Best film of all time - Page 4

carpon · 16-08-2013, 01:35

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Originally Posted by mobertol

A modern classic for me has to be The Gladiator -superb cast, great acting, fab story and I can watch it again and again. Oliver Reeds last ever role - iconic.

Gladiator....is one of my absolute faves. Not many may know...Ollie Reed didn't actually finish filming that film !!! His last few scenes were computer generated !!!

Where Eagles Dare is MY favourite film. Eastwood & Burton in an absolute classic of a war film !!!

My others include Cleopatra, Spartacus, Laurence of Arabia, Kelly's Heroes, Guns of Navarone, Bridge over the River Kwai, The Battle of Britain, The Longest Day,The Dambusters, A Bridge Too Far, Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, The Deerhunter, Apocolypse Now, Black Hawk Down, Apollo 13, Close Encounters of the Third Kind & Knowing (Nic. Cage)

As that list shows, I'm partial to a good war film !!!

Turtle · 16-08-2013, 02:49

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Originally Posted by cashman

Can remember going flicks down Blackburn, around same time n 2 birds were sat in front of us, one i fancied had some very nice perfume on, I was smelling it n lit a fag up, her hair went up in flames, very inflammable hair lacquer in those days.

Now thats what yeh call a true confession.

Can't remember what the film was.

Yikes!

Barrie Yates · 16-08-2013, 09:46

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Originally Posted by cashman

Can remember going flicks down Blackburn, around same time n 2 birds were sat in front of us, one i fancied had some very nice perfume on, I was smelling it n lit a fag up, her hair went up in flames, very inflammable hair lacquer in those days.

Now thats what yeh call a true confession.

Can't remember what the film was.

Was she one of your early flames Cashy?

Gremlin · 16-08-2013, 14:57

I had just got a pint in the Legion Hotel at Southport they announced the film was about to start in the lounge.
It was sometime in the early eighties when I last saw a film, it was "Soldier Blue" and I was parked up in Hull for the night.
Anyway I went to see what the film was about in the hotel and was enthralled through out.

It was "Life of Pi". They showed it from a blue ray disk with surround sound.
Really good filming and the young lad who played Pi was excellent at it.
I enjoyed it so much I didn't leave for another pint until the film ended.

westendlass · 16-08-2013, 17:08

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Originally Posted by cashman

Can remember going flicks down Blackburn, around same time n 2 birds were sat in front of us, one i fancied had some very nice perfume on, I was smelling it n lit a fag up, her hair went up in flames, very inflammable hair lacquer in those days.

Now thats what yeh call a true confession.

Can't remember what the film was.

Was that the nearest you got to a hot date with her Cashy?

egg&chips · 16-08-2013, 19:54

[QUOTE=Gremlin;1071596]I had just got a pint in the Legion Hotel at Southport they announced the film was about to start in the lounge.
It was sometime in the early eighties when I last saw a film, it was "Soldier Blue" and I was parked up in Hull for the night.

"Soldier Blue" was an excellent film. I wonder why it's never on tv? I haven't seen it for about 30 years.

Turtle · 16-08-2013, 21:23

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Originally Posted by Gremlin

I had just got a pint in the Legion Hotel at Southport they announced the film was about to start in the lounge.
It was sometime in the early eighties when I last saw a film, it was "Soldier Blue" and I was parked up in Hull for the night.
Anyway I went to see what the film was about in the hotel and was enthralled through out.

It was "Life of Pi". They showed it from a blue ray disk with surround sound.
Really good filming and the young lad who played Pi was excellent at it.
I enjoyed it so much I didn't leave for another pint until the film ended.

I liked "Life of Pi" too - beautiful and thought provoking!

Guinness · 16-08-2013, 22:44

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Originally Posted by egg&chips

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Originally Posted by Gremlin

I had just got a pint in the Legion Hotel at Southport they announced the film was about to start in the lounge.
It was sometime in the early eighties when I last saw a film, it was "Soldier Blue" and I was parked up in Hull for the night.

"Soldier Blue" was an excellent film. I wonder why it's never on tv? I haven't seen it for about 30 years.

Watched it in the 70's, remembered it as pretty horrific and gruesome, e.g. the tobacco pouch...watched it not too long ago on one of the cruddy movies for men channels, guess I've been hardened by movies since, it was dated didn't have the same punch or stand the test of time (except for the haunting voice of Buffy St Marie )..trust me...stick with your memory and dont watch it again

egg&chips · 17-08-2013, 08:06

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Originally Posted by Guinness

Watched it in the 70's, remembered it as pretty horrific and gruesome, e.g. the tobacco pouch...watched it not too long ago on one of the cruddy movies for men channels, guess I've been hardened by movies since, it was dated didn't have the same punch or stand the test of time (except for the haunting voice of Buffy St Marie )..trust me...stick with your memory and dont watch it again

Fair point.

Barrie Yates · 17-08-2013, 10:09

Watched "Soldier Blue" in Norwich at the opening of the new Odeon there, '70 or a bit earler. The graphics were a new generation - the opening, where the bullet strikes the soldiers cheek had my wife cringing.
A great film and the theme song is still one of my favourites.

cashman · 17-08-2013, 10:18

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Originally Posted by Barrie Yates

Was she one of your early flames Cashy?

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Originally Posted by westendlass

Was that the nearest you got to a hot date with her Cashy?

Yeh may probably find this very hard to believe, But she didn't really want to know me.

That day anyway.

kestrelx · 17-08-2013, 12:20

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Originally Posted by Gremlin

I had just got a pint in the Legion Hotel at Southport they announced the film was about to start in the lounge.
It was sometime in the early eighties when I last saw a film, it was "Soldier Blue" and I was parked up in Hull for the night.

"Soldier Blue" was an excellent film. I wonder why it's never on tv? I haven't seen it for about 30 years.

It has been on TV several times in late 90's and or early 2000's!

jaysay · 17-08-2013, 14:04

Watched Where Eagles Dare last night Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, never get tired of watching these very well made war films, it was on ITV4 at 8pm so I recorded it on plus then started watching it at 9pm so I could flick the ads

Gremlin · 17-08-2013, 14:52

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Originally Posted by Barrie Yates

Watched "Soldier Blue" in Norwich at the opening of the new Odeon there, '70 or a bit earler. The graphics were a new generation - the opening, where the bullet strikes the soldiers cheek had my wife cringing.
A great film and the theme song is still one of my favourites.

Time flies, I was guessing when I said early eighties, I didn't think the film had been out long when I saw it so it must have been in the 70's I started on a BP contract at Hull in 1977 so it was after that.

Not that it really matters, it was still the last film I saw before Life of Pi in July this year.

westendlass · 17-08-2013, 16:23

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Originally Posted by jaysay

Watched Where Eagles Dare last night Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, never get tired of watching these very well made war films, it was on ITV4 at 8pm so I recorded it on plus then started watching it at 9pm so I could flick the ads

Just happened to be flicking through the channels Jaysay and it's on ITV 4 at the moment.