Posted on 11/03/2023 12:56:13 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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Arrival
If ever there were a perfect movie, it’s this Amy Adams gem from Dune director Denis Villeneuve. The narrative is based on Story of Your Life, a Nebula-winning novella written by Ted Chiang, its themes exploring language barriers and bridging the gap between humanity and things we don’t understand. It’s heavy stuff for an alien drama, but trust us when we say it’s so, so worth your time.
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I always liked “E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial” and “Close Encounters Of The Third Kind” for drama.
The Maltese Falcon...
A great Hammett book...
A great movie!
Not the 1931 version...
The 1941 version with Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre, Barton MacLane, Lee Patrick, and Sydney Greenstreet...
Although going to the movies alone, for us neighborhood kids, was a Saturday fixture, this was one of the first “grown-up” movies that I went to with my parents...
It was, also, the last movie my Dad would see before entering the Marine Corps in February 1942...
1. The Best Years of our Lives.
2. Twelve O’clock High
3. The Bridges of Toko-ri
4. Midway
5. Picnic
I am so disappointed that Alexander Kordas Four Feathers is not on the list for drama/adventure. Crap for movies the last 40’years and the last 20’years in particular. What about iGrapes of Wrath? Have these make vie listers gone beyond the last 1980s for anything? Bah.
I watched Mrs Miniver last night and is that on any list? No
I've seen Arrival, Belfast, Drive My Car, Little Women, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, A Star is Born, A Streetcar Named Desire, Atonement, Children of Men, Dunkirk, Gladiator, Gone Girl, Her, In the Heat of the Night, Jaws, Lost in Translation, Rear Window, Seven Samurai, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Downfall, The Florida Project, The Godfather, Thelma and Louise, Titanic, and Vertigo. Some of those I saw so long ago that I barely remember them.
So: 26 out of 70. Not a bad list, of those I've seen. I am still on my best behavior and will not dump on movies I've not seen. I'll just note that the compilers of this list went out of their way to find "black" films. That doesn't make them bad movies, but the compilers' taste clearly varies from mine.
The best of my 26: Seven Samurai and Downfall. The weakest: Titanic: I understand that James Cameron wanted to get Kate Winslet nekkid, but there's not much justification for this movie other than that. He should at least have explained why Kate Winslet's flotation devices were insufficient to keep the ship afloat.
Somewhere on my watchlist due to the buzz they attract on the movie sites I frequent: Minari, Past Lives, Whiplash, Before Sunrise, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Parasite, Rebecca, and The Farewell. The spirit hasn't moved me yet, but I am provisionally persuaded that they may be worth checking out.
Most rewatchable: Downfall and Arrival. C'mon Hollywood: give Amy Adams an Oscar already.
Conservative Culture Warrior favorite: The Florida Project. This is one of those occasional movies that virtually all the critics misunderstand. And maybe Sean Baker, the writer-director, doesn't fully appreciate what he made. But reality is conservative, and if a filmmaker tells an honest story, the truth will out. The conservative themes jump out to anyone with eyes to see.
Gone With The Wind
The Days Of Wine And Roses (but I can’t watch it; it’s too sad).
I watched Chinatown on YouTube yesterday. First time seeing it in decades.
It reminded me how good a movie it is.
Wasn’t even on this list.
What a crappy list.
Arrival is a solid movie, but greatest drama of all time? Crazy.
I didn’t see Gone with the Wind or Birth of a Nation on that list. They should be 31 and #2. It Happened One Night should also get a high rating, but I don’t recall seeing it either.
No way The Godfather is down in the 60’s!
The Wind (1928) also deserves to be on that list. This is a good drama starring Lillian Gish, whose character moves to a community where the wind is constantly blowing (no, not Capitol Hill).
Nah, it was just okay.
“OTOH...they DO allow us all to talk about these movies and others. :-)”
That’s the best part, isn’t it? I trust FReeper recommendations and discussion 1,000% more than these idiot writers.
Arrival sucked lol
“Breaker Morant
Chariots of Fire
Shane
Mud (very underrated movie)
And honorable mention to Last of the Mohicans — a good movie with one of the greatest soundtracks ever”
I’ve see Shane, ok
Never saw the others and don’t care to.
Last of the Mohicans, ONLY an honorable mention and ONLY a “good” movie?
Last of the Mohicans is a GREAT movie I have several copies of DVDs. I have watched it at least 10 times. The acting, superb. The location, fantastic. All the fight scenes are terrific! The scene where the sister (Alice) steps off the cliff rather than go with Magua. FANTASTIC acting without saying a word. Truly one of THE BEST films of ALL TIME!
one of the greatest soundtracks ever, That I agree with. Dances with wolves has a great soundtrack also.
That is absolutely my favorite move of all time, “The Best Years of Our Lives”.
Just a brilliant and timely movie. And timeless, too. The themes are the same today as they were in 1946. Vastly underrated by people today.
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