Which are your 5 favourite moves?

Twelve Angry Men? UNREAL!!! Watched it with all the trepidation you'd expect from a teenager, when their dad sits them down to watch 'a ****ty black n white film' - one of the best pieces of tension building acting I've seen!

 

Best film of all time in my opinion Jesus Was A Geordie. Current film makers could do with taking note. Twelve actors, five locations only used, no special effects, explosions, fights, car chases or gratuitious sex scenes yet you can't take your eyes off it. All done with an excellent script, acting and dialogue!

But then maybe i'm just an old fart!

 

A Bittersweet Life (Korean Gangster movie, if you've never seen it - see it!)
Blazing Saddles
Usual Suspects
Aliens
Any of the old Ealing / Boulting Bros comedies (can never pick a best one)

 

All good films Asprilla! My favourite Ealing would have to be Whisky Galore, just love it!

Also got a liking for the Hitchcock films as well - especially 39 Steps, Rope and Rebecca.

 

Old boy- How could i forget that aswell

 

Good choice!

 

Great film!

Gonna have a rant now because Hollywood really boils my piss! Why do they think they have to remake foreign films and dumb them down and basically make them crap for the western audience? i.e Internal Affairs ****ed up as The Departed. I saw a rumour that an american version of Old Boy is a possibility which is why i'm going off on one now by the way!

 

It's pointless for the Yanks to try and make a version of Oldboy - it'll be total, utter ****e. Can't imagine any Yanks eating a live octopus for a start! Agree about the Departed, crap compared to Internal Affairs. Another brilliant Korean film is Crying Fist, the feller off Old Boys in that one too. Most awful remakes of all time: Pink Panther with Steve Martin (what were they thinking?) Ladykillers with Tom Hanks, School for Scoundrels with Billy Bob Thornton - the orginal SfS is one of the best 'old' British movies ever made. Saw Ian Carmicheal in Whitby a few years ago, shook his hand and told SfS was one of my favourite films, he was quite chuffed, must've thought I was another a simpleton Heartbeat fan.

 

SfS original is a classic as you say! Agreed as well Old Boy american style would be ****. Some more crap remakes; Nicholas Cage's The Wicker Man - utter ****, Brother (original Swedish version so much better), Funny Games (Austrian original better), The Italian Job, The Omen, The Ring, Insomnia. I could go on for hours unfortunately, when will Hollywood leave the **** alone and let the original better versions stand! There I feel better now!

 

I watched Let the right one in again last night, fantastic film. Another one the ****in yanks have destroyed. i'm realy in to my films and hate the way those ****ers rape an spit out classics for the mainstream audience ( the ring, Dark Water )

 

I take it you watch a lot of the tartan Asia films as well as I do then?
I prefer world cinema nowadays compared to Hollywood.

Oh forgot to add to my list:
Daywatch,
Nightwatch
(The Russian ones, the American remake is a shoddy version).

 

Rape and spit out is spot on! Like you i'm really into my films and it ****s with my brain what they do to what are effectively works of art. Nobody would dare do that sort of **** to the Mona Lisa or Beethoven's Fifth. "Hey Beethoven ****ed up the finale, lets give it a remix or Mona's looking miserable lets give her a smile and while were at it lets finish the Venus de Milo her arms are missing!"

Haven't seen the hollywood Let the Right One In yet and dispite my misgivings i probably will watch just to see what they've ****ed up!

 

****, that one passed me by, didnt realise they'd remade them...

 

itchi the killer, Battle Royal, the host........

Im actually thinking about dragging my ass to the cinema, heard some good stuff said about Confessions.

 

Same here ToonSi, i watch mutch more World Cinema (loads of Tartan) and much prefer it to hollywood. Watched a fantastic Hungarian film last night called Children of Glory (about the Hungarian uprising of 1956). Hollywood could not have made a film so moving and yet believable and understated in a million years!

 

Haven't seen the sequel. How the **** can they make a sequel to it?!

I'm guessing it was ****?

 

May I add... I watched District 9 for the first time last night, Brilliant film!

 

Like my French films aswell Irreversible, Switchblade romance ( excellant scene with a disc cutter, great film ) and then there's Doberman... absolutely mental film and i would recommend this to anyone

 

You've obviously never seen 'A Serbian film'. That's some seriously messed up ****!

 

Doberman ... now there is an unknown classic. Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci you can't go wrong!

Great films coming out of france these days; a prophet, days of glory, intimate enemies, angel a, ghosts of cite soleil, mesrine are all worth a gander as well if you have the time!