Favourite films/suggestions

[SoundbiteBarmyArmy]

Last night, the wife and I watched Pulp Fiction for the first time (I know), and that is up there with one of the best.

A couple of my other favourites are; Hacksaw Ridge, The Pursuit of Happyness.

What are your favourite films? Any suggestions would be appreciated.   

[DN8ROVER]

The On The Buses trilogy.

[Filo]

Kes

[MachoMadness]

Blade Runner 2049 is the best film I've seen released in the last decade. Better than the original. In 50 years we'll look on it as an all time classic.

[selby]

Dances with Wolves, Shawshank Redemption, Forest Gump, Kiss the Girls.

[ravenrover]

The Graduate
The Sting
Little Big Man
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Don't Look Back

[ridgewoodrover]

Call north side 777
The searchers
Murder in the first
The outlaw josie Wales

[redwine]

Road to Perdition
LA Confidential
Some Like It Hot

and something slightly left field
All of Me
Into the Night

[Crowle Rover]

This Is Spinal Tap
Life Of Brian
Jaws
A Hard Days Night
The Blues Brothers
The Italian Job

[Bentley Bullet]

Kes
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane
Marvellous

[tommy toes]

As mentioned before...my dad in law Bob played the headmaster in Kes.
Mrs Toes who was 14 at the time watched the Brian Glover footie bit being filmed. Said it took all day.
.

[Monkcaster_Rover]

American History X.

All time favourite film.

[Glyn_Wigley]

Evita. The best stage musical to movie adaptation there is. Les Mis could have taken it's crown if (a) the director hadn't insisted on the cast singing live, which led to some decidedly dodgy performances, and (b) if someone else had played Javert. Russell Crowe can act. Russell Crowe is a passable singer. But he's not able to do both at the same time.

[rich1471]

Brassed off
Cool running
The Disaster Artist ,strange but very funny and has a cult following

[Janso]

Brassed off
Cool running
The Disaster Artist ,strange but very funny and has a cult following

Do you mean The Room? The Disaster Artist tells the story behind the making of that film, and is worth a watch.

[River Don]

Shane Meadows films are worth checking out if you haven't seen them.

I particularly enjoyed TwentyFourSeven and Dead Mans Shoes.

[MachoMadness]

Brassed off
Cool running
The Disaster Artist ,strange but very funny and has a cult following

Do you mean The Room? The Disaster Artist tells the story behind the making of that film, and is worth a watch.

You're tearing me apart Janso!

[River Don]

Blade Runner 2049 is the best film I've seen released in the last decade. Better than the original. In 50 years we'll look on it as an all time classic.

I thought the idea of making a sequel to Bladerunner was a very bad one but actually it turned out to be pretty good. It didn't do so well at the box office so hopefully they will leave it at that.

For me though the best Sci Fi movie of recent years has been Ex Machina. Definitely worth seeing.

[MachoMadness]

Blade Runner 2049 is the best film I've seen released in the last decade. Better than the original. In 50 years we'll look on it as an all time classic.

I thought the idea of making a sequel to Bladerunner was a very bad one but actually it turned out to be pretty good. It didn't do so well at the box office so hopefully they will leave it at that.

For me though the best Sci Fi movie of recent years has been Ex Machina. Definitely worth seeing.

That was also great, I second Ex Machina. Anything Alex Garland does goes over great with me. Annihilation on Netflix and Devs (a series, not a film) on iPlayer are worth watching if you liked Ex Machina.

[Janso]

Another vote for Ex Machina. Bit of a slow one to begin with IIRC but it's worth sticking with.

Watched Annihilation a couple of days ago, it's a bit weird but it's an interesting concept. Helps that it has Natalie Portman in.

[Donnywolf]

Last night, the wife and I watched Pulp Fiction for the first time (I know), and that is up there with one of the best.

A couple of my other favourites are; Hacksaw Ridge, The Pursuit of Happyness.

What are your favourite films? Any suggestions would be appreciated.   

Dont apologise I have never seen that yet and in fact of all the Films listed here as peoples favourites I have seen only

Kes
The Graduate
The Sting
Butch Cassidy etc
Life of Brian
Jaws
Brassed off

As for favourite ?

Goal - World Cup 66
Coming to America
Trading Places

Eddie Murphy of course for last 2 and I tried to watch Beverly Hills cop and couldnt stand it as every 2nd word seemed to be f*** f*****d or f******g - but Coming to America I even have saved on my system and I thought "Good morning America" answer "F*** you" "yes and F**k you too" was excusable as it was funny

I think I would be a laugh at parties but dont know as I cant get to any !

Last time I went to a cinema I was attracted by the hype - Independence Day - and it was poor but from what I remember Trump could easily have played the President !

[IDM]

The good the bad and the ugly
Life of Brian
Brief Encounter

My top 3 films..

[River Don]

Yknow what Wolfie, it wouldn't have occurred to me right away but I think Trading Places is one of my favourite films too.

I love how it gives the audience a short education about what's going on in the stock market. And how Winthorpe goes from being Mr country club with his cricket sweater draped over his shoulders to being a lairy drunken bum in a Santa suit.

[ravenrover]

Ant film with Jamie Lee Curtis in is on my watch list

[River Don]

A stylish film people might have missed is Drive.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sY1TLgqfjvw

It's a gangster movie with a love story in it and a cool synth wave soundtrack. Worth checking out.

[redarmy82]

Interstellar

[tommy toes]

True Romance
Pulp Fiction
Just to see the cameos by the great Christopher Walken.

[River Don]

Interstellar

That is a frustrating film. As an homage to 2001 it should have been great but for me Chris Nolan messed it up.

When it was released they made a big thing about the accuracy of the physics and claimed everything in the film was to the best of our knowledge theoretically possible. They even hired Kip Thorne, one of the few people in the world who could talk shop with Stephen Hawkins to oversee it. And they still made glaring errors!

For instance, at the start of the film they send the space mission out to save the world. To get all the kit out of the Earth's atmosphere they need an Apollo 11 style launcher, tons of fuel, all that. Later on though, they visit a planet with more gravity than Earth. All it takes to fly down and in a little helicopter size thing, mooch around, take off to avoid a massive tsunami and fly off into outer space powered by a couple of engines the size of hairdryers.

Either gravity is a real obstacle or it isn't. And they never convincingly explain why it has to be a manned mission instead of a remote one.

All these things spoil the film a bit for me.

[redarmy82]

Interstellar

That is a frustrating film. As an homage to 2001 it should have been great but for me Chris Nolan messed it up.

When it was released they made a big thing about the accuracy of the physics and claimed everything in the film was to the best of our knowledge theoretically possible. They even hired Kip Thorne, one of the few people in the world who could talk shop with Stephen Hawkins to oversee it. And they still made glaring errors!

For instance, at the start of the film they send the space mission out to save the world. To get all the kit out of the Earth's atmosphere they need an Apollo 11 style launcher, tons of fuel, all that. Later on though, they visit a planet with more gravity than Earth. All it takes to fly down and in a little helicopter size thing, mooch around, take off to avoid a massive tsunami and fly off into outer space powered by a couple of engines the size of hairdryers.

Either gravity is a real obstacle or it isn't. And they never convincingly explain why it has to be a manned mission instead of a remote one.

All these things spoil the film a bit for me.

As a piece of cinema though, there's little else to match it. Blew me away quite literally on an IMAX screen. How Hans Zimmer didn't win an Oscar for the score is still a mystery.

[River Don]

If you want a great Chris Nolan cinematic experience with a full on Hans Zimmer soundtrack, then I think Dunkirk is better.