Classic films that may have been missed first time around.

[redsturgeon]

I just watched Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind on Netflix. I missed it first time around but finally watched it and was glad I did.

I fits in the fairly strange category of sci-fi rom-com and for those few who may not have watched it I would highly recommend it.

It has a complex multi-layered circular narrative structure and star Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet.

Great acting and serious themes underlie the rom-com facade.

9/10

Would be interested to hear if anyone else has anything that they recently "discovered" from a while ago.

[DrFfybes]

Furst tine I've seen "Jim Carrey" and "great acting" in the same post

To be honest I avoided it because it had Jim Carrey in - apart from The Truman Show I've not managed to watch anything he did all the way through. Maybe I'll give it a go.

[redsturgeon]

Furst tine I've seen "Jim Carrey" and "great acting" in the same post

To be honest I avoided it because it had Jim Carrey in - apart from The Truman Show I've not managed to watch anything he did all the way through. Maybe I'll give it a go.

Hardly any gurning at all.

[EverybodyKnows]

Man on the moon is a very good film - with Jim Carrey. Well worth a watch.

[bluedonkey]

Man on the moon is a very good film - with Jim Carrey. Well worth a watch.

Agreed, that is a well acted story.

[BigB]

I watched Gangs of New York over the Christmas period. Strangely had never seen it before.

Still wondering why it was so well received/reviewed, must have been a combination of the Scorsese/Day Lewis factor. Maybe I missed something.

[Gerry557]

Titanic 1997
The Shawshank Redemption 1994

These are two that over the years I had seen bits of but never watched it from the start to end but now ticked off the list.

I've also got a 1972 film I'm hoping to get around too soon ish, well apparently there are a couple of follow ups to make it a trilogy.

The Godfather, anyone?

[Watis]

Finally got round to watching 'Casablanca' before Christmas. Wasn't disappointed.

Watis

[SalvorHardin]

Has to be "The Natural", a 1984 film which I didn't know about until five years later.

A failing 1930s major league baseball team signs a middle age rookie, Roy Hobbs. As a teenager Hobbs was destined to be one of the greatest players to ever play the game, but life got in the way. Now 37 years old, Hobbs gets his chance at an age when most players have retired.

The story draws upon Homer's Odyssey and the legends of King Arthur. People who know far more about the legends than me have pointed out numerous references to both and how Hobbs' bat is Excalibur.

My Arthurian expert friend says that Hobbs is more Percival than Arthur, but his bat is Excalibur and the team's coach is The Fisher King. That the team is the New York Knights says a lot.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8iUIZ-mgMLcHi

[BobbyD]

Furst tine I've seen "Jim Carrey" and "great acting" in the same post

To be honest I avoided it because it had Jim Carrey in - apart from The Truman Show I've not managed to watch anything he did all the way through. Maybe I'll give it a go.

Jim Carrey ...but Michel Gondry.

Carrey is also very good in the tv series kidding where he plays a childlike children's tv presenter whose as naive and principled off screen as he is on screen falling to pieces as he fails to deal with the death of his son, also EP'd and largely directed by Michel Gondry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTgnV6wH2G4

[Tedx]

The Gentlemen

A very entertaining Guy Ritchie from 2019

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gen ... (2019_film)

[stewamax]

Pasolini's Gospel According to [St] Matthew - the original Italian B&W version with subtitles.
It is quite extraordinary; nothing like it before or since, and even the soundtrack music - which ranges from heavyweight Bach, through the Congolese Misssa Luba to Odetta Holmes's Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child - is a knockout.

[pje16]

I would have gone for Shawshank but that been done
so my plug is for the
The Green Mile
https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/60000417
ticks a lot of boxes

[Bubblesofearth]

3 of my favourite films that came out around the same time;

The apartment
Forbidden planet
The incredible shrinking man

BoE

[Tedx]

'The Founder' starring Michael Keaton.

The story of Macdonalds.....their founders and a salesman chap called Ray Kroc.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kroc

[XFool]

3 of my favourite films that came out around the same time;

The apartment
Forbidden planet
The incredible shrinking man

Forbidden Planet - Saw it when originally released.

Apart from Robby the Robot, what I always remember is the stampede for the exit of frightened children as the dénouement approached!

[bluedonkey]

Titanic 1997
The Shawshank Redemption 1994

These are two that over the years I had seen bits of but never watched it from the start to end but now ticked off the list.

I've also got a 1972 film I'm hoping to get around too soon ish, well apparently there are a couple of follow ups to make it a trilogy.

The Godfather, anyone?

Godfather I, followed by Godfather II is a real treat. Don't worry if you miss GIII.

[bluedonkey]

'The Founder' starring Michael Keaton.

The story of Macdonalds.....their founders and a salesman chap called Ray Kroc.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kroc

Yes, very interesting film. Probably of particular interest to Fools due to its business story.

[ReformedCharacter]

I recently watched Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid having missed it when it came out.

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid is a 1973 American Revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah, written by Rudy Wurlitzer, and starring James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado, Chill Wills, Barry Sullivan, Jason Robards, Slim Pickens and Bob Dylan. The film is about an aging Pat Garrett (Coburn), hired as a lawman by a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid (Kristofferson).

Dylan composed the score and songs for the film, most prominently "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", which were released on its soundtrack album the same year.

A great film IMO.

RC

[XFool]

I recently watched Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid having missed it when it came out.

A great film IMO.

Oh, there's a story there. Or is there? Perhaps it's just my dodgy memory? Anyway...

I saw it at release in the cinema. Seen it since on TV. Didn't see the opening where the row of chickens, buried up to their necks in sand, get their heads blown off one by one by gunslingers practising their art! My wager, you won't now get to see that either. Sam Peckinpah...

"Knockin' on Heavens's Door" by Bob Dillon who also acted (badly) in the film. That, in the film, was a very emotional scene played out as the sun literally went down - "It's getting dark, too dark to see", seemed in memory to last a long time. The TV version I saw appeared abruptly truncated and lost its power. Though I see from the Web that the full lyrics look fairly brief. Memory?

I have the original album.