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To Kill A Mockingbird
The Forbidden Planet
Shane
The Culpepper Cattle Company
Valdez Is Coming
The Time Machine (original)
The Entity
The Road
Breaker Morant
A Reasonable Man
Jeremiah Johnson
 
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John Wick Trilogy
Raiders of the Lost ark series
Marvel movies
Private Ryan
Hacksaw Ridge
District 9
Passion of the Christ
 
I remember movies that make me laugh...

Hopscotch (1980) A whimsical thriller staring Walther Matthau
Uncle Buck (1989) My favorite John Candy movie
 
Another excellent movie and one that fits the military, not necessarily war genre is Taking Chance, starring Kevin Bacon as a Marine Colonel who is the escort of a fallen Marine's return home to his family. Very solemn and sad to watch but worth watching.
 
Dark comedy:. Training Day/ No Country
Sci-fi: Forbidden Planet/ Inception
Action: Bullit/Dirty Harry
History: The Patriot
Comedy: MM MM World/ Animal House
Once a year: Blues Brothers. Joe
 
An old one I like is the Ralph Bakshi movie Wizards. I claim to be like Blackwolf but gets told I actually resemble Avatar, short, chubby and an old fart with a bit of a dirty mind. LOL

One of my favorite animated movies was by Ralph Bakshi, American Pop. I think people who are into music and history will appreciate it.
 
My movie tastes can be a little all over the place, much like my music tastes. I'll try my best not to repeat movies others have already mentioned.

Mr. Right - Kind of a quirky action/rom-com. Anna Kendrick plays a woman, a little "lost," who falls for Sam Rockwell's character, a hitman who kills the people that hire him, because murder is wrong. Some pretty good action scenes.

The Accountant - Action/quasi-thriller. Ben Affleck plays a high-functioning autistic math savant who works as a forensic accountant for criminal organizations (drug cartels, the mob, terrorists, etc.), who has also been trained in combat. Good action scenes and a fairly decent mystery. A favorite of mine.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - Weird, kind of goofy sci-fi film. A cult classic. Not for everybody, but I love it. Banzai (played by Peter Weller...supposedly, this role is what got him cast in Robocop), a physicist/neurosurgeon/rock star/jet car driver/adventurer tries to defeat aliens from an alternate dimension.

No Such Thing - Another weird one I enjoyed. Sarah Polley plays a woman trying to find out what happened to her fiance, only to find out he was eaten by an immortal monster who's tired of living and wants to die, but can't. The woman and the monster become the best of friends while she tries to help him. Like I said...weird. Also satirizes the media and their thirst for ratings.

The Man From Nowhere - Korean action movie, similar to Taken. A pawn broker befriends a little girl, who gets kidnapped along with her mother. He tries to find them, using "a particular set of skills" he used in a prior life. One of my favorite action movies.

I believe The Man From Nowhere and Buckaroo Banzai are still available on Amazon Prime. I don't if the other movies are streaming anywhere.
 
My movie tastes can be a little all over the place, much like my music tastes. I'll try my best not to repeat movies others have already mentioned.

The Accountant - Action/quasi-thriller. Ben Affleck plays a high-functioning autistic math savant who works as a forensic accountant for criminal organizations (drug cartels, the mob, terrorists, etc.), who has also been trained in combat. Good action scenes and a fairly decent mystery. A favorite of mine.

Total agreement here. The Accountant was panned by a lot of critics because they misunderstood Affleck's take on autism, even though the moral of the story becomes readily apparent fairly quickly in the film, and is reaffirmed at the end.

Affleck is at his best (in my opinion) when he's playing a character with intelligence who goes against type. Check out his performance in The Town, if you haven't seen it. He's cynical, sardonic, humorous, clever...and mean when he needs to be...he's the good-bad guy who...well, I won't spoil if for you if you haven't seen it.

It's also a great performance by Jeremy Renner, equaling (my opinion again) his work in The Hurt Locker.

I think it's also Pete Postlehwaite's last film before he passed away from cancer.

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Another excellent movie and one that fits the military, not necessarily war genre is Taking Chance, starring Kevin Bacon as a Marine Colonel who is the escort of a fallen Marine's return home to his family. Very solemn and sad to watch but worth watching.

That movie was underrated. Even though I am not a big Kevin Bacon fan, he did a really really good job. Everyone should see that movie!

I have to many to list. Anything (except one or two) by Denzel Washington or Tom Hanks

Hunter for Red October
Clear and Present Danger

Many many more:)
(why cant people scale their inserted pictures down so they don't skew the whole forum to reply??):confused:
 
White Christmas
Scrooge/A Christmas Carol
A Carol for Another Christmas

True Grit (original)
Tombstone
A Bridge Too Far
The Wild Bunch
The Getaway (original)
Extreme Predjudice
12 Angry Men


There's just a few
 
Well now this is a toughie. Gonna forgrt some I know. I best do it by categories.

Comedy:
Planes, Trains, And automobiles
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Scrooged
What About Bob
Let it Ride
Tin Cup
Jaykel and Hyde Together Again
Young Frankenstein
Being There
Mouse Hunt


Horror:
Psyco
The Exorcist
"It"
Dream Catcher

Creature feature
The "Alien" movies
The "Predator" movies
The original "The Thing (from outerspace)
The original "Predator"

Si FY:
Forbidden Planet
The Martian
Star Wars
Star Trek

Westerns:
Lonesome Dove
Outlaw Josey Wales
Quigley Down Under (Western Austrailia)
High Noon
Broken Trail
Open Range
True Grit
The Shootist
Appaloosa
The Searchers
Shane
Red River
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Missouri Breaks

Drama:
Maltese Falcon
Cold Mountain
Come Back Little Sheba
Marty
Ordinary People
Sullie
Captain
Castaway
Bridge of Spies
Shawshank Redemption
Twister
Broken Arrow
Million Dollar Baby
Stand By Me
Gladiator
All the Lethal Weapon Movies
The Hunt for Red October
Sea biscuit
Silence of the lambs
The Stand
Pappion



War Movies:
Private Ryan
Bridge on the River Kwai
Kelly's Heroes
A bridge too Far
The Great Escape


Gangsta movies:
God Father
Good Fellas

Musicals:
Streets Of Fire
Eddy and the Cruisers I and II
Road House

I could go on and on but I gotta go.
 
Lots and lots==many listed here.

Yesterday, on Prime, I came across one I watched a couple of years ago and liked:

"Tomorrow, When the War Started".....It's a "Red Dawn" set in a small town in Australia.
 
Old ones:1.People will talk
2. To each, his own
3.Best years of our lives
4.Shane
5.To hell and back

More recent series type viewing: Justified
Narcos
The Shield

Act of Valor
 
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If you ask me, 'Vanishing Point' was a disappointment and the mentality suits a young man fascinated by fast cars in the desert and some kind of mysterious 'mission' that doesn't make a lot of sense. The ending is a downer....no victory.

Anybody else???
Really enjoyed Vanishing Point as a teenager and now at 60 it is safe to assume I am a dessert rat. So the dessert with fast cars I might enjoy watching it again. Have not seen it since then but I did see a old music video recently featuring scenes from the movie. As I recall deliver a car in short order half way across the country in the end pays the price for risking it all. Good movie.
As for other movies I have enjoyed
My name is Nobody
Shane just an awesome movie
Sgt York
Big Jake
The Cannon ball run. I heard on the radio this morning a new record was set.
Smokey and the bandit
Anything with Audie Murphy in it
The Great Escape I really enjoyed McQueens roll.

Mike
 
White Heat, Cagney at his lovable psycho best.

Sergeant York
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Pale Rider
Major League
A Face in the Crowd
Public Enemy
Downfall
Casablanca
Key Largo
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Searchers
Patton
Jailhouse Rock
Fail Safe
Little Caesar
Full Metal Jacket
Goodfellas
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Tarzan's New York Adventure
The Bank Dick
 
I'll watch a movie I don't really like if it has Kate Hudson, or Jennifer Aniston in it...I like to look at them.

These are the movies I have currently on a flash drive plugged into my TV.

A Few Good Men
A Lot Like Love
A Time to Kill
All the Presidents Men
American Sniper
An Officer and a Gentleman
Apocalypse Now Redux
Blow
Brother in War
Coyote Ugly
Day After Tomorrow
Deep Water Horizon
Dirty Grandpa...Love Aubrey Plaza
Djamgo Unchained
Friday the 13th
Flatliners
Forrest Gump
Fracture
Freedom Writers
Full Metal Jacket
Goin' South
Hacksaw Ridge
Hard Ball
Helter Skelter
Holloween
Jack Reacher
Jack Reacher Never go Back
Man on Fire
Miracle
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Only The Brave
Passengers
Perfect Storm
Platoon
Primary Colors
Pulp Fiction
Riding Giants...surf movie
Rocky 3
Rounders
Salems Lot
Saving Private Ryan
Sex Tape...aint porn
Signs
Silence of the Lambs
Sling Blade
Solace
Some Kind of Wonderful
St. Elmos Fire
Straight Otta Compton
Surfs Up
Taking Chance
The Endless Summer
The Pelican Brief
The Warriors
The Whole Nine Yards
The Accountant
The American President
The Big Chill
The Equalizer
The Equalizer 2
The Godfather
The Godfather 2
The Guardian
The Holiday
The Intern
The Shawshank Redemption
The Untouchables
The Wolf of Wall Street
Thirteen Ghosts
Training Day
Tremors
Twister
Unstoppable
War Dogs
We Were Soldiers
White House Down
Zero Day
Zodiac
 
At Christmas, every year without fail...family films without equal.

A Christmas Carol (1984) with George C. Scott as Scrooge. Has the best Marley's Ghost (Frank Finlay) ever in it, "In death we wear the chains we forged in life." Also the best Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future.

The Bishop's Wife (1947), starring Cary Grant, David Niven, Loretta Young, Monty Wooley, and quite a few other familiar faces. A great film with a moral that holds true seventy-two years after the film was made.

Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Another classic from '47. Edmund Gwenn is Kris Kringle!

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"Gone", starring Amanda Seyfried, free on YouTube.

A girl is thought to be nuts about having been kidnapped, and is ignored when the same man takes her sister. But she does her own search and solves the problem.

Look for the S&W M-36 or 37 she carries.

I liked the trio of, "Fifty Shades" movies, and in one, you see a M-36, with which the heroine (played by Dakota Johnson) shoots a nut case man who kidnapped her SIL.

I also really like the luxurious surroundings and the helicopter and yacht that the Greys own. And I appreciated Christian's family and how they try to support him in overcoming his origins. (Dr. Grey is his adoptive mother; his biological mom was a crack user in a time honored profession. She died when he was about five. I like the way that the once naive college grad (Anastasia Steele) played by Dakota helps him to find healing from his dark past and become a loving family man.

The casting is superb, and if you like Audi cars, you'll enjoy seeing many in the three films. I think Audi may have had a product placement deal in exchange for them using that brand.

"Chloe", starring Liam Neeson and Amanda Seyfried. A music professor's wife thinks he's running around on her and hires a bright young escort to test his loyalty. But things get muddled when the girl has an agenda of her own.

"Basic Instinct." A wealthy novelist may also be a serial killer, determined to murder the San Francisco detective investigating her. Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone, 1992. Jeanne Tripplehorn plays the police psychologist, involved with the detective and she's a former classmate of the lethal author. An excellent, taut thriller. The ending was a bit of a surprise.
 
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The man in the gray flannel suit
12 o'clock high
The gunfighter
Keys of the kingdom
 
EXTRACTION ... Netflix
MY HONOR WAS LOYALTY .. Netflix
FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER .. Netflix
GERMAN WWII FIREARMS .. Amazon
ZERO ZERO ZERO .. Amazon
WORLD ON FIRE .. Amazon
VIENNA BLOOD .. Amazon
JAPANESE FIREARMS WWII .. Amazon
 
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Stalag 17 --Holden early 50s
The Westerner- Cooper '41
Thin Man Movies 30s --William Powell
Thirty Seconds over Toyko '42 Tracy
War of the Worlds '53
2nd for Das Boot exc '81 (been that long?)
Any Heston, Bogart, most J Wayne movies...
 
Vietnam War movies.
1.Platoon, 1986
2.Full Metal Jacket, 1987
3.Hamburger Hill, 1987

Other movies
4.Scarface.
5.The Bridge on the River Kwai.
6.The Great Escape.

PS- I never get tied of watching " Fossest Gump.":cool:
 
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