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General Category => Sports/Entertainment/MSM/Social Media => Topic started by: DCPatriot on August 01, 2014, 10:12:43 pm

Title: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: DCPatriot on August 01, 2014, 10:12:43 pm

We all have movies that...the first time we saw them, didn't impress us that much.  But the second and third time, you realize what a great movie it is.

Oh yes we do.   Although I'll go on the record that I hated The Bridges of Madison County.   :laugh:

So...movies like Gladiator, or Braveheart are not eligible.  We're not talking Top 10 movies or Oscar winners.


So I'll start.   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoNT6u3mQew

Enemy of the State - This was a movie from 1998 that's actually prophetic.  The cast is very good.   So many memorable scenes and lines....



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Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: DCPatriot on August 01, 2014, 10:16:02 pm

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


The Bourne Legacy - Jeremy Renner is awesome in this genre.  An everyman face that fills the screen.

Great cast.  Great action.  Nice twists...

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: truth_seeker on August 01, 2014, 10:43:57 pm

"Bodyguard" when she (Whitney Houston) sings that song at the end.

(that song written by Dolly Parton)

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: DCPatriot on August 01, 2014, 10:58:45 pm

Quote from: truth_seeker on August 01, 2014, 10:43:57 pm

"Bodyguard" when she (Whitney Houston) sings that song at the end.

(that song written by Dolly Parton)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qOcaBhLh3Q


Hard to keep a dry eye there.....   :beer:

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: sinkspur on August 01, 2014, 11:17:51 pm

A Few Good Men with Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruze.

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: Lando Lincoln on August 02, 2014, 12:08:10 am

I love this movie.  Silverado

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RP5cWV8b3c

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: Lando Lincoln on August 02, 2014, 12:16:10 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv6rmmAk_Es

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: Lando Lincoln on August 02, 2014, 12:19:18 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mAO3eeRP84

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: Lando Lincoln on August 02, 2014, 12:20:37 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGbvYkCLZ9U

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: andy58-in-nh on August 02, 2014, 12:31:24 am

Silverado is one of my favorites - a great cast and a great story.

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: DCPatriot on August 02, 2014, 12:54:32 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nRMXwmD84Y

Highly recommend The Pope of Greenwich Village.  A great story... a great cast.

You'll never forget it.   :beer:

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: DCPatriot on August 02, 2014, 12:57:46 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW6IrQSR9X4

An unforgettable scene...."CHARLIE!!!  THEY TOOK MY THUMB!!"

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: Lando Lincoln on August 02, 2014, 01:36:45 am

Wow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcBCh9KC2mY

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: EC on August 02, 2014, 02:10:09 am

Ladies, gentlemen and the undecided - the greatest movie of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSccwmmrS5A

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: evadR on August 02, 2014, 02:14:00 am

The Punisher ..."God's going to sit this one out".
Midnight Run ..."Serrano's got the disks"
and "Here's 2 words for you, Shut the F*k up".

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: DCPatriot on August 02, 2014, 02:24:20 am

Quote from: sinkspur on August 01, 2014, 11:17:51 pm

A Few Good Men with Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruze.

That has to be near the top, imo.    :beer:

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: DCPatriot on August 02, 2014, 02:29:11 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj0gn4A8tLA

Here's another good one.  Dustin Hoffman is terrific as a psychotic crime head.  Edward Burns is fantastic as always.


"Hey!   Whaddya say we get the ADD under control and look me in the eye when I talk to you!"

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: alicewonders on August 02, 2014, 02:40:52 am

An extraordinary jewel and under-noticed movie - Dean Spanley!

I absolutely fell in love with it and highly recommend it!

http://youtu.be/6d91Ol7rui4 (http://youtu.be/6d91Ol7rui4)

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: Chieftain on August 02, 2014, 03:03:43 am

The Dirty Dozen....there's just something about Jim Brown making that final run.......

 8888crybaby

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: Oceander on August 02, 2014, 03:03:48 am

One of my faves:

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDQDwoFe6Ko

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: Oceander on August 02, 2014, 03:06:05 am

Another, Spirited Away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6az9wGfeSgM

I could put up every Miyazaki movie as a fave that gets better each time I watch 'em, but I'll confine myself to Spirited Away (for now).

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: NavyCanDo on August 02, 2014, 01:58:44 pm

Need to add a best Foreign Language Film to the list. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

I love this movie. Too bad most Americans never heard of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAljVEG4tk

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: DCPatriot on August 02, 2014, 02:41:21 pm

Quote from: NavyCanDo on August 02, 2014, 01:58:44 pm

Need to add a best Foreign Language Film to the list. Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

I love this movie. Too bad most Americans never heard of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IAljVEG4tk

Wow, Navy!  That sure looks compelling.....but back in 1982 when my own daughter was born, I had the bad luck of renting a VHS tape of Sophie's Choice.

Had a brand new rear projection SONY television.

When I understood the 'choice' they were speaking about, I reflexively threw the remote at the television screen...a very expensive impulse mistake.

Won't watch another movie like that again.    :patriot:

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: Bigun on August 02, 2014, 03:20:23 pm

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4MLjwy02QPo/movieposter.jpg?v=52025b7f)

The combat scenes in this one (yes there are some) are as close to real as I have ever seen on film.

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: Bigun on August 02, 2014, 03:24:37 pm

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WVZOKwBw6lc/movieposter.jpg?v=51af9bc8)

ABSOLUTELY great movie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4kLizDXLY0

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: Bigun on August 02, 2014, 03:28:39 pm

(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nQPIQWJhCY0/movieposter.jpg?v=4dc5686d)

Epic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQPIQWJhCY0

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: ABX on August 02, 2014, 03:30:31 pm

Y'all are way too serious in your tastes. Here are two of my favorites I can watch over and over..

Probably my favorite movie of all time- Grosse Pointe Blank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ7AXKWmWOg


One of the best movies for constant laughs- So I Married an Axe Murderer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3TgDBN7wk4

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: DCPatriot on August 02, 2014, 04:01:00 pm

Quote from: Lando Lincoln on August 02, 2014, 01:36:45 am

Wow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcBCh9KC2mY

Holy Crap, Lando!   This is sensational!

Thank you for turning us on to it!    :beer:

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: DCPatriot on August 02, 2014, 04:05:02 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRKbez1LpWU

Realize the thread isn't about favorite scenes, but favorite class B movies, but as AB said upthread, you guys are too serious.

Here's one of the funniest scenes ever....no matter how many times you see it.

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: NavyCanDo on August 02, 2014, 04:05:56 pm

Quote from: DCPatriot on August 02, 2014, 02:41:21 pm

Wow, Navy!  That sure looks compelling.....but back in 1982 when my own daughter was born, I had the bad luck of renting a VHS tape of Sophie's Choice.

Sorry for reminding you of that bad experience with Sophie's Choice, but Sophia Scholl: the Final Days  was a totally different Sophie.   A true story of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.  One of the most captivating movies I have ever seen. One that will stick with you for days afterward.

After the movie someone sent me this White Rose tribute and nearly cried my eyes out.

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

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: DCPatriot on August 17, 2014, 06:55:07 pm

How could anyone leave True Romance off the list?

Unforgettable scenes that you'll watch over and over.  Gary Oldman as Drexel, the pimp.  Clarence Horley played by Christian Slater.  Award winning performances.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDJ8ocSN5GE

And of course the scene with Dennis Hopper as Clarence's father and Christopher Walken as the Sicilian mafioso.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3yon2GyoiM


Directed by Tony Scott  Music score by Hans Zimmer


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq5kbNW8VKU&feature=related



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Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: mystery-ak on August 17, 2014, 07:17:15 pm

Pride And Prejudice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vRsscoOlo4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vRsscoOlo4)


okay it's a chick flick....but I love this movie and just melt watching this scene

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: mystery-ak on August 17, 2014, 07:28:40 pm

I can't leave out my dear Duke...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3343LUHNb4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3343LUHNb4)

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: massadvj on August 17, 2014, 07:57:17 pm

A movie I thought was mediocre the first time I saw it, but has really stood the test of time, mostly because of its nonlinear structure.  No matter how many times you see it, you can never really predict what scene is going to come next.  Plus, it has so much to say about the human spiritual experience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw63_YyNsF4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw63_YyNsF4)

PS: I also really enjoyed "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" but I thought that movie was a masterpiece the first time I saw it, so for me it doesn't qualify.

Title: Re: Your favorite movies that weren't blockbusters...but seemed greater each time you watched them!
Post by: flowers on August 20, 2014, 03:23:22 pm

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