I have always been a big movie fan but am getting disappointed at many of the new movies these days,crap acting,all special effects etc
Need some suggestions of great movies from the past,I can look up on imdb but I'd rather hear members recommendations
Just downloading "man for all seasons" as it won lots of awards,any more ideas?
How about any of the Norman Wisdom films all classics imo, and how about the old Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin films, they always made me laugh as a kid. Thats if you like a lighter type of film
If you want your dreams to come true ...... first you have to wake up
Ben Hur.
Still makes me teary now.
Norman Wisdom for a good laugh...especially for old gits like me, brought up in a black and white world.
Kelly's Heroes.
National Lampoon series.
Airport and Naked Gun series.
for me it has to be once apon a time in america :xxgrinning--00xx3
or
the godfather trilogy
Mr. Grimsdale!
I'm thinking of older classics not comedy so much
Eg rear window,it's a wondeful life,any really good film I might of missed.
How about "Goodbye, Mr Chips" ... the original version ... starring Robert Donat?
... the old St. Trinian's movie with George cole.
Yes ... but, lest we forgetOriginally Posted by burdock
yes, i was thinking of those too
If you want your dreams to come true ...... first you have to wake up
Arthur - Just for the sake of good order and knowing you would not wish to offend any politically correct, cross dressing handwringers lurking on this thread Alistair Sim played the HeadmistressYes ... but, lest we forget
Not old enough to be a classic (from 80's I think) but this one with Timothy Spall & Colin Firth used to make me laugh - Dutch Girls
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6t...rls_shortfilms
To kill a mockingbird
Seven Samurai
True grit
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.
i just bought the Norman Wisdom box set from asda £20
As life is to live so love is to give
Grapes of Wrath, To kill a mocking bird.......not so old Capricorn One
All the old Sir John Mills movies, I favorite of mine is 'I was Monty's double'
List of his fillms here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0590055/
If you want your dreams to come true ...... first you have to wake up
Arthur - Alistair Sim played the Headmistress... you're absolutely right
...
... well-spotted! The "transvestites" [
whoever they might be] can rest easy.
On a WWII note
The Dambusters
Reach for The Sky
The Man Who Never Was
The Longest Day
a bit newer
Battle of The Bulge
The Battle of Britain
Patton
A Bridge Too Far
finally no doubt I'll find it on at sometime over Christmas - The Great Escape
My friend appeared in Platoon, Apocalypse Now, and Return to the River Kwai, all filmed in the Phils, plus a few others made there in the 80s and 90s.
Come to think of it, I enjoyed those movies too.
Oh, please add the Terminator movies to my list.
Plenty in there
After footie I will try A man for all seasonsThat reads wrong
Indeed ... there's no reason now, for " such dressers" to get cross!
Gregory Peck starred in that film, didn't he?
A good thread plenty of titles to fill up my LoveFilm wanted list with
Donat also starred in the original film version of Scottish author, John Buchan's thrilling espionage tale, 'The Thirty Nine Steps'. The storylines in each of the other two movies ... in which Kenneth More - and later, Robert Powell - played the hero, Richard Hannay ... bore little resemblance to Buchan's book - as did the first. Personally, of the three, I best enjoyed the middle one ... in which a stuntman takes over from More in the scene where Hannay is portrayed leaping from a steam train and hanging onto the brownish-red girders of the Forth Rail Bridge to escape his pursuers. "Rivetting" stuff!!!... starring Robert Donat?
Or...'watching paint dry' ?Donat also starred in the original film version of Scottish author, John Buchan's thrilling espionage tale, 'The Thirty Nine Steps'. The storylines in each of the other two movies ... in which Kenneth More - and later, Robert Powell - played the hero, Richard Hannay ... bore little resemblance to Buchan's book - as did the first. Personally, of the three, I best enjoyed the middle one ... in which a stuntman takes over from More in the scene where Hannay is portrayed leaping from a steam train and hanging onto the brownish-red girders of the Forth Rail Bridge to escape his pursuers. "Rivetting" stuff!!!
back in its day it was
i have learnt to do what my wife says!
Got to agree with you here stevie, nearly put this in the favourite movies thread the other day...it's in my top 10. Very violent at times & also comes with a great Ennio Morreconi score throughout.for me it has to be once apon a time in america
being a fan of sergio leone, the film director of the good, the bad and the ugly trilogy.Got to agree with you here stevie, nearly put this in the favourite movies thread the other day...it's in my top 10. Very violent at times & also comes with a great Ennio Morreconi score throughout.
for some reason i find the above movie his worse
btw have you seen "once upon a time in the west"
how old do these classic movies need to be
i do try getting the wife to watch old movies but for some reason always tries to grab the remote and change the channel if she thinks the movie is to old.
i have learnt to do what my wife says!
I read this and thought of the music from Midnight Express but was confusing Morreconi with Giorgio Moroder. Anyway I used to like that film where naive drug smuggler Billy Hayes gets a dose of the baseball bat on his feet from the brutal Turkish Prison Guard who rightly or wrongly iirc gets a coat hook through the back of his head later.Got to agree with you here stevie, nearly put this in the favourite movies thread the other day...it's in my top 10. Very violent at times & also comes with a great Ennio Morreconi score throughout.
Cant see past Godfather I, and more recent Shawshank Redemption. There are not many movies id watch more than once, but those 2 i could watch many times
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