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No Way Out Early Kevin Costner movie
Into the Night Early Michelle Pfiefer and Jeff Goldblum (somewhat B movie but entertaining)
Lord of the Ring trilogy great movies
The Hobbit trilogy same as Lord of the Rings
Pulp Fiction John Travolta's vomeback movie directed by Quintin Tarantino
Get Shorty another John Travolta
The Spiderman movies
No Way Out and The War are the only two good movies Costner ever made.
 
No Way Out and The War are the only two good movies Costner ever made.

What? No Field of Dreams or Dances with Wolves? I'm a big Kevin Costner fan. I also enjoyed Message in a Bottle, For the Love of the Game, Thirteen Men, JFK, Untouchables, ah hell, I just like Kevin Costner. :bgrin:
 
What? No Field of Dreams or Dances with Wolves? I'm a big Kevin Costner fan. I also enjoyed Message in a Bottle, For the Love of the Game, Thirteen Men, JFK, Untouchables, ah hell, I just like Kevin Costner. :bgrin:
I think he's a lousy actor. He just seemed to fit the bill in The War and No Way Out.
 
I left off
12 Angry Men;
The Ox-Bow Incident;
The Grapes of Wrath.
 
You definitely need to watch Pulp Fiction if you haven't. I was listening to the Mark and Brian show which was a syndicated radio show based out of LA and they had Tarantino on as a guest and he told the story of how he hooked up with John Travolta. Tarantino invited Travolta out to his place on the coast to discuss the movie and Travolta goes up to his door (a multi unit complex) and knocks and Tarantino opens the door where Travolta without stepping into his place describes the unit to a T. It turns out when Travolta first came to Hollywood that he had rented the exact same unit years before
Pulp Fiction was good but Inglourious Basterds and Kill Bill, volumes 1 and 2 are better.
 
Pulp Fiction was good but Inglourious Basterds and Kill Bill, volumes 1 and 2 are better.

I liked them all, but I would still put Pulp Fiction ahead of them. I guess it's all in the eye of the beholder.
 
Some of the following movies may be classified in several genres (I chose one in the list) and some may have already been mentioned. Some are quite old and some are new. The Must-see movies, in my opinion, are emboldened in blue.

Enjoy!

Westerns

Open Range
Tombstone
The Stalking Moon
Coroner Creek
Ride the High Country
The Cowboys
True Grit (with John Wayne)
Big Jake
Broken Trail (A veteran cowboy and his nephew save five Chinese girls from prostitution while herding their horses from Oregon to Wyoming)
Crossfire Trail
Last Stand at Sabre River
Quigley Down Under
Forsaken
The Magnificent Seven (with Yul Brynner)
Westworld

Drama
Apollo 13
A Walk to Remember (Coming of age kind of love story)
The Choice
The Family Man
Pretty in Pink
Mr. Destiny
Stand By Me
Secondhand Lions
Philadelphia
Milo and Otis (family oriented)
Babe (also family oriented)

Sci-Fi
Oblivion
The Thirteenth Floor
Planet of the Apes (with Charlton Heston)
The Last Man on Earth (with Vincent Price)
Back to the Future Trilogy (genre mix with this collection)
Frequency
Jurassic Park
Mission to Mars
Highlander
The Martian
Sphere
The War of the Worlds (original)
Star Trek Movies (with original cast)
Terminator (the first two movies)

War
Gettysburg
Gods and Generals
Sahara (with Humphrey Bogart)
The Caine Mutiny
The Dirty Dozen
Das Boot (one of the finest submarine movies ever)
From Here to Eternity (more like a drama in a war setting)
Flyboys (World War I aerial Dogfights)
The Great Escape (with Steve McQueen)

Comedy
Ghostbusters
Groundhog Day
Grumpy Old Men
Gremlins
The Great Outdoors
Uncle Buck
Summer Rental
Porky's
Multiplicity
The Dream Team
Short Circuit

Action
Ben-Hur (with Charlton Heston)
The Last Samurai
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Hunt for Red October
In the Heart of the Sea
Outlander (similar to Beowulf)
The 13th Warrior (also similar to Beowulf)

Animated

Toy Story Trilogy
Monsters Inc
The Secret of NIMH
The Lion King
Wall-E
The Fox and the Hound
The Nightmare Before Christmas

Watch when you can without your children
The Flowers of War (1937 Japanese invasion of Nanjing in China)
 
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Some of the following movies may be classified in several genres (I chose one in the list) and some may have already been mentioned. Some are quite old and some are new.

Enjoy!

Westerns

Open Range
Tombstone
The Stalking Moon
Coroner Creek
Ride the High Country
The Cowboys
True Grit (with John Wayne)
Big Jake
Broken Trail (A veteran cowboy and his nephew save five Chinese girls from prostitution while herding their horses from Oregon to Wyoming)
Crossfire Trail
Last Stand at Sabre River
Quigley Down Under
Forsaken
The Magnificent Seven (with Yul Brynner)
Westworld

Drama
Apollo 13
A Walk to Remember
The Choice
The Family Man
Pretty in Pink
Mr. Destiny
Stand By Me
Secondhand Lions
Philadelphia
Milo and Otis (family oriented)
Babe (also family oriented)

Sci-Fi
Olbivion
The Thirteenth Floor
Planet of the Apes (with Charlton Heston)
The Last Man on Earth (with Vincent Price)
Back to the Future Trilogy (genre mix with this collection)
Frequency
Jurassic Park
Mission to Mars
Highlander
The Martian
Sphere
The War of the Worlds (original)
Star Trek Movies (with original cast)
Terminator (the first two movies)

War
Gettysburg
Gods and Generals
Sahara (with Humphrey Bogart)
The Caine Mutiny
The Dirty Dozen
Das Boot (one of the finest submarine movies ever)
From Here to Eternity (more like a drama in a war setting)
Flyboys (World War I aerial Dogfights)
The Great Escape (with Steve McQueen)

Comedy
Ghostbusters
Groundhog Day
Grumpy Old Men
Gremlins
The Great Outdoors
Uncle Buck
Summer Rental
Porky's
Multiplicity
The Dream Team
Short Circuit

Action
Ben-Hur (with Charlton Heston)
The Last Samurai
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Hunt for Red October
In the Heart of the Sea
Outlander (similar to Beowulf)
The 13th Warrior (also similar to Beowulf)

Animated

Toy Story Trilogy
Monsters Inc
The Secret of NIMH
The Lion King
Wall-E
The Fox and the Hound
The Nightmare Before Christmas

Watch when you can without your children
The Flowers of War (1937 Japanese invasion of Nanjing in China)
You've got some great ones in there. I especially liked The Stalking Moon. You might want to add Night of the Grizzly to your list.
 
I'd like to add
Heaven Can Wait (1978);
A Shot in the Dark;
The Pink Panther;
The Party;
The Thing from Another World;
The Equalizer;
Kingsman: The Secret Service;
Get Carter (2000);
The Great Escape.


You've got some great ones in there. I especially liked The Stalking Moon. You might want to add Night of the Grizzly to your list.
Mr. Destiny is one of my all time favorite movies. Perhaps the only film with John Ritter that was any good and he was great in that movie.
 
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Some of the following movies may be classified in several genres (I chose one in the list) and some may have already been mentioned. Some are quite old and some are new. The Must-see movies, in my opinion, are emboldened in blue.

Enjoy!

Westerns

Open Range
Tombstone
The Stalking Moon
Coroner Creek
Ride the High Country
The Cowboys
True Grit (with John Wayne)
Big Jake
Broken Trail (A veteran cowboy and his nephew save five Chinese girls from prostitution while herding their horses from Oregon to Wyoming)
Crossfire Trail
Last Stand at Sabre River
Quigley Down Under
Forsaken
The Magnificent Seven (with Yul Brynner)
Westworld

Drama
Apollo 13
A Walk to Remember (Coming of age kind of love story)
The Choice
The Family Man
Pretty in Pink
Mr. Destiny
Stand By Me
Secondhand Lions
Philadelphia
Milo and Otis (family oriented)
Babe (also family oriented)

Sci-Fi
Oblivion
The Thirteenth Floor
Planet of the Apes (with Charlton Heston)
The Last Man on Earth (with Vincent Price)
Back to the Future Trilogy (genre mix with this collection)
Frequency
Jurassic Park
Mission to Mars
Highlander
The Martian
Sphere
The War of the Worlds (original)
Star Trek Movies (with original cast)
Terminator (the first two movies)

War
Gettysburg
Gods and Generals
Sahara (with Humphrey Bogart)
The Caine Mutiny
The Dirty Dozen
Das Boot (one of the finest submarine movies ever)
From Here to Eternity (more like a drama in a war setting)
Flyboys (World War I aerial Dogfights)
The Great Escape (with Steve McQueen)

Comedy
Ghostbusters
Groundhog Day
Grumpy Old Men
Gremlins
The Great Outdoors
Uncle Buck
Summer Rental
Porky's
Multiplicity
The Dream Team
Short Circuit

Action
Ben-Hur (with Charlton Heston)
The Last Samurai
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Hunt for Red October
In the Heart of the Sea
Outlander (similar to Beowulf)
The 13th Warrior (also similar to Beowulf)

Animated

Toy Story Trilogy
Monsters Inc
The Secret of NIMH
The Lion King
Wall-E
The Fox and the Hound
The Nightmare Before Christmas

Watch when you can without your children
The Flowers of War (1937 Japanese invasion of Nanjing in China)
Wow thats a lot of movies. Ill update the list.
 
Some more popped into my head and they will appeal to anyone except dorks and we don't have any dorks in here. Oops, I forgot about Sly.
Payback;
North by North West;
I Was a Male War Bride;
Bringing up Baby;
Topper;
Father Goose;
Monkey Business;
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison;
Night of the Living Dead;
Give me some time, I'll think of some more really good ones.
 
The Big Lebowski
One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest
Jackie Brown
A Clockwork Orange
2001 A Space Oddessy
Thin Red Line
Windtalkers
Duel
47 Ronin
The Mummy
Predator
The Posideon Adventure
The Running Man
Blade Runner
The Air up there
A Home of Our Own
Rounders
Casablanca
Celtic Pride
Frequency
Fargo
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Fugitive
Volcano
Gladiator
The Breakfast Club
Stand By Me
Gattaca
Event Horizon
The Burbs
Pitch Black
Dead Poets Society
We were Soilders
Harts War
The Doors
Blow
Dark City
LA Confidential
Natural Born Killers
Donnie Brasco
Traffic
21 Grams
Reservior Dogs
Stargate
The Shining
 
Review 1~

Movie Title : Animal House


Summary:
Animal House is a movie about a Fraternity (Delta Tau Chi) and a Dean bent on it's destruction. Delta Tau Chi is one of five Frat Houses at Faber University and it's known only for it's disregard of the rules, poor grades and parties.
Dean Wormer is a old Cantankerous man who is bent on expelling every last member of Delta Tau Chi.

Genre:
Comedy / Raunchy Comedy

What I liked:
There are some great scenes in this movie!
The one that I enjoyed the most was a scene where Dean Wormer calls Delta Tau Chi into a trial. The Dean basically tries to keep delta's leaders from talking but Otter gets up and gives a speech, where he concludes that by punishing them, they are bad-mouthing America!
Another Great Scene takes place towards the end of the movie when they've all been expelled from school, when the Character Bluto gets up and gives a speech telling them that this could be the greatest night of their lives, and they determine a plot to get revenge on the Dean for kicking them out of school.

My Favorite line:
"7 Years of College Down the drain"

What I didn't like:
I think this is definitely a movie that would not be made today. The depiction of women and black people would not be acceptable.
For example a scene has a few of the frat members and dates that they tricked into going out with them at a "Black" bar and the Black guys steals their dates, they also call them negro's.
I understand that times are different, but from a 2019 perspective it was a little uncomfortable.

Would I watch again: Probably, it does seem like a movie that needs to be viewed multiple times to really get some of the jokes.

My Completely Subjective and Nonsensical Rating
:
7.6/10


I'm sure my review skills will get much better as I do this.
 
The Big Lebowski
One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest
Jackie Brown
A Clockwork Orange
2001 A Space Oddessy
Thin Red Line
Windtalkers
Duel
47 Ronin
The Mummy
Predator
The Posideon Adventure
The Running Man
Blade Runner
The Air up there
A Home of Our Own
Rounders
Casablanca
Celtic Pride
Frequency
Fargo
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Fugitive
Volcano
Gladiator
The Breakfast Club
Stand By Me
Gattaca
Event Horizon
The Burbs
Pitch Black
Dead Poets Society
We were Soilders
Harts War
The Doors
Blow
Dark City
LA Confidential
Natural Born Killers
Donnie Brasco
Traffic
21 Grams
Reservior Dogs
Stargate
The Shining
I missed Gattaca and Casablanca both excellent movies.
 
I have to add:
The Sting;
Last Night (1998 film starring Sandra Oh);
Judgement at Nuremburg;
Red River.
 
I need to watch movies. I haven't watched Animal house which apparently breaks S2 Rules!
Anyways so once a week I will watch a movie based of off s2 recommendations and review it in this thread.

Only Rule I have for suggestions is no Horror movies as those tend to freak out my kids.

Suggestions that were mentioned in the thread in the PTB forum are:
Animal House (I'm gonna find it this weekend).
Paint Your Wagon
Kelly's Heroes
All of Me
The Jerk
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Razors Edge
I'm going to opt out of Debbie Does Dallas! heh. :)
Hook - This is one I've actually seen but it's been a while.
Citizen Kane - This was one of my favorite movies as a teen but I haven't seen in so Long I'll watch it again.
Stalag 17
Sunset Boulevard
My Name is Nobody
Evil Roy Slade
The Goonies
Good Fellas
Godfather Part 1 and 2
The Usual Suspects
The Wizard of Oz.
3:10 to Yuma
Duck Soup
Young Frankenstein
Caddyshack
Blazing Saddles
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Full Metal Jacket
Stripes
Solaris
White Christmas
Cinderella Man
Beautiful Mind
Master and Commander
Gladiator
Body of Lies
American Gangster
LA Confidential
History of the World Part 1
Spaceball
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Third Man
Lost Horizons
The Horn Blows at Midnight
Love Thy Neighbor
Support your Local Sheriff
Support your Local Gunfighter
The Apple Dumpling Gang
Sunset Blvd
The Big Country
To Kill a Mockingbird;
Gone with the Wind
Forbidden Planet
Soylent Green
WestSide Story
Oklahoma
South Pacific;
Mr. Roberts
2001 A Space Odyssey
Chinatown
Lawrence of Arabia
No Way Out (Kevin Costner)
Into the Night
Pulp Fiction
Get Shorty
Spiderman movies
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Jason and the Argonauts
12 Angry Men
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Grapes of Wrath
Open Range
Tombstone
The Stalking Moon
Coroner Creek
Ride the High Country
The Cowboys
True Grit (with John Wayne)
Big Jake
Broken Trail (A veteran cowboy and his nephew save five Chinese girls from prostitution while herding their horses from Oregon to Wyoming)
Crossfire Trail
Last Stand at Sabre River
Quigley Down Under
Forsaken
The Magnificent Seven (with Yul Brynner)
Westworld
Apollo 13
A Walk to Remember (Coming of age kind of love story)
The Choice
The Family Man
Pretty in Pink
Mr. Destiny
Stand By Me
Secondhand Lions
Philadelphia
Milo and Otis (family oriented)
Babe (also family oriented)
Oblivion
The Thirteenth Floor
Planet of the Apes (with Charlton Heston)
The Last Man on Earth (with Vincent Price)
Back to the Future Trilogy (genre mix with this collection)
Frequency
Jurassic Park
Mission to Mars
Highlander
The Martian
Sphere
The War of the Worlds (original)
Star Trek Movies (with original cast)
Terminator (the first two movies)
Gettysburg
Gods and Generals
Sahara (with Humphrey Bogart)
The Caine Mutiny
The Dirty Dozen
Das Boot (one of the finest submarine movies ever)
From Here to Eternity (more like a drama in a war setting)
Flyboys (World War I aerial Dogfights)
The Great Escape (with Steve McQueen)
Ghostbusters
Groundhog Day
Grumpy Old Men
Gremlins
The Great Outdoors
Uncle Buck
Summer Rental
Porky's
Multiplicity
The Dream Team
Short Circuit
Ben-Hur (with Charlton Heston)
The Last Samurai
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Hunt for Red October
In the Heart of the Sea
Outlander (similar to Beowulf)
The 13th Warrior (also similar to Beowulf)
The Secret of NIMH
The Flowers of War
Heaven Can Wait (1978);
A Shot in the Dark;
The Pink Panther;
The Party;
The Thing from Another World;
The Equalizer;
Kingsman: The Secret Service;
Get Carter (2000);
The Great Escape.
Tomb Stone
They Might be Giants
Zotz
A Boy and his Dog
Road House
The Outlaw Josie Wales

Depending on the week I may do more than one.
a gigdet movie(?)
Shirley Temple Movie
Harold Lloyrd

This is a copy and paste from Riverman for good directors.
Spielberg
Lucas
Tarantino
Spike Lee
Ron Howard
James Cameron
Ridley Scott
Coen Brothers
Scorsesi
Coppola
Google these guys and chain watch their work....very few clinkers in the lot Must see directors in my view

Depending on the week I may do more than one.
If you saw all of these, then your chances to be on Jeopardy are high. ---Sure love Coen Brothers work!!!
 
I need to watch movies. I haven't watched Animal house which apparently breaks S2 Rules!
Anyways so once a week I will watch a movie based of off s2 recommendations and review it in this thread.

Only Rule I have for suggestions is no Horror movies as those tend to freak out my kids.

Suggestions that were mentioned in the thread in the PTB forum are:
Animal House (I'm gonna find it this weekend). 1st Review 7.6/10
Paint Your Wagon
Kelly's Heroes
All of Me
The Jerk
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Razors Edge
I'm going to opt out of Debbie Does Dallas! heh. :)
Hook - This is one I've actually seen but it's been a while.
Citizen Kane - This was one of my favorite movies as a teen but I haven't seen in so Long I'll watch it again.
Stalag 17
Sunset Boulevard
My Name is Nobody
Evil Roy Slade
The Goonies
Good Fellas
Godfather Part 1 and 2
The Usual Suspects
The Wizard of Oz.
3:10 to Yuma
Duck Soup
Young Frankenstein
Caddyshack
Blazing Saddles
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Full Metal Jacket
Stripes
Solaris
White Christmas
Cinderella Man
Beautiful Mind
Master and Commander
Gladiator
Body of Lies
American Gangster
LA Confidential
History of the World Part 1
Spaceball
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
The Third Man
Lost Horizons
The Horn Blows at Midnight
Love Thy Neighbor
Support your Local Sheriff
Support your Local Gunfighter
The Apple Dumpling Gang
Sunset Blvd
The Big Country
To Kill a Mockingbird;
Gone with the Wind
Forbidden Planet
Soylent Green
WestSide Story
Oklahoma
South Pacific;
Mr. Roberts
2001 A Space Odyssey
Chinatown
Lawrence of Arabia
No Way Out (Kevin Costner)
Into the Night
Pulp Fiction
Get Shorty
Spiderman movies
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Jason and the Argonauts
12 Angry Men
The Ox-Bow Incident
The Grapes of Wrath
Open Range
Tombstone
The Stalking Moon
Coroner Creek
Ride the High Country
The Cowboys
True Grit (with John Wayne)
Big Jake
Broken Trail (A veteran cowboy and his nephew save five Chinese girls from prostitution while herding their horses from Oregon to Wyoming)
Crossfire Trail
Last Stand at Sabre River
Quigley Down Under
Forsaken
The Magnificent Seven (with Yul Brynner)
Westworld
Apollo 13
A Walk to Remember (Coming of age kind of love story)
The Choice
The Family Man
Pretty in Pink
Mr. Destiny
Stand By Me
Secondhand Lions
Philadelphia
Milo and Otis (family oriented)
Babe (also family oriented)
Oblivion
The Thirteenth Floor
Planet of the Apes (with Charlton Heston)
The Last Man on Earth (with Vincent Price)
Back to the Future Trilogy (genre mix with this collection)
Frequency
Jurassic Park
Mission to Mars
Highlander
The Martian
Sphere
The War of the Worlds (original)
Star Trek Movies (with original cast)
Terminator (the first two movies)
Gettysburg
Gods and Generals
Sahara (with Humphrey Bogart)
The Caine Mutiny
The Dirty Dozen
Das Boot (one of the finest submarine movies ever)
From Here to Eternity (more like a drama in a war setting)
Flyboys (World War I aerial Dogfights)
The Great Escape (with Steve McQueen)
Ghostbusters
Groundhog Day
Grumpy Old Men
Gremlins
The Great Outdoors
Uncle Buck
Summer Rental
Porky's
Multiplicity
The Dream Team
Short Circuit
Ben-Hur (with Charlton Heston)
The Last Samurai
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Hunt for Red October
In the Heart of the Sea
Outlander (similar to Beowulf)
The 13th Warrior (also similar to Beowulf)
The Secret of NIMH
The Flowers of War
Heaven Can Wait (1978);
A Shot in the Dark;
The Pink Panther;
The Party;
The Thing from Another World;
The Equalizer;
Kingsman: The Secret Service;
Get Carter (2000);
The Great Escape.
Tomb Stone
They Might be Giants
Zotz
A Boy and his Dog
Road House
The Outlaw Josie Wales
The Big Lebowski
One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest
Jackie Brown
A Clockwork Orange
2001 A Space Oddessy
Thin Red Line
Windtalkers
Duel
47 Ronin
The Mummy
Predator
The Posideon Adventure
The Running Man
Blade Runner
The Air up there
A Home of Our Own
Rounders
Casablanca
Celtic Pride
Frequency
Fargo
The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Fugitive
Volcano
Gladiator
The Breakfast Club
Stand By Me
Gattaca
Event Horizon
The Burbs
Pitch Black
Dead Poets Society
We were Soilders
Harts War
The Doors
Blow
Dark City
LA Confidential
Natural Born Killers
Donnie Brasco
Traffic
21 Grams
Reservior Dogs
Stargate
The Shining
Payback;
North by North West;
I Was a Male War Bride;
Bringing up Baby;
Topper;
Father Goose;
Monkey Business;
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison;
Night of the Living Dead;
Lonesome Dove
Iron Monkey
The Sting;
Last Night (1998 film starring Sandra Oh);
Judgement at Nuremburg;
Red River.


Depending on the week I may do more than one.
a gigdet movie(?)
Shirley Temple Movie
Harold Lloyrd

This is a copy and paste from Riverman for good directors.
Spielberg
Lucas
Tarantino
Spike Lee
Ron Howard
James Cameron
Ridley Scott
Coen Brothers
Scorsesi
Coppola
Google these guys and chain watch their work....very few clinkers in the lot Must see directors in my view

Depending on the week I may do more than one.
When/if you get around to watching The Big Lebowski, hit me up so I can join you. It's one of those "guy movies" that every dude is supposed to watch, and it's been on my list for a while, but I've still yet to see it.
 
When/if you get around to watching The Big Lebowski, hit me up so I can join you. It's one of those "guy movies" that every dude is supposed to watch, and it's been on my list for a while, but I've still yet to see it.
Sounds great! If you an evening or saturday open let me know, I dont have to do it in order.
 

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