Movies - The Hit List

Anything on and off topic
User avatar
DJ-Daz
Site Admin
Posts: 439
Joined: Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:16 pm

Unread post

Image

We have medieval institutions, primitive psychology, and God like technology.
How are we NOT doomed?

"And though the forest was shrinking, the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that since her handle was made of wood, she was one of them."
User avatar
DJ-Daz
Site Admin
Posts: 439
Joined: Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:16 pm

Unread post

Image

We have medieval institutions, primitive psychology, and God like technology.
How are we NOT doomed?

"And though the forest was shrinking, the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that since her handle was made of wood, she was one of them."
User avatar
DJ-Daz
Site Admin
Posts: 439
Joined: Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:16 pm

Unread post

The Russel Crowe Collection

Romper Stomper. Brilliant and edgy, but never really violent. Just threatening all the time.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105275

Neighbours 🤣
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088580

For the Moment
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109823

The Sum of Us
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111309

The Quick and the Dead
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114214

L.A. Confidential
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119488

Mystery Alaska
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134618

The Insider
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140352

Gladiator
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172495

Proof of life
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0228750

A Beautiful mind
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268978

Master and Commander: The far side of the world
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311113

Cinderella man
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0352248

A good year
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401445

3:10 to Yuma
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381849

American Gangster
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0765429

body of Lies
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758774

State of Play
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473705

The Next 3 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1458175

Les Misérables - True story, I went to see this in New York (sept 1991) and it was AMAZING! The film is ... good enough.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1707386

Broken City
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235522

The Water Diviner
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3007512

The Nice Guys
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3799694

DUNDEE Full Official Trailer (2018) Margot Robbie, Hugh Jackman Comedy Movie HD
Image

We have medieval institutions, primitive psychology, and God like technology.
How are we NOT doomed?

"And though the forest was shrinking, the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that since her handle was made of wood, she was one of them."
User avatar
DJ-Daz
Site Admin
Posts: 439
Joined: Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:16 pm

Unread post

I went to see this, it might have been a UK premier, at Black Sunday film festival in Ashton under-lyne in Manchester way back in 1990. While its classed as horror, it's not really horrific or even scary.
https://letterboxd.com/phantom_fred/lis ... anchester/
Grim Prairie Tales is a cracking trilogy of western stories. The first one gave me a damn good laugh though.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099704


Also from that same festival -
Predator 2
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100403
Image

We have medieval institutions, primitive psychology, and God like technology.
How are we NOT doomed?

"And though the forest was shrinking, the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that since her handle was made of wood, she was one of them."
User avatar
DJ-Daz
Site Admin
Posts: 439
Joined: Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:16 pm

Unread post

https://letterboxd.com/phantom_fred/lis ... anchester/

Black Sunday Film Festival #5 (my first time)!



bs5_ticket.jpg
bs5_ticket.jpg (27.21 KiB) Viewed 8796 times
bs5_sticker.jpg
bs5_sticker.jpg (36.19 KiB) Viewed 8796 times
bs5_progf.jpg
bs5_prog1.jpg
bs5_prog2.jpg
bs5_prog3.jpg
bs5_prog4.jpg
bs5_prog5.jpg
bs5_prog6.jpg
bs5_prog7.jpg
bs5_prog8.jpg
bs5_prog9.jpg
bs5_prog10.jpg
bs5_prog11.jpg
bs5_prog12.jpg
bs5_prog13.jpg
bs5_prog14.jpg
Image

We have medieval institutions, primitive psychology, and God like technology.
How are we NOT doomed?

"And though the forest was shrinking, the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that since her handle was made of wood, she was one of them."
User avatar
DJ-Daz
Site Admin
Posts: 439
Joined: Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:16 pm

Unread post

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1591095/
I like it, it's a cross between Poltergeist and Paranormal Activity, while some people might not like Paranormal activity, I think it's great, and this combination works very well together.

It did initially take 2 attempts to watch this film, and I wish I'd have been able to watch it in one sitting, but amazingly it still worked. It's definitely a fresh take on the "haunted house" theme and worth a look.


Poltergeist trivia:
Heather O'Rourke, who played the little girl Carol-Anne, and Dominique Dunne, who played the teenage daughter, are buried in the same cemetery: Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles. Dunne was strangled into brain-death by her boyfriend in 1982, the year of the film's release. Six years later, O'Rourke died of intestinal stenosis.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084516/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1179904/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219289
A writer discovers a top-secret drug which bestows him with super human abilities.

Now dont go thinking this is a superman type movies, it's not.
The drug of choice is called NZT, and it doesn't help you to fly or get high, it makes you intelligent, so intelligent you make Einstein look like a 2year old just learning to speak.

Now personally for me, this would be THE ULTIMATE high, nothing could come close. Imagine being able to speak a foreign language, any language, and within a day?

Or compute maths so you could make millions on the stock exchange, or just win virtually every hand of poker.

This movie is about a drug that makes it possible and it's a belter.

Some new additions to the hit list:
Transformers 1 and 2. Nuff said, great movies. Great to re-watch.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418279
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1055369/

Looking forward to seeing the third... maybe next week, might take in the final Harry Potter too.

The Quiet Earth:
Very old, Australian, but pretty damned good though, and it's just had a blu-ray release.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869/


Take me Home Tonight:
Watched it last night, great film and great 80's soundtrack too.
Worth 90 minutes of anyone's time.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810922

Knowing:
Once you know the plot it's a bit less interesting 2nd time around, but the special effects are amazing.
Still a good Nicolas Cage film, and the lovely rose Byrne too! Hubbahubba.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448011

A collection of old and new movies.
Starting with:
Once upon a time in the west.
Directed by Sergio Leone, he made some great westerns, and this is supposed to be his best, and it's good no doubt about that.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064116

Red Planet:
Not the best movie in this topic, but still good entertainment for a first viewing, and if you've not seen in it in a long time.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199753

Very bad things:
I haven't seen this is years, and while it's not quite as good as when I first saw it, it's still funny, and Christian Slater is just so good at being bad.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124198

Moon:
Sam Rockwell plays several clones of himself, brilliant idea and well executed.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345

GasHole:
Asks the question of why we dont have cars capable of 100mpg or even 1000mpg. Places the blame squarely on the oil cartels.
Good documentary with some fascinating archive footage and news clippings of a 5ton car that does 100mpg in the 50's.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1333998

Finally, one of my all time favourite movies...
Dog Soldiers:
A squad of british soldiers play wargames with a squad of special unit, only trouble is... werewolves intervene.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280609

Favourite line, one of the soldiers is about to be killed and eaten, and he turns to a werewolf and says: "I hope I give you the shits".
Image

We have medieval institutions, primitive psychology, and God like technology.
How are we NOT doomed?

"And though the forest was shrinking, the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that since her handle was made of wood, she was one of them."
User avatar
DJ-Daz
Site Admin
Posts: 439
Joined: Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:16 pm

Unread post

My list of Top 10 films of 1990

Born on the 4th of July
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096969

Driving Miss Daisy
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097239

The Hunt for Red October
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099810

Back to the Future III
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099088

Total recall
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100802

Presumed Innocent, has a damn fine twist at the end.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100404

Flatliners (yes of course I mean the original and not the utter shite that was the 2017 remake)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099582

The Exorcist III (an excellent sequel) George C Scott was BRILLIANT
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099528/

Jacob's Ladder
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099871

Goodfellas
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099685

I and other movie lovers like me HATED the BBFC back in the 80's and 90's. Due to the so called "video nasties" and the availability of kids (like me) to rent these movies, the government gave the BBFC more teeth and the bite to use them. So a lot of films that would normally get a 12 or 15 rating today would get big cuts and still rated 18. A 2 hour long horror like "The Thing" was cut down to 90 minutes. The Thing came out when I was 12 years old, but I'd be nearly 30 before I finally saw it completely restored as John Carpenter intended.
I could buy it on laser disc in the early 90's, but importing that from the USA would have cost nearly £100, today that's around £350 today (late 2021), and that's for one film.

All in all not a bad year, with a few movies on this list still being incredibly popular today.
Image

We have medieval institutions, primitive psychology, and God like technology.
How are we NOT doomed?

"And though the forest was shrinking, the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that since her handle was made of wood, she was one of them."
User avatar
DJ-Daz
Site Admin
Posts: 439
Joined: Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:16 pm

Unread post

Image

We have medieval institutions, primitive psychology, and God like technology.
How are we NOT doomed?

"And though the forest was shrinking, the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that since her handle was made of wood, she was one of them."
User avatar
DJ-Daz
Site Admin
Posts: 439
Joined: Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:16 pm

Unread post

My Top ten of 1992 - It was a damn good year for movies.

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104389/

Medicine Man - A film about protecting the rain forest, long before it was even talked about in pop-culture
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104839/

Wayne's World
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105793/

Basic Instinct
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103772/

Lethal weapon 3 - Lethal Weapon is a rare set of movies, the sequels actually build on the original and subjectively, they get better too.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104714

Sneakers
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/

The Last of the Mohicans
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104691/

A Few Good Men
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104257/

A League of their own
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104694/

Under Siege
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105690/
Image

We have medieval institutions, primitive psychology, and God like technology.
How are we NOT doomed?

"And though the forest was shrinking, the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that since her handle was made of wood, she was one of them."
User avatar
DJ-Daz
Site Admin
Posts: 439
Joined: Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:16 pm

Unread post

The year was 1993 and this is more than the top 10 movies, this was an incredible year of movies, and many have stood the test of time.

Groundhog Day
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/

Falling Down
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106856/

Indecent Proposal
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107211/

Dave
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106673/

Cliffhanger
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106582/

Jurassic Park
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/

The Firm
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106918/

The Fugitive
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106977/

Demolition Man - The three sea-shells???
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106697/

The Pelican Brief
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107798/

Poetic Justice
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107840/

The Nightmare Before Christmas
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107688/
Image

We have medieval institutions, primitive psychology, and God like technology.
How are we NOT doomed?

"And though the forest was shrinking, the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that since her handle was made of wood, she was one of them."
Post Reply

Last 2 Members Who Visited This Topic. Total 8 visits

User avatar DJ-Daz (8)