<p>Dave
Wag the Dog
The Full Monty
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Waking Ned Devine
Groundhog Day
Death at a Funeral (not sure when it’s going to be released on DVD, but it’s hilarious!)
Dancing With Wolves</p>
<p>teri, I know that my H watched some of those. It also reminded me to add Wedding Crashers.</p>
<p>Oh, I love Wag the Dog! Very, very funny! It is full of f-words, but mocks our politicians so well! We’ll have to re-watch it. :)</p>
<p>Foreign movies (H and I loved):
Trois couleurs (Red, White and Blue) series by Kieslowski - a classic! Red is the best of the series. Blue can be very depressing, and I thought White was not that great compared to the first two.
Burnt by the Sun (Russian movie about Stalin’s era)</p>
<p>Just like many ladies on this thread, I can’t stand the bloody scenes in Gladiator or Braveheart.</p>
<p>H for some reason loves movies with airplanes: Air Force One and Executive Decision are his favorite action movies. Airplane! is his favorite comedy.</p>
<p>How about The Inside Man (Clive Own, Denzel Washington, Jodi Foster)
plus lots of other movies by Spike Lee
The Big Lebowski, Fargo
Slings and Arrows (Canadian TV series - 3 seasons/6 episodes each, clever and funny)
Volver</p>
<p>How about An Officer and A Gentleman, Urban Cowboy</p>
<p>If you want to see something very touching “reign over me” starring Adam Sandler is very fulfilling.</p>
<p>“Out of Africa”</p>
<p>I swear, men and women see two different movies when they watch this flick.</p>
<p>WashDad, you know how to whistle don’t you …? You just put your lips together</p>
<p>Hot enough for you? ;)</p>
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<p>I had to open a window.</p>
<p>“American Beauty”</p>
<p>The big Lebowski reminds me of The Fabulous Baker Boys ( no bowling but it has Michelle Pfeffier)
Im also currently watching Sleeper Cell on DVD-
( better than 24- much better)</p>
<p>nyumom – All the men in my house loved American Beauty, as did I</p>
<p>comedy: “The 40-year-old Virgin” starring Steve Carell (who plays the uncle in
Little Miss Sunshine). It will make your H feel very adept, and there’s lots of
boy culture in it (guys who work in an electronics department). Meanwhile,
you can cheer on the 40-something divorced mom who is the love interest.</p>
<p>If YOU can stand it, your H might like “Munich” (Steven Spielberg’s exploration of how the Israelis avenged the murder of their Olympic athletes with spy tactics and assasinations in Europe). I find I can watch violence if it’s set in history or has some human psychology to justify it. I run to the remote when I feel it’s just gratuitous violence. My H only wants to watch action movies, so that’s how I make my peace with them, by this odd distinction I make of “motivated violence.” So I like The Godfather, but not The Shining or Silence of the Lambs, for example.</p>
<p>Diane Lane and Richard Gere in “Unfaithful.” She has an affair, there’s a murder. Sounds like a plan… again, very dark and upsetting, but when the movie’s over, H appreciates you more. Isn’t that the point?</p>
<p>Fargo is a good two-gender pick because there’s a murder to be solved by an
appealing, real-life-type middle-aged female police officer. Something for everybody, and lots of snow. Great screenplay; every word counts. Ayup.</p>
<p>“Quiz Show,” directed by Robert Redford, based on the true story of the early years of TV when a rising young professor (Charles Van Doren) competes on a rigged TV game show. H liked it because there are 4 male characters (the professor, professor’s father, lawyer, and working guy). No love story, no humor, but I was completely fascinated by the story and ethical conflicts.</p>
<p>My H liked these because they were guy biographies: </p>
<p>“Rae Charles” starring Jamie Foxx
“Ali” starring Will Smith
and again, I just was enraptured by the plot, and extraordinary acting.</p>
<p>Into the Wild was wondeful - H read the book and loved the movie.
Wind the Shakes the Barley - Powerful movie
2 Days in Paris - Wicked fun about a neurotic relationship</p>
<p>Jolynne: </p>
<p>I generally love “talk” movies, too. But My Dinner With Andre is out for me. I’ve tried to watch it three times and never made it to the end.</p>
<p>“Before Sunrise”: I would recommend that every parent watch this with their teens, girls and boys. In some senses, it may be the most romantic movie ever made, because it’s both deeply romantic and basically realistic. The people are powerfully attracted to one another, but they are aware all the time that they don’t know each other, they worry about what their friends may think, whether they are misreading things, taking too many risks. Their lives are a little crowded; making room for a new person, or even a new feeling, is not automatic. And it’s all lovely and funny – the scene in a bar where each role-plays the other’s best friend on the phone is worth the rental price by itself. “Before Sunset”, which involves the same characters nine years and a lot of water over the dam later, is a very different movie, emotionally. Although my kids loved it, when I saw it I decided that there ought to be some sort of special rating that denied admission to anyone under 25. The picture of adult life it paints, while pretty accurate, is not something to inspire an 18-year-old.</p>
<p>Some other good M/F movies: The Right Stuff, All That Jazz, Face/Off (my wife loved this, almost unaccountably), Almost Famous</p>
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<p>I thought it was a good movie but I don’t think H would enjoy it. He does not like the idea that one of his daughters end up shooting him(is my memory correct or was it the boyfriend?). He is very close to our daughters that would break his heart to watch this movie.</p>
<p>Just my personal opinion - but I don’t like really dark films that try to build in humor. Examples: Fargo and Pulp Fiction. Fargo: I remember a scene with two guys laughing after killing a cop - turned it off from there. Pulp Fiction: Lots of of blood and violence done with a much too casual tone for my taste. I know violence is a reality - and I actually don’t mind it in films like Gladiator or even the Bourne films. But I just don’t see much to laugh about…
Oh…my h and I also loved Quiz Show (someone recommended this before). Great movie.
Another favorite: Shawshank Redemption. Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman are amazing. One of my top ten movies!</p>
<p>99 cents makes a point. If we’re trying to raise our movie-choosing credibility with H’s, we shouldn’t include things where the Dad loses his own life or that of a child (for example, Mystic River). Deep down, and often on the surface, the men are twice as sentimental as the women about family…hmm, maybe that’s why they choose the action movies? </p>
<p>Oh stop, they HATE “speculation.” Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Speculate. Let me rephrase: They. Choose. Action. </p>
<p>If anyone has an H in psychological services or a healing profession, in my experience: no exceptions there. My H says, “I listen to people’s problems all day long. I need a break!”</p>
<p>The Train/John Frankenheimer
Ronin/John Frankenheimer</p>
<p>“The Train” was the last great black and white war movie filmed in the late ‘60’s. Starring Burt Lancaster, it’s the story of the last six days before the Allied liberation of Paris. Lancaster plays the head of a French Resistance unit asked to stop a train bound for Germany loaded with stolen Impressionist artworks looted from a Paris museum by a Nazi general ( Paul Scofield). WWII, the French Resistance asked to risk their lives to save the national patrimony just before liberation, Steam locomotives, Impressionist artworks in peril, evil Nazis, you can’t go wrong!</p>
<p>“Ronin”, a thriller about a dissident IRA group assembling a crack mercenary team to steal a suitcase from competitors. Robert DeNiro and Jean Reno stars with David Mamet providing the screenplay. Mamet dialog meets gunplay and one of the best car chases through Paris ever! In an early scene, DeNiro asks Reno for a cigarette. Reno gives him one. DeNiro asks Reno if he’s “management or labor?” Reno replies, “If I were management, I wouldn’t have given you a cigarette.” All that and filmed on location in France.</p>
<p>Heat/Michael Mann
Collateral Damage/Michael Mann</p>
<p>Two favorites directed by Michael Mann, who mixes moral ambiguity and driving around empty LA streets at nigh: lethal noir poetry in motion. “Heat”: Al Pachino, Robert DeNiro, Val Kilmer and the greatest bank robbery shootout using automatic weapons ever filmed. “Collateral Damage”: Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx. A “Taxicab Confession” between out-of-town hit man (Cruise) and cabbie (Foxx). Filmed over the course of one night, Cruise has a naughty “list” …</p>
<p>Tombstone/George Casmatos</p>
<p>A brilliant re-imaging of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, “Tombstone” stars Kirk Russell, Val Kilmer, and Sam Elliot. The Earp brothers and Doc Watson never looked so good. Look for the scene where the tubercular Doc Watson (Kilmer) mocks Johnny Ringo by twirling a small metal cup in imitation of Ringo’s fancy six shooter display.</p>
<p>Another Michael Mann movie - a few years old, and I’ve mentioned it here before–
Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day-Lewis and great cast, gorgeous soundtrack and scenery. I love the outdoors. I love the romance. The part H. probably liked best was “When the Gray-hair is dead, Magua will eat his heart.”</p>
<p>Other than that, there are few we have in common. Except maybe Animal House.</p>