Films that stunned you

[Captain Haddock]

Definitely "Once were warriors"

In just one scene halfway through I went from really liking Jake the Muscle to absolutely despising the ****. Powerful stuff and a very sad ending.

"Baise Moi" was very powerful too.

Blade Runner should get a mention.


Also "In which we serve". Noel Coward and Sir John Mills are absoultely brilliant. Great stirring stuff.

Good choices apart from Baise Moi...absolutely hated it!

On a similar note to Once Were Warriors, Nil By Mouth is so menacing and powerful. The threat of danger and violence hangs in the air throughout.

 

[Meade's Ball]

Oooooooooh i forgot Warriors.
"Warriors, come out to play-ay!"

And Breakdance 2: Electric Boogaloo.

 

[Trufflehound]

Talk To Her. An astonishingly emotional experience.

Agreed. Everyone always goes on about All About My Mother, but this is Almodovar's true masterpiece IMO...

Tokyo Story. Beautiful, just beautiful.

The saddest film I've ever seen. Nothing seems to happen for two hours, then you find yourself bursting into tears at the end and picking up the phone to apologise to your parents for not having spent time with them recently.

 

[Captain Haddock]

Agreed. Everyone always goes on about All About My Mother, but this is Almodovar's true masterpiece IMO...


Capt H: Think AAMM has the edge but TTH is indeed a masterpiece. Almodovar's pictures seem to get more and more multi-layered and well constructed as he goes on.





The saddest film I've ever seen. Nothing seems to happen for two hours, then you find yourself bursting into tears at the end and picking up the phone to apologise to your parents for not having spent time with them recently.

The scene with the two old guys getting drunk together in the bar is just magnificent.

 

[Icy Gull]

No comment...never managed to get to the end of that one.

*snooze*

Did anyone? If they did maybe they can tell me if it improved. I forced myself to get to about 45 mins only because I couldn't believe a film could be so DULL for so long, I was wrong.

 

[Meade's Ball]

At a younger age i was rather in love with In The Soup, a very funny 1992 Steve Buscemi tragi-comedy in black and white. I might see that again to see if has the same effect.

 

[Jesus Gul]

This Is England...a bit harsh towards the end.

 

[Icy Gull]

oops wrong thread

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Downfall.

Astonishing piece of work that.

 

[Captain Haddock]

A Room For Romeo Brass.

Paddy Considine's performance is truly stunning and the film is genuinely unpredictable (in a good way!).

 

[Nibble]

I thought Dead Man's shoes was excellent. When paddy Considine is confronting the ringleader of the gang and is calm as f***. Telling him to "get in your car and f*** off" was a genius scene and not trying to be all Nick Love hardcase, just a bloke that has upmost confidence in his ability to front a situation.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Men in black,it stunned me how shit it was.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Loads, but off the top of my head recently Babel and from further back Cry Freedom.

 

[Harty]

Animal Farm and Debbie Does Dallas on the Gulls Eye coach on the way Shrewsbury in 1989

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Loads, but off the top of my head recently Babel and from further back Cry Freedom.

Babel..not sure about that, Great multi layering, but left me a bit cold.

Steve Biko deserved to be immortalised in a special way, and cry freedom did it.

 

[Easy 10]

One of the tensest moments I've ever witnessed at the cinema.

You clearly wern't sat in Odeon 2 in the summer of 1987 watching Predator then, when I was convinced the girl I'd taken there that night was about to be violently sick in my lap.

 

[gjh1971]

Spiceworld left me depressed

 

[John Bumlick]

Jacob's Ladder - admittedly, the predictability of the story becomes apparent on repeated viewings but it certainly freaked me out the first time i saw it.

Requiem for a Dream - as mentioned by someone else. i put the initial impact of that film down to the funky visuals and kronos quartet soundtrack.

Lord of the Rings - absolutely stunning that they could drag that utter shit out for three hours.

 

[Deductions]

Trainspotting.

I never realised Edinburgh was such a nice place

Begbie

 

[Wilko]

Bumlick - I agree with LOTR - Boring SHITPILE

Mockingbird dont sing was a really powerful film for me after researching about the girl Genie for many years when at uni