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

Bogwoppit

Movies being made at the moment have become so bland and uninspiring that I’ve just lost interest.

The superhero trope was enjoyable a few years ago but it’s been done to death now and they’re all just boring.

Its a sad state of affairs when the Top Gun remake stands out as one of the best of the last couple of years.

I’ve never been interested in going back to old movies, I’m not sure why but I’ve never seen old as worth the effort.

Took a punt on Lawrence of Arabia today, mainly because his motorbike, the Brough Superior, is a machine I’d love to own sometime.

If you haven’t watched it then be warned, it’s a bit of an epic even by todays standards. My god it’s good though, what a fantastic piece of entertainment, the cinematography is amazing. I’ll have to admit that I have a bit of a man crush on Peter O Toole now too (don’t tell Mrs Woppit).

If you haven’t watched it then I’d highly recommend it.

Anyone else have something they’d recommend?

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Flinty997

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120847977#Comment_120847977

Picked up mini series Shogun on Blu-ray.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120851859#Comment_120851859

Good pick.

Focusing here on the big budget epic miniseries with location shooting - as opposed to the 'staged' British ones packed with acting talent like I Claudius.

Shogun is one of the top ones. Along with slavery epic Roots, western epic Lonesome Dove, American civil war epic North and South, Winds of War for WWII, Shaka Zulu, Jesus of Nazareth.

Gabriel Byrne popped up in a Marco Polo miniseries adaptation as the man himself.

Masada I mentioned above as one of the historical epics.

Then there were the potboilers like Kane and Abel, Rich Man Poor Man, the Thornbirds.

Peter Strauss, Richard Chamberlain, Peter Ustinov & Jane Seymour pop up in a lot of them.

There were British empire epics such as The Far Pavilions and The Jewel in the Crown.

I remember the Michael Caine Jack the Ripper miniseries scaring the bejaysus out of me back in the day.

The Aussies got in on the act as well I remember - The Harp in the South, All the Rivers Run, A Town Like Alice.

Flinty997

Salems Lot...David Soul

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120851807#Comment_120851807

Once were warriors is great. You might want to get something lighter For after, I recommend another NZ film, Whale Rider (or Hunt for the Wilder people). The

buried

Two films from genius Alan Clarke

Penda's Fen (1974)

The Firm (1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIpeGVdr_60

odyssey06

@buried The BBC 'Screen' series put out some real gems.

If you liked The Firm, check out the below film also about football hooligans.

I.D.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113375/

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120848977#Comment_120848977

Roy Scheider ?

The French Connection

Marathon Man

Blue Thunder

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852205#Comment_120852205

I was more thinking films where he was the lead like 52 Pickup but they are great shouts.

The main character in Blue Thunder was...

Bonus Seaquest DSV mention :)

trashcan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120835589#Comment_120835589

I would add The Chorus to that list. Beautiful little French film set in a boys reform school just after the war in France, where the new teacher and frustrated composer starts a choir with the pupils. My God, the singing on it raises the hairs on the back of your neck. If you haven’t seen it, seek it out. Some of what has been mentioned as “old”films here really has me feeling my age. The nineties isn’t old for Gods sake. It was just a few years ago, wasn’t it ?

Anyway, the 70’s is often talked of as American Cinemas golden age, and it’s easy to see why. Chinatown, One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest(Is Nurse Rachid the most horrible movie villain of all time ? ). Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, Marathon Man, just off the top of my head. People will throw the Godfather films in too, but they never really did that much for me, though they are undoubtedly fine films. Has anyone mentioned Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ? A great lesser known Hitchcock film is Rope. Then for Comedies you have Mel Brooks holy trinity of The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852069#Comment_120852069

That's very hard to find.

Flinty997

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852629#Comment_120852629

Only have it on DVD. Looks dated now.

trashcan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120842718#Comment_120842718

Oh yeah. I have the dvd of Come and See. Possibly the most harrowing film I’ve ever seen. Not sure I could watch it again. The young lead actor in it is astonishing.

hoodie6029

Bit OT but does anyone remember the midweek movie and the late late movie on Network 2/RTE 2 back in the late 90’s and early 00’s?

There must have been a real movie buff working there picking the movies back then. I remember seeing some right gems. Red Rock West, Existenz, Hard 8, The Grifters, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Tremors and every John Hughes movie. I’m sure there were loads more I was too young to appreciate either.

Back when Whatculture’s YouTube was watchable I’d regularly see movies on their ‘underappreciated/overlooked’ lists that I’d seen on Network 2 years before.

Also, justwatch.com is a great site to see where a movie is available to stream.

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852629#Comment_120852629

On Blu

German titles but English audio

https://www.amazon.co.uk/BRENNEN-MUSS-SALEM-BLU-RAY/dp/B01GH7SU3I/ref=tmm_blu_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

[Deleted User]

OK, here's a list of some favourites that haven't been mentioned yet. Trailers included.

1/ Alambrista (1977)

Illegals crossing the Mexican border. Hard-hitting but very involving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmurIAKYV0g

2/ Over The Edge (1979)

Best teen movie ever. Was Kurt Cobain's favourite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l-4MW_jbfg

3/ Straw Dogs (1971)

Classic Sam Peckinpah rural western set in an English country town.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXkqGVfm1mo

4/ Blue Collar (1978)

Directed by Paul Schrader. Corruption in an industrial setting. Great insight into workers/unions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfbX5dPODZs

5/ Charley Varrick (1973)

Best heist flick ever. Hugely influential. Walter Matthau is brilliant.

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

6/ Frenzy (1972)

Hitchcock at his sleaziest. Grim early '70s London with a nasty streak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gWjZpkkkIs

7/ Road Games (1981)

Australian grindhouse with an American truck driver (Stacy Keach) and American hitcher (Jamie Lee Curtis).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMheJFjh-5o

8/ The Long Goodbye (1973)

A brilliant noir, pinnacle of the genre. "You never learn. You're a born loser."

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

9/ Heavenly Creatures (1994)

Peter Jackson never topped this. An intense real-life story set in the 1950s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ2yZjnPwQc

10/ The Tall T (1957)

Classic Budd Boetticher western. Serious tension all the way through.

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

11/ Fat City (1972)

John Huston directs Stacy Keach, Susan Tyrrell and Jeff Bridges in an searingly sombre boxing drama.

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

12/ Cash On Demand (1961)

Hammer B-movie (not a horror) with Peter Cushing and Andre Morrell giving the performance of their lives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUU3FRaEK1w

13/ Night Tide (1961)

Curtis Harrington directs a young Dennis Hopper in an eerie low budget carnivalesque tale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN9lfkU-I2U

14/ Spring Night Summer Night (1967)

Masterpiece of regional low budget filmmaking. Liberation and retribution in a small town.

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

15/ Like Rabid Dogs (1976)

Gritty Italian crime drama - very violent. Society under threat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5bqOnkmpKo

16/ Eyes Of Fire (1983)

Brilliant folk horror set in the 1700s. Preachers and settlements. "The secret is sleeping in the trees."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8_HDMaOMro

17/ Alison's Birthday (1981)

Really well made and creepy Aussie horror. Dodgy family circle stuff that never lets up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQqot11WZNk

18/ The Swimmer (1968)

Burt Lancaster as the man who decided to swim home via his neighbours' pools. Mighty work from Frank Perry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY0tmQCa_Os

19/ Repo Man (1984)

Alex Cox's fabulous cult classic. "Repo Man is intense!"

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

20/ Housekeeping (1987)

Bill Forsyth's endearing gem about a woman distracted by life's possibilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLWQNaAPj8w

Mike Litoris

The Green Book was just on RTE there. Great "today" movie imo but I'm a sucker for schmaltzy feel good stuff.

JupiterKid

Someone mentioned Whale Rider a few posts back. It is a terrific film and the young girl’s performance is superb. In my DVD collection.

A must watch! 👍

https://youtu.be/QDiPBjk8fAA

dublinman1990

The Early Bird/Up in The World (Norman Wisdom)

Robbery

The Hound of The Baskervilles

The Fugitive

The Producers (original version)

Spaceballs

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120852873#Comment_120852873

Friday night after the Late Late Show was a great slot for movies going well back into the 80s. Later on from mid to late 90s you had the Last Picture Show slot which had the movies introduced by Brian Reading. It was a rip off of BBCs Moviedrome with Alex Cox but nonetheless a great slot for cult movies. It was where I first saw the Wicker Man which was difficult to come across at the time.

Ger Roe

Silent Running... practically a solo performance from Bruce Dern. Made in 1972, it was set 'in the next century' which is now, and it was way ahead in terms of raising environmental awareness. I can see its approach for saving the earth, being proposed any day now and I wouldn't be surprised if we then make the decision to give up the effort after a few years, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p69lEMn0I8k

Also, The Blue Max.. made in Ireland in 1966, it is a World War 1 story, told from a German angle. Made with substantial technical and pilot support from the Irish Army Air Corps, it features real flying of custom built WW1 replica aircraft. In the days before green screen or CGI, it was all done for real around sites in Wicklow and Cork (Sugar Loaf at Kilpedder and Fermoy in Cork). LOTR Director Peter Jackson has it listed as one of his fave films, with an expressed wish to do a remake - he even has some of the surviving replicas planes used in the film, in his very extensive personal collection of WW1 items. Hollywood star George Peppard, learnt to fly and obtained his pilot licence to allow him undertake some low risk aerial activity in the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efc6Y6LCuuc

Blue850

Has anyone mentioned The Warriors, from 1979, a street gang falsely accused of murdering another gang leader try and cross New York with other gangs out for blood.

2 more modern ones to watch are Fury about a WW2 tank crew with Brad Pitt

All is Lost , Robert Redfords solo performance about a man trying to survive at sea on a badly damaged yacht

odyssey06

Death on the Nile - the Peter Ustinov adaptation. Filmed on location, top cast... not the most faithful to the 'book' Poirot on screen (that is the marvellous David Suchet) but Ustinov is so witty and charming you can't object.

Perfect sunday afternoon viewing.

pgj2015

The hateful eight.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120853377#Comment_120853377

Re: The Hound of The Baskervilles

Which one?

You're probably thinking of the classic Peter Cushing or Basil Rathbone versions?

While a brilliant Holmes, I didn't think the Jeremy Brett adaptation quite hit the mark.

Ian Richardson (UK House of Cards) did a solid enough version.

There was a BBC miniseries version a few years back which was almost perfect but in a bizarre spot of casting had Richard E Grant in a minor role instead of as Holmes!

My favourite version is actually from Russia (with love). There are subtitled versions knocking around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles_(1981_film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3hb9fnyeyk

Flinty997

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120854276#Comment_120854276

Too young to be a golden oldie. Though I did enjoy it.

Greyfox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120854276#Comment_120854276

Good but one of Tarantino's weaker films, nowhere near as good as Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Diango unchained or Inglorious basterds.

Flinty997

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120854357#Comment_120854357

I think its a closer to a classic film. The others might better be mainstream movies.

Riddle101

A Bronx Tale is another great movie I can think of. I love the conflict in this scene between Lorenzo and Sonny arguing over C while also showing a heartwarming scene between father and son later. Also, you can't help but respect Lorenzo here. Such a respectable man that he's willing to confront Sonny even though he knows who he is and how dangerous that could be.

https://youtu.be/6C8cm-l8Xcc

Hippodrome Song Owl

The Eugene trilogy based on Neil Simon plays is worth a watch. The second one, Biloxi Blues starring Matthew Broderick, is probably the best known. But I prefer the first one, Brighton Beach Memoirs. The third one, Broadway Bound, isn't bad either.

Raysin

1990's Falling Down - Michael Douglas has a very bad day.

1980's Local Hero - The meaning of life as seen through the lens of American capitalist who comes to Shetland to exploit but reforms instead, Dire Straits theme tune.

1990'a Shallow Grave - Young Ewan McGregor and his flatmates make regrettable decisions.

Watched them semi recently for the first time. A+