Great list. I'll need to think about mine. Your list reminds me - I finally got around to watching The Shawshank Redemption on 4K last week - I had forgotten 99% of that movie - it had been years since I saw it. Fantastic film, and the 4K version looks outstanding.
What's your view on The Princess Bride? Rewatched that recently and it's still such a classic with so many memorable and quotable lines. Leaving it off the list seems almost...
Please look at the list. It is there, without the "The"
A couple movies not on the lists:Wind River (one of the best movies in the past 5 years) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5362988/It should have won an Oscar, but Weinstein produced it and 2017/2018 was the height of the "Me Too" movement...anything he touched became a cancer. It was written/directed by Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone).Black Book (released in 2005): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389557/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0Outstanding historical film about the Dutch resistance (subtitled film). Another fantastic movie written/directed by Paul Verheoeven (Robocop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct). If you haven't seen these two movies, do yourself a favor and watch them. You won't regret it.
One period piece that I saw as a kid and was amazed by at the theater since it had intermission was Gandhi.That movie is a great movie.Another movie but this is more a documentary that I thought was great was Ali against Foreman in"The Rumble in the Jungle" which was documented in the movie When We Were Kings. Highly recommended. Folks here may not have seen much anime but there are a lot of great animated films from Japan worth seeing..Spirited Away, Grave of the Fireflies, Your Name, Princess Mononoke, etc.. (too many to mention). As for comedy, Monty Python movies are great comedy.A great drama action movie is the classic Seven Samurai which was then made into John Sturges’s The Magnificent Seven and Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight.In terms of great westerns, check out the following -> The Searchers, Once Upon a Time in the West, Unforgiven
An older one and a newer one on my list of movies that I really loved. Both of these are a pretty good choice for a July 4th movie watch.The Right Stuff - preceding some of the later Apollo based movies and focusing on the prior Mercury program, this is a little bit long but to me was just fantastic in portraying the story of what those early astronauts went through and achieved. Ford vs Ferrari - I was only marginally aware of this history, mainly due to a friend who has a treasured Shelby Cobra, one of the last made while Carroll Shelby was still around. My wife isn't a fan of fast cars but she joined in a few minutes into this and loved it. It's just a great story, told well, with some thrills in the mix.
Very interesting comments. I have just put wind River on Netflix I will watch it now and let you know
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