Author Topic: Movies (Read 8619 times)

Jack · « **on:** May 29, 2021, 05:43:18 AM »

Kerry started a movies thread a while back, I think it's a good idea to share good suggestions here.

I use Amazon Prime (and sometimes Netflix) but here is one that I saw last week - Unhinged staring Russel Crowe - I give it 5 stars and recommend watching.

I've heard that Safe is good - will most likely watch tonight.

jugalo · « **Reply #1 on:** May 29, 2021, 07:54:35 AM »

If you like B movies you can make fun of while you watch, try The Stuff. Or BUG.

nas t eh · « **Reply #2 on:** May 29, 2021, 09:59:04 AM »

Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven

Jack · « **Reply #3 on:** May 29, 2021, 01:15:05 PM »

Unforgiven is one of my favorite movie (I go as far as top 3).

Jack · « **Reply #4 on:** May 29, 2021, 03:06:00 PM »

Not including any movies with sequels (Star Wars, Back to the Future, Clint Eastwood westerns, etc.) My top 3 would be as follows: 1. It's a Wonderful Life, 2. Shawshank Redemption, 3. Unforgiven.

« **Reply #4 on:** May 29, 2021, 03:06:00 PM »

aussieta · « **Reply #5 on:** May 29, 2021, 04:22:28 PM »

just watched unhinged yesterday
whose house did he burn at the start of the movie?

Jack · « **Reply #6 on:** May 29, 2021, 04:26:30 PM »

He killed his wife and assuming her boyfriend. I'm assuming it was his/there house that he burned down.

Jack · « **Reply #7 on:** May 30, 2021, 06:13:07 AM »

Quote from: Jack on May 29, 2021, 05:43:18 AM

I've heard that Safe is good - will most likely watch tonight.

Watched Safe yesterday... it was ok and your typical action movie.

RamblerRacer · « **Reply #8 on:** May 30, 2021, 04:57:17 PM »

Not sure if you consider it a B movie but I watched Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers a week or so ago

JT

Jack · « **Reply #9 on:** May 30, 2021, 06:21:47 PM »

Gladiator is on tv (OTA)... Not sure I can sit through the commercials.

76455sd · « **Reply #10 on:** May 31, 2021, 02:27:57 PM »

Gladiator??? You should be watching Gator.

roadking77 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 01, 2021, 06:47:24 AM »

My preference is old stuff, the black and white kind

I love anything Hitchcock, "The Bank Dick" with WC Fields is one of my favorites. Thin Man series is another favorite. Not too many movies made after about 1960 spark a lot of my interest. I havent seen a new movie that I want to go out of my way for in a long time. 80's slasher films, Friday the 13's, Halloween's, stuff like that are on my good list but I dont care for the new stuff. Too bloody and psychotic for my taste. I have about the same taste in TV. IMO not much that was made after about 1970 that I watch on a regular basis. My wife gives me a hard time about being an Old Man.

firebirdparts · « **Reply #12 on:** June 01, 2021, 03:40:41 PM »

There's a long thread on this at Garage Journal and a lot of people listed "No country for old men" as a favorite movie. Surprised me. I had never seen it, so I watched it. It is pretty good. I have mostly seen the comical side of the Coen brothers. On average their movies are brilliantly made. If there's any theme there I guess it's an extreme lack of principle.

Old movies:
I like old movies but I've dang near seen them all, all the good ones. Was talking to a friend about black and white Noir a month ago and I talked him into watching "Double Indemnity". I watched it myself too; seen it about 4 times. I saw one the other day for the first time; "The woman in the window". I'd never heard of it, and now I don't remember why I watched it. It had a lot of stuff in it hat was funny to me without really meaning to be.

roadking77 · « **Reply #13 on:** June 01, 2021, 06:54:03 PM »

Double Indemnity is a great movie. For the Noir category, 'The Third Man' is great!

firebirdparts · « **Reply #14 on:** June 02, 2021, 09:14:44 AM »

Third man is certainly good. My wife and I make a slight effort to watch Orson Welles movies that we'd never seen, and I can say that I also enjoyed "Touch of Evil" which was the first movie of his 2nd career in Hollywood. He fell out with the studio and I get the impression they removed some of the gimmicks that he wanted in it, but it's very good. I started watching "the magnificent ambersons" but it's pretty slow and I haven't quite made it through that one.

For car guys here is something sort of interesting: "The Young In Heart", Selznick picture, not a dark picture. This is the picture where the grandad in a family of con artists gets a job selling cars and the dealer sells phantom corsairs. It has some hilarious car salesman talk in it and of course the car is fabulous. They sped up the film so that test drives are like 150 mph on little french farm roads. That is not the main plot. The main plot is of course the main characters fall in love and all that regular stuff.

« **Reply #14 on:** June 02, 2021, 09:14:44 AM »

Ford5of5 · « **Reply #15 on:** June 05, 2021, 05:23:56 PM »

If you're looking for a relaxing, not too over the top action movie to watch then Nobody with Bob Odenkirk would be a good choice. Good action, properly paced, good comedic timing, no woke silliness and Christopher Lloyd wielding a shotgun! There's even a chase scene with an old school Challenger.

Edit: literally just rewatched Nobody with my old man. It is over the top action but still a lot of fun. My Dad is a John Wayne guy and doesn't like John Wick type of action movies but he did enjoy Nobody.

Nexus · « **Reply #16 on:** June 07, 2021, 08:27:52 AM »

Conan the Barbarian - Best movie ever

Warlord
"What is best in life?"

Conan
"To crush your enemies, To see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women"

ryeguy2006a · « **Reply #17 on:** June 16, 2021, 07:19:25 AM »

Gone in 60 Seconds. Love that chase scene. Watched it last night haha

Jack · « **Reply #18 on:** June 16, 2021, 07:27:06 AM »

Funny you listed gone in 60 seconds, I watched the 1974 version which I enjoyed watching.

Ford5of5 · « **Reply #19 on:** June 16, 2021, 06:55:35 PM »

Anyone run into a movie that you loved years ago but don't like today? For example, I re-watched Wayne's World 1 & 2 a few weekends ago; in my youth, I loved these movies but today they were meh at best. Clerks and many of the Kevin Smith features are more examples for me.

Jack · « **Reply #20 on:** June 16, 2021, 08:23:19 PM »

Quote from: Ford5of5 on June 16, 2021, 06:55:35 PM

Anyone run into a movie that you loved years ago but don't like today? For example, I re-watched Wayne's World 1 & 2 a few weekends ago; in my youth, I loved these movies but today they were meh at best. Clerks and many of the Kevin Smith features are more examples for me.

It's called growing up Mr. Ford

737driver · « **Reply #21 on:** June 17, 2021, 01:01:19 AM »

Blazing Saddles….
One of the greats!

Ford5of5 · « **Reply #22 on:** June 17, 2021, 02:59:59 PM »

Quote from: Jack on June 16, 2021, 08:23:19 PM

Quote from: Ford5of5 on June 16, 2021, 06:55:35 PM
Anyone run into a movie that you loved years ago but don't like today? For example, I re-watched Wayne's World 1 & 2 a few weekends ago; in my youth, I loved these movies but today they were meh at best. Clerks and many of the Kevin Smith features are more examples for me.

It's called growing up Mr. Ford

Well, how do we make that stop?!!!

Ford5of5 · « **Reply #23 on:** June 17, 2021, 03:08:02 PM »

x2 with 737driver. Blazing Saddles is one of the greats. Most of Mel Brook's repertoire is pretty good. He was also an Army combat engineer and de-armed land mines during WW2.

Have to agree with Nexus too. Conan is one of the best sword and magic movies ever. The new one was ok but Arnie did it best.

737driver · « **Reply #24 on:** June 18, 2021, 01:46:25 AM »

I’d also like to throw “The Big Lebowski” out there. It is one movies I can still watch a bunch of times and still love it!
Jim

« **Reply #24 on:** June 18, 2021, 01:46:25 AM »

Ford5of5 · « **Reply #25 on:** June 18, 2021, 04:17:25 PM »

Big Trouble in Little China, one of my all time favorites that never gets old.

Nexus · « **Reply #26 on:** June 19, 2021, 06:43:34 AM »

Quote from: Ford5of5 on June 18, 2021, 04:17:25 PM

Big Trouble in Little China, one of my all time favorites that never gets old.

Yeah, I always enjoyed that one!!

Another one I like watching every now and then is Red Scorpion!

roadking77 · « **Reply #27 on:** June 29, 2021, 12:53:51 PM »

TCM played all Alfred Hitchcock all last weekend. DVR'd a few. Plenty of good stuff to watch over the next couple of weeks now.

roadking77 · « **Reply #28 on:** July 17, 2021, 08:24:53 AM »

Bullet is on this afternoon on TCM. I know there may not be a lot of love for mustangs here, but it really is a good movie, and after watching you have to admit the car is pretty Bad@@@. I was kinda turned off last year with all the hype when the car went to auction but if you can forget about that, its a good way to spend a couple hours staying cool inside during the hottest part of the day.

firebirdparts · « **Reply #29 on:** July 20, 2021, 09:21:08 AM »

At the time, I guess that was viewed as the greatest chase to date, but you do want to laugh when he passes that same volkswagen 4 times. Overall, I agree, well worth the watch.

Jack · « **Reply #30 on:** August 09, 2021, 12:11:17 PM »

Yesterday or maybe it was Saturday I watched Porky's... good old fashion 80's fun

roadking77 · « **Reply #31 on:** August 10, 2021, 05:33:07 AM »

Porkys is a lot of fun to watch. Some cool old cars as well. Its been awhile since I saw it (actually saw it at the theatre when it came out) but I think one of the guys had a Jag, and Porky drove a Packard.

Nexus · « **Reply #32 on:** August 24, 2021, 07:08:27 AM »

If anyone likes Samurai movies and doesn't mind subtitles, Rurouni Kenshin is my new favorite series!!!

It is Awesome

I'm not sure if all four movies are on Netflix America or not there were two on the Canadian version!!

Jack · « **Reply #33 on:** August 24, 2021, 08:19:33 AM »

I don't mind cc as it helps keeping the volume down. But I don't enjoy watching movies with subtitles... too much work

roadking77 · « **Reply #34 on:** August 25, 2021, 10:50:19 AM »

Finished up early for the day and waiting for an afternoon appt., turned the boob tube on and lo and behold 'Larceny Inc.' is on. Great Edward G Robinson movie. And to relate to TAC, a young Jackie Gleason has a brief part.

Jack · « **Reply #35 on:** August 25, 2021, 12:05:01 PM »

Boob tube Kerry?

Jack · « **Reply #36 on:** September 11, 2021, 08:00:53 PM »

If anyone feels like watching a very bad movie with a lot of stars, watch Machete... its got to be one of the worst movies ever made.

roadking77 · « **Reply #37 on:** September 12, 2021, 06:32:27 AM »

I cant remember if thats a Tarantino movie. I saw it once and thought it was quite entertaining. I think Tarantino's movies are hit and miss. I like some, some I think are horrible. Death Proof is pretty good. And Kill Bill movies are good.

roadking77 · « **Reply #38 on:** September 13, 2021, 06:49:17 AM »

Saw another OK movie but had some great cars in it. 'Drive a Crooked Road'. Film Noir from 1954, starring Mickey Rooney as a would be race car driver. In the beginning of the movie he works as a mechanic in a foreign car garage. Lots of cool old stuff in the garage. Movie was good, not great!

« **Reply #38 on:** September 13, 2021, 06:49:17 AM »

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