Four Rooms - Seriously dude, if you don't watch any other film of this list fine BUT WATCH THIS FILM ! Tim Roth plays a put-upon bell boy working the night shift at a Hotel. There are four rooms he has to contend with and each room is directed and written by a different director. Quentin Tarantino directs one room. Such a funny film, it really is a keeper.
Shane - Film made in 1953 and is one of my favorite Westerns. The end is so ambiguous and more than a number of directors have cited it as one of the greatest endings ever.
True Grit - While we're on Westerns, you might as well roll with this. John Wayne towards the end of his career and the only one he received an Oscar for. Such a fantastic story line with the biggest hardass.
Ghost Busters - Comedy gold. Team of failed scientists decide to start busting ghosts ... and it makes them feel good.
Labyrinth - David Bowie as a jodhpur wearing villain and Jennifer Connelly in her first role. Great songs and my favorite Jim Henson film.
Lion King - Macbeth for kids. If you haven't seen it, bring some kleenex.
Clerks - Kevin Smiths directorial debut and one of the funniest films I've ever seen. Two well, Clerks, going about their day.
Transformers (Animated Movie) - Fantastic story, Unicron gobbling up planets when both The Autobots and The Decepticons get in the way. One the best soundtracks and such kick-ass battle sequences.
Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan - Khan, a humanoid alien who had been abandoned on a desolate planet by Kirk and his crew years before finally gets an opportunity to exact revenge. Sci-fi version of Moby Dick in a weird way.
Snatch - Foul mouthed cockney rhyming slang, irish pikeys (trailer trash is the American equvalent) and the best quotes you'll ever get from a film not made by Quentin Tarantino.
Enjoy man, I seriously envy you're ability to do something like this and I certainly hope you do it !
Fantastic review! You summed up everything I loved about the film and you've actually made me want to go see it again (and I've seen it 5 times in the space of 4 weeks).
You did leave out one of the funniest scenes in it, I literally had tears rolling down my face from laughter. *SPOILER*
Lt.Aldo Raine, Bridget von Hammersmark and his two other plucky compartates are nervously waiting in the foyer of the cinema when none other than Hans comes up to them ? I was so tense, you know that he knows and you're just waiting the entire time. Then, all that tension is released when Raine says "Bonjourno" in the thickest southern accent.
You've said all that needs to be said about the funniest,slickest and most .. well Tarintinoish film of the summer. I applaud you sir, but kind of hate you because now I have to fork out the 10 euro it costs for a cinema ticket just to see a film I've already seen 5 times. ;)
People, you are all looking at The Beatles in the same way you look at a new band today. What do they bring that's fresh and new? What musical skill do they have? Riffs? Current social commentary?
Look at The Beatles retrospectively. Look at what they did back then. They did things nobody had even thought of before, they treated the album as a whole entity, a giant message that you could break up into individual songs but then put back together to get a broader scope. The Beatles never just shoved in some filler tracks, particularly from Rubber Soul onwards. Mainstream artists didn't do that previously, it was all numbers. One track off an album was expected to reach number one and then that was it.
The Beatles also evolved, changed their look. People may say artists have done that before and you may be right but prior to 1966, I can guarantee you they did it because their careers were flagging. The Beatles changed their style because they simply wanted to experiment with different sounds. They certainly did that.
Fair enough if you don't actually like the musical sound of The Beatles, but they have done enormous amounts for music. They may not seem as great today because other bands have taken what they did and developed it but you just can't compare. The Jazz Singer is a shit film compared to film today, but back then it was without question the greatest film ever made because it was made with sound. The new and groundbreaking won't always stay as the new and groundbreaking but the fact that they once were, should be good enough.
Basically, how I appreciate The Beatles is by imagining what music would be like if they never existed. Then, I go listen to them.
Most of the slang comes from the Northside of Dublin.
North : Slar - See you later (said quickly) Story ? - What is the story with you, how are you etc. Bleedin' - Used as replacement for fuck. Rapid - Cool i.e : Those shoes are "rapid". Locked - extremely drunk. Slapper - slut,ho etc. You are on your bollox - basically it means "as if" when somebody says something unbelievable about themselves. Craic - Irish term for fun, merriment. i.e : We had great craic last night.
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