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The Film Thread

Johnny75 said:
I thought Spotlight was brilliant too. I like the grimy Boston look Hollywood often strives for so didn't see it as that flat. Ruffalo in particular was brilliant I thought.

I guess you'll be looking out for The Founder with Keaton?
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Yeah, that looks like it will be good.
 
machin05 said:
Any of them in particular you'd recommend?
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I've only seen a couple - Peeping Tom and Colonel Blimp - both of which are worth a watch. Peeping Tom caused a right stink when it came out, but by today's standards, it's pretty tame. Still very creepy though.
 
THE LODGER

Ohmygod

Simply the biggest pile of shit ever. Makes Sharknado look like Schindler's List.
 
David Brent, Life On The Road. Spent 5 minutes laughing, the rest cringing.
 
I admire you for sitting through the whole film. The trailer was too long for me.
 
Life On The Road is fantastic. I suppose it helps if you loved The Office mind you.
 
Langers said:
Life On The Road is fantastic. I suppose it helps if you loved The Office mind you.
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That's just it, I loved The Office, thats why I watched the film. Pathetic in places, and he over does the laugh in this one.
 
I really liked The Office, and actually rewatched a couple of episodes last year to see if I still enjoyed it, or had just got caught up in the hype at the time, and they stood up.
I think the turning point with me for Gervais was his unnecessary cameo in the otherwise excellent Stardust.
 
Not long back from seeing trainspotting 2.
Really liked it. Takes elements of porno (the book it is based on) but weaves its own narrative. Heavily self referential.
Boyle and the gang have done really well here. Expanding on the original characters, showing we're all more than mere labels.
At one stage I was worried spud was becoming a bit of a joke, but it was pulled back at the right time.
Not as dark as the original. Very funny in places. The new choose life... is great.
As a trainspotting fan, I really really enjoyed it.
 
Not sure if this has been done before, but Films that left a big impression on you from an early age ? Could be a film or just a scene from a film.

When I was 13 (1976), I saw Angels With Dirty Faces, with James Cagney, made in 1938. In the unlikely event that you plan on watching it, this is a spoiler alert so look away now...........

.........The scene at the end where he goes to the electric chair, he pretends to be scared and starts crying. He wants the local kids to think he died a coward because he doesn't want them to turn out like he did. That scene has stayed with me ever since.
 
The Omen
The Medusa Touch

Saw them both when I was really a bit too young and they scared me bloody rigid. In fact, I watched the Omen again last night (must be for the first time in at least a decade) and it is still utterly brilliant. Everyone remembers the decapitation scene and Patrick Troughton being impaled by a lightning rod but the bit where Damien turns round and stares at the camera at the end knowing he has won is just chilling, even now.

The Medusa Touch is hugely underrated and I recommend it massively. Richard Burton is brilliant as Morlar. Maybe I just love films where the bad guy wins.

EDIT - I must just add Jaws. It came on mainstream tv in late 1981 for the first time (at least I think it was the first time) and we watched it just before going to Rhodes on holiday. My flip flops came off in the breakers and I refused to get in the water to get them. At 9 I was convinced that being in above your waist meant instant Alex Kintner.
 
Paddingtonwolf said:
The Omen
The Medusa Touch

Saw them both when I was really a bit too young and they scared me bloody rigid. In fact, I watched the Omen again last night (must be for the first time in at least a decade) and it is still utterly brilliant. Everyone remembers the decapitation scene and Patrick Troughton being impaled by a lightning rod but the bit where Damien turns round and stares at the camera at the end knowing he has won is just chilling, even now.

The Medusa Touch is hugely underrated and I recommend it massively. Richard Burton is brilliant as Morlar. Maybe I just love films where the bad guy wins.
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Loved all three Omen Films. Medusa Touch was great too and is one of the least mentioned Richard Burton films. That horrible part when I think his wife refers to their disabled Son and says in that awful mocking tone to Burton, something like 'all you've ever produced is a vegetable'. Then he give her that look and she looks terrified and you know she hasn't got long to live. Creepy stuff.

Burton was excellent in 1984 too.
 
Such a shame that you just can't see Medusa touch on tv now with the deliberate crash of a passenger jet into a high rise.
 
The Deer Hunter. Can't remember the exact year I watched this for the first time, but it stuck with me for years after and still find the one scene really disturbing, haunting, gruesome and just awful. Mike finds Nick, they enter a game of Russian Roulette, Mike starts talking of their trips together, Nick raises the gun in his drug marked arm and says ' one shot '. He pulls the trigger, shoots himself in the head and dies infront of his friend. In parts it's a beautiful film, in others it's stayed with me for being one that holds the most horrible scene.

On a more recent one, Castaway.The rain scene at the end. Just makes me sad.
 
I saw Betty Blue in my early/mid teens. That had a few scenes which left an impression alright...
 
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