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Re: Your top 10

Postby rogerthornhill » Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:39 pm

In no particular order -

My Cousin Vinny
The Big Sleep
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Psycho
North By Northwest
Plaza Suite
In The Heat Of The Night
Strangers On A Train
LA Confidential
Shadow Of A Doubt
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Re: Your top 10

Postby UFGN » Sun Oct 12, 2008 9:46 pm

Now this is my kinda thread. Check out any of these you might not of seen. I love film. I'm considering a career as a projectionist.

In no particular order:

The Shawshank Redemption

The Good The Bad and The Ugly

Get Carter (Original) (Have not seen, will not see, the American remake)

Clockwork Orange

Pulp Fiction

The Wicker Man (Original) (f*ck off Nicolas Cage - worse remake ever)

Airplane

28 Days Later

Schindler's List

Children Of Men
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Re: Your top 10

Postby Andreys_Does_Simples » Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:01 pm

Inchpractice wrote:
ADS, your number 4 is my number 1.


It is a quality film but it depends what mood your in to make a top ten really.
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Re: Your top 10

Postby Inchpräctice » Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:05 pm

The problem is that when you make a list of your 'favourite' films it usually implies the films that you love so much you could watch them again and again without getting bored.

That film doesn't really work like that. I actually can't bear to watch it because it's so harrowing (it's like watching a car crash) so it can't really be described as a 'favourite' but I have to put it at the top of my top ten because as a piece of film-making I believe it's one of the greatest works of art on film, ever.
The fact that it's a true story makes it even more painful.
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Re: Your top 10

Postby Andreys_Does_Simples » Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:08 pm

Inchpractice wrote:The problem is that when you make a list of your 'favourite' films it usually implies the films that you love so much you could watch them again and again without getting bored.

That film doesn't really work like that. I actually can't bear to watch it because it's so harrowing (it's like watching a car crash) so it can't really be described as a 'favourite' but I have to put it at the top of my top ten because as a piece of film-making I believe it's one of the greatest works of art on film, ever.
The fact that it's a true story makes it even more painful.


Agreed mate, did you see Mrs Conlin died not too long ago? Cancer I think she had.

Have you seen Wind that Shakes The Barley?
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Re: Your top 10

Postby Inchpräctice » Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:11 pm

No I didn't know that.
No I haven't seen that either. I'm a big fan of Jim Sheridan though and I heard that there's another film he's made called 'The Field' or something...?
Must track that down someday. Have you seen The Boxer?
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Re: Your top 10

Postby Andreys_Does_Simples » Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:12 pm

The Boxer is an amazing film, I actually can't beleive I left it out my list. Wind that Shakes The Barley is amazing mate, I think you'd like it.
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Re: Your top 10

Postby Inchpräctice » Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:16 pm

I'll look for it.
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Re: Your top 10

Postby UFGN » Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:37 pm

I cannot recommend the original version of the Wicker Man, or the original version of Get Carter, highly enough.

Stunning films.
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Re: Your top 10

Postby Younggooner08 » Mon Oct 13, 2008 8:40 am

This isn't going to be easy but i will pick 10 films of the top of my head. Can't believe nobodu has mentioned the Oceans trilogy

1 - Green Street
2 - Football Factory
3 - Mean Machine
4 - Goal, You have to see goal 2 if you've seen 1 but its not as good
5 - Human Traffic
6 - Oceans 12, my favourite of the oceans but all good
7 - The Transporter 2, probably prefer number 2 but its a close one
8 - Men in Black, prefer the first 1 but close again
9 - The fast and the furious tokyo drift, i think tokyo drift is the best but all good
10 - Ace Ventura, i needed a Jim Carrey film in there
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Re: Your top 10

Postby UFGN » Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:15 am

Younggooner08 wrote:This isn't going to be easy but i will pick 10 films of the top of my head. Can't believe nobodu has mentioned the Oceans trilogy

1 - Green Street
2 - Football Factory
3 - Mean Machine
4 - Goal, You have to see goal 2 if you've seen 1 but its not as good
5 - Human Traffic
6 - Oceans 12, my favourite of the oceans but all good
7 - The Transporter 2, probably prefer number 2 but its a close one
8 - Men in Black, prefer the first 1 but close again
9 - The fast and the furious tokyo drift, i think tokyo drift is the best but all good
10 - Ace Ventura, i needed a Jim Carrey film in there


I nearly cried reading this list.
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Re: Your top 10

Postby Younggooner08 » Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:18 am

Up For Grabs Now wrote:I nearly cried reading this list.


I don't know how to take that :think: , Did you like my list? :smart:
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Re: Your top 10

Postby UFGN » Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:53 am

Younggooner08 wrote:
Up For Grabs Now wrote:I nearly cried reading this list.


I don't know how to take that :think: , Did you like my list? :smart:


Well, look at my list near the top of this page and decide for yourself ;)
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Re: Your top 10

Postby the real gooner » Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:08 pm

I have to recommend an amazing film called The Ruling Class starring Peter O'Toole. It's quite ild and hard to get a copy but worth it. Briefly it's about a young man who inherits a title and all the wralth and pomp that goes with it. Unfortunately he's a paranoid schizophrenic. His family connive to have him released from a mental home so that the wealth can be unlocked and to get him to sire a son. Much to their dismay he thinks he is Jesus and is gentle and very loving traits that they don't like. His also they discover "possesed" by another character who they like much more, he is far more "acceptable." His name is Jack...............a dark and funny film,
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Re: Your top 10

Postby Younggooner08 » Mon Oct 13, 2008 12:15 pm

Up For Grabs Now wrote:
Younggooner08 wrote:
Up For Grabs Now wrote:I nearly cried reading this list.


I don't know how to take that :think: , Did you like my list? :smart:


Well, look at my list near the top of this page and decide for yourself ;)


Sorry for being sooooooo stupid but that didn't really help. Our lists seem very diiferent so i would have to take a guess and say that you didn't like my list. Damn i feel so dumb!
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