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Just started watching Full Metal Jacket for the umpteenth time on our impressive new telly, pure joy. 

What old favourites have people been particularly enjoying over the festive break?

watched Local hero again, its a bit dated but still one of my favourites.  

I watched Jim Sheridan's "The Field" again, this time with my Dad. It wasn't as good as I'd recalled, sadly. 

Re The Field

I remember saying to a mate of mine many years ago "this won't be your type of film". So he went into a rant about how the f**k I would know what type of film he watched. Sure enough, by the end, he looked at me and admitted that "it wasn't his type of film".

I think it was supposed to portray a little of the brutality that was felt in Ireland after the famine but it might have missed its mark. High level actors though.

Thread title reminds me of Peter Cook's autobiography, Tragically, I was an Only Twin.  There's a picture of him on the cover looking tragic.

It was the line that Gunnery Sergeant Hartman uses to introduce himself to Pyle. Not, by any means, the finest line in the film, but short enough to fit a thread title.

I watch withnail and I every new years day.

I didn't match withnail drink for drink, but I did drop some phenodihyrochloride-benzylex.

Also, the big lebowski. The story's ludicrous. 

He's a good man. And thorough.

I've been listening to a Radio 4 drama serial about cold war espionage set in the Hebrides, made in the late 1960s.  Called "Dark Island" with a haunting signature tune.

6 half hour episodes

So pleased to hear this. I have a new telly arriving this afternoon with apparently out of this world colour and image quality so I can't wait. 

Robbie the Reindeer for the umpteenth time and Shape of Water (first) were probably my festive favourites. 

It's a curse as much as a blessing. I spent at least the first week excitedly flicking through the channels looking for programs that showcased the improved image quality.

I ended up watching some right crap just cos it looked good.

haha 

I think I may need to find some tropical fish on the Discovery Channel......they always seem to have them in the showroom?

I’ve got Lebowski recorded, might watch it tonight, also going to revisit season 1 of True Detective before going back on Monday.

Withnail’s a classic but I don’t think it’s ageing that well. Last time a saw it I think I forwarded as much as I watched. Perhaps best viewed drunk?

Haven't watched any oldies over Christmas and New Year but some I go back to now and again are

Beetlejuice, The Blues Brothers and Bladerunner.

Dave

watched 'all creatures great and small' -

plenty of elbow deep moments and has aged well I think

To be fair, everything about the Heroes of telemark and Where eagles dare..dialogue, action, tension, scenery....climbing...storyline...They've got it in bucketloads even when you know the endings. Unlike Revenant (bits of which were good) last night, but which i've always wanted to see and then was a letdown, as I thought it was a bit too far fetched, overacted  (unrealistic - too fast in such cold and exposed weather)  nowhere near as good as Dances with Wolves which is a masterpiece. Stayed up late then to watch Glastonbury highlights of which only the Killers for me produced with Mr Brightside.

"All Quiet On The Western Front" did it for me. The original is best but the 1979 remake is pretty good and closer to the book.

Best anti war movie ever.

youtube.com/watch?v=28NnWphc8IY&

Nice.

Where could I find The Dark island please? You have whetted my appetite and I'd like to listen to it as well.

Try here :

https://archive.org/details/DarkIslandThe_201709

Good cinematography and settings, though - just the thing for showing off a new telly.

Generally on my own over New Years Eve (my wife usually volunteers for a night shift (probably to get away  from me)).

I always seem to end up  watching "The Devil Rides Out" just before 12, and "Quatermass and the Pit" after.  Sometimes throw in "The Blair Witch Project" for good measure - if I haven't passed out by then. 

Dated?! It's utterly timeless. One of the best two films ever made, and always will be.

I think Ghostbusters is my "anytime anywhere" film of all time. Such perfect timing from Ackroyd and Murray that I genuinely don't know how the other cast members got through their lines with a straight face.

Also love The Big Lebowski but I'm equally a fan of Miller's Crossing, also by the Coen brothers. The borderline nonsense slang is so lyrical and the whole film somehow simultaneously manages to be a pastiche of a gangster film AND a fantastic gangster film in its own right.

Miller's Crossing is class. Long overdue for a re-watch.

well it was made in 1983, id agree about being one of the best films ever made, what's your other then ?

The goddam kid's just like a twist!

Lawrence of Arabia

Thanks. Found it on Youtube and listening to it there. Four episodes in. Great stuff. Do you know any more like it?