Heat...could this be the best bloke film ever?

Chet Zar · 30-01-2011 12:09am #1

and the best car chase ever created - is coming up on RTE 2 right now....

Pacino and DeNiro in the same film, their first scene together...Michael Mann directing...long drawn out LA cityscape scenes building the mood...is there anything this picture doesn't have?

mike65 · 30-01-2011 12:11am

Two lipstick lesbians and chiffon - The Hunger is the best bloke film ever made! :pac:

Captain Chaos · 30-01-2011 12:15am

The best shootout scene ever directed too. Just class.

Chet Zar · 30-01-2011 12:16am

Captain Chaos wrote: »

The best shootout scene ever directed too. Just class.

Was meant to mention that too - unreal shootout scene...

hairy sailor · 30-01-2011 12:17am

the best car chase in a movie has to be ronin i reckon

Chet Zar · 30-01-2011 12:19am

hairy sailor wrote: »

the best car chase in a movie has to be ronin i reckon

wow hold on now I think I actually meant Ronin...I'll have to see this one again first!

Jesus Wept · 30-01-2011 12:20am

It's pretty bad.

Stojkovic · 30-01-2011 12:22am

hairy sailor wrote: »

the best car chase in a movie has to be ronin i reckon

Bullit ?
French Connection ?

Mint Sauce · 30-01-2011 12:26am

Stojkovic wrote: »

Bullit ?
French Connection ?

The Italian Job (original) is preety high up there as well.

mike65 · 30-01-2011 12:31am

Pffffffft! Many almost completely unknown (in the anglophone world) French and Italian crime thrillers from the 70s had chases that make Hollywoods tyre-squeelers look like Drive School.

However here is the best American chase I've seen 10 mins of V8 powered total white knuckles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vACWV5sRcY

squod · 30-01-2011 12:37am

Opening car chase scene from Universal Soldier Regeneration is worth a look.
(Rest of the film is merely average)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ2-83QBy4I

mle1324 · 30-01-2011 12:47am

Captain Chaos wrote: »

The best shootout scene ever directed too. Just class.

Good shoot out scene but it was robbed from an older film called LA Takedown

mike65 · 30-01-2011 12:54am

LA Takedown was Michael Manns TV movie dry run for HEAT,its HEAT for people in a hurry at 92 mins duration

hairy sailor · 30-01-2011 1:01am

Stojkovic wrote: »

Bullit ?
French Connection ?

Both s**t hot but Ronin's my favourite

Captain Chaos · 30-01-2011 1:01am

mle1324 wrote: »

Good shoot out scene but it was robbed from an older film called LA Takedown

But Heat refined it and made it far better and the entire movie imo, the sound effects used for the Colt Commandos is really gritty and aggressive, just love it.

L31mr0d · 30-01-2011 1:08am

Heat is definitely up there.

On a lads weekend movie playlist would be:

Die Hard
Predator
Heat
Clear and Present Danger
The Bourne Identity
Die Hard

mle1324 · 30-01-2011 2:14am

Captain Chaos wrote: »

But Heat refined it and made it far better and the entire movie imo, the sound effects used for the Colt Commandos is really gritty and aggressive, just love it.

No doubt yeah, it was better because Andy McNab was the tec adviser (or something like that) for the film.

blow69 · 30-01-2011 3:01am

L31mr0d wrote: »

Heat is definitely up there.

On a lads weekend movie playlist would be:

Die Hard
Predator
Heat
Clear and Present Danger
The Bourne Identity
Die Hard

Never realized how annoying the canned laughter can be on Friends, but here it is..:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSRIaZBsv5k

Otis Driftwood · 30-01-2011 5:01am

Chet Zar wrote: »

and the best car chase ever created - is coming up on RTE 2 right now....

Pacino and DeNiro in the same film, their first scene together...Michael Mann directing...long drawn out LA cityscape scenes building the mood...is there anything this picture doesn't have?

The ability to hold my attention.

People get lost (IMO) in the whole DeNiro/Pacnio on screen thing.

What are they now,pretty much washed up.

When did either star in a film that made you sit up and say

wow,that was . . . . . . . .I dont have the words for it

?

I love both of them both as actors but meh.

stiffler123 · 30-01-2011 5:04am

hairy sailor wrote: »

the best car chase in a movie has to be ronin i reckon

Cough* Blues Brothers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oMtdXaqBx4

And that's just up to the mall, it gets better. Most of the lads films mentioned are pretty decent. My favourite though has to be Old School, will never get sick of that movie.

SugarHigh · 30-01-2011 4:28pm

Otis Driftwood wrote: »

When did either star in a film that made you sit up and say
.

"everybody's fine" is good but too depressing.

kerryman12 · 30-01-2011 5:27pm

Heat = great movie
end of

Johnny Utah · 30-01-2011 9:05pm

Captain Chaos wrote: »

The best shootout scene ever directed too. Just class.

Yeah great film. It inspired the real-life Hollywood shootout a few years later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout

Cicero · 30-01-2011 10:25pm

Heat is a very flawed film imo...it's biggest claim to fame was bringing De Niro and Pacino together on screen face to face for the first time.......hated the ending...but did enjoy the film overall....preferred Ronin tbh...

Chet Zar · 30-01-2011 10:32pm

Cicero wrote: »

Heat is a very flawed film imo...it's biggest claim to fame was bringing De Niro and Pacino together on screen face to face for the first time.......hated the ending...but did enjoy the film overall....preferred Ronin tbh...

You took the words out of my mouth...I actually turned it off as it was coming to the ending as I hate it as well. De Niro getting killed...ugh.

Was defo thinking of Ronin. Jean Reno and De Niro - far superior than Pacino and De Niro...love that film.

Chet Zar · 30-01-2011 10:34pm

L31mr0d wrote: »

Heat is definitely up there.

On a lads weekend movie playlist would be:

Die Hard
Predator
Heat
Clear and Present Danger
The Bourne Identity
Die Hard

Great list, but you forgot Under Siege dude..

Rubik. · 30-01-2011 11:29pm

Heat was a bit a let down really, but I have high hopes for "The Irishman" directed by Scorsese and starring Pacino, De Niro and Pesci.

Tar.Aldarion · 31-01-2011 4:53am

heat is amazing, must have watched it a dozen times on tv growing up

ronin is great too

myflipflops · 31-01-2011 11:52am

Am I the only one who doesn't need or even enjoy a car chase scene?

I would rather get some good war films for a bloke DVD marathon:

Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
The Deerhunter
Apocolypse Now

I like my bloke films completely free of the contrived love story tacked onto the side.

--Kaiser-- · 31-01-2011 12:55pm

myflipflops wrote: »

Am I the only one who doesn't need or even enjoy a car chase scene?

I would rather get some good war films for a bloke DVD marathon:

Platoon
Full Metal Jacket
The Deerhunter
Apocolypse Now

I like my bloke films completely free of the contrived love story tacked onto the side.

+1 A good bloke film has to be about war.

A Bridge too Far
Saving Private Ryan
etc...

Logical Fallacy · 31-01-2011 1:11pm

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

+1 A good bloke film has to be about war.

A Bridge too Far
Saving Private Ryan
etc...

I don't know, i think a good bloke film can be about pretty much anything. I think as blokes, we romanticise war because of cinema.

I like "Brick" as a bloke film, a dude who is comfortable in himself and in his abilities trying to stand up for his believes and ethics.

Oh yeah, and Rocky.

Heat...could this be the best bloke film ever?

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