#251

police story! cracking film :slight_smile:

Plus, with those hong kong ones, you get the crazy outtakes at the end. Fucking nutcase he was! :smiley:

#252

Think the only thing stopping The Witch from being a perfect film is the insistence on calling it ‘The VVitch’

#253

I can just imagine the scene at the oscars.

“Well, this WAS the best flm, but it has an annoying stylised title. Bollocks to it, announce La La Land instead”

#254

They were amazing! That fall in Armour of God where he nearly kills himself is harrowing. Original director resigned because he felt so bad, three days after a long stay in hospital Jackie takes over and finishes the film doing loads of other death defying stunts with a plastic plug literally holding his head together. Absolutely incredible

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#255

just went and watched it, holy shit! don’t think i knew about that one. knew about the countless cuts and lacerations from lights and glasses being smashed on him, remember him jumping from a roof to a truck, or thr way round and breaking an ankle i think. Absolute nutter!

why don’t they let actors do that anymore?? health and safety gone mad mate…

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#256

i just thought that was its name…

#257

This website ranks his worst injuries (!):

Jackie Chan's 10 Most Brutal Injuries, Ranked | ScreenRant.

Just remembered that Project A clocktower one where he lands on his neck too :grimacing: :grimacing:

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#258

nice! (well, not for him!)

I remember the police story ones and the police story 2 one. The jumping off the bus one was the one i was talking about, and the pole slide is legendary.

Broken sternum sounds f’ing horrific!

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#259

80s action films are just so violent.

America in the 80s had a soaring violent crime rate, so guess that’s genuinely how people thought the future would be.

#261

you’ve got your “the” on the wrong film :wink:

i highly doubt i will watch apostle again! but it was really good. Do you know which scene i mean? that was particularly gruesome? yikes!

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#262

I know exactly which scene you mean. It was…unpleasant.

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#263

it was what the bad guy said as well! for added nastiness.

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#265

Ok, I’ve attempted to do it. This game is ridiculous and futile! Tried to include a mix of films. I didn’t even really consider foreign films! (except motorcycle diaries.)

  • Hoop dreams (best documentary ever.)

  • Unbreakable (best comic book movie ever made. How they should be done.)

  • Last days (can’t even say why! Everything about it is so good. Character study, direction, dialogue, tone.)

  • Lars and the real girl (watched it for a 2nd time and completely fell in love with it. Beautiful. Ryan gosling did 2 films before he became massive that I loved. This and “half Nelson.” He’s a damn good actor. “too” famous now to be doing films like that.)

  • The motorcycle diaries (means a lot to me, politically and spiritually. Also a bloody good film.)

  • Gerry (another Van Sant masterpiece. Same time as “last days,” you just get lost in it. Existential.)

  • Spirited away (I simply adore Ghibli. I’d like to have picked a more obscure, earlier, one but, you know what, spirited away was the one where they really nailed it. It got massive for a reason.)

  • Dead man’s shoes (love Shane meadows, love paddy, this is them at their best. What a film.

  • Princess bride (hilarious, amazing cast, cracking adventures, ridiculously good writing. All-time classic kid’s film, to be enjoyed by adults. “mawage!”

  • Napoleon dynamite (as discussed before, I love this film. )

There’s loads of “high brow” and foreign, and older stuff I’ve not included here! I really Todd solondz, he was someone who really influenced me when I was first getting into film. I’m into cinema vérité and dogma stuff; I was massively into “mumblecore” as well.

Could’ve selected literally 100+ others films. I’m already thinking of more now after writing the above. I hate this game! Wish I’d never done the list now!

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#266

I’m still not able to edit posts! :roll_eyes:

#267

Not the definite list but it’ll do for now :blush:

The Wicker Man
Halloween
Phenomena
Rosemary’s Baby
The VVitch
Sense and Sensibility
Suspiria
Fatal Attraction
Scream
The Thing

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#268

Two Gus Van Sant films and no Drugstore Cowboy :frowning:

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#269

mate, i’m gonna have to shock you even more, it would probably be pretty far down my list! I’ve defo seen it, but can’t really remember it! :flushed:

i love the whole “death trilogy” so elephant as well. I love good will hunting, idaho, paranoid park was good, milk too. I even remember “to die for” better than drugstore cowboy.

What can i say, sorry?! :slight_smile:

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#270

You can have your own opinion and all, but when I become dicator of the world you’re gonna have to do some dungeon time.

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#271

haha.

or, you know, i could just have a rewatch and get back to you?? :wink:

still, if it can better any of the death trilogy, good will hunting or idaho, it will have done VERY well…

#272

In the spirit of full disclosure, I can’t remember being THAT impressed by Last Days. But I did see it in the cinema and was with someone who was quite vocal in their opinion that it was crap.

So maybe I need to rewatch.

Tbh. Van Sant seems like a hit and miss director. I respect his commitment to what he wants to do, but it can result in a Sea of Trees (not seen but heard it’s BAD)