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A Few Good Men

Godfather I & II

Trading Places

Shawshank Redemption

Battle of the River Plate (first hour or so)

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Gladiator

In the Heat of the Night

The Graduate

Day of the Jackall

The Sting (first hour or so)

All the President's Men

and of course a must for all RL fans

This Sporting LIfe

“Few thought him even a starter.There were many who thought themselves smarter. But he ended PM, CH and OM. An Earl and a Knight of the Garter.”

Clement Attlee.

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I finally got round to watching Its a Wonderful Life at Christmas and it blew me away. I think itll be an annual thing now i have my own little family.

Life of Brian is pure genius.

Outsider, but i love Hot Rod.

 

Life of Brian IS pure genius.  I think I can recite most of the script and it's still funny all these years later.  Wonderful Life is a family favourite it really gets right into your soul.

 

The Godfather has always had a special place in my heart.  Read the books when I was a teen.  Went to see the films hoping they would stay true to the story and wasn't disappointed.  Superb casting all round.  Sonny, Michael, Freddie and Connie exactly as I had imagined them. 

In the blink of an eye it could all be taken away.  Be grateful always.

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Das Boot, stunningly realistic.

If I had to pick just one, that would be the one.

 

Most of my favourites have already been mentioned but I'd add In Bruges and The Guard to the list.

"I'm from a fishing family. Trawlermen are like pirates with biscuits." - Lucy Beaumont.

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I finally got round to watching Its a Wonderful Life at Christmas and it blew me away. I think itll be an annual thing now i have my own little family.

Life of Brian is pure genius.

Outsider, but i love Hot Rod.

 

Funnily enough I also saw It's a Wonderful Life for the first time at Christmas and had a similar reaction, after thinking for many years that I wouldn't enjoy it.

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Martyn Sadler

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A Few Good Men

Godfather I & II

Trading Places

Shawshank Redemption

Battle of the River Plate (first hour or so)

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Gladiator

In the Heat of the Night

The Graduate

Day of the Jackall

The Sting (first hour or so)

All the President's Men

and of course a must for all RL fans

This Sporting LIfe

 

You've not got a bad taste in films. Virtually all those would be on my list too.

 

I'd add four other films to your list.

 

Twelve Angry Men

The Third Man

Singing in the Rain

North by Northwest

 

I do have decidedly mixed feelings about This Sporting Life.

 

It's a great film, but when my mother saw it when I was a nipper she came home and said that she would never let me play Rugby League if that was what it was like. I had to play with my mates when she wasn't looking. Fortunately she didn't want to stop me writing about it.

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Funnily enough I also saw It's a Wonderful Life for the first time at Christmas and had a similar reaction, after thinking for many years that I wouldn't enjoy it.

 

Good call, forgot about that one. Must watch it again, Thanks Martyn.

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Fourth Protocol.

League of Gentlemen

Captain Ron

Riddle of the Sands

The Thing 

Beverly Hills Cop

The Eiger Sanction

Lord of the Rings (Ralph Bakshi version)

High Plains Drifter

The Colditz Story

Who Dares Wins

We Dive at Dawn

Ice Station Zebra

Zeppelin

Holiday Camp

8 Bells Toll

Hell Drivers

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A few extra thinking about it I should've had in my list

It's a wonderful life and shawshank redemption that people have already mentioned. Plus great expectations (with John Mills) green mile and Angels with dirty faces.

Edited to add road to perdition

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A few extra thinking about it I should've had in my list

It's a wonderful life and shawshank redemption that people have already mentioned. Plus great expectations (with John Mills) green mile and Angels with dirty faces.

they just got to the sint ellins not so multi screen?

Caught by a feckin speed camera. try these I did and it saved me a heap o money and penalty points.

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MIAG you may have watched them when they were released unfortunately with me being a youngster I've had to watch repeats.

pure bitchy dude. hurt i is :tongue:

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Here's two that haven't had a mention

1.Schindlers List. I've never seen a cinema crowd leave a theatre so subdued.

2. Jaws.....Has anyone swam in the sea since and not briefly thought of great whites?

Ron Banks

Midlands Hurricanes and Barrow

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I've only seen two of them, I may have to spend some time rectifying that.

American History X is an uncomfortable watch, about an unpleasant subject. However, it is very good, Edward Norton's performance especially.

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Here's two that haven't had a mention

1.Schindlers List. I've never seen a cinema crowd leave a theatre so subdued.

2. Jaws.....Has anyone swam in the sea since and not briefly thought of great whites?

 

Schindler's List is an outstanding film I'll never forget watching, and everyone should see it once, but I couldn't face watching it again.

 

Even though I own the DVD, it still sits on the shelf unopened. It's too good at portraying the horror of what went on to make it an experience I can bear to repeat.

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I'm going to give Netflix a try.  I don't like romance or romcoms and musicals bore me to death so hit me with your thought provoking, intricate plot, creepy, gritty, gruesome, fast paced, thrillers and films that have really struck you as worthy of a re-watch or stayed with you for sheer brilliance. :yes:

 

The Commitments.

 

It's got music in it, but its not a musical. It's very funny too. I've watched it many times and never get bored of it.

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Blade Runner

Still Crazy

Rude Boy

Trainspotting

Pulp Fiction

Aliens

The Lost Boys

Oil City Confidential

Con Air

A Clockwork Orange

High Fidelity

Rio Bravo

Zulu

Green Street

Snatch

Mike Bassett England Manager

Just off the top of my head

"Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality" - Mikhail Bakunin

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Schindler's List is an outstanding film I'll never forget watching, and everyone should see it once, but I couldn't face watching it again.

 

Even though I own the DVD, it still sits on the shelf unopened. It's too good at portraying the horror of what went on to make it an experience I can bear to repeat.

uplifting at the end though

Caught by a feckin speed camera. try these I did and it saved me a heap o money and penalty points.

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uplifting at the end though

Yes but it's tough going

"Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality" - Mikhail Bakunin

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Yes but it's tough going

that is dependant on your take on the film and it's message, I have watched it several times over many years i may add and never fail to shed a tear. Is it about the attrocity and the scale of it or the hope portrayed at the end? Everyone sees it different i guess

Caught by a feckin speed camera. try these I did and it saved me a heap o money and penalty points.

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that is dependant on your take on the film and it's message, I have watched it several times over many years i may add and never fail to shed a tear. Is it about the attrocity and the scale of it or the hope portrayed at the end? Everyone sees it different i guess

Good points, I suppose it's about the fact that most of humanity can be redeemed? Schindler, by all accounts was a deeply unpleasant person, he was a long time member of the nazi party, so one must assume he agreed with the classification of Jews as "untermensch" and yet in the end he did this remarkable thing

"Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality" - Mikhail Bakunin

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