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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?

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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.

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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

kunst nugget

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.

They went from 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' to 'Tomorrow Never Knows' in the space of three years and revolutionized pop music and the album with the likes of Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band. Their use of the studio as another instrument in their tunes was revolutionary and completely changed how musicians approached making records. The lyrics of some songs are throwaway but they were capable of some touching and masterful wordplay with the likes of 'Yesterday', 'In My Life', 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and 'She's Leaving Home'.

Dammit, they were a special band and deserve all the praise they get.

kunst nugget

Just to drive the point home.

From this…

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

to this…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah2ckzXgrx4

in three bloody years…

Tsipras

Film - Boyhood
Song - Tough one, maybe Rolling in the Deep?

[Deleted User]

Film - Batman (1989)

Song - Rammstein - Pussy

Arghus

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.

Nah, man. Nah.

Mister Vain

The Beatles were bigger than Jesus.

TBH I never saw the appeal myself. I just don't like their music, but then again they were way before my time. John Lennon's Imagine is brilliant though.

Yourself isit

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.

I doubt it. They clearly grew massively in their sing writing ability over a mere few years. That had nothing to do with the time they were around.

Yourself isit

My most favourite recent movie (2009) was The White Ribbon. I also liked interstellar. Nothing else stands out.

As for music there's nothing I can think of.

DoozerT6

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Film - Arrival

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

I saw Arrival, and I enjoyed the performances thoroughly. I did, however, have to google WTF the film (that I had just seen!) was about as soon as I left the cinema

kenmccarthy

Song- Arcade Fire ...Intervention.

Movie- the hateful eight....I like all tarentiono's movies