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I only really mentioned Ryan O'Neal because he's famous... not necessarily because he's good. :)
James Caan was ok, but I agree Redford and Hackman's parts weren't that great. Cool to see them with small parts when they were younger though. Hopkins and Olivier were solid though. Favorite line in the movie: "We haven't the proper facilities to accept your surrender. Sorry." :)
Great flick, add Shenendoah, 1967, stewart does pissed off pretty well, very john-wayne-ish.Quote:
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Ryan O'neal in a much better role, "Paper Moon"
Right now on TCM "The Manchurian Candidate" One of the great cold war movies.
1. i rented this from Blockbuster (online) a few months back, so it's out there.Quote:
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2. you forgot to mention Clancy "The Kurgan" Brown, who is the main "villain" in Bad Boys!
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i'm old enough to remember A Bridge Too Far when it was a first-run in the theaters. sadly i opted for a double-bill of Island of Dr. Moreau (the Michael York version) and Future World (the sequel to Westworld) instead, so never saw it.
Just watched The Wind and the Lion (1975) starring Sean Connery and Candice Bergen and Brian Keith.
While having Connery as a Moroccan Islamic pirate is rather absurd, the film has some interesting dialogue about how Americans are perceived by foreigners (listen to the Brian Keith as Teddy Rooseveldt's "Grizzly Bear" speech, which is very prescient for the time and relates to our foreign relations today). Plus CB was rather hot back in the day.
The 12 Chairs. Mel Brooks' best work imo.
Gallipoli - arguably Mel Gibson's best film
Zulu
Breaker Morant
The Wicker Man (the original version)
12 Angry Men
Young Frankenstein
Annie Hall
Most Errol Flynn movies
my buddy is trying to hip me to the work of Sam Fuller.
sadly, the only SF flix I have seen have been pretty crappy (Shark! with Burt Reynolds and The Naked Kiss), but then I was told that these were some of Fuller's early, semi-exploitation cum pulp works that don't represent his latter, greater films.
The Big Red One is on the short-list, though.
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definitely Zulu - but I'm a sucker for any of the older British Colonial Empire Epics, especially Indian. The original Four Feathers (not in India, of course)!
The challenge now seems to be finding a good movie not on this list already. So I'm going out on a limb with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Saw it in the theatre as a kid and was mesmerized. Saw it as an adult (with my own kids) and it is still good.
Holiday Flicks:
You either like, It's A Wonderful Life, or you don't. I watch it every year.
Christmas Story - careful with this one, you'll put yer eye out!
Christmas Carol - multiple versions. I like the one made around 1935 or '39.
The Last Picture Show; a young, really hot sybill shepard, and cloris leachman as a suprisingly hot couger.
Hell In The Pacific; lee marvins best film imo. little dialog and dramatic scenery.
"Double Indemnity" is one of my favorites.
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This thread has aided my netflix queue immensely.
How about "Kentucky Fried Movie"? So much classic shit in that movie. "I'm not wearing any pants, details at 11."
Just finnished Lawrence of Arabia last night (took two nights - didn't realise how long it was).
Wow
What a completely rad film. I can't believe it took me this long to see it. I honestly would pay like $30 to see it on a big screen.
Strange Brew - '83
The American Astronaut - Isn't too old but feels like an old movie. '01
Drunken Master - '78 Perhaps Jackie Chan's finest role ever.
Drunken Master II - '94 Perhaps Jackie Chan's finest role ever.
Just stumbled upon this Spaghetti Western called CEMETERY WITHOUT CROSSES (1969).
It was directed by and stars French actor Robert Hossein.
While ticking of many of the tenets of the genre, it actually unfolds more like a French New Wave interpretation of a Spaghetti Western; it comes off like a cross between Leone and Jean-Piere Melville.
Hossein's "hero" is OCD and rather melancholic, while still being an enigmatic badass.
One of the best of the genre post-Leone for sure.
Watched UHF again a few days ago. Weird Al is a national treasure, and the pre-Seinfeld Michael Richards is basically just the first iteration of Kramer.
The Parallax View
The French Connection
Bad Lieutenant
Blood Simple
Buffalo 66
Layer Cake
of course the classics:
clockwork orange
full metal jacket
apocalypse now
reservoir dogs
2001 a space odyssey
fargo
mulhulland drive
etc....
Many good recommendations, I'll add.
The Onion Field
The Snowman (animated kids movie)
Most Monty Python movies...
I grew up in the VHS age, so these are some of the favourites that come to mind.
Spies, Like Us -“I must really like you, because I don’t like horses, and I hate guns!”
Willow -Val Kilmer not taking himself too seriously
The Long Kiss Goodnight -One of my favourite Sam Jackson movies, and goddamn Geena Davis is hawt
Cannonball Run -The opening scene always gets me
Extreme Prejudice -Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, and Clancy Muthafuckin Brown
The Outlaw Josey Wales -Clint being Clint and Chief Dan George
The Getaway -Kim Basinger’s tits
Major League -“Fuck you Jobu, I do it myself”
Mr Baseball -“Got any naked pictures of your wife? Want some?”
The Last Starfighter -In a Star Wars time, a very un-Star Wars sci-fi movie
Romancing The Stone -The most underrated car chase ever
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Fail Safe
The Eyes Of Laura Mars
Pocket Full Of Miracles
All About Eve
Clockwork Orange
Breakfast At Tiffanys
Robin And The Seven Hoods
Question, are movies on old DVDs high def? DVDs are from 2000s and maybe 2015.
And hope the odl DVD player still powers up.
DVD's aren't high def. But a good quality DVD can look better than a shitty BluRay (which is supposedly HD, but some of the older ones are terrible).Quote:
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SEVEN MEN FROM NOW (1956)
I just watched this Bud Boetticher directed, Burt Kennedy scripted, Randolph Scott and Lee Marvin starring western.
Holy Schmow !
Talk about streamlined storytelling!
The economy of style, booth in terms of script and action is fantastic; the film clocks in at a svelte 78-minutes!
I have seen films almost 3x as long that can't create dimensional characters or unfurl a story as is done here.
While this was my re-introduction to Randolph Scott (I first saw him in Ride the High Country in a film class in college, but I don't remember much about that film), I can't say that I am sold on the man as he comes off stiff and stoic here (though he did a grip of respected Westerns during his career). Marvin, though? He is stellar and has become one of my favorite actors.
A bonafide classic from the Golden Age of Hollywood Westerns, for sure.
Not a movie, but has anyone watched a few episodes of Banacek lately? A great way to spend a rainy afternoon.
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I'll trade you 300 Banaceks for one rainy afternoon.
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CAT BALLOU (1965)
Jane Fonda stars as the titular character, portraying a prim and proper school marm who becomes a rowdy outlaw. "Narrated" by Nat King Cole and Stubby Kaye, who may very well be the first cinematic example of a Greek Chorus (and were undoubtedly the influence for the Farrelly Bros. using Jonathan Richman in There's Something About Mary). The scene stealer, however, is Lee Marvin as a drunk and washed-up gunfighter.
Streaming for free (with ads) on The Roku Channel.
Nice old thread bump.
I miss TCM.
It was the original free with basic cable channel.
A few years ago it became a ten dollar addition? Wtf? These are all royalty free except for Ted turner TCM greed.
I try to get my kids to watch black and whites (can you say that anymore?). But the directing, plot and acting is so much better.