best british movie of all time and have you seen any decent ones lately ?

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Christ yes, The quintessentially 80's film - It seems like most films set in the 80's try too hard to get the fashions right, but Rita Sue had it right - No one looked good, everyone just wore whatever clothes were to hand, you might've had one thing in your wardrobe that was cool, but that'd be it -

But Rita Sue and Bob too was only set in the 80s because it was made in the 80s. It was just contemporary at the time. It would have been a bit tricky to get the fashions and set dressing wrong.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

The Arbor's mint - .

Arrhh, I have been meaning to watch this for months and keep forgetting,.

 

[jelavicroad]

Yeah to Red Road & NEDS, but Get Carter's wank - Michael Cane's a trumpet and as if some flash cockney wanker could go up North and throw his weight about. QS put the Krays back on the train at Piccadilly and I doubt it'd be much different in Newcastle.

Lol true that quality street stilll a good movie tho

 

[butchersapron]

Yeah to Red Road & NEDS, but Get Carter's wank - Michael Cane's a trumpet and as if some flash cockney wanker could go up North and throw his weight about. QS put the Krays back on the train at Piccadilly and I doubt it'd be much different in Newcastle.

He's not a cockney.

 

[Ponyutd]

Everyone's a cockney if they are from London...didn't you know that?

 

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[butchersapron]

Everyone's a cockney if they are from London...didn't you know that?

Agreed, wurzel cunts, But, he's not even supposed to be from london.

 

[Ponyutd]

No, I think the wurzel cunts were West Country.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Christ yes, The quintessentially 80's film - It seems like most films set in the 80's try too hard to get the fashions right (yes, I'm looking at you Shane Meadows, you fat, slackarsed revisionist, trying to pretend This Is England was somehow an approximation of your youth when we all know you spent the entire decade alone in your bedroom wanking yourself down to a bloodied stump), but Rita Sue had it right - No one looked good, everyone just wore whatever clothes were to hand, you might've had one thing in your wardrobe that was cool, but that'd be it - One thing & that had to be teamed with the rest of your embarrassing hand me downs, proper last up worst dressed. And a really good film as well - Although Andrea Dunbar disowned it coz of the happy(ish) ending.

Not sure the skills remain to do those 80s perms any more.

My favourite Shane Meadows film is Once Upon a Time in the Midlands, I think because he's not trying too hard. Think you've got to forgive him for less good stuff, though, because he's always trying to get it right. By the end of his career he may have a clutch of good stuff done. Even at his worst, he's worth 1000 Guy Ritchies.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I like the film where Michael Caine takes on the pedestrian-underpass-dwelling hoodlums.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Another good one - I can't recall too many details - Scotland has been roped-off for some reason, and the heroes have to go in there and do something or other.

I guess it's a postapocalyptic, dystopian kind of thing.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I like the film where Michael Caine takes on the pedestrian-underpass-dwelling hoodlums.

Jaws 4?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Jaws 4?

Has the British film industry sunk to the level of making Jaws movies now?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

On the Black Hill.

It's a little gem - captures the repressed emotions of the time and place perfectly. Beautiful film.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Has the British film industry sunk to the level of making Jaws movies now?

Nah, just one of the many turkeys Caine's done for the cash. Not sure which film you're talking about.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Harry Brown

 

[discokermit]

not the best but "the boys" is a good film.

 

[DJ Squelch]

Another good one - I can't recall too many details - Scotland has been roped-off for some reason, and the heroes have to go in there and do something or other.

I guess it's a postapocalyptic, dystopian kind of thing.

No Blade Of Grass?

 

[Ponyutd]

The Hill. Sean Connery and Ian Bannen are nothing short of brilliant. Even Roy Kinnear puts in a proper shift.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

The Hill. Sean Connery and Ian Bannen are nothing short of brilliant. Even Roy Kinnear puts in a proper shift.

Good choice.

Another excellent Connery film is The Offence. He does nasty really very well indeed.

 

[discokermit]

up the junction.

 

[Ponyutd]

That's a coincidence because Ian Bannen is in both of them.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

For such a brilliant actor, it's a shame Richard Burton made so few good films. Equus is very good, I think.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

That's a coincidence because Ian Bannen is in both of them.

Yep, so he is.

 

[Orang Utan]

up the junction.

Tell me more. B has that on DVD and we have never got round to watching it. Hasn't it got wifebeating crooner Dennis Waterman in it?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

No Blade Of Grass?

The movie was called Doomsday. According to it, in future, Scottish people will look like this:

Or maybe they already look like that.

I've never been.

 

[Sirena]

not the best but "the boys" is a good film.

Is this the 1962 one? If so (and apart from a couple of corny/clumsy moments) I agree.

 

[Orang Utan]

Coincidentally I watched Sweeney! (The Sweeney TV movie) and it has Ian Bannen and Dennis Waterman in it.
I would not nominate it as one of the best British films though.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Coincidentally I watched Sweeney! (The Sweeney TV movie) and it has Ian Bannen in it.
I would not nominate it as one of the best British films though.

Excellent, the exclamation mark is in the title. Not enough just to call it boring old Sweeney

 

[discokermit]

Tell me more. B has that on DVD and we have never got round to watching it. Hasn't it got wifebeating crooner Dennis Waterman in it?

it's brilliant. does indeed have waterman in it. sixties film about class, set in battersea.