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  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,125 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like the Jesse Stone movies' with Tom Selleck

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  • craig44craig44 Posts: 12,184 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Steven59 said:
    I'm pretty claustrophobic to the point I have a difficult time getting on an elevator and this movie really screwed with me....................... "The Descent"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSYg7Z1KS_I

    that was a great movie. I watched it in a theatre in Bangor Maine and was all by myself for the first 5 to 10 minutes until another person walked in and sat down just a couple of rows in front of me.

    that person just happened to be...

    Stephen King. I have to be honest, it was pretty cool.

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  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,285 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Alfonz24 said:
    I like the Jesse Stone movies' with Tom Selleck

    YES! I love those movies! Understated, kinda laid back, but well done.

  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,197 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @2dueces said:
    Any Bogart film is a classic and doesn’t belong here but
    Mutiny on the Caine
    You like sea faring movies?
    In the heart of the Sea

    You're mixing two movies:

    Mutiny on the Bounty with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton
    The Caine Mutiny with Humphrey Bogart

    Steve

  • 2dueces2dueces Posts: 6,716 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @SDSportsFan said:

    @2dueces said:
    Any Bogart film is a classic and doesn’t belong here but
    Mutiny on the Caine
    You like sea faring movies?
    In the heart of the Sea

    You're mixing two movies:

    Mutiny on the Bounty with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton
    The Caine Mutiny with Humphrey Bogart

    Steve

    Oops. Yup. Definitely The Caine Mutiny.

    Fred McMurray didn’t play the perfect father in this one

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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 32,807 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Steven59 said:
    I'm pretty claustrophobic to the point I have a difficult time getting on an elevator and this movie really screwed with me....................... "The Descent"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSYg7Z1KS_I

    Very good movie

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 32,807 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2, 2021 5:15AM

    You want to see a Creepy Movie then check this one out…

    https://youtu.be/GRrZZNyOqyY

  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 10,489 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @perkdog said:
    You want to see a Creepy Movie then check this one out…

    https://youtu.be/GRrZZNyOqyY

    Jesus - I'm not watching that at midnight............I'd never get to sleep!

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  • 1951WheatiesPremium1951WheatiesPremium Posts: 6,504 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Here’s a few quick hitters. Some of my favorites…

    The Hunt For Red October
    Frequency
    The Breakfast Club
    Best in Show
    Hoosiers
    Goldfinger
    Raiders of the Lost Ark
    Teen Wolf

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  • 2dueces2dueces Posts: 6,716 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Phenomenon

    W.C.Fields
    "I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
  • countdouglascountdouglas Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bandits

  • countdouglascountdouglas Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Rounders

  • countdouglascountdouglas Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Glory

  • countdouglascountdouglas Posts: 2,991 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Little Big Man

  • 2dueces2dueces Posts: 6,716 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @countdouglas said:
    Little Big Man

    Great movie

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    "I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 32,807 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Steven59 said:

    @perkdog said:
    You want to see a Creepy Movie then check this one out…

    https://youtu.be/GRrZZNyOqyY

    Jesus - I'm not watching that at midnight............I'd never get to sleep!

    It’s be of the creepiest movies, seriously lol

  • streeterstreeter Posts: 4,312 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A movie I really liked,

    The Equalizer, Denzel W.

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  • 2dueces2dueces Posts: 6,716 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @streeter said:
    A movie I really liked,

    The Equalizer, Denzel W.

    Me too

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    "I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
  • 2dueces2dueces Posts: 6,716 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Punisher
    Thomas Jane

    W.C.Fields
    "I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Greatest western movie of all time playing on insp right now……
    Once upon a time in the west!
    Sergio Leone’s masterpiece. Italian director who had Clint Eastwood play lead role in two or three of his
    ‘Spaghetti westerns’. Clint turned this one down and later said he thought it was just another pasta dish.
    Henry Fonda plays the bad guy and he told this story many times…… before shooting began he bought dark contact lenses and grew a moustache and a little goatee because he wanted to look like a bad guy. Leone took one look at him and said ‘I paid for Henry Fonda’. He wanted the famous blue eyes because he knew what Fonda’s character does in his opening scene would be even more shocking when the audience saw a closeup of Fonda’s blue eyes.
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  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 10,705 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Joe". Susan Sarandon and Peter Boyle.

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  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Darin said:
    Greatest western movie of all time playing on insp right now……
    Once upon a time in the west!
    Sergio Leone’s masterpiece. Italian director who had Clint Eastwood play lead role in two or three of his
    ‘Spaghetti westerns’. Clint turned this one down and later said he thought it was just another pasta dish.
    Henry Fonda plays the bad guy and he told this story many times…… before shooting began he bought dark contact lenses and grew a moustache and a little goatee because he wanted to look like a bad guy. Leone took one look at him and said ‘I paid for Henry Fonda’. He wanted the famous blue eyes because he knew what Fonda’s character does in his opening scene would be even more shocking when the audience saw a closeup of Fonda’s blue eyes.
    Also there were no dollars back in Judas’ time. But sons of bitches, yeah… says Jason Robards. 😁

    And they deleted the sob line from the movie. 🤣
    Geez it’s 2025 insp!

  • BLUEJAYWAYBLUEJAYWAY Posts: 10,705 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "Scarecrow" Hackman and Pacino.

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  • dallasactuarydallasactuary Posts: 4,412 ✭✭✭✭✭

    In the spirit of the thread, here are three movies that I consider to be great and nobody ever talks about. Odds are some of you have never seen any of them. They were all nominated for Oscars, so they were recognized in their own time, but appear to have completely fallen off the radar.

    1. Absence of Malice - Paul Newman and Sally Field, but the movie is absolutely stolen by Wifred Brimley in one of the greatest movie scenes ever near the end.

    2. Requiem for a Dream - Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Ellen Burstyn, and one of the Wayans Brothers (I forget which). Probably the most depressing movie ever made, but riveting. Great soundtrack music, too.

    3. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Jane Fonda and a bunch of B-list types that you'll recognize. Another depressing one, but well worth watching.

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  • craig44craig44 Posts: 12,184 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @dallasactuary said:
    In the spirit of the thread, here are three movies that I consider to be great and nobody ever talks about. Odds are some of you have never seen any of them. They were all nominated for Oscars, so they were recognized in their own time, but appear to have completely fallen off the radar.

    1. Absence of Malice - Paul Newman and Sally Field, but the movie is absolutely stolen by Wifred Brimley in one of the greatest movie scenes ever near the end.

    2. Requiem for a Dream - Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Ellen Burstyn, and one of the Wayans Brothers (I forget which). Probably the most depressing movie ever made, but riveting. Great soundtrack music, too.

    3. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? - Jane Fonda and a bunch of B-list types that you'll recognize. Another depressing one, but well worth watching.

    I havent seen the other 2, but you are correct about Requiem for a Dream. man is that movie raw and bleak. great flick, but one I probably wont watch a second time

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  • Bone Tomahawk. With Kurt Russel. 2015

    What a freakfest flic.

  • Basebal21Basebal21 Posts: 4,708 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Naked Gun
    Airplane
    Baseketball
    Police Academy

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  • craig44craig44 Posts: 12,184 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I am shocked that no one has nominated the cinematic masterpiece "Ernest goes to Camp"

    now that is a great film!!

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  • dallasactuarydallasactuary Posts: 4,412 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @craig44 said:

    I havent seen the other 2, but you are correct about Requiem for a Dream. man is that movie raw and bleak. great flick, but one I probably wont watch a second time

    I watch a ton of movies, and when I find a great one I'll watch it dozens of times (over many years). I think Requiem for a Dream is a great movie, and I've only seen it twice, and I'll probably never watch it again. But it will haunt me forever. I've also only seen They Shoot Horses, Don't They twice, but I'd watch it again if anyone would ever show it. It's also a beatdown, but not on the same scale as Requiem.

    Ernest Goes to Camp, similarly, is so frightening I've never even watched it once.

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  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    One movie I had on vhs was the original zombie movie, ‘night of the living dead’. I only watched it once, but the police chief gave me one of my favorite movie lines ever which is his last line in the dialogue below. The chief was amazing in how easily he adapted to the situation, like dead folks rising from their graves happened all the time or something. He cracked me up. 😂😂

  • MaywoodMaywood Posts: 3,495 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Has anyone ever seen "The Dogpound Shuffle" with David Soul??

    @Darin said: One movie I had on vhs was the original zombie movie, ‘night of the living dead'.

    That's a classic!! I remember seeing it on TV maybe 1970-71 on Halloween Night and it scared the crap outa me. Whenever I see it now the ending really gets me. Ben makes it through the entire movie and at the end comes out only to get a head shot!!

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  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Maywood said:
    Has anyone ever seen "The Dogpound Shuffle" with David Soul??

    @Darin said: One movie I had on vhs was the original zombie movie, ‘night of the living dead'.

    That's a classic!! I remember seeing it on TV maybe 1970-71 on Halloween Night and it scared the crap outa me. Whenever I see it now the ending really gets me. Ben makes it through the entire movie and at the end comes out only to get a head shot!!

    Poor Ben. Yeah that surprised me. A classic but I really don’t like scary movies so that’s one of the few I’ve seen.

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 12,184 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 7, 2025 11:54AM

    i am a big Horror movie fan. I have seen hundreds of them.

    while Hereditary is well known amongst horror aficionados, i am not sure how well known it is in general. it is a very well made film and quite horrifying. the final 20 minutes is a non stop roller coster ride of terror.

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  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @craig44 said:
    i am a big Horror movie fan. I have seen hundreds of them.

    while Hereditary is well known amongst horror aficionados, i am not sure how well known it is in general. it is a very well made film and quite horrifying. the final 20 minutes is a non stop roller coster ride of terror.

    I hate horror movies. The bad guy, entity, ghost, zombie, mass murderer, etc. always dies harder than Bruce Willis. 😱

    I prefer action movies where our hero gets shot at 32,000 times but never gets hit and always prevails in the end. 🥳

  • craig44craig44 Posts: 12,184 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Darin said:

    @craig44 said:
    i am a big Horror movie fan. I have seen hundreds of them.

    while Hereditary is well known amongst horror aficionados, i am not sure how well known it is in general. it is a very well made film and quite horrifying. the final 20 minutes is a non stop roller coster ride of terror.

    I hate horror movies. The bad guy, entity, ghost, zombie, mass murderer, etc. always dies harder than Bruce Willis. 😱

    I prefer action movies where our hero gets shot at 32,000 times but never gets hit and always prevails in the end. 🥳

    I am the only person in my house who likes horror. my wife hates it. the last one she watched with me was the original paranormal activity. she said "never again"

    I also like action, documentaries, war movies and comedies.

    I do not like romance films. just not my thing.

    George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.

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