1. Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!

Off Topic Your top 5 films of all time

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by King Curtis, Aug 4, 2017.

Page 12 of 15
  1. bum_chinned_crab

    bum_chinned_crab Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 13, 2011
    Messages:
    21,807
    Likes Received:
    6,317
    Batman? He was good in it but it was a **** film.

    I was thinking the other day - everyone knows what the term bucket list means, but how many have seen the film from whence it came? I don't know any ****er who has.

    That is all.
     
    #221
    Last edited: Aug 9, 2017
    bum_chinned_crab, Aug 9, 2017
  2. Barchullona

    Barchullona Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 20, 2012
    Messages:
    29,658
    Likes Received:
    14,739
    I have seen some that were only prevented from being poor by his presence. Never likedcEasyRider thoughbat the time it was almost compulsory to say how brilliant was.

    My late father always liked Jack Nicholson and would always make a point of watching anything with him in it.A tribute to Jack Nicholson's abilities as given my dad's age and the content of some of Nicholdon's films he watched you would have expected him to express disapproval at some of them.
     
    #222
    Barchullona, Aug 9, 2017
  3. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator
    Staff Member

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2011
    Messages:
    111,705
    Likes Received:
    76,143
    The term didn't come from the film, the first reference to a 'bucket list' meaning a list of things to do before you kick the bucket, was first referenced in a book in 1785.
     
    #223
    originallambrettaman, Aug 9, 2017
  4. bum_chinned_crab

    bum_chinned_crab Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 13, 2011
    Messages:
    21,807
    Likes Received:
    6,317
    https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/bucket_list

    You really do ****ing love google don't you?
     
    #224
    bum_chinned_crab, Aug 9, 2017
    DMD likes this.
  5. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator
    Staff Member

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2011
    Messages:
    111,705
    Likes Received:
    76,143
    From the book Unfair & Unbalanced, which pre-dates the film by years - “So, anyway, a Great Man, in his querulous twilight years, who doesn’t want to go gently into that blacky black night. He wants to cut loose, dance on the razor’s edge, pry the lid off his bucket list!”

    And yes, it's very useful.
     
    #225
    originallambrettaman, Aug 9, 2017
  6. bum_chinned_crab

    bum_chinned_crab Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 13, 2011
    Messages:
    21,807
    Likes Received:
    6,317
    I never said the film was the first ever reference, just that it brought it to popular culture more than - say - a book 99% of people haven't heard of from 230 years ago <doh>
     
    #226
    bum_chinned_crab, Aug 9, 2017
  7. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator
    Staff Member

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2011
    Messages:
    111,705
    Likes Received:
    76,143
    I messed up anyway, it's 'kick the bucket' that was first referenced in 1785, bucket list came much later.
     
    #227
    originallambrettaman, Aug 9, 2017
    bum_chinned_crab likes this.
  8. Kempton

    Kempton Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 27, 2011
    Messages:
    24,472
    Likes Received:
    19,023
    OLM'S 'correct' though isn't he. You like 'correct' don't you? In the name of accuracy and all that <laugh>
     
    #228
    Kempton, Aug 9, 2017
    Barchullona likes this.
  9. bum_chinned_crab

    bum_chinned_crab Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 13, 2011
    Messages:
    21,807
    Likes Received:
    6,317
    Well no, according to him he isn't.
     
    #229
    bum_chinned_crab, Aug 9, 2017
    Barchullona likes this.
  10. Kempton

    Kempton Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 27, 2011
    Messages:
    24,472
    Likes Received:
    19,023
    Hmmm. Yes I reckon Easy rider is a bit dated now.

    Cuckoo's nest is 'as good as it gets' though <whistle>
     
    #230
    Kempton, Aug 9, 2017

  11. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator
    Staff Member

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2011
    Messages:
    111,705
    Likes Received:
    76,143
    I am, the quote I posted isn't from 1785, but it's from years before the film.
     
    #231
    originallambrettaman, Aug 9, 2017
  12. Kempton

    Kempton Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 27, 2011
    Messages:
    24,472
    Likes Received:
    19,023
    Pedant <laugh>
     
    #232
    Kempton, Aug 9, 2017
  13. Barchullona

    Barchullona Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 20, 2012
    Messages:
    29,658
    Likes Received:
    14,739
    More of a case of appreciating Nicholson rather than the film for me.. A lot of other actors in his role and it would not have been nearly as good.
     
    #233
    Barchullona, Aug 9, 2017
  14. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator
    Staff Member

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2011
    Messages:
    111,705
    Likes Received:
    76,143
    :emoticon-0140-rofl:
     
    #234
    originallambrettaman, Aug 9, 2017
    Kempton likes this.
  15. Barchullona

    Barchullona Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 20, 2012
    Messages:
    29,658
    Likes Received:
    14,739
    You misread the post and therefore gave an answer to a question which hadn't been asked. Hard to be more incorrect than that.
     
    #235
    Barchullona, Aug 9, 2017
  16. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator
    Staff Member

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2011
    Messages:
    111,705
    Likes Received:
    76,143
    I might have known you'd stick your oar in, I misread nothing, I responded to the suggestion that the term 'bucket list' came from the film of the same name.
     
    #236
    originallambrettaman, Aug 9, 2017
  17. Quill

    Quill Bastard

    Joined:
    May 23, 2012
    Messages:
    40,719
    Likes Received:
    13,318
    Ignoring the usual suspects postings above, when it comes to Nicholson, it's gotta be Chinatown or The Shining for me.

    Also like him in The Departed.
     
    #237
    Quill, Aug 9, 2017
  18. Kempton

    Kempton Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 27, 2011
    Messages:
    24,472
    Likes Received:
    19,023
    ****ing love this forum :emoticon-0102-bigsm

    It's got to be the bestest forum in the ****ing world ever <cheers>
     
    #238
    Kempton, Aug 9, 2017
  19. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator
    Staff Member

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2011
    Messages:
    111,705
    Likes Received:
    76,143
    He was excellent in A Few Good Men as well.
     
    #239
    originallambrettaman, Aug 9, 2017
    Kempton and Quill like this.
  20. Kempton

    Kempton Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 27, 2011
    Messages:
    24,472
    Likes Received:
    19,023
    Has anyone else starred in so many classics? I doubt it. It's a question. Any suggestions?
     
    #240
    Kempton, Aug 9, 2017
Page 12 of 15

Share This Page