Hacksaw Ridge - One of the most amazing war movie. Brace yourself because it's also hilarious.
Movie/film suggestions.
While this is of course a forum for the discussion of all things audio/hi-fi and music, pretty much all of us are also lovers of movies, the enjoyment of which is effected by the reproduction of the sound they contain (with the exception of silent movies 
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I've been focused on David Lynch movies since his death, but with current events so much a part of our lives at the moment, I plan on re-watching a movie I’ve seen only once, and years ago. That movie is:
The Madness Of King George. Apropos, no?
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@nonoise , I thought I was the only one who ever saw the Ninth Gate... |
I enjoyed Zodiac as well, @nonoise ; I generally like Jake Glyllenhaal and most of the movies he has been in. (As in, for example, Everest.) I’ve seen a lot of movies I liked that were based on factual events. A couple I just thought of were The Kill Team (2013 and 2019). 2013 is a straight up documentary consisting of interviews and it is about a group of GIs who were convicted of basically executing civilians in Afghanistan but claiming that the civilians were combatants. I was surfing movies on Tubi a few years ago and found that one by accident. The 2019 version was the movie that they based on the documentary. |
I am not really much of a Jeff Bridges fan, but I did enjoy his portrayal of Rooster Cogburn in the remake of True Grit; I liked him in Arlington Road (maybe because he got blown up at the end), and I also liked him in Masked And Anonymous (also featuring Bob Dylan, John Goodman, Jessica Lange, Val Kilmer and Luke Wilson). |
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Thank you, @thecarpathian , typo duly corrected: Almost Famous was a decent movie with a musical theme to it that had a serious plot but also had plenty of humor interjected. |
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+1 @nonoise for another vote for No Country For Old Men. I've listed several movies I enjoyed, but that is one of my all time favorites. |
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I didn't think Jeff Daniels was in Rancho, but then again, Sam Waterston was in it and that was back before I knew who he was, so I thought that maybe the same was possible for Jeff Daniels also. |
NASCAR has got to be the most boring spectator sport I have ever forced myself to try to watch, but Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby is hilarious. The interaction between Ricky Bobby's juvenile delinquent kids and their grandmother, the disfunctional relationship between Ricky Bobby and his father, the scenes in the movie where Ricky Bobby's dad is trying to teach him how to drive fast again . . . plus a great sound track! |
Being a Steve Carell fan I wanted to see Vice for his portrayal of Donald Rumsfield (with Christian Bale as Dick Cheney). I found it to be an interesting/entertaining movie. I also enjoyed The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei. And speaking of Mickey Rourke, I can just about watch Body Heat (William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Ted Danson) just for his (Rourke’s) classic lines: "I got a serious question for you: What the f*** are you doing? This is not s*** for you to be messin’ with. Are you ready to hear something? I want you to see if this sounds familiar: any time you try a decent crime, you got fifty ways you’re gonna f*** up. If you think of twenty-five of them, then you’re a genius -- and you ain’t no genius. You remember who told me that?" and "I hope you know what you’re doin’. You better be pretty damn sure about it, cause if you ain’t sure, don’t do it. Of course, that’s my recommendation anyway -- don’t do it. I tell you, counselor, this arson -- this is serious crime." And I thought it was a nice touch when, in the movie The Counselor, McCarthy uses that when Brad Pitt is advising Michael Fassbender, Westray: "Maybe I should tell you what Mickey Rourke told what’s-his-face? That’s my recommendation anyway, Counselor. Don’t do it." The Counselor: "Because arson is a serious crime?" Westray: "Yeah, and so is this." And there were a lot of other reasons that I liked Body Heat. |
At Any Price starring Dennis Quaid as a farmer/seed salesman in the mid-west was another movie I enjoyed. The actors seemed believable in their roles of everyday people in a life-situation that went sideways. I found We Need To Talk About Kevin (Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly) to be intense in a creepy sort of way. |
Here are a couple of more that I enjoyed and may not be super well known. I liked them because they both portrayed a gritty story that seemed believable to me, and although there were no superstars of the acting world, I thought that the actors that were cast did an okay job of coming off as realistic, Winter’s Bone (a google says 2010) did feature Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Dale Dickey . . . and was set in the Ozarks and involved a situational crisis related to poverty in the meth belt. I didn’t think Wind River was as good, but it was still quite watchable for me. Set on The Wind River Indian Reservation of Wyoming (which is no doubt partly the reason I enjoyed it--I could relate to the setting) it was a tale that revolved around the murder of a Native American woman. (I just did a google and see that it was a 2017 Taylor Sheridan Movie which doesn’t really win any points from me, as I cannot stand Yellowstone.) Anyway, it featured Jeremy Renner who came off a bit bigger than life, but I guess you gotta have that with Taylor Sheridan, and in my opinion he did not ruin the movie. Also featured were Elizabeth Olsen and Gil Birmingham. |
@immatthewj Matt Damon can be pretty powerful. So is Pacino. I was very pleasantly surprised with goofy old Ted Danson in Man on the Inside. One of the best performances ever, he is the coolest! |