Especially "older" if you watched them or they were in theaters when you were a kid.
The list made me feel older. I am a sucker for sci-fi vintage flicks, so I would add Forbidden Planet and the original Blade Runner. I also liked the thinking that came with Clockwork Orange, though I liked the novel more.
If you haven't seen them, I'd recommend just about anything by the Coen Brothers, but especially No Country For Old Men, Fargo, Blood Simple, The Big Lebowski, and Millers Crossing.
There is so many, but here's a few that I know if I see them on, I'll watch them.
The Philadelphia Story (Jimmy Stewart - Cary Grant - Katheryn Hepburn)
Support Your Local Sheriff Support Your Local Gunfighter (both - James Garner)
Hitchcock Movies (almost all of them) Rear Window - Jimmy Stewart - Grace Kelly North By Northwest - Cary Grant Eva Marie Saint Dial M For Murder - Grace Kelly - Ray Milland To Catch A Thief - Cary Grant - Grace Kelly (Maybe it's Grace Kelly I like)
Heaven Can Wait - Warren Beatty
Chinatown - Jack Nicholson
John Wayne - Almost all of them. Notables: Sons of Katie Elder War Wagon Big Jake The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Rio Bravo McClintock
I would definitely recommend Knives Out. Good old fashioned "whodunnit" that was actually nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Came out last year. Very well-written, very entertaining.
Silverado and I don’t like westerns ... what a cast ...
Let it Ride .... flew under the radar ... I love comedies and I LMAO through most of that movie ...
My wife tells me I’ve lived a sheltered life and Ver’s thread about who would play u from tv drove the point home ... I didn’t know around 75% of the actors that were mentioned ...
Silverado and I don’t like westerns ... what a cast ...
Let it Ride .... flew under the radar ... I love comedies and I LMAO through most of that movie ...
My wife tells me I’ve lived a sheltered life and Ver’s thread about who would play u from tv drove the point home ... I didn’t know around 75% of the actors that were mentioned ...
I loved Silverado too. Its right there with Tombstone, Unforgiven, Pale Rider, and The Outlaw Josie Wales of my top 5 Westerns. (Not counting Lonesome Dove, which was a TV miniseries, but the greatest Western of all time, IMO.)
Let it Ride .... flew under the radar ... I love comedies and I LMAO through most of that movie ...
That one was great. Another bumbling racetrack movie was the "The Longshot" with Tim Conway and Harvey Korman. My FIL and I watched both of those together before he passed. My favorite quote from that one: "It was a shame to take a fish like you off the market".
Since the start of the pandemic lockdown, Spectrum Cable has been giving me HBO and Showtime for free. In my old age, I have started waking around 3AM and not being able to fall back asleep for a couple hours, if at all. Diam mentioned laughing his ass off at watching Let It Ride - I found myself laughing MY ass off, at 3 or 4 in the AM, while watching 3 movies I had never seen: Bridesmaids, We're The Millers, and Horrible Bosses.
Grace Kelly might be the most beautiful woman to ever "grace" the silver screen. She was breathtaking.
She really was a beautiful woman. If I had to come up with someone to give her some competition, a young Bridgette Bardot. But wow, she did not age well.
Man Up - Lake Bell and Simon Pegg Wild Target Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels Mr. Right Get a Job The Circle (scary, but not like you think) Waking Ned Devine
Grace Kelly might be the most beautiful woman to ever "grace" the silver screen. She was breathtaking.
She really was a beautiful woman. If I had to come up with someone to give her some competition, a young Bridgette Bardot. But wow, she did not age well.
She was beyond beautiful, she was the embodiment of elegance and “grace”.
If the recommendation is simply what's available on my Smart TV (not a greatest overall type thing), then I'm limited to what's offered for free currently. Of my 3 free channels (Roku, Tubi or Vudu) and what's available, I've enjoyed re watching:
I gotta watch that one .. Conway and Korman should be great if it’s anything like they were on the carol burnett show ... the dentist skit made me *L* as hard as anything I’ve ever seen ....
Hey, one more... Just watched this last night, truly awe-inspiring. Basically a hybrid movie/documentary. True story of a man who went from abandoned six-year-old in Kenya - to millionaire - to giving it all away to change the world. I promise you won't be disappointing!
This ones gotta be way up there for me. Started shooting pool at 9-10ish yo. Best friends dad had an old "bar pooltable" without the "coin mechanism. Was on a traveling bar league as well. I've had one since 15-16. Have one now. New cushions/refelt this fri.
Not a movie, but D.A.P dads against predators. It's on youtube.
It's sick. These dads pose as young children. Here in n.w. Ohio..............one nab was just 13 miles from my house.
Predators are out there, no matter where you live. As a father............I can't tell you how much I worry. And any parent of a daughter, even son, ought to be worried/concerned.
We put dogs down for biting someone. Think about it.
My best friend had a beautiful old Brunswick regulation slate table in his basement. He lived like 8 doors away. We played there for years in his basement.
We went to NYC to Ames Pool Hall where The Hustler was filmed. Just to check the place out.
Long ago in Cleveland around 80th and Euclid. There was a real old authentic pool hall called Joe Tuma's. It was like going back in time. You went up a old staircase to the second floor of an old building. When you stepped through the door it was always dark except for the lights on the tables. There was an old bar. Like long and ancient. Around the tables were real pool chairs. High leg chairs with spittoons on the floor.
There were about 12 regulation tables. Absolutely flawless old Brunswick slate tables with leather net pockets. There were two snooker tables. Three billiard tables and one 5' x 10' Olympic table. Along the walls there were racks of pool cues most had locks for private cues. It was like a private club. There were some unreal players there. Old dudes who could really play. I used to watch the billiard players. They were incredible.
At the time I was a teenager. On occasion we would play hooky from school and go down there and play.
From what I was told about the place was: Joe Tuma was an old racketeer who ran a numbers racket out of that place.
It was like that place was from the 1920's just frozen in time. We all thought it was totally cool.
The Hustler was a great movie, and it was pure luck that I watched it for the first time about a week before seeing The Color of Money which was the sequel several years later ... decades later! The Color of Money was also good.
Others that spring to mind:
Any of the Godfather series. The Life of Brian. Platoon. No Country for Old men. Fried Green Tomatoes Mississippi Burning Green Mile Shawshank Redemption Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Shining #1 ... it’ll stick in your brain forever... and ever
I didn't see the Shining until 2017, and was leery of watching it anyway, I was kind of not seeing the big deal of it, after all those years I was sure there was,(spoiler) there was going to be more to what he was supposedly typing on the typewriter.
I still haven't seen the exorcist, and I won't. And I still haven't seen Titanic, though it's way too often referenced.
"The Shining" was one of the most inadvertently funny horror movies of all time. ("Give me the bat, Wendy" - wagging his tongue around). Completely over the top. Good stuff.
As far as other "funny" horror movies:
- Evil Dead 2 (available for free currently)
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (Bill Moseley might be a genius)
- Return of the Living Dead ("Give me the bone saw.")
I like the movie Unforgiven, 1992, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman,
Except for all the many times they use the Lord's name in vain, and some overly violent scenes, ( There's one version where Bill, kicks Bob several more times than the T.V. version shows)
But part of watching that movie that I notice, is there wasn't a bunch of need for many special effects, though they may be there, (it could almost be a "play")
because individually, every scene in that movie could have been just observed. And a lot of trash talking in that movie.
Not a lot of car chasing and peppy music to move the story along, it's constantly like, you could have just been in the room and seen it happen, and it all could have played out that way.
A gripping look into human emotion, revenge and nasty violence, and that violence.. you know, they, they think they had a reason.
And trash talking,(memorable lines,) a ton in the first 1/3rd, a ton in the middle 1/3rd and a ton in the final 1/3rd of the movie.
Funny. A look into humanity. R for Violence and bad language.
From my youth when we used to go to the drive in movies there was one that I found hilarious. I don't actually know how popular it was. I think it was more considered an underground movie.
It was The Groove Tube. Here's a "sample" from the movie...
Movies I’ll still watch even though I’ve seen them several times:
A Few Good Men Forrest Gump Shawshank Redemption Bohemian Rhapsody Rudy Major League Stand By Me The Shining As Good as It Gets Dog Day Afternoon Scarface
"The Shining" was one of the most inadvertently funny horror movies of all time. ("Give me the bat, Wendy" - wagging his tongue around). Completely over the top. Good stuff.
Judgment Night (Emilio Estevez, Cuba, Jeremy Piven, Denis Leary) Breakdown (Kurt Russell, JT Walsh) Sudden Death (Jean claude van Damme, Powers Boothe) Domestic Disturbance (John Travolta, Vince Vaughn) Face Off (Nicholas Cage, John Travolta) Broken Arrow (John Travolta, Christian Slater) Cliffhanger(Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow) Primary Colors (John Travolta, Kathy Bates, Billy Bob Thornton) Quick Change (Bill Murray, Gena Davis, Randy Quaid) Switchback (Denis Quaid, Danny Glover)
The Gridiron, 2016, no, you don't understand, you have to get past the 90% of your being that says' you'll never watch this crappy movie, and see it and realize it's a great story and funny and has a plot to it, and
So 2016, I'm watching this pice of trash movie, cause they are 14 for a dollar at the dvd shop next to the pizza place You know the one,... BUT I DIGRESS,
This movie, I was making fun of it while watching it, and it's pretty good, ( a bunch of Europeans in 1985 trying to get American Football going in England, in 1985
Remember 1985? I do, Kosar was on the cover of Sports Illustrated, and I'm thinking, how is this movie making up this story, how improbable, then closing credits, they are showing real peoples faces, no way, now way this movie was cuss word based on a true story? no way.
TL- i'll give it 3 steve buscemi's simply because I didn't expect anything going in.
Just thought of something, Why is it every movie I like is based on dysfunctional families, portraying massive dysfunction on screen! anyway, I like em and you'd like this one, even though none of you will ever see it.
Other movies from or around 2016-17 And Why the public's opinion of them is wrong and My opinion of them is correct.
10 Cloverfield lane, ehh, I liked the first Cloverfield and wanted to continue the story, kind of like you want to see all star wars' or something, This movie is not that great, I mean it's kind of missing something, I don't like, me personally, It's kind of , no matter how good the story, the fact it never leaves the one room (ok spoiler) really made me feel clostrophobic or something by the end of 2 hours.
But the Cloverfield story, here's the thing, they made 2 movies, that highlight the monster invasion, from 2 of the 350 million americans personal perspectives, in invasion time of about 10 minutes of elapsed screen time, leaving open the window ofopportunity for sequels at about a zillion movies.
TL- Cloverfield 2 and a half , (and falling) stars, and not very good, Creepy too, after I think about it. Not my favorite.
Hacksaw Ridge: 2016-17, oh my, I bet some of you loved this movie. This movie was Terrible! OK, For ONe, I'm put off by the Rah Rah, go Military, Stand at attention, Barbara Streisand, I guess I was at a point where I just didn't want to hear anymore glorifying war stuff, at the time I saw this movie.
So all the, (just like full metal jacket,) Drill Seargeant, whats the word, "lecture" spare me, I didn't need it that day.
Hacksaw Ridge, Hey, you remember the first 2 minutes of Saving Private Ryan, remember the bullets tearing through flesh, and the blood (have to stop my description) but if you didn't think that attempt to realitize the gore of war didn't go far enough, Then Hacksaw ridge is for you, I mean, c'mon they needed to add vermin,
I forget why else I hated this movie, (I don't care for the, oh yeah he made a moral decision, and isn't it such a thing, (let's harp on it for THIRTY MINUTES, he didn't make 2 moral decisions,)
3 Stars! but that's a 5 star movie losing 2 of them because, how they made it; sucked!
I used to like that movie, (great song, great lines, I may just watch it. great movie)
I used to like this movie, cept one time I'm trying to show someone, "hey check out, this is a great movie",
And it turns into the scene where they are driving in the cars, and screaming and punching the ceiling of the car and the paint blows up, and more nonsense, and noise for about SIX MINUTES and ... I felt like a dolt for saying check out this great movie, (no context, have to see it in full)
Great song, " Turn to the right" "Well which is it young feller", Great lines. "unless round is funny" " I'm gonna be back in 5 to check" " come out and reveal yourself to officer "
funny! funny! funny! funny! DON'T try to explain it to another person. "harry barry gary larry-- why is this movie so stupid! " it is precisely 8 o clock in the pm! "
The supermarket is playing the theme song on their mu-zack.
OK, everybody's yelling, lots of conversations, people are upset, what's going on, watch it a 2nd time, maybe a 3rd, OHH! finaly, this person is this, that person is that, oh, directors commentary,
hey the story if finaly coming together, I finaly understand what happened, Oh this is a Good storytelling of sad circumstances. Family love story
Stay away from this awesome movie 2 and a half stars, unless you expected anything entertaining.
"The House" Will Ferrell, Amy Poelher, saw this one, I thought it was going to be a poor watch.
Ok, so, I don't remember this, only saw it once, I remember some hand chopped off with a cleaver or something, and I don't know too much of that for me.
(Ballpeen, I appreciate good writing, good storytelling, movies that make me think, and a tiny bit of suspense, none of those drawn out suspense sequences though)
"The House" Watch it, this is a Gem that bombed in theaters, 3 and 3 quarter stars. Everybody knows, Ricky Bobby movie, and Stepbrothers movie, but this, It wasn't supposed to be good, I remember it turned out different than I thought, mmm, may have been a bit vulgar I don't remember I'm going to have to watch it again,
It was more, it was more like the movie "the hangover" iirc, than I was going to think it'd be.
Changed the way I think, like Bengals win the Super Bowl kind of way I'd think. it's about behavior, and I didn't understand it, then later, I did a little bit.
Wasn't going to watch this movie the first time I saw it, and if you have seen it you know it for what it is, but if you haven't seen it, Go see it. Probaly not for kids.
Georgia Rule just some movie about, I don't know what it was about, just some summertime "fish out of water" relationship chick flick, blah blah blah, WAIT WHAT! Ohh- umm
There was a time I thought people should be paid to have to watch this movie, because eventually it changed the way I think about liars and spotting lying, it's about behavior,
5 Stars! And I hated whoever wrote that movie, because they didn't tell me going in, how I was going to feel leaving the theater. And What the Freak! Dude, 5 Stars!
and that's all I have to say about that one, for now.
