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RE: Movie rental suggestions for New Years Eve?

brad kaste

brad kaste

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RE: Movie rental suggestions for New Years Eve?

Hi All,
I need your help and input on what you would suggest for a wholesome, quality DVD movie to shown New Years eve. As you know,...there's so much junk out there,...from the senseless killings stuff, sex scene scenarios, and to where a curse word is injected as every other word. Something that a group of adults could enjoy rated along the G or PG scale. It can be humorous and even vintage in age. I tried taking out "Cars 2" but that's been taken out via library or rental. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
PG-13, but just rented Midnight in Paris and found it to be a very good movie. As much as I am not a Woody Allen fan, really enjoyed it. And I despise Owen Wilson, and still liked it. And for an adult audience, lots of of "real time" references to required reading authors and artists from at least my high school days.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/midnightinparis/
 
Here's one that any group of adults would like...has very few curse words (and most are the milder ones), no nudity, no sex...some violence..but it's not the over-the-top gore fest type of violence.

Killers

Great movie! Great story line. The chemistry between the key characters/actors is unreal. Very well written, very well cast, very well acted.

Cars 2, while a good movie....is not nearly as good as the first one. But well worth watching.

Kind of a holiday movie...The Holiday. Jack Black, Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet and some guy whose name I can not recall. Good movie...no, great movie. Great story line, great cast, great acting.

OBIO

Need to toss this one out there as it took me by surprise. An animated flick. Very well done, very enjoyable. Gnomeo and Juliet. A Lawn Gnome take on a literary classic. Michael Cane does one of the voices. Great movie. Kids would love it, adults love it....Deb and I have watched it a few times. Heck, my sister-in-law loved it even....and even my mom-in-law and pop-in-law watched it....and they rarely sit through an entire movie.
 
The Fall (2006), great adventure movie filmed over a 4 year period in 18 different countries.

Italian Job (1969) with Michael Caine, Noel Coward and Bennie Hill. Funny, smart gold shipment robbery caper and some great driving stunts.

Amelie (2001), a French movie with subtitles. A quirky comedy, fantasy, romance movie.

The Man Who Would Be King (1975) with Michael Caine and Sean Connery, epic adventure movie.
 
The wife and I enjoyed "Up" (2009), a nice animated flick by Disney/Pixar. A lonely old man decides to use balloons attached to his house to take a trip to South America and a little boy stows away for the trip. Great story and you'll recognize some of the voices. :)
 
Barvan40 said:
Italian Job (1969) with Michael Caine, Noel Coward and Bennie Hill. Funny, smart gold shipment robbery caper and some great driving stunts.

Amelie (2001), a French movie with subtitles. A quirky comedy, fantasy, romance movie.

The Man Who Would Be King (1975) with Michael Caine and Sean Connery, epic adventure movie.
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Don't know The Fall, so can't comment on it, but these other 3 are great suggestions; saw The Man ....... again just a couple of days ago & still enjoyed it, and those other 2 would always make my Top 10 list!

A few more suggestions:
  1. Stardust (2007), again one of my Top 10, worth it just for the scene where Robert de Niro drags up & dances to the can can music, and the scene where somebody finally gets Ricky Gervais to shut up!
  2. Local Hero (1983), but I don't know if you'll be able to get hold of it, a lovely gentle comedy from the early 80s
  3. The Ladykillers (1955), or any of the Alec Guinness Ealing comedies
  4. Rocky Horror Picture Show (or Little Shop of Horrors, or either version of The Producers - I actually prefer the Nathan Lane one) - a good musical comedy usually hits the spot, or go old school and go Gene Kelly, watched Singing in the Rain the othe day with a big grin on my face for the whole movie, real feelgood stuff.
Unashamedly Anglocentric I'm afraid, but we do make some cracking films over here at times. And sometimes a musical is good for the soul.
 
Naismith said:
Julia Julia, Meryl Streep is hilarious as Julia Childs.
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You mean Julie and Julia. And yes, Meryl Streep as Julia Childs is a riot....and she nailed Julia Childs' mannerism to a T. I love the part where Julia Childs pulls the hot pasta from the cooking pot and cries "This is as hot as a stiff......" I laughed my head off on that line.

OBIO
 
for something old...but very good,,,"i remember mama" or "the ghost and Mrs Muir".....something a tad newer..."legend of 1900" or "1900" they seem to change the name...it has that tim roth as a baby who was abandoned on a ship when an infnt..got named 1900 by the crew,and never sets foot on land...has a piano "play off" with jellybean someone...is a great "clean" movie
 
I watched 'Rise of the planet of the apes' last week and was pleasantly surprised! Nothing like the previous PotA flick by Tim Burton which was really bad. Good acting, very realistic CGI apes and a good story.

One of the best animation movies of recent would be 'Rango' for me; get the extended version which has some good adult jokes in there. Lots of references to classic western movies (And a nice one to 'Fear and loathing in Las Vegas' too!).
 
If you can keep the emotions in check, as it can be rather sad at times, try "How Green Was My Valley," with Donald Crisp and Maureen O'Hara. Good film about a close family, and how the only constant in life is change. Crisp portrays a very strong and benevolent father figure in this film.

Another good one is "Goodbye Mr. Chips," with Robert Donat & Greer Garson. Good story about (good) tradition and giving of one's self to something bigger than you are - and how your actions, and what you say, can affect for the good those who will be around long after you're gone. Someone tried to make a musical out of this, with Peter O'Toole as Chips, but somehow that detracted from the message of the original.

If you want to see Bogie in something different, try "Action in the North Atlantic." A fine WWII film about the U.S. Merchant Marine, in glorious black & white. Both he and Raymond Massey do a fine job in this one. You'll recognize most of the supporting actors.
 
Another recommendation here for Stardust (2007). An excellent movie. Or maybe, the very similar, The Princess Bride (1987) made 20years earlier.
 
Or if you want to go with some classic viewing:

On Golden Pond, The Color Purple, Fried Green Tomatoes, Steel Magnolias, The Spitfire Grill, Terms of Endearment. All great choices.

The Legend of 1900, as Daveroo suggested. Great movie! Tim Roth was simply superb in that movie....as was the lead secondary actor...can't remember his name...the guy whose eyes do that side to side vibrating thing (mine do the same thing...it's either a sign of genius or mental instability...don't know which applies to me yet). The piano showdown between 1900 and Jellyroll Morton....man that was some serious piano playing.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons. Best Brad Pitt movie going. Simply an amazing, thought provoking movie.

OBIO
 
OBIO said:
Best Brad Pitt movie going.
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Nah Tim, best Brad Pitt movie is Snatch, but that doesn't meet Brad Kaste's criteria; it was the first time I realised Pitt could act, and was not just a Hollywood pretty boy - he absolutely nailed that Irish traveller accent.
 
[h=1]Pruitt Taylor Vince,[/h]
he played max tooly in "1900"..he was also the guy who was the internal investagator (?) on the menatlist when the bad guy mysteriously burned up in the jail cell,


and obio? in your case??......mental...deffinantly metal....hehehehehe
 
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