Fiddlers Three

 

All the movies where Mimi Rogers is naked.

 

Chasing amy

 

In the Loop - I don't know why - it's the funniest movie I've seen since Team America (and it's 12 years old now) - James Gandolfini is in it, but nobody seems to have ever heard of it (Well, it IS British).

 

I don't know if "most" have never heard of it but a lot of people I mention it to never have.
Melvin and Howard


When Howard Hughes died, there were dozens of claims to his wealth via "wills" he had left in the hands of the person making the claim.
One of more outlandish was a guy named Melvin Dummar. He claimed that the will showed up one day where he worked. His explanation is that years earlier while out in the desert he came across a guy wandering lost and offered him a ride.
The movie is based on Dummar's account of how he met someone in need and helped him without any expectation of reward or payment.

 

This has been in my Top Five since I first really thought my list through. It's not like some of the others on my short list, that I can watch over and over (Like my #1 L.A. Confidential), because it's just too heartbreaking, but the story of a man trying not only to provide for his young son in Postwar Italy, but to shield the the boy from the harsh realities of the times and give him a sense of optimism for the future, is so real and so true.

The Bicycle Thief, later released as 'Bicycle Thieves' - the greatest movie from director Vittorio De Sica.

 

O brother where art thou

 

clearwater

 

Doctor Who and the Daleks

 

Eric Soya's '17' (1965)
I remember this fondly it was about a 17 yo virgin male that goes to aunt's for summer & basically sexes every female he meets.

 

boys will be boys(classic Will Hay comedy from early 1930s 0r 1940s)
Hay may a few comedy films, sadly he died around 1949(i think)

 

"The Shop Around the Corner" is a delightful movie, staring James Stewart, and released in 1940. Back then Hollywood knew how to make romantic movies.

The Motion Picture Code was in effect from 1930 to 1968. Before the Code movies could deal with serious issues, like rape, but they still avoided nudity and obscene words. Since 1968 there has been a lot of gratuitous sex and obscene words. Michael Medved, a movie critic, has said that there is a market for nudity, but none for obscene words. Even people who use those words habitually are not attracted to movies that include them. The words are included because the reflect the decadent values of the people who make them.

 

When I first saw "Billy Jack" in 1975 I liked it so much that I watched it several times. The last time I watched it it was on television in the late 1990's. This time I was more critical. I thought that the movie unrealistically idealized the counter culture of the late 1960's and early 1970's, and portrayed conventional American society as more vicious than it is. Also, the Freedom School reminded me of a cult. It almost resembled the cult of Jim Jones at Jonestone. I wondered what kind of job one could get with a degree from the Freedom School.

Finally, the movie exaggerated what one could do with martial arts techniques. It showed Billy Jack using martial arts techniques, but it did not show him training. This is a criticism I have of most martial arts movies. It conveys the misconception that karate is something one learns, and then knows. Karate is a physical skill. One who does not practice it regularly will not be able to use the techniques effectively.

 

The Dogs of War

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080641/

 

Airport '77
Airport '80
Beyond the Poesiden Adventure

 

Guarding Tess
It's a comedy about a former First Lady (Shirley MacLaine) and her secret service man (Nicholas Cage). She is constantly being difficult by giving her secret service detail the slip, and he is dying to get away from her and on to a more exciting assignment. Whenever he pushes her too far, he gets a personal call from the current President, which always gets him back in line. Even though they drive each other nuts, the movie gradually shows us why she won't let him go, and they end up becoming good friends.

It's just a feel-good movie.

 

a perfect world

 

Wisdom with Emilio Estevez

 

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