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Strolling through the list of actors in the 70's I randomly thought of the Donald Sutherland movie Eye of the Needle. I remember it being quite good.
I really liked the list of movies with bad scores. Many of those do seem way too low. Probably my all time favorite movie no one knows is Diggstown, which has a criminally low score imo but doesn't fall into the dregs of what you listed.
I really liked the list of movies with bad scores. Many of those do seem way too low. Probably my all time favorite movie no one knows is Diggstown, which has a criminally low score imo but doesn't fall into the dregs of what you listed.
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A few more lesser known supporting actors worth checking out for their work if anyone wants to do more mini marathons...
ELIAS KOTEAS
The Prophecy, Fallen, Shooter, Sugartime, The Thin Red Line, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Shutter Island, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt Pupil, Zodiac, Collateral Damage, Some Kind of Wonderful, Tucker: The Man and His Dream
ANTONIO FARGAS
Shaft, Whore, Across 110th Street, Pretty Baby, Busting, Foxy Brown, Cleopatra Jones, The Gambler, Car Wash, Next Stop Greenwich Village, Shakedown, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Firestarter.
PAUL McCRANE
Fame, Robocop, Rocky 2, The Blob, Purple Hearts, Strapped ... then became more of a TV guy.
RICHARD LYNCH
An interesting story...high on acid one day he set himself on fire and burned his face off. Still had a good acting career after that.
Scarecrow, Open Season, Halloween (2007), Alcatraz: the Whole Shocking Story (TV movie) ... but he did mostly terrible straight to video movies or else TV. He guested on a lot of classic shows and if you can find his episodes it could be a starting point to seeing if you want to check out more of the show, aside from seeing him in action.
- Streets of San Francisco, Hunter, Baretta, Battlestar Galactica, Serpico, Buck Rogers, Charlie's Angels, Airwolf, Star Trek: TNG, Six Feet Under. Somehow he never did Miami Vice.
MICHAEL WINCOTT
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, The Crow, Alien: Resurrection, Basquiat, Talk Radio, 1492, The Doors, Romeo is Bleeding, The Three Musketeers, Dead Man, Strange Days, Along Came a Spider, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
CLIFF CURTIS
Training Day, Whale Rider, Collateral Damage, Doctor Sleep, Sunshine, The Piano, Bringing Out the Dead, Fracture, The Fountain.
GARRETT DILLAHUNT
No Country for Old Men, Last House on the Left, Looper, 12 Years a Slave, The Road.
CLANCY BROWN
Highlander, Bad Boys, The Hurricane, The Shawshank Redemption, Starship Troopers, The Bride, Shoot to Kill, Blue Steel, Last Light.
MICHAEL IRONSIDE
Scanners, Nuremberg, Total Recall, X-Men First Class, The Machinist, Turbo Kid, Starship Troopers, Top Gun.
JAMES TOLKAN
Top Gun, Serpico, Back to the Future 1-3, Bone Tomahawk (playing piano for a minute at the start), WarGames, Opportunity Knocks, The Amityville Horror, Wolfen, Author Author, Armed and Dangerous.
BRIAN THOMPSON
Cobra, Lionheart, The Terminator, Alien Nation, Miracle Mile, Dragonheart, and a noteworthy episode of Star Trek TNG.
RON SILVER
Timecop, Blue Steel, Mr. Saturday Night, The Arrival, Reversal of Fortune, Semi-Tough, Romancing the Stone, Married to it.
ROBERT PROSKY
Thief, Hoffa, Mrs. Doubtfire, Last Action Hero, The Natural, The Lords of Discipline, The Keep, Broadcast News, Outrageous Fortune, Big Shots, The Great Outdoors, Things Change, Gremlins 2, Far and Away, Green Card, Rudy, Miracle on 34th Street, The Chamber, Dead Man Walking, Mad City, The Scarlet Letter, Eye See You / D-Tox, Death to Smoochy.
JT WALSH
Good Morning Vietnam, Breakdown, A Few Good Men, Sling Blade, Hannah and Her Sisters, Tequila Sunrise, The Grifters, Misery, Outbreak, Narrow Margin, Backdraft, The Russia House, Hoffa, Sniper, Loaded Weapon 1, Needful Things, Red Rock West, The Client, The Last Seduction, Silent Fall, Nixon, Miracle on 34th Street, The Negotiator, Executive Decision, Pleasantville.
Those are the character actors where I thought it might be fun to watch the movies and take note of their appearances and performances. All of those should be at least worth a watch.
Who else might be fun to look up and/or watch for... ABE VIGODA (Look Who's Talking, The Godfather), HART BOCHNER (Die Hard, Mr. Destiny), ANDREW ROBINSON (Dirty Harry, Hellraiser), MIGUEL FERRER (Robocop, Traffic), IAN BANNEN (The Offence, Braveheart), HENRY SILVA (The Manchurian Candidate, Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai). Some damn fine actors. Andrew Robinson came up with the line "Jesus wept" on set to close out his character's story in Hellraiser.
In the OP I highlighted in yellow the list of leading actors who could give you a great marathon if you took their movies from the 1970s and 1980s.
Some of the following are obvious choices, but these are more leading actors in general whose filmographies would be worth a watch...at least the stuff that went to theaters or in the general years indicated...
Marlon Brando - no kidding really, but if you go beyond his legendary stuff you'll get some interesting movies like The Missouri Breaks with Jack Nicholson, Last Tango in Paris, The Island of Dr. Moreau, etc. He never descended into straight to video junk territory which is a blessing.
Michael Douglas - kind of a similar comment. Go through it all and you'll get some lesser known decent or at least watchable stuff at the beginning (Running, Coma) and the later years (King of California, Wonder Boys, Behind the Candelabra). There will be some junk to wade through in the post-Traffic years.
Kirk Douglas - hey, if you're doing Michael. You'll come across some forgotten decent stuff like Tough Guys and Amos.
James Dean - there aren't that many movies so it's pretty easy to cover them.
James Stewart - one of the best and most natural actors from the pre-Brando era.
Tom Cruise - @revoltub has this covered.
Clint Eastwood - @The Good The Bad The HBK has this covered.
Lee Van Cleef - @The Good The Bad The HBK has this covered.
James Coburn - they won't all be winners but there's plenty of good stuff. He was doing strong supporting work at the end like Affliction and Young Guns 2.
Arnold Schwarzenegger - 1976 to 2002 and then selected films.
Sylvester Stallone - 1973 to 2000 and then selected films.
Jean Claude Van Damme - 1985 to 1998 and then selected films.
Harrison Ford - 1973 to 2002 and then selected films.
Bruce Willis - Moonlighting and 1987 to 2007. You can stop a little before 2007 if so inclined.
Peter O'Toole - if you go to the end you'll get his last Oscar nomination for Venus and also some pretty awful, maybe so bad it's good stuff like Supergirl.
Gene Hackman - he got out of the game before he had to start making crap in any measurable quantity.
Sam Rockwell - a fantastic actor right from day one.
Viggo Mortensen - the same, you can see he has chops just from watching him listen at the table with the main characters with no lines in Witness. Then he started killing it with smaller roles in Young Guns 2 and The Prophecy. It was just a matter of time before he became an A-list leading man.
Sean Penn
Sidney Poitier - I mean he did end up doing stuff like To Sir With Love 2 as a TV movie...but nobody stays at the top forever. Except Tom Cruise apparently.
Leonardo DiCaprio - honestly en route to a Tom Cruise style run at the peak of the mountain...we'll see how long he holds up.
Denzel Washington - he's been doing it longer than Leo and damn near as long as Mr. Cruise.
Tom Hanks - see what I just said about Denzel. A Tom Hanks movie is less of an event now than a Denzel film, but he is still making stuff that is at least worth putting on film and watching. Obviously it takes no significant knowledge to recommend Tom Hanks films.
Matt Damon - hasn't had to do junk to pay the bills yet.
Steve McQueen - not too original a recommendation but he died before he could get old enough to think about having to make junk movies to pay the bills.
Rock Hudson - he was doing TV movies like World War 3 at the end but that was still worth a watch. Obviously he's a part of history not just for acting but for how he passed away.
Charlton Heston - I figure people might not see stuff like Soylent Green or The Omega Man or Planet of the Apes 2 otherwise. And of course there's his appearance in Fahrenheit 911 which I am guessing he would prefer to not have on his resume.
Peter Sellers
Henry Fonda
Robin Williams
Richard Gere
Edward Norton
Val Kilmer - he has done some interesting low key stuff like Felon, got started with a decent TV movie The Man Who Broke 1000 Chains. Did other at least okay mostly forgotten or overlooked stuff like At First Sight, The Island of Dr. Moreau and Real Genius.
Kevin Costner - he's a heck of a director too.
Michael Keaton - start to finish for the most part. Maybe descended into a bit more crap for money than Tom Hanks at some points but he is also doing better stuff than Hanks as of late like Spotlight and Birdman and The Founder. They had a similar trajectory you will see from comedy (Keaton started as a standup comedian) to serious drama. Keaton did probably make this transition a bit earlier with stuff like Clean and Sober.
Tupac Shakur - hey why not. He was a pretty decent actor, didn't make that many movies before he passed away, and none of them totally sucked.
Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez - they might be a little hard to take seriously now, especially Charlie, but their stuff from their first movie through to about 1996 is solid.
SOME ACTRESSES WHERE THEIR ENTIRE FILMOGRAPHY OR CLOSE TO IT IS WORTH A GOOD LOOK... (in addition to those highlighted in yellow in the OP)
Jodie Foster
Elizabeth Taylor
Audrey Hepburn
Katherine Hepburn
Meryl Streep
Julia Roberts - once she got the baton with Pretty Woman she held onto it and ran for a long time.
Frances McDormand
Sissy Spacek - may trail off in quality somewhere in the 90s.
Jessica Lange - may trail off in quality somewhere in the 90s.
Sigourney Weaver - Everything from the very start to maybe Alien Resurrection or Galaxy Quest and then a film here or there like Avatar.
ELIAS KOTEAS
The Prophecy, Fallen, Shooter, Sugartime, The Thin Red Line, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Shutter Island, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt Pupil, Zodiac, Collateral Damage, Some Kind of Wonderful, Tucker: The Man and His Dream
ANTONIO FARGAS
Shaft, Whore, Across 110th Street, Pretty Baby, Busting, Foxy Brown, Cleopatra Jones, The Gambler, Car Wash, Next Stop Greenwich Village, Shakedown, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Firestarter.
PAUL McCRANE
Fame, Robocop, Rocky 2, The Blob, Purple Hearts, Strapped ... then became more of a TV guy.
RICHARD LYNCH
An interesting story...high on acid one day he set himself on fire and burned his face off. Still had a good acting career after that.
Scarecrow, Open Season, Halloween (2007), Alcatraz: the Whole Shocking Story (TV movie) ... but he did mostly terrible straight to video movies or else TV. He guested on a lot of classic shows and if you can find his episodes it could be a starting point to seeing if you want to check out more of the show, aside from seeing him in action.
- Streets of San Francisco, Hunter, Baretta, Battlestar Galactica, Serpico, Buck Rogers, Charlie's Angels, Airwolf, Star Trek: TNG, Six Feet Under. Somehow he never did Miami Vice.
MICHAEL WINCOTT
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, The Crow, Alien: Resurrection, Basquiat, Talk Radio, 1492, The Doors, Romeo is Bleeding, The Three Musketeers, Dead Man, Strange Days, Along Came a Spider, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
CLIFF CURTIS
Training Day, Whale Rider, Collateral Damage, Doctor Sleep, Sunshine, The Piano, Bringing Out the Dead, Fracture, The Fountain.
GARRETT DILLAHUNT
No Country for Old Men, Last House on the Left, Looper, 12 Years a Slave, The Road.
CLANCY BROWN
Highlander, Bad Boys, The Hurricane, The Shawshank Redemption, Starship Troopers, The Bride, Shoot to Kill, Blue Steel, Last Light.
MICHAEL IRONSIDE
Scanners, Nuremberg, Total Recall, X-Men First Class, The Machinist, Turbo Kid, Starship Troopers, Top Gun.
JAMES TOLKAN
Top Gun, Serpico, Back to the Future 1-3, Bone Tomahawk (playing piano for a minute at the start), WarGames, Opportunity Knocks, The Amityville Horror, Wolfen, Author Author, Armed and Dangerous.
BRIAN THOMPSON
Cobra, Lionheart, The Terminator, Alien Nation, Miracle Mile, Dragonheart, and a noteworthy episode of Star Trek TNG.
RON SILVER
Timecop, Blue Steel, Mr. Saturday Night, The Arrival, Reversal of Fortune, Semi-Tough, Romancing the Stone, Married to it.
ROBERT PROSKY
Thief, Hoffa, Mrs. Doubtfire, Last Action Hero, The Natural, The Lords of Discipline, The Keep, Broadcast News, Outrageous Fortune, Big Shots, The Great Outdoors, Things Change, Gremlins 2, Far and Away, Green Card, Rudy, Miracle on 34th Street, The Chamber, Dead Man Walking, Mad City, The Scarlet Letter, Eye See You / D-Tox, Death to Smoochy.
JT WALSH
Good Morning Vietnam, Breakdown, A Few Good Men, Sling Blade, Hannah and Her Sisters, Tequila Sunrise, The Grifters, Misery, Outbreak, Narrow Margin, Backdraft, The Russia House, Hoffa, Sniper, Loaded Weapon 1, Needful Things, Red Rock West, The Client, The Last Seduction, Silent Fall, Nixon, Miracle on 34th Street, The Negotiator, Executive Decision, Pleasantville.
Those are the character actors where I thought it might be fun to watch the movies and take note of their appearances and performances. All of those should be at least worth a watch.
Who else might be fun to look up and/or watch for... ABE VIGODA (Look Who's Talking, The Godfather), HART BOCHNER (Die Hard, Mr. Destiny), ANDREW ROBINSON (Dirty Harry, Hellraiser), MIGUEL FERRER (Robocop, Traffic), IAN BANNEN (The Offence, Braveheart), HENRY SILVA (The Manchurian Candidate, Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai). Some damn fine actors. Andrew Robinson came up with the line "Jesus wept" on set to close out his character's story in Hellraiser.
In the OP I highlighted in yellow the list of leading actors who could give you a great marathon if you took their movies from the 1970s and 1980s.
Some of the following are obvious choices, but these are more leading actors in general whose filmographies would be worth a watch...at least the stuff that went to theaters or in the general years indicated...
Marlon Brando - no kidding really, but if you go beyond his legendary stuff you'll get some interesting movies like The Missouri Breaks with Jack Nicholson, Last Tango in Paris, The Island of Dr. Moreau, etc. He never descended into straight to video junk territory which is a blessing.
Michael Douglas - kind of a similar comment. Go through it all and you'll get some lesser known decent or at least watchable stuff at the beginning (Running, Coma) and the later years (King of California, Wonder Boys, Behind the Candelabra). There will be some junk to wade through in the post-Traffic years.
Kirk Douglas - hey, if you're doing Michael. You'll come across some forgotten decent stuff like Tough Guys and Amos.
James Dean - there aren't that many movies so it's pretty easy to cover them.
James Stewart - one of the best and most natural actors from the pre-Brando era.
Tom Cruise - @revoltub has this covered.
Clint Eastwood - @The Good The Bad The HBK has this covered.
Lee Van Cleef - @The Good The Bad The HBK has this covered.
James Coburn - they won't all be winners but there's plenty of good stuff. He was doing strong supporting work at the end like Affliction and Young Guns 2.
Arnold Schwarzenegger - 1976 to 2002 and then selected films.
Sylvester Stallone - 1973 to 2000 and then selected films.
Jean Claude Van Damme - 1985 to 1998 and then selected films.
Harrison Ford - 1973 to 2002 and then selected films.
Bruce Willis - Moonlighting and 1987 to 2007. You can stop a little before 2007 if so inclined.
Peter O'Toole - if you go to the end you'll get his last Oscar nomination for Venus and also some pretty awful, maybe so bad it's good stuff like Supergirl.
Gene Hackman - he got out of the game before he had to start making crap in any measurable quantity.
Sam Rockwell - a fantastic actor right from day one.
Viggo Mortensen - the same, you can see he has chops just from watching him listen at the table with the main characters with no lines in Witness. Then he started killing it with smaller roles in Young Guns 2 and The Prophecy. It was just a matter of time before he became an A-list leading man.
Sean Penn
Sidney Poitier - I mean he did end up doing stuff like To Sir With Love 2 as a TV movie...but nobody stays at the top forever. Except Tom Cruise apparently.
Leonardo DiCaprio - honestly en route to a Tom Cruise style run at the peak of the mountain...we'll see how long he holds up.
Denzel Washington - he's been doing it longer than Leo and damn near as long as Mr. Cruise.
Tom Hanks - see what I just said about Denzel. A Tom Hanks movie is less of an event now than a Denzel film, but he is still making stuff that is at least worth putting on film and watching. Obviously it takes no significant knowledge to recommend Tom Hanks films.
Matt Damon - hasn't had to do junk to pay the bills yet.
Steve McQueen - not too original a recommendation but he died before he could get old enough to think about having to make junk movies to pay the bills.
Rock Hudson - he was doing TV movies like World War 3 at the end but that was still worth a watch. Obviously he's a part of history not just for acting but for how he passed away.
Charlton Heston - I figure people might not see stuff like Soylent Green or The Omega Man or Planet of the Apes 2 otherwise. And of course there's his appearance in Fahrenheit 911 which I am guessing he would prefer to not have on his resume.
Peter Sellers
Henry Fonda
Robin Williams
Richard Gere
Edward Norton
Val Kilmer - he has done some interesting low key stuff like Felon, got started with a decent TV movie The Man Who Broke 1000 Chains. Did other at least okay mostly forgotten or overlooked stuff like At First Sight, The Island of Dr. Moreau and Real Genius.
Kevin Costner - he's a heck of a director too.
Michael Keaton - start to finish for the most part. Maybe descended into a bit more crap for money than Tom Hanks at some points but he is also doing better stuff than Hanks as of late like Spotlight and Birdman and The Founder. They had a similar trajectory you will see from comedy (Keaton started as a standup comedian) to serious drama. Keaton did probably make this transition a bit earlier with stuff like Clean and Sober.
Tupac Shakur - hey why not. He was a pretty decent actor, didn't make that many movies before he passed away, and none of them totally sucked.
Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez - they might be a little hard to take seriously now, especially Charlie, but their stuff from their first movie through to about 1996 is solid.
SOME ACTRESSES WHERE THEIR ENTIRE FILMOGRAPHY OR CLOSE TO IT IS WORTH A GOOD LOOK... (in addition to those highlighted in yellow in the OP)
Jodie Foster
Elizabeth Taylor
Audrey Hepburn
Katherine Hepburn
Meryl Streep
Julia Roberts - once she got the baton with Pretty Woman she held onto it and ran for a long time.
Frances McDormand
Sissy Spacek - may trail off in quality somewhere in the 90s.
Jessica Lange - may trail off in quality somewhere in the 90s.
Sigourney Weaver - Everything from the very start to maybe Alien Resurrection or Galaxy Quest and then a film here or there like Avatar.
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I was asked if I could take X number of movies if I were stuck on a desert island, what would they be. I guess this is the best barometer of my recommendations, but I think lots of these have been seen by the community here. And I was talking with @HUGHPHUG some time back about top 100 movies and stuff like that. Anyway, if it were 100 for the desert island my Sherfriends it would be something like this.
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
2001
The Abyss
Akira
Alien
Aliens
Apocalypto
Back to the Future
Better Off Dead
Black Rain
Blade Runner
Bloodsport
Braveheart
Carlito's Way
Carrie
Citizen X
Conan the Barbarian
Conspiracy (2001)
Death Wish
The Deliberate Stranger
Die Hard
Die Hard 2
Diggstown
Doctor Sleep
Downfall
Eddie and the Cruisers
Edge of Tomorrow
The Exorcist
First Blood
First Blood 2 (Rambo)
Fletch
The Fly (Goldblum)
Ghostbusters
Gladiator
The Godfather
The Godfather 2
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Great Expectations (1998)
Heat
The Heavenly Kid
Highlander
Jaws
The Karate Kid
Last of the Mohicans
Lethal Weapon
Logan's Run
The Lost Boys
Major League
Misery
No Country for Old Men
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Over the Top
The Pianist
Planet of the Apes
Platoon
Point Break
Predator
Predestination
Purple Rain
Red Dawn
The Road Warrior
Robocop
Rocky
Rocky 2
Rocky 3
Rocky 4
Runaway Train
The Running Man
Rush (2013)
Scarface
Schindler's List
Shadow of the Vampire
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
Shoah (Documentary)
Silence of the Lambs
Silver Bullet
Sing Street
Stakeout
Stand By Me
Star Wars Ep 4
Star Wars Ep 5 - The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars Ep 6 - Return of the Jedi
Staying Alive
Taxi Driver
Teen Wolf
The Terminator
Terminator 2
Three O'Clock High
Tombstone
Top Gun
Top Gun Maverick
Total Recall
True Grit (2010)
Unforgiven
Valkyrie
Wall Street
When a Stranger Calls
Wind River
Young Guns
Young Guns 2
Youngblood
Zodiac
(100)
And here I go overboard to provide suggestions for anyone here that wants to watch movies...
IF I HAD ANOTHER HUNDRED...
Alive
Almost Famous
American Beauty
American Pie
American Psycho
And Justice for All
Apocalypse Now
Batman 1989
A Better Tomorrow (Chinese)
Beverly Hills Cop
Boogie Nights
The Bounty (Mel Gibson)
The Breakfast Club
Casino
Cast Away
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
Cocktail
Commando
Cop Land
The Counterfeiters (German)
Crimson Tide
Crocodile Dundee
Crossroads
Dances with Wolves
Deliverance
The Dirty Dozen
Eddie and the Cruisers 2
Escape from New York
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Flashdance
Footloose
Forrest Gump
The Fugitive
Ghost
Ghostbusters 2
The Godfather 3
The Golden Child
Goodfellas
The Grey
Groundhog Day
Hell or High Water
Hellraiser
The Hunger Games
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Interstellar
Interview with the Vampire
Invincible (Mark Wahlberg)
The Killer (Chinese)
The Last Samurai
Legends of the Fall
Lethal Weapon 2
Lock Up
The Longest Yard (original)
Marathon Man
The Matrix
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Moon
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Oblivion
An Officer and a Gentleman
Opportunity Knocks
Planet of the Apes 2 (Beneath the Planet of the Apes)
The Pledge
The Prestige
Pretty Woman
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rambo 3
Rambo 4
Red Dragon
The Revenant
Revenge of the Nerds
Risky Business
Rocky 5
Rocky 6 (Balboa)
Rocky 7 (Creed)
Rolling Thunder
Romancing the Stone
Say Anything
Seconds (Rock Hudson)
Serpico
Se7en
Sicario
Silent Running
Slap Shot
Sleepers
Source Code
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan
Superman
Superman 2
Terms of Endearment
There's Something About Mary
The Thing (1982)
Tron
Troy
Weird Science
When Harry Met Sally
Working Girl
The Wraith
(100)
Now that's a movie marathon my brothers and sisters... Two hundred BMMA approved selections.
Given that it's a desert island, rewatchability was at a premium as were movies with good music (don't know if I'm allowed music as well on the island) and the latter really helped out movies like Footloose and Flashdance.
Lack of personal rewatchability hurt some very good movies that I would gladly recommend like The Conversation or Gandhi or The Elephant Man and Coming Home. Rewatchability boosted some movies I wouldn't rate as an all time favorite like Godfather 3.
Not all are Oscar winners but all were a decent time at a minimum. Some are flawed but have really good parts that justify the movie’s existence and make it worth one or more viewings. And some are universally acclaimed classics that it took no courage to recommend at all.
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
2001
The Abyss
Akira
Alien
Aliens
Apocalypto
Back to the Future
Better Off Dead
Black Rain
Blade Runner
Bloodsport
Braveheart
Carlito's Way
Carrie
Citizen X
Conan the Barbarian
Conspiracy (2001)
Death Wish
The Deliberate Stranger
Die Hard
Die Hard 2
Diggstown
Doctor Sleep
Downfall
Eddie and the Cruisers
Edge of Tomorrow
The Exorcist
First Blood
First Blood 2 (Rambo)
Fletch
The Fly (Goldblum)
Ghostbusters
Gladiator
The Godfather
The Godfather 2
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Great Expectations (1998)
Heat
The Heavenly Kid
Highlander
Jaws
The Karate Kid
Last of the Mohicans
Lethal Weapon
Logan's Run
The Lost Boys
Major League
Misery
No Country for Old Men
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Over the Top
The Pianist
Planet of the Apes
Platoon
Point Break
Predator
Predestination
Purple Rain
Red Dawn
The Road Warrior
Robocop
Rocky
Rocky 2
Rocky 3
Rocky 4
Runaway Train
The Running Man
Rush (2013)
Scarface
Schindler's List
Shadow of the Vampire
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
Shoah (Documentary)
Silence of the Lambs
Silver Bullet
Sing Street
Stakeout
Stand By Me
Star Wars Ep 4
Star Wars Ep 5 - The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars Ep 6 - Return of the Jedi
Staying Alive
Taxi Driver
Teen Wolf
The Terminator
Terminator 2
Three O'Clock High
Tombstone
Top Gun
Top Gun Maverick
Total Recall
True Grit (2010)
Unforgiven
Valkyrie
Wall Street
When a Stranger Calls
Wind River
Young Guns
Young Guns 2
Youngblood
Zodiac
(100)
And here I go overboard to provide suggestions for anyone here that wants to watch movies...
IF I HAD ANOTHER HUNDRED...
Alive
Almost Famous
American Beauty
American Pie
American Psycho
And Justice for All
Apocalypse Now
Batman 1989
A Better Tomorrow (Chinese)
Beverly Hills Cop
Boogie Nights
The Bounty (Mel Gibson)
The Breakfast Club
Casino
Cast Away
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
Cocktail
Commando
Cop Land
The Counterfeiters (German)
Crimson Tide
Crocodile Dundee
Crossroads
Dances with Wolves
Deliverance
The Dirty Dozen
Eddie and the Cruisers 2
Escape from New York
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Flashdance
Footloose
Forrest Gump
The Fugitive
Ghost
Ghostbusters 2
The Godfather 3
The Golden Child
Goodfellas
The Grey
Groundhog Day
Hell or High Water
Hellraiser
The Hunger Games
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Interstellar
Interview with the Vampire
Invincible (Mark Wahlberg)
The Killer (Chinese)
The Last Samurai
Legends of the Fall
Lethal Weapon 2
Lock Up
The Longest Yard (original)
Marathon Man
The Matrix
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Moon
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Oblivion
An Officer and a Gentleman
Opportunity Knocks
Planet of the Apes 2 (Beneath the Planet of the Apes)
The Pledge
The Prestige
Pretty Woman
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rambo 3
Rambo 4
Red Dragon
The Revenant
Revenge of the Nerds
Risky Business
Rocky 5
Rocky 6 (Balboa)
Rocky 7 (Creed)
Rolling Thunder
Romancing the Stone
Say Anything
Seconds (Rock Hudson)
Serpico
Se7en
Sicario
Silent Running
Slap Shot
Sleepers
Source Code
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan
Superman
Superman 2
Terms of Endearment
There's Something About Mary
The Thing (1982)
Tron
Troy
Weird Science
When Harry Met Sally
Working Girl
The Wraith
(100)
Now that's a movie marathon my brothers and sisters... Two hundred BMMA approved selections.
Given that it's a desert island, rewatchability was at a premium as were movies with good music (don't know if I'm allowed music as well on the island) and the latter really helped out movies like Footloose and Flashdance.
Lack of personal rewatchability hurt some very good movies that I would gladly recommend like The Conversation or Gandhi or The Elephant Man and Coming Home. Rewatchability boosted some movies I wouldn't rate as an all time favorite like Godfather 3.
Not all are Oscar winners but all were a decent time at a minimum. Some are flawed but have really good parts that justify the movie’s existence and make it worth one or more viewings. And some are universally acclaimed classics that it took no courage to recommend at all.
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THE FOLLOWING IS JUST A LIST OF MOVIES THAT NEVER GET TALKED ABOUT OR HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN THAT ARE WORTH A WATCH...
3:10 to Yuma (Christian Bale remake)
8mm
About Schmidt
The Accused
Alien Nation
American Gigolo
Angel Heart
Animal Factory
Any Given Sunday
Apt Pupil
As Good as it Gets
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Back to School (Rodney Dangerfield)
Barfly
Bat 21
Bicentennial Man
Black Snake Moan
Blue Ruin
Breakdown (Kurt Russell)
Breaking the Waves
The Buddy Holly Story
Bugsy
Bully
Casualties of War
CB4
The Champ (Jon Voight)
Chato's Land
Christine (John Stockwell)
Clan of the Cave Bear
Click
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Count of Monte Cristo (Jim Caviezel)
Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee 2
Cruising
The Cutting Edge (Moira Kelly)
Dancer in the Dark
Dark City
Dave
Day of the Jackal
Dead Again
The Dead Zone (Christopher Walken)
Demon Seed
Demons (Italian Horror)
Demons 2
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Duets
Enemy at the Gates
Enemy Mine
Equilibrium
Erin Brockovich
F/X
Fallen
Fame
Far and Away
Fat City
Field of Dreams
FIST (Stallone)
Flawless (Robert De Niro)
For Love of the Game (Kevin Costner)
Frailty
The Full Monty
Funny Games
Fury
Gorillas in the Mist
Green Room
Gung Ho
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
Hard Candy
Harold and Maude
Heathers
Henry: Portrait of a Killer
Her
Hero (Dustin Hoffman)
Higher Learning
Hoffa
Hostiles
Innerspace
An Innocent Man (Tom Selleck)
The Jackal
Jennifer 8
Jeremiah Johnson (it's not just a gif)
Johnny Handsome
Judgment at Nuremberg
Judgment Night
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Just Cause
The Killing Fields
King of New York
Kiss of Death (Nicolas Cage)
Klute
Lars and the Real Girl
Last House on the Left (2000s remake with Garrett Dillahunt)
Last Light (Kiefer Sutherland)
Lawn Dogs
The Legend of Billie Jean
Longtime Companion
Look Who's Talking
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
The Lovely Bones
Mad Dog and Glory
A Man Called Horse
The Man in the Glass Booth
Man in the Wilderness
The Man Who Would be King
The Man Without a Face
Mannequin
Meatballs
The Mechanic (Charles Bronson)
Meet Joe Black
Mimic
Miracle (Kurt Russell)
Mr. Destiny
The Music Within (Michael Sheen)
My Life (Michael Keaton)
The Natural
Nighthawks
Near Dark
No Escape (Ray Liotta)
Norma Rae
North Country
Nostradamus
Open Range
Out of Africa
Outland
Overboard (Kurt Russell)
Passengers (Chris Pratt)
Peggy Sue Got Married
The Pelican Brief
A Perfect World
Pieces of April
Pirate Radio / The Boat that Rocked
Police Academy
The Program (James Caan)
The Prophecy (Christopher Walken)
Pump up the Volume
Quest for Fire
Ravenous
Regarding Henry
Remains of the Day
The Right Stuff
Rob Roy
Roxanne (Steve Martin)
The Sea Wolf (Charles Bronson and Christopher Reeve)
Shoot to Kill / Deadly Pursuit
Shot Caller
Short Time (Dustin Hoffman)
Slums of Beverly Hills
Sneakers
Soldier (Kurt Russell)
Sorcerer (Roy Scheider)
Southern Comfort
Spanglish
Spies Like Us
Stalingrad (German)
Stand and Deliver
The Stepford Wives (original)
Stone Cold (Lance Henriksen)
The Straight Story
Street Smart
Surviving the Game
The Taking of Pelham 123 (original)
The Taking of Pelham 123 (remake with Denzel and Travolta)
Taps
Three Amigos
Three Men and a Baby
THX 1138
Tigerland
Tough Guys (Kirk Douglas)
Trespass (Bill Paxton)
U-571
UHF
Urban Cowboy
The Vanishing (European original or remake with Kiefer Sutherland)
Varsity Blues
Videodrome
WarGames
The Way Way Back
Weekend at Bernie's
Whale Music (Maury Chaykin)
What Dreams May Come
Who's Harry Crumb
Whose Life is it Anyway
The Wicker Man (original)
Wild (Reese Witherspoon)
Winter's Bone
The Witches of Eastwick
Without Limits
Witness
Woman in Berlin (German)
Your Friends and Neighbors (Jason Patric)
3:10 to Yuma (Christian Bale remake)
8mm
About Schmidt
The Accused
Alien Nation
American Gigolo
Angel Heart
Animal Factory
Any Given Sunday
Apt Pupil
As Good as it Gets
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Back to School (Rodney Dangerfield)
Barfly
Bat 21
Bicentennial Man
Black Snake Moan
Blue Ruin
Breakdown (Kurt Russell)
Breaking the Waves
The Buddy Holly Story
Bugsy
Bully
Casualties of War
CB4
The Champ (Jon Voight)
Chato's Land
Christine (John Stockwell)
Clan of the Cave Bear
Click
Coal Miner's Daughter
The Count of Monte Cristo (Jim Caviezel)
Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee 2
Cruising
The Cutting Edge (Moira Kelly)
Dancer in the Dark
Dark City
Dave
Day of the Jackal
Dead Again
The Dead Zone (Christopher Walken)
Demon Seed
Demons (Italian Horror)
Demons 2
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Duets
Enemy at the Gates
Enemy Mine
Equilibrium
Erin Brockovich
F/X
Fallen
Fame
Far and Away
Fat City
Field of Dreams
FIST (Stallone)
Flawless (Robert De Niro)
For Love of the Game (Kevin Costner)
Frailty
The Full Monty
Funny Games
Fury
Gorillas in the Mist
Green Room
Gung Ho
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle
Hard Candy
Harold and Maude
Heathers
Henry: Portrait of a Killer
Her
Hero (Dustin Hoffman)
Higher Learning
Hoffa
Hostiles
Innerspace
An Innocent Man (Tom Selleck)
The Jackal
Jennifer 8
Jeremiah Johnson (it's not just a gif)
Johnny Handsome
Judgment at Nuremberg
Judgment Night
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Just Cause
The Killing Fields
King of New York
Kiss of Death (Nicolas Cage)
Klute
Lars and the Real Girl
Last House on the Left (2000s remake with Garrett Dillahunt)
Last Light (Kiefer Sutherland)
Lawn Dogs
The Legend of Billie Jean
Longtime Companion
Look Who's Talking
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
The Lovely Bones
Mad Dog and Glory
A Man Called Horse
The Man in the Glass Booth
Man in the Wilderness
The Man Who Would be King
The Man Without a Face
Mannequin
Meatballs
The Mechanic (Charles Bronson)
Meet Joe Black
Mimic
Miracle (Kurt Russell)
Mr. Destiny
The Music Within (Michael Sheen)
My Life (Michael Keaton)
The Natural
Nighthawks
Near Dark
No Escape (Ray Liotta)
Norma Rae
North Country
Nostradamus
Open Range
Out of Africa
Outland
Overboard (Kurt Russell)
Passengers (Chris Pratt)
Peggy Sue Got Married
The Pelican Brief
A Perfect World
Pieces of April
Pirate Radio / The Boat that Rocked
Police Academy
The Program (James Caan)
The Prophecy (Christopher Walken)
Pump up the Volume
Quest for Fire
Ravenous
Regarding Henry
Remains of the Day
The Right Stuff
Rob Roy
Roxanne (Steve Martin)
The Sea Wolf (Charles Bronson and Christopher Reeve)
Shoot to Kill / Deadly Pursuit
Shot Caller
Short Time (Dustin Hoffman)
Slums of Beverly Hills
Sneakers
Soldier (Kurt Russell)
Sorcerer (Roy Scheider)
Southern Comfort
Spanglish
Spies Like Us
Stalingrad (German)
Stand and Deliver
The Stepford Wives (original)
Stone Cold (Lance Henriksen)
The Straight Story
Street Smart
Surviving the Game
The Taking of Pelham 123 (original)
The Taking of Pelham 123 (remake with Denzel and Travolta)
Taps
Three Amigos
Three Men and a Baby
THX 1138
Tigerland
Tough Guys (Kirk Douglas)
Trespass (Bill Paxton)
U-571
UHF
Urban Cowboy
The Vanishing (European original or remake with Kiefer Sutherland)
Varsity Blues
Videodrome
WarGames
The Way Way Back
Weekend at Bernie's
Whale Music (Maury Chaykin)
What Dreams May Come
Who's Harry Crumb
Whose Life is it Anyway
The Wicker Man (original)
Wild (Reese Witherspoon)
Winter's Bone
The Witches of Eastwick
Without Limits
Witness
Woman in Berlin (German)
Your Friends and Neighbors (Jason Patric)
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ANIMATED MOVIES...
My policy on JAMES BOND movies is I recommend watching them all up to and including Goldeneye. Then it becomes hit or miss.
With Disney animated features, I recommend everything up to and including The Lion King. After that it's kind of the same thing. The next ones are all right but I would say everything made from the beginning to The Lion King, including mixed live action and animation like Bedknobs and Broomsticks is worth a watch.
The original Hobbit / Lord of the Rings animated features are worth a watch as well.
The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings - different style by Ralph Bakshi
Return of the King
Speaking of RALPH BAKSHI, that would be a potentially worthy subject for a marathon. One will realize quite quickly if they do or don't like his style and subject matter, but I think he's worth a look at least. He is kind of like the feature film version of the George Clinton / Funkadelic album covers. Bakshi had a pretty adult style and subject matter. So stuff like...
Fritz the Cat
Coonskin
Heavy Traffic
Wizards
American Pop
Fire and Ice
Hey Good Lookin'
Aside from that some other animated movies from around then worth a look might be...
The Secret of NIMH
Watership Down
Heavy Metal (more adult)
Oh, and I keep forgetting, around 2007 or so a feature length Highlander anime film was released...either Highlander: The Search for Vengeance or The Quest for Vengeance. It's almost surely the best Highlander film other than the original.
Anyway, everybody knows the movies to watch from the Pixar era onward like Up and Wall-E and so on, so they don't really need any introduction.
I suppose I would also suggest a couple animated or semi-animated movies from the realm of music and legendary bands...
Yellow Submarine - The Beatles
The Wall - Pink Floyd
My policy on JAMES BOND movies is I recommend watching them all up to and including Goldeneye. Then it becomes hit or miss.
With Disney animated features, I recommend everything up to and including The Lion King. After that it's kind of the same thing. The next ones are all right but I would say everything made from the beginning to The Lion King, including mixed live action and animation like Bedknobs and Broomsticks is worth a watch.
The original Hobbit / Lord of the Rings animated features are worth a watch as well.
The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings - different style by Ralph Bakshi
Return of the King
Speaking of RALPH BAKSHI, that would be a potentially worthy subject for a marathon. One will realize quite quickly if they do or don't like his style and subject matter, but I think he's worth a look at least. He is kind of like the feature film version of the George Clinton / Funkadelic album covers. Bakshi had a pretty adult style and subject matter. So stuff like...
Fritz the Cat
Coonskin
Heavy Traffic
Wizards
American Pop
Fire and Ice
Hey Good Lookin'
Aside from that some other animated movies from around then worth a look might be...
The Secret of NIMH
Watership Down
Heavy Metal (more adult)
Oh, and I keep forgetting, around 2007 or so a feature length Highlander anime film was released...either Highlander: The Search for Vengeance or The Quest for Vengeance. It's almost surely the best Highlander film other than the original.
Anyway, everybody knows the movies to watch from the Pixar era onward like Up and Wall-E and so on, so they don't really need any introduction.
I suppose I would also suggest a couple animated or semi-animated movies from the realm of music and legendary bands...
Yellow Submarine - The Beatles
The Wall - Pink Floyd
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TV SHOWS WORTH GIVING A SHOT
I'll stick to older stuff...like at least 15 years old. Everybody knows what they like nowadays...
2000s
Six Feet Under - Maybe the best show ever made.
Sleeper Cell - Maybe the most underappreciated and underwatched show ever made. Oded Fehr, Henri Lubatti, Melissa Sagemiller, Sonya Walger and Michael Ealy should all have had big careers.
1980s / 90s
The Wonder Years - Great series, more heart than any other TV show in history, watch for great guest actors on their way up (Giovanni Ribisi, David Schwimmer, Robert Picardo) appearing throughout or established great performers settled into their careers as working actors (James Tolkan, David Huddleston, Al Ruscio). Dan Lauria is fantastic throughout as the father and should have won multiple Emmy awards.
1980s
Miami Vice - worth a run from start to finish, captured the decade in style and music. Edward James Olmos is awesome throughout. Incredible array of guest stars from rising actors (Bruce Willis, Julia Roberts, Michael Madsen, Ben Stiller) to established working actors (Burt Young, Dean Stockwell, David Rasche, Pam Grier) to A-List musicians (Phil Collins, Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, Glenn Frey).
Moonlighting - also captured the decade in style and music.
Cagney and Lacey - kind of forgotten now but very good and an important show socially. Bill Conti did the theme music and it had a fantastic core cast (Al Waxman, Martin Kove, Sharon Gless, Tyne Daly, Carl Lumbly, Harvey Atkin etc. and like Miami Vice and Moonlighting, top tier guest stars and actors on their way up).
1970s
The Streets of San Francisco - Michael Douglas on his way up and great guest stars on their way up like James Woods etc.
Kojak - Another good solid cop show of the time and catches actors like Sylvester Stallone on their way up as well.
Welcome Back Kotter - Sitcom Is to John Travolta what Streets of San Francisco was to Michael Douglas, and captures the 1970s very well.
Columbo - Peter Falk was fun to watch and the guest stars were top tier...Patrick McGoohan, Michael V. Gazzo, Theodore Bikel, Roddy McDowall etc.
SOME MILDER RECOMMENDATIONS from the 70s and 80s and 90s annals of TV...
Alien Nation - It was only on for a season or two around 1990, based on the movie, but it was pretty good. Gary Graham should have had a bigger career.
Tour of Duty - late 80s Vietnam show that was quite good for a few seasons. Terence Knox was like Gary Graham...should have gone on to do more after this.
Taxi
Baretta
Hill Street Blues
Fame
All of the above capture the feel of their time very nicely. So do series like...
Laverne and Shirley
All in the Family
There were a few interesting short lived series based on good movies in the 70s. Logan's Run. Planet of the Apes. Maybe not worth getting invested in but could be worth a look. Michael Biehn got one of his early roles as a Sandman in the Logan's Run TV show.
A few old TV miniseries from way back...
V - a bit on the nose as a Holocaust allegory but a very fun ride through an alien invasion and takeover in the 80s. There was also a sequel miniseries The Final Battle worth watching.
The Deliberate Stranger
The Last Don
The Last Don 2
Roots
Holocaust
Shaka Zulu
Duel by Steven Spielberg was a TV movie that was so effective it has kind of transcended over the decades and become viewed as a "real" movie.
The Ascent of Man was a BBC documentary series from around 1970 and is about a dozen parts and is perhaps the best documentary TV ever made.
Cosmos with Carl Sagan is a close second.
Kenneth Clark's Civilisation is good as well but he doesn't quite have the engaging passion and charisma of the other two hosts.
For slightly newer stuff...
24 - A milder recommendation. It became a played out bore in the end but the first five seasons are quite good. The first two are very good. Really solid guest actors like Francesco Quinn and Michael Massee etc. drive the tension and story throughout.
Millennium - Lance Henriksen got to carry a show for a few seasons in the 90s. It was good for two seasons then went off the rails in the third. Just stop after season two. Pretty dark and brooding for its time.
Anyway, we all know TV has changed in the last number of years but some of the old stuff is pretty decent and was the foundation for today's stuff.
I'll stick to older stuff...like at least 15 years old. Everybody knows what they like nowadays...
2000s
Six Feet Under - Maybe the best show ever made.
Sleeper Cell - Maybe the most underappreciated and underwatched show ever made. Oded Fehr, Henri Lubatti, Melissa Sagemiller, Sonya Walger and Michael Ealy should all have had big careers.
1980s / 90s
The Wonder Years - Great series, more heart than any other TV show in history, watch for great guest actors on their way up (Giovanni Ribisi, David Schwimmer, Robert Picardo) appearing throughout or established great performers settled into their careers as working actors (James Tolkan, David Huddleston, Al Ruscio). Dan Lauria is fantastic throughout as the father and should have won multiple Emmy awards.
1980s
Miami Vice - worth a run from start to finish, captured the decade in style and music. Edward James Olmos is awesome throughout. Incredible array of guest stars from rising actors (Bruce Willis, Julia Roberts, Michael Madsen, Ben Stiller) to established working actors (Burt Young, Dean Stockwell, David Rasche, Pam Grier) to A-List musicians (Phil Collins, Frank Zappa, Miles Davis, Glenn Frey).
Moonlighting - also captured the decade in style and music.
Cagney and Lacey - kind of forgotten now but very good and an important show socially. Bill Conti did the theme music and it had a fantastic core cast (Al Waxman, Martin Kove, Sharon Gless, Tyne Daly, Carl Lumbly, Harvey Atkin etc. and like Miami Vice and Moonlighting, top tier guest stars and actors on their way up).
1970s
The Streets of San Francisco - Michael Douglas on his way up and great guest stars on their way up like James Woods etc.
Kojak - Another good solid cop show of the time and catches actors like Sylvester Stallone on their way up as well.
Welcome Back Kotter - Sitcom Is to John Travolta what Streets of San Francisco was to Michael Douglas, and captures the 1970s very well.
Columbo - Peter Falk was fun to watch and the guest stars were top tier...Patrick McGoohan, Michael V. Gazzo, Theodore Bikel, Roddy McDowall etc.
SOME MILDER RECOMMENDATIONS from the 70s and 80s and 90s annals of TV...
Alien Nation - It was only on for a season or two around 1990, based on the movie, but it was pretty good. Gary Graham should have had a bigger career.
Tour of Duty - late 80s Vietnam show that was quite good for a few seasons. Terence Knox was like Gary Graham...should have gone on to do more after this.
Taxi
Baretta
Hill Street Blues
Fame
All of the above capture the feel of their time very nicely. So do series like...
Laverne and Shirley
All in the Family
There were a few interesting short lived series based on good movies in the 70s. Logan's Run. Planet of the Apes. Maybe not worth getting invested in but could be worth a look. Michael Biehn got one of his early roles as a Sandman in the Logan's Run TV show.
A few old TV miniseries from way back...
V - a bit on the nose as a Holocaust allegory but a very fun ride through an alien invasion and takeover in the 80s. There was also a sequel miniseries The Final Battle worth watching.
The Deliberate Stranger
The Last Don
The Last Don 2
Roots
Holocaust
Shaka Zulu
Duel by Steven Spielberg was a TV movie that was so effective it has kind of transcended over the decades and become viewed as a "real" movie.
The Ascent of Man was a BBC documentary series from around 1970 and is about a dozen parts and is perhaps the best documentary TV ever made.
Cosmos with Carl Sagan is a close second.
Kenneth Clark's Civilisation is good as well but he doesn't quite have the engaging passion and charisma of the other two hosts.
For slightly newer stuff...
24 - A milder recommendation. It became a played out bore in the end but the first five seasons are quite good. The first two are very good. Really solid guest actors like Francesco Quinn and Michael Massee etc. drive the tension and story throughout.
Millennium - Lance Henriksen got to carry a show for a few seasons in the 90s. It was good for two seasons then went off the rails in the third. Just stop after season two. Pretty dark and brooding for its time.
Anyway, we all know TV has changed in the last number of years but some of the old stuff is pretty decent and was the foundation for today's stuff.
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My favorite Elias Koteas flick is Gattaca.
That said, I recently added Apt Pupil to my queue. Never seen it; looking forward to it.
That said, I recently added Apt Pupil to my queue. Never seen it; looking forward to it.
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Mine is probably Zodiac but he's hardly the star. I vote The Prophecy if you want to get a heavy dose of Koteas.
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My favorite part of Zodiac (and it has nothing to do with the plot, really) is that part where it shows that time lapse of the pyramid building being built.
Just a cool “scene.”
Been meaning to check out The Prophecy, actually.
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Tastes like chicken pox.
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@BisexualMMA bond rankings? If I remember you said live and let die, living daylights and license to kill were your top 3
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Koteas is such a boss of a character actor. I really think one of the reasons that Zodiac is so great is that it’s not only Fincher at the peak of his technical skill and not only has three really good actors in Gyllenhaal, RDJ, and Ruffalo in the leads but that it’s also packed with awesome actors in supporting roles:
Elias Koteas, Donal Logue, Phillip Baker Hall (RIP), Chloe Sevigny, Anthony Edwards, John Carroll Lynch, Clea Duvall the great Brian Cox, etc.
Stacked deck.
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Honestly, I’d easily put Zodiac near the top of my list of favorite films of the past fifteen years.
And I think it’s probably my favorite Fincher film even though I think social network is close.
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Any recommendations for a Sven Ole Thorsen marathon? Asking for a friend.
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Everything he's in with Arnold (Conan and Running Man if you want big roles) plus Gladiator, Quick and the Dead, Hard Target, On Deadly Ground, Mallrats, Hunt for Red October, Pink Cadillac and maybe Abraxas: Guardian of the Universe if you can't get enough Sven.
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I like Licence to Kill but it's not top three. I have From Russia with Love and View to a Kill ahead of it, maybe some more Connery ones as well.
Not sure about the order offhand but I approve of all Bond movies up to and including Goldeneye, and then I'd just pick a couple Daniel Craig ones to add.
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Big time.
I can rewatch that movie anytime.
It's great when you want something dark and gritty (when you're just kind of in that mood,) but it also works as a great story with some minor levity thrown in - think Shorty, or animal crackers/Japanese food.
