My best film list

OUT OF HOURS BULLY'S TRUCKSTOP BAR (INTERACTIVE)
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In no particular order are :
Midnight Express , American Randy Quaid in a Turkish prison for drug smuggling , one of John Hurts best performances as a prisoner .

Donnie Brasco and Carlitos Way , excellent crime thrillers with Al Pacino in Donnie Brasco and Johhny Depp and Robert de Niro plays a poor New York bus driver in Carlitos Way .

Ronin with De Niro , the most expensive car chase set in Paris .
Heat with De Niro and Pacino .

Planes,trains and automobiles , comedy at it’s best with the late John Candy and Steve Martin with his line " Those aren’t pillows. "
Uncle Buck and Cool Runnings both with the late Candy .

Starman with Jeff Bridges as an alien .

Weekend at Bernies , two stooges playing around with a dead man .

Sleeping with the enemy , Julia Roberts abused by her abusive husband .

Wolf Greek , amazing horror film set in the Australian outback with a serial killer preying on tourists.

Deliverance,Burt Reynolds and the squealing pig ■■■■ scene .

Falling Down with Michael Douglas as he has a mental breakdown in LA and goes on the rampage .

Not sure if the title is right , maybe called Breakdown with Kurt Russell and a serial killer truck driver, when he sabotaged his car .

Green Mile , Tom Hanks .
Castaway, Hanks .

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Again, in no particular order, and probably not everybody’s cup of tea…
Wages of Fear
American Graffiti
Rush
I’m Alright Jack
Reach For The Sky
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974 original)
Get Carter
The World’s Fastest Indian
Genevieve
Bullitt
…and almost any Ealing comedy,and of course, Helldrivers.

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Breakdown with Kurt Russell is on Netflix at the moment.

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Scent of a woman , Pacino in fine form as a blind retired military officer .
The Sting , with the late Robert Shaw and Newman and Redford , with a fake betting office .
As said, Breakdown is worth watching .

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Cape Fear with De Niro taking revenge on his lawyer Nick Nolte ,I think the original had Gregory Peck .
Juliette Lewis plays Noltes daughter.
Pointbreak with Swayze and Nolte , bank robbery film .
Bridges of Madison county , Eastwood and Meryl Streep .
The horse whisperer with Robert Redford and Kristin Scott Thomas ,amazing scenery .
Blackdog ,Swayze as a truck driver and Meatloaf as the haulage boss .

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My No1 favorite film of all time is : Trains, planes and automobiles.
others I like & have watched more than once.
The Shawshank Redemption.
Pulp Fiction.
Midnight express,
Schindler’s List.
Shaun Of The Dead.
Mary Poppins.

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Another vote for Gone in 60 seconds original.( Much better than Ronin and probably at least as expensive ).

Carlitos Way and Donnie Brasco both good ones.Also Once upon a Time in America

Long Good Friday probably Bob Hoskins’ best performance.

Dirty Harry and Magnum Force probably Eastwood’s defining performances.

Preferred Steve McQueen Le Mans and James Garner Grand Pix over Worlds Fastest Indian.

Preferred Two Lane Black Top to American Graffiti even though the director seems to have lost his own plot around half way through it.Which was a shame it could have been one of the greatest road movies ever made if it had just stuck to the street racing scene in the day.

Gumball Rally was better than Bullit for car interest.Peter Yates went for some obviously over dubbed race engine sound effects put over obvious road cars and the type of sped up film sillyness like he did in Robbery which spoilt his otherwise perfect location filming.

Fistful of Dynamite and Once upon a Time in the West best Spaghetti and Ernest Borgnine’s definitive performance in Emperor of the North.

David Carradine Box Car Bertha.I saw the uncut version of that obtained by an obviously Bolshevik college lecturer in the day :laughing: containing the prison cell shotgun massacre.Which was devastating leftist propaganda but who knows might have rung true as part of her life awful life story and the extremes of US politics. :open_mouth:

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Saving Private Ryan , Tom Hanks , I found the scene in the French town very disturbing when the American soldier and German soldier are fighting inside the house .
The German kills the American by twisting a knife in to his heart while whispering shush .
Grand Torino with Clint Eastwood is a good one .
Fences with Denzel Washington .

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toby1234abc:
Saving Private Ryan , Tom Hanks , I found the scene in the French town very disturbing when the American soldier and German soldier are fighting inside the house .
The German kills the American by twisting a knife in to his heart while whispering shush .

Or the scene involving the sniper in the bell tower v the ‘coward’ who ran from the house.What a brilliant metaphor for Pacifist/Conchi v combatant with right on their side.
Those respective scenes finally removed any slight doubts regarding any pacifist tendencies I had left over from my early Socialist indoctrination days.

To the no problem at all, with right on my side, thinking now.
Ironically that bell tower scene, compared to the scenes involving the use of Garands elsewhere, suggested to me why did they bother with the bolt action Springfield when the Garand was obviously the better tool in either case. :confused:
Then seemingly confirmed here.
youtube.com/watch?v=lEY6NrJ1Zro

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Rambo first blood
Terminator 1 and 2
Get carter
The Italian job
Kes
Scum
Zulu
Jaws

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Re The Channel 4 doc the Boy who’s skin fell off.

Also Mask starring Sher more or less the saddest biography film.

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commonrail:
Kez

It was a bleedin accurate if anything understated view of 1970’s school life if nothing else.

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toby1234abc:
Saving Private Ryan , Tom Hanks , I found the scene in the French town very disturbing when the American soldier and German soldier are fighting inside the house .
The German kills the American by twisting a knife in to his heart while whispering shush .

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
it wasnt a german,it was peter… :slight_smile:

youtube.com/watch?v=cWh7G7Wyij8

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Carryfast:

commonrail:
Kez

It was a bleedin accurate if anything understated view of 1970’s school life if nothing else.

Understated indeed. At my senior school, one particular teacher had a punishment regime that would see him in jail today.
First offence - 12" steel ruler, flat side on palm of hand.
Second offence - same ruler, flat side across knuckles
Third offence - same ruler, edge across knuckles.
Not many reached stage three. Despite his ■■■■■■, he was respected (probably out of fear), and universally regarded as a very effective teacher.
As for the film, it was all very familiar to me, being filmed in my locality. There were a couple of location shots that didn’t “fit”, such as the scene where Casper is in a bookshop and a Leeds City transport bus (which didn’t stray as far as Barnsley) passes the doorway, and the scene “in town” where a running Casper is passed by the red Foden S21 is likewise not Barnsley. The sight of Medlam’s mobile shop makes up for it, however. I have the film on a DVD with a choice of English or German soundtrack - Brian Glover on the football field, barking orders in German, is hilarious.

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fodenway:

Carryfast:
It was a bleedin accurate if anything understated view of 1970’s school life if nothing else.

Understated indeed. At my senior school, one particular teacher had a punishment regime that would see him in jail today.
First offence - 12" steel ruler, flat side on palm of hand.
Second offence - same ruler, flat side across knuckles
Third offence - same ruler, edge across knuckles.
Not many reached stage three.

Mine was a real Greater London anarchic hell hole a bit like a cross between the film Scum and Please Sir.It was the worst of the worst and to this day people say to me you went there in the 70’s blimey.It’s reputation, compared to the other two in the area, which were bad enough, of that time is still well known locally all these years later.The regime went along the lines of teachers in fear of the wrong uns fitting up the innocents.Punches kicks and canings for no reason at all because that was better than the teachers taking on the real culprits.Ironically the headmaster did eventually cross one of them and ended up hospitalised for a long time with a badly smashed jaw.I called it karma for the zb.From memory it had something to do with us all refusing to go to our classes and all going home over the increase in the school leaving age and I think the ‘reprisals’ were on the orders and under the observation of the Gestapo above him so no ‘selective’ ‘discipline’ in that case.Ironically I was in the position of protecting my Dad rather than vice versa by saying nothing about any of it to him because I knew what he’d have done to the zb’s and it wouldn’t have stopped at just a busted jaw.I guess that’s how that regime was able to continue.

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Still life with Eddie Marsen , an under estimated film from 2015 , Eddie plays a council worker whose job is to deal with funerals where the dead didn’t have any friends or family , known as paupers funerals , some say it’s a slow film , but the ending is breathtaking .
The Krays film with Tom Hardy , amazing acting , and the Krays film with Martin and Gary Kemp .

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The Godfather trilogy and History Boys for me.

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Leon

Dead man’s shoes

Man on fire

Pulp Fiction

True Romance.

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With age you also appreciate some of the older black and white films for how ageless they are, Albert Finney in Saturday night Sunday morning, and It’s a wonderful life are two good examples.
Others on the list would be
Pulp Fiction
Lock, Stock and two Smoking Barrels
Jackie Brown
The whole Toy Story set, brilliantly made and great to watch with the children
Get Carter
The Godfather series
Being John Malkovich, try to make sense of it when you’ve had a few wines not easy

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Shawshank redemption.

whistle down the wind…

great expectations…