Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[chiwigi]

1. City of God - great film, great acting, great atmosphere etc.
2. Original Star Wars Trilogy - groundbreaking
3. Saving Private Ryan - hugely underrated because of its mass appeal and PG type war, that makes it accessible.
4. In Bruges - well written modernisation of waiting for godot.
5. Apocalypse Now - masterpiece.

 

[I Dont Care]

Top 5, no particular order:

1. Casablanca
2. Top Gun
3. Gone With the Wind
4. Fight Club
5. The Running Man

Loved the dialogue in old movies, it is an art that seems lost in modern movies with the licence these days to use profanity as means to explore moods and events. One of my favourites is John Wayne and Catherine Hepburn in Rooster Cogburn. I enjoy listening to their arguing

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Yes. Great movie no one ever really knows about



Platoon
True Romance
Usual Suspects
Waynes World
Spinal Tap

Thank you man, thank you so much.

I shit you not I sang that song at the pub this afternoon.

This is a ****ing weird day.

 

[Zakk Wylde]

Top 5 favourite bands....

Black Label Society
Down
Black Sabbath/Heaven & Hell
Tool
Pantera

 

[Dylan8]

Top 5 favourite bands....

zakk talking about metal after pages of a completely unrelated subjet? this was nothing but inevitible

 

[Powerstufff]

Platoon and Full Metal Jacket probably two of the best war, or anti-war, movies ever made...

Good distinction, they are war movies. Good films amongst a huge heap of good war movies over the decades (and a zillion so-so ones, or worse). IMO Saving Private Ryan is the close to perfect war movie, scary realism plus good v evil. The same team made the brilliant Band of Brothers series. Apocalypse Now is deservedly famous. Re anti-war I can only think of All Quiet on the Western Front and really the book is more famous. I'm trying to think beyond American films for the top ones but I can't.

 

[Duck Farmer]

Top 5 favourite bands....

Black Label Society
Down
Black Sabbath/Heaven & Hell
Tool
Pantera

Sex Pistols
Clash
Pink Floyd (pre-DSTOM)
Hawkwind
Mars Volta

Pub Bands (mainly from the 80s)

Screaming Believers
Painters and Dockers
I Spit on your Gravy
North 2 Alaskans
Hoodoo Gurus

pre-Spotify

Bach
Arvo Pärt
Stravinsky
Messaien
Mozart

 

[Duck Farmer]

Good distinction, they are war movies. Good films amongst a huge heap of good war movies over the decades (and a zillion so-so ones, or worse). IMO Saving Private Ryan is the close to perfect war movie, scary realism plus good v evil. The same team made the brilliant Band of Brothers series. Apocalypse Now is deservedly famous. Re anti-war I can only think of All Quiet on the Western Front and really the book is more famous. I'm trying to think beyond American films for the top ones but I can't.

Try The Battle of Algiers.

 

[Powerstufff]

Thank you man, thank you so much.

I shit you not I sang that song at the pub this afternoon.

This is a ****ing weird day.

Not as much as for those at the pub.

 

[chiwigi]

Good distinction, they are war movies. Good films amongst a huge heap of good war movies over the decades (and a zillion so-so ones, or worse). IMO Saving Private Ryan is the close to perfect war movie, scary realism plus good v evil. The same team made the brilliant Band of Brothers series. Apocalypse Now is deservedly famous. Re anti-war I can only think of All Quiet on the Western Front and really the book is more famous. I'm trying to think beyond American films for the top ones but I can't.

Catch 22

 

[Powerstufff]

Try The Battle of Algiers.

Looks interesting per the IMDb information.

 

[Macca19]

Top 5 favourite bands....

Black Label Society
Down
Black Sabbath/Heaven & Hell
Tool
Pantera

The Prodigy
Nine Inch Nails
Killswitch Engage
Machine Head
City & Colour

 

[ozph1870]

slayer
ween
death by stereo
frenzal rhomb
tism

honourable mentions
megadeth you am i the doors metallica the distillers & probably about 20 others i cant think of right now.

 

[Dylan8]

Top 5 favourite bands....

Black Label Society
Down
Black Sabbath/Heaven & Hell
Tool
Pantera

anyway while we're at it
1. Skeletonwitch
2. Be'lakor
3. Insomnium
4. Iron Maiden
5. High on Fire

 

[Powerstufff]

Catch 22

My favourite book, must have re-read it 5 times. Not much of a film.

 

[Powerstufff]

Casablanca
Godfather (parts 1 and 2)
Blade-Runner (probably Scott Ridley's cut but I'm not a fanatic)
Pulp Fiction
The Castle
The Kings Speech
Jaws (brilliant in its day, harmed by familiarity and a heap of bad sequels)
Alien (as with Jaws)
The Magnificent Seven
Unforgiven

 

[jonasshirtfront]

Top 5 favourite bands....

Black Label Society
Down
Black Sabbath/Heaven & Hell
Tool
Pantera

Meshuggah
Strapping Young Lad
The Black Dahlia Murder
The Mars Volta
TISM

 

[Powerstufff]

Meshuggah
Strapping Young Lad
The Black Dahlia Murder
The Mars Volta
TISM

Oh come on, you're just reading names from the racing pages.

 

[Dylan8]

The Black Dahlia Murder

So underrated because of that metalcore stigma they carry. Last few albums have been farking good.

 

[Powerstufff]

So underrated because of that metalcore stigma they carry ....

You core metal once and no-one ever lets you forget.

 

[Dylan8]

You core metal once and no-one ever lets you forget.

****ing hell man

 

[I Dont Care]

Led Zep
AC/DC 1980 and previous
Pink Floyd
Deep Purple
A number of bands...Chisel, CCR, Eagles, KISS(Pre-Dynasty) and The Doors

 

[Zakk Wylde]

Meshuggah
Strapping Young Lad
The Black Dahlia Murder
The Mars Volta
TISM

Love Meshuggah !!!

 

[chiwigi]

My favourite book, must have re-read it 5 times. Not much of a film.

The old version, not the new. I reckon you need to separate it from the books to appreciate it.

 

[raman]

I must be the least musically-inclined person on earth. The only bands I've ever been truly passionate about are Mr. Bungle and The White Stripes. Not too much overlap there, aside from hipster associations I guess. I mean, I like music, it just seems to be less important in my life than it is to most other people.

Then again I think I enjoy movies on a deeper level than most others, so it all evens out.

Excuse the philosophising, but I'm in an extremely good mood tonight.