Posted on 02/02/2007 9:29:39 AM PST by ex-snook
Got a gift subscription on Netflix. Not having not gone to a movie for some time, I'm lost. I need suggestions for my wife and me. thanks,
Scratch Magnolia. I meant American Beauty.
"Hopscotch" is one of my old favorites; along with "The Great Waldo Pepper."
Get Team America (but I'm assuming you already saw that)
Instead of movies, how about renting old classic tv shows? I'm having a ball visiting with Dr. Bob Hartley in Chicago on The Bob Newhart Show
Visiting Andy Taylor, Aunt Bea, Opie, Floyd the Barber, Barney fife, etc in Mayberry on The Andy Griffith Show.
Visting with Gomer Pyle and Sargeant Carter on their Marine base.
Visting with the maid Hazel in the Baxter residence where she works and lives.
Visiting the teenaged female surfer Gidget in Southern California
And Visiting with a certain Flying Nun in Puerto Rico
Visiting with Col. Hogan at Stalag 13
Visting with "That Girl", Ann Marie, in New York City
Visiting With Groucho Marx on the set of his his game show: You Bet Your Life
Visting with Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, his brother Wally, their parents Ward and June, and not to mention old Eddie Haskell in the suburban town of Mayfield.
And also:
Edward R. Murrow - The Best of Person to Person
That is a good one. My husband and I have really enjoyed all the old Alfred Hitchcock movies, now those are thrillers.
Brazil-The Criterion Collection Edition, fantastic, anti-big government, terrorists, rebel heating and air conditioner repairman (DeNiro) working on the lam because he doesn't want to fill out the government paperwork, you can watch it 20 times and find something different each time. Great Black Comedy.
JFK, YES, JFK, this is coming from someone who is convinced Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy, This film is unintentionally one of the GREATEST BLACK COMEDIES ever made. Stone loses his mind on this one and implicates EVERYONE! Every conspiracy theory in the world is intermingled, the performances are magnificent, Joe Pesci, Tommy Lee Jones, John Candy, and Kevin Bacon are standouts.
The Manchurian Candidate - The original, blows away the remake.
The Dead Zone with Christopher Walken, best Stephen King movie adaptation. Prophecy is another great Walken flick.
Seven -Great horror, serial killer flick.
Total Recall- Great fun action flick
Barry Lyndon-Great Kubrick film, trust me on this one.
I've got a ton of others but that's a nice starter. Just about any Clint Eastwood movie, westerns and action flicks.
Mel Gibson, Braveheart, The Patriot, Conspiracy Theory
Gladiator is a good one along the braveheart lines, Spartacus is the original "gladiator", get the Criterion Collection one for the full movie.
Ben Hur too
True Romance is very good and has a GREAT scene with Christopher Walken and Dennis Hopper, it's worth it for just that scene.
How can I forget one of my other Black Comedy and all time favorites.
THE KING OF COMEDY-Twisted Black Comedy with a delusional DeNiro who stalks Jerry Lewis playing a Johnny Carson character, Sandra Bernhardt is also a stalker, great, great, great movie.
"Master and Commander": beautiful acting, beautiful cinematography and special effects, quite moving in many places. An excellent study of male character and psychology. And lots of great action.
You can try the X-men movies, altho haven't seen them all yet, ditto the Spiderman movies. Also you can try the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Narnia.
Intense military;
Saving Private Ryan
Blackhawk Down
We were Soldiers
Religious Themed;
Passion of the Christ
One Night with the King
Behind the Sun
Left Behind 1 & ll
The Gospel of John
Science Fiction;
Matrix 1 & ll
High Frequency
Reality; United 93
Much appreciation for all your imput. Freeper support is outstanding. My wife and I will check out the reviews of all your favorites. I'm sure we will find among your favorites, many that will be ours. Regards to all, thanks again.
"The bad seed"
Lord Alfred Hitchcock's films. All of them but particularly the quartet of Vertigo The Birds Psycho and Marnie. The older ones: Notorious, Shadow of a Doubt and don't forget Rebecca..I could go on
Then Kubrick: most of them: The Shining; Spartacus; Barry Lyndon
Then Orson Welles: The Magnificent Ambersons yes...Citizen Kane and Touch of Evil. WOW!
Just a starter list.
"Leprechaun 4, Leprechaun In Space"
LOL!!
Take a break from FReeping and laugh your ass off watching Airplane! The greatest comedy of all time.
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