This discussion was started based on comments from another discussion about sleep.
I like to watch science based disaster movies like: Dante's Peak, Volcano, Outbreak, Independence Day, Day After Tomorrow...
For some reason I like to watch movies I can find problems with and then watch them over and over. I can fall asleep to them while the world is exploding or freezing or other major problems...
What do you watch?
Was your husband a Force Recon Marine? I'm wondering if you and he have ever watched Executive Decision? I've watched it several times as well.
The Mersk from Alabama, which was hijacked by Somali pirates. The part where our Navy SEALs came in and took care of business made me want to stand up and cheer!! My husband is a former Marine and he was the Marine equivalent to a Navy SEAL during his career so it is especially interesting watching these kind of movies with him because he can always tell me what their next move is going to be and why. If you are dealing with Alzheimer's in your family, as we did with my beloved mother for many years, a little known film called Away From Her was extremely well done. Julie Christie plays the lead female role and Olympia Dukakis, and everyone else was amazing as well. This movie we felt was very realistic, and gut wrenching at the same time. That's what Alzheimer's is. Probably the worst disease in existence. Definitely the most cruel.
I still have in my bedroom the VHS (boy, I need to go and get the DVD versions) of = Citizen X (Russia's serial killer, so sad he killed soooo many children) .
= The Lost Battalion (Rick Shroeder, US battalian surrounded by Germans during WWI)
= A Thousand Heroes (UA232 crashed in 1989... I still cry when I watch this.)
Another great flic, SHAUN OF THE DEAD. Best zombie spoof ever! Brit film with the two lovable slackers who save the day.
Black dog, what's the Tarantino movie with George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, shoot em up vampire, bloody mess in an old roadhouse?
Also liked it when the cast and screw went to India to film driving there. Oh my gosh, and we think our traffic is a mess here !!
I also liked HIGHWAY FROM HELL about tow truckers up in Alaska, very interesting show. Can't find it anymore, it use to be on the Weather channel, but FiSO cancelled the channel :(
Black Dog.....will you marry me? No..wait. Did I actually type that? My wife would cause lots of trouble, but you just ran through all my favorite movies, like forever! Oh yea. Blood Simple. A masterpiece. We've been watching lots of Orange Is The New Black lately. Great stuff but after each episode I just want to take a long hot shower.
Windy, totally w/you on Dr. Strangelove (a classic) and Fargo (one of my all time favorites). Watched Fargo again, on TV, several years ago w/Mom back when she was still living in her condo, before the dementia.....she was pretty "meh" on it but not surprising since she prefers the old "Classics" from the 30-40-50's and musicals, which she mostly watches now.....
Vividly remember "discovering" Blood Simple, the Coen bro's first big film release. Told everyone I knew....see this film....dark, noir, hilarious and quirky '88, maybe....add most of Hitchcock (for sure The Birds and Rear Window), The Usual Suspects (incredible Kevin Spacey), No Country for Old Men (another Coen bro's), American Hustle (more recent, hilariously brutal take on the real ABSCAM con), Glengarry Glen Ross and one of David Mamet's early ones w/Joe Mantegna, House of Games (another great, entertaining con game w/a twist).....OTOH, I loved Tremors....what a great, over-the-top just fun movie, didn't even know there were sequels, but would add Arachnaphobia (w/John Goodman as a hilarious pest remover) for pure over-the-top scary fun....gave it to a friend of mine and she was p.o'd.....said she didn't sleep for days....jeez...I just thought it was fun!
Re: TV....unbelievably, I (admittedly terrible cook) am into cooking shows....lots of PBS and Masterchef...I find them comforting.....unbelievably bored w/most series after a few episodes, although I did like a recent one about 2 detectives, set here in Michigan, can't remember the name (Grand Rapids isn't right)....anyway, I thought it was pretty well done, good leads, some interesting stories.....but I'm more of a reader....speaking of which, check out the movie, Winter's Bone based on an excellent book, young Jennifer Lawrence (excellent and award-nominated) and for once, the movie lives up to the excellent novel. Hope you are all enjoying a lovely Saturday evening movie....to your taste, of course!
ICE ROAD TRUCKERS
NASCAR
BASEBALL
GOLF
All better than any sleep drugs known to mankind.......
Plus, I'm a pain in the b*tt when watching movies. I'm busy muttering, "That's impossible! No one can do that!" Watched Narnia with my nieces/nephews, I was muttering throughout the movie (in the theater), "They just got their powers and suddenly know how to use it?!" After the movie was over, I declared to my nieces/nephew that I will no longer watch movies again. Or on another movie, "That phrase was not common on those times! That's today's modern slang!"
I did watch Still Alice on the airplane. As I was watching it, I couldn't help thinking of mom. I cried while watching it. Poor mom. She must have known she was going crazy and that's why she went crazy accusing us of stealing from her and trying to make her crazy. I've never really cared to watch movies - unless it's comedy. I've watched Legally Blonde several times. The first time I watched it, I hated it. But, the more I watched it, I started liking it and laughing. But I don't like it enough to go and watch the part 2.
I enjoy pointing out far-fetched discrepancies in the script or plot. Just like in breaking news today: DT gave a speech in Nh today. Isn't that nice the donald is interested in the nursing homes. Did anybody hear, did they keep him? To quote DT in the Serta commercials with the sheep: "Where's your dignity?". No one I have asked remembers that commercial, maybe because Serta fired him. Really, he is talking to sheep! Where is your dignity, donald?
Do not watch scary movies as a rule, but intense is good if I've run out of other things to watch and I just want to watch something DH is watching. We have popcorn too.
Another favorite was 'Burn Notice', loved the team, an ex-FBI agent, psycho girlfriend "Should we shoot them?", and Michael Weston's mother!!!
Pamz, glad that you were able to see at least one of the movies. Did not occur to me that 'Second Best' indicated that there must have been a 'First Best Hotel.
Dinner happened, the movie was never continued...crazy-making, having to beg to see the movie. Should not mention this, but 'movies' have become a source of irritation in this household. Going to really whine about this later on another thread.
I DVR it when we get Showtime free, and rented the first season from the library. I also love Ripper Street and used to watch Copper!