Posted on 10/16/2022 7:20:13 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
I apologize for the Vanity upfront. That said, can we come up with a list of movies that don't lecture about climate, race, abortion 'rights', sexuality, intolerance, 'migrants' etc.? I fully realize there are lots of crucial issues facing all of us and that this is not that important, but when occasionally looking for at least an hour or two of escape it would be nice to not have to be assaulted by the left's agenda.
“An American Story”, made for TV, about The Battle Of Athens (TN).
Everyone should watch it before November 8.
Also, Brad Johnson is a hunk.
Agreed.
One non Babs movie that Iove is Champagne For Caeser.
“You’ll Never Get Rich” staring Fred Astaire & Rita Hayworth.
“Alita Battle Angel” staring Rosa Salazar.
The Devil’s Disciple (1959 film)
The Naked City (1948)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
And for Halloween...
I Married a Witch (1942)
Enjoy!
Fight Club. Brad Pitt and Ed Norton.
What happens when men get so alienated from society, and so tired of being crapped on by their “betters”, that they decide to tear it all down.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xWVxI6XZAuE
Ping for future viewing!
I like Critical Drinker too. I also enjoy Andrew Klavan’s rants. And I pay attention to reviews and festival selections. Tastes vary, but if a major festival has a hundred films, give or take, and I find six or seven of enough interest to watch and one or two that hit my sweet spot and go on my favorites list, I regard that as a decent hit rate. It’s worth taking ten minutes to at least scan the list of selections looking for interesting subjects and directors or actors that I usually find reliable.
I agree about the writing. Good writing is hard. Good writers have always been in short supply. The streamers are selling subscriptions, not movies, and they have an insatiable demand for new content. There simply aren’t enough good writers to go around.
And then came the DEI mandates. I keep coming across remarks, always anonymous, that the writers rooms are the hardest places to integrate, and that too many mediocre writers have become entitlement tyrants due to race and gender privilege. So much of the writing is awful. It is bloated, lacks wit and polish, and feels like it was written by committee. It’s painful. I don’t know if this explains Amazon’s problems with The Rings of Power — direction and casting are painful as well — but the writing is so lifeless that it has “written by committee” stamped all over it.
Increasingly I find the most interesting movies are smaller films, many of them indies. It’s hard for the DEI commissars to mess with a writers room of one, especially when the writer is also the director. At least these aren’t written by committee.
Good list!
I watch the final action scene from Battleship frequently on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCqDdsZY7RA
Patton
There were new episodes called The Gauntlet on Netflix that ran 2017–2018. The best one is Starcrash, a 1978 Italian made English language and of course a badly made rip off of Star Wars.
It features Christopher Plummer that I can only imagine he was forced to do because he really needed the cash or was being blackmailed, and David Hasselhoff – say no more.
I watched this with my nephew and his wife and we laughed so hard, I think I peed myself.
It ranks among my favorite MST3K episodes, right up there with Manos: The Hands of Fate, Prince of Space and Pod People.
Man From Snowy River.
Yes to the Coen brothers list. True Grit is on my top ten list. It walks the drama/comedy tightrope as well as any film I’ve ever seen. Hailee Steinfeld, a fourteen year old actor playing a 14 year old girl, deserved her Oscar nomination for the way she bullied Rooster Cogburn/Jeff Bridges into submission, as old Rooster discovers the daughter he never had and never knew he missed until he encountered Maddie Ross. I have several times suggested it to teachers as a great coming of age story. The coming of age genre is overloaded with stories about discovering the opposite sex, but of course “coming of age” = becoming an adult. The best ones, IMHO, don’t deal with the boy girl thing. In this case, Maddie charms Rooster into submission with her relentless determination and ends up shooting the bad guy she was after. True Grit indeed. Should be taught in all the schools as an antidote to woke.
A Man for All Seasons, Abbott sbd Costello Go To Mars
Apocalypto
The Last Samurai
Princess Bride
Old retro TV shows like Emergency, Hogan’s Heroes, Rawhide, the Lone Ranger, available on your retro TV stations.
I went through fifty posts and didn’t see Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Can’t believe it!
It’s sad there will never be a Blazing Saddles 2.
Get off my lawn!
I watched that one a few months ago. It at least kept me interested to the very end but man you can sure see why his son never had an acting career after that.
And I kind of jumped the shark early on when he intentionally rolled a car to change directions. That was just downright funny! 🤣
Oldies...
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