Today’s movies are just crap, help me delve into some golden oldies.

nacho libre

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121062628#Comment_121062628

I must watch that, Frenzy and Rope too. Have you seen The Rocking- Horse Winner? It's not a horror, but it is quite bleak ,especially the ending.

H_Lime

Rear window

Sweet smell of success

The third man

Andromeda strain

Phase 4

Scanners

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121023289#Comment_121023289

There is a brilliant "Downfall" style version of that scene where the ardent Nazi cant shut up about the great Brian Cody and the imminent "5 in a row"

toggle toes

1984 thriller Streets of Gold starring the brilliant William Defoe and Michael Pare. Dafoe plays the role of a bike gang leader who wants his ex girlfriend who is a singer back. Pare is hired to protect her but Defoe is determined to win her back.

I don't want to spoil it for any of you posters who might want to watch it. Aswell as a decent story line some of the songs are very good. It's one of those hidden gems. Give it a watch I think you will enjoy it.

K-9

Hopefully some of these weren't mentioned yet:

From here to eternity (1953)

The Hustler (1961)

The Sting (1973)

All the President's Men (1976)

Blazing Saddles (1974)

The Last Emperor (1987)

Reversal of Fortune (1990)

Deep Cover (1992)

True Romance (1993)

The Insider (1999)

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005)

The Constant Gardener (2005)

Not necessarily my top films but ones I really liked. You could watch Goodfellas after all those, see how film making is really done! Just perfection.

sydthebeat

Just had an "ingmar Bergman" night.

Watched Persona and followed it with Seventh Seal

silliussoddius

What did you think of The Seventh Seal?

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121065170#Comment_121065170

I think you mean Streets of Fire. From the same director of Southern Comfort which has been mentioned a few times.

letsseehere14

Hard to know whats an oldie when 2003 was only 5 years ago in my mind. My list is of mediocre comfort films for me to all time classics. Reading this forum makes me realise I need to go back and watch some proper oldies!

In no particular order some of my favs incl some comfort films mixed in:

Trading Places

12 angry men

My Fellow Americans - a particular favorite comfort film of mine

Starship Troopers

Its a Wonderful Life

The Truman Show

A fish called wanda

Maverick - ditto my fellow americans

Romancing the stone

Jaws

Forrest Gump

Stand by me

Shawshank Redemption

Dr Strangelove

Gladiator

Groundhog day

Theres something about mary

Wall-E

True Lies

Dumb and Dumber

Schindlers List

Alien

The Shining

Terminator 2

Predator

Good Will Hunting

Princess Bride

A Time to Kill

Castaway

Silence of the Lambs

My Cousin Vinny

Mulan

The Emperors new Groove

The sixth sense

Planes Trains and Automobiles

Die Hard

Lethal Weapon 1, 2, 3, 4

Indiana Jones and the last crusade

Indiana Jones and the temple of Doom

Raiders of the lost arc

The frog Princess

Back to the future 1, 2 and 3

Memphis Bell

Austin Powers International Man of Mystery

Father of the Bride

Shrek

Final Destination

The Butterfly Effect

Inner Space

Tin Cup

Crimson Tide

Zoolander

Office Space

Remember the Titans

Heat

Pitch Black

The Blues Brothers

The Matrix

Bowfinger

The Prince of Egypt

Mike Bassett England Manager

The Patriot

District 9

some not so old but in my view underrated films

3:10 to Yuma

Darkest Hour

Hot Fuzz

Jojo Rabbit

Lincoln

The Prestige

The Martian

True Grit

The Kings Speech

sydthebeat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121070486#Comment_121070486

i enjoyed it. Its linear and theatrical and full of symbolism.

i watched it after Persona, and it was clear by the end which movie is the superior one. Persona is clearly made by a director more at ease with his craft and more confident in his writing.

nacho libre

I watched Rope, Apocalypto, and Boiler Room over the weekend. Rope has some flaws, but I enjoyed it. Boiler Room and Apocalypto are good too.

toggle toes

I watched Planet of The Apes with Charlton Heston last night. Great movie.

brokenbad

The Town (2010)

Excellent movie 👌

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121071040#Comment_121071040

Have you seen The Virgin Spring? It's based on a Swedish folk tale, and was the basis for The Last House on the Left.

Marathon Man

The Spanish Prisoner

The Grifters

Howard's End

Rebecca

Where Eagle's Dare

An Inspector Calls

Ring of Bright Water

Blithe Spirit

sydthebeat

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121073376#Comment_121073376

not yet, ill put it on the "wanna watch" list

i have "woman in the dunes" on my list for tonight

Tony EH

'The Last House on the Left' is absolute crap. If you want to watch a tale that deals with the central premise of both movies then, please, watch 'The Virgin Spring'. It is, by far, the superior (by a ridiculous amount) version of that story.

NewbridgeIR

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121074522#Comment_121074522

I saw the original Last House On The Left on my video nasty expedition of the mid-80s.

I thought it was great, bought the DVD and the Blu Ray in later years. A great start for Wes Craven.

Killer soundtrack from David Hess.

The Virgin Spring is excellent too, saw it early 1990s. Different vibe though.

Tony EH

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121074619#Comment_121074619

I saw it during that period too, because it had such notoriety. However, it is not a good film by any standard. The limited budget notwithstanding, the movie has some very serious flaws that cannot be overlooked. And over all, it just isn't worth the status that's been bestowed upon it.

The soundtrack is one of the biggest problems I have with it. There's some ludicrous rinky dink moments in there that I cannot fathom the logic behind and the comedy cops nonsense (featuring Martin Kove of 'Cagney and Lacey' fame) is simply bizarre.

Seriously, 'The Virgin Spring' all the way.

And I say that as someone who's seen 'Last House on the Left' more times than 'The Virgin Spring'!

toggle toes

Mc Q starring the late John Wayne where he is outside his comfort zone playing a dective. As we know John Wayne is noted for his starring role in westerns so to see him starring in a 1970s detective movie was for me a bit unusual. Having said that I enjoyed watching Mc Q

NewbridgeIR

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121075020#Comment_121075020

Good choice

Also like Brannigan from 1975 which also has The Duke in a police role.

silliussoddius

Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In 9the book is also good), the US remake Let Me In is also worth checking out.

gameoverdude

Evil dead been mentioned?

gameoverdude

Also going out tomorrow to take a photo of the ghostbusters hq.

con___manx1

The last of the mohicans

The good The bad and the ugly

Predator

Dances with wolves

The shining

One flew over the cuckoo's nest

The edge

Terminator 2

waywill1966

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121072254#Comment_121072254

That scene on the beach at the end!

waywill1966

https://youtu.be/8UCJz617E8s?si=SXUa-rDabxzoXGaA

Dead of Night (1945) one of the best horror films ever made!

nacho libre

I watched The Cruel Sea, Run Silent, Run Deep, Khartoum ,The Bedford incident, The Killing, Emperor of the North and Four Feathers over the last few days . I enjoyed them all.

Ash.J.Williams

Dead man's shoes

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121090965#Comment_121090965

WhT are you looking at?