Lee Jones and John Goodman and you'd think its complete poop by the cover but its actually a decent little film. Wife bought it thinking it was No Country for Old Men ( ) and I really didn't fancy watching it at all. It was a good surprise.

Also watched Menento which many had said was Nolans best but I didn't think it was better than Inception (my best film of 2010)

I think a Film Review thread would be cool. Or have this thread renamed as such?

 

RETRO FILM REVIEW!


From Dusk Til Dawn was a good favourite of mine, I love my vamp films anyway (not this modern tripe mind you).

The Lost Boys, and good old Bram Stokers Dracula.

You can't beat it. A good horror thriller that still sends a chill down my spine.

 

I'm loving that BBC are putting Indiana jones on BBC one each week, makes a nice change

 

Often over looked but an amazing film...

THE CROW

 

If you liked the Shawshank redemption you will love The Green Mile it's an epic movie

 

Felon is another one of a similar genre.

Also Law Abiding Citizen.
I really enjoyed that, one of the best action/crime films I have seen for a while.
It's very similar with the moral undertone as shawshank redemption.

 

Current movies well worth a view are,

The Fighter
Conviction

 

Favourite films... many and varied.

A selection (all old now)

Godfather and Godfather 2 - best movies ever made.
Goodfellas
Last Temptation of Christ
Blue Velvet
Magnolia
Being John Malkovich
The Dark Knight
Leon
Mulholland Drive
The Ring - disturbs me to this day
The Untouchables
The Long Good Friday
Dangerous Liaisons

 

The Fighter looks like a cracking film! Good reviews too.

 

Event Horizon is another of my favorites if you like SciFi horror.

Goes to show that we can all direct at least one really good film.

 

I can remember watching that not long after it came out and I thought it was quite scary and quite gruesome

 

Star Wars for the wow factor it had on me back in 1977. Clearly not the best film ever made but.......
I also saw Pan's Labyrinth without really knowing what it was about and was blown away/freaked out by it!

 

Of the films that haven't been mentioned already, I think Forest Gump is right up there, because life is really like a box of chocolates and I've had a few orange fondent and coffee creme moments in my life!

 

Bladerunner for me.... I have 11 copies of it well one single disc Director's cut I bought ages ago and two of the final cut special editions (one in card box and one in tin box sealed)

The level of detail that went into production was just ridiculous! It's one of the few films I love to watch again and again.

Other films I love to watch as well;

Oceans trilogy
Star Wars Saga
The Fugitive
BULLITT
Die Hard Quadrilogy
James Bond - All of them lol

 

I'll add a few more,

Usual Suspects
True Romance
Chopper
Romper Stomper
The Business
Rise of the foot soldier
White Squall

 

I remember watching a clip of terminator on film 84?, and nearly soiled myself. When the olds eventually hired it out from the video shop, I soiled myself.

 

More of a Turdinator in your case, then.