Whelenut & DeFlave: You have hit on two of my top ten all time favorite movies. Great entertainment and escapism in both. I think I will get them back in the rotation myself. The series I just finished last night "Man Hunt - The Eric Roberts/Richard Jewell Story" (the Atlanta Olympic Games bombing and aftermath) I really liked it. I especially enjoyed the way the story was told - hard to believe some of the things that happened in the aftermath. Its on "Spectrum" what ever that is. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy P.S. Saw on TV this morning that the NetFlix show/documentary "Tiger King" was viewed by 34,500,000 (thirty four million five hundred thousand!) people in the last 10 (ten!) days alone! Wow.
Is Sicario II as good as the first one? It’s one of my favorites.
IMO no. The second one is good but the first is better....
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Check out Jackie Brown, based on Elmore Leonard book. The Usual Suspects.Primal Fear. Jade is similar.LA Confidential. Anti hero triumphs for the most part. Magnificent Seven and the Charles Bronson stuff on the other hand.
Jackie Brown is an excellent choice.
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If y'all are interested in movies you may have not seen, I went through my Top 100 IMDb list and picked a few out that I haven't heard mentioned on here much. I have no idea where you can get them, or if you can and they ain't new.
Bad Boys (1983) Sean Penn Not the one with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence
A Boy and His Dog (1975) Don Johnson
The Driver (1978) Ryan O'Neal
Flaming Star (1960) Elvis Presley...don't laugh. Probably Elvis' best acting performance.
The Hitcher (1986) Rutger Hauer
Hombre (1967) Paul Newman
Hud (1963) Paul Newman...Larry McMurtry wrote the book.
Johnny Handsome (1989) Mickey Rourke
The Last Picture Show (1971) Jeff Bridges
Near Dark (1987) Bill Paxton
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) James Coburn
Ride with the Devil (1989) Tobey Macguire
Romy and Michelle's Class Reunion (1997) Mira Sorvino
No Country For Old Men is outstanding. One of the few films that does the book justice. Even more so, it IMPROVED my enjoyment of the book having mental pictures of the characters in my mind’s eye, as I saw the film before reading the book. Then, I went back and watched the film immediately again, and it was even better for having read the book. A rare experience.
Did the ending of the book make any sense whatsoever because the ending of the movie didn't. Not to me anyway.
Cormac McCarthy is supposedly an excellent writer. His books are darkly poetic but nonsensical to many folks. If you didn't enjoy that one, you probably wouldn't enjoy a lot of his other works. I would not describe the movie as making no sense and it just ended. Many including me, didn't like the ending because we were rooting for the protagonist. That the killer got his wife after-the-fact rubbed salt in the wound.
Kelly's Heroes is widely loved on here. The original or alternative ending had them get away in a plane, to Switzerland but also had the pilot or co-pilot accidentally open the back of the plane or the bomb-bay or something and lose all the gold. Similar and also dark although not as much so as No Country for Old Men.
Red Dawn, For what's happening today. Be Well, Rustyzipper.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill.
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