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Favourite Michael Caine movie and why

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  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,503
    Funeral in Berlin...

    "Bitte?"

    "No...I'll have a Lowenbrau please"
  • LittleAddick
    LittleAddick Posts: 635
    88 today, great man, great actor.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,319
    LittleAddick said:
    88 today, great man, great actor.
    Wow... Another a bit like Murray Walker who is so much older than I realised 
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,850
    Love a Michael Caine film. Sure hes been in some turkeys, but hes also been in some all time classics. 

    And always comes across as a nice bloke done good, not too up himself.
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,208
    Not a great lover of his acting but Zulu and The Man who would be King. 
  • philcafc
    philcafc Posts: 3,883
    Definitely Get Carter for me
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,722
    Get Carter - some great lines in that film. 

    "You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me it's a full time job."

    "You know, I'd almost forgotten what your eyes looked like. Still the same. Pissholes in the snow."
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    Watched King of Thieves last night, typically understated performance from MC. Very different portrayal of Brian Reader to Kenneth Cranham's in the TV series, a much more sympathetic character, though still not gloryfying a bad egg.  
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,628
    edited March 2021
    golfaddick said:
    my favs are ( in no particular order)

    The italan Job
    Death Trap
    Sleuth
    Zulu
    Swarm
    11 odd years ago I posted this. Can't believe no-one else has mentioned Sleuth or Deathtrap. 
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,722
    Off_it said:
    Love a Michael Caine film. Sure hes been in some turkeys, but hes also been in some all time classics. 

    And always comes across as a nice bloke done good, not too up himself.
    I've read one of his autobiography's (The Elephant to Hollywood) and i completely agree he comes across as just a chap who done alright.  
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  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,722
    I also think it helped that he was a bit older than the other icons in the 60s. gave him a bit of perspective. 
  • LittleAddick
    LittleAddick Posts: 635
    golfaddick said:
    golfaddick said:
    my favs are ( in no particular order)

    The italan Job
    Death Trap
    Sleuth
    Zulu
    Swarm
    11 odd years ago I posted this. Can't believe no-one else has mentioned Sleuth or Deathtrap. 
    Or Escape to victory 
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,033
    edited March 2021
    Educating Rita is one of my favourite films .

    Michael Caine supports the young Julie Walters in her quest to better herself through the Open University .

    I saw it recently and although it was dated I felt it was authentically a good representation of life in the 1980's ( drinking at work etc ) 
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    My favourite film that he’s in is The Battle of Britain. My favourite that he starred in is The Italian Job. I can remember my Dad getting excited and telling me we must watch it when it was shown on TV. This was during the time of just 3 channels and films like this being shown was a big thing.

    Loved it then and love it now.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,622
    Dreadful actor but has real screen presence. 
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,004
    ShootersHillGuru said:
    Dreadful actor but has real screen presence. 
    Don’t agree at all ... he has showed he can ‘act’ in films such as The Quiet American and Educating Rita. 
  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,354
    The Italian job, loved it as a kid and forever remember it.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,850
    ShootersHillGuru said:
    Dreadful actor but has real screen presence. 
    Absolute rubbish. You could say his range was "limited" but if he was a dreadful actor he wouldnt have had such a long, distinguished and iconic career.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    Top 3:

    Zulu
    Get Carter
    The Italian Job
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,230
    edited March 2021
    No mention for Ashanti/  Not surprised, pretty appalling film, think his wife was in it?
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  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,622
    edited March 2021
    stonemuse said:
    ShootersHillGuru said:
    Dreadful actor but has real screen presence. 
    Don’t agree at all ... he has showed he can ‘act’ in films such as The Quiet American and Educating Rita. 
    Off_it said:
    ShootersHillGuru said:
    Dreadful actor but has real screen presence. 
    Absolute rubbish. You could say his range was "limited" but if he was a dreadful actor he wouldnt have had such a long, distinguished and iconic career.
    Just like Sean Connery Caine brings the same character to every role. Like his films though.
  • RedJohn
    RedJohn Posts: 597
    really enjoyed "Going in Style", with Morgan Freeman and Alan Arkin,  very funny,
  • ColinTat
    ColinTat Posts: 2,794
    Not sure that's true.  I can see why he really struggled on stage, and was probably being close to average on it.  He was in absolutely awful movies when I was a kid/teenager, and a bit of a joke to us.  But in Zulu, The Ipcress File, Get Carter, The Man Who Would Be King, Educating Rita and The Quiet American he's an excellent screen actor. 

    Sometimes it seems he's playing the same roué at different levels of class, but as long as an accent's not crucial his acting in small moments and emotional collapses are top notch.  No way is he a bad screen actor.  I think he's a much better and diverse actor than Sean Connery, who I also think is excellent on screen at what he did.

    My favourite is Too Late The Hero.  Hilariously ridiculous final scene, with awful lines given to him but plays it better than anyone else.  I love it for it's Saturday matinee feel/memories of watching it with the family.
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,185
    Mona Lisa, with his cameo with Bob Hoskins, Fantastic. Small part but so well done.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,722
    anyone seen the re make of get carter? with Stallone? 

    what a pile of shite. 
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,729
    iaitch said:
    No mention for Ashanti/  Not surprised, pretty appalling film, think his wife was in it?
    His wife was in the Man that would be king too but that was a great film,
  • Solidgone
    Solidgone Posts: 10,208
    Wasn’t MC in the Kinsman?
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    Alfie, for the reasons originally posted.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,004
    ShootersHillGuru said:
    stonemuse said:
    ShootersHillGuru said:
    Dreadful actor but has real screen presence. 
    Don’t agree at all ... he has showed he can ‘act’ in films such as The Quiet American and Educating Rita. 
    Off_it said:
    ShootersHillGuru said:
    Dreadful actor but has real screen presence. 
    Absolute rubbish. You could say his range was "limited" but if he was a dreadful actor he wouldnt have had such a long, distinguished and iconic career.
    Just like Sean Connery Caine brings the same character to every role. Like his films though.
    The two examples I gave are very different from, for example, Zulu, Italian Job etc. 
  • LittleAddick
    LittleAddick Posts: 635
    ShootersHillGuru said:
    stonemuse said:
    ShootersHillGuru said:
    Dreadful actor but has real screen presence. 
    Don’t agree at all ... he has showed he can ‘act’ in films such as The Quiet American and Educating Rita. 
    Off_it said:
    ShootersHillGuru said:
    Dreadful actor but has real screen presence. 
    Absolute rubbish. You could say his range was "limited" but if he was a dreadful actor he wouldnt have had such a long, distinguished and iconic career.
    Just like Sean Connery Caine brings the same character to every role. Like his films though.
    Sean connery the same character??
    James bond a womanising and deadly spy and indiana Jones' father? Not sure i agree with you there.
    I get what you mean with Caine in the 60s 70s but I think he evolved with the time superbly.

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