heres another movie thought , does anyone remember the Dorchester Cinema... what a class place, last of the great movie houses... I also for what its worth have in my home the solid brass wall lights from the Criterion cinema that were salvaged some years ago ...

and doc hollidays "you can kiss my rebel D**K"

"Ever since i can remember i'd always wanted to be a gangster"

class

Not technically a film but "My names Gene Hunt i'm your DI its 1973 it's dinner time and i'm avin oops!"

The major film credits zoom from the right of the screen, like speeding cars (heard on the soundtrack), and freeze for a moment. The film, "based on a true story," begins with a pivotal night-time scene that introduces the film's three major characters. It is a major turning point for each of them. [The scene is repeated within its proper context later in the film.
Three organized crime mobsters are in a white-top car cruising down a freeway. An inter-title notes the location and time: New York, 1970:

Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) - the driver
Jimmy Conway (Robert DeNiro) - in the passenger's seat
Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci) - in the back seat
A thumping sound forces them to pull over into a grassy area and investigate - they open the trunk. Inside is a bloodied mob member [identified later as Billy Batts (Frank Vincent) wrapped in white tablecloths. Tommy can't believe the man is still alive and stabs him multiple times in the chest with an enormous butcher knife. Conway puts four bullets into the already-limp body. Henry witnesses the enormity of the violence and then slams the trunk shut.

A simple zoom shot and then a freeze-frame holds on Henry's face, as the main title credits play (with a blood-red title for the film). His autobiographical, defiant narration (in voice-over) confirms his choice of a lucrative, criminal lifestyle (that brings him from 'rags to riches'):


As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States.
["Rags to Riches," performed by Tony Bennett.

Quite simply the greatest opening sequence to any film ever!

Amen to

that And 2 great songs at the end sid vicious's my way morphing into the end of layla

"For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who worked s--tty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day and worried about their bills were dead. I mean they were suckers. They had no balls. If we wanted something we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again"

"What do you mean, I'm funny?...You mean the way I talk?...What's funny about it?...What the f--k is so funny about me? Tell me?..."

SANTA!!!!!!!!!!!!



Love that film even though I know I really shouldn't

"Buddy The Elf - what's your favourite colour?"

Not going to bother posting a top 10 as its way too hard to just pick 10 but some of my favourites that I dont think have been mentioned.....

Maximum Overdrive (bit obscure I know)
Mighty Ducks
Mad Max
Breakfast Club
Top Gun
A Few Good Men
Jerry Maguire
Blues Brothers
Gremlins
Jurrasic Park
Batteries Not Included
Big Trouble in Little China
Blood Sport
One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing
Evil Dead Trilogy
Speed
Natural Born Killers


I'll be back.......

O RLY?

I love Goodfellas, probably in my top 20 or so, but I think the openings of Apocalypse Now and Once Upon a Time in the West are very hard to beat. Also, the opening of Aguirre, Wrath of God, while being stylistically raw, is also brilliant.

You also left out my favourite moment during that Goodfellas scene in your description. Just before they pop the boot and the camera is panning across the three, you see Pesci grabbing something inside his jacket. Just before he goes out of screen, we see him pull out a bloody huge kitchen knife, and then he goes out of sight. I just love the timing of it.

My favourite scene in the movie is that long, one-shot, tracking club scene. Where Liotta takes his girl from the street, through the kitchens and back rooms, to the front of the dining room where his table is made up in front of him.

All of which shows that Scorsese is god.

Another excellent film which I don't think has been mentioned yet....City of God

Yo, she-bitch! Let's go!

"your going down"

"I'm going up"

Another one I really enjoyed is ...I am Sam, fantastic performance by Sean Penn.

In no particular order
Zulu
Cool Hand Luke
Life Of Brian
An American Werewolf in London
Gladiator
Sixth Sense
Seven
Alien
Predator 2
The Great Escape

Nice to see you read my posts.

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Did someone say something.......?

Bob Hoskins was brilliant in that,a great film.

A couple moreicon_sad.gifforgive me if some have already been posted)
The good the bad the ugly
Fistfull of dollars
Few dollars more
once upon a time in america
Great escape
Unforgiven
Romper Stomper
Bronx tale
Casino
Scrooge(with Albert Finney as scrooge)
Oliver!
Magnificent Seven
Heat
Gladiator

A few more to add:-

The assasination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford.

Spirited Away.

The Bourne Trilogy.

Really didn't enjoy that one at all.

Must say thought the Bourne Trilogy where great films