Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted October 27, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted October 27, 2011 Almost certainly one of Britain's greatest ever film actors by now and as Loki pointed out elsewhere, he is currently in one of the best runs of his career and seems to have shaken off his tendency to, out of the blue, just pick an absolutely awful film for no apparent reason - see The Swarm, Blue Ice, Jaws The Revenge and so on. Â So, he's done some shit but he's also been in many, many great films. My favourites in no apparent order:- Â 1) The Harry Palmer films - they have never deserved to have been in the shadow of the Bond films and I think the Bourne trilogy owes far more to these than it does to the Bond series. He is as cool as fuck in these. Billion Dollar Brain is especially amazing. Â 2) Hannah And Her Sisters - steps into a Woody Allen film with seemingly no problem at all and proves that comedy and romance are absolutely no problem to him at all. Also my joint favourite Woody Allen film with Manhattan Murder Mystery. Â 3) Get Carter - obviously. And not just for the Alf Roberts moment. Â 4) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - the perfect foil for Steve Martin? Who would have thought that? One of my favourite films as a kid. Â 5) The Man Who Would Be King - it just strikes me that if film critics did their work properly that this would rightly be lauded as one of the greatest films of the 1970s and that his performance would be one of the greatest in that decade. Â Narrowing it down is almost impossible - I've not even mentioned Zulu, the brilliant Sleuth, Harry Brown, Children Of Men, The Italian Job and others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Dead Mike Posted October 27, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted October 27, 2011 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a great shout. I remember really liking 'The Cider House Rules' but I've only seen it the once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted October 27, 2011 Moderators Share Posted October 27, 2011 The answer is clearly Get Carter. While not just for the Alf ROberts moment, mainly for the Alf Roberts moment.  SPOILER - Highlight the black box to read And also for Carter getting done by a sniper to perhaps the most cheerful music of all time before going into the famed Get Carter theme   The Stallone version of the Alf Roberts bit was shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Power Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Escape To Victory. Â But only because I love John Wark more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Huge fan.  My personal favourites are  Alfie This is just a movie that blows you away. I wasn't expecting something as callous and bleak as this. As powerful now as the day it was made.  Zulu He just bursts fully-formed into super-stardom really. The way he steals the film from under Stanley Baker, himself a seriously heavyweight actor, is quite something.  Get Carter The perfect gangster movie in many respects.  The Quiet American I loved this film, and it showed perfectly the manner in which he was going to approach his twilight years as an actor.  Gnomeo and Juliet Only joking...  Harry Brown As discussed in the other thread.  I haven't seen one of the classic Harry Palmer films in years, I wonder if you can get a boxed set? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Egg Shen Posted October 27, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted October 27, 2011 i aint actually seen that many older Michael Caine films, i got a set from the Daily Mail for free which includes about 20 of his older movies, i need to get on them. Â To be a movie fan and not have seen the Italian Job is something im very ashamed of. Â oh, if we're talking newer Caine, i recommend you check out Is Anybody There, cracking little movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.PeterVenkman Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 As if no one's mentioned Educating Rita, he should've won an Oscar for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted October 27, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted October 27, 2011 Get Carter was his best film. It had fucking Alf Roberts in what. Thats all you need in any film. Â EDIT: Butch and Gladders got in before me, but fuck it. If the Dark Knight had Alf Roberts popping up for a quick scrap with Alfred, Christopher Nolen wouldn't get the shit he does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members chokeout Posted October 27, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted October 27, 2011 Best Film: The man who would be king A fantastic film that was a throwback to films of the 40s and 50s and has amazing chemistry between Caine and Connery Best Performance: Hannah and her sisters  As mentioned now hes got past the habit of doing it for the money he's really having a cracking run of films Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted October 27, 2011 Author Paid Members Share Posted October 27, 2011 As if no one's mentioned Educating Rita, he should've won an Oscar for that  Great shout. Fantastic film. Oscars mean almost nothing, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Burchill's Buddy Posted October 27, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted October 27, 2011 Gladders, I know I've asked this before and there might have been good reason....but any reason we can't use a poll on these threads? Would be nice to get an overall feel of what everyone thinks and might be more inclined to go see whichever one does best if I haven't already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Snake Plissken Posted October 27, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted October 27, 2011 Caine is so good he even made Jaws The Revenge bareable, but only because of him. For me the original Slueth, DRS, The Forth Protocol & The Muppets Christmas Carol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patiirc Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Hmm, loads of great performances  I'd go with Without A Clue as being my top Caine film. Brilliant as a bumbling, drunk, out of work actor playing Sherlock Holmes. Fantastic performance against Ben Kingsley's Watson and Jeffrey Jones's Lestrade.  Also thought that he was good in The Battle of Britain as Squadron Leader Cansfield, and in Mona Lisa, but Ive not seen the latter in an age as well as Last Orders and indeed Little Voice  Others that have already been mentioned  Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, utterly fabulous and mesmerising film  The Harry Palmer films, are all excellent  Jasper in Children of Men, Nicely comic role  Get Carter as well is nicely dark and bleak, as well.   Top marks allround I think, but yeah, Without A Clue is definitely my favourite, out of the ones Ive seen   PS I guess the Italian Job doesnt get a mention nor Zulu because of the films status'es or perhaps the performances not being as good? I dunno. I thought he was great as Charlie Croker. But It's weird they arent mentioned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Snake Plissken Posted October 27, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted October 27, 2011 Oh actually add Harry Brown in there. He was immense in that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightmare Posted October 27, 2011 Share Posted October 27, 2011 Zulu and Get Carter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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