Favorite Movies

[rex desilets]

Zulu
Master and Commander

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

Two gooduns Rex!!! I can add them to my list.

Dead Can Dance's 1st album "Dead Can Dance" starts off with a sound that was strangely familiar. I finally realized it was the beating of the Zulu weapons on their shields followed by them yelling ZULU!!!

BobD

[robert.]

I'm horrible with movie tittles. Forest Gump, Braveheart, The Revenant. The Hateful Eight. Every parent should make their child watch Taken. There is a movie about a2 guys driving across the desert. I googled it it's called Joy ride. Horror at it's best.

[rex desilets]

Two gooduns Rex!!! I can add them to my list.

Dead Can Dance's 1st album "Dead Can Dance" starts off with a sound that was strangely familiar. I finally realized it was the beating of the Zulu weapons on their shields followed by them yelling ZULU!!!

BobD

Thanks, Bob. For years a cabal of we like-minded folk considered Zulu the finest war movie ever made.
"Why us?" the private asked. "Because we're here, boy, and no one else." the Color Sgt replied. Somehow that's been one of my go-to sentiments when things got tough.

[rex desilets]

A recent one: "Risen." Not big on religious mythology, but it's a powerful exemplar of the Resurrection.
Two more: "The Man Who Would be King," and "The Wind and the Lion"

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Two gooduns Rex!!! I can add them to my list.

Dead Can Dance's 1st album "Dead Can Dance" starts off with a sound that was strangely familiar. I finally realized it was the beating of the Zulu weapons on their shields followed by them yelling ZULU!!!

BobD

Thanks, Bob. For years a cabal of we like-minded folk considered Zulu the finest war movie ever made.
"Why us?" the private asked. "Because we're here, boy, and no one else." the Color Sgt replied. Somehow that's been one of my go-to sentiments when things got tough.

BobD and Rex, I think that's really cool, for conversation-sake, to have explained why you like that movie, or what it was about it that meant something to you. I realize trying to explain something like that is like trying to explain why a person likes cashews or pistachios, but what you said was very interesting reading.

So, I am suggesting we posters go back and add some ideas about why we all have listed this-or-that movie, or post another reply saying how the movie got to be significant to us.

For me, one of my favorites was director Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ." It moved me so much that when it came to the part referred to in some religions as The Way of The Cross, that when He fell, I found myself - this happened twice, unplanned and completely not consciously initiated - reaching forward to catch His fall. By the end of the movie, I found myself emotionally upset and spent (talk about "suspending disbelief"!), as I exited the theater. (I wasn't going to share that information when I first posted this thread, but the conversation has gone along so nicely I felt I could trust the moment.) Murph

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...more personal favorites:
The Dear Hunter
Apocalypse, Now
Platoon.
From what a lifelong friend, who went to Nam told me, they give a pretty good view of some of it.

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

Murph,

Zulu was the classic theme about being surrounded, cutoff, hopeless, and the typical underdog.

I recently watched the movie "The Siege of Jadotville", about a squad of Irish troops sent in by the UN to "protect" a town in mineral rich Congo in 1961, on Netflix. It was much the same thing as Zulu, except the local army was being directed by French Legionnaires. This was when the Secretary General of the UN, Dag Hammersjold, plane "crashed" (movie says it was shot down).

I'm partial to historical movies about the U.K. anyway, my mom was Welsh. My grandfather was in the Royal Machine Gun Corp during WWI and my mom, her sister (nurses), her sisters husband, my dad and 3 of his brothers were in WWII.

Master and Commander is another movie on my list, Russel Crowe was excellent in the movie.

BobD

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I treasure a movie when it takes me by the neck, shoulders, and/heart, gives me a heck of a good shake, and gets me angry, happy, shocked, sad, amazed, edified, or outraged. Empathetic counts, too. Murph

[rogruth]

The Quiet Man. The Deerhunter. On the Beach. The Day the Earth Stood Still, original.
The original Fantasia. Laurel and Hardy. The Big Country.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

The Day the Earth Stood Still," the original...

Yes! That ship. That robot. Too cool. Certainly had and captured the imagination. And then there was that Lionel train layout from under the boy's bed and the analogy Klatu used it for. Cool stuff.

[rex desilets]

"Passion of the Christ" was so powerful I was only able to watch it once.
Re the movie "Risen:" the characterization of the Christ was, to me, the most empathetic I've ever seen.

On a more profane note: anyone ever seen the film "Broadway Limited?" Absolutely terrible film but some neat shots of PRR equipment. Memorable line: "Server in coffee shot says"my, you drink a lot of coffee," to which the customer says "I have to, to get any" Only a strong black coffee addict would appreciate that, I guess.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

"Passion of the Christ" was so powerful I was only able to watch it once.
Re the movie "Risen:" the characterization of the Christ was, to me, the most empathetic I've ever seen....

Thanks for the candour and the reach-back, Rex. It is much appreciated. Like you, I have only been able to watch it once.
Given your viewpoint, I will watch "Risen" if I ever come across it.
Thanks again. Murph

[rogruth]

"The Passion of the Christ" was outstanding and powerful.
A lot of anti noise was made but I found the "Last Temptation of the Christ" to also be very powerful.

[healey36]

Never a huge Clancy fan, but I thought Hunt for Red October was well done. The old Ice Station Zebra was another good one (but the book was much better).

Breaker Morant was another great movie.

But I still think Grand Prix is my all-time favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9eOHXhsC_M

Healey