Looking for newer "old" movies for the cabin fever season

[sixdogs]

I don't watch a lot of movies and while it's nice to watch a few over the winter months, most of the modern ones are silly. Fake bullets bouncing off fake car fenders and fake explosions only mask poor acting, script and plot development plus a contempt for the audience. Nothing beats the old movies that capture every nuance of acting and reveal more with each successive viewing. The Maltese Falcon is a great example. Trouble is, I've seen most older movies and am looking for some newer "old" movies. Some can be classics and some could be stupid--no problem. It's a short winter here so maybe eight movies would do the trick.

Look, I have forgotten many--this is just what comes to mind at the moment and here's some of what I thought was good so far. In drama, it has to be The Godfather I and II, Apocalypse Now, Forrest Gump and Goodfellas. Also Platoon, It's a Wonderful Life and The Deer Hunter.

Comedy would include Annie Hall, Plains, Trains and Automobiles, Butch Cassidy, Caddyshack, Animal House, Blazing Saddles, It's a Mad, Mad World and maybe the Austin Powers series. Also Moonstruck and My Cousin Vinny.

Westerns are good and some that come to mind are High Noon, The Shootist or most with John Wayne, My Darling Clementine with Henry Fonda, and the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns.

One of my favorites is the Italian subtitled and Academy Award winner for best foreign film, Cinema Paradiso. You had to be there.

Chick Flicks don't do much for me unless gratuitous skin is involved. The last movie I recall was An Officer and a Gentleman from the 1980's but I slept through most of it. Wait--I did like On Golden Pond with Henry Fonda.

Thanks in advance.

 

[jeff9366]

Where I am in Florida the Public Library has a very large inventory of DVDs available. You check them out the same way as library books.

I used to take and occasional whiskey. I think the timely film BAD SANTA accurately portrays serial hangovers in addition to being very funny.

 

[sixdogs]

Where I am in Florida the Public Library has a very large inventory of DVDs available. You check them out the same way as library books.

Yes, that's my plan and I forgot to mention a nearby library has access to most every DVD around.

 

[dave1949]

A search method, Google the Academy Award winners for the past 50 years, or Google an actor/actress you like and refresh your memory on films they appeared in.

 

[murphy1244]

Can't forget" Blazing Saddles".

 

[mjarrels]

Any thing with Steve McQueen or Charles Bronson.

mark

 

[MossRoad]

The Russians are coming the Russians are coming.
The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966) - IMDb

Shooter
Shooter (2007) - IMDb

Super 8
Super 8 (2011) - IMDb

She's the man
She's the Man (2006) - IMDb

All of the Star Wars flicks.

 

[RoyJackson]

Any thing with Steve McQueen or Charles Bronson.

mark

Yep...just watched "Bullit" yesterday....as good as it was when I first saw it!

 

[sseelhoff]

Open Range and Broken Trail are two great westerns. Both feature Robert Duvall, and are well done.

True Grit-the original and the remake-are both good in different ways.

For humor, The Big Lebowski is pretty funny. It's one of those movies that I will watch if scanning channels and see it.

Just saw "The Patriot" again yesterday. Also like the movie "Ghandi" with Ben Kingsley. Another one of those movies I will always stop channel surfing and watch. I saw it 2-3 times in the theater, and a half a dozen times more on television.

Gallipoli is also good. Austrialian Light Cavelry during WWI in Turkey. Great story. In case you cannot tell, I enjoy historical/historical fiction movies (and books, too)

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I don't watch a lot of movies and while it's nice to watch a few over the winter months, most of the modern ones are silly. Fake bullets bouncing off fake car fenders and fake explosions only mask poor acting, script and plot development plus a contempt for the audience. Nothing beats the old movies that capture every nuance of acting and reveal more with each successive viewing. The Maltese Falcon is a great example. Trouble is, I've seen most older movies and am looking for some newer "old" movies. Some can be classics and some could be stupid--no problem. It's a short winter here so maybe eight movies would do the trick.

Look, I have forgotten many--this is just what comes to mind at the moment and here's some of what I thought was good so far. In drama, it has to be The Godfather I and II, Apocalypse Now, Forrest Gump and Goodfellas. Also Platoon, It's a Wonderful Life and The Deer Hunter.

Comedy would include Annie Hall, Plains, Trains and Automobiles, Butch Cassidy, Caddyshack, Animal House, Blazing Saddles, It's a Mad, Mad World and maybe the Austin Powers series. Also Moonstruck and My Cousin Vinny.

Westerns are good and some that come to mind are High Noon, The Shootist or most with John Wayne, My Darling Clementine with Henry Fonda, and the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns.

One of my favorites is the Italian subtitled and Academy Award winner for best foreign film, Cinema Paradiso. You had to be there.

Chick Flicks don't do much for me unless gratuitous skin is involved. The last movie I recall was An Officer and a Gentleman from the 1980's but I slept through most of it. Wait--I did like On Golden Pond with Henry Fonda.

Thanks in advance.

Looks like you and like a lot of the same thing; I have a few suggestions that you might like. Don't know anything about the availability, but here are some of the best old movies I have ever seen.

My number one recommendation is a movie with Steve McQueen, entitled "Tom Horn". This is probably the most realistic Westerns I have ever seen, and is based on the trial of the real life Tom Horn.

My number 2 is an Australian "Western", entitled "The Proposition". Excellent movie, and a bit off the beaten path, so to speak. Great performances; John Hurt especially.

Number 3 is a silent movie. Yes, I said silent...it's entitled "The Cameraman". One of the funniest movies you will ever see; with Buster Keaton. The version I saw was astonishingly clear and sharp, in black and white of course, but could have been taken yesterday.

Number 4 would be "Sunset Boulevard" if you haven't seen it, with Wm. Holden and Gloria Swanson.

Number 5 would be "Treasure of the Sierra Madre", with Tim Holt, Humphrey Bogart and John Houston.

I also liked "The Quiet Man", with John Wayne...it also has some "chick flick" elements; it appeals to men and women both. One of the Duke's finest... next to "The Shootist".

We recently watched the newly released "Last Vegas". This was one the best new movies I have seen. Well done; veteran actors and very funny.

If you haven't seen the older version of "Where the Red Fern Grows", it's a must. I loved it; growing up in Oklahoma, I could relate. Think it was released maybe in the late 70's or early 80's, don't know for sure, but it starred Jack Ging and James Whitmore. Excellent movie, about a boy during the depression, who loved coon hunting and saved his money to buy a pair of coon hounds...but it was more than that; it was about their struggles being poor and growing up in a wild and wooly rural area of Oklahoma.