All the movies you must see

[g5000]

Capricorn One.

 

[Brick Gold]

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

I've heard that one a million times, saw it once with my grandpa.

 

[g5000]

I've heard that one a million times, saw it once with my grandpa.

Only once?!?!

 

[Brick Gold]

PlayTime (1967)

 

[Flopper]

Only once?!?!

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly broke the mold for westerns set in the 1930s. The western mold of the good guy in the white hat saving the town and the rancher's daughter from the bad guys and riding off into the sunset was developing serious cracks but after this movie, westerns would never be quite the same. This movie created a much bleaker, rougher, bloodier vision of the West than we we were use to seeing in westerns. The movie also introduced more visual language to deepen the audience's understanding of the characters, to drop clues of the past, and where the movie was going. In short, the story is told more by visual action than dialog.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly and it's predecessors, A Few Dollars More, and A Fist Full of Dollars gave birth to a number of spaghetti westerns such as:

• A Bullet for the General
• Death Rides a Horse
• Day of Anger
• Once upon a Time in the West
• The Great Silence
• Sabata
• They Call Me Trinity

Although the Spaghetti Westerns were pretty well gone by 1980, Sergio Leone's techniques have lived on in westerns and other genre.

 

[Brick Gold]

Movies I watched in 2022 that I rated 9 & 10 out of 10
Goldfinger (1964) 9/10
Inception (2010) 10/10
The Terminator (1984) 10/10
The Patriot (2000) 10/10
Star Wars (1977) 10/10
Edward Scissorhands (1990) 10/10
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) 10/10
The Wizard of Oz (1939) 10/10
The Last Picture Show (1972) 9/10
On The Waterfront (1954) 10/10
The Truman Show (1998) 9/10
Rocky (1976) 10/10
Legend (1985) 10/10
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) 10/10
Rescue Dawn (2006) 9/10
Vertigo (1958) 9/10
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) 10/10
Seven Samurai (1954) 10/10
Dial M For Murder (1954) 9/10
American Made (2017) 9/10
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) 9/10
Terminator 2 (1991) 10/10
The Princess Bride (1987) 9/10
Tombstone (1993) 9/10
Thunderball (1965) 9/10
Lord of War (2005) 9/10
Elevator to the Gallows (1958) 10/10
Braveheart (1995) 10/10
Sunset Boulevard (1950) 9/10
Mission: Impossible 3 (2006) 10/10
Pulp Fiction (1994) 10/10
Sweeney Todd (2007) 9/10
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) 9/10
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) 9/10
Night of the Living Dead (1968) 10/10
Dracula (1931) 10/10
Haxan (1922) 9/10
Breakdown (1997) 10/10
The Shining (1980) 10/10
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 10/10
Edge of Tomorrow (2014) 10/10
The Artist (2011) 9/10
Figures in a Landscape (1970) 9/10
PlayTime (1967) 10/10

 

[Flopper]

Again, I found it middling as a comedy, but that's me.

No review I've read fails to mention the 'culturally significant' theme. Pushing the leftwing agenda. That's what's big in Hollywood.

If you exclude the religious right, there is no real difference between conservatives and liberals in the kind movies they watch. The most important demographics are age, ethnicity, and education.

The people that make movies happen are the financial backers who put up the billions of dollars. Contrary to what a lot of people believe most of the financing for movies does not come from Hollywood celebrates but rather from investment companies that specialize in entertainment investments, movie distribution companies, streaming services, and TV networks. The only agenda these investors have is making money.

https://sphinxpoland.pl/application/files/3716/1513/4702/article_impact_demo_lifestyle_personality_on_movieconsumption.pdf

 

[Brick Gold]

Rocky IV (1985)

 

[Brick Gold]

The Wild Bunch (1969)

 

[22lcidw]

Capricorn One.

I liked that movie. However, living in a cramped Apollo capsule for several months to get to Mars and several more to get back to Earth is not feasible and doable just for health reasons. Of course, there were other things wrong with the spacecraft for the movie.

 

[Brick Gold]

The Company You Keep (2012)

 

[lg325]

If you like drama---------- madam x and imitation of life. two good drama movies with topnotch actors

 

[Brick Gold]

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The Company You Keep (2012)

6/10 Not bad, something to watch, soothing visuals.

 

[Brick Gold]

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Once Upon a Time (1944)

I finally watched Once Upon A Time. Hard to say something about this. Premise of the story is a big theater boss is flopping and losing his funders, then discovers a boy with a dancing caterpillar and tries to turn the act into a sensation. It's amusing and funny because how stupid it is and it's hard to believe that even a kid would get into a movie like this because it's so dumb.

5/10
Professionally done, you can see in some scenes that Cary Grant really isn't gelling with the script. Its the plot and story that kills the rating. A casual look into the 1940s, historical importance I suppose.

 

[Brick Gold]

The Man in the White Suit (1951)

 

[Brick Gold]

Casa de mi Padre (2012)

 

[Flopper]

Prime continues to show that it has one of the best collection of streaming series, although the number is small compared to Netflix. The series English is a good example. The basic plot is a woman seeks revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son. It takes place in the America west in the 19th century. It is violent and occasion very bloody. It is beautifully filmed and acted. This is a western, that feels a lot like 1883 so if you enjoyed that, you will probably like this one.

I finally watched Once Upon A Time. Hard to say something about this. Premise of the story is a big theater boss is flopping and losing his funders, then discovers a boy with a dancing caterpillar and tries to turn the act into a sensation. It's amusing and funny because how stupid it is and it's hard to believe that even a kid would get into a movie like this because it's so dumb.

5/10
Professionally done, you can see in some scenes that Cary Grant really isn't gelling with the script. Its the plot and story that kills the rating. A casual look into the 1940s, historical importance I suppose.

 

[Flopper]

I finally watched Once Upon A Time. Hard to say something about this. Premise of the story is a big theater boss is flopping and losing his funders, then discovers a boy with a dancing caterpillar and tries to turn the act into a sensation. It's amusing and funny because how stupid it is and it's hard to believe that even a kid would get into a movie like this because it's so dumb.

5/10
Professionally done, you can see in some scenes that Cary Grant really isn't gelling with the script. Its the plot and story that kills the rating. A casual look into the 1940s, historical importance I suppose.

One of Grant's lesser known films and for good reasons. I saw this over 50 years ago. The premise for movie is pretty silly. I doubt that even Grant could make this a money maker.

 

[Ringo]

 

[Brick Gold]

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The Man in the White Suit (1951)

6/10