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What was the last really great film and song?

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  • #32
    5rtytry56
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    Film: Gran Torino

    Song: End Credits Music


  • #33
    clintondaly
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    Willy Wonka-Pure Imagination.


  • #34
    MRnotlob606
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    Film- No country for Old Men.

    Song-Lazarus by David Bowie.


  • #35
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭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?


  • #36
    MRnotlob606
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #37
    Winterlong
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    Last great song : David Bowie – Where are we now.
    Last great movie: The Departed.


  • #38
    kunst nugget
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    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.


  • #39
    Lorelli!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,360 ✭✭✭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".


  • #40
    bear1
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    MRnotlob606 wrote: »
    How about Falling Down? You a fan of that?

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


  • #41
    eviltwin
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    Movie - Whiplash. That final scene with the drum solo....pure class.


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  • #42
    Yamanoto
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    The last film that really floored me was Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Magnolia' (1999)


  • #43
    Arghus
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    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.


  • #44
    Mister Vain
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    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.


  • #45
    [Deleted User]
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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.


  • #46
    somefeen
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    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.


  • #47
    JupiterKid
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    Film: Kill Bill Part 1
    Song: Strict Machine by Goldfrapp. Both from 2003.


  • #48
    Rubberlegs
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    Film: Stand by Me
    Song: Don't Stop me Now, Queen


  • #49
    Hector Bellend
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    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.


  • #50
    murpho999
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    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.


  • #51
    wherearemykeys
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    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


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  • #52
    kunst nugget
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    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.


  • #53
    kunst nugget
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    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…


  • #54
    Tsipras
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    Film - Boyhood
    Song - Tough one, maybe Rolling in the Deep?


  • #55
    [Deleted User]
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    Film - Batman (1989)

    Song - Rammstein - Pussy


  • #56
    Arghus
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    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.


  • #57
    Mister Vain
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    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.


  • #58
    Yourself isit
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    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.


  • #59
    Yourself isit
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    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.


  • #60
    DoozerT6
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    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 :D:D


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  • #61
    kenmccarthy
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    Song- Arcade Fire ...Intervention.

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


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