The Briefing Room

Archives => Briefing Room TV => Topic started by: Sighlass on June 20, 2017, 01:33:41 am

Title: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on June 20, 2017, 01:33:41 am
I noticed over the years I had made a list of some of my fave Movies and tv shows... So in no particular order ... I thought I would list them to see if others also liked them.

1. The Magic of Ordinary Days

2. Into the White

3. Woman in Gold

4. Harvey (Jimmy Stewart)

5. Restless Natives (Scottish Robin Hood with great soundtrack)

6. Bleak House

7. Woodlawn (Christian)

8. Good, Bad, and the Ugly

9. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (also part 2 is great)

10. Starbuck

11, Big Fish

12. Stone Cold (Tom Selleck)

13. It's a Wonderful Life

14. Life is Beautiful

15. The Thin Man (while series is wonderful)

16. Breaking Away (rare 70s film I enjoyed)

17. The Incredibles (animation with a strong father figure)

18. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

19. My Big Fat Greek Wedding

20. Lord of the Ring (whole series)

21. Poldark (first season, got wanky after that)

22. Little House on the Prairie (yes I admit I loved it)

23. Broken Trail (though I politically didn't root for open range)

24. The Legend of 1900

25. McLintock (John Wayne)

26. Where the Red Fern Grows (Dog lovers)

27. Fright Night (I don't do much Horror)

28. The African Queen

29. Young Frankenstein

30. The Killing Fields (Good ole Communism in action)

31. Downfall

32. Babe (yes the pig movie, the sequel is great too)

33. Man of All Seasons

34. Amelie (Weird French Movie with charm)

35. Bicycle Thieves

36. Private Function (British Humor)

37. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

38. Little Dorrit (Dickens)

39. Thieves Highway

40. Safe Haven

41. God's Not Dead

42. Moonrise Kingdom

43. On Guard (French Fantasy)

44. The Pianist

45. Groundhog Day

46. The Gods Must be Crazy (B-movie that was just too funny)

47. Gone with the Wind

48. Pride & Prejudice

49. Cranford (Best BBC comedy series in long time)

50. The Civil War (Ken Burns)

51. Detectorists (series about metal detectors guys)

52. The Good Earth

53. Roxanne

54. Risen (Christian)

55. Les Miserables (Liam Neeson version)

56. Kingsmen

57. Kings Row (Ronald Reagan)

58. Shooter (movie, but series was good too)

59. Ferris Bueller's Day Off

60. About Time

61. Red Dog

62. Last Man Standing (probable the last conservative lead comedy/series that was on TV)

63. Burn Notice (tv series)

64. Cheaper by the Dozen (older version, not the Steve Martin remake)

65. The Women (1939 comedy that is so delicious)

66. Doctor at Large (another British movie)

67. Only the Lonely (John Candy)

68. Planes Trains and Automobiles (Steve Martin John Candy)

69. Without a Clue (spoof on Sherlock Holmes)

70. Genesis (Christian)

71. My Man Godfrey

72. This Beautiful Fantastic

73. The Bride Came C.O.D.

74. Key Largo

75. Twin Town

76. It Runs in the Family

77. The Taming of the Shrew

78. The Quiet Man (My fave John Wayne)

79. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

80. The Crimson Rivers

81. Becket

82. Northanger Abbey

83. Lorna Doone

84. Ivanhoe

85. Life with Father

86. Cyrano de Bergerac (French Roxanne)

87. Rag Nymph

88. Meet Me in St. Louis

89. The Mayor of Casterbridge

90. Firelight

91. Nicholas Nickleby

92. Whisky Galore!

93. The Red Violin

94. The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John

95. The Visual Bible Matthew

96. Rob Roy

97. Quigley Down Under (Tom Selleck)

98. My Life in Ruins

99. The Claim

100. Magnum P.I.

Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Old Warrior in Exile on June 20, 2017, 01:41:17 am
Have you never seen The Godfather or The Godfather II?
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: RoosGirl on June 20, 2017, 01:42:28 am
I like this. :)

I will add The Bishop's Wife.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on June 20, 2017, 01:44:39 am
Have you never seen The Godfather or The Godfather II?

I tried, but if memory serves me, wife and I didn't care for the language. Seems to be on a lot of folks fave list though.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on June 20, 2017, 01:46:03 am
I like this. :)

I will add The Bishop's Wife.

Added to my "to watch list"... looks promising... thanks
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: endicom on June 20, 2017, 01:55:43 am
A sub category for conservatives should include movies like Ninotchka and Doctor Zhivago.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on June 20, 2017, 02:03:02 am
A sub category for conservatives should include movies like Ninotchka and Doctor Zhivago.

I like Doctor Zhivago, the other one sounds delicious.... added to my "to watch list"... thanks Endicom
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: RoosGirl on June 20, 2017, 02:04:16 am
Added to my "to watch list"... looks promising... thanks

I think I should specify the one with Cary Grant, I think there was a remake of it.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on June 20, 2017, 02:10:01 am
I think I should specify the one with Cary Grant, I think there was a remake of it.

Gotcha, downloading the correct one as I type... I love a good movie recommendation.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on June 20, 2017, 02:22:54 am
Frasier (the early years)
Seinfeld

Godfather 2
Goodnight and Good Luck

John Adams (HBO)
Tora Tora Tora
Taking Chance

Goodfellas
Apollo 13
The Princess Bride
Galaxy Quest  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:



Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: RoosGirl on June 20, 2017, 02:23:13 am
Gotcha, downloading the correct one as I type... I love a good movie recommendation.

Hope you enjoy it.  There wasn't much wrong that Cary Grant could do, IMO. 

What about:
American In Paris?
Despicable Me?
Hannibal? (the TV series, though this may have too much gore for your liking)
Flame and Citron? (Subtitled if I remember right)
Casino Royale?  (the newer one)
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: RoosGirl on June 20, 2017, 02:24:34 am
Frasier (the early years)
Seinfeld

Godfather 2

John Adams (HBO)
Tora Tora Tora
Taking Chance

Goodfellas
Apollo 13
The Princess Bride
Galaxy Quest  :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I really enjoyed that John Adams mini-series.  I was hoping they would do other presidents or notable figures from that time in our history.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sanguine on June 20, 2017, 02:26:55 am
13th Warrior
Braveheart
Beckett
A Lion In Winter
Arsenic and Old Lace
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on June 20, 2017, 02:27:15 am
I really enjoyed that John Adams mini-series.  I was hoping they would do other presidents or notable figures from that time in our history.

We watch the first two parts over the July 4th holiday.  If it's a rainy holiday ... we go for the third part, too!  It's become a new tradition.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: RoosGirl on June 20, 2017, 02:29:00 am
The old Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea on PBS with Megan Follows was wonderful.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on June 20, 2017, 02:29:49 am
Frasier (the early years)
John Adams (HBO)
Tora Tora Tora
Taking Chance

Frasier was good, John Adam ended up getting on DVD, will look up Tora and Taking Chance ... Thanks Right
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: endicom on June 20, 2017, 02:30:59 am
I like Doctor Zhivago, the other one sounds delicious.... added to my "to watch list"... thanks Endicom


If dated then still good. Made back when dialog still mattered.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on June 20, 2017, 02:31:28 am
If anyone's looking to laugh so hard they miss the dialogue ... may I suggest "Analyze This".   :laugh:
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on June 20, 2017, 02:34:31 am
13th Warrior
Braveheart
Beckett
A Lion In Winter
Arsenic and Old Lace

Beckett was great, I added A Lion in Winter to my "to watch" list... looking up 13th Warrior now... thanks
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Old Warrior in Exile on June 20, 2017, 02:36:28 am
The old Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea on PBS with Megan Follows was wonderful.

That evokes fond memories. My mother loved the old Ann of Green Gables.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Bigun on June 20, 2017, 02:39:14 am
Can't believe that no one has put Lonesome Dove on their list.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on June 20, 2017, 02:39:54 am
The old Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea on PBS with Megan Follows was wonderful.

Yes, loved the old Anne of Green Gables, the new version we didn't care for, BBC did their liberal spin on it.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on June 20, 2017, 02:41:15 am
Can't believe that no one has put Lonesome Dove on their list.

I loved it too, I just couldn't "POKE" it on my list.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Bigun on June 20, 2017, 02:43:00 am
I loved it too, I just couldn't "POKE" it on my list.

ROFLMAO!!!

I may be4 the only one but I also think Dances with Wolves is a classic!

Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Old Warrior in Exile on June 20, 2017, 02:43:04 am
13th Warrior
Braveheart
Beckett
A Lion In Winter
Arsenic and Old Lace

And my favorite scene from The 13th Warrior:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL1acYvpR_E
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Bigun on June 20, 2017, 02:43:49 am
And Jerimiah Johnson.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Old Warrior in Exile on June 20, 2017, 02:47:32 am
And Jerimiah Johnson.

I despise Robert Redford's leftist ways, but it just so happens the he was the lead in two of my all-time favorite films; Jeremiah Johnson and The Natural.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sanguine on June 20, 2017, 02:48:04 am
And my favorite scene from The 13th Warrior:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL1acYvpR_E

Awesome movie!
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Old Warrior in Exile on June 20, 2017, 02:50:11 am
I loved it too, I just couldn't "POKE" it on my list.
:silly:
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Old Warrior in Exile on June 20, 2017, 02:53:26 am
And what list is complete without the original Conan the Barbarian.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Bigun on June 20, 2017, 02:55:05 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmENUHILJpM
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Bigun on June 20, 2017, 02:57:30 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEneQFEFgMQ
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Frank Cannon on June 20, 2017, 03:07:47 am
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTc1ODg4YzMtMDNhOC00OTRhLTgwNmMtMjUxZGRkNTQ1YTNiL2ltYWdlL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzg5OTk2OA@@._V1_.jpg)
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on June 20, 2017, 03:16:21 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEneQFEFgMQ

Yep, good one. One heck of a fight... Boss
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on June 20, 2017, 03:27:19 am

[/quote]
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTc1ODg4YzMtMDNhOC00OTRhLTgwNmMtMjUxZGRkNTQ1YTNiL2ltYWdlL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzg5OTk2OA@@._V1_.jpg)

I think my mom warned me about movies like that Frank... not sure, can't find it anyway... but thanks. I did look, honest I did.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 20, 2017, 03:51:04 am
I;m going to throw in the original Star Wars movie. It completely did away with models on strings as being acceptable sci fi.

Compare and contrast Buck Rogers in the 25th Century of the same vintage for effects, and you'll see why I pick it.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: truth_seeker on June 20, 2017, 03:58:22 am

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Le Mans

Grand Prix

Endless Summer

Chinatown

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next

Silence of the Lambs

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

The Lives of Others (German, English subtitles)

The Conversation

No Country for Old Men

In the Line of Fire

Dirty Harry

Exodus

12 Angry Men

Cool Hand Luke

Man on a Wire

The Last Waltz

Muscle Shoals

The Blues, a Musical Journey

Ray

Jaws

Once Upon a Time in the West

True Grit

2001 A Space Odyssey

The Lion King

Fantasia (1940)

The Hustler

Sideways

Slumdog Millionaire 

Million Dollar Baby

Crazy Heart

The Graduate

Rocky

Senna

Chariots of Fire

Secretariat

Step Into the Liquid

Vertigo
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: DB on June 20, 2017, 04:04:54 am
I;m going to throw in the original Star Wars movie. It completely did away with models on strings as being acceptable sci fi.

Compare and contrast Buck Rogers in the 25th Century of the same vintage for effects, and you'll see why I pick it.

2001 A Space Odyssey in 1968 did pretty well on the space scenes. Don't remember anything looking like strings.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on June 20, 2017, 04:17:33 am
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Le Mans

Grand Prix

Endless Summer

Chinatown

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next

Silence of the Lambs

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

The Lives of Others (German, English subtitles)

The Conversation

No Country for Old Men

In the Line of Fire

Dirty Harry

Exodus

12 Angry Men

Cool Hand Luke

Man on a Wire

The Last Waltz

Muscle Shoals

The Blues, a Musical Journey

Ray

Jaws

Once Upon a Time in the West

True Grit

2001 A Space Odyssey

The Lion King

Fantasia (1940)

The Hustler

Sideways

Slumdog Millionaire 

Million Dollar Baby

Crazy Heart

The Graduate

Rocky

Senna

Chariots of Fire

Secretariat

Step Into the Liquid

Vertigo


Quite a list there Truth.... I recognize most of them, but I will go through it with a fine tooth comb tomorrow. Thanks for taking the time to compose it.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Old Warrior in Exile on June 20, 2017, 04:30:28 am
I recently watched a new(er) film titled The Shallows starring Blake Lively.

I won't reveal much about the movie here, save to say that I was pleasantly surprised.

I recommend it.


 
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 20, 2017, 06:31:24 am
2001 A Space Odyssey in 1968 did pretty well on the space scenes. Don't remember anything looking like strings.
True, those were well done At least 2001 didn't make noises outside, much. It was ahead of its time in that regard, too. The Star Wars Movie had a lot more effects, and even better done. compared to most contemporary fare, it was in a whole new league,

Funny thing, though, the first space shootout I saw that used physics other than fighter aircraft maneuvers in atmosphere was in The Expanse, in this past season.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 20, 2017, 06:46:37 am
Gone With the Wind
12 O'clock High
We were Soldiers
The Battle of Britain
Midway
The Longest Day
Hell's Angels (1930)
Wings (1927)
Dr. Strangelove
Being There
Trading Places
Little Big Man
Quigley Down Under
Paint Your Wagon
The Man From Snowy River
Star Wars
Psycho
The Birds
The Wizzard of Oz
Captains Courageous
Master and Commander
Mutiny on the Bounty
Captain Blood
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Das Boot
Run Silent Run Deep
Hunt for Red October
The Passion of The Christ
War of the Worlds (1853)
Papillon
Ben Hur (with Charlton Hesston)
Casablanca
The African Queen
The Cowboys
The Shootist
The Blues Brothers
American Grafitti
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Jaws
The Quiet Man
The Planet of the Apes (Charlton Hesston)
Spartacus (Kirk Douglass)
The Train (Burt Lancaster)
The Great Escape
Easy Rider
The Shining
Rebel Without a Cause
The Wind and the Lion
Sahara (Bogart, 1943)
The Four Feathers
Enemy Mine
Kelley's Heroes
The Dirty Dozen
The Guns of Navaronne
The Great Escape
They Were Expendable
Zulu
Beau Geste
Sergeant York
47 Ronin
Old Yeller
The Stand
The Creature from the Black Lagoon
The Lord of the Rings
John Carter
Haleluia Trail
Godzilla (Original dubbed in English)
The Bridge Over the River Kwai
Escape From New York
The Hellfighters
Where Eagles Dare
Conan the Barbarian
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Mouse That Roared
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
The Sixth Sense
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The War Wagon
The Invisible Man
Dr Jekyl and Mr. Hyde
The Maltese Falcon
The Sands of Iwo Jima
Apocalypse Now
Stripes
Full Metal Jacket
The Big Red One
Cars
Looper
Blade Runner
Despicable Me
Shenandoah
The Red Badge of Courage
All's Quiet on the Western Front
Le Mans
Grand Prix
Snow White (Disney's Original)
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: EC on June 20, 2017, 07:48:20 am
Ones I've not yet seen mentioned:

Megamind

How to Train Your Dragon

Commando (I like comedies)

Das Boot (the TV series, NOT the movie)

Dark Star

Alien and Aliens.

The Outlaw Joesy Wales

A Fistful of Dynamite

I Claudius (TV Series with Derek Jacobi)

Constantine

The Vampires of Havana (it's animated, very much not PG, and you will not stop laughing once. Find a dubbed version, not a subtitled one if your Spanish is bad)

Back to the Future

The first three Indiana Jones movies

Hancock (stupid but fun)

The China Syndrome (message is blah, acting superb)

Catch Me If You Can

The Lady in the Van
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 20, 2017, 09:21:58 am
The Outlaw Josey Wales is right above Two Mules for Sister Sarah on my list.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Bigun on June 20, 2017, 12:58:44 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVZOKwBw6lc
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Bigun on June 20, 2017, 01:01:21 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MLjwy02QPo
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: truth_seeker on June 20, 2017, 07:10:46 pm
The Outlaw Josey Wales is right above Two Mules for Sister Sarah on my list.

I think Clint Eastwood is a great Director. The entire body of his work, over his long career, both acting and directing is without compare.

A surprising range, of his directing.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 20, 2017, 09:42:01 pm
I think Clint Eastwood is a great Director. The entire body of his work, over his long career, both acting and directing is without compare.

A surprising range, of his directing.
Even before that, when he was the lab guy in Revenge of the Creature From the Black Lagoon or singing in Paint Your Wagon, and then into Westerns (Birds gotta eat, same as worms.), to Dirty Harry (Feel lucky, Punk?), Play Misty for Me, Grand Torino, he has covered a lot of ground as an actor, too.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: EC on June 20, 2017, 09:47:08 pm
Even before that, when he was the lab guy in Revenge of the Creature From the Black Lagoon or singing in Paint Your Wagon, and then into Westerns (Birds gotta eat, same as worms.), to Dirty Harry (Feel lucky, Punk?), Play Misty for Me, Grand Torino, he has covered a lot of ground as an actor, too.

I wouldn't say he's got a lot of range as an actor. His characters tend to be very similar archetypes. What he does have is immense skill as an actor - Dirty Harry, the Man with No Name, and Walt Kowalski are the same TYPE, but different and unique individuals.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 20, 2017, 09:58:24 pm
I wouldn't say he's got a lot of range as an actor. His characters tend to be very similar archetypes. What he does have is immense skill as an actor - Dirty Harry, the Man with No Name, and Walt Kowalski are the same TYPE, but different and unique individuals.
No, range wasn't his forte. A lot of his characters were similar. Paint Your Wagon was fun, Play Misty for Me was different.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on June 20, 2017, 10:11:09 pm
Gone With the Wind
12 O'clock High
We were Soldiers
The Battle of Britain
Midway
The Longest Day
Hell's Angels (1930)
Wings (1927)
Dr. Strangelove
Being There
Trading Places
Little Big Man
Quigley Down Under
Paint Your Wagon
The Man From Snowy River
Star Wars
Psycho
The Birds
The Wizzard of Oz
Captains Courageous
Master and Commander
Mutiny on the Bounty
Captain Blood
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Das Boot
Run Silent Run Deep
Hunt for Red October
The Passion of The Christ
War of the Worlds (1853)
Papillon
Ben Hur (with Charlton Hesston)
Casablanca
The African Queen
The Cowboys
The Shootist
The Blues Brothers
American Grafitti
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Two Mules for Sister Sara
Jaws
The Quiet Man
The Planet of the Apes (Charlton Hesston)
Spartacus (Kirk Douglass)
The Train (Burt Lancaster)
The Great Escape
Easy Rider
The Shining
Rebel Without a Cause
The Wind and the Lion
Sahara (Bogart, 1943)
The Four Feathers
Enemy Mine
Kelley's Heroes
The Dirty Dozen
The Guns of Navaronne
The Great Escape
They Were Expendable
Zulu
Beau Geste
Sergeant York
47 Ronin
Old Yeller
The Stand
The Creature from the Black Lagoon
The Lord of the Rings
John Carter
Haleluia Trail
Godzilla (Original dubbed in English)
The Bridge Over the River Kwai
Escape From New York
The Hellfighters
Where Eagles Dare
Conan the Barbarian
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Mouse That Roared
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
The Sixth Sense
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The War Wagon
The Invisible Man
Dr Jekyl and Mr. Hyde
The Maltese Falcon
The Sands of Iwo Jima
Apocalypse Now
Stripes
Full Metal Jacket
The Big Red One
Cars
Looper
Blade Runner
Despicable Me
Shenandoah
The Red Badge of Courage
All's Quiet on the Western Front
Le Mans
Grand Prix
Snow White (Disney's Original)


Just wow, that is quite a list there Smoke... I will certainly look up the ones I don't know... Thanks for taking the time to type it up. @Smokin Joe  There has to be a good near dozen or so I don't know there.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on June 20, 2017, 10:17:14 pm
Ones I've not yet seen mentioned:

Megamind

How to Train Your Dragon

Commando (I like comedies)

Das Boot (the TV series, NOT the movie)

Dark Star

Alien and Aliens.

The Outlaw Joesy Wales

A Fistful of Dynamite

I Claudius (TV Series with Derek Jacobi)

Constantine

The Vampires of Havana (it's animated, very much not PG, and you will not stop laughing once. Find a dubbed version, not a subtitled one if your Spanish is bad)

Back to the Future

The first three Indiana Jones movies

Hancock (stupid but fun)

The China Syndrome (message is blah, acting superb)

Catch Me If You Can

The Lady in the Van

Seen most of these, but China Syndrome is new to me... surprised to see "Lady in the Van".. which I also found delightful. Thanks EC !
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: XenaLee on June 20, 2017, 11:01:23 pm
If you're including old sci-fi movies, I like Brainstorm (Natalie Wood's last movie), Final Countdown (w/Kirk Douglas), Andromeda Strain, and more recently, Limitless, Dreamcatcher, The Mist, The Thing, The 5th Wave.

For new flicks....The Shack (2017) is a good one.  Didn't think I was going to like it.  I did though.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: RoosGirl on June 20, 2017, 11:10:32 pm
Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Elderberry on June 22, 2017, 02:23:57 am
a short quick list:

After Dark
Eight below
Ninth Company
Seven Pounds
Bad Day at Black Rock
Beau Geste
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner
Bridge on the River Kwai
Sabrina
Angels with Dirty Faces
Sahara(1943)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Down to Earth
Dr Zhivago
The Earthling
The Gods Must be Crazy
Gone with the Wind
The Great Escape
High Noon
The Help
It’s a Mad Mad Mad World
It’s a Wonderful Life
A Man Called Horse
One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest
Payback
The Sand Pebbles
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Frank Cannon on June 22, 2017, 02:38:13 am
Two of my favorites....

(http://www.emovieposter.com/images/moviestars/AA151203/550/special_behind_the_green_door_set_of_2_a_ES00610_T.jpg)

(https://enchantedamerica.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/usa-my-mother-the-car-title-card.jpg)
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: RoosGirl on June 22, 2017, 03:05:32 am
Some television series I have enjoyed:

Deadwood

Justified

Vikings

The Americans

The Man in the High Castle (Amazon)

Bosch (Amazon)

The Night Manager

The White Queen

Fargo

Turn: Washington's Spies

Poldark

Sneaky Pete (Amazon)

Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on June 22, 2017, 03:07:53 am
Gaslight with Ingrid Bergman

Thanks, I really enjoyed this film... Ingrid Bergman did a great job here, she reminds me of my wife with all that pretty hair.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on June 22, 2017, 03:12:23 am
a short quick list:

After Dark
Eight below
Ninth Company
Seven Pounds
Bad Day at Black Rock
Beau Geste
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner
Bridge on the River Kwai
Sabrina
Angels with Dirty Faces
Sahara(1943)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Down to Earth
Dr Zhivago
The Earthling
The Gods Must be Crazy
Gone with the Wind
The Great Escape
High Noon
The Help
It’s a Mad Mad Mad World
It’s a Wonderful Life
A Man Called Horse
One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest
Payback
The Sand Pebbles

Again some movies I have not heard here... I will be searching them down, downloading The Treasure of the Sierra Madre right now actually. I loved "The Gods must be Crazy" too. I never did get into the movie "One Flew over the Cukoo’s Nest" though... most people liked it, but it just didn't jive with me.

Sorry if I have not gotten to everyone here, I want ya to know, I am picking your lists apart, but it will take some time. Lots of good recommendations.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on June 22, 2017, 03:18:14 am
Two of my favorites....

Special Behind the Green Door

My Mother the Car (Series)

Thanks Frank, have not heard of either of these to be honest. I think I can find My Mother the Car on YouTube. Will see if can find the other on the net to also give a try.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYyw84MiEFY


Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: 240B on June 22, 2017, 03:26:54 am
Everyone who ever posted anything is 'wrong'.


The only real movie worth watching is 'The Music Man'.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI_Oe-jtgdI
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on June 22, 2017, 03:43:44 am
Everyone who ever posted anything is 'wrong'.

The only real movie worth watching is 'The Music Man'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI_Oe-jtgdI

Thanks 240B, I have watched it... lets just say musicals aren't my thing. No disrespect though... seems the movie is on a lot of favorite lists.

Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: 240B on June 22, 2017, 03:53:47 am
Thanks 240B, I have watched it... lets just say musicals aren't my thing. No disrespect though... seems the movie is on a lot of favorite lists.


I respectfully disagree with your opinion of what you thought of the film. I think you liked it. It is not physically or psychologically possible for anyone to not like that movie.


If you continue to 'not like' the movie, then I have no choice but to consider you to be insane.


So, what will it be? Have you reconsidered your obvious 'opposition' to a great film, or have you reconsidered your aberrant opinion?
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on June 22, 2017, 03:56:53 am

I respectfully disagree with your opinion of what you thought of the film. I think you liked it. It is not physically or psychologically possible for anyone to not like that movie.


If you continue to 'not like' the movie, then I have no choice but to consider you to be insane.


On Second though, I am crazy about the movie... don't know what got in me.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 22, 2017, 03:59:30 am
On Second though, I am crazy about the movie... don't know what got in me.
Meh. I'm not a musical fan, either, although I liked Paint Your Wagon.

I'm not too worried if one person thinks I am nuts, either...

(it'll take more than one to hold me down and get me in restraints!!)  :silly:
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: 240B on June 22, 2017, 04:03:55 am
On Second though, I am crazy about the movie... don't know what got in me.


There you go. Now, finally, you are talking sensibly. Good to know you @Sighlass.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Elderberry on June 22, 2017, 10:41:00 am
For Musicals, I'm fond of South Pacific and West Side Story.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Elderberry on June 22, 2017, 10:45:00 am
I will have to admit that I got The Music Man stuck in my head after seeing it at the Theatre in the Round.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: EC on June 22, 2017, 10:51:47 am
My response to musicals ...

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/29/2f/11/292f115cff5f38a1fe428faea52a748d.jpg)
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Elderberry on June 22, 2017, 10:58:02 am
Some TV Programs

Gunsmoke
Sugarfoot
Wanted Dead or Alive
Have Gun Will Travel
The Real McCoys
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Route 66
That Girl
My Three Sons
Laverne and Shirley
Alfred Hitchcock
Mission Impossible
The Outer Limits
The Twilight Zone
Night Gallery
Combat
The Rat Patrol
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Father Knows Best
Make Room for Daddy
I love Lucy
Dragnet
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 22, 2017, 11:10:22 am
Tee Vee (including some cable picks)

The Expanse
F-Troop
Doctor Who
Carol Burnett
Babylon 5
Tales From the Crypt
The Outer Limits
The Twilight Zone
McHale's Navy
Hogan's Heroes
Gold Rush
Homicide Hunter
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Star Trek..all iterations, but the original series and Enterprise were my favorite runs.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Phineas and Ferb (Cartoon)
Ren and Stimpy (Cartoon)
Courage the Cowardly Dog (cartoon)
Combat
Deadliest Catch
Svengoolie (old movies, horror or sch fi, with cheesy commentary, much in the same vein as Elvira, but cornier jokes and not nearly as pretty--still, fun.)
MST3K
Battlestar Galactica
All in the Family
Hee Haw

 @Sighlass Yes, the Rat Patrol, too!


Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Elderberry on June 22, 2017, 11:10:58 am
Again some movies I have not heard here... I will be searching them down, downloading The Treasure of the Sierra Madre right now actually. I loved "The Gods must be Crazy" too. I never did get into the movie "One Flew over the Cukoo’s Nest" though... most people liked it, but it just didn't jive with me.

Sorry if I have not gotten to everyone here, I want ya to know, I am picking your lists apart, but it will take some time. Lots of good recommendations.

There was a sequel to "The Gods must be Crazy" and its pretty good as well.

How are you downloading? Inquiring minds want to know. I've had my hand slapped several times for doing P2P downloads.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: EC on June 24, 2017, 12:02:38 am
Add Collateral Beauty to my list. Its .... good. Really good.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on June 24, 2017, 12:35:57 am
There was a sequel to "The Gods must be Crazy" and its pretty good as well.

Yes I enjoyed the sequel also... I even tried a few of those foreign attempts at remaking the original movie but they never quite grabbed me.

Add Collateral Beauty to my list. Its .... good. Really good.

I will give it a try, not a big Will Smith fan other than that love doctor movie he made.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: RoosGirl on June 24, 2017, 01:30:27 am
If you like Sci Fi you may like Firefly (television series) and Serenity (related movie).
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 24, 2017, 06:14:42 am
If you like Sci Fi you may like Firefly (television series) and Serenity (related movie).
I liked both, and Killjoys and Dark Matter, though I think The Expanse has been really good so far.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Drago on June 24, 2017, 10:15:12 am
Two favs from my late teen years: "The Rockford Files" & "Emergency!" They used a lot of Ringer's Lactate & D5W on Emergency!   ;-)
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Smokin Joe on June 24, 2017, 10:33:59 am
Two favs from my late teen years: "The Rockford Files" & "Emergency!" They used a lot of Ringer's Lactate & D5W on Emergency!   ;-)
We used to watch Emergency! over at the firehouse and pick out the mistakes...I still like the show, in spite of them. I liked Adam 12, Dragnet, and Hill Street Blues, too.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Elderberry on June 24, 2017, 11:07:39 am
                                    Don't forget:
(https://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/tvbanners/348631/p348631_b_v8_ac.jpg)
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Elderberry on June 24, 2017, 11:11:56 am
                             And of course:

(http://img.sharetv.com/shows/standard/highway_patrol.jpg)
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Elderberry on June 24, 2017, 11:31:16 am
More TV

Ozzie & Harriet
The Honeymooners
Lassie
Leave it to Beaver
The Cisco Kid
The Avengers
Beverly Hillbillies
Bewitched
Dick Van Dyke
Get Smart
Gomer Pyle
Green Acres
Petticoat Junction
I dream of Jeannie
The Beaver
Mucus Smelby
Dr Kildare
Mission Impossible
Dark Shadows
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: EC on June 24, 2017, 11:35:18 am
Dark Shadows? There's a name I've not heard in a while. The only way I could ever watch that was stoned.  :tongue2:
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: EasyAce on June 24, 2017, 09:35:07 pm
Some favourite films, in no order of preference . . .

American Graffiti
An Affair to Remember
(and its grandchild, Sleepless in Seattle)
Apollo 13
Bang the Drum Slowly
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Big Broadcast of 1938
The Caine Mutiny
Cars
Casablanca
City Lights
The Cocoanuts
A Day at the Races
Duck Soup
Eight Days a Week
The Enchanted Cottage
Fantasia
Field of Dreams
From Here to Eternity
From the Terrace
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
The Great Dictator
A Hard Day's Night
Heavenly Days
Hidden Figures
I'll Be Seeing You
(Ginger Rogers strictly acting, and very well)
Keeping the Faith
The Kid
Last Train from Gun Hill
(Anthony Quinn and Kirk Douglas in that rarity---a Western with brains)
Lost in Yonkers
Monsieur Verdoux
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
National Lampoon's Animal House
The Natural
A Night at the Opera
The Odd Couple
The Pink Panther
Ray
The Right Stuff
Schindler's List
Sorry, Wrong Number
That Thing You Do
The Truman Show
Twelve O'Clock High
2001: A Space Odyssey
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out
Woodstock

. . . among others.

Some favourite television series, in no order of preference . . .

The Addams Family (Yes, it was and is funnier than The Munsters. And every damn Addams
Family
film made decades later.)
All in the Family
The Bob Newhart Show
The Burns & Allen Show
The Danny Thomas Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
(name one other variety series on which a classical music performance involving piano trios was
liable to be followed by a dog act and brought the Beatles live to the U.S. for the first time)
Frasier (the first spin-off in television history that was better than the show that birthed it)
The GE College Bowl (this quiz was required viewing at dinnertime in my house on Sunday nights, even if its
original host could be described occasionally as Allen Leaden . . .)
Hill Street Blues
The Honeymooners
House
The Jack Benny Program
The Jackie Gleason Show
(the full variety hour was just as good, especially before it was turned into
an hour's worth of remaking The Honeymooners as lame mini-musicals; long live Reginald Van
Gleason III, the Poor Soul, Rudy the Repairman, and Joe the Bartender)
Jeopardy! (the original, hosted by Art Fleming, and the only quiz show my paternal grandfather swore by)
Love, American Style
Life with Elizabeth
(Betty White's first series, making her a kind of pioneer since she was the first woman to create
and oversee a series with this charming half-hour of ten-minute comic vignettes hooked)
The Lucy Show (Yes, it's funnier than I Love Lucy. Wanna fight?)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
M*A*S*H
Moonlighting
NBC Saturday Night
(the first season, before Chevy Chase's ego caused him to leave after that first season,
and when the show really was funny)
Newhart
Northern Exposure
Our Miss Brooks
Peyton Place
(should be given a lifetime achievement award for doing what some think could never be done---
being a soap opera with brains)
The Phil Silvers Show (a.k.a. Sgt. Bilko, and I still think Steve Martin and company should be prosecuted for
assault with a dead weapon for what they did to it in that God-awful film)
Private Practice (the second spin-off in television history that was better than the show that birthed it!)
Route 66
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
(which deserves to be restored in full and made available complete on DVD)
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Taxi
Topper
The Twilight Zone
You Bet Your Life
(Or, I Went to a Groucho Marx Concert and a Quiz Show Broke Out)
. . . among others . . .

And, since I'm an old-time radio nut, some of my favourite old-time radio series, in no order of preference . . .

Amos 'n' Andy (the original 1928-32 serial comedy; the later sitcom version would have made a dog's
breakfast)
Academy Award Theater
AFRS Mail Call
The Big Show
(radio's last-gasp big variety show, hosted by Tallulah Bankhead and with Fred Allen as her most
frequent guest---excellent comedy, excellent music, excellent acting skits, and lived up to the wisecrack of New
York Times
critic Jack Gould being "enough to make you wish you could have seen it")
Bob & Ray Present the CBS Radio Network (Which often included their classic old-time radio soap parody, One
Fella's Family
)
Broadway is My Beat (the best crime drama of all time, radio or television)
The Burns & Allen Show
Cathy & Elliott Lewis On Stage
The CBS Radio Workshop
CBS World News Today
(more of it survived than you think, and it was and remains excellent World War II
spot reporting)
Dragnet (the second-best radio crime drama of them all and still beats the TV version hollow)
Duffy's Tavern
Easy Aces
Escape
Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel
(but---except for one surviving full episode---you have to buy the book
Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel: The Marx Brothers' Lost Radio Show, a collection of the show's
scripts, to get the idea)
Fibber McGee & Molly
The Fred Allen Show
(in all its iterations from The Linit Bath Revue and Town Hall Tonight to
Hour of Smiles and Texaco Star Theater before reverting to The Fred Allen Show in 1945)
The Goldbergs
Gunsmoke
(the radio original makes the TV version look like Gravy Train)
The Halls of Ivy
The Henry Morgan Show
(this was edgy stuff even for the 1940s)
Information, Please
The Jack Benny Program
The Les Paul Show
Lights Out
Lum & Abner
(like Amos 'n' Andy, the original serial comedy was tons better than its eventual sitcom
conversion)
Lux Radio Theater
The March of Time
Our Miss Brooks
The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show
Quiet, Please
(if The Twilight Zone could be thought to have a grandfather this short-lived but effective
psychological fantasy was it)
Richard Diamond, Private Detective (not even half as stiff---and way funnier in the bargain---than the eventual
TV version remembered best for introducing the world to Mary Tyler Moore's legs)
The Six Shooter (Lasted one season but it was the most wry Western on radio---and with James Stewart in the lead role)
Stoopnagle & Budd (only three have survived, but they were the antecedent to Bob & Ray)
Suspense
Vic & Sade
(arguably the best purely conversational comedy of them all, in which you could know intimately enough
dozens of other local characters strictly through the talk of the two protagonists and their teenage son---who was
played by Bill Idelson, eventually Sally Rogers's mama's-boy boyfriend Herman Glimscher on The Dick Van Dyke
Show
before becoming a respected television director and writer)
The Whistler (pioneered the idea of telling the crime at the beginning and keeping you listening by taking you
through the mind and thoughts of the alleged suspect---who didn't always turn out to be the actual criminal . . . the best
parody of the show had to have been Jack Benny's sketch, "The Fiddler")
Words at War (a terrific NBC dramatic anthology which made radio shows out of assorted books published during
World War II)
You Are There
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
(the 1955-56 five-part-a-week version with Bob Bailey in the title role, turning the show
from stupid to smart almost overnight and for too short a period of time)
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: TomSea on July 02, 2017, 05:42:46 pm
Dances with Wolves;  sure.

I'd also put something from Charles Bronson on their DWI or II.

Saving Private Ryan,  Gladiator, the Passion, the 10 commandments.

Hound of the Baskervilles and Wuthering Heights.

I read in another forum, someone make a list, "Splendor in the Grass", I'd agree.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: EC on July 04, 2017, 12:53:11 am
Add Their Finest to my list.

Just watched it for the second time - it's good. Not flashy, not over done, not really a drama, nor a comedy - it's just a solid pleasure to watch.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: LateForLunch on July 23, 2017, 04:06:16 pm
I like this. :)

I will add The Bishop's Wife.

Which version. The original with David Niven or the remake titled "The Preacher's Wife" with Denzel Washington?
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: EasyAce on July 23, 2017, 04:10:46 pm
Which version. The original with David Niven or the remake titled "The Preacher's Wife" with Denzel Washington?
Personally, I'll take them both. Each one has something to recommend it.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: RoosGirl on July 23, 2017, 04:42:02 pm
Which version. The original with David Niven or the remake titled "The Preacher's Wife" with Denzel Washington?

I've never seen the one with Denzel Washington.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: bigheadfred on July 23, 2017, 06:51:29 pm
(http://redsox.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Shooter/shooter_movie_poster_one_sheet_mark_wahlberg.jpg)
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: LateForLunch on July 23, 2017, 07:36:50 pm
(http://redsox.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Shooter/shooter_movie_poster_one_sheet_mark_wahlberg.jpg)

One of the best lines ever describing Multi-National Corporate Greenheads:

 Nick: Whose side are you on?

Corrupt Senator (Ned Beatty): Side? There are no sides. There's no Sunnis and Shiites. There's no Democrats and Republicans. There's only HAVES and HAVE-NOTS.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: bigheadfred on July 24, 2017, 12:19:11 am
One of the best lines ever describing Multi-National Corporate Greenheads:

 Nick: Whose side are you on?

Corrupt Senator (Ned Beatty): Side? There are no sides. There's no Sunnis and Shiites. There's no Democrats and Republicans. There's only HAVES and HAVE-NOTS.

I think the show ended well.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: LateForLunch on July 24, 2017, 12:44:57 am
I think the show ended well.

'Haven't seen the show. Was it as good as the movie?
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: bigheadfred on July 24, 2017, 01:03:13 am
'Haven't seen the show. Was it as good as the movie?

 :laugh:

Funny that. Cruising Netflix. I found out a couple of hours ago they have a series.  :shrug:
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: LateForLunch on July 24, 2017, 01:19:36 am
:laugh:

Funny that. Cruising Netflix. I found out a couple of hours ago they have a series.  :shrug:

Interesting coincidence - just after learning about the remake of the Bishop's Wife (the Preacher's Wife) this morning, a fewminutes later I caught it on cable while channel surfing. Whitney Houston was in it with Denzel Washington and it made me horribly sad to see her looking so lovely and singing so beautifully in it. What a horrible tragedy her life became. She needed to abandon the black lowlifes like Bobby F-ing Brown forever and come home to Caucasian culture totally. It probably would have saved her life. Married a Navy SEAL who could have taken care of her in bed (and otherwise), and lived happily ever after without having to pander to the black sub-culture. Maybe she would have kicked her drug addictions and though she might have made a little less money (or maybe not) she would have lived a much longer, happier life for sure.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: TomSea on February 15, 2020, 03:28:05 am
Wow, I mentioned this thread the other day.  I've been watching a few "noteworthy" movies lately.

I watch the famous "The Year of Living Dangerously" with Mel Gibson, international flair last weekend.  It was good, more of a love story but I wouldn't knock anyone's high opinion of it.

Then, that "King's Row", that was just on TV the other day.

I'd heard of "The Snake Pit" with Olivia DeHavilland (103 years old nowadays) and I'm watching it now.

Lots of good things to watch for, I do have "Lawrence of Arabia" on tap, hopefully, I watch it soon.

I thought this was a good thread with a diverse collection of movies. Very good.  It really is a great collection of movies @Sighlass  Worth more consideration.

There's a movie called "Blue Boy" with Nicholas Cage, it's about a champion rower around the early 1900s and it's one of Cage's first.  I'd have to watch it again but I'd give it an honorable mention, such a different type of subject matter. Not to be missed if one gets the chance.

Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on February 15, 2020, 06:28:17 am
@TomSea I will check out both The Year of Living Dangerously and Blue Boy, thanks for the suggestions... Downloading the first as I type...

My Movie list includes some 200+ things... now (but has some TV series stuff in it too)... I may post it later sometime... I need to revisit this thread more, I got some good suggestions.

Think that last movie was called "The Boy in Blue" circa 1986. Watching trailer now.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: catfish1957 on February 15, 2020, 11:50:30 am
I noticed over the years I had made a list of some of my fave Movies and tv shows... So in no particular order ... I thought I would list them to see if others also liked them.



Citizen Kane?
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Elderberry on February 15, 2020, 01:34:14 pm
I had forgotten all about this thread. Here's a few of the movies I liked out of my 1st 3 folders of >2000 movies.

8 below
12-Years-a-Slave
310 To Yuma
Apocalypto
Argo
Assault on Precinct 13
The Accountant
The African Queen
Baby Doll
Bad Day at Black Rock
Band of Brothers
Bat21
Beau Geste
Bedford Incident
Behind Enemy Lines
Big Bad Mama
Black Hawk Down
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
Bone Collector
Boondock Saints
Bound for Glory
Bridge-On-The-River-Kwai
Broken Trail
Bullitt
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
The Big Lebowski


Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: EasyAce on February 15, 2020, 06:09:00 pm
M'lady and me spent Valentine's Day night watching our favourite romantic film . . .

From The Enchanted Cottage (1946; Robert Young, Dorothy McGuire, Herbert Marshall, Mildred Natwick)
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYS2x3Ldmbk#)
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: TomSea on February 15, 2020, 07:30:49 pm
Yes, Sighlass, 'boy in blue', it might not be that good but it is different, few movies will portray something like a champion rower from around the turn of the century.

My Fair Lady,
Ninotchka

There are so many good movies but I enjoyed the "Snake Pit" a bit last night, it's about someone, DeHavilland going to a mental hospital... so predating the landmark "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" by decades. I had to go see "Cuckoos Nest" back in the day. To me, something special about that movie but there are so many. And everyone has their favorites. I've seen it so often, "Hoosiers" definitely belongs on the list.

It took some real hunting down to find this older thread, I thought it was, repeating myself, a very good one.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Bigun on February 15, 2020, 07:54:28 pm
And this thread, having run for years, has not to date mentioned:

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pADDn0qm3M&list=PLhNv-8fFs3jO2-yKFFapCV2XUaCfefyxr&has_verified=1#)

No way it could be made today!
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Elderberry on February 15, 2020, 08:05:07 pm
And this thread, having run for years, has not to date mentioned:

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pADDn0qm3M&list=PLhNv-8fFs3jO2-yKFFapCV2XUaCfefyxr&has_verified=1#)

No way it could be made today!

Apparently you didn't read my last post: http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,268083.msg2150389.html#msg2150389 (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,268083.msg2150389.html#msg2150389)
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Bigun on February 15, 2020, 08:09:45 pm
Apparently you didn't read my last post: http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,268083.msg2150389.html#msg2150389 (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,268083.msg2150389.html#msg2150389)

OOPS!!! You're right! I missed it! (Not the post but the movie in the listing.)

 :beer:
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: libertybele on February 15, 2020, 08:23:25 pm
My favorite movies (no order of preference)

A Star is Born
Ben Hur (original)
Fort Apache
High Plains Drifter
Million Dollar Baby
Pale Ride
Rio Bravo
Saving Private Ryan
The Blues Brothers
The Mule
The Passion of the Christ
The Patriot
The Sand Pebbles
The Searchers
The Undefeated
True Grit
We Are Soldiers
Weekend at Bernies
Zulu


Favorite TV Shows (no particular order)

Yellowstone
Sons of Anarchy
Nip Truck
Cheers
Bonanza
Lassie
Bewitched
Gunsmoke
Rawhide
Daniel Boone
Mash
Night Court


Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: TomSea on February 15, 2020, 08:26:20 pm
Great list @libertybele

Also, per other, I do think Blazing Saddles had gotten a mention.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: EasyAce on February 16, 2020, 01:40:57 am
                                    Don't forget:
(https://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/tvbanners/348631/p348631_b_v8_ac.jpg)
@Elderberry

The second-best police satire ever to hit television, behind the shamefully too-short-lived . . .

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNWQ5Y2U3MDItNDY2Yy00NWJmLTkzODItNjg0MDg4MDVjYzQzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTA4NzY1MzY@._V1_.jpg)

For those who've never seen the original, here's a taste via their loopy intros . . .

Police Squad! All six intros . . .
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2-BJgllagA#)

(And I still say the six-episode television original beats the Naked Gun series hollow . . .)
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on February 16, 2020, 02:48:52 am
Some favourite films, in no order of preference . . .

American Graffiti
An Affair to Remember
(and its grandchild, Sleepless in Seattle)
Apollo 13
Bang the Drum Slowly
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Big Broadcast of 1938
The Caine Mutiny
Cars
Casablanca
City Lights
The Cocoanuts
A Day at the Races
Duck Soup
Eight Days a Week
The Enchanted Cottage
Fantasia
Field of Dreams
From Here to Eternity
From the Terrace
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
The Great Dictator
A Hard Day's Night
Heavenly Days
Hidden Figures
I'll Be Seeing You
(Ginger Rogers strictly acting, and very well)
Keeping the Faith
The Kid
Last Train from Gun Hill
(Anthony Quinn and Kirk Douglas in that rarity---a Western with brains)
Lost in Yonkers
Monsieur Verdoux
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
National Lampoon's Animal House
The Natural
A Night at the Opera
The Odd Couple
The Pink Panther
Ray
The Right Stuff
Schindler's List
Sorry, Wrong Number
That Thing You Do
The Truman Show
Twelve O'Clock High
2001: A Space Odyssey
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out
Woodstock

. . . among others.

Some favourite television series, in no order of preference . . .

The Addams Family (Yes, it was and is funnier than The Munsters. And every damn Addams
Family
film made decades later.)
All in the Family
The Bob Newhart Show
The Burns & Allen Show
The Danny Thomas Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Ed Sullivan Show
(name one other variety series on which a classical music performance involving piano trios was
liable to be followed by a dog act and brought the Beatles live to the U.S. for the first time)
Frasier (the first spin-off in television history that was better than the show that birthed it)
The GE College Bowl (this quiz was required viewing at dinnertime in my house on Sunday nights, even if its
original host could be described occasionally as Allen Leaden . . .)
Hill Street Blues
The Honeymooners
House
The Jack Benny Program
The Jackie Gleason Show
(the full variety hour was just as good, especially before it was turned into
an hour's worth of remaking The Honeymooners as lame mini-musicals; long live Reginald Van
Gleason III, the Poor Soul, Rudy the Repairman, and Joe the Bartender)
Jeopardy! (the original, hosted by Art Fleming, and the only quiz show my paternal grandfather swore by)
Love, American Style
Life with Elizabeth
(Betty White's first series, making her a kind of pioneer since she was the first woman to create
and oversee a series with this charming half-hour of ten-minute comic vignettes hooked)
The Lucy Show (Yes, it's funnier than I Love Lucy. Wanna fight?)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
M*A*S*H
Moonlighting
NBC Saturday Night
(the first season, before Chevy Chase's ego caused him to leave after that first season,
and when the show really was funny)
Newhart
Northern Exposure
Our Miss Brooks
Peyton Place
(should be given a lifetime achievement award for doing what some think could never be done---
being a soap opera with brains)
The Phil Silvers Show (a.k.a. Sgt. Bilko, and I still think Steve Martin and company should be prosecuted for
assault with a dead weapon for what they did to it in that God-awful film)
Private Practice (the second spin-off in television history that was better than the show that birthed it!)
Route 66
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
(which deserves to be restored in full and made available complete on DVD)
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Taxi
Topper
The Twilight Zone
You Bet Your Life
(Or, I Went to a Groucho Marx Concert and a Quiz Show Broke Out)
. . . among others . . .

And, since I'm an old-time radio nut, some of my favourite old-time radio series, in no order of preference . . .

Amos 'n' Andy (the original 1928-32 serial comedy; the later sitcom version would have made a dog's
breakfast)
Academy Award Theater
AFRS Mail Call
The Big Show
(radio's last-gasp big variety show, hosted by Tallulah Bankhead and with Fred Allen as her most
frequent guest---excellent comedy, excellent music, excellent acting skits, and lived up to the wisecrack of New
York Times
critic Jack Gould being "enough to make you wish you could have seen it")
Bob & Ray Present the CBS Radio Network (Which often included their classic old-time radio soap parody, One
Fella's Family
)
Broadway is My Beat (the best crime drama of all time, radio or television)
The Burns & Allen Show
Cathy & Elliott Lewis On Stage
The CBS Radio Workshop
CBS World News Today
(more of it survived than you think, and it was and remains excellent World War II
spot reporting)
Dragnet (the second-best radio crime drama of them all and still beats the TV version hollow)
Duffy's Tavern
Easy Aces
Escape
Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel
(but---except for one surviving full episode---you have to buy the book
Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel: The Marx Brothers' Lost Radio Show, a collection of the show's
scripts, to get the idea)
Fibber McGee & Molly
The Fred Allen Show
(in all its iterations from The Linit Bath Revue and Town Hall Tonight to
Hour of Smiles and Texaco Star Theater before reverting to The Fred Allen Show in 1945)
The Goldbergs
Gunsmoke
(the radio original makes the TV version look like Gravy Train)
The Halls of Ivy
The Henry Morgan Show
(this was edgy stuff even for the 1940s)
Information, Please
The Jack Benny Program
The Les Paul Show
Lights Out
Lum & Abner
(like Amos 'n' Andy, the original serial comedy was tons better than its eventual sitcom
conversion)
Lux Radio Theater
The March of Time
Our Miss Brooks
The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show
Quiet, Please
(if The Twilight Zone could be thought to have a grandfather this short-lived but effective
psychological fantasy was it)
Richard Diamond, Private Detective (not even half as stiff---and way funnier in the bargain---than the eventual
TV version remembered best for introducing the world to Mary Tyler Moore's legs)
The Six Shooter (Lasted one season but it was the most wry Western on radio---and with James Stewart in the lead role)
Stoopnagle & Budd (only three have survived, but they were the antecedent to Bob & Ray)
Suspense
Vic & Sade
(arguably the best purely conversational comedy of them all, in which you could know intimately enough
dozens of other local characters strictly through the talk of the two protagonists and their teenage son---who was
played by Bill Idelson, eventually Sally Rogers's mama's-boy boyfriend Herman Glimscher on The Dick Van Dyke
Show
before becoming a respected television director and writer)
The Whistler (pioneered the idea of telling the crime at the beginning and keeping you listening by taking you
through the mind and thoughts of the alleged suspect---who didn't always turn out to be the actual criminal . . . the best
parody of the show had to have been Jack Benny's sketch, "The Fiddler")
Words at War (a terrific NBC dramatic anthology which made radio shows out of assorted books published during
World War II)
You Are There
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
(the 1955-56 five-part-a-week version with Bob Bailey in the title role, turning the show
from stupid to smart almost overnight and for too short a period of time)

That movie you listed @EasyAce called "Last Train from Gun Hill" is on Roku free this month on Pluto channel.... sweet... watching it now... so far so good... Thanks

_________________________________

My new list of movies... in no order....

1. Shane 1953 (Western)
2. A Hidden Life 2019
3. The Emperor of Paris w Sub 2018
4. Falling Down
5. The King 2019
6. Drishyam India Film 2015
7. The Blind Side (Football) 2009
8. Roza 2011 Great Anti Communist
9. The Last of Mrs Cheyney (1937) William Powell
10. The Treasure of Lost Canyon (1952) William Powell
11. Goodbye Mr Chips 1939
12. Dunkirk 1958
13. To Hell and Back 1955
14. Oscar 1991
15. The Searchers (1956 John Wayne)
16. Pygmalion (1938) (Early My Fair Lady w/o musical songs)
17. Dark Passage 1947
18. Ashes in the Snow 2018 (Anti Communist)
19. The Pianist
20. Dickenasian (Series)
21. China Cry (Christian Anti Communist)
22. The Shop Around the Corner (Jimmy Stewart 1940)
23. Seven Days in Utopia (Golf Christian Movie 2011)
24. I See You/Kita Kita (Philippines love story 2017)
25. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
26. Wind River
27. Time Changers (Christian 2002)
28. Tora Tora Tora (Good Pearl Harbor movie)
29. Paul Apostle of Christ 2018
30. Night Crossing (Disney 1982)
31. North by Northwest (1959)
32. Land of Mine (Denmark after WW2 Mine cleanup)
33. Katyn (anti-communist)
34. The Railway Children (1970 Family)
35. The Cuckoo (Kukushka)
36. The Odessa File
37. Riphagen
38. The Day of the Jackal
39. Naked Among the Wolves
40. The Yearling
41. All Mine to Give (1957)
42. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
43. Au Revoir les Enfants
44. Battle Royale
45. Coup de Torchon
46. Zelary
47. An American Romance
48. Father is a Bachelor
49. David Copperfield
50. The Bothersome Man
51. L.A. Story
52. One Way Passage
53. Dead Silence
54. The Battle of Britain 1969
55. Cherish
56. The Ex-Mrs Bradford
57. Crocodile Dundee
58. 12th Man
59. One Foot in Heaven
60. Maverick
61. Highlander
62. Places in the Heart
63. Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
64. Laddie
65. School for Scoundrels
66. Lone Star
67. A Return to Grace: Luther’s Life and Legacy
68. Twelfth Night
69. Captains Courageous
70. Memories of Murder
71. Nullification: The Rightful Remedy
72. The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
73. Summer Magic (Disney)
74. Whisky Galore!
75. PCU
76. The Lost City
77. Under Jakob’s Ladder
78. Waterfront
79. Sullivan’s Travels
80. Alone Yet Not Alone
81. Vir Altyd
82. The Replacement Gods (documentary)
83. Tap Roots
84. The Last Days of Disco
85. The Measure of a Man
86. I Remember Mama
87. Changeling
88. Sicario
89. Uncle Buck
90. Up for Love
91. The Book of Henry
92. I am David
93. Roy Roy: The Highland Rogue
94. Vor
95. The Teacher (Uciselha) Anti-Communist
96. Double Indemnity
97. Instalater
98The Duellist (1977 French version, 2016 Russian one is not good)
99. Ride the Pink Horse
100. An American Story
101. America Anarchist
102. Doctor Thorne
103. A Time Out of War
104. Three O’Clock High
105. The Last Remake of Beau Geste
106. The Conversation
107. The Lives of Others (Good Anti-Communist)
108. Dune
109. Doctor Zhivago
110. Red Dog
111. Explorers
112. Last Man Standing (series)
113. Burn Notice (series)
114. Cheaper by the Dozen (older version)
115. The Women
116. Doctor at Large
117. Only the Lonely
118. Planes, Trains & Automobiles
119. Without a Clue
120. Genesis
121. My Man Godfrey
122. This Beautiful Fantistic
123. The Bride Came C.O.D.
124. Key Largo
125. Twin Town
126. It Runs in the Family (My Summer Story) 1994
127. The Taming of the Shrew
128. The Quiet Man
129. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
130. The Crimson Rivers
131. Becket
132. Northanger Abby
133. Lorna Doone
134. Ivanhoe
135. Life with Father
136. Cyrano de Bergerac 1950
137. Rag Nymph
138. Meet Me in St. Louis
139. The Mayor of Casterbridge
140. Firelight
141. Nicholas Nickleby
142. Whisky Galore!
143. The Red Violin 1998
144. The Visual Bible (series)
145. Rob Roy
146. Quigley Down Under
147. My Life in Ruins
148. The Claim
149. Broken Trail
150. The Legend of 1900
151. McLintock
152. Swiss Family Robinson
153. Where the Red Fern Grows
154. Fright Night
155. The African Queen
156. Young Frankenstein
157. The Killing Fields
158. Downfall
159. George of the Jungle
160. Babe
161. Amelie
162. A Man for All Season
163. Bicycle Thieves
164. A Private Function
165. Safe Haven
166. Thieves Highway
167. Little Dorrit
168. Extremely Loud and Incredible Close
169. God’s Not Dead
170. Moonrise Kingdom
171. On Guard (Le Bostu)
172. Groundhog Day
173. The Gods Must Be Crazy (I and II)
174. Gone with the Wind
175. Pride and Prejudice
176. The Civil War
177. Cranford (series)
178The Good Earth
179. Roxanne
180. Risen
181. Les Miserables
182. Kingsman: The Secret Service
183. Kings Row
184. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
185. Shooter
186. About Time
187. The Lord of the Rings (all three)
188. Poldark (series early, got PC after while)
189. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
190. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
191. Breaking Away
192. The Thin Man (movie series)
193. The Incredibles
194. Life is Beautiful
195. It’s a Wonderful Life
196. Jesse Stone: Stone Cold
197. Big Fish
198. Starbuck
199. The Good the Bad and the Ugly
200. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
201. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
202. Bleak House
203. Restless Natives
204. Woodlawn
205. Harvey
206. Woman in Gold
207. Into the White
208. The Magic of Ordinary Days
209. The Counterfeiters
210. A Bag of Marbles
211. The Last Train to Auschwitz
212. Son of Saul (little strange)
213. Suskind (can be found on YouTube without subtitles)
214. Bitter Harvest (anti-Communist)
215. Max Manus: Man of War
216. The Way Back
217. The Book Theif
218. The Eagle has Landed
219. Wartime in Winter
220. Eye of the Needle
221. Anthropoid
222. Leap Year
223. UnPlanned 2019
224. The Good Earth (classic gold)
225. The African Queen
226. Five Graves To Cairo 1943 (War good dialog)
227. Gallipoli 1981 (Mel Gibson War Movie)
228. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo 2011 Rated R
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on February 16, 2020, 02:52:14 am
I had forgotten all about this thread. Here's a few of the movies I liked out of my 1st 3 folders of >2000 movies.

8 below
12-Years-a-Slave
310 To Yuma
Apocalypto
Argo
Assault on Precinct 13
The Accountant
The African Queen
Baby Doll
Bad Day at Black Rock
Band of Brothers
Bat21
Beau Geste
Bedford Incident
Behind Enemy Lines
Big Bad Mama
Black Hawk Down
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
Bone Collector
Boondock Saints
Bound for Glory
Bridge-On-The-River-Kwai
Broken Trail
Bullitt
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
The Big Lebowski

If you have time, would love a PM from you with your full list please if you have time in the future... Thanks @Elderberry

or if you prefer, post it here... and ping me... I am easy...
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 16, 2020, 12:15:03 pm
One more I haven't seen, though I may have missed it:

Young Frankenstein.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Gefn on February 16, 2020, 12:19:08 pm
One more I haven't seen, though I may have missed it:

Young Frankenstein.

It’s good. Very good thread. I don’t have a clue where to start with my favorites
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: bigheadfred on February 16, 2020, 12:25:55 pm
One more I haven't seen, though I may have missed it:

Young Frankenstein.

"What hump?"
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Gefn on February 16, 2020, 12:28:39 pm
"What hump?"

@bigheadfred how about Teri Garr rolling in the hay?
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Elderberry on February 16, 2020, 12:40:39 pm
One more I haven't seen, though I may have missed it:

Young Frankenstein.

And then there's Andy Warhol's Frankenstein.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: bigheadfred on February 16, 2020, 01:14:15 pm
@bigheadfred how about Teri Garr rolling in the hay?

That movie is chock full of funny.

FWIW, Gene Wilder married a woman from the town my wife is from. I didn't know her, but I knew her parents. Gene and her came for a visit. This town was around 800-1,000 population. Out in the sticks Idaho. The next nearest town is 45 miles away. They had a BBQ in the city park for a meet and greet. On the QT, sort of. Invitation by word of mouth--bring a salad. So no tv people, newspaper people, etc. We didn't go. There were around 50-75 people that did. I heard it was a nice, good time. Gene was easy going. No arrogance, etc. Some photo ops and autographs for the locals.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: sneakypete on February 16, 2020, 11:12:09 pm
We Were Brothers Once,and Young.  Mel Gibson.

Rocky Horror Picture Show  (Tim Curry was robbed when he didn't get an Oscar for that one)

I Walk the Line (Johnny Cash bio)
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: TomSea on February 17, 2020, 02:32:36 am
"Bad Day At Black Rock" was on TCM last night, I had it set to record, only 80 minutes, it was very good, I recorded also, I think right before it, "Ice Station Zebra", that one is a long movie, 2:47  (cold war picture too), I think they are saying there's a connection somehow, director or what have you, it was in the IMDB ratings.

"13 Hours", yes, about Benghazi but to me, that's up there among the best war movies since "Saving Priv. Ryan" and also tops among us fighting with those Arabs (or other similar types) epics of which we have a number of nowadays.

Some movies, I'd have to gauge my appreciation of based on how often I've watched it, "Hamburger Hill" really went to me, so has "Munich".

And the "Dirty Dozen", a bit of a fantastic plot but actually, good.

And I believe I mentioned earlier in the thread some other war movies that are entertaining, I will leave it at that now.

I looked up "Five Graves" from Sighlass' list, it sounds really good. I had a Readers Digest compendium of WWII stories, too bad I lost it. The stories were all suppose to be true though, I wondered.

I always wonder about the stories where you know, us allies or usually the Americans dawned Nazi uniforms to fool the Nazis. There was probably some of that but I find it a bit difficult to believe. It sounds so much like something you'd see in a movie and yes, a number of movies have that.

Bottom line, I think everyone should see "13 Hours", pretty darn good.

Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: DB on February 17, 2020, 02:51:32 am
"Bad Day At Black Rock" was on TCM last night, I had it set to record, only 80 minutes, it was very good, I recorded also, I think right before it, "Ice Station Zebra", that one is a long movie, 2:47  (cold war picture too), I think they are saying there's a connection somehow, director or what have you, it was in the IMDB ratings.

"13 Hours", yes, about Benghazi but to me, that's up there among the best war movies since "Saving Priv. Ryan" and also tops among us fighting with those Arabs (or other similar types) epics of which we have a number of nowadays.

Some movies, I'd have to gauge my appreciation of based on how often I've watched it, "Hamburger Hill" really went to me, so has "Munich".

And the "Dirty Dozen", a bit of a fantastic plot but actually, good.

And I believe I mentioned earlier in the thread some other war movies that are entertaining, I will leave it at that now.

I looked up "Five Graves" from Sighlass' list, it sounds really good. I had a Readers Digest compendium of WWII stories, too bad I lost it. The stories were all suppose to be true though, I wondered.

I always wonder about the stories where you know, us allies or usually the Americans dawned Nazi uniforms to fool the Nazis. There was probably some of that but I find it a bit difficult to believe. It sounds so much like something you'd see in a movie and yes, a number of movies have that.

Bottom line, I think everyone should see "13 Hours", pretty darn good.

"Where Eagles Dare" fits your uniform plot. A good move too.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: sneakypete on February 17, 2020, 03:07:17 am


 
Quote
Some movies, I'd have to gauge my appreciation of based on how often I've watched it, "Hamburger Hill" really went to me, so has "Munich".

@TomSea

Probably the best depiction of night combat in the jungle I have ever seen. Had my adrenaline pumping so hard I think my fingers must have  swelled with every heartbeat. That is some seriously exciting stuff.

 
 
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: TomSea on February 23, 2020, 12:13:39 am
The only reason I sometimes don't care for these lists is because it's easy to miss some movies,  I think a number of people might like "Deliverance", I hadn't seen it in quite awhile, the whole thing that is, the whole movie. Sundance had it on this past week.

Ronnie Cox is one of the four in Burt Reynold's foursome along with John Voight and Ed Begley, I did not know Cox was born in New Mexico, Portales is his home town and went to Eastern New Mexico.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronny_Cox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronny_Cox)

I believe I posted in the past, some articles of people from that region that objected to the portrayal of the town and area, you know, the way they are portrayed as hillbillies that marry their first cousins. I can relate. IF someone said, "I find that movie offensive", I probably wouldn't discuss it much further, I can see their point and it's kind of sad if it ruins an otherwise, exciting adventure movie.

Another movie I like a lot is "The Ugly American", international flare. Growing up, I'd note a few "international" type movies like "The Killing Field's" on Sighlass's list, it's about Cambodia, I always thought that was a great movie too and I've probably seen it a dozen times.

"The Ugly American" I believe can be found to watch in full and continuously on youtube (one might have to search some but I found it there before).

(http://clzmovies.r.sizr.io/core/covers/lg/d7/d7_d__0_UglyAmerican.jpg)

1963 I think,  I think it also pre-dates when movies went wild in the '60s. I'm not an especially big fan of Brando but I think he did real good in this. The only thing is,  I'm not sure his character really was an "ugly American", so it's a term but his character is more like a "good American",  also, obviously, this movie pre-dates when South East Asia saw all hell break out but that's what it is about, some fictional SE Asian nation called "Sarkhan"

 (an imaginary country in Southeast Asia that somewhat resembles Burma or Thailand, but which is meant to allude to Vietnam) and includes several real people, most of whose names have been changed.  -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ugly_American (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ugly_American)

The article says the book helped inspire the creation of the Peace Corps.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: TomSea on February 29, 2020, 09:43:16 pm
Probably the best depiction of night combat in the jungle I have ever seen. Had my adrenaline pumping so hard I think my fingers must have  swelled with every heartbeat. That is some seriously exciting stuff.

@sneakypete

Very serious question and a question for whomever cares to answer,  the local home goods store also has a good selection of about everything,

They have all seasons of that CBS Vietnam war drama, "Tour of Duty", it certainly gets positive reviews from users at IMDB.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092468/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092468/)

Did you think that was a good series?   I enjoyed the first year a bit more than the following seasons I think but you never know. Apparently, a fair number of people love the show <--- And I do mean, you can see the reviews, "veterans" say they liked the show quite a bit.

Then, later on was "China Beach", I never saw much of that though what I saw was okay.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094433/?ref_=tt_sims_tt (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094433/?ref_=tt_sims_tt)

So, the "Tour of Duty" DVD is on my shopping list of things to get sometime in the near future unless, maybe,  I hear different.

All 3 or 4 seasons package, like it's around $29.99 for 45 hours.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: sneakypete on February 29, 2020, 09:50:16 pm
@sneakypete

Very serious question and a question for whomever cares to answer,  the local home goods store also has a good selection of about everything,

They have all seasons of that CBS Vietnam war drama, "Tour of Duty", it certainly gets positive reviews from users at IMDB.

 

I wish I could advise you but I don't remember ever seeing it.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: TomSea on March 08, 2020, 01:40:53 am
Here's the pilot for "Tour of Duty", it looks like youtube has a lot of them.  I did go ahead and purchase the series at Menards if anyone is curious where I found it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB14WJPPtB0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB14WJPPtB0)

My rating after watching about 8 of them,  better than at least 80% if not more,  of the war movies out there, up to some of the present day movies. Someone reviewed it as "Combat II", that's pretty accurate if anyone saw some of the old Combats, that was a good series. Just my view on all this.

I'd have to watch the credits more closely but the series seemed to have been made in cooperation with the Army.

Oh, and it was about $5 less than I said above.

From wikipedia, year 1 was filmed in Hawaii, so maybe that's why it often seems like a true depiction, not that I'm an expert.  That was costly, so the next years' episodes apparently were filmed in California. I have not gotten to season 2 yet. Also, with ABC's "China Beach" that had women in more prominent roles, apparently, "Tour of Duty" felt the need to get women into the script in following years.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: corbe on March 08, 2020, 02:10:40 am
(https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e0ea20d04df16815c1934d19fa78ed1ebd2b5bdbc49fe15709344028bd095b4f.jpg)
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Hoodat on March 08, 2020, 02:41:03 am
Don't think these have been mentioned yet.

Movie - What's Up Doc?

TV Show - Barney Miller
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: TomSea on April 12, 2020, 10:37:37 am
No time like this present stay-at-home time to catch up on some movies.  "Operation Finale"? That was something... I don't want to mention too many movies, I've got  "China Syndrome"  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Syndrome) on tap.. "China Syndrome" is a heralded movie despite Jane Fonda being in it, a nuclear reactor IN THE USA melts down, <--- something like this, I still have not watched it, maybe I won't. I'll see if it catches my attention.  And I have a few of my own to watch as well.   And I've definitely reading material too, everything in moderation.

 A week ago, April 5th, was the birthdate of Gregory Peck. I tried to find somewhere here to post about that but couldn't find the right area. Good actor.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Gefn on April 12, 2020, 12:18:37 pm
Don't think these have been mentioned yet.

Movie - What's Up Doc?

TV Show - Barney Miller

Barney Miller is one of the few TV shows that never jumped the shark. Rewatched it a year or so ago. Had forgotten how bad a mayor Abe Beame was.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Elderberry on April 12, 2020, 01:04:31 pm
Did anyone ever remember seeing this?

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Season 4 Episode 20 -

The Reason Nobody Hardly Ever Seen A Fat Outlaw in the Old West is as Follows
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: sneakypete on April 12, 2020, 03:44:43 pm
No time like this present stay-at-home time to catch up on some movies. 

@TomSea

Not movies,but streaming series like "Lonesome Dove","Tombstone","The Wire","Homeland",and "Breaking Bad" are not to be missed.

Caution! If you have small children,"Lonesome Dove" is the only child-friendly series in that mix. It is every bit as compelling as anything that has ever been aired,though.
Title: Re: My list of movies and tv series... lots of older films. 100 total
Post by: Sighlass on July 01, 2020, 01:08:01 am
New Movie to my list .... From 2019 and called "Mr. Jones"

Without Spoilers... Story set in 1930s and is about a reporters that decides to investigate the rumored starvation occurring in Soviet Ukraine (Holodomor)... The story is unique in that it throws in George Orwell (Animal Farm in which the farmer was named Mr. Jones)... and everyone's favorite NY Times reporter (Walter Duranty) that lied about the Russian atrocities. 

Movie starts slow (one unnecessary nudity party scene) but picks up about half way... Rating 7.2/10 (high rating compared to most movies that don't break a 3 average).

Trailer linked below....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o7VoM1jlOs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o7VoM1jlOs)

If you can't find it, pm me (wink wink).