Talk About Movies: Part 4
Somehow threads merged, so here's part 4 of our ongoing movie discussion.
Not sure if I can say what my absolute favorites are, but these 30 are all movies I have watched at least twice (most more than twice) and would likely still immensely enjoy watching again and again while never losing interest in them. One is even on your list! Here they are, in (maybe roughly) chronological order.
I couldn't really come up with anything for the last 25 years. While I certainly have enjoyed plenty of movies since then, I don't know that there are any I have watched more than once as I don't really just sit around watching movies with other people like I did when I was younger. Looks like there is a single action/adventure movie on the list, the only movie I remember seeing twice in the theater in its original run (which in those days was over a year). Have at it!
Duck Soup
The Wizard Of Oz
Vertigo
Some Like It Hot
Psycho
The Music Man
Dr. Strangelove
The Graduate
Blazing Saddles
Taxi Driver
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Airplane!
The Shining
Tootsie
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Blade Runner
Poltergeist
This Is Spinal Tap
Back To The Future
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Little Shop Of Horrors
Raising Arizona
Batman
Goodfellas
The Silence Of The Lambs
Reservoir Dogs
Groundhog Day
Casino
Fargo
Being John Malkovich
Hey don't feel bad about your choices in film, mine are all over the place, and just because yours are different doesn't mean they are wrong, for you.
Godfather sucks, Wes Anderson is a hack and Kurosawa blows.
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That was a solid list. I think you could somewhat classify Raiders, Batman and BTTF all as action / adventure.
Chill rob have you seen A New Leaf (1971) with Walter Matthau and Elaine May? I think it is up your alley given the comedies on your list, most of which i love as well.
That was a solid list. I think you could somewhat classify Raiders, Batman and BTTF all as action / adventure.
Yeah I guess so, though I think of Batman as more just a superhero movie and BTTF as a comedy. The one I was referring to was Raiders. Now I think I actually saw it 3 times in the theater. I saw it very soon after it came out at a first run theater, then again at a second run discount theater, and then a third time after it had been at the discount theater for a full year and they advertised that fact.
It's amazing that sometimes movies used to play for that long in a theater, even though that was a rarity. Nowadays I sometimes just hear about a movie when it's almost done with its few week run and don't get a chance to see it before it's no longer available. And of course now every multiplex in town will be showing the same 10 movies, while in the 1980s a fairly popular movie would often be in only one cinema in a decent sized city (Louisville, KY, where I grew up).
Yeah I guess so, though I think of Batman as more just a superhero movie and BTTF as a comedy. The one I was referring to was Raiders. Now I think I actually saw it 3 times in the theater. I saw it very soon after it came out at a first run theater, then again at a second run discount theater, and then a third time after it had been at the discount theater for a full year and they advertised that fact.
It's amazing that sometimes movies u
I saw Raiders several times as a kid because it ran over a year in the local theater. That was the first film i ever saw do that.
Obtw, all the Burton Batmans sucked too
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Chill rob have you seen A New Leaf (1971) with Walter Matthau and Elaine May? I think it is up your alley given the comedies on your list, most of which i love as well.
No, I had never even heard of that, but I will check it out. I do like Matthau, particularly in Bad News Bears , Sunshine Boys, and The Odd Couple.
speaking of raiders of the lost ark, my sister in law had never seen any of those films so i forced her to watch raiders
it doesn't hold up - modern action films are just so much superior that it's no longer the stunning breakthrough film it once was - even stuff like the opening scene now feel fomulaic, cheap, & staged
No, I had never even heard of that, but I will check it out. I do like Matthau, particularly in Bad News Bears , Sunshine Boys, and The Odd Couple.
Check out The Fortune Cookie with Matthau and Lemmon. Matthau won best supporting actor oscar and gave an absolutely hilarious performance.
Charley Varrick was a pretty good Matthau movie, IIRC.
Chillrob has a solid list. Can't think of any that I don't like a little. The Music Man seems an outlier, though.
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Seriously any Matthau fans who haven’t seen a New Leaf should watch it tonight.
I think Raiders holds up as well as any fav from my childhood, but complete childhood obsession w Indiana Jones probably plays into that
one of my big questions about indiana jones after rewatching raiders was wondering if perhaps if the crystal skull one came out in the 80s if it would have also been so a highly criticized bomb
Crystal Skull wouldn't have had the original trilogy to compare it with.
That movie also made almost $800m btw, so it was hardly a bomb. Dial of Destiny otoh...
youtube algo pushing this hard, i don't get it but people seem to like it
Watched Killers of the Flower Moon and then read an article about how Native Americans viewed the film. I shouldn't be surprised, but I am always a little startled that people wish a film were something other than what it is. Some wanted more history in the film; others wanted a more developed character arc for Mollie; and others felt that it should have been produced, written, and directed by Native Americans.
It is a great film. You might assume a film of three and a half hours would be epic, but it's intimate instead. I watched it at home but would like to see it again in the theater. I don't think home viewing does it justice.
I loved the ending, the radio play that portrays in miniature what we have just seen. Perhaps it comments on the film itself or how we don't truly grasp our own history. I'm not sure, but when Scorcese steps to the microphone to read the ending of the radio play, you can see the hurt in his eyes.
The best works of art don't set out to teach us anything, but they move us, they excite our imaginations, and they make us feel deeply. They don't teach us, but we do learn from them.
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was still not an entertaining film and i couldn't wait for it to end, but it's stuck with me over a month later - which imo is the mark of a great film
speaking of raiders of the lost ark, my sister in law had never seen any of those films so i forced her to watch raiders
it doesn't hold up - modern action films are just so much superior that it's no longer the stunning breakthrough film it once was - even stuff like the opening scene now feel fomulaic, cheap, & staged
They aren't formulaic if they were the first to use the formula. And nothing looks as good outside of the theater than inside.
However, it's mostly the the story, characterizations and humor that I enjoy about the film. If you want to recommend a more modern action film that can match it in those areas I'd be happy to give it a watch.
Chillrob has a solid list. Can't think of any that I don't like a little. The Music Man seems an outlier, though.
It definitely is, but I do like some musicals, and that is the best overall old school musical I've seen. Plus in elementary school music class we were taught to sing some of the songs from it, which made me enjoy it more when I watched it. I also have watched The Sound Of Music and My Fair Lady multiple times, but as a kid I always fell asleep before the end of TSOM as it's too long and the Nazi stuff just isn't fun. MFL has a great story and songs, and the production values are great, but I find it better in live performance, as I don't particularly care for the lead actors in the film, neither of whom can really sing (one speaks and the other is dubbed).
I didn't get that at all
Spoiler
was waiting for him to get fired at the end
It definitely is, but I do like some musicals, and that is the best overall old school musical I've seen. Plus in elementary school music class we were taught to sing some of the songs from it, which made me enjoy it more when I watched it. I also have watched The Sound Of Music and My Fair Lady multiple times, but as a kid I always fell asleep before the end of TSOM as it's too long and the Nazi stuff just isn't fun. MFL has a great sto
guys and dolls is a pretty great musical.
speaking of raiders of the lost ark, my sister in law had never seen any of those films so i forced her to watch raiders
it doesn't hold up - modern action films are just so much superior that it's no longer the stunning breakthrough film it once was - even stuff like the opening scene now feel fomulaic, cheap, & staged
IDK I probably disagree with all of this. Even as a kid I understood that the action was staged and formulaic by design - Just stand to the side of that bolder rather than run away, it's so obvious! however, the film's tongue is firmly in cheek in paying homage to serials of the 30's and 40's, as well as subverting expectations (shooting the guy rather than fighting him with his whip).
I wonder what modern action films you think are superior? Which ones will people will be talking about in 40 years?
yeah those are solid points, perhaps i'm just at a curmudgeoning age now where things like pouring sand out of what is already a comically underweight bag and not just stepping to the side of boulder etc bother me
