5 lesser known movies you want people to see.
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UPDATED: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 07:54
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Originally posted by THX:
Wow - The Conversation. :-) I respect anyone who conjures up that one.
Wasn't it remade into some Fresh Prince lame action? Like Enemy of the State?
I keep forgetting to add Brubaker. Not a big fan of Redford, but I think this was my first view of Morgan Freeman. The storytelling style seems like many other films of the era, but it was based upon a true story IIRC.
When I see it on TV again, I usually cannot resist watching again.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Wasn't it remade into some Fresh Prince lame action? Like Enemy of the State?
I'm afraid to look. Around the time the 2009 movie Sherlock Holmes came out I saw on some tv "magazine" style show (I haven't had a tv for some 10+ years now so it must have been at someone else's house - I don't recall the show) some person saying about the movie: "Don't worry, there are plenty of explosions" [then showed some clip from the "Sherlock Holmes" movie with an explosion.] I just wanted to become a hermit at that point.
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Originally posted by THX:
Wow - The Conversation. :-) I respect anyone who conjures up that one.
Wasn't it remade into some Fresh Prince lame action? Like Enemy of the State?
Both movies involved the pervasiveness of surveillance, and Gene Hackman played a paranoid security guy in both. They may have wanted the audience to infer a connection between them, and he in fact might have been the same person, but if so he had changed his name by that time.
EDIT: In checking on the latter movie I noticed that Hackman's last film was 12 years ago. Both wikipedia and biography.com describe him as a retired actor. I don't recall him announcing that. Anyone know about his health?
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I was looking through my papers for a document I need and came across a DVD that I ordered called "The Bride Came C.O.D.", a small screwball comedy (better known as Rom/Com today) with Cagney and Bette Davis, released in 1941.
I saw it a million years ago on Turner Classic Movies and found it hilarious.
I ordered it because they don't show these little-known gems on cable, or anywhere, these days. It has more than a few chuckles in it and, along with One, Two, Three (1961, directed by Billy Wilder) is one of Cagney's lesser known movies where he shows his superb comic timing.
Quite a difference from: "You'll never take me alive, you dirty copper"
Also "The Spitfire Grill" (1996) with Ellen Burstyn and Marcia Gay Harden - after being released from jail Percy Talbot travels to a new town in Maine looking for a new beginning. It's more a movie of the week type of film that
quietly tells a story with small town appeal. Despite it's negative rating
on Rotten Tomatoes - 33%. It got an audience rating of 76%. I can't explain why I like it, it is simply told and gently presented with characters we
could easily identify and accept. I guess it's optimistic in it's overall
storytelling; "second chance" movies get me most of the time - if it's good.
SGG
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The Interview (1998) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120714/
Not to be confused by at least two other movies now by the same name. This Aussie film with Hugo Weaving is a great character-based suspense story.
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Originally posted by THX:
The Interview (1998) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120714/
Not to be confused by at least two other movies now by the same name. This Aussie film with Hugo Weaving is a great character-based suspense story.
I felt The Interview was a bit of a tour-de-force for Weaving, his last full film before Matrix launched him. I don't think I had seen him before that, and only his voice in Babe.
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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
I can't explain why I like it, it is simply told and gently presented with characters we
could easily identify and accept. I guess it's optimistic in it's overall
storytelling; "second chance" movies get me most of the time - if it's good.
SGG
Perhaps you would enjoy one of my all-time favorites, including Geoffrey Lewis and Dean Jones: When Every Day Was The Fourth of July.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078485/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I felt The Interview was a bit of a tour-de-force for Weaving, his last full film before Matrix launched him. I don't think I had seen him before that, and only his voice in Babe.
Check out Proof from 1991! Not only a younger Weaving....but an early Russel Crow! Looks very young here. Pretty good flick IMO and you can watch it free:
(FYI, there are a few minutes cut out for copyright reasons but it is ok otherwise.)
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