Movies comes in all forms, action, drama, horror, Westerns, comedy, chick flicks, guy flicks, action movies and just plain dumb movies. Movies are based on best selling books, original screen plays, short stories, historical characters and events and some apparently are based on what is written on the Boy’s Room walls at the local Junior High School.
Many of us like to “get away” and watch a good movie, either at home or in the theater. I prefer mine in the comfort of my television room (cheap SOB) but some like the experience of the really big screen.
Nearly everyone has their list of best and worst movies, and their list of favorite actors and actresses. Some, like me, have a mental list of actors they hate seeing in any type of movie.
So, this thread is a combination of the Academy Awards show and the Razzies presentation:
The Best and the Worst!
Who and what are your favorites and who and what are like fingernails on a blackboard to you?
No one is watching, so trot out your lists.
William Stephenson Clark
PrairiePopulistsAndProgressives.net 
I will never tire of watching and crying through Madame X. Lana Turner, John Forsythe.
http://www.amazon.com/Madame-X-VHS-Lana-Turner/dp/6300183920
I think it’s because my whole being has been wrapped up in being a Mother. In that movie Madame X gave her son what she thought was a great gift. I think he would have chosen differently. So the moral I take away is that a Mother’s love is what a child appreciates. Mothers aren’t perfect, they’re humans and make mistakes, but their love is is what a child needs. Most days I know my kids do fine in spite of me. 😉
And may I add something?
Children need the stability of a home – be it a single mother, single father, two parents, gay, straight or just a group of people living together as a family.
It does not matter if the people are wealthy, poor or middle class. (although being in poverty does limit the family’s choices).
Families come in all shapes, sizes, colors and we need to get away from this statistical ‘ideal’ family being made up of only one man – one woman, married with 2.5 children (hadn’t you always wanted to see what that .5 kid looked like – I did).
We need to start seeing the gifts of each one of us rather than trying to pigeon-hole everyone into different groups and then pitting each group against one another for political purposes.
I turned my self into a full time blogger yesterday on the music thread – one of my favorite subjects – so today I am going to try to be a little more restrained.
Probably won’t succeed, but I’ll try.
Favorites……………..
The Godfather, I and II.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Unforgiven
Taxi Driver
The Deer Hunter
Dances with Wolves
Something’s Gotta Give
A Few Good Men
Heat
A Righteous Kill
Road to Perdition
Donnie Brasco
Once Upon a Time in America
Pulp Fiction
Erin Brockovich
Copland
For starters………………………………………….
Definitely–
Butch and Sundance.
Something’s Gotta Give
Erin Brockovich
A Few Good Men
And of course…………….
To Kill a Mockingbird
On the Waterfront
Stagecoach
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Wild One
How the West Was Won
Little Big Man
Yea! Little Big Man. 🙂
To Kill a Mockingbird
The rest are…okay.
Several from your list are some of my favorites too!
I have in my possession a movie Jammer loaned me. He trusted me with his possession and I’ve kept it instead of borrowing it. I need to remedy that — get his movie back to him and get rid of this niggling guilt that makes me feel bad.
Ah, sumptin’ tells me you’ll be forgiven!
I like the old Bette Davis movies.
Bette Davis was one of the first women actresses that did not take any crap. She could hold her own with the best of them and usually threw in a few good slugs of her own.
Animal House…………………. sophomoric, dumb, celebrating bad behavior, gratuitous nudity, the delinquents win in the end and all that.
I love it.
I finally bought a copy and plan to watch it…one of these days.
I don’t go to enough movies! I don’t even watch enough of them on television.
The last two movies I saw were, “It’s Complicated” (very funny!) and “Blind Side” (touching). I enjoyed both, but they’re the only two movies I’ve gone to this whole year!
It’s Complicated was funny! I laughed and laughed.
The Blind Side was more uplifting than sad. Sandra deserved the Oscar for it. She wasn’t Sandra Bullock in it. I don’t think she tucked her hair behind her ear a single time. LOL
Ah, I wrote the thread heading, then wondered what I would post. Some many titles, so little bandwidth.
The Sting
Mystic River
There’s Something About Mary
Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Grand Torino
Easy Rider
Old Gringo
Clerks
Damn, my brain hurts!
I see there are 2 Stephen King books-to-movies on the list. I haven’t seen The Green Mile, but thought Shawshank was great.
Easy Rider is one of those movies from my teen years. Always a winner.
The “Green Mile” is probably one of the best of King’s book to movies that I have seen,it has a fantastic cast
I agree, Freebird. I liked the book a bit better, but very much enjoyed the movie!
It’s probably just me, but I can’t stand Nicholas Cage. The same goes for Bill Paxton. And Jean Claude God Damn. Not too keen on Sly Stone, either.
Love Morgan Freeman, De Niro, Pacino, Clooney, Denzel, Hanks, Wes Studi, Daniel Day-Lewis.
There are female actresses I admire, but my manhood sometimes clouds my vision, but I always have liked Kathy Baker, Meryl Streep, Glen Close and Maddy Snowe. I truly love Halle Berry but she has a restraining order against me.
It must be you. I love Nick Cage, but he did have to grown on me. I hated Peggy Sue Got Married and Raising Arizona. It took Con Air to hook me.
Paxton is, for me, a blah. Sly is a yuck.
Clooney is good. Finally, but I rarely watch his movies. Agree with Freeman, De Nira, Pacino (both big faves of my oldest daughter)Denzel and Hanks. Gotta add Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Harrison Ford, and probably a few others. Go farther back for Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck, Gary Cooper, Tony Curtis…
And to think I missed naming Johnny Depp. Shame on me.
One of my favorite actors is Tom Berenger(sp?) He can play all types of roles,from the Squad leader in “Platoon”,a favorite movie of mine,to a washed up major league catcher and play them convincingly. My favorite role of his is General Longstreet in Gettysburg. I have read a bit about Longstreet and Berenger brought him to life for me,he even looked like the man.
Tom Berenger is a great actor, Free, a character actor that brings “cred” to his roles. Good guy, too.
I liked him in “Platoon” – he did a good job with that one.
Since you constantly bring up “Gettysburg” I’ll have to rent the series, since – (hangs head) – I’ve never seen it.
I love Civil War history – very deep stuff, very complex – so I am embarrassed that I have not watched the series.
Can’t watch Platoon. I saw it in the theater under protest, but I have to be told who was in it. I remember only Willem DaFoe. Let’s face it. I don’t care for war movies (Gone With the Wind not included) and especially not Vietnam movies, although Full Metal Jacket wasn’t too bad.
WS,
Don’t rent it. If I remember I’ll bring it to the 3 Stooges meeting tomorrow
Sorry, film, not series……………………
I knew what you meant,I’ll also bring “Gods and Generals” which is the prequal to Gettysburg
Thanks, Free, I do appreciate that.
My pleasure