Frank Booth Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 In no particular order... The Shawshank Redemption Planet of the Apes (original) Carrie Field of Dreams Donnie Darko The Sixth Sense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_mcshug Posted August 6, 2004 Share Posted August 6, 2004 The Usual Suspects ...i'll get back to you on the other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xbasslichtie Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Fight club! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaggerG Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 In no particular order...The Shawshank Redemption Planet of the Apes (original) Carrie Field of Dreams Donnie Darko The Sixth Sense Shawshank's just great all the way through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Booth Posted August 7, 2004 Author Share Posted August 7, 2004 Shawshank's just great all the way through. Indeed it is, my favourite film ever. It's be re-released in October as a 10th anniversary type thingy, it'll be great to see it on the big screen again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaggerG Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Indeed it is, my favourite film ever.It's be re-released in October as a 10th anniversary type thingy, it'll be great to see it on the big screen again So how do you explain all these nuts who say it's pish? Can't understand it. I think it's a really great movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StewartyMac Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 So how do you explain all these nuts who say it's pish? Can't understand it. I think it's a really great movie. Easy. It's a film in almost everyone's top 10 list of films, and theres certain people who hate to be associated with anything remotely popular. The kind of people who liked Coldplay, Stereophonics, and Oasis before they became huge, then suddenly hated them. Deep down, these people will like the film of course, as it's classic cinema, and anyone who genuinely doesn't like it doesn't like cinema IMO. They'll just never admit to it to keep some kind of faux individuality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggio Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 thelma and louise seven fight club the usual suspects and erm.... miss congeniality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btb Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Cinema Paradisso (me & Kylie's fave picture so at least we'll have something to talk about afterwards!) Get Carter Easy Rider The Wicker Man Goodbye Pork Pie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Easy.It's a film in almost everyone's top 10 list of films, and theres certain people who hate to be associated with anything remotely popular. The kind of people who liked Coldplay, Stereophonics, and Oasis before they became huge, then suddenly hated them. Deep down, these people will like the film of course, as it's classic cinema, and anyone who genuinely doesn't like it doesn't like cinema IMO. They'll just never admit to it to keep some kind of faux individuality. Oh smashing, another Braveheart debate! Alternatively, it's just a cliche ridden, Stephen King written piece of melodramatic tosh, from which Tim Robbins should run and hide because he's actually better than that. Or because people who say "if you don''t like this, then you don't understand cinema" or similar meaningless phrases inevitably bring this film out as a masterpiece when it patently is nothing of the sort, like it or not. Because it has tedious quasi-religious undertones. But mainly, like Oasis, Stereophonics and Coldplay, not to mention Keane, Shawshank Redemption is a bit dull, and not terribly good. Good endings: 2001 - A Space Odessy, Dead Man, Man on the Moon, Monty Python... Holy Grail, Twin Peaks, Bad endings: Fight Club (nearly ruins a wonderful film), Donnie Darko (never saw that coming, again spoiling an otherwise splendid movie), The Sixth Sense (You can stop watching this horrid, grotesquely badly acted twaddle when he says "I see dead people"), Blair Witch Project and Wild Things, which is one of the worst films I have ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btb Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Can anyone top the the ending to "Pink Flamingos" - John Waters/Divine? Def not a pleasant ending but certainly memorable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest xbasslichtie Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Bad endings: Fight Club (nearly ruins a wonderful film), Donnie Darko (never saw that coming, again spoiling an otherwise splendid movie) Surely the ending should come as a bit of a twist! If you never saw it coming then the film couldnt have been that bad! As for fight club, the ending makes sense! What other ending could you put in? And now back on topic Soylent Green! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Luke, I am your father.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Usual Suspects - Gabriel Byrne still thought he was Keyser Soyze up until he watched the premiere of the film. Kill Bill Volume 2 Who framed Roger Rabbit? Fight Club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Jim explain to me why Shawshank Redemption is dull and boring but you rave about Lost in Translation? I just don`t understand why you can say that is dull and boring but rave about the dullest film ever made. Likewise are you going to say that because I don`t like it didnt quite fully understand it? Shawshank is a good film, but its nowhere near being the best film made. The end is rather predictable but its quite enjoyable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Jim explain to me why Shawshank Redemption is dull and boring but you rave about Lost in Translation? I just don`t understand why you can say that is dull and boring but rave about the dullest film ever made. Likewise are you going to say that because I don`t like it didnt quite fully understand it? Shawshank is a good film, but its nowhere near being the best film made. The end is rather predictable but its quite enjoyable. Absolutely not. I would never say that to anyone. Except maybe Jim Lauchlan. Look, if a thousand people watch the same film, everyone will take something different from it. If you found Lost in Translation dull, fair enough. Taste in cinema is entirely subjective. I admire the ethereal and visceral qualities of Lost in Translation, whereas films with literal narratives, for example Shawshank Redemption I find predictable and quickly lose interest. I completely agree, the acclaim Shawshank Redemption receives bewilders me, a bit like the pintsize popular beat combo, the Stereophonics. On a side-note, what did you think of the ending to Titanic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Absolutely not. I would never say that to anyone. Except maybe Jim Lauchlan. Look, if a thousand people watch the same film, everyone will take something different from it. If you found Lost in Translation dull, fair enough. Taste in cinema is entirely subjective. I admire the ethereal and visceral qualities of Lost in Translation, whereas films with literal narratives, for example Shawshank Redemption I find predictable and quickly lose interest. I completely agree, the acclaim Shawshank Redemption receives bewilders me, a bit like the pintsize popular beat combo, the Stereophonics. On a side-note, what did you think of the ending to Titanic? The twist at the end was amazing, on a par with the Sixth Sense twist. The acting in Lost in Translation is superb, Bill Murray easily surpassing his Peter Venkman character! Scarlett Johnansen was really amazing it was hard not to feel exactly what they were feeling in the story. I just found the film dull with nothing really happening in the film. I wasnt having a go I just was slightly bewildered why you thought Shawshank Redemption was dull (which I agree) but found Lost in Translation compelling viewing. I found them both to be dull but there was enjoyable aspects in each of the films. Stereophonics are also pish. Aye well speaking with Jim Lauchlan I now agree with you Jim, he is a right thick fecker! He is still a good defender though. Anyone that says you don`t understand cinema just because you don`t like a certain film indeed is very close minded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Wow, virtually a whole thread of yours that I agree with. Something must be wrong... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raith Against The Machine Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Both Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption are on tonight at 9.10pm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Trainbairn Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 The ending to In the Bedroom is pretty wierd in that you are right into the story,concentrating hard on the story and then it just ends!.No preamble, no tying up loose ends,it just finishes.Excellent movie with the top drawer Tom Wilkinson at his best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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