Post Your Pic/Talk About Anything Thread

[GPater11093]

Seen both these plays but not recently, both good.
I started typing out a list of plays and films ,but it would have been boring for you .so here we go.Condensed version.
Anything by Arthur Miller .
Most of Eugene O Neill.
Anything by Potter.
A lot of Pinter.
Most of Williams.
I go to the theatre about once a month so I see a fair amount of plays.

might start going to the theatre good place to take abird me thinks. Never heard of any of them just read the plays in school thought they was good

The Long and The Short and The Tall was amazing a really great play.

Stick with Shakespeare ,he is the master imo.If you cant get on with the verse ,try the films.
Books
Anything by Hemingway
ditto Steinbeck
Lawrence
Most of Fitzgerald.
All of McCarthy
All of Faulks
All of Tolstoy
ditto Turgenev
a Couple of Dostoievsky[The Idiot] [The Gambler] [Crime and Punishment]

I really dont like Shakespeare his stories albeit good are too long winded and get boring and his lanugaue used is a total turn off. Just not my kinda stuff

Steinbeck is a great write love his stuff, Hemingway read alot of quotes (funny ones) and he pops up alot very funny guy.

Films .some of my favourites.
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
The African Queen
Casablanca
In Fact anything with Bogart in it.
Of Mice and Men [both versions]
The Grapes of Wrath
The Best Years Of Our Lives
Inherit The Wind
All films by Ford,Scorsese,Carne ,Huston,Wilder,Kurosawa.
Citizen Kane
The Seventh Seal
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Les Infants Du Paradis
Come and See
Godfather 1 and 2.
Most films with Duvall, Deniro,Hackman ,Hoffman ,in.
Got to tell myself to stop now,apologies for longwindedness.
In the 1400s I had a T shirt that said The Earth is Flat.

cheers i'll have a look for them, i have Godfather part 1 just never watched it yet

its intresting stuff McVey

Originally Posted by teeto

GPater and Chinx, you've made me luv this thread

why?

Originally Posted by teeto

Some classics i like,

The Gangs of New York
Godfather 1 and 2, (all the usual suspect mafia ones, no point in listing them)
Papillon
The Good, the bad and the Ugly
In the Name of The Father
The Lion King, Aladdin!
The Hurricane
Once Upon a Time in the West
Once Upon a Time in America
Gladiator (both of them)
We Own The Night

Gladiater is an amazing film wathced it when i was about 8 and i thought it was great.

I like alot of gangster films especially The Untouchables and Scar face.

Never really watched a cowboy film

im trying to get The Wrestler and Grand torino at the momet which are supposed to be class

also anyone seen Scum that is a great film

Originally Posted by fleaman

Ummm.....Pulp Fiction, Dr Strangelove (anything Kubrick) Taxi Driver (anything Scorcese bar that shitty Buddha one he made!) I like the old Sergio Leone Westerns and 70's exploitation horror movies (everything from original Dawn of the Dead to mid-80's stuff like Cannibal Holocaust and early 80's shlock films like 'Nightmare In A Damaged Brain') although I'm well into my sitcoms at the mo, back on oldies like Father Ted (old for someone my age though I remember it on original transmission, very liberal parents) and The newer stuff like The IT Crowd, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Flight Of The Conchords (weirder stuff that )



And of course I watch boxing most days. Just about to watch Bobby Gunn vs Adamek

And I try to plow through at least ONE book a month.................and I listen to loadsa music as well.

Fuck knows what I'm goin on about, first things I read was Teeto's list of fims, then I've gone on a tangent. Get's that what this thread is for

Taxi drivers good - you talking to me

also speaking about De Niro raging bull

anyone ever seen American Gangster started watching it but it was quite boring to start with

as for sitcoms i used to sit in font of a TV watching Porridge and Only Fools they are classics, also i love mr Bean

do you like the Sweeney?



also got FNR4 today its good im just starting to get good i had a war with Ray Leonard and i was Hearns i stopped him in the 9th a great fight with a brutal KO.

I find the slipping punches and inside fighter very difficult but ill get used to it

[GPater11093]

Originally Posted by teeto

Father Ted, i never used to watch it when it was big, but then i watched one episode, can't even remember it now, but i laughed possibly more than when watching anything else on tv ever.

father ted is brillaint used to watch it when i was younger it wa on about the same time as Faulty towers at about 9 o clock.

My dad used to watch TV in his office so i would sneak through and hide under his desk and watch Faulty Towers or Father Ted

[teeto]

You made me like the thread because when i logged in today and saw your conversation it was really interesting to read.

Yeah i didn't list the gangster films cos you'd know which ones i mean, like Scarface etc, the timeless ones. Gran Torino is good, the Wrestler as well. When i was about 19 i thought i'd seen all the mafia/gangster classics, so i wanted to get into something else that's a real man's thing, like Wildlife programmes or something, one name, CLINT EASTWOOD, three films- 'Fistful of Dollars', 'Few Dollars More', then the cream- 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly'. Quentin Tarantino said it was his favourite film ever, and you can clearly see they are a predecessor to his type of work.

You'll see them in time mate, watch them in that order though.

[Flea Man]

Yep, they are the 'Leone westerns' I was referring too, quality stuff. Tarantino loved Rio Bravo and Taxi Driver too, in a biography of his he lists his ten favourite films.

If anyone likes Tarantino read Ellmor Leonard books, they're his biggest influence apparently.

gran Torino was shit hot I thought

[teeto]

Originally Posted by fleaman

Yep, they are the 'Leone westerns' I was referring too, quality stuff. Tarantino loved Rio Bravo and Taxi Driver too, in a biography of his he lists his ten favourite films.

If anyone likes Tarantino read Ellmor Leonard books, they're his biggest influence apparently.

gran Torino was shit hot I thought

Yeah you gotta luv the 'spaghetti westerns'. Have you seen Unforgiven also? Oh my, one of the finest films ever,

[GPater11093]

Originally Posted by teeto

You made me like the thread because when i logged in today and saw your conversation it was really interesting to read.

Yeah i didn't list the gangster films cos you'd know which ones i mean, like Scarface etc, the timeless ones. Gran Torino is good, the Wrestler as well. When i was about 19 i thought i'd seen all the mafia/gangster classics, so i wanted to get into something else that's a real man's thing, like Wildlife programmes or something, one name, CLINT EASTWOOD, three films- 'Fistful of Dollars', 'Few Dollars More', then the cream- 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly'. Quentin Tarantino said it was his favourite film ever, and you can clearly see they are a predecessor to his type of work.

You'll see them in time mate, watch them in that order though.

it wasa good conversation learnt alot made me think at 3am aswell haha

My uncle loves the westerns might go over and watch them with him. i watched dirty harry though

[GPater11093]

definitly excited bout Gran Torino

any of you guys seen Scum now thats an amzing film

[Flea Man]

Originally Posted by teeto

Yeah you gotta luv the 'spaghetti westerns'. Have you seen Unforgiven also? Oh my, one of the finest films ever,

[GPater11093]

any of you guys have Xbox live we could have a game on FNR4

also i dotn have a clue on how to put a fighters face on my xbox i have a picture saved on my xbox why cant i put it on the game

[Chinxkid]

Who was it, Teeto, that said he liked "Unforgiven"? I'm not real big on Westerns, but that's my # 1 of all time. Also, I like most of John Wayne's movies, "The Man who shot Liberty Valance", is a great one. And Mcvey, mentioned a lot of great films, too. "Treasure of the Sierra Madre," definitely, and other Bogart flicks, Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and I liked the boxing flick, The Harder They Fall... On the Waterfront is probably one of my top picks, It's a Wonderful Life, and of the more recent classics, most things by Scorcese, DeNiro, Pacino, and I like Hoffman too... A couple more obscure ones of these guys'... The King of Comedy, Scarecrow and Midnight Cowboy.

Just wanted to throw my 2 and a half cents into the pot...

[Sweet Pea]

Great movies

Leaving Las Vegas
Pulp Fiction
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Heat
The Godfather I & II
The Deer Hunter
Last of the Mohicans
Before Sunrise
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Graduate
Edward Scissorhands
Braveheart
Walk the Line
The Prestige
Pan's Labyrinth
Million Dollar Baby
Vanilla Sky
Lost in Translation
American Beauty
Goodfellas
Reservoir Dogs
Kill Bill Vol. I and II
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
There's Something About Mary
Meet The Parents

[Sweet Pea]

Who's looking forward to Inglourious Basterds?

[Robbi]

I assume this is the classic's very own lounge?

[Sweet Pea]

I'd like to hear some of Robbi's taste in movies.

[GPater11093]

this is the classic lounge