We need some new topics! Come on people! Marc! Azusa! Even you Nasty Gash!
Lets rack our brains for something to talk about without bumping year old threads about math cartoons and boobs! I know we have it in us!
Yeah - the other board is just teeming with dumb stuff lately.
So... I'll open it up. I recently rewatched 'Layer Cake' (loved it), but I don't think I'm up to snuff on what the British Isle has to offer.
I mean aside from 007 and Guy Ritchie flicks, what else is good from there? Cult or sleeper, I don't care.
'Aight - way back when, when I was kid, and we were the only people on the block with a Beta (?!?), recent videos were hard to come by at the store - thus, I was treated to such gems as 'The Fourth Protocol', 'Defense of the Realm' and 'The Ipcress File'.
These are British films, as I am told. I don't remember watching them - my father says I did, so I guess I did. Are they good? Search me.
Here's my $.02 & Top 10 (BTW, I was born in the UK):
A Clockwork Orange
Trainspotting
Brazil
Life of Brian
The Crying Game
A Fish Called Wanda
The Commitments
My Left Foot
Hope and Glory
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
I found all these movies good. They were all the dog's bollocks. Some of them are better than others of course. To Sir With Love is pretty dated, but it's still a good movie I think.
Also, I really like just about anything with Peter Sellers in it as well. I'm not a fan of Harry Potter, but I have heard that all the filming sites and actors are British.
This message has been edited by _Azusa on Sep 27, 2005 3:39 AM
An old housemate of mine rented 'Madness of King Geroge' like 8 years ago - that was good.
And I never caught 'Mrs. Brown' because the same housemate HATED Billy Connelly for some strange reason, and apparently the beard really sent him over the edge.
I also have some VHS tape that features 'Little Voice' during the previews. It's been impossible to find around these parts but the girl + Caine make it look favorable.
Lastly, how could I have forgotten 'Brazil'? (oh yeah, technically Terry Gilliam isn't British). And in yet another grotutious means of name dropping here, 'Brazil' was my first R-rated flick I ever saw (I think I was 12 maybe?)Saw it in Aspen, CO in this movie house that is now vacant (but also a historical landmark). The sound was the LOUDEST I've ever experienced, but I didn't mind at all. Absolutely love that movie.
PS - After the movie was over, my uncle introduced me to Nash of CSNY. Nash had just released a solo album (to little acclaim) and of all the things I could have said to him, I stammered, "How the Hell did you get John Ritter to be in your video?" Ugh.
You know the more I think about it the more I would put Brazil ahead of Clock Work Orange, I loved the Orange but no that I have a hum drum nine to five (or 6 to 3) Brazil just kinda speaks my language and Robert Deniro. Also Time Bandits is a pretty dern good movie, but I guess you don't want to overload the list with one director, and also it seems Marc is right, Minnesota, who would of thunk it.
There is a couple recent movies that I know a couple of buddies-o-mine liked but I never got a chance to see....
Waking Ned Devine and That movie about the little kid whos father wanted him to be a boxer but he took up dancing instead.... billy something or other. Just looked it up Billy Eliot.... ok all tapped out for now.
That and FKAA the Cat better be a regular posting under a new name..... I mean to have your first thread about all the other people not coming up with good threads is not the best way to break the ice...
Saving Grace
The Holy Grail
Love Actually (I suck, I know this)
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
Time Bandits
Snatch (I suck...I still know this)
Hard Days Night
Still Crazy
Full Monty
Withnail and I
Tommy (I still can’t get over the beans)
Get Carter
Wallace and Gromit (GF sold me on this when I was ill)
