Posted on 11/03/2023 12:56:13 PM PDT by DallasBiff
“Heat”
Best crime drama EVER!
Ya beat me -- I've only seen 17; but I don't watch tv any more and don't have streaming services. There are so very many really good movies that are NOT on the OP's very pandering list. Here's the ones I've seen:
A Star Is Born (2018), A Streetcar Named Desire, Almost Famous, Billy Elliot, Good Will Hunting, Hidden Figures, Jaws, Lost in Translation, Rebecca, Remember the Titans, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Godfather, The Queen, Titanic, Vertigo.
I must say, Hidden Figures was an outstanding movie. I like "based on a true story" flicks, as long as they don't turn out to be fantasizations, like the recent dust-up over The Blind Side.
As far as drama, some of my favorites:
A Room with a View, Hotel Rwanda, Apocalypse Now, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Life of Pi, Cinema Paradiso, Inglourious Basterds, The Great Santini, The Apostle, Scent of a Woman, Stand and Deliver, Swept Away (the original by Wertmuller), Heartland (the 1979 film), Terms of Endearment, How the West Was Won, The Departed, Marie Antoinette (1938, with Norma Shearer)...
So very memorable. The scene with the native American negotiating in the French language really knocked me out; and Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the most outstanding dramatic actors of our time—along with Robert Duvall and (forgive me) Jack Nicholson.
Along the lines of LOTM, I rather liked Dances with Wolves.
We are different age groups, come from all over the USA and have posters from other countries too, some are married, some not, some have kids, some don't. We're a mixed bag here.
Godfather II and The Idolmaker
You left out Elsa Lancaster and Charles Laughton!
The FOUR FEATHERS is very good and the remakes aren't bad, which is unusual.
It was nominated for only one Academy Award — for the sound (which it won).
The Wind is a really good movie!
All movies with Louise Brooks should be seen! Orphans of the Storm, with both Gish sisters is also a must.
I think you’re too harsh on Third Man.
Noting Los Olvidados is of course right on.
Pretty much any Buñuel movie beats most on that list.
The Third Man is one of the all time great movies, with some of the best dialogue ever written (by Graham Greene).
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Yes!
How are 12 Angry Men, Chinatown, Raisin in the Sun, and Untouchables not on this list? And several of the movies (Eternal Sunshine, Batman) aren’t anyone’s idea of a drama movie.
Yeah.
I knew the song from the Tijuana Brass. I was a kid and had no idea where the name Third Man Theme came from.
When I happened upon the movie one day I realized how good it was — and where the title of the song came from.
Read later.
And in the same vein ( Nazi/post WW!! ), TOMORROW THE WORLD, starring Skippy Homeier, Agnes Moorehead, and Frederick March.
Also WATCH ON THE RHINE, starring Bette Davis and the AMAZING Paul Lukas.
Thanks.
I think I heard of it. Not based on the Camus book.
No, nothing to do re Camus, nor his book.
Bottom line, I'm much more oriented today to trying to find the keepers among recent films and especially new releases. There are some good ones out there, but it is obviously true that the current output in any given year is not going to compare favorably to our personal GOAT lists. And the older we get, the longer our GOAT lists become. I just think it's a shame to wait for a movie to grow barnacles before we discover it as a golden oldie.
And of course, when I post on FR, I'm usually on the culture war track and on the lookout for good conservative movies. They don't need to be worthy of the GOAT lists, but if they are solid enough films to be watchable and enjoyable, and if they are on our side in the culture war, we should at least take note of them. I don't go into movies blind, I'm always sniffing around for leads, and I am willing to go genre slumming to find them. Which brings me to an amazingly traditional values/marriage-affirming recent "romcom" (it's not really a romcom, but most of the reviewers and viewers don't seem to realize this) and wildly crazy but somehow charming adaptation of a Japanese manga adaptation. But those are stories for another day.:)
I'm reasonably satisfied with my gleanings from the last five or six years, roughly the period that I took a renewed interest in movies. But this year has been disappointing; there are a few but not many, though I'll probably discover some more as time goes on.
Next year is going to be awful because of the strikes. The sooner the streamers die, the better. The streaming model is not sustainable, and at this point, they're all losing money and are engaged in a race to the bottom in pursuit of generic customers on global platforms. May it crash and burn. The question is what will arise from the ashes.
Anything by Troma Films...
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