Author Topic: Movie Recommendation (Read 1451 times)

mcwoodduck · « **Reply #30 on:** March 29, 2011, 08:08:20 AM »

Quote from: dukkillr on March 29, 2011, 07:57:24 AM

We were soldiers was a good movie. 13th Warrior not so much...

The Book, Eaters of the Dead was much better than the movie the 13th warrior.
+1 on we were soldiers.

Wyo. Coyote Hunter · « **Reply #31 on:** March 29, 2011, 03:32:38 PM »

dukkillr, Interesting you mention WE WERE SOLDIERS...I just bought it not long ago..then bought the book it was made from...both very interesting..When I was in high school, one of my older friends was killed in SE Asia..of course then we knew little about where or when or how..his brother and I were also very good friends...in the final listing of soldiers killed during this battle, I was surprised to see my pals name mentioned...when I read the book, if found exactly how he was slain...and excellent movie...

336SC · « **Reply #32 on:** March 29, 2011, 03:51:10 PM »

You guys just about covered all my favorite movies before I got on board here. I trully enjoyed watching "The
Ghost and the Darkness" I read the book first and the movie just about held true to the book except for Michael
Douglass's character. Colonel Patterson stated in his book that he was almost driven insane by the two Lions. He would set up an ambush on one side of the worker's camp and the Lions would kill someone on the other side
of the camp. Took him the better part of a year to kill them. Those two Lions actually stopped the British Empire
from completing the railroad till they were killed. I also enjoyed "Legends of the Fall" and "Tombstone" with Kurt
Russell and Val Kilmyr. Val should have been up for an academy award for his portrayel of Doc Holliday. My wife
and I also went to the movies to see the remake of "True Grit". A thoroughly enjoyable movie. It follows the original closely but does have it's own distinct story.
336SC

Ron/Pa. · « **Reply #33 on:** March 29, 2011, 04:25:15 PM »

" Fargo" is an excellent Movie. Just watched "127 Hours." Movie is based on a true story of a Man getting His arm caught and having to......it is worth watching.

OldSchoolRanger · « **Reply #34 on:** March 29, 2011, 06:04:36 PM »

mcwoodduck-The movie about the raid on a Japanese POW camp in the Philippines was called the Great Raid.
You guys all mentioned great movies, but I have a few that you might be interested in;
western: Silverado, The Magnificent Seven,
historical: Shaka (about Shaka Zulu, not to be confused with a movie titled Shaka Zulu), Zulu Dawn (about the Battle of Islawanda, England's version of the Battle of Little Bighorn in South Africa, which ironically took place around the same time).
WWII: Enemy at the Gates, Saving Private Ryan,
Vietnam (60's-80's)era: Full Metal Jacket, The Wild Geese (about mercenaries in Africa),
Current era: Tears of the Sun,
foreign movies: Seven Samurai (basis for the Magnificent 7), Tae Gul GI (Korean War Movie), Breaker Morant,
I can think of quite a few more, but I thought I would limit it to the action genre.

OldSchoolRanger · « **Reply #35 on:** March 29, 2011, 06:12:22 PM »

mcwoodduck,

I'll take the Sand Pebbles, and Flight of the Intruder. PM sent.
Thanks.

LONGTOM · « **Reply #36 on:** March 29, 2011, 07:27:34 PM »

Sand Pebbles was a good one, I always likes Steve McQueen.
Another good one was The Great Escape with an all star cast.
Most of the war movies although I don't watch them as much as I used to.
Guess I am getting older and don't care for wars that much anymore.

When it comes to westerns I lean more towards the ones that depict a more authentic rendition of the guns used and what they were capable of, which isn't all that many.
Not the ones that hollywood tries to make you believe like:

(Dances With Wolves) You ain't going to drop no buffalo at a full run with one shot from a HENRY rifle !

The blast of a double barrel ain't going to pick you up and throw you 5 to 10 feet backwards.

Just try and hit a man on a running horse while on one yourself with a rifle, can and has been done but not very often.

45-70 ammo won't go in a Win model 92!!! (many different movies)

Winchester never made a rifle that you could load from both ends (Silverado) in the scene where Danny Glover comes around the corner in the house, you can see the end of the HENERY barrel and the part of the magazine that turns to load it but as the rest of the gun comes into view it also has a loading gate on the right side.
Man, what I wouldn't give to have a Winchester lever that I could load from both ends!!!

Why is it that just as they are to go after someone they all lever a round into the chamber and then just before they are ready to shoot they work the lever again.
I never see a cartridge come flying out of the chamber. (They loaded it once already)

The guns back then must have bigger cylinders and longer magazine tubes because they hardly ever reload a gun.

Most of all, I hate it when they use a firearm in a time period before the gun was invented.

You get where I am going with this by now.
For me, it kind of takes the real feel out of the movie when they do these things.
Sorry but I look for these kind of things when I watch a movie.

LONGTOM

mcwoodduck · « **Reply #37 on:** March 30, 2011, 06:16:26 AM »

Long tom,
Why not get a 92 or 66 and stick a Henry barrel and magazine tube on it.
Double ended eater.
At some point the guy that mounted the Kings Patented loading gate had to do it on an existing rifle.
could that one have been it?

LONGTOM · « **Reply #38 on:** March 30, 2011, 09:13:16 AM »

I guess conceivably it could have been done on a 66 frame.
Sure made for an odd looking gun!!!

LONGTOM

bighemidaddy · « **Reply #39 on:** March 30, 2011, 02:42:19 PM »

the good the bad and the ugly

bighemidaddy

bilmac · « **Reply #40 on:** March 30, 2011, 03:20:23 PM »

Yeah mistakes in a movie just ruin them for me. My mind gets stuck on the error and just won't let go. The movie I recommended "Five Minutes of Heaven" even my wife caught the fact that the guy only loaded five bullets in a six shooter. I could get around that because the kid was obviously a gun klutz and surrounded by klutzes, and some klutz probably told him that it was necessary for safety.

blind ear · « **Reply #41 on:** April 02, 2011, 09:03:19 PM »

Jarhead;

A depiction of the controlled balance between sanity and insanity that is necessary to accomplish the mission of war.

ear

oldsoldja · « **Reply #42 on:** April 03, 2011, 04:37:31 AM »

I call my favorites 'comfort' movies, like comfort food.

The Sand Pebbles, good love story and friendship movie. And theres BAR's in the movie. My favorite gun I had to sell to pay my grandsons doctors bill. bittersweet.

To kill a mockingbird. my wife said my youngest once told her that dad is like atticus. very nice.

Islands in the Stream, with george c scott, especially the scene where his son is in the water and a hammerhead is closing in, and his fIrst mate gets out the BAR and lets loose.

one thats hard to find is Wrestling Ernest Hemmingway, Robery Duvall and Richard Harris. Good old age friendship movie.

Dr. Strangelove, the general played by Sterling hayden is excellent, and Slim Pickens, dam funny movie.

I dont usually watch them anymore, i just need them playing in the background while working.

LONGTOM · « **Reply #43 on:** April 03, 2011, 01:44:27 PM »

A super movie is THE JACK BULL
Staring John Cusack, John Goodman, L.Q. Jones, Miranda Otto, John C. McGinley.

John Cusack plays Myrl Redding, a horse trader who locks horns with a rancher who has callously mistreated two of his horses, as well as their handler, a Crow Indian. When the law gives Myrl no justice, he is forced to take matters into his own hands, leading to a cycle of violence and chaos. The Jack Bull was written by Cusack's father, Dick, who also plays a small part as the jury foreman in the film.

Very good, very sad, with lots of lessons to be learned through out the movie.

LONGTOM

us920669 · « **Reply #44 on:** April 13, 2011, 08:25:31 AM »

Yeah, Wild Bunch, Josie Whales, gotta see 'em again. I also liked The Unforgiven and the first 10 minutes of 3:10 to Yuma, which was otherwise just a ridiculous movie. There is an odd older film, not everyone will like it, call Virgin Spring, by the same guy who made Seventh Seal, if you ever saw that one. This one has bad men, violent retribution and a nice inspirational message.

Old Fart · « **Reply #45 on:** April 13, 2011, 08:44:17 AM »

The Stalking Moon with Gregory Peck

A scout in the old Southwest (Gregory Peck) undertakes to protect a white woman (Eva Marie Saint) and her half-breed son from the Apache warrior--the woman's captor-husband of 10 years--who wants them back. The scout is a man of estimable courage and resources (again, Gregory Peck), but the mostly unseen Apache is a veritable monster of determination, cunning, and bloodthirstiness: Peck and his two charges doom entire communities to extermination just by passing through the neighborhood.

mannyrock · « **Reply #46 on:** April 13, 2011, 08:50:16 AM »

I also found both versions of 3:10 to Yuma equally ridiculous.

Hmmm, let's see. I'm a gang of bad guy killers, and I want to make sure my boss isn't taken away at the end of the movie by being put on the 3:10 train to Yuma. I know, I'll engage in a running open gunfight, all of the way to the rail road station, resulting in more than half of us getting killed!

Or, maybe, I could just remove two of the iron rails from the track, about a mile before the train gets to the station, or maybe just wait for the train to stop at the station and remove the engineer, or maybe just disable the engine at the station by shooting about 20 holes in its boiler, or maybe emptying the water out of the water tower so the train can re-water.

When a movie reaches the level of practical stupidity that was reached by the Yuma movie, I can't ever watch it again.

By the way, if you want to see a really good, little known Western, get "Warlock", with Henry Fonda. I think that this was the first movie where he played a really bad guy.

Mannyrock

Pat/Rick · « **Reply #47 on:** April 13, 2011, 11:10:17 AM »

Lots of good movies listed already........... Also, "Valdez is Coming'. I also like "The Book of Eli" and many others. Too many to have a favorite. (I probably have two hundred + on hand) Also, I like the Deadwood series. Alot of uneccessary cussing IMO, but I still like it.