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Thread: Underrated classics:

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    Underrated classics:

    A Star is Born (The Streisand/Kristopherson one)

    Grosse Point Blank

    Sleepy Hollow

    Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

    The Witchfinder General

    Don't @ me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    A Star is Born (The Streisand/Kristopherson one)

    Grosse Point Blank

    Sleepy Hollow

    Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

    The Witchfinder General

    Don't @ me.
    Ignoring A Star Is Born, the only one I'd vaguely dispute there would be Sleepy Hollow, but it is repeatedly watchable and I'll give it a pass because young Christina Ricci (when she was chunky) gave me a funny feeling in my tummy (see The Opposite Of Sex).

    For me:

    Southern Comfort
    Tunes Of Glory
    Oliver!
    Master And Commander

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    Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
    Ignoring A Star Is Born, the only one I'd vaguely dispute there would be Sleepy Hollow, but it is repeatedly watchable and I'll give it a pass because young Christina Ricci (when she was chunky) gave me a funny feeling in my tummy (see The Opposite Of Sex).

    For me:

    Southern Comfort
    Tunes Of Glory
    Oliver!
    Master And Commander
    Good call on Tunes of Glory. I havebn't seen it for years but will order the DVD straight away.

    Southern Comfort I've never seen. How bizarre.

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    No country for old men.
    Dead mans shoes

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    Good call on Tunes of Glory. I havebn't seen it for years but will order the DVD straight away.

    Southern Comfort I've never seen. How bizarre.
    For my money, it's John Mills' finest hour. Also, the young Susannah York.

    Guinness goes miles over the top and his accent doesn't bear close scrutiny, but even that's quite splendid.

    Not having seen Southern Comfort seems both a serious oversight on your part and - given its ubiquity on telly in the 80s and 90s - virtually impossible. Top, top work by Powers Boothe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 7sisters View Post
    No country for old men.
    Dead mans shoes
    I didn't like that man in No Country For Old Men. He didn't have a kind face.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    I didn't like that man in No Country For Old Men. He didn't have a kind face.
    I didn't understand why he was murdering people with a bicycle pump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
    A Star is Born (The Streisand/Kristopherson one)

    Grosse Point Blank

    Sleepy Hollow

    Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

    The Witchfinder General

    Don't @ me.
    Miss MacKenzie by Trollope. Never heard of it before but found it on Radio iPlayer. The missus and I loved it. Highly recommended but only a few days left.

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    Sleuth

    Not that it isn't rated highly, but it is rarely mentioned when people talk about truly great movies and I really fail to see it in any other light.

    Olivier at his best.

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