What was the last really great film and song?

Mister Vain

I thought Interstellar was fantastic when I first saw it on the big screen. Although it has its faults and I didn't like it as much after repeat viewing, I still think its very moving and original.

I had to think long and hard about the last really great song I've heard as there has been a lot of shyte in recent years. There were a few decent songs in the 00's but Eminem's "Lose Yourself" really sticks out in my mind. I'm not a big rap fan by any means but I thought that was the dog's bollix at the time.

So what in your opinion was the last great film and song?

Four Phucs Ache

For me :

Inception was jaw dropping.

As for song it has to be the recent wide open by the chemical Bros feat Beck.

yermanoffthetv

Burn after reading or the Grand Budapest Hotel were really good movies that were a little different and quirky when I first saw them. Haven't been blown away by anything recently (that Ive seen anyway)

Song wise: SOAB, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats or something by First Aid Kit, but that's just my taste. I gave up on music after the 90s as It just became a ball of generic auto tuned sh1te. Odd gems here and there though.

Temptamperu

Hail, Caesar! and Twenty One Pilots - Dirty Heavy Soul.

Filmer Paradise

Film; Back to the Future.

Song; Hey Jude.

Can't go wrong with those two. Guaranteed!

Arcade_Tryer

yermanoffthetv wrote: »

Song wise: SOAB, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats or something by First Aid Kit, but that's just my taste. I gave up on music after the 90s as It just became a ball of generic auto tuned sh1te. Odd gems here and there though.

Triggered.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Song: Video Games by Lana Del Ray.

Film: The Revenant.

HellSquirrel

Lord of the Rings will be one of the greats, even outside its genre. That trilogy was a masterpiece.

Donnie Darko.

Fatima Yamaha "What's a Girl to do"

Grandeeod

Film and song combined....

Goldfinger - Shirley bassey. It still tingles me!

The Rape of Lucretia

Raging Bull (although one could argue it is Casablanca).

La Mer - Charles Trenet.

DanielODonnell

Paramore are a band that would stand out from the late 2000s early 2010s, they had that many good songs it is hard to pick one. They are releasing a new record this year but I don't have much hope for it after the last one.

I don't buy into the view that everything was better in 80s and 90s.

Capt'n Midnight

Mister Vain wrote: »

Although it has its faults and I didn't like it as much after repeat viewing, I still think its very moving and original.

A truly great film gets better after repeat viewing. I'm still seeing new stuff in Hot Fuzz, but it's still not an epic film

Problem is there are few original films nowadays. They are mostly sequels , remakes, reboots, and adaptations of successful books. The recent Star Wars films tick most of those boxes at the same time.

Re Intersteller IMHO it fails badly on lots of the SciFi - The Martian was much better.


http://www.imdb.com/chart/top Top 250 Filums
From this list the best recent film
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) it's not too bad but it's a reboot / remake / sequel of Mad Max II

From this list the best recent film that isn't a reboot/remake/sequel/adaptation is - Wall-E (2008)

most recent Hollywood offering on that list that isn't a reboot/remake/sequel/adaptation/animation is L.A. Confidential (1997), and it's good rather than truly great

stimpson

Whiplash was the last really great movie that I've seen. The intensity is just phenomenal.

retro:electro

Film: Whiplash
Song: Fleetwood Mac "The Chain". I don't really listen to new stuff

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Film - Arrival

Song - call me old fashioned, but I still think Bohemian Rhapsody

NoviGlitzko

I can't remember what I thought of which was a truly great film recently, but I thought 'Prisioners' and 'Gone Girl' were an easy 10/10 although I know the latter divides some opinion. Has there been anything really groundbreaking lately?

As for music, I've no idea really. Popular music nowadays isn't exactly the Beatles.

team_actimel

Film: In terms of film in the last couple of years no recent ones made me go wow. TV for me has surpassed film in terms of quality.
I've recently gotten into 'Black Mirror' and every episode is like a mini film, pure quality.

Song: Tame Impala - Let It Happen

bear1

Good movies... hmm the game always gets a vote from me and in fact most films with Douglas in them from the 90s.
Last really good film I saw was the autopsy of Jane doe.
Song, they are all ****e these days but take it to the limit by the eagles is savage.

Hector Bellend

Four Phucs Ache wrote: »

For me :

Inception was jaw dropping.

As for song it has to be the recent wide open by the chemical Bros feat Beck.

Inception was the biggest pile of dogsh1t I've ever seen in my life.

Conor Bourke

team_actimel wrote: »

Song: Tame Impala - Let It Happen

Don't really give a fook about films but that song is one of the best I've heard in years, absolutely tremendous.

Hector Bellend

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

Film; Back to the Future.

Song; Hey Jude.

Can't go wrong with those two. Guaranteed!

La la la la la la la

La la la la

Hey Jude.

Repeat.

I dont get the beatles. I really dont.

Don't get me started on the yellow submarine

whiterob81

Temptamperu wrote: »

Hail, Caesar! and Twenty One Pilots - Dirty Heavy Soul.

Haven't seen Hail Caesar yet but I do love that Twenty One Pilots album.

KrakityJones

Film : Sicario , hadn't been engrossed in a movie that way for a long long time.

Music : 'Lucy fears the morning star' by Diablo Swing Orchestra. Who would have thought opera,classical,jazz and metal could fuse so well.

KungPao

Hector Bellend wrote: »

La la la la la la la

La la la la

Hey Jude.

Repeat.

I dont get the beatles. I really dont.

Don't get me started on the yellow submarine

I bet most of your favorite bands 'got them' though.

5rtytry56

Trainspotting.

Born Slippy.

Hector Bellend

Film - The Departed

Song - Song Seven - Interpol

team_actimel

Cornelius Crow wrote: »

Don't really give a fook about films but that song is one of the best I've heard in years, absolutely tremendous.

Song gets better with each listen
When people say music has gone to sh1te these days, that really isn't the case especially with a song like 'Let It Happen'. There is amazing alternative music released the past few years.

Hector Bellend

KungPao wrote: »

I bet most of your favorite bands 'got them' though.

Maybe They did.

I didnt

GLaDOS

Inception was probably the last movie that really stood out for me. Completely original as opposed to a rehash/sequel or comic/book adaption.

Music, well Pain of Salvation's new album came out on Friday and is magnificent imo. Hard to pick a single song.

Howard the Duck

Film : Short Term 12

Song: Frightened Rabbit "Death Dream"

5rtytry56

Film: Gran Torino

Song: End Credits Music

clintondaly

Willy Wonka-Pure Imagination.

MRnotlob606

Film- No country for Old Men.

Song-Lazarus by David Bowie.

MRnotlob606

bear1 wrote: »

Good movies... hmm the game always gets a vote from me and in fact most films with Douglas in them from the 90s.
Last really good film I saw was the autopsy of Jane doe.
Song, they are all ****e these days but take it to the limit by the eagles is savage.

How about Falling Down? You a fan of that?

MRnotlob606

Hector Bellend wrote: »

La la la la la la la

La la la la

Hey Jude.

Repeat.

I dont get the beatles. I really dont.

Don't get me started on the yellow submarine

You don't have to get them to understand their artistic influence on popular culture.

Wouldn't be their biggest fans, but their music was quite revolutionary in a particularly revolutionary time.

Winterlong

Last great song : David Bowie – Where are we now.
Last great movie: The Departed.

kunst nugget

Thankfully they're pretty recent which makes me happy to know great stuff is constantly being pumped out.

Last Great Film: Hunt for the Wilder People. Adore this film and if you have Netflix you have to watch it.

Last Great Song: We The People by A Tribe Called Quest. The album as a whole is 100% quality.

Lorelli!

The last movie I really enjoyed was probably The Road. It creeped me out but in a way that made you still want to watch it.

I've been listening to 70's singer Melanie Safka. I knew of the song "What have you done to my song, ma" but really love "Lay Down".

bear1

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

How about Falling Down? You a fan of that?

Very underrated film in my opinion but it's a good one.

eviltwin

Movie - Whiplash. That final scene with the drum solo....pure class.

Yamanoto

The last film that really floored me was Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Magnolia' (1999)

Arghus

Amazed that a lot of people can't name a single great movie for the last few years, there's definitely been more than a few. Try a bit harder than that!

The last time I saw a truly great movie was last weekend - Manchester by The Sea.

Mister Vain

Arghus wrote: »

Amazed that a lot of people can't name a single great movie for the last few years, there's definitely been more than a few. Try a bit harder than that!

I think its a lot easier to pick out some good films than it is good music. Captain Phillips, Flight, Nightcrawler and Dallas Buyers Club are very good. I never saw the fascination with Inception though. I thought it was awful.

Mister Vain

Mister Vain wrote: »

I think its a lot easier to pick out some good films than it is good music. Captain Phillips, Flight, Nightcrawler and Dallas Buyers Club are very good. I never saw the fascination with Inception though. I thought it was awful.

I agree with you on Inception. It left me feeling like there was something I was missing because I just didn't get the big hype surrounding it. It's been a while since a film really gripped me. Someone earlier mentioned The Autopsy of Jane Doe, that was surprisingly terrifying for me. Very claustrophobic. Pan's Labyrinth and Mystic River suspended time for me when watching them.

The music I listen to tends to be old. Ella Fitzgerald at the minute and a bit of Leonard.

somefeen

The last great Pop song was 99 Red Balloons.

Sure there's been better songs and music composed and written since then but that to me is the last great song to make it to number 1 in Ireland.

The lyrics are underrated. The English version should be studied as poetry.

"Ninety nine decisions treat
Ninety nine ministers meet
To worry, worry, super scurry
Call the troops out in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it boys, this is war
The President is on the line
As ninety nine red balloons go by

Ninety nine knights of the air
Ride super high-tech jet fighters
Everyone's a super hero
Everyone's a Captain Kirk
With orders to identify
To clarify and classify
Scrambling the summer sky
Ninety nine red balloons go by


That kind of honest bare-bones writing is sadly absent from today's pop music. Yeah, yeah some arsehole with an English degree will disagree but I don't care.

JupiterKid

Film: Kill Bill Part 1
Song: Strict Machine by Goldfrapp. Both from 2003.

Rubberlegs

Film: Stand by Me
Song: Don't Stop me Now, Queen

Hector Bellend

MRnotlob606 wrote: »

You don't have to get them to understand their artistic influence on popular culture.

Wouldn't be their biggest fans, but their music was quite revolutionary in a particularly revolutionary time.

That's exactly what I don't get.

They were mediocre musicians (at best).

Neither McCartney nor Lennon were exceptional singers and the words to their songs are nothing exceptional either.

It appears to me that it was a perfect case of being in the right place at the right time.

murpho999

Hector Bellend wrote: »

That's exactly what I don't get.

They were mediocre musicians (at best).

Neither McCartney nor Lennon were exceptional singers and the words to their songs are nothing exceptional either.

It appears to me that it was a perfect case of being in the right place at the right time.

Why do people who have achieved nothing in these fields feel it's ok to go on internet forums and say that Lennon and McCartney were poor musicians and song writers.

Absolute drivel of a post.

wherearemykeys

Movie: 13 hours the Secret Soldiers of Benghazi & Hacksaw Ridge - Two recent movies I thought were really good.

Song: Florence and the Machines' version of Stand by Me