Movies

[IH-GARY]

The Long Good Friday (1980) - Classic Bob Hoskins & Helen Mirren
A Prayer For The Dying (1987) - Mickey Rourke is a bit cheesy but perfectly balanced by another incredible Bob Hoskins performance, great plot!
The Crying Game (1992) - Best plot twist of all time?
The Boxer (1997) - DDL shines but for me Emily Watson is the real star
The General (1998) - Troubles related but more the organised crime elements. True story and a fantastic performance by Brendan Gleeson

[RobeOfTheMagi]

@Chap Is it really worth it if you already know Vol. 1 and 2?

[ARNC]

@endo glad you enjoyed it. I’m not sure if I’ve got much to offer in terms of other films with a similar context. I’ve heard good things about Ken Branagh’s Belfast but I’ve never got round to seeing it, so take that with a pinch of salt.

[Giles]

@Jett129 What the absolute fuck would Health and Safety say about blowing a car up on stage these days ?

[Jett129]

@Giles Had to google it because I had forgotten about all the stuff they did. My response given the current climate in the US,would probably not be Forum appropriate.

[IrishHeart]

@endo in addition to others mentioned:
Michael Collins (1996) based on the life of a leading figure in Irish history at the time of the Easter Rising in 1916
Hunger (2008) about the 1981 hunger strikes with Michael Fassbender playing Bobby Sands

[Chap]

@RobeOfTheMagi said in Movies:

@Chap Is it really worth it if you already know Vol. 1 and 2?

Probably not (unless you are a hardcore fan like my son who went to cinema in his yellow replica Kill Bill leather jacket)

[endo]

Sitting here in the cottage, had a lovely meal, a nice Pinot Gris, and smoked a little weed, and was wondering which film I really want to watch again. Turns out it's Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It's aged well.

[endo]

Goes well with a White Russian, by the way. And, Ferris is kind of the Dude's son, isn't he?

[Bridger]

Both movies consist of scenes that can be watched independently of the rest of the film. There's a hotel in Berlin that has TBL on a dedicated channel on repeat 24 hours. You can turn it on and watch a few scenes at any point, and it makes sense. I think Bueller would work the same way.

[Heritage_Guy]

I just watched Under the Silver Lake and it is a wild neo noir. Personally I love Chinatown and Nightcrawler , any movies set in Los Angeles where the setting is another character in the movie. This movie had a cryptographer listed in the credits and with the nature of the movie there is an active sub reddit with crazy fan theories. I think movies that have legs are great. Another that comes to mind is Primer, the fan theories on that one make you want to keep rewatching. I am going to rewatch Under the Silver Lake again and jump into the rabbit hole. It's on Netflix.

[Matt]

I wasn’t familiar, thanks for the rec.

[mclaincausey]

@endo I showed that one to my 5yo daughter. I’d forgotten the cursing (which I only care about because I don’t want my kid to “corrupt” other, more puritanical parents’ spawn) but, as expected, she loved it.

[endo]

@mclaincausey well done, all my children watched it with me when they were young and they loved it. It emphasizes freedom and joy.

[mclaincausey]

@endo the fact that people in church thought it was a bad influence when I was young supports this truth. I remember there was also a pamphlet decrying the Dead Kennedys because they wanted to “Kill the Poor.”

whoosh

[endo]

@mclaincausey Irony is obviously not the strongest trait of many churchgoers.

[Matt]

Which is in and of itself pretty ironic.

[Matt]

Took my 14 yo and 6 of her friends to the theater last night to see Backrooms. It was intense. The movie was scary too.

[1WayTrip]

@Matt I went to see it the other night. Still not managed to process that film

[SKT]

@Matt saw the trailer last night and it totally freaked us out. I really want to see but the kids not so much