Saturday, January 31, 2009

Movies

Since the last post I did was about movies I figured I would just give you some movies that I think will help you be a better more rounded person. Also all these movies are old cause I love old movies. Deal with it. For your convenience I have seperated them into genre.

Westerns
  • The Searchers (John Wayne said it was his best)
  • High Noon (Some commies say it is about how they were treated, whatever it is a good movie)
  • Once Upon a Time in the West (5 minutes till the end I thought it was a terrible movie and now it is on this list)
  • The Cowboys (Heartbreaker)

Film Noir (kind of)

  • To Have and Have Not (Ernest Hemingway classic)
  • Vertigo (Hitchcock, need I say more)
  • Charade (Audrey Hepburn + Cary Grant= PERFECT!)
  • Laura

Romance

  • It Happened One Night (Also Hilarious)
  • Roman Holiday (Another Hepburn)
  • Sabrina (Yet another Hepburn, but also has Humphrey Bogart)

War

  • Patton (Rommel! You magnificent B******! I read your book!)
  • Caine Mutiny (Ending was AWESOME)
  • Lawerence of Arabia (Make sure you have 4 hrs)
  • Seargent York (Rednecks go to war)

Drama

  • Casablanca (Tied with Searchers for my fav movie of all time)
  • Best Years of Our Life (3 post WW II stories that intertwine)
  • M (Super creepy, could have been put under film noir section)
  • Ben Hur

Comedy

  • Some Like it Hot
  • Were No Angels
  • Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin and it is black and white)
  • Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love with the Bomb (Weird but funny)

Horror (These are some of the first Horror movies and they are classic)

  • Night of the Hunter
  • Psycho
  • Gaslight

Okay so that is my list. I have left off a lot of really good ones that are more well known, but some really well known was I have kept on because they are so good. A lot of people, I'm sure, have heard of a lot of these but haven't actually watched them, so I implore you to live the higher life of cinema viewers and go for the good ones.

3 comments:

Sarah Stout said...

Nice... thanks for the suggestions! I hope that life is treating you well. Are you still in Rexburg?

steinbeigle said...

I feel like for the westerns, you could have just put up the dollars trilogy.

John and Heather said...

VEry good selections Chris!