Movie/film suggestions.

lol all cops have to do a desk pop!  Bang! 

That literally had me laughing out loud, @bassbuyer !  The reaction of the other cops, particularly Michael Keaton, was hilarious.  Will Ferrell does such a graet job of playing the role of a gullible naive individual.   

I think many of us got the joke, but the thread is so fun we didn't want it to go in that direction and get deleted.

That's possible; I had a beauty of a satirical movie title in mind, but I held back. 

Ha ha!  Nope.  And I am not going to put it out there and be the one who drives this thread over the cliff.

LOL!  Nope.  And I am not going to be the one to send it into loony canyon.  

I thought that Black Hawk Down was a pretty intense movie.

I remember a while back ago I watched Richard Jewell and I really was not expecting much, but I wound up thinking that it was a pretty good movie.  Sam Rockwell probably had a lot to do with that.

Speaking of Sam Rockwell, I watched The Way Way Back some time ago and I really enjoyed it.   It urns out to be a feel food drama with some moments of comedy woven in.  Sam Rockwell of course plays a laid back protagonist, but the role I was really interested in seeing was Steve Carrel's who basically played the antagonist of the story.

Did Sam Rockwell dance in that movie?

If he did, @thecarpathian , I do not remember that part.

Did he have a famous dancing scene in another movie he was in, or was that a not serious question?  (I am not super familiar with most of his movies..)  Anyway, in The Way Way Back, Rockwell portrays the nonchalant cool guy role, a water park employee, who takes a teenager under his wing for the summer.  So you can probably tell where that movie was going. But there are a lot of heart warming moments for those of us who like having our hearts warmed, and as I typed, Steve Carrel's portrayal  of the controlling condescending a-hole  boyfriend of the teenager's mother was  what I found interesting.  

Yes, it was a serious question.

I ask because I read an article that said he finds a way to dance in most movie’s he’s been in. He’s quite good.

Okay, @thecarpathian , I was not aware of that, and I will look for that from now on.

As I typed, if he did, that was not a part that I remember. But I can see where it could have been worked in. Basically he plays the role of this teenager’s mentor/role model for the summer. As I typed, he is a water-park employee, and as such he acts goofy and irresponsible and he plays pranks and can be quick with one liners and he has a relationship going on with the female manager of the water-park, so I can see where having a scene where he does some type of dance (I would think it would have been an exhibition of silliness) could have happened.

Speaking of Steve Carrel....check out Foxcatcher.

I totally agree, @slaw ! Foxcatcher was one of my previous picks. Besides Steve Carrel’s excellent portrayal of the increasingly unhinged heir to the Dupont family fortune, Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum were good together as David and Mark Schultz (Olympic wrestlers). I didn’t know it until I googled it a while back ago, but the surviving brother, Mark Schultz, played a role in the movie as a weigh in official. But Steve Carrel was great in that one--he is versatile.

Rewatched "Capote" recently. We lost a great actor in Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Agreed, @slaw . I liked him in most everything I’ve seen him in. Almost Famous and The Ides Of March immediately came to my mind, but there are so many others.

I don’t know why I had avoided or put off watching these two before, but this week I finally watched Kill The Irishman and The Doors.  I guess I finally watched them due to Val Kilmer’s recent death.

I thoroughly enjoyed Kill The Irishman, and I do remember when I was a teenager hearing about all the bombings that were happening in Cleveland sometime in the ’70s, so I also enjoyed it for that reason.

As far as The Doors, other than Wonderland, I was never a big fan of Val Kilmer.  However, I thought that his portrayal of Jim Morrison was at least okay if not better.  I guess one of the reasons that I put off watching that movie for over 30 years was that I remember reading Nobody Gets Out Of Here Alive on a 747 over the Pacific in ’83 when I was in the Air Force and after reading that I  always felt that I did not need to see the Hollywood version.  I remember after the movie first came out, I was talking to one of my old Air Force buddies on the phone and he was telling me what a good movie it was; I remember telling him that after reading Nobody Gets Out Of Here Alive and watching the VHS tape of The Doors Live At The Hollywood Bowl I didn’t feel the need to watch actors do a portrayal of the group.  The movie touched on a lot of what was in the book in some way/shape/form and for the most part it held my interest.   

On edit:  I just now did a google of Val Kilmer movies, and although his part does not stick in my mind on these two, I also enjoyed True Romance and Masked And Anonymous.