Good movies,,, well there are a few.......

2LaneCruzer · Dec 28, 2022

Watched Top Gun-Maverick last night. It was no "Gone With the Wind", but it was worth watching all the way through. I did nod off for about 10 minutes just as the action started, but rewound it enough to see what I missed. I had a little difficulty making the connection all of the characters had with each other...a critical part of the movie...but all in all, I give it a 7.5 out of 10. Sharon Jean watched about 15 minutes and she bailed out.

IH3444 · Jan 3, 2023

Restrepo (film) - Wikipedia

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Restrepo (2010) - IMDb

Restrepo: Directed by Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger. With The Men of Battle Company 2nd of the 503rd Infantry Regiment 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Juan 'Doc Restrepo, Dan Kearney, LaMonta Caldwell. A year with one platoon in the deadliest valley in Afghanistan.

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Fuddyduddy1952 · Jan 3, 2023

We watched this yesterday. Robert Redford and Nick Nolte. A simple premise, two old friends walking the Appalachian trail.
If you like odd movies, 1968 "The Swimmer". Burt Lancaster visits a friend then decides to swim the 8 miles home going pool to pool.

Oaktree · Jan 3, 2023

Fuddyduddy1952 said:
We watched this yesterday. Robert Redford and Nick Nolte. A simple premise, two old friends walking the Appalachian trail.

+1 on A Walk In The Woods. I'd read the book several years before seeing the movie. The weird woman hiker who was critical of everything had a much larger role in the book.

IH3444 · Jan 3, 2023

The Last of the Mohicans

IH3444 · Jan 3, 2023

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/pine · Jan 3, 2023

Just curious...Anyone seen a movie titled 'The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck' ??

It's got some very funny dialog and also has some titillating scenes with Kathy Shower (playmate of the year 1986)

The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck (1988) - IMDb

The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck: Directed by David Keith. With David Keith, Kathy Shower, Brant von Hoffman, Sydney Lassick. A drunken, down-on-his-luck adventurer is hired by a wealthy man and his beautiful wife to take them on a hunting expedition in the jungle. After a while, though...

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IH3444 · Jan 3, 2023

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Boss 302 · Jan 3, 2023

Gunsmoke is hard to beat

IH3444 · Jan 4, 2023

The film was like a Rosetta Stone for returning military, translating their war-zone experiences for civilians. “So many soldiers would come up to me like, ‘This is something I cannot explain to my wife. Now she can watch and have a ******* understanding of what the **** I’m talking about.’ And it helped their marriage. They were going to get divorced. They’re done. This guy did like eight tours—******* eight tours. Insane.” Renner’s eyes well up with tears as he recalls the episode. “This is not cinema,” he explains. “We’re not talking about people sitting at this theater and eating popcorn and watching a movie. A different thing was happening.” The depth of the response bowled him over. “It was amazing, man. I don’t get that out of a Marvel movie.” Jeremy Renner

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Alan46 · Jan 4, 2023

Fuddyduddy1952 said:
We watched this yesterday. Robert Redford and Nick Nolte. A simple premise, two old friends walking the Appalachian trail.
If you like odd movies, 1968 "The Swimmer". Burt Lancaster visits a friend then decides to swim the 8 miles home going pool to pool.
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2LaneCruzer said:
Watched Top Gun-Maverick last night. It was no "Gone With the Wind", but it was worth watching all the way through. I did nod off for about 10 minutes just as the action started, but rewound it enough to see what I missed. I had a little difficulty making the connection all of the characters had with each other...a critical part of the movie...but all in all, I give it a 7.5 out of 10. Sharon Jean watched about 15 minutes and she bailed out.

Alan46 · Jan 4, 2023

Fuddyduddy1952 said:
We watched this yesterday. Robert Redford and Nick Nolte. A simple premise, two old friends walking the Appalachian trail.
If you like odd movies, 1968 "The Swimmer". Burt Lancaster visits a friend then decides to swim the 8 miles home going pool to pool.
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My wife and I loved A Walk In The Woods!
Never saw the swimmer!

MossRoad · Jan 4, 2023

The Swimmer was an odd movie. I've tried to watch it a couple times, but that was 30+ years ago. It's kinda weird.

Fuddyduddy1952 · Jan 4, 2023

MossRoad said:
The Swimmer was an odd movie. I've tried to watch it a couple times, but that was 30+ years ago. It's kinda weird.

It is weird but has a message about aging and death of the American dream. Transition and loss of old friends and acquaintances.
We like thought provoking movies. Eraserhead by David Lynch was good but far too weird for most. The bleak, hopeless futility of living in a dark industrial city, raising a baby without resources.
Anything by John Waters, "Pink Flamingos", "Mondo Trasho", "Lust in the Dust", "Pecker", etc. are controversial, sexually explicit in a twisted way but most shows life in Baltimore in 1950s-60s.

JasperFrank · Jan 4, 2023

Wife absolutely hated watching "Dead Pool." Even after a half hour of me saying it was an anti comic book movie and it was an adult movie not meant for kids. On movie night... just stick with the classic formulas.

Fuddyduddy1952 · Jan 4, 2023

We haven't been to the theater in many years and 99% movies we watch are on TCM, movies mostly 1930s-50s. Everyone should see the classics like Citizen Kane, Casablanca, The Third Man, etc.
I believe we've seen everything by Alfred Hitchcock and every movie starring Sidney Poitier is fantastic.
Everyone should see "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World". Anything Marx Brothers is good.
I can't recall any bad Film Noir movie.

2LaneCruzer · Jan 4, 2023

I recall one sleepless night a few years back, watching "Silent Movie Theater" and a movie entitled "The Cameraman" with Buster Keaton. Being silent, you have to concentrate (which I was able to do late at night by myself) and It turned out to be a hilarious movie. Made in 1928.