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

[Yander]

Well, I guess I'm about 40 years behind, but I just watched Lonesome Dove. Apparently Netflix has decided I like Robert Duvall westerns... and I guess it's right there.

Great miniseries, for anyone who hasn't already seen it. The effects are right out of "1989 made for TV" quality, but it's a great story with good characters played by excellent actors. Cast includes Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, Anjelica Huston, Steve Buscemi... and Ricky Schroder!

The only thing I didn't like was it wasn't longer, they could've made a standing show out of it, IMO.

If you haven't already watched these Robert Duvall movies, they are my favorites: Second Hand Lions, Open Range, and Broken Trail.

 

[WinterDeere]

If you haven't already watched these Robert Duvall movies, they are my favorites: Second Hand Lions, Open Range, and Broken Trail.

Yep... that's how "the algorithm" decided I liked Duvall, I'd already watched Open Range and Second Hand Lions in the past. But I don't recall Broken Trail, so thanks for that recommendation! I'll have to check it out.

One scene I always enjoyed:

 

[IH3444]

 

[Alan46]

Thanks for that, we just watched it again!!!

 

[Yander]

I just watched a very good movie. "Six Tripple Eight" on Netflix?. True story set in world war II.

 

[masseyrider]

If you haven't already watched these Robert Duvall movies, they are my favorites: Second Hand Lions, Open Range, and Broken Trail.

Second Hand Lions has some fun scenes but falls short of being a really good movie.
What really ruins it for me is the stupid ending funeral.
The wife and kids are aboot the worst casting I can think of not to mention the acting in that final scene.

 

[Sigarms]

Second Hand Lions has some fun scenes but falls short of being a really good movie.
What really ruins it for me is the stupid ending funeral.
The wife and kids are aboot the worst casting I can think of not to mention the acting in that final scene.

Is this ending any better for you? It's the ending they didn't go with in the final version.

If I can really enjoy a movie for the majority of it's run time, sometimes the ending doesn't really ruin it for me.

That said, the ending of Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby really ruined the whole movie for me. Instead of feel good, they went to life sucks LOL


EDIT- When the do audience testing on films, and they change the original content to maximize a better response, does the content really matter?

From the same film studio I mentioned, a biography of sorts, read up on the man and the film seemed pretty true to life (more of a documentary if anything else). Hit the nail on the head with some Churches IMO.

 

[WinterDeere]

Second Hand Lions has some fun scenes but falls short of being a really good movie.
What really ruins it for me is the stupid ending funeral.
The wife and kids are aboot the worst casting I can think of not to mention the acting in that final scene.

I liked the movie. And yeah, the ending wasn't very good, but not so bad as to undo an otherwise good movie.

It'd be fun to have M. Knight Shayamalan just make a film that's a medly of alternate "M. Knight" endings to every popular movie. That dude knows how to put a twist on an ending!

 

[MossRoad]

I liken the ending of Second Hand Lions to the ending of Big Fish.