Favorite Movies

[rogruth]

The original.
Rufus says it is very funny and if it is it is lost on me.
I DO like funny but this one has never been funny to me.
I do not know why. That's just the way it is.
I would not argue about it with anybody because I can't
define anything about it.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I haven't seen No Country for Old Men, but the Coen brothers make good stuff.

I have a feeling, Roy, that you would really like it. Each actor seems exactly right for the part, and the movie takes us somewhere interesting and very different from what most of us ever experience; yet, it is, somehow, familiar.
Murph

[healey36]

Got a stack of Bogart films as a holiday gift...finally got around to watching them. First up was "All Through the Night" from 1942:



What's not to love - Bogart, Lorre, a bunch of Nazis, William Demarest and a young Jackie Gleason to boot...fun little war-time movie.

Healey

[rex desilets]

Went to see Hostiles. Recommended, although valuable screen minutes spent fixated in Bales' face..

[Roy]

I haven't seen No Country for Old Men, but the Coen brothers make good stuff.

I have a feeling, Roy, that you would really like it. Each actor seems exactly right for the part, and the movie takes us somewhere interesting and very different from what most of us ever experience; yet, it is, somehow, familiar.
Murph

I'll try to catch it on TV. I'm really disgusted with the changes in TV Guide's online listings. I've even tried some other TV listings sites. One was good, but it has disappeared. The one associated with my ISP has problems.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I haven't seen No Country for Old Men, but the Coen brothers make good stuff.

I have a feeling, Roy, that you would really like it. Each actor seems exactly right for the part, and the movie takes us somewhere interesting and very different from what most of us ever experience; yet, it is, somehow, familiar.
Murph

I'll try to catch it on TV. I'm really disgusted with the changes in TV Guide's online listings. I've even tried some other TV listings sites. One was good, but it has disappeared. The one associated with my ISP has problems.

A few cable channels seem to be running this movie endlessly now, but I always find it 2/3's of the way through the movie....

[healey36]

Lol, I had the same experience with Castaway...always caught it half way through. Than one night I found it at the beginning...after watching it all the way through I felt like I'd been on the damn island for three years too. That was agony...

[E7]

Lol, I had the same experience with Castaway...always caught it half way through. Than one night I found it at the beginning...after watching it all the way through I felt like I'd been on the damn island for three years too. That was agony...

The first time I watched "No Country For Old Men" (on Dish), I got about 3/4 of the way through the thing and LOST the signal (it was a BIG rain storm, which for they who never had satellite, KILLS the signal). Flipped on the flat screen a couple days later and caught the film EXACTLY where it had been interrupted. A twist of fortune which will never ever ever be repeated in my lifetime. That event probably killed off any chance I have of winning any kind of lottery!

Comcast has a feature where if you come in part way through a show, they offer the option to start from the beginning. I've never used it and am not sure if there is a charge for doing so.

[rogruth]

E,
I think that is extra cost but I'm not sure.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

"The Dear Hunter."
Does it get more real than that?
Flawless. IMHO (Seen for the 3rd time yesterday.)

[Mitch]

I'll watch PATTON nearly every time it comes on, (also have the VHS, but no player anymore), I've seen it I'd bet 50 times. Do you know that George C. Scott won but refused to accept an Academy Award for that movie?

Other favorites are El Dorado and Rio Bravo. Watch 'em almost every time. Ya can't go wrong with John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Walter Brennan, Angie Dickinson, and Rick Nelson and Ed Asner.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I'll watch PATTON nearly every time it comes on, (also have the VHS, but no player anymore), I've seen it I'd bet 50 times. Do you know that George C. Scott won but refused to accept an Academy Award for that movie?

Other favorites are El Dorado and Rio Bravo. Watch 'em almost every time. Ya can't go wrong with John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Walter Brennan, Angie Dickinson, and Rick Nelson and Ed Asner.

That's a uniquely varied list, Mitch. I keep looking over it for a common thread but can't discover one.

[Tom Dempsey]

Above average actors, correctly cast, and working up to their potential perhaps.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Above average actors, correctly cast, and working up to their potential perhaps.

To what degree would you apply that to "The Deer Hunter," Tom?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Above average actors, correctly cast, and working up to their potential perhaps.

To what degree would you apply that to "The Deer Hunter," Tom?

I don't know that he applied that comment to "The Deer Hunter" or not.