It's About Movies

[phrog]

Dr. Zhivago for the scenery and music as well as the story; but, it has been on many times. I also liked The Wind and the Lion with Sean Connery and Candance Bergen - just entertaining to me. Ben Hur if you're into that kind of movie. (The book was actually better than the movie.) And one I saw for the first time recently - Humpey Bogart in Morocco and I believe the name is Casablanca. And two of my favs - The Great Escape and The Sand Pebbles .

EDIT: I forgot Cool Runnings, the funniest movie I have ever seen. It's about the Jamaican bobsled team.

[toolguy1000]

I also liked The Wind and the Lion with Sean Connery and Candance Bergen -

thought i was the only one that remembered that one. Dad, with ted danson and jack lemmon. Nobody's Fool , jessica tandy and paul newman. driving miss daisy, for brilliantly portrayed characters. A Single Man with colin firth and Julianne Moore. an artsy flick directed by tom ford with a stunning sound track. life as a house with Hayden Christensen and Kevin kline. if your dad was overbearing and you have a son(s), it's a must see. far from heaven with julianne moore and dennis quaid. another artsy flick. but extremely well made. it's one of those movies that's just really enjoyable to watch because of the attention to detail on the part of the director.

[wardprobst]

Sometimes the movie is inseparable from the location and conditions of the first viewing. I saw Citizen Kane at the Paramount Theater in Austin, TX in 1974 and was blown away by the experience. I caught Rollerball at the old Alabama in Houston a few years later- not nearly the movie as CK but in that setting a real ride. I got frustrated in the shop one day and went the theater to see a discount matinee showing of Saving Private Ryan with one other patron in the theater- absolutely stunning in that setting.
One other viewing experience though not a movie in the literal sense- The Lonesome Dove miniseries from the Larry McMurtry book starring Robert Duvall in perhaps his best roll, Tommy Lee Jones, Anjelica Houston, Dianne Lane and others. Probably as good a western as I've seen.
Which brings to mind Secondhand Lions with Michael Caine, Robert Duvall and Haley Joel Osment. Gosh, it goes on and on......
DP

[chopnhack]

Not an old fart, but some movies that come to mind as interesting and certainly thought provocative:

One Flew over the cuckoo's nest with Jack Nicholson and Danny Devito, classic..
The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Taxi Driver

more recent fame: Seven, Inception, The Usual Suspects, A Beautiful Mind, Heat, Fight Club, Cast Away, The Departed, The Prestige, The Patriot, The Butterfly Effect