In this thread, we will suggest movies that we think other people in this prestigious clan known as PoliticalFourm would enjoy. Only rule is we don't tell others what the movie is about.
Nightcrawler was so messed up. The Rivers edge has a lot of dark humor (it's actually comedy gold) like Nightcrawler.. I highly recommend it. You can watch the full movie on youtube as well. [video=youtube;wiKuO-dABjY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiKuO-dABjY[/video]
Enemy at the Gates (Greatest Sniper Movie ever - in my opinion) Rat Race (really funny) The Great Debaters (great political drama) Riddick Redemption (Jason Statem(sp?) is awesome in this one)
1. "The Great Debater's" and "Enemy At The Gates" recommend both highly. 2. "GoodFellas" - the "Godfather" series was a major success - this movie is better. 3. "Top Gun" - know it's a Navy commercial, but the ensemble cast of characters they assembled for it (Tom Cruise; Kelly McGillis: Val Kilmer; Anthony Edwards, et al, was great). 4. "Last Man Standing" - think this is the best of the Bruce Willis action movies, all the "Die Hard" movies are way over the top and unbelievable. 5. Sports - "Bull Durham" - "Eight Men Out" - "League Of Their Own" - "The Natural" - Redford was great & it was filmed in my hometown, Buffalo, N.Y. 6. "Fried Green Tomatoes" - Driving Ms. Daisy" - good period movies. 7. Usually don't like Kevin Costner because he doesn't make the character believable, too over-the-top, however, his "Mr. Brooks" movie was spooky and Demi Moore is great in everything. 8. On the other side of the coin - Clint Eastwood always makes you believe the character, his "Unforgiven" Academy Award Best Movie is superb. Only other Western I ever saw, and grew up on Western's and World War Two movies, was John Wayne in "The Searchers." 9. "Psycho: Is Hitchcock's classic Black & White movie, still a thriller, and they actually made you sign to see it, stating you wouldn't reveal the ending to anybody before they let you into the theater's. 10. Down to my last one of ten, from a lifetime of movies, some great - some crummy. So I am going with "Mr. Holland's Opus" here, another period piece done done very well. That's my list off the top of my head. Really a difficult question, one will remember so many after posting................
They Live Scanners Equilibrium 1984 Minority Report Manchurian Candidate Halloween 1-5 Prom Night (1980) American Psycho
I concur. Stalingrad is a related movie that is also done well. I also liked 71 which is kind of in the same war genre I guess even though it was not a technical war.
Network Maybe the best (and most prescient) satiric movie ever made. "This is the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings."
HIs classic meltdown on-the-air, sweating, calling everyone to "Go to the window and yell..........." has become a standard sports rally cry for every indoor and outdoor jumbo tron and scoreboard in spots in America. Don't know of any arena that doesn't use it. Immortal. Since I originally posted that it was so difficult to single out movies - would add: "Lincoln" - "Amistad" - "The Prestige" and "Shawshank" redemption to my list of "Must Have" in the video library. I also still like the "Gone In 60-Seconds" movie, both the original, and the remake, and of course, who can forget the dated, but still hilarious "Smokey And The Bandit" with the Great One - Jackie Gleason, as Sheriff Buford T. Justice? ........"Where are you - you sombith?" ROTFL, although seeing all those LeMans model Pontiac's getting wrecked got a bit old...............
