Also, rated "PG-13"...(nudity is depicted, but nothing more than you'd see by taking a Barbie doll's clothes off)
(personal note: I never got a chance to see the live-action remake. Will check it out on Blu-Ray).
Posted on 07/23/2017 4:56:36 AM PDT by Chickensoup
This is a slow Sunday morning.
I am not much of a vid watcher. And for over 25 years we didn't have a TV. Back a few years ago I found a TV, with Freeper input and have Netflix. To me the TV is a great going to the theater experience.
I have been watching different things on the TV for occasional entertainment for the past couple of years, Netflix both streaming and DVD.
I have discovered that most shows that I have watched, both the compelling ones that I have enjoyed like Longmire, Bluebloods, and even Father Brown have significant violence and show gross dead bodies.
I understand that the public is used to this and that over the past couple of decades, people have watched shows about dead and decaying bodies.
I am amazed at this turn of events. Almost every show and film I find has some sort of murder, often by some bizarre sicko. Death-porn packaged into otherwise nice storylines.
I enjoy shows like Last Man Standing, Mad Men, 30 Below, films like Primer, Silver Linings Playbook. I am looking for recommendations that are perhaps more about a story, a situation, a relational issue that is compelling.
I have started renting DVDs through Netflix and am going through their old films, where face it, film-makers did not use sensationalism in the place of fine script writing and directing. So I have some of the old films covered.
I think of that scene in The Searchers where John Wayne returns from finding the body of a girl whose kidnappers he was tracking, and he said when asked what happened, with full painful angry emotion in his voice: What do you want me to do? Draw you a picture? That one sentence, acted in such a profound way, gave the viewer everything he needed to know about this poor child and her death and how the protagonists were going to proceed.
So if you can recommend a film or series that you enjoyed that is interesting and doesn't make its centerpiece death and destruction, I would love to hear about it.
“The Piano”
Came out around 1993. It’s about early settlers in New Zealand. A piano, brought all the way from England, is the unifying thread throughout the story.
The soundtrack is also wonderful.
For me, nothing scarier than the 1950’s flick, “The Bad Seed.”
I liked “The Shrike” too. June Allyson and Jose Ferrer.
Non-scary but exciting and satisfying, “The Furies.” Stanwyck and Huston.
I like odd Thomas...
Loved john dies in the end... very clever
Also, rated "PG-13"...(nudity is depicted, but nothing more than you'd see by taking a Barbie doll's clothes off)
(personal note: I never got a chance to see the live-action remake. Will check it out on Blu-Ray).
I love watching the older western series. Any violence in them is usually confined to a single bullet to the bad guy, where he’s left either holding his hand that just had his gun shot out of it, or he falls down and dies within seconds. There’s none of the blood, guts, and gore that Hollywood now likes to glamorize.
-Hopalong Cassidy
-Gunsmoke
-The Roy Rogers Show
-Annie Oakley
-Cowboy G-Men
I too love one America but cannot get it to stream from Vaughn live on TV
only on computer.
I wish they had daily podcasts of their two evening shows.
It would increase viewer ship.
‘The Piano’ has some nekkedidity, so I don’t know if that’s within Chickensoup’s criteria. But it is a good movie.
I didn’t know there was an old Father Brown series.
I share your pain. Every time I go to a bookstore I see an “undead” creature within sixty seconds. In clothing stores even the toddler shirts can be found that have skulls on them. Two-headed skeletal rotting corpse dolls are popular.
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What we teach our children, and what is accepted in our culture will end our culture because of the barbarians they will become.
Mrs Minever (SP?)
Captains Courageous
One of my faves!
Hoax w Richard Gere
Spotlight w Michael Kearon
Meet Joe Black w Anthony Hopkins
Fra ture w Anthony Hopkins
Lincoln Lawyer w Matt McConaghey
Conspiracy w Kennerh Branagh
Moneyball w Brad Pitt
Trouble With the Curve w Clint Eastwood
Zero Dark Thirty w Jessica Chastain
Here Comes the Boom w Kevin James
I didn’t read the book. Redford is really good in this movie. It’s close to Hitchcock in tension and dialogue.
Bkmk
“The Water Diviner”. Russell Crowe.
Also try The Book Thief
Cerebral of course.
I didn’t look at the spell checker change.
Mush for brains is common. But you have given them a great foundation. Often it will firm up as reality strikes.
There are two six part BBC espionage dramas, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Smiley’s People, both of which are very realistic and star Sir Alec Guinness as George Smiley and of course, as with any BBC production the supporting cast are awesome too.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq61jstTApk&list=PLwix5PoqRIFNFxBcVsrcq2CrnVvbkexVR
Smiley’s People: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vYAyq5l2Bs&list=PLAPGcD5LGrp79pjd-ZvR43JC_rwwZPABl
Another choice, if you like Sherlock Holmes mysteries, would be Granada TV’s productions with Jeremy Brett playing Sherlock Holmes. Jeremy Brett is one of the finest actors of all time and he plays Sherlock Holmes exceedingly brilliantly with all the Holmes idiosyncrasies Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created for him.
The Hounds of the Baskervilles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJlsU2yo0N8
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