Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Top 100 Thrillers

  • 27-10-2002 1:13pm
    #1
    rapture_queen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭


    So what did ppl think of the top 100 thrillers on channel 4 last nite?

    I was quite pleased to see that the majority were old films therefore excluding a lot of those **** modern films which always seem to dominate this countdowns.

    No 1 film was Psycho-which is one of my fav films ever and even though i have seen it many a time it still scares me(well the end does where he has that smile that is so creepy)


Comments

  • #2
    MrGump
    Closed Accounts Posts: 322 ✭✭MrGump


    It was ok although there was no need for Harrison Ford to present!


  • #3
    Pigman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,092 ✭✭✭Pigman


    Originally posted by rapture_queen

    I was quite pleased to see that the majority were old films therefore excluding a lot of those **** modern films which always seem to dominate this countdowns.
    That's probably because it was voted for by people who know a little about good cinema and was compiled without the input of the phethora of cretins out there who populate our society. People who couldn't remember any film unless (a) it contained a deluge of sex&violence and/or crude humour and (b) it had been showed at their local suburban multiplex in the past 12 months.


  • #4
    Spunog UIE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,651 ✭✭✭Spunog UIE


    "who know a little about good cinema"

    my god ur so right and so much better than us all.

    by the way i think Psycho is ****. Good for its day maybe but not now.


  • #5
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    I did'nt bother watching which shows how I've lost my enthusiasm for films, but I understand every film in the 100 was Amercian...?

    Shirley not....

    Mike.


  • #6
    Pigman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,092 ✭✭✭Pigman


    Originally posted by Gideon
    my god ur so right and so much better than us all.
    Absolutely. I'm glad you noticed.
    Originally posted by Gideon
    Good for its day maybe but not now.
    I take it then that you're in at least your mid-fifties? Otherwise you're not really qualified to say that. Even if so then I'd still say you're talking out of your plughole.
    Originally posted by mike65
    but I understand every film in the 100 was Amercian...?
    Apparently so. It was voted for by the American Film Institute and the nomination list of 400 were supposedly all american (according to Harrison Ford at least). But considering the final 100 featured Clockwork Orange, Lawrence of Arabia. Bridge on the River Kwai and Goldfinger amongst others it'd make you wonder. Perhaps they meant 'made with American money'?


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    It was voted for by the American Film Institute and the nomination list of 400 were supposedly all american (according to Harrison Ford at least). But considering the final 100 featured Clockwork Orange, Lawrence of Arabia. Bridge on the River Kwai and Goldfinger amongst others it'd make you wonder. Perhaps they meant 'made with American money'?


    So no The Third Man or The Thirtynine Steps, no Odd Man Out
    or Get Carter I could go on... ;) No great french thrillers by Claude
    Chabrol or German pix by Fritz Lang. Not much of a list then!

    Mike.


  • #8
    jonno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,392 ✭✭✭jonno


    Originally posted by mike65
    So no The Third Man or The Thirtynine Steps, no Odd Man Out
    or Get Carter I could go on... ;) No great french thrillers by Claude
    Chabrol or German pix by Fritz Lang. Not much of a list then!

    Mike.

    I agree


  • #9
    DapperGent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,838 ✭✭✭DapperGent


    Originally posted by mike65
    So no The Third Man or The Thirtynine Steps, no Odd Man Out
    or Get Carter I could go on... ;) No great french thrillers by Claude
    Chabrol or German pix by Fritz Lang. Not much of a list then!

    Mike.
    The Third Man was in it. Maybe they only included films that could be presented as American? Or something?

    The Long Good Friday wasn't in it either more's the shame.


  • #10
    plastic membrane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,219 ✭✭✭plastic membrane


    Originally posted by DapperGent
    The Long Good Friday wasn't in it

    Blasphemous List !! A pox on all who came up with it..


  • #11
    Draco
    Subscribers Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭Draco


    Every one of these top 100 lists can have holes poked in them for not including your favourite. At this stage I ignore them. They're a bit of a waste of time.


  • Advertisement
  • #12
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Originally posted by Draco
    Every one of these top 100 lists can have holes poked in them for not including your favourite. At this stage I ignore them. They're a bit of a waste of time.

    True, thats propberly why I did'nt watch, I used to love list shows... Damn Channel 4 overkill! :D

    Mike.


Advertisement