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John9
Old Love
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 Posted - 21/11/2008 : 10:01:31
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| LeeRob - Oh Lucky Man is definitely one of my favourites as well. Back in 1973, it seemed to pack a powerful message....especially in the wake of A Clockwork Orange. Among the film's many wonderful acting performances were the trilogy of roles portrayed by the late Arthur Lowe...two being the hilariously shifty mayor of a Yorkshire town and the chillingly corrupt African dictator. Back in the 1970s some of the most cutting edge films were also mainstream ones - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is another example. I am just wondering whether we have perhaps lost some of that today. It seems to me that hard hitting, intelligent cinema is still out there...but not so much in the multiplexes. |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 21/11/2008 : 15:16:50
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| Davey Crockett with fess..that was the last time I was walking around carrying two guns!...Anybody for Swamp Fox??..come on you know the tune, eh?... |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 21/11/2008 : 15:36:30
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And we have to thank the Brits with their import here...that classic Robin Hood series with Richard Greene.....that arrow going into the tree with the sound always got me...Not sure but didn't they film in actual places rather than sets?...
And as far as British films I read that "Get Carter" was voted the best of all back a few years ago....true?.still holds?...and of course there are other argubaly great films like The Third Man, Lawrence of Arabia, Don't Look Now and Blowup... |
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watchinallthapeople
Fourth Love
155 Posts |
Posted - 21/11/2008 : 22:42:28
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Best Brit Flick ever has gotta be the Italian job eh :) (quincy jones, mini's and Michael Caine)
I reckon the gerat thing about British film is how good we are at turnin Britain into a post apocalyptic knightmare
28 days later
The bed sitting room ( a surreal post apocalyptic masterpiece from the guy who directed the beatles films)
Threads
Children of Men
The war game
The Day of the Triffids |
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watchinallthapeople
Fourth Love
155 Posts |
Posted - 21/11/2008 : 22:43:45
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Quatermass
All of them!
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watchinallthapeople
Fourth Love
155 Posts |
Posted - 21/11/2008 : 22:44:48
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V for Vendetta
1984
Terry Gilliam's Brazil |
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watchinallthapeople
Fourth Love
155 Posts |
Posted - 21/11/2008 : 22:45:44
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| I reckon if you wanna do dystopian post apocalyptic future you gotta do it in the UK |
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watchinallthapeople
Fourth Love
155 Posts |
Posted - 21/11/2008 : 22:51:46
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Derek Jarman's dystopian Punk classic
Jubilee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(1977_film)
right I've gotta stop this
but we brits "we do ****ed up society good" don't know what that says about us as a nation :)
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watchinallthapeople
Fourth Love
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Posted - 21/11/2008 : 22:53:39
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Clockwork Orange
Already been mentioned I know
Right seriously this time! I'm gone steaks and spicy fries are getting cooked |
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bob f.
Old Love
USA
1308 Posts |
Posted - 21/11/2008 : 23:53:53
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i always like , " The Time Machine" (1960)!
time travel is fascinating! i would travel to the dinosaur days , with a finger on the return trigger! i still think that the scenes in "King Kong" (1933), with Willis O'Brien's animation, outdo most modern stuff. it's the soul that counts. Kong, picking apart Fay's panties, then sniffing his fingers. pure unrequited love!
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 22/11/2008 : 01:44:30
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Originally posted by bob f.
i always like , " The Time Machine" (1960)!
time travel is fascinating! i would travel to the dinosaur days , with a finger on the return trigger! i still think that the scenes in "King Kong" (1933), with Willis O'Brien's animation, outdo most modern stuff. it's the soul that counts. Kong, picking apart Fay's panties, then sniffing his fingers. pure unrequited love!
...what the world needs now...
"Time Machine" ---always a personal favorite for me too, bob. King Kong...of course.
I even enjoy all the time travel from the various Star Trek TV episodes. The gangster & depression episodes are my favorites.
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LeeRob
Fifth Love
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Posted - 22/11/2008 : 21:07:36
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Yes indeed, another vote for Time Machine. 'Classic movies shouldn't be discussed without including Karlof's Frankenstein, with Colin Clive as the good doctor. It is hard to find any movie over the years that captures Mary Shelly's excellently written book, but this one at least gave insight into the "humanity" suffered by the monster.
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watchinallthapeople
Fourth Love
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Posted - 23/11/2008 : 00:38:57
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I love the stop motion in King Kong
That guy who did the Clash of the Titans did some awsome stuff like that
That scene with the guys fighting with the skeletons has to be one of the greatest bits of special effects in cinematic history |
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watchinallthapeople
Fourth Love
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bob f.
Old Love
USA
1308 Posts |
Posted - 23/11/2008 : 01:21:40
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the Clash of The Titans, and that movie with the skeletons, "seventh voyage of sinbad", and " Jason and the Argonauts", and "Mysterious Island", (giant bees), and lots more, were all done by the the fantastic master of stop-motion....Ray Harryhausen!
...what the world needs now... |
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Let's talk Classic & favorite Movies! Yours?!
