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Your Top 5 Michael Caine Films

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  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    edited September 2024
    Just watching Get Carter, for the hundredth time. Great film, very dark and moody.

    Did you know that the bloke who shoots Carter at the very end is sitting in his compartment on the train up to Newcastle at the start. 

    As someone once said, not a lot of people know that!
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,627
    Sleuth
    Italian Job
    Zulu
    Educating Rita
    Little Voice
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    Ipcress File
    Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
    Funeral in Berlin
    The Fourth Protocol
    The Italian Job
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,023
    Off_it said:
    Just watching Get Carter, for the hundredth time. Great film, very dark and moody.

    Did you know that the bloke who shoots Carter at the very end is sitting in his compartment on the train up to Newcastle at the start. 

    As someone once said, not many people know that!
    No, but I did know that on the train, Carter is seen reading Farewell My Lovely.
  • HastingsRed
    HastingsRed Posts: 1,587
    Recently watched his last film, The Great Escaper much of it set in Hastings, where he co stars with Glenda Jackson RIP.
  • UEAAddick
    UEAAddick Posts: 512
    1. Mona Lisa
    2. The Italian Job
    3. Zulu
    4. Alfie
    5. Get Carter
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,783
    Stig said:
    Alfie Italian Job Zulu Get Carter Harry Brown
    Not saying you shouldn’t like it, but I thought Harry Brown was a nasty film. 
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448

  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,032
    Most of my favourites have been mentioned but I feel that his last film the Great Escaper is worth a place in a top five. 
  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,255
    The Prestige
    Inception
    The Italian Job
    Zulu
    Batman Begins

    It's not enough to make something disappear.
    You 'ave to bring it back!
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  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,334
    Surprised these haven't been mentioned... 

    5. Gnomeo and Juliet 
    4. The Swarm 
    3. Cars 2 
    2. Beyond the Poseidon Adventure 
    1. Jaws: The Revenge 
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,000
    Chizz said:
    Surprised these haven't been mentioned... 

    5. Gnomeo and Juliet 
    4. The Swarm 
    3. Cars 2 
    2. Beyond the Poseidon Adventure 
    1. Jaws: The Revenge 
    Which did at least give us a classic MC quote (about the film, not in it):

    "I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific."
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,783
    Zulu, ipcress file, get carter, prestige, the woody Allen one. 
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,622
    Get Carter
    Black Windmill
    Zulu
    Eagle has Landed
    The Fourth Protocol 
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,023
    AddicksAddict said:
    Stig said:
    Alfie Italian Job Zulu Get Carter Harry Brown
    Not saying you shouldn’t like it, but I thought Harry Brown was a nasty film. 
    Like it? I can't even remember it. Was he some sort of old man vigilante, or am I getting mixed up with something else? If so, that doesn't sound my cup of tea at all. Not sure why it's on that list, I guess must have recently seen it, but it's nothing to me now. I stick by the other four though. 
  • Greenhithe
    Greenhithe Posts: 778
    number 1 by a mile is The Man Who Would Be King.  A masterpiece. 

    Other than that I’d go for:

    educating rita
    quiet american
    zulu
    Harry Brown, although it’s a hard watch as he looks and acts so much like my dad it brings a tear to my eye. My dad was also called Maurice, was born the same year and got mistaken for him a couple times in the 60s when suited and booted.  My dad also had no parents and didn’t know his dad. I’ve often wondered if Michael Caine dad had a roving eye. 
  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,850
    Zulu
    Get Carter
    The Italian Job
    Harry Brown
    Alfie
  • Stuart_the_Red
    Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,850
    Stig said:
    AddicksAddict said:
    Stig said:
    Alfie Italian Job Zulu Get Carter Harry Brown
    Not saying you shouldn’t like it, but I thought Harry Brown was a nasty film. 
    Like it? I can't even remember it. Was he some sort of old man vigilante, or am I getting mixed up with something else? If so, that doesn't sound my cup of tea at all. Not sure why it's on that list, I guess must have recently seen it, but it's nothing to me now. I stick by the other four though. 
    It certainly showed the seedy side of life, but I did like him in the film!
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    Stuart_the_Red said:
    Stig said:
    AddicksAddict said:
    Stig said:
    Alfie Italian Job Zulu Get Carter Harry Brown
    Not saying you shouldn’t like it, but I thought Harry Brown was a nasty film. 
    Like it? I can't even remember it. Was he some sort of old man vigilante, or am I getting mixed up with something else? If so, that doesn't sound my cup of tea at all. Not sure why it's on that list, I guess must have recently seen it, but it's nothing to me now. I stick by the other four though. 
    It certainly showed the seedy side of life, but I did like him in the film!

  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,622
    Greenhithe said:
    number 1 by a mile is The Man Who Would Be King.  A masterpiece. 

    Other than that I’d go for:

    educating rita
    quiet american
    zulu
    Harry Brown, although it’s a hard watch as he looks and acts so much like my dad it brings a tear to my eye. My dad was also called Maurice, was born the same year and got mistaken for him a couple times in the 60s when suited and booted.  My dad also had no parents and didn’t know his dad. I’ve often wondered if Michael Caine dad had a roving eye. 
    There is a great scene in Harry Brown when the drug dealer tries to shoot Harry, but the gun jams - Harry shoots drug dealer and says ‘you failed to maintain your weapon, son’
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  • HastingsRed
    HastingsRed Posts: 1,587
    Anyone see the US version of Get Carter...not 'quite' so good.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    For those that haven't seen it or even if you have Get Carter is currently available on BBC iPlayer.
  • southamptonaddick
    southamptonaddick Posts: 4,054
    I can't believe Muppet Christmas Carol hasn't had a mention  :(
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,627
    ken_shabby said:
    The Prestige
    Inception
    The Italian Job
    Zulu
    Batman Begins

    It's not enough to make something disappear.
    You 'ave to bring it back!
    In total he probably only appears for about 10 mins. No wonder he didn't get any awards for them  :D

    And I forgot Deathtrap in my top 5.  Should have got an award for having to kiss Christopher Reeve !
  • raytreacy69
    raytreacy69 Posts: 955
    Get Carter
    Italian Job
    Zulu
    Alfie
    Educating Rita
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,352
    1) Get Carter
    2) TMWWBK
    3) Educating Rita
    4) Zulu
    5) Italian Job

    That was bloody difficult. Notable mentions, Cider House Rules, BOB and The Ipcress files.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,352
    soapy_jones said:
    1) Get Carter
    2) TMWWBK
    3) Educating Rita
    4) Zulu
    5) Italian Job

    That was bloody difficult. Notable mentions, Cider House Rules, BOB and The Ipcress files.
    Fuck!  Little Voice!
  • PeanutsMolloy
    PeanutsMolloy Posts: 6,708
    Get Carter
    Hannah And Her Sisters
    Zulu
    The Ipcress File
    Educating Rita
  • Ian Nightingale
    Ian Nightingale Posts: 392
    He was brilliant in Stella Street
  • CoveredEndAndy
    CoveredEndAndy Posts: 101
    If you haven’t seen it 
    He was brilliant in the Great Escaper last year. 

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