I'm kinda housebound right now, and keep drifting off while reading, so have been looking for movies, etc. to watch while waiting for what feels like a sprain to heal without seeking medical help. Some of the stuff that you can get on cable TV is :spooked: :rolleyes: :confused: but this morning found "The Princess Bride":biggrin: which I've seen several times. I probably would not have watched it in the first place if a retired Army/Vietnam War vet/analyst I worked with hadn't asked me if I'd seen the movie, and when I said "No," said "Watch it. You'll enjoy it." I did, and liked it so much I bought a copy. It's a Rob Reiner movie (and that's enough of a recommendation for me -- that big hulk of a man is something else!).
Quote from: libby on August 09, 2014, 04:43:19 PM
I'm kinda housebound right now, and keep drifting off while reading, so have been looking for movies, etc. to watch while waiting for what feels like a sprain to heal without seeking medical help. Some of the stuff that you can get on cable TV is :spooked: :rolleyes: :confused: but this morning found "The Princess Bride":biggrin: which I've seen several times. I probably would not have watched it in the first place if a retired Army/Vietnam War vet/analyst I worked with hadn't asked me if I'd seen the movie, and when I said "No," said "Watch it. You'll enjoy it." I did, and liked it so much I bought a copy. It's a Rob Reiner movie (and that's enough of a recommendation for me -- that big hulk of a man is something else!).
I have seen it. We have believe it or not Top Gun and Days of Thunder on DVR, for some reason, my husband can watch those a hundred times. I on the other hand can watch Robert Duvall in Lonesome Dove series, and he and Julia Roberts in Something to Talk About. I can also watch McClintock with John Wayne a million times.
:yes: I enjoyed Lonesome Dove, have a copy, also read the book. Thought Robert Duvall was great
Quote from: libby on August 09, 2014, 10:05:29 PM
:yes: I enjoyed Lonesome Dove, have a copy, also read the book. Thought Robert Duvall was great
I love him in just about everything he does. The 2nd. part of Lonesome Dove, I think it is not as good as the first one. The second one has Jon Voight in it but looking at Ricky Shroeder is okay or however you spell the names. The actor that play Grissom on the CSI-Las Vegas is in it also but he gets killed so I didn't like that!
Fiddler on the Roof and Blast from the Past. How Green Was My Valley and Independence Day. My husband likes Lonesome Dove.
Somewhere in Time
Can't forget Gone with the Wind!
Hop Scotch, my all time favorite spy movie, which is also funny, and has some great classical music (mostly Mozart if memory serves me correctly). Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Ned Beatty, Sam Waterston. Matthau loses his job at CIA to a sneaky younger man and sets out to get even.
Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men with Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon ( I think), Ann Margaret and Sophia Loren!
It's a Mad Mad World the only movie I have seen four times and Men and Their Flying Machines is also great. :biggrin:
Cool Hand Luke.
Men in Black -- the original. :biggrin:
Quote from: duke jupiter on August 18, 2014, 06:34:26 PM
Cool Hand Luke.
I LOVE THIS MOVIE..........One of my all-time favorites.
Quote from: duke jupiter on August 18, 2014, 06:34:26 PM
Cool Hand Luke.
A great movie. Just watched it the other night, again. Along with Big Jake, McClintock and Chisum!
Quote from: Purplelady1040 on August 19, 2014, 09:49:50 AM
A great movie. Just watched it the other night, again. Along with Big Jake, McClintock and Chisum!
I love watchin old John Wayne movies too....
Big John was large and in charge.
Best regards,
Duke ( only one Duke) Jupiter
Any James Bond movie with Sean Connery! :yes:
Quote from: Palehorse on August 20, 2014, 07:34:06 PM
Any James Bond movie with Sean Connery! :yes:
Most definitely and Roger Moore!!! :yes: :yes: :yes:
Doctor Zhivago. Several years ago, one of the PBS stations showed it without commercials. It was long even then, but such a good but sad movie that I didn't want to miss a minute. Was glad there was an intermission, so I could go to the bathroom and get a snack.
Quote from: Palehorse on August 20, 2014, 07:34:06 PM
Any James Bond movie with Sean Connery! :yes:
:yes: But I also like the latest Bond, the Brit Daniel Craig.
Quote from: Palehorse on August 20, 2014, 07:34:06 PM
Any James Bond movie with Sean Connery! :yes:
I am with you on this one. He was by FAR the best James Bond. I also will watch any movie that has Robert Duvall. That guy is the best.
Quote from: Henry Hawk on August 27, 2014, 07:51:34 AM
I am with you on this one. He was by FAR the best James Bond. I also will watch any movie that has Robert Duvall. That guy is the best.
Yep, I love Robert Duvall movies- one that he did with Julia Roberts- Something to Talk About!
Quote from: Purplelady1040 on August 27, 2014, 09:20:07 AM
Yep, I love Robert Duvall movies- one that he did with Julia Roberts- Something to Talk About!
Mr. Duvall is a fine actor for sure and I have enjoyed his many films spanning a few decades.
Best reagrds,
Duke (godfather) Jupiter
The Love Letter, starring Campbell Scott and Jennifer Jason Lee. It's a Hallmark movie, an intriguing fantasy about two people from two different times who fall in love.
Scott, a handsome fellow and talented actor, looks nothing like his famous father, the actor George C. Scott.
Quote from: libby on September 07, 2014, 10:04:44 PM
The Love Letter, starring Campbell Scott and Jennifer Jason Lee. It's a Hallmark movie, an intriguing fantasy about two people from two different times who fall in love.
Scott, a handsome fellow and talented actor, looks nothing like his famous father, the actor George C. Scott.
Didn't his father play in the movie- Patton?
Quote from: Purplelady1040 on September 08, 2014, 08:03:56 AM
Didn't his father play in the movie- Patton?
Yes. His father, George C. Scott, who died in 1999, was a well-known actor who starred in a lot of movies. He was born in Wise, VA, not all that far from where I grew up. (That's why I know about the connection between the two.)
The Blues Brothers. Loved every minute of it -- especially Aretha Franklin in the restaurant belting it out when she finds out her man is joining the band again.
In a Christmas kind of mood with the snow and all: Holiday Inn, White Christmas and It's a Wonderful Life with the wonderful Jimmy Stewart.
Just finished watching The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. It's a very old movie (1957), so intriguing that I've watched it as least 3 or 4 times.
Bridges of Madison County. Brief romance between two mature adults, one married, one not.
Secondhand Lions with Michael Caine and Robert Duval. I love Duval in just about everything.
Gran Torino with Clint Eastwood.
Excellent movie. We watched it a couple of weeks ago.
How Green Was My Valley and Arsenic and Old Lace.