Some "good" movies.

[WT_Foxtrot]

Westerns:

Long Riders (THE most underrated western ever IMO)
Outlaw Josey Wales
For a Few Dollars More
Pale Rider
Unforgiven
Silverado
Tombstone

War/Drama:

Apocalypse Now
Platoon
Red Dawn (1984)
The Great Escape
Kelly's Heroes
The Patriot
Full Metal Jacket
Southern Comfort
Extreme Prejudice
No Way Out
Out of Time
Firefox
Hunt for Red October

Horror:

The Shining
Aliens
Halloween (original 1978)
Friday the 13th (original 1980)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Children of the Corn
Duel

Comedy and variety and just because of being a kid of the '80s:

Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Vacation
Mr. Mom
Weird Science
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Christmas Vacation
Bull Durham
Brewster's Millions
Airplane
Caddyshack
Trading Places
48 Hours
Days of Thunder

I'm sure there are others, but this is a good start at a list of my favorites.

 

[DaBull]

The Long Kiss Goodnight

(Humming)
Dun-nun-nun-nun-nunt

"I'm typing this comment"

(Humming)
Dun-nun-nun-nun-nunt

"Because I like this movie too"

(You'll understand if you watch the movie).

 

[DaBull]

No Way Out
Out of Time

I forgot about both of these...somewhat similar movies but very intense and good.

 

[General Zod]

(Humming)
Dun-nun-nun-nun-nunt

"I'm typing this comment"

(Humming)
Dun-nun-nun-nun-nunt

"Because I like this movie too"

(You'll understand if you watch the movie).

I need to watch it again. It's been too long.

 

[WT_Foxtrot]

Yep, and it's a great horror movie where it's real suspense and horror rather than just another fucking slasher. But Aliens is the exciting, quotable action movie that I'll stop and watch any time it's on.

Put it my list above, as well. Great flick and I never tire of watching it. And some of the most quotable lines are from Hudson, AKA Bill Paxton, Fort Worth's own. RIP

 

[DaBull]

Put it my list above, as well. Great flick and I never tire of watching it. And some of the most quotable lines are from Hudson, AKA Bill Paxton, Fort Worth's own. RIP

Fun fact: did you know Aliens' Vasquez was played by Jenette Goldstein, who also played (Teen) John Connor's step mom in Terminator 2 (another Cameron movie)?

 

[SARGE67]

Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte. Superb acting and each character fit like a pocket on a shirt.

 

[General Zod]

Fun fact: did you know Aliens' Vasquez was played by Jenette Goldstein, who also played (Teen) John Connor's step mom in Terminator 2 (another Cameron movie)?

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Casting that could never happen today - for a descendant of Russian Jews to play Vasquez, they had to use makeup to hide her freckles and darken her complexion, dye her hair black, and then there was the accent...

She also played an doomed Irish mother in "Titanic", also directed by James Cameron. He likes to re-hire actors he's worked with before.

 

[WT_Foxtrot]

Fun fact: did you know Aliens' Vasquez was played by Jenette Goldstein, who also played (Teen) John Connor's step mom in Terminator 2 (another Cameron movie)?

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Had no idea. Thanks for the teach. She looks slightly more......well, appealing in the Terminator flick.

 

[single stack]

Watched “Charlie Varrick” with Walter Matthau today.
Good movie.

 

[WT_Foxtrot]

I forgot about both of these...somewhat similar movies but very intense and good.

Exactly right! They are very similar in their suspense, i.e., time crunch and suspense for the main characters. And the twist at the end of No Way Out is one of the best I've run across. Really well done. Really good actors in that one too. Besides Costner, Gene Hackman, Fred Thompson, George Dzundza and Will Patton. And Sean Young wasn't hard to look at either.

 

[gamboolman]

Conan the Barbarian. The original with Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Sandahl Bergman and Mako.

 

[oldag]

Casablanca
Maltese Falcon
To Have and Have Not (Bogey and Bacall's first movie together, the electricity is amazing. Perhaps at the top of my list.)
Key Largo (Edward G. Robinson is great)
The Big Sleep
Vertigo
Gods and Generals
Patton
A Bridge Too Far
3:10 to Yuma (both are good, but I like the newer version a little better)
North by Northwest
Charade
To Catch a Thief
Pink Panther
A Shot in the Dark
The first three Bourne movies, and the fifth
The new Star Trek movies
Sahara (McConaughey)
Cinderella Man
Master and Commander
Suspicion
Rope
Dial M for Murder
Rear Window

 

[deemus]

Kind of surprised no one has mentioned Breakfast At Tiffany’s


Key Largo is a great movie.

 

[General Zod]

The new Star Trek movies

"Into Darkness" annoyed the hell out of me. "Ok, we're gonna redo 'Wrath of Khan' but we're gonna pretend we're doing something different, and we'll handwave why the guy with the Sikh name is British now, and there's no Reliant but there's gonna be a huge-ass starship that'll be important for about 15 minutes...oh, and tribble blood makes you immortal now! But we'll ignore that later."

The other two were better and much more fun. Despite the director's insistence on shoehorning in "music" by the Beastie Boys any time he can.

 

[Charley]

Second Hand Lions


Used Cars, one of Robert Zemeckis' very early films, made in 1980.

 

[zackmars]

"Into Darkness" annoyed the hell out of me. "Ok, we're gonna redo 'Wrath of Khan' but we're gonna pretend we're doing something different, and we'll handwave why the guy with the Sikh name is British now, and there's no Reliant but there's gonna be a huge-ass starship that'll be important for about 15 minutes...oh, and tribble blood makes you immortal now! But we'll ignore that later."

The other two were better and much more fun. Despite the director's insistence on shoehorning in "music" by the Beastie Boys any time he can.

Hey now, there's nothing wrong with the beastie boys. This is a hill I'm more than willing to die on

 

[General Zod]

Hey now, there's nothing wrong with the beastie boys. This is a hill I'm more than willing to die on

When "License to Ill" came out, I hated every track I heard off of it. All through high school, every time someone played their songs I'd roll my eyes and try to block them out. But you know, over the last few decades, my musical tastes have expanded and I've given a few of their songs another listen. And y'know what?

They still suck.

Sorry. Have fun on your hill. To me they sound like a bunch of drunk Yankee frat boys screaming and screeching over each other. Obviously your opinion varies...but including their music in a Star Trek movie is jarring as hell and pulls me right out of the experience.

 

[zackmars]

When "License to Ill" came out, I hated every track I heard off of it. All through high school, every time someone played their songs I'd roll my eyes and try to block them out. But you know, over the last few decades, my musical tastes have expanded and I've given a few of their songs another listen. And y'know what?

They still suck.

Sorry. Have fun on your hill. To me they sound like a bunch of drunk Yankee frat boys screaming and screeching over each other. Obviously your opinion varies...but including their music in a Star Trek movie is jarring as hell and pulls me right out of the experience.

Thats what took you out of the movie? I mean it does happen pretty early on, but most people got taken out by the nuclear bomb-esq lens flares that JJ loves so much

 

[General Zod]

Thats what took you out of the movie? I mean it does happen pretty early on, but most people got taken out by the nuclear bomb-esq lens flares that JJ loves so much

In the third movie those lens flares were less egregious, and other flaws were easy to gloss over because the climax of the movie was flowing and things were getting exciting...and then fucking "Sabotage" starts playing over the action. Yeah, it took me out of the movie. It also would have if something I actually like had played too - "Crazy Train", or "You Really Got Me"...it was a stupid choice and JJ Abrams has an obsession with the Beastie Boys, so that made it even worse for me.

It was fairly easy to ignore in the first move, after the initial eyeroll. There's a serious illogic to a kid in the 23rd century blasting 20th century frat rock when he steals his stepdad's antique car...would you buy it if some kid in a movie set today boosted a car and blasted 18th century parlor music as he went tearing down the road? But having it as a featured part of the soundtrack and even a plot device during the major action setpiece...yeah. It really detracted from the experience for me.

I suppose we're just lucky Abrams doesn't have that sort of hardon for Barry Manilow or Pat Boone.