Any Ideas?

[Christie Brinkley]

I think I have exhausted the list of good movies to watch. Is there any 'needle in the haystack' under-rated movies that are not really spoken about any more? I feel like I have got to a point where I have seen all that is good.

[Gunny]

I think I have exhausted the list of good movies to watch. Is there any 'needle in the haystack' under-rated movies that are not really spoken about any more? I feel like I have got to a point where I have seen all that is good.

Casablanca

[Christie Brinkley]

Casablanca
Not a big fan of that. Watched an hour of it and fell asleep! Not my type of movie.

Any other ideas?

[Black Diamond]

Not a big fan of that. Watched an hour of it and fell asleep! Not my type of movie.

Any other ideas?

Needle in the haystack? Glengarry Glen Ross, Rope

[Gunny]

Not a big fan of that. Watched an hour of it and fell asleep! Not my type of movie.

Any other ideas?

Uh oh. Here we go. I'm a Marine, missy. Here are all the movies I'm not allowed to watch:

First Blood

Rambo II

Saving Private Ryan

Windtalkers

Band of Brothers

The Last Samurai

I have an issue or two. :laugh:

And NO ONE will even allow American Sniper anywhere near me.

[Black Diamond]

A Clockwork Orange. But that is banned in Britain.

[Gunny]

A Clockwork Orange. But that is banned in Britain.

Why is that goofy movie banned in Britain?

[Black Diamond]

Why is that goofy movie banned in Britain?

Director requested it be banned after people were committing crimes and dedicating them to main character

[Christie Brinkley]

Uh oh. Here we go. I'm a Marine, missy. Here are all the movies I'm not allowed to watch:

First Blood

Rambo II

Saving Private Ryan

Windtalkers

Band of Brothers

The Last Samurai

I have an issue or two. :laugh:

And NO ONE will even allow American Sniper anywhere near me.

Have not seen Windtalkers and Band of Brothers. Looks good.

[Gunny]

Director requested it be banned after people were committing crimes and dedicating them to main character

Brits are weird about blaming movies. One dipstick murdered his girlfriend in Hyde Park in 1928 and blamed it on London After Midnight.

[Christie Brinkley]

Brits are weird about blaming movies. One dipstick murdered his girlfriend in Hyde Park in 1928 and blamed it on London After Midnight.
Reflex actions of the nanny state *sigh*. The reaction to any thing that is wrong is to ban something or put a tax on it...

[Black Diamond]

Brits are weird about blaming movies. One dipstick murdered his girlfriend in Hyde Park in 1928 and blamed it on London After Midnight.

Yeah Stanley Kubrick lived in England. i think He may have been getting threats on top of it.
Interesting we didn't ban taxi driver after Reagan was shot. There's another one for CB.

[Gunny]

Reflex actions of the nanny state *sigh*. The reaction to any thing that is wrong is to ban something or put a tax on it...

I have to laugh my butt off at that. We fought a war against our King supposedly because of the the taxes. You come here and try to find something that isn't taxed. It's ridiculous and hypocritical.

[Christie Brinkley]

I have to laugh my butt off at that. We fought a war against our King supposedly because of the the taxes. You come here and try to find something that isn't taxed. It's ridiculous and hypocritical.
Well in the UK they are thinking of putting a tax on sugar! Because yes there is an obesity problem! So there is a problem and we Brits (not me of course) only seem to have the solution of "ban it" or "tax it".

[LongTermGuy]

I think I have exhausted the list of good movies to watch. Is there any 'needle in the haystack' under-rated movies that are not really spoken about any more? I feel like I have got to a point where I have seen all that is good.


The Count of Monte Cristo synopsis / Plot..

"At the age of nineteen, Edmond Dantès seems to have the perfect life. He is about to become the captain of a ship, he is engaged to a beautiful and kind young woman, Mercédès, and he is well liked by almost everyone who knows him. This perfect life, however, stirs up dangerous jealousy among some of Dantès’s so-called friends. Danglars, the treasurer of Dantès’s ship, envies Dantès’s early career success; Fernand Mondego is in love with Dantès’s fiancée and so covets his amorous success; his neighbor Caderousse is simply envious that Dantès is so much luckier in life than he is.
Together, these three men draft a letter accusing Dantès of treason. There is some truth to their accusations: as a favor to his recently deceased captain, Dantès is carrying a letter from Napoleon to a group of Bonapartist sympathizers in Paris. Though Dantès himself has no political leanings, the undertaking is enough to implicate him for treason. On the day of his wedding, Dantès is arrested for his alleged crimes.
The deputy public prosecutor, Villefort, sees through the plot to frame Dantès and is prepared to set him free. At the last moment, though, Dantès jeopardizes his freedom by revealing the name of the man to whom he is supposed to deliver Napoleon’s letter. The man, Noirtier, is Villefort’s father. Terrified that any public knowledge of his father’s treasonous activities will thwart his own ambitions, Villefort decides to send Dantès to prison for life. Despite the entreaties of Monsieur Morrel, Dantès’s kind and honest boss, Dantès is sent to the infamous Château d’If, where the most dangerous political prisoners are kept.
While in prison, Dantès meets Abbé Faria, an Italian priest and intellectual, who has been jailed for his political views. Faria teaches Dantès history, science, philosophy, and languages, turning him into a well-educated man. Faria also bequeaths to Dantès a large treasure hidden on the island of Monte Cristo, and he tells him how to find it should he ever escape. When Faria dies, Dantès hides himself in the abbé’s shroud, thinking that he will be buried and then dig his way out. Instead, Dantès is thrown into the sea, and is able to cut himself loose and swim to freedom........................"
​*Now...the Sweet...delicious revenge begins.....! Awesome movie...:cool:
Full Movie...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzefViZ6UoU

[WiccanLiberal]

Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and also try Outsourced. The latter is a very funny touching film about a guy who has to go to India to train a call center and ends up falling in love with one of his employees and with the country.

[Gunny]

The Count of Monte Cristo synopsis / Plot..

"At the age of nineteen, Edmond Dantès seems to have the perfect life. He is about to become the captain of a ship, he is engaged to a beautiful and kind young woman, Mercédès, and he is well liked by almost everyone who knows him. This perfect life, however, stirs up dangerous jealousy among some of Dantès’s so-called friends. Danglars, the treasurer of Dantès’s ship, envies Dantès’s early career success; Fernand Mondego is in love with Dantès’s fiancée and so covets his amorous success; his neighbor Caderousse is simply envious that Dantès is so much luckier in life than he is.
Together, these three men draft a letter accusing Dantès of treason. There is some truth to their accusations: as a favor to his recently deceased captain, Dantès is carrying a letter from Napoleon to a group of Bonapartist sympathizers in Paris. Though Dantès himself has no political leanings, the undertaking is enough to implicate him for treason. On the day of his wedding, Dantès is arrested for his alleged crimes.
The deputy public prosecutor, Villefort, sees through the plot to frame Dantès and is prepared to set him free. At the last moment, though, Dantès jeopardizes his freedom by revealing the name of the man to whom he is supposed to deliver Napoleon’s letter. The man, Noirtier, is Villefort’s father. Terrified that any public knowledge of his father’s treasonous activities will thwart his own ambitions, Villefort decides to send Dantès to prison for life. Despite the entreaties of Monsieur Morrel, Dantès’s kind and honest boss, Dantès is sent to the infamous Château d’If, where the most dangerous political prisoners are kept.
While in prison, Dantès meets Abbé Faria, an Italian priest and intellectual, who has been jailed for his political views. Faria teaches Dantès history, science, philosophy, and languages, turning him into a well-educated man. Faria also bequeaths to Dantès a large treasure hidden on the island of Monte Cristo, and he tells him how to find it should he ever escape. When Faria dies, Dantès hides himself in the abbé’s shroud, thinking that he will be buried and then dig his way out. Instead, Dantès is thrown into the sea, and is able to cut himself loose and swim to freedom........................"
​*Now...the Sweet...delicious revenge begins.....! Awesome movie...:cool:
Full Movie...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzefViZ6UoU

Dante, huh? Nice.

[Christie Brinkley]

Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and also try Outsourced. The latter is a very funny touching film about a guy who has to go to India to train a call center and ends up falling in love with one of his employees and with the country.
I was meaning to watch that, is it any good?

[NightTrain]

American Sniper was a great movie.

Snatch

Get Shorty

The Avengers

Unforgiven

Intolerable Cruelty

Sling Blade

The Green Mile

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Gone in 60 Seconds

Shawshank Redemption

Pulp Fiction

Meet Joe Black

Interstellar

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Braveheart

Full Metal Jacket

Heat - any movie with Pachino and DeNiro is bound to be awesome!

Se7en

Casino

Gran Torino

The Big Lebowski

The Bucket List

Lethal Weapon 1, 2 & 3

Terminator 1 & 2

Million Dollar Baby

The Fifth Element

The Sixth Sense

[jimnyc]

I think I have exhausted the list of good movies to watch. Is there any 'needle in the haystack' under-rated movies that are not really spoken about any more? I feel like I have got to a point where I have seen all that is good.

The entire "Saw" series. Also the first 2 out of the 3 "Hostel" flicks.

[hjmick]

Stuntman

Shadow of the Vampire

Eulogy

The Cooler

Death at a Funeral (the original)

Sideways

The Proposition

Once Upon a Time in the West

Once Upon a Time in America

Dogma

Inherit the Wind (Spencer Tracy version)

Defiance

Good Will Hunting

The Big Lebowski

[WiccanLiberal]

I was meaning to watch that, is it any good?


Found both of them excellent with great performance, understated and very human.

[LongTermGuy]

Dante, huh? Nice.

Yup, Yes...that's "his name"... in the movie as the synopsis suggests.... why do you ask?

[hjmick]

Dante, huh? Nice.



:lmao:



Stirring long suppressed memories Gunny?



And in the movie in question, the name is Dantès... pronounced dawntez...

[jimnyc]

I have a movie now, called "Old 37" that I'm going to watch. I'm a horror movie fanatic, or thriller movies. This one sounds a little demented, which is just like me. :)

Disguised as paramedics, two psychopaths intercept 911 calls in an ambulance known as Old 37 and prey on unsuspecting teenage victims. But when a shy girl-next-door becomes their latest target, she turns the tables on her captors to fight for her survival. Hailed as "a blood-soaked, slasher fan's wet dream" by Dread Central, and "Jaws on the interstate" by iHorror.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1600429/?ref_=nv_sr_3

[hjmick]

For fun and shear goofiness...


Army of Darkness


Can't wait for Ash vs. the Evil Dead on Starz...

[Black Diamond]

More needle in haystack: Barry Lyndon.

[Noir]

A Clockwork Orange. But that is banned in Britain.

That ban was lifted like 15 years ago, following Kubricks death.

As for movies to watch:
More mainstream - Mad Max or The Martian.
Lesser mainstream - Vicky Christina Barcelona, Hard Candy, or Fargo.
Lesser known again - The Skin I Live In, The Guard, or Q.

All are 10/10 if they're in genres you engage with.

[Black Diamond]

Ok Christie: all of Stanley Kubricks films.

[Abbey Marie]

Do you have a favorite genre? That would help.

[indago]

Not a big fan of that. Watched an hour of it and fell asleep! Not my type of movie.

Then you missed the famous line...

[Elessar]

Pure enjoyment:

Lord of The Rings Trilogy;

The Hobbit Trilogy.

[Black Diamond]

Psycho, vertigo, rear window.

[Christie Brinkley]

Psycho, vertigo, rear window.
Watched those three. Very good!

[Gunny]

American Sniper was a great movie.

Snatch

Get Shorty

The Avengers

Unforgiven

Intolerable Cruelty

Sling Blade

The Green Mile

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Gone in 60 Seconds

Shawshank Redemption

Pulp Fiction

Meet Joe Black

Interstellar

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Braveheart

Full Metal Jacket

Heat - any movie with Pachino and DeNiro is bound to be awesome!

Se7en

Casino

Gran Torino

The Big Lebowski

The Bucket List

Lethal Weapon 1, 2 & 3

Terminator 1 & 2

Million Dollar Baby

The Fifth Element

The Sixth Sense

I like the movies. However, any of the war/Rambo-type movies made from the 80s on causes no one to want to sleep in the same house with me. Seems I get a tad bit too high strung. :laugh:

[Gunny]

:lmao:



Stirring long suppressed memories Gunny?



And in the movie in question, the name is Dantès... pronounced dawntez...

Haven't seen the movie, but I read his novels. Interesting the spelling thing. I don't recall that "s" at the end. I usually just ignore that kind of stuff. Should see what your name looks like in Mandarin.:laugh:

[Gunny]

Psycho, vertigo, rear window.


Watched those three. Very good!

Hitchcock made some great movies in the states. I used to have a dvd of the movies he made in Britain. Not sure where it is. A company called Millcreek was selling it in WalMart. However, if you don;t like B&W, I wouldn't bother.

[Christie Brinkley]

Hitchcock made some great movies in the states. I used to have a dvd of the movies he made in Britain. Not sure where it is. A company called Millcreek was selling it in WalMart. However, if you don;t like B&W, I wouldn't bother.
Rear view window is a classic.

[Gunny]

Rear view window is a classic.

A lot of his movies are. The Birds. Vertigo. There is a movie in which Gregory Peck has amnesia I can't recall the name of.

[NightTrain]

There is a movie in which Gregory Peck has amnesia I can't recall the name of.

Mirage?

[Gunny]

Mirage?

Sure. Make me look sh*t up. Spellbound.

[revelarts]

CB, You thought casabalaca was boring
and you like several hickcock films

what are 5 of your FAVORITE films.
what 5 where you told were good that you thought were boring or just no good.


Jim likes horror films I haven't watched a horror film in 20 years.
My old boss hated violence didn't like films with war or fighting themes. not even fantasy like star wars or rings.
I met some 20 oe 30 something age kids who can't take seriously a black and white film or "old films". they can't stand them.
Some people love slapstick goofy comedies others hate them with a passion.
What's "good" is in the eye of the beholder as far as films go.

[jimnyc]

jim like horror films I haven't watched a horror film in 20 years.

I had another site reviewing movies, I wish I never sold it. :( I love horror movies, and the thriller types, and torture types!

This was a good thriller - "Hard Candy" with Ellen Page. This guy has eyes for kids, and this kid doesn't like that, so she teaches him a lesson. All in good fun! :laugh:

---

After three weeks of chatting with the thirty-two year old photographer Jeff Kohlver over the Internet, fourteen year old Hayley Stark meets him in the Nighthawks coffee shop. Hayley flirts with him in spite of the age difference and proposes to go to his house. Once there, she prepares a screwdriver for them and Jeff passes out. When he awakes, he is tied up to a chair, and Hayley accuses him of pedophilia. Jeff denies the accusation, and Hayley begins to torture him in a cat and mouse game.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424136/?ref_=nv_sr_1

[Gunny]

CB, You thought casabalaca was boring
and you like several hickcock films

what are 5 of your FAVORITE films.
what 5 where you told were good that you thought were boring or just no good.


Jim likes horror films I haven't watched a horror film in 20 years.
My old boss hated violence didn't like films with war or fighting themes. not even fantasy like star wars or rings.
I met some 20 oe 30 something age kids who can't watch a black and white film. or "old films" they can't stand them.
Some people love slapstick goofy comedies others hate them with a passion.
What's "good" is in the eye of the beholder as far as films go.

Depends. I like horror films from the 20s 30s and 40s. Once they turned into slasher flicks I'm out. Being gross and offensive just to be gross and offensive with no real plot? Nah.

If you want a movie with meaning, watch Metropolis. Was made around 1920 but it is a PERFECT prediction of what we have become.

[NightTrain]

Cannonball Run

Smokey and the Bandit

Any Which Way But Loose

Blues Brothers - very old movie, but still one of the greatest car chase scenes in history! Plus, Ackroyd and Belushi were great in it.

The Book of Eli

Django Unchained

[revelarts]

I really like the film "BRAZIL" I think it's GREAT.
--Written and Directed by: Terry Gilliam--


http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTIwMDQ1NzQyOF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTE4MDQzMQ@@._ V1._CR3,43,349,456_SY317_CR14,0,214,317_AL_.jpg

But when i saw it in the theater one guy stood up about halfway through it and literally shouted in frustration
"WHAT KIND OF MOVIE IS THIS!?" and marched out of the theater.

[Gunny]

Cannonball Run

Smokey and the Bandit

Any Which Way But Loose

Blues Brothers - very old movie, but still one of the greatest car chase scenes in history! Plus, Ackroyd and Belushi were great in it.

The Book of Eli

Django Unchained

I see you like those "cerebral" films. :laugh:

[hjmick]

McClintock!

[Abbey Marie]

A lot of his movies are. The Birds. Vertigo. There is a movie in which Gregory Peck has amnesia I can't recall the name of.


Pun intended? :laugh2:

[Abbey Marie]

Depends. I like horror films from the 20s 30s and 40s. Once they turned into slasher flicks I'm out. Being gross and offensive just to be gross and offensive with no real plot? Nah.

If you want a movie with meaning, watch Metropolis. Was made around 1920 but it is a PERFECT prediction of what we have become.


I love the 60's Vincent Price, etc., horror movies. They are cheesy and fun; never any gore or slasher junk.

My absolute fave was the original House on Haunted Hill. (The remake was awful).

[Gunny]

I love the 60's Vincent Price, etc., horror movies. They are cheesy and fun; never any gore or slasher junk.

My absolute fave was the original House on Haunted Hill. (The remake was awful).

I have that movie. :)

[jimnyc]

Torture movies are the best, like Hostel and Saw. There are some good foreign flicks like that too. Then you have classics like the disgusting "human centipede" flicks, Martyrs, The Experiment was great. swapping out prisoners with the guards and see how it plays out, Funny Games, 100 feet, Vile...

[Black Diamond]

Pulp fiction, reservoir dogs, Jackie brown.

Jackie Brown is the needle in the haystack

[Drummond]

That ban was lifted like 15 years ago, following Kubricks death.

Noir has to be right about that. I watched Clockwork Orange a couple of years ago ... shown by the BBC. Maybe it was edited down .. but it was definitely shown.

An old favourite of mine was & is Omega Man. In fact, I can't think of any Charlton Heston film I've ever watched that hasn't been good (the original Planet of the Apes, for example).

V for Vendetta is another favourite. Actually an American film, though set entirely in a dystopian future Britain. I'd challenge anyone to recognise it as American .. even so, the Wachowski Brothers (Matrix trilogy) were behind its action scenes.

Or, Vincent Price movies ... the Dr Phibes ones are great (tongue-in-cheek humour).

How about the Quatermass ones ? The BBC has just shown Quatermass & The Pit.

For sheer, priceless comedy, I'd recommend 'I'm All Right Jack' to anyone. Made by the Boulting Brothers, it was an anti-Union film - the Boulting Bros felt the need to speak out, even then (late Fifties) against British Trade Union lunacy. A Peter Sellers comedy.

Currently, I like any / all Hunger Games movies ...

[Gunny]

Noir has to be right about that. I watched Clockwork Orange a couple of years ago ... shown by the BBC. Maybe it was edited down .. but it was definitely shown.

An old favourite of mine was & is Omega Man. In fact, I can't think of any Charlton Heston film I've ever watched that hasn't been good (the original Planet of the Apes, for example).

V for Vendetta is another favourite. Actually an American film, though set entirely in a dystopian future Britain. I'd challenge anyone to recognise it as American .. even so, the Wachowski Brothers (Matrix trilogy) were behind its action scenes.

Or, Vincent Price movies ... the Dr Phibes ones are great (tongue-in-cheek humour).

How about the Quatermass ones ? The BBC has just shown Quatermass & The Pit.

For sheer, priceless comedy, I'd recommend 'I'm All Right Jack' to anyone. Made by the Boulting Brothers, it was an anti-Union film - the Boulting Bros felt the need to speak out, even then (late Fifties) against British Trade Union lunacy. A Peter Sellers comedy.

Currently, I like any / all Hunger Games movies ...

I didn't understand V for Vendetta until I looked up who and what it was about. Didn't care for it anyway.

Charleton Heston and Burt Lancaster had unique qualities. BOTH actors made something out of nothing. They took lousy movies and made them into something on sheer personality.

[Perianne]

V for Vendetta is another favourite. Actually an American film, though set entirely in a dystopian future Britain. I'd challenge anyone to recognise it as American .. even so, the Wachowski Brothers (Matrix trilogy) were behind its action scenes.


Drummond, I am so happy you are still with us. I just wanted to get that out there.

Anyway, I have a question fer ya. You and I have discussed how I have a hearing problem that is a learning disability. I struggle to understand foreign languages like what you speak in Britain :). Do you Brits struggle to understand American English?

[Gunny]

Drummond, I am so happy you are still with us. I just wanted to get that out there.

Anyway, I have a question fer ya. You and I have discussed how I have a hearing problem that is a learning disability. I struggle to understand foreign languages like what you speak in Britain :). Do you Brit struggle to understand American English?

Was he going somewhere?

[Perianne]

Was he going somewhere?

He went bye-bye for a little while. You know how it is, a week without Drummond is a week .... Tyr, finish this poetic sentence for me, please.

[Drummond]

Drummond, I am so happy you are still with us. I just wanted to get that out there.

That's sweet of you, Perianne. Thank you !


Anyway, I have a question fer ya. You and I have discussed how I have a hearing problem that is a learning disability. I struggle to understand foreign languages like what you speak in Britain :).

You are, of course, referring to Welsh ... :eek: ... which definitely qualifies as a foreign language (and then some). That's beside the fact that I've been living in Wales for several years, now, and tried to learn it. I failed miserably ...

Not that it matters - Welsh is a dying language, and only a fairly small percentage of even the Welsh can speak it !

I can manage 'Bore Da' (Welsh greeting, meaning 'Good Morning' .. the 'e' in 'Bore' is accented). Just. I've been told I have a talent for pronouncing Welsh (though that's probably with a trace of a Cockney accent, as I'm from north London, originally) .. just not understanding any of it ... :eek::eek::eek::eek:


Do you Brit struggle to understand American English?

Basically 'no'. The type of accent normally associated with 'hillbilly-speak', maybe, otherwise, I'd have to say no, and I think that's true of Brits generally. An American accent is easier on the ears than many British ones are, even to me. I struggle with the Geordie accent, for example (North-east England, around Newcastle, Tyne & Wear), or maybe the more impenetrable Scottish variations.

I've seen both the British and American versions of the Jeremy Kyle show. I can honestly say that the American version is easier on the ears than the Brit one !

[Gunny]

He went bye-bye for a little while. You know how it is, a week without Drummond is a week .... Tyr, finish this poetic sentence for me, please.

We ALL have our things to deal with. I vanish when the baby gets dropped in my lap. And I usually don't get any notice. And there are about 4 boards that are duplicates of Jim's original board. The people bounce around. Just depends on who your "friends" are and who is "mad at you".

Besides. Drummond has not submitted an AA form requesting a transfer (which would be denied) so he isn't allowed to even die without permission. :)

[Black Diamond]

That's sweet of you, Perianne. Thank you !



You are, of course, referring to Welsh ... :eek: ... which definitely qualifies as a foreign language (and then some). That's beside the fact that I've been living in Wales for several years, now, and tried to learn it. I failed miserably ...

Not that it matters - Welsh is a dying language, and only a fairly small percentage of even the Welsh can speak it !

I can manage 'Bore Da' (Welsh greeting, meaning 'Good Morning' .. the 'e' in 'Bore' is accented). Just. I've been told I have a talent for pronouncing Welsh (though that's probably with a trace of a Cockney accent, as I'm from north London, originally) .. just not understanding any of it ... :eek::eek::eek::eek:



Basically 'no'. The type of accent normally associated with 'hillbilly-speak', maybe, otherwise, I'd have to say no, and I think that's true of Brits generally. An American accent is easier on the ears than many British ones are, even to me. I struggle with the Geordie accent, for example (North-east England, around Newcastle, Tyne & Wear), or maybe the more impenetrable Scottish variations.

I've seen both the British and American versions of the Jeremy Kyle show. I can honestly say that the American version is easier on the ears than the Brit one !
I used to spend the night at Nain and Taid's house as a kid. :)

[Drummond]

Was he going somewhere?

I cleared off for a while, fully intending not to return .. my plan was to concentrate on posting to a British forum for a while instead. That I returned again is largely due to Perianne's efforts to persuade me to rejoin.

The Brit forum is the same one that Perianne joined, only to suffer some bad treatment from some ignorant types there (I apologise for my countrymen, Peri -- all totally uncalled for, from beginning to end). It's also the one that closed down recently, after the person running it apparently started getting letters from solicitors about its content.

[Black Diamond]

Noir has to be right about that. I watched Clockwork Orange a couple of years ago ... shown by the BBC. Maybe it was edited down .. but it was definitely shown.

An old favourite of mine was & is Omega Man. In fact, I can't think of any Charlton Heston film I've ever watched that hasn't been good (the original Planet of the Apes, for example).

V for Vendetta is another favourite. Actually an American film, though set entirely in a dystopian future Britain. I'd challenge anyone to recognise it as American .. even so, the Wachowski Brothers (Matrix trilogy) were behind its action scenes.

Or, Vincent Price movies ... the Dr Phibes ones are great (tongue-in-cheek humour).

How about the Quatermass ones ? The BBC has just shown Quatermass & The Pit.

For sheer, priceless comedy, I'd recommend 'I'm All Right Jack' to anyone. Made by the Boulting Brothers, it was an anti-Union film - the Boulting Bros felt the need to speak out, even then (late Fifties) against British Trade Union lunacy. A Peter Sellers comedy.

Currently, I like any / all Hunger Games movies ...

Peter Sellers was great in Dr Strangelove. I should check out his other stuff. As far as A Clockwork Orange goes, I watched all these documentaries about the film talking about them banning the film in Britain. But they didn't talk about unbanning it. :)

[Perianne]

Do you Brits struggle to understand American English?



Basically 'no'. The type of accent normally associated with 'hillbilly-speak', maybe, otherwise, I'd have to say no, and I think that's true of Brits generally. An American accent is easier on the ears than many British ones are, even to me.


I also struggle with some folks' language around here. I don't know what I would have done had I been born in the hills or been born black.

Anyway, I have often wondered if Brits can understand us better than I can understand you guys. I think most Americans understand - and even like - the British accent. I might if I could understand it. When I watch a British program, it is like a beginner in a new language, where I have to translate it before processing what is said. If that makes any sense.

[Black Diamond]

I cleared off for a while, fully intending not to return .. my plan was to concentrate on posting to a British forum for a while instead. That I returned again is largely due to Perianne's efforts to persuade me to rejoin.

The Brit forum is the same one that Perianne joined, only to suffer some bad treatment from some ignorant types there (I apologise for my countrymen, Peri -- all totally uncalled for, from beginning to end). It's also the one that closed down recently, after the person running it apparently started getting letters from solicitors about its content.

What sort of content?

[Drummond]

I used to spend the night at Nain and Taid's house as a kid. :)

Your grandparents' house ?

[Perianne]

I used to spend the night at Nain and Taid's house as a kid. :)

Who are Nain and Taid? Are they famous British people?

[Black Diamond]

Your grandparents' house ?

Yessir. My grandfather's parents came from Wales. On the Lusitania no less.

[Black Diamond]

Who are Nain and Taid? Are they famous British people?

Lol. No Nain means Grandma. Taid means Grandpa. Taids parents came from Wales.

[Perianne]

I cleared off for a while, fully intending not to return .. my plan was to concentrate on posting to a British forum for a while instead. That I returned again is largely due to Perianne's efforts to persuade me to rejoin.


I think you came back just to shut me up!!! lol



The Brit forum is the same one that Perianne joined, only to suffer some bad treatment from some ignorant types there (I apologise for my countrymen, Peri -- all totally uncalled for, from beginning to end). It's also the one that closed down recently, after the person running it apparently started getting letters from solicitors about its content.

You have no need to apologize to me, sir. Some people don't get me. It's a thing I will never understand, but it's mostly homosexuals and jealous women who don't like me. And I try to be so nice and sweet to everyone. Gets me!!!!

[Gunny]

I also struggle with some folks' language around here. I don't know what I would have done had I been born in the hills or been born black.

Anyway, I have often wondered if Brits can understand us better than I can understand you guys. I think most Americans understand - and even like - the British accent. I might if I could understand it. When I watch a British program, it is like a beginner in a new language, where I have to translate it before processing what is said. If that makes any sense.

I can tell you about the language: consider the source.

The first board I posted on was a European board with a bunch of leftwingers and about 5 of us conservatives. I NEVER back down from battle and I held my own. But you have to be as accepting of others as you expect them to be of you.

I disagree with a few people here and their opinions, but I always respect the right they have to those opinions and the fact that they ARE people.

If you think we don't have to process what YOU say, think again. Same with Drummond. We don't speak proper English. We speak the American version of English.

And isn't THAT one of the biggest problems in this world? We spend more time not understanding differences than we do hating them. Anyone that thinks I dislike them on a personal level aside from a select few who don't post here usually, think again. Disagree and dislike are two very different things.

[Drummond]

What sort of content?

It so happened that I'd not posted there for a few days, only to suddenly discover that it had closed when I tried to return. There might be others here who have more knowledge than me on that subject.

I first joined that forum back in 2009. Then, it was quite a sedate place, no real contention there. When I returned more recently, I found that there was a hard-core of troll types posting there. Their contributions seemed centred around a basic form of nationalism ... which translated into enmity against non-Brits. Some were pro-BNP .. and the BNP (or 'British National Party') is about as fringe as it gets in British politics. They're 'Britain for the British' types, which to them has been known to translate into hatred of non-whites and a desire to deport them if they ever gained power. Its former leader, Nick Griffin, was a Holocaust denier, and he wanted Jews deported as well.

That may have been part of it. I also believe that there was an account about libellous accusations made against people .. which, in British law at least, could provide a solid basis for legal action through the courts, and no doubt the site owner thought it wiser to distance himself from all that while he could, by closing the site down.

Again ... there was also an anti-Christian element amongst the posters, and a willingness to reflect that. Additionally, anti-Muslim sentiments expressed.

But as I say .. it so happened that I was not active there in the days when all this blew up, and so I couldn't usefully research it. Maybe someone else can give a better account of the true reason(s) than I can.

[Drummond]

I can tell you about the language: consider the source.

The first board I posted on was a European board with a bunch of leftwingers and about 5 of us conservatives. I NEVER back down from battle and I held my own. But you have to be as accepting of others as you expect them to be of you.

I disagree with a few people here and their opinions, but I always respect the right they have to those opinions and the fact that they ARE people.

If you think we don't have to process what YOU say, think again. Same with Drummond. We don't speak proper English. We speak the American version of English.

And isn't THAT one of the biggest problems in this world? We spend more time not understanding differences than we do hating them. Anyone that thinks I dislike them on a personal level aside from a select few who don't post here usually, think again. Disagree and dislike are two very different things.

The American version of English, IS the proper version of it, in your part of the world. I've no problem in deferring to it .. my use of 'liberal', for example, is different from the common American usage. It doesn't matter, though - 'when in Rome' & all that.

You were lucky to survive on that board for any real length of time, Gunny. In my experience, if you disagree strongly with Leftie-oriented boards, you'll be subject to abuse, or being thrown out of the forum, and probably both. Left-wingers from my part of the world are anything BUT 'liberal' in their attitudes and actions, much though they'd claim otherwise.

I joined one such forum. I was banned from there after six weeks. Worse, though .. one of its Admin staff then followed me to the American forum I was a member of at that time, then started propagandising there. 'Marxist Nutter' was his monicker, and it was definitely accurate. He, too, lasted six weeks there .. but not by being banned. His argumentation got him nowhere, of course, so after a few weeks he just quit the place to rejoin the cozy environment he'd temporarily vacated.

I'm sure nobody missed him .. least of all, me.

[Drummond]

Peter Sellers was great in Dr Strangelove. I should check out his other stuff. As far as A Clockwork Orange goes, I watched all these documentaries about the film talking about them banning the film in Britain. But they didn't talk about unbanning it. :)

Definitely check out 'I'm All Right Jack'. Sellers is brilliant in it .. he plays a Marxist-admiring Union official, thoroughly pompous and self-opinionated, complete with Hitler moustache.

http://www.debatepolicy.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7848&stc=1

http://www.debatepolicy.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7849&stc=1

[Gunny]

The American version of English, IS the proper version of it, in your part of the world. I've no problem in deferring to it .. my use of 'liberal', for example, is different from the common American usage. It doesn't matter, though - 'when in Rome' & all that.

You were lucky to survive on that board for any real length of time, Gunny. In my experience, if you disagree strongly with Leftie-oriented boards, you'll be subject to abuse, or being thrown out of the forum, and probably both. Left-wingers from my part of the world are anything BUT 'liberal' in their attitudes and actions, much though they'd claim otherwise.

I joined one such forum. I was banned from there after six weeks. Worse, though .. one of its Admin staff then followed me to the American forum I was a member of at that time, then started propagandising there. 'Marxist Nutter' was his monicker, and it was definitely accurate. He, too, lasted six weeks there .. but not by being banned. His argumentation got him nowhere, of course, so after a few weeks he just quit the place to rejoin the cozy environment he'd temporarily vacated.

I'm sure nobody missed him .. least of all, me.

Dude, I have in the past 6 years been on a certain board I ran for 5 years for about 3 months a year and a half ago and people STILL are talking shit about me. Now, I can go over there and raise some damned Hell (my forte) or I can just ignore it. How lame is someone's life to talk shit about someone who has really not been around long enough to have 3 grandkids born?

Why do you think I always come back to Jim's board? I know the people here. And you weren't around when Jim, DMP and I have gotten into some drop down, drag out fights. Long as you aren't acting like a d*ick, which I was, you get to say what you want. Me, a bottle of Jack and a message board are NOT a good combination.

I stayed away from boards for several years. And the crap I learned that was going on behind my and everyone else's back startled me once I started posting again. I had no idea. I've always been up front, and on the board. If you find a board more tolerant than this one, fill us in.

[Perianne]

Definitely check out 'I'm All Right Jack'. Sellers is brilliant in it .. he plays a Marxist-admiring Union official, thoroughly pompous and self-opinionated, complete with Hitler moustache.

http://www.debatepolicy.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=7848&stc=1



Speaking of him, I watched a movie one time where he was a simple-minded gardner. It was very clever and enjoyable.

[Gunny]

Y'all need to quit that passive aggressive flirting in this thread. :laugh:

[Abbey Marie]

Dude, I have in the past 6 years been on a certain board I ran for 5 years for about 3 months a year and a half ago and people STILL are talking shit about me. Now, I can go over there and raise some damned Hell (my forte) or I can just ignore it. How lame is someone's life to talk shit about someone who has really not been around long enough to have 3 grandkids born?

Why do you think I always come back to Jim's board? I know the people here. And you weren't around when Jim, DMP and I have gotten into some drop down, drag out fights. Long as you aren't acting like a d*ick, which I was, you get to say what you want. Me, a bottle of Jack and a message board are NOT a good combination.

I stayed away from boards for several years. And the crap I learned that was going on behind my and everyone else's back startled me once I started posting again. I had no idea. I've always been up front, and on the board. If you find a board more tolerant than this one, fill us in.

Aww, you were always nice. In your own way. ;)

As for that other board, after Jim sold, it needed the strong hand of a Marine so it wouldn't implode.

[Drummond]

Dude, I have in the past 6 years been on a certain board I ran for 5 years for about 3 months a year and a half ago and people STILL are talking shit about me. Now, I can go over there and raise some damned Hell (my forte) or I can just ignore it. How lame is someone's life to talk shit about someone who has really not been around long enough to have 3 grandkids born?

Why do you think I always come back to Jim's board? I know the people here. And you weren't around when Jim, DMP and I have gotten into some drop down, drag out fights. Long as you aren't acting like a d*ick, which I was, you get to say what you want. Me, a bottle of Jack and a message board are NOT a good combination.

I stayed away from boards for several years. And the crap I learned that was going on behind my and everyone else's back startled me once I started posting again. I had no idea. I've always been up front, and on the board. If you find a board more tolerant than this one, fill us in.

I definitely have to agree with that last sentence .. it's amazing to realise what can be tolerated here.

Still, since it's an American forum, it has a definite advantage - that of not being subject to laws which it could otherwise fall foul of. I happen to agree with the principle that 'with freedom comes responsibility', since it makes not the slightest sense to argue otherwise (.. sez me, anyway). But in the UK, we have laws which are framed to make people legally accountable for what they'd say. On the Muslim issue, for example, could a British forum survive some of the expressiveness I've seen here ? I definitely have my doubts on that score !

[Black Diamond]

Aww, you were always nice. In your own way. ;)

As for that other board, after Jim sold, it needed the strong hand of a Marine so it wouldn't implode.

Then he left and it did.

[Gunny]

I definitely have to agree with that last sentence .. it's amazing to realise what can be tolerated here.

Still, since it's an American forum, it has a definite advantage - that of not being subject to laws which it could otherwise fall foul of. I happen to agree with the principle that 'with freedom comes responsibility', since it makes not the slightest sense to argue otherwise (.. sez me, anyway). But in the UK, we have laws which are framed to make people legally accountable for what they'd say. On the Muslim issue, for example, could a British forum survive some of the expressiveness I've seen here ? I definitely have my doubts on that score !

Point is. as far s boards go, Jim runs this one. He gives a lot of leeway and lets a lot of people come back so long as they behave. Might ne one of the smaller boards but I know from running a larger one. bigger isn't always better. And you have to look at Jim's goal. Took me a long time to figure it out. This is a place for his friends. I spent years going for post count but none of those people were my friends. I always get to come back here and I just get treated like the black sheep in the family. :laugh:

Maybe you can't express yourself in Britain the way you can here, And maybe we don't always understand you and vice-versa. You're still stuck with us. Just get over it. You're part of the family. Just roll with it.

[PixieStix]

I think I have exhausted the list of good movies to watch. Is there any 'needle in the haystack' under-rated movies that are not really spoken about any more? I feel like I have got to a point where I have seen all that is good.

I loved this movie. Give it a watch.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftqP4SSMERg

Oh and this one is very entertaining. Love it.


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

[NightTrain]

Pulp fiction, reservoir dogs, Jackie brown.

Jackie Brown is the needle in the haystack


Reservoir Dogs made me cringe in my seat when the mobster was torturing that cop in the warehouse... that was pretty damn brutal.

[namvet]

got this on order. based on a true story. I haven't seen this one in years



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ru0HxV4nWY

[Abbey Marie]

got this on order. based on a true story. I haven't seen this one in years



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ru0HxV4nWY


That was good- very powerful.