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Haven't seen Blow Out...will catch it tonight if it's on viozz.
^ You could go ahead and add Blow Out to that. '80s De Palma was the .
Haven't seen Blow Out...will catch it tonight if it's on viozz.
funny, but.... Hall Pass
That's a great call. I forgot about that one. Loved Body Double as well. I remember them showing that all the time on HBO. Had one of those Jerrold converters that you could open up and tune in all the channels.
No Way Out was a good flick.
And Pandemonium with Pee Wee Herman
Bill Murray trying to be serious, and thereby being hilarious anyway.
Midnight Run
oh billy
^Midnight Express.
Both are good.
I'd also add Runaway Train.
The Man Who Would Be King
Secondhand Lions
Abso inglutely. A spectacular film. Caine at prime's prime and Connery backing off in spots just enough to allow the film to explode. It's human nature, WASP style to the max.
Caine's real life wife plays the girl Connery weds and it is she who destroys them both.
"Billy Fish" is the best sidekick and settles the movie every single time it starts to roil.
"Rudyard Kipling" sees it all before it happens---but, cannot stop them. "But I am the correspondent for the 'Northern Star'!" over the train whistle---"What?"---lmao!!!
Outstanding citation, Reck. It's on my shelf, and I will retrieve it momentarily.
A big problem with it is the Shelton girl. She either can't act, or, was faking it in order to neutralize her death scene. Either way that scene has the desired affect on "Scully"---but, the viewer is left kinda left in the lurch between pretending to be scared and laughing for crying out loud.
Double jeopardy. Nice ashley judd.
It is not possible to under appreciate Michael J. Fox
Miller's Crossong
It is a good movie, though DeNiro's character kind of pussies out at the end in the airport. Instead of taking on "Serrano" in a more honorable way, like Serrano did him, he gets him via the police, like a rat. It's unbecoming.
I don't remember this thread.
anyway, mine is Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. It's one of my favorite movies in general. The soundtrack, the history, the personal lives of people back then, the mystery of the sea and the ship they were chasing, the dialogue between the Captain and the Doctor, and most definitely the intensity of the battle scenes. I love that movie
^Frankly, Sucks, I thought "Master and Commander" interminable.
O Brother where art thou
Not a big Clooney fan, but love him in this movie.
LA Confidential
A tangled web has seldom been woven better, yet it rarely gets any due. Tip-toed the line between reverent and caricature with a playful, but convincing telling. Strong acting, captivating characters, creating that nudge-nudge-wink-wink facade of "this Hollywood make pretending, but believe us, this happens every day."
It got like ten Oscar nominations. I guess one could claim it has been kind of forgotten maybe.
I know it had initial acclaim, but it sits on the shelf of successful films collecting dust. It's never mentioned amongst Oscar greats, and while plenty of mobster movies, both good and bad, live on in a cable replaying for eternity, I can't recall a time I've seen it on TV, basic, premium, or otherwise.
You can ask almost anyone to list the best or their favorite mob/crime movies and it is, as you put, forgotten.
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