Movies that don't suck. .

brooklyn · « **Reply #20 on:** 24 Oct 2014, 04:55 am »

Last night I watched The Davinci Code and tonight Angels & Demons.
Two films directed by Ron Howard I thought were excellent..

Guy 13 · « **Reply #21 on:** 24 Oct 2014, 09:49 am »

Quote from: brooklyn on 24 Oct 2014, 04:55 am

Last night I watched The Davinci Code and tonight Angels & Demons.
Two films directed by Ron Howard I thought were excellent..

Hi Brooklyn,
sorry to say, but I did watch that movie and found it boring to death...
Too bad, because I like Tom Hanks.

Guy 13

BobM · « **Reply #22 on:** 24 Oct 2014, 12:46 pm »

The movies I tend to like the most are usually ones that never really got the big marketing efforts, but tell a great story. Here's a shore list of some of my fave's:

Mongol (subtitles, but really worth it)
What Dreams May Come (with Robin Williams in a dramatic role)
The Game (this is on TV all the time so easy to catch)

Guy 13 · « **Reply #23 on:** 24 Oct 2014, 01:10 pm »

Quote from: BobM on 24 Oct 2014, 12:46 pm

The movies I tend to like the most are usually ones that never really got the big marketing efforts, but tell a great story. Here's a shore list of some of my fave's:

Mongol (subtitles, but really worth it)
What Dreams May Come (with Robin Williams in a dramatic role)
The Game (this is on TV all the time so easy to catch)

Hi BobM
I just finish watching on You tube the trailer of the movie
What Dreams my come with Robin Williams
and that looks like a very nice movie.

Guy 13

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #24 on:** 24 Oct 2014, 04:12 pm »

Quote from: rockadanny on 23 Oct 2014, 10:00 pm

The Matador - 2005 - with Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear.
I almost did not watch it due to Brosnan being in it. Whoa! He turned out to be awesome in this!
Very good movie.

Yep, a sleeper that most folks may not have seen and worth the effort

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thunderbrick · « **Reply #25 on:** 24 Oct 2014, 04:26 pm »

+1! on Second Hand Lion

milford3 · « **Reply #26 on:** 24 Oct 2014, 05:01 pm »

One of Tom Hanks best.

brooklyn · « **Reply #27 on:** 24 Oct 2014, 05:05 pm »

Quote from: Guy 13 on 24 Oct 2014, 09:49 am

Hi Brooklyn,
sorry to say, but I did watch that movie and found it boring to death...
Too bad, because I like Tom Hanks.

Guy 13

Boring? Really?

+1 for Second Hand Lions

brooklyn · « **Reply #28 on:** 24 Oct 2014, 05:21 pm »

I thought this was an excellent movie.

simoon · « **Reply #29 on:** 24 Oct 2014, 05:51 pm »

Quote from: brooklyn on 23 Oct 2014, 08:19 pm

If you like westerns, see Open Range with Robert Duvall, Annette Bening and Kevin Costner.

Agree!

One of the most underrated Westerns of recent years.

Some people say it is slow, but when movies were not all about action and special effects, we used to call those 'slow' parts "character development". You know, people interacting with each other in realistic ways with actual emotion.

Tyson · « **Reply #30 on:** 24 Oct 2014, 05:55 pm »

For a cool Shakespeare update, there's Ralph Fiennes doing a downward spiral into crazy in Coriolanus:

JRace · « **Reply #31 on:** 24 Oct 2014, 07:18 pm »

Watched this last night and quite enjoyed it
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2071550/

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A man wakes up in the wilderness, in a pit full of dead bodies, with no memory and must determine if the murderer is one of the strangers who rescued him, or if he himself is the killer.

Not surprised the OP hated Hunger Games....unless Jim is actually a 13 year old girl....aka the target audience...
let me save you some grief Jim, you should pass on the Twilight series also!

2bigears · « **Reply #32 on:** 24 Oct 2014, 07:51 pm »

run Forest run ,,,, ha .. for the hills . I can't believe what we use to think was good .. that movie sucks bad.

big fish ,, good stuff
will need to give marigold a watch ,,,,

Hollywood is hurting

rodge827 · « **Reply #33 on:** 24 Oct 2014, 08:46 pm »

Last Saturday the girls had a night out and left me with the dog.

So I opened a bottle of Pinot Noir and popped in Saving Private Ryan. I hadn't watched this movie in about 10 years, and sitting on the couch alone without having to explain everything was a real treat. I love the opening scene with Ryan as an older man ~~walking~~ marching in front of his family looking for a grave at the cemetery in France. The intense look in his face and the focus of his eyes set the tone for a great movie.

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #34 on:** 24 Oct 2014, 08:58 pm »

I'm gonna take your advice, JRace. Interesting perspective on Hunger Games and I bet studios do target movie making all the time. Gotta keep those stockholders happy, right? The return on investment of the Coen Bros is encouraging to a snob like me. Raising Arizona is one of the best movies I've had the pleasure of viewing on a whole bunch of accounts. Now, I'm ready for a new Jim Jarmusch movie.

2bigears · « **Reply #35 on:** 24 Oct 2014, 09:29 pm »

your bang on about Arizona ,, 1st time I watched that I laughed soooo much ,,,,

spudco · « **Reply #36 on:** 25 Oct 2014, 03:22 pm »

Carmine Famiglietti had 2 indy films that don't suck:

Lbs - A very insightful film about being overweight

Amexicano - A Queens Italian buddies up to illegal immigrants.

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #37 on:** 25 Oct 2014, 04:07 pm »

Director John Sayles "Lone Star" is pretty darned good and so is his "Brother From Another Planet" which seriously cracked me up.

Chazro · « **Reply #38 on:** 25 Oct 2014, 04:55 pm »

This was the weakest Summer for movies ever! Last week I caught The Judge with Duvall and Downey, excellent!

geowak · « **Reply #39 on:** 26 Oct 2014, 03:26 am »

Out of the Furnace
How Beer Saved the World
And yes...... I second Raising Arizona!