The Thin Red Line is fecking amazing. Das Boot, Apocalypse Now and Thin Red Line are my top three war movies. (Ran's probably the best film ever but...)
Redcafe Top 100 Movies: this time we're going to pull it off, honestly
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It's like a mini top 30 for loads of people.His best performance, imo.
Best film ever you say, blimey, high praise from you man. I take it then you would suggest I should watch it as soon as I can?
Quite few of those I have not seen.
Took mE years to want to watch the Godfathers but when I did , OMG.
War films are not really my thing , but after your review have to watch them.
Cinematic masterpiece, Adzzz, proper visual tour de force - Are you into Kurosawa? Oh and have you seen The Thin Red Line, by the way? I loved it, but I've yet to see The Badlands. Talking about great films I watched Gone in 60 secs the other day.
Thin Red Line?
Godfather is one of those that people who haven't watched it yet usually delay because of all the praise and fear of being disappointed - but it hardly ever turns out that way, they're just exceptional films who have stood the test of time exceptionally well and should be seen by anyone even remotely interested in cinema.
Not only the best war film (along with Apocalypse Now, for me), but one of my favourite films full stop. I saw it recently on the big screen for the first time, wonderful experience.
I was blown away by Ran on a not so great amazon prime stream a couple of years back, really need to get the new blu-ray.
that and Das Boot , not seen either.
Very much into Kurosawa, I was toying with Rashomon as my no.1 film but after careful consideration didn't quite make it.
I saw The Thin Red Line in my early teens with my dad, didn't really watch it properly, so it's high on my 'watch it correctly' list. Fecking love Gone in 60 seconds!
Das Boot is brilliant, perfectly paced even considering it's length. Make sure you watch the full version, mind. Also has one of the best movie theme songs ever.
I'll watch Ran, you and Nilssy talk about it highly, it must be great.
Watch Badlands. I didn't like it as much as Thin Red Line, but it's still very good and it's a very mature film for a 30 year old director. All the markers of Malick's filmography are there.
7 straight nights form Monday, I have quite a few to watch, also have a feeling I could be doing some changes to my top 100
It's never ending isn't it? Watch one new great film, try and watch more by that director, more featuring those actors, then scope around their inspirations and those they inspired, suddenly you've got 30 new films on the list!
I've tried to do my list on enjoyment rather than artistic integrity so no points for breakthrough here. Still needs work as some don't deserve to be in there and others do but i have a conference call momentarily and i've been doing this list for ages 
12 Angry Men
28 days later
A Wolf of wall street
Airplane
Aliens
Amadeus
America Psycho (It’s hip to be square)
American Beauty
American History X
Anchorman
Annie Hall
Atonement
Back to the Future
Batman begins
Battle Royal
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
Blues Brothers
Boure Identity
City of god
Clockwork Orange
Die Hard
District 9
Dr Strangelove
E.T
Elf
Empire Strikes back
Equilibrium
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Ex-Machina
Ferris Buelers Day off
Fight club
Forest Gump
Ghostbusters
Godfather
Godfather 2
Goodbye Lenin
Green mile
Gremlins
Home alone
Inside Out
Into the wild
It’s a Wonderful Life
Jurassic Park
Kick ass
Kill Bill
Kingsman
Labyrinth
Let the right one in
Life of Brian
Lord of the Rings
Lost in translation
Mad Max
Matrix
Moon
Mullholland drive
Muppets Christmas Carol
Office Space
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pulp fiction
Read Window
Reservoir dogs
Scarface
School of Rock
Scott Pilgrim vs the world
Se7en
Shaun of the Dead
Short Circuit
Slumdog Millionaire
Snatch
Star trek
Terminator 2
The bridge on the river kwai
The Last Emperor
The Last Samurai
The Lion King
The Man from Earth
The Prestige
The Producers
The Shining
The Thing
The usual suspects
Top gun
Toy story
Toy Story 3
Trainspotting
Truman Show
Up
V for Vendetta
Van Wilder
What’s eating gilberts grape
Willy Wonker
Zombieland
28 days later
A Wolf of wall street
Airplane
Aliens
Amadeus
America Psycho (It’s hip to be square)
American Beauty
American History X
Anchorman
Annie Hall
Atonement
Back to the Future
Batman begins
Battle Royal
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
Blues Brothers
Boure Identity
City of god
Clockwork Orange
Die Hard
District 9
Dr Strangelove
E.T
Elf
Empire Strikes back
Equilibrium
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
Ex-Machina
Ferris Buelers Day off
Fight club
Forest Gump
Ghostbusters
Godfather
Godfather 2
Goodbye Lenin
Green mile
Gremlins
Home alone
Inside Out
Into the wild
It’s a Wonderful Life
Jurassic Park
Kick ass
Kill Bill
Kingsman
Labyrinth
Let the right one in
Life of Brian
Lord of the Rings
Lost in translation
Mad Max
Matrix
Moon
Mullholland drive
Muppets Christmas Carol
Office Space
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pulp fiction
Read Window
Reservoir dogs
Scarface
School of Rock
Scott Pilgrim vs the world
Se7en
Shaun of the Dead
Short Circuit
Slumdog Millionaire
Snatch
Star trek
Terminator 2
The bridge on the river kwai
The Last Emperor
The Last Samurai
The Lion King
The Man from Earth
The Prestige
The Producers
The Shining
The Thing
The usual suspects
Top gun
Toy story
Toy Story 3
Trainspotting
Truman Show
Up
V for Vendetta
Van Wilder
What’s eating gilberts grape
Willy Wonker
Zombieland
You'll love it I'm sure, it's...well...visually stunning for starters. Thing is I hate bigging up films that I love in case folk are left underwhelmed/disappointed after watching them.
Lucky man, I'd love to watch it on the big screen but yeah one of the best films ever made, full stop.
Both great films.
Yeah it's fecking awful isn't it, not even Vinnie could save it! But Ran is a must for you, man.Very much into Kurosawa, I was toying with Rashomon as my no.1 film but after careful consideration didn't quite make it.
I saw The Thin Red Line in my early teens with my dad, didn't really watch it properly, so it's high on my 'watch it correctly' list. Fecking love Gone in 60 seconds!
The Thin Red Line is the most lyrical war film you'll ever see, turns Guadalcanal into a Garden of Eden-esque paradise lost.
Do it!
I can see this thread doing some damage to my bank balance.
Watched it for the cars, enjoyed it for the cars! Yeah I'm gonna, shortly, probably too. I'll report back when I do.
I didn't realise it's from 1985, always thought it was from around the Yojimbo days.
It's his last masterpiece. Hope you love it as much as Nils and I did.
I like that gifThe Thin Red Line is the most lyrical war film you'll ever see, turns Guadalcanal into a Garden of Eden-esque paradise lost.
Do it!
I'd watch Kagemusha after Ran - was Kurosawa's dress rehearsal for Ran.
I'm excited for it. Also, I'm sure it was you, or perhaps Hectic, who recommended Un Prophete. I saw it yesterday. It's a very clever film, lots of role swapping and social commentary - traditionalism, isolationism - lots going on really. My criticism is I think it was maybe 40-50 minutes too long, in fact, I'd have cut one minor subplot because it wasn't needed to explain the recklessness of the actions towards the end. I'm being a little obtuse to avoid spoilers here.
Kurosawa's mostly known for his B&W films yet he really used colours to great effect in last films.
Yep, his use of colour in Ran (which I have now seen and loved) was brilliant, particularly I thought at the beginning. Not only is it just a great film, it's probably the best adaptation/staging of a Shakespeare play I've seen through film. The relationships between the primary characters, more like machinations really, were fluid and evolving. The final scenes reminded me a bit of epic scenes from stuff like Waterloo.
Kurosawa is the fecking don.
I thought thin red line was pants. Not a patch on saving private Ryan, platoon, or a bridge too far
Sure will, English. I've got a lot of work on my plate but I'll get a preliminary list in this week. Just need to work out how many Yahoo Serious films I can fit in the top 10.
Don't forget For a Few Dollarydoos More, Das Booting & The Princess and the Chazzwazzer.
I've been on a hitchcock binge lately. It's not ground-breaking but I can see about 5 or 6 of his making my top 100.
Vertigo's in my top 100 and Strangers on a Train and Shadow of a Doubt could easily have been in it as well.
Likewise. It badly needs some editing (or should I say even more editing as he shot hours and hours of film). It's like listening to some big rock group of the 70s doing 15 minute drum solos.
Strangers on a Train is a masterpiece, I also think Rear Window is a sure-fire addition for my list. Vertigo is insanely good.
Jimmy Stewart man, guy's a legend.
I do agree with this. I think all his post Days of Heaven work suffers from some pretty bad editing.
Not watched many Hitchcock film
Strangers on a train, Vertigo and Rear Window , will be watched this week.
Strangers on a train, Vertigo and Rear Window , will be watched this week.
The Thin Red Line is definitely one of my favourites too. Amazing film.