The MOVIE thread

[Baz]

Watching 'Wild Wild West' (the TV show) right now....on ME TV.

One of the best TV shows ever made, IMHO.....

[Oh Haha]

Originally Posted by Baz

Watching 'Wild Wild West' (the TV show) right now....on ME TV.

One of the best TV shows ever made, IMHO.....

Cool! I had a Jim West doll, er action figure, when I was a youngin'.


I'm watching Josey Wales on AMC right now. Not much for watching Christmas movies.

[stevej37]

A must watch...at least once during the Christmas season!

[sc_rufctr]

"The Magnificent Seven" (2016)... OK but nothing original and completely unrealistic.
Save your money and see something else.

[Brian 162]

Absence of Malice (1981) Paul Newman and Sally Field. I saw it for the first time yesterday, pretty good movie.

[sc_rufctr]

I was channel surfing and this caught my interest.
It's almost a chick flick but way better than most. My GF liked it.

[craigster59]

Originally Posted by Baz

Watching 'Wild Wild West' (the TV show) right now....on ME TV.

One of the best TV shows ever made, IMHO.....

I have the whole series on DVD, my favorite show as a kid.

TCM had a Hitchcock marathon yesterday, caught Vertigo and Rear Window. Both great movies.

[techweenie]

I don't know how many people have experimented with watching Internet TV, but...

comettv.com streams a lot of sci-fi B movies & series.

As an app, Pluto TV has a huge range of channels, including one just for MST3K

http://pluto.tv/guide/

[DanielDudley]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

I was channel surfing and this caught my interest.
It's almost a chick flick but way better than most. My GF liked it.

It's better than a chick flick, it is real life soul searching.

[widgeon13]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

I was channel surfing and this caught my interest.
It's almost a chick flick but way better than most. My GF liked it.

Will catch it tonight!

Watched it as promised, good message and entertaining.

[Baz]

Tonight at 8 eastern on "Movies'.....

In my humble opinion...the best 'football' movie ever made, the best Nick Nolte movie ever made, with the best ending a movie has ever had. Based on the best selling 1973 novel by *Peter Gent.

In a society in which major league sporting events have replaced Sunday worship as the religion of choice, North Dallas Forty appears like a desecration at the altar. In this film, directed by Ted Kotcheff (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz), the National Football League is revealed to be more about the money than the game. Nick Nolte is North Dallas Bulls pass-catcher Phillip Elliott, whose cynicism and independent spirit is looked upon as troublesome by team coaches Johnson (Charles Durning) and Strothers (G.D. Spradlin) and team owner Conrad Hunter (Steve Forrest). Elliot, at the end of his career and wise to the way players are bought and sold like cattle, goes through the games pumped up on painkillers conveniently provided by the management. His teammates include savvy quarterback Maxwell (Mac Davis) and lunk-headed defensive lineman Jo Bob Priddy (Bo Svenson), who deal with the impersonality and back-biting of the game through off-field diversions. When the Bulls management benches Elliot after manipulating him to help train a fellow teammate, Elliot has to decide whether there is more to life than the game that he loves.

*After leaving professional football, Gent wrote a semi-autobiographical novel titled North Dallas Forty, for which he will be remembered the most. Many have hypothesized that the main characters of the book, a quarterback and a wide receiver, are based on Gent and Don Meredith. The novel, published in 1973, exposed the seamier side of American football. It examines the NFL's hypocrisy regarding drug use—as heavy use of painkillers is recklessly encouraged to keep players on the field but personal use of marijuana and narcotics is frowned on. The book was made into a movie of the same name in 1979 starring Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, G.D. Spradlin, and Dayle Haddon. Gent wrote the screenplay for the film.

[sc_rufctr]

Just re-watched this. The last time I saw it was over 30 years ago.

Still a great movie.

[Fast Freddy 944]

Planet of the apes, good classic!Godzirra films are cool also...

[stevej37]

July 2017

[Baz]

"Patton" is one of my favs, Peter!

Watched a couple good WW II flicks today.....





Then a classic Jimmy Stewart western.....

[stevej37]

A classic by Oliver Stone... loaded with stars

[Baz]

Watching "The Expendables 3" on Spike......good to see Kelsey Grammer in a role like this!

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Baz

Watching "The Expendables 3" on Spike......good to see Kelsey Grammer in a role like this!

Great movie. Darn funny.

[Brian 162]

Tuesday the 10th on TCM. Papillon at 8. Escape From Alcatraz at 10:30

[Baz]

Originally Posted by Brian 162

Tuesday the 10th on TCM. Papillon at 8. Escape From Alcatraz at 10:30

Thanks, Brian....two classics, for sure!

Just finished watching "A Prayer for the Dying" (1987) with Mickey Rourke:



And now watching "The Killers" (1946) on TCM with Burt Lancaster (in his film debut) and Ava Gardner: