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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: tidla on 16 September 2012, 00:12:25
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With so many tv channels, all showing the same old crap with an advert interval average of seven minutes or so its no wonder now and again we go for the dvd collection.
Some are really view once only material, others are true "keepers" .
Tonight, a bit of Mr Craig in bond form with speakers on load always entertains.
Whats yours?
solace next. :)
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Wow so many to pick from in my collection
Action, Scifi, and Comedy.
Plus, a 2 TB drive full of many tv series from the likes of the original Avengers to NCIS & JAG, and comedies like Love thy neighbor and the Good life
all up, several 1000 hours of viewing
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If I get fed up of the TV then I always turn to the Only fools and horses complete collection ;)
Movie wise, I still love the classics like - Commando, The Rock, Predator, all the Bond movies, Jaws , Police Academy collection ;D :y
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Only one for me Jungle Book it's a bear necessity. :) :) :y :y
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I'm a big Bond fan. But I think my favourite is the Italian Job. Great Escape has to be up there as well.
Arnie and Brucie films are always worth a watch - some of the cheesy Arnie ones are full of great one-liners.
Comedys, anything with Ronnie Barker in, and Blackadder (I've had the pleasure of meeting him, and visiting his house). Mr Bean is a bit too cringy for me, like Frank Spencer (when I was little, I had the pleasure of getting birthday and Christmas cards from Micheal).
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U Turn
Predator
Oherwise hardly ever watch a film twice.
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U Turn
Predator
Oherwise hardly ever watch a film twice.
Original - great. 2nd, pants. First AVP, poor. Second, good in that it didn't follow the Hollywood usual no-nos.
Predators was poor, the scenes from the trailer were not even in the film :(
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Oh I could be here a while... But a couple that come to mind straight away are The shawshank redemption and the green mile. I'm a big horror fan, and I love a laugh out loud comedy. Thin on the ground these days though.
Watched a gritty drama the other night that was quite disturbing, tyrannosaur. Peter Mullen as lead actor. Very good.
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So many...godfather 1+2, goodfellas, casino, pulp fiction, aliens, avatar, man on fire
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I am also great fan of movies you know my theory is that there is a huge common knowledge of the world and issues around us, which is hidden although you can spot small pieces of it in several art works eg paintings, statues, movies and so on...I love the movie, which I can see uncountable times and all times I can find something new in. I saw the Star Wars serie many times although nowadays my best the best is Forest Gump , which is not comedy as many people think. :y
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Shaving Ryan's Privates is one of the best :y A series called Band Of Brothers that I have on DVD is another :y
Platoon. Ham Burger Hill. Can you see a patern ::)
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Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels :y
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...and for the sake of entertainment some Guy Ritchie movie of course... ;)
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The first Rambo
The first Terminator
Mad Max
Wrong turn
Alien
Close encounters
Randy mamola bike hero
ET ;D
The royle family box set when nothing worth watching on tv ;)
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I much prefer TV fare to films it must be said (I seldom watch them).
Looking at me DVD's I see;
40+ Operas and other music (concerts, recitals - that sort of thing).
Complete series of;
30 Rock
Dead Like Me
Weeds
Seinfeld
Caroline In The City
Curb Your Enthusiam
L Word
Twin Peaks
Spooks
The Wire
Rescue Me
Sopranos
The Avengers (Emma Peel and Tara King years)
Gideons Way
The Baron
Rowan and Martins Laugh In (sadly incomplete)
In addition to many other incomplete collections.
3 satellite systems and two MCE's complete the video ensemble for those times I've nothing to watch. ;D ;D ;D
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Not in any particular order.
Quadrophenia
Schindlers List
Green Mile
Original Italian Job
Dam Busters
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One of my all time favorites has to be Ronin
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122690/
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One of my all time favorites has to be Ronin
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122690/
Cracking action sequences. Just a shame no one including those in the movie know whats happening.
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Some of mine include:
The Fifth Element - gloriously over the top, with some superb scenes. Would anybody like to 'negotiate' with Bruce Willis?
Highlander - a terrible, terrible film. It makes no sense, the acting is dreadful, the effects cheesy, I could go on. But somehow, even after 25 years, it's still ridiculously watchable.
Grosse Point Blank - I've got it on disc, but still have to watch if I find it by channel hopping.
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Not in any particular order.
QuadropheniaSchindlers List
Green Mile
Original Italian Job
Dam Busters
A very good friend of mine Alan Fletcher wrote the book, and the story is based around the Who's album featuring all our exploits. 8) 8) :y :y
My film has to be The Blues Brothers, seen the first half more than the second. Coming home from the pub pissed having a bacon sarnie and falling asleep half way thro' ;D ;D ;D
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I have strange taste in films, I particularly like war filmsofwhich the Vietnam one I like best. Then on the flip side I also love the Shrek and Ice age films, so much so my wife has bought me all the Shrek and Ice age dvd's to date.
I practicly hate the TV with a vengeance now because of all the ads. The only TV I really watch is the Discovery type channels. But even then I turn it off in disgust when the ads come on. If it was not for SWMBO I would not have a television anymore.
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One of my all time favorites has to be Ronin
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122690/
Cracking action sequences. Just a shame no one including those in the movie know whats happening.
I like a complex plots, rather than the usual Hollywood simple stuff...
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Of the top of my head ,
The Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart , great plot ,fast moving , classic Film noir.
ChinaTown ,Jack Nicholson but fantastic direction by Roman Polanski . Complex plot with a twist.
True Grit , the original John Wayne version . Marvelously overplayed by Wayne showing how he could turn to comedy but with subtle malevolent undertones .
And one other that although seen a trillion times still draws me to the TV ....
Pulp Fiction , like him or not Quinten Tarantino is a bloody good Director.
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24
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;D ;D its got to be the one with the pink elephants in it :y :y :y :y
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One of my all time favorites has to be Ronin
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122690/
Cracking action sequences. Just a shame no one including those in the movie know whats happening.
I like a complex plots, rather than the usual Hollywood simple stuff...
complex plot.... hmmm you see the first season of "Gladiator" , boy, eat ya heart out agata christie, that had so many plots, turns and twists youd miss it if ya blink
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Most of my favourites have allready been mentioned.
Sadly technology is showing and the older James bond movies dont have the same effect anymore. Dam busters and Battle of Brittain are brilliant films, sadly the Dam being bust when watching it on TV last time totally spoilt the whole film for me.
Top Gun, Sword Fish, Face Off and the list goes on.
Both of the Gone in 60 Seconds.
Nicholas Cage, Sean Connery, John Travlolta, Jason Stratham, Catherine Zeta Jones (Zorro and Entrapment) Adam Sandler.
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The Outlaw Josey Wales
True Grit (Original)
High Noon
Rio Bravo
Any other good western
Godfather series
A good war film (made before 1970)
Dirty Harry
Blues Brothers
to name but a few.
Given the choice of reading a book or watching a film, the book will win every time. Hence I don't have many DVD's but I do have a very big library of books.
I enjoy reading westerns for escapism and history books, especially 20th century military history.
Most modern populist action films I find very boring, along with poor remakes of classic films (True Grit remake is better than most, but not as good as the original) where the scripts and plots seem to written for children of 6 and under to be able to understand.
Modern Hollywood action / crime/ terrorist film plots, seem to consist of the following:
Opening with big black power and diesel explosion effect, lots of automatic weapons firing, hero not scratched, some baddy sidekicks killed, few more encounters with baddies, lots more machine gun fire until most baddy sidekicks are killed, hero not scratched, baddy plant bomb and you know it is that from the aluminium box, big industrial switch, big red light and big 4 digit LED display, which hero switches off with big industrial switch with 1 second to go, second biggest baddy and hero fist fight, hero wins, second biggest baddy runs off, until hero shoots at him from half a mile away with short barrel pistol, and kills him with ease, number 1 baddy escapes in car, slow speed car / car or car / bike chase made to look fast, with high speed cutting to different film angles, revving engines, squealing tyres, and the original hit the pile of boxes or trash can at the side of the road (I bet you haven't seen that before), stop at big industrial complex for final encounter, number 1 baddy dispatched, industrial complex destroyed by another big black powder / diesel explosion. The End.
There you go, now you know the plot for all these types of modern Hollywood films that will save you a fortune in DVD rental costs. ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Shawshank, the fourth protocol, Das Boot, Bill with Mickey Rooney( old and obscure), Cinema Paradiso , I could go on and on!!
Plus every Only Fools ever made :y :y