Movie/film suggestions.

@mylogic: To be perfectly honest, my original motive for the thread was to make a joke about the current head of the U.S. government,

the thread didn’t turn ugly, or get deleted. 

I found that unbelievable!  I think the joke you were making was missed by many, @bdp24 .

Oops!  Too late for an edit, @bassbuyer , I typed "desk top" but what I was referring to was the "desk-pop" scene in The Other Guys.

I am not usually crazy about westerns, but I enjoyed Tom Horn (1980) with Steve McQueen as Tom Horn and costarring Richard Farnsworth and Slim Pickens. Set in Wyoming, Tom Horn is hired by the cattle ranchers to curtail cattle rustling by whatever means he chooses that will work.

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

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.

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. 

'Idiocracy'?

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

'Dumb and Dumber'?

'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'?

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

For its soundtrack, Round Midnight.

For cinematic excellence, Cinema Paradiso.

Most perfect movie, Casablanca.

@aewarren: I've lost count of how many times I've watched Casablanca, but when I see it coming up on TCM I watch it again every time. A top 10 movie of all time for sure. Same with Sunset Blvd., The Apartment, Dr. Strangelove, Chinatown, The Last Picture Show, a couple dozen more. A few dozen in my all time top 10? Sure, why not? 

The King of Staten Island. Pete Davidson is so funny 😂

Misery...... James Caan & Kathy Bates.

One film that I don't think I've seen mentioned is Matchstick Men with Nicholas Cage and Sam Rockwell. Kind of a The Sting variant, but just who gets stung? The sub-plot involves Cage's character trying to make connections with a daughter he didn't know he had.

For those whose taste runs to Gothic Horror, I heartily recommend The Others. It stars Nicole Kidman as a mother with two children suffering from an odd malady (an aversion to sunlight), living in an old Southern mansion, waiting for her husband to return from fighting in the United States Civil War.

The story slowly (but not boringly) unfolds as strange things start happening in (and around) the house, all leading to a surprise twist ending. Very spooky and chilling!

@bdp24 ,

Great movie!

But...It takes place in 1945 on the Channel Island of Jersey off the coast of France.

It won a serious amount of awards, yet I don't know a lot of people who have seen it.

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

Damn @thecarpathian, I wasn't even close! Wrong continent, wrong century, wrong war. Now I REALLY want to see it again.

@bdp24 ,

I think I saw it at the movies, then just one more time after that. Time for me to see it again, too.

As to Casablanca, it has some of the greatest lines in movie history. I can watch it over and over myself.

@thecarpathian

l watched ‘’Cussandbanter’’ in the last few days…..it was much longer than I remember but this time in full colour and hi-fi sound.

One great line that will live in infamy……’’Of all the Jack Daniel’s oval offices in the world, he had to walk back into……’’

I admit to liking films leaning towards the dark side at times. Jim Carrey's character in "Dark Crimes" was mesmerizing IMO. Filmed in B&W for added effect.

A Portland-based radio station has a segment called The Score. KQAC 88.9. Nothing but great movie music with excellent commentary by the host Edmund Stone. Airs Saturday and Sunday afternoons at 2pm.

You don't need to be local, I believe they are the largest classical streaming station. I listen all the time. Great programming.

To clarify br3098’s post, the Portland station is All Classical Radio, aka All Classical Portland, KQAC 89.9. I listen to it through TuneIn. And the programming is great. I especially enjoy the late night, early morning programming.

So many I could suggest. Will limit to just 3:

IT FOLLOWS: Not a big budget & no big names (though Maika Monroe has come on strong in subsequent films) -- but a brilliant & deeply observant SciFi concept here

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3235888/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1

UNDER THE SKIN: More brilliant sci-fi. The movie is stunning; so's the soundtrack.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=under+the+skin

BURNING: One of the most mysterious, haunting films ever. I still think about the ending.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=under+the+skin

@br3098 and @jimcrane: Yep, that's the Classical station I also listen to (it's on one of my car radio's preset buttons). I especially like that they play complete works, not just, for instance, one movement of a symphony. They treat their audience as adults.

"A Man Called Otto" 

Explores dark themes with a positive twist. Who thought the fresh faced Tom Hanks could evolve in any role he chose.

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.

+Sam Rockwell 

His performance In "The Green Mile" was wonderful.

@slaw: Yeah Steve, The Green Mile was the first performance by Rockwell I saw, and was knocked out by him. The only other movie I've seen him in is the Three Billboards one. It's funny, I didn't think he was great in that one, yet he won an Academy Award for best supporting actor in it.

Philadelphia.......an important film at the time. Still holds up.

Army Of One. Inspired by a true story.....Nick Cage goes on a mission from God (Russell Brand) to capture Osama Bin Laden and bring him back to face justice.

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.

@immatthewj ,

Did Sam Rockwell dance in that movie?

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.  

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

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.

@immatthewj ,

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.

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.

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

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.

Melissa McCarthy is hilarious in Tammy. In many more memorable roles as well. St. Vincent with McCarthy & Bill Murray is an excellent movie.

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.

I finally watched Oliver Stone's Snowden.  It kept my interest throughout. 

Just rewatched Glengarry Glen Ross. Some great acting!

Just rewatched Glengarry Glen Ross. Some great acting!

Oh hell yes!   Good pick, @slaw !  What a cast:  Pacino, Lemmon, Spacey, Ed Harris, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin. . . .

I haven't watched Pacific Heights recently, but that's another one I've watched more than once.  Matthew Modine and Melanie Griffith with a particularly good performance by Michael Keaton.

Keaton is a good actor.....plays a bad guy really well.