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    Quote Originally Posted by Alex_UK View Post
    Just noticed there’s no Top Gun! that’d be in my top 5...
    It was originally, but I've slipped some new ones in since!

    Marco.

    P.S Now back in, as it deserves to be in there...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alex_UK View Post
    Christ on a bike - it would take me a year to even come up with my top 20 movies of all time so respect Marco for putting that together. Some great movies in there for sure. I’ll come back in 2025 with my top 100!
    They just popped into my daft big nut, when I thought about it, so I just typed them out

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    They're all good, although I haven't seen Jacob's Ladder - you mean the one out this year?

    The Omen and Papillon should've been in there, so now amended! Twelve Monkeys should've ticked the right boxes, but it was too complicated for me...

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    Marco, I highly recommend 'Jacob's Ladder' (1990), a rather dark psychological horror starring Tim Robbins and Danny Aello. Pretty creepy and unnerving at times, and it's got some heart.

    Just talked myself into watching it again, it's been a few years
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    Angel Heart I think you'll like. De Niro and mickey rourke I think. Was a good one
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    Angel Heart I think you'll like. De Niro and mickey rourke I think. Was a good one
    +1. Worth a watch
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    Marco, I highly recommend 'Jacob's Ladder' (1990), a rather dark psychological horror starring Tim Robbins and Danny Aello. Pretty creepy and unnerving at times, and it's got some heart.

    Just talked myself into watching it again, it's been a few years
    Ok, just had a Google... Looks right up my street. Will watch it tomorrow night! Cheers

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    Here is my revisited list (after remembering some more goodies):

    1) The Shining
    2) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
    3) The Thing
    4) Alien (original) and Aliens
    5) The Fog
    6) The Andromeda Strain
    7) Psycho
    8) Poltergeist
    9) The Omen
    10) Day of the Dead (1985)
    11) The Fifth Element
    12) Duel
    13) Braindead
    14) Halloween
    15) The Silence of the Lambs
    16) I Spit on Your Grave
    17) Jaws
    18) The Wicker Man
    19) Taxi Driver
    20) Scarface
    21) Goodfellas
    22) The Godfather (Part 1 and 2)
    23) Casino
    24) A Bronx Tale
    25) Carlito's Way
    26) Pulp Fiction
    26) Reservoir Dogs
    27) Donnie Brasco
    28) Predator 1 and 2
    29) Robocop
    30) Terminator 2 (Judgement Day)
    31) Star Wars (Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back)
    32) Logan's Run
    33) Westworld
    34) The Time Machine
    35) Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan
    36) Sleepwalkers
    37) A Clockwork Orange
    38) Shallow Grave
    39) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
    40) Dirty Harry
    41) Bad Lieutenant
    42) The Magnificent Seven
    43) Play Misty for Me
    44) Escape From Alcatraz
    45) Candyman
    46) Independence Day
    47) The Guns of Navarone
    48) Saving Private Ryan
    49) The War of the Worlds
    50) The Dirty Dozen
    51) Kelly's Heroes
    52) Tora! Tora! Tora!
    53) The Midnight Meat Train
    54) Zulu
    55) Sleepers
    56) The Deer Hunter
    57) Battle of Britain
    58) The Crays
    58) Trainspotting
    59) American Psycho
    60) Falling Down
    61) Payback
    62) Delicatessen
    63) Amélie
    64) Cape Fear
    65) Get Shorty
    66) The Lobster
    67) Grease
    68) Rocky I and II
    69) Raging Bull
    70) Titanic
    71) Die Hard
    72) True Romance
    73) Rear Window
    74) Gladiator
    75) Jurassic Park
    76) Dog Soldiers
    77) Braveheart
    78) Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
    79) Raiders of the Lost Ark
    80) Blade Runner
    81) The Day of the Triffids
    82) Porky's
    83) Ferris Bueller's Day Off
    84) Top Gun
    85) The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
    86) Misery
    87) Cocktail
    88) Vacancy
    89) The Colour of Money
    90) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
    91) Jackie Brown
    92) Scent of a Woman
    93) Wrong Turn
    94) Dog Day Afternoon
    95) Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
    96) The Langoliers
    97) Papillon
    98) Alive
    99) Deliverance
    100) Live and Let Die



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    'Angel Heart' is very good - I quite agree .

    I also really liked 'Delicatessen' (as Marco has on his list) - 'City of Lost Children' is also good.

    'Dark City' is excellent.

    'Martyrs' is very good but also very disturbing (well known as such).

    One of my favourite films of all time is 'Brazil'.

    (If you like a bit of schlock horror - 'The Devil's rejects')
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    The Lobster is I believe the only YL film I've seen . . .
    Oooo, you could be in for a real treat then old bean. If you like dark and fucked up and enjoyed The Lobster, then YL films should be right in your ball park, he's a master of the fucked up and bizarre, in fact I think he deserves his very own genre. Dogtooth is way out there, but I love them all, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, now that's one really fucked up film. Apologies for using the f word a lot, but it's the only truly correct descriptive word to use. I just love his work.

    I'm going to give Doctor Sleep another go, as I won't have any expectations going in a second time and can watch it not thinking I'm going to get The Shining II. Being honest, I thought some of the cinematography was exceptional, those long distance overhead shots were superb and really set the mood, whilst giving a nod to similar shots in TS.

    A busy movie week for me it seems!

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    I'll have a stab at this at some point, but it'll take awhile (a long while) to compile, so carry on gabbing amongst yerselves'

    All I can say is it'll (probably) contain;

    Pulp Fiction
    Alien and Aliens
    The Shining
    2001
    Blade Runner (both)
    All Yorgos Lanthimos films
    Raw
    Gomorrah
    Toni Erdman
    Roma
    Burning (this is outstanding)
    The Godfather etc.
    Goodfellas
    Dog Day Afternoon
    Bridges of Madison County
    Three Billboards
    Cinema Paradiso
    Heat
    Platoon
    Apocalypse Now
    Layer Cake, Snatch and Lock Stock
    Many Clint Eastwood and Quentin Tarantino films.
    Casablanca
    Brokeback Mountain
    The TCM
    Ex Machina
    Taxi Driver
    Most Coen Brothers films
    Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    Hitchcock (that's going to be tough!)
    Leon
    Manchester by the Sea
    Walk the Line
    Restrepo
    The Bourne Trilogy
    Stieg Larsson Trilogy
    All the Tolkien films
    Black Hawk Down
    Hurt Locker
    Zero Dark Thirty
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