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Post by rfan8312 on Dec 17, 2017 6:04:45 GMT
Oh ye. RockNRolla is Kebells best imo. Because the cast was unbeatable, music was perfect and the director's style was so wonderful and fun and engaging I'd probably score that movie 10/10.
Really worth checking though as well is his stint on one of the Black Mirror episodes on Netflix. Each episode is a different story altogether about a near future where one technology or another, initially designed to improve life, has gone awry. His is called 'The Entire History of You'.
Cool short film set in a near future where everyone wears a kind of lens over their eyes that films and records everything and is controlled by a convenient little hand clicker. Great little film.
He is also very good in the film The Veteran where he plays a modern soldier returned home dealing with PTSD.
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Post by Chris on Dec 17, 2017 7:23:08 GMT
Cheers! I'll look out for them
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Post by MartinT on Dec 17, 2017 15:35:13 GMT
Really worth checking though as well is his stint on one of the Black Mirror episodes on Netflix. Each episode is a different story altogether about a near future where one technology or another, initially designed to improve life, has gone awry. His is called 'The Entire History of You'. Cool short film set in a near future where everyone wears a kind of lens over their eyes that films and records everything and is controlled by a convenient little hand clicker. Great little film. That was my favourite Black Mirror, very uncomfortable and thought provoking. |
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Post by Barrington on Dec 17, 2017 19:01:11 GMT
Ooh this tough but the first is easy
1 Apocalypse Now
2 The Good Bad and The Ugly
3 Withnail and I
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Post by stanleyb on Dec 17, 2017 23:11:39 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2017 9:37:03 GMT
The Sound of Music, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Enter the Dragon and The Godfather all excellent films, Stan.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2017 11:00:40 GMT
What about Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory?  |
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Post by zippy on Dec 18, 2017 11:53:25 GMT
2001 a space odyssey
stairway to heaven
contact
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Post by julesd68 on Dec 18, 2017 13:51:16 GMT
Lawrence of Arabia is in the top 3 but I don't know about the rest ...
I'm a big fan of Cabaret too ...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2017 11:13:53 GMT
What about Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory? I like it but was subjected to watching it over and over and over again as a child, as it was one of my sisters favourites, so I'd struggle to call it one of my favourites. |
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Post by davidf on Dec 20, 2017 12:17:52 GMT
Impossible to pick three!
But if I really had to, I'd have to go with No Country For Old Men, Zodiac, and John Carpenter's The Thing. They're probably my most watched movies, but there's loads of others that could join them like Jaws, Blade Runner, Fight Club, True Lies, Alien, The Shining, The Social Network, Se7en, The Exorcist - I could go on!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2017 12:54:51 GMT
Impossible to pick three! Jaws, Blade Runner, Fight Club, True Lies, Alien, The Shining, The Social Network, Se7en, The Exorcist All excellent movies. |
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Post by MartinT on Dec 20, 2017 12:56:08 GMT
John Carpenter's The Thing Utterly superb and compelling claustrophobic terror with tight story writing, great actors and excellent unnerving score. The (prequel) re-make proved that you can make a sow's ear out of a silk purse by removing all the elements that made Carpenter's version so special. Utterly dismal by comparison. |
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Post by rfan8312 on Dec 20, 2017 17:29:07 GMT
Anybody liked the Mothman Prophecies? I thought it was quite good.
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Post by davidf on Dec 27, 2017 10:39:28 GMT
Anybody liked the Mothman Prophecies? I thought it was quite good. It gets a slagging, but I quite like it. I like films based on “true” stories, even if they are based on legend. |
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Post by davidf on Dec 27, 2017 10:56:42 GMT
The (prequel) re-make proved that you can make a sow's ear out of a silk purse by removing all the elements that made Carpenter's version so special. Utterly dismal by comparison. I quite like the first hour of the prequel, and the tooth fillings was an interesting aspect that was overlooked by Carpenter in his version. Full credit to them for trying to recreate as much as they could with real effects, although they were still stiffed on many scenes which were replaced by CGI. Some interesting ideas, but as you say, many missing elements from Carpenter’s version, which I think will still be studied and praised well into the century, and maybe even the next. I’d love to know what people 100 years from now are going to think of it. I keep meaning to revisit the remake of The Fog to remind me just how pointless it is to remake a John Carpenter film (although Assault On Precinct 13 wasn’t bad). Anyway, I’m detracting from the thread subject - I could talk about JC and his films extensively!  |
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Post by MartinT on Dec 27, 2017 12:00:34 GMT
It's interesting to analyse what makes great SF/Horror films like Alien, The Thing and others stand out so far from the majority. Great direction and great actors, clearly. Atmosphere, too. There was something more in each case (like Ridley not telling the cast about the 'surprise' alien emerging scene). The good ones are thrilling and rewatchable, the rest just meh.
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Post by davidf on Dec 31, 2017 17:24:50 GMT
They all seem to have a few things in common. One of those is that the endangered subjects are more often than not, stranded/isolated, unable to escape from the predator. Believable set and special effects. Decent actors and script. And as you say, creating a tension packed atmosphere |
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Post by MikeMusic on Jan 1, 2018 16:35:43 GMT
Kurasawa's Seven Samuarai
stunning epic.
Brazil is way up there too
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Post by MartinT on Jan 1, 2018 16:42:32 GMT
There are so many 'almost' films just below my top three.
Lawrence of Arabia
The English Patient
Cloud Atlas
Apocalypse Now
The Jacket
It goes on and on, all 9/10 films.
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