<p>All the President’s Men?</p>
<p>Do your kids play sports … based on true stories (HS version)
- Hoosiers
- Remember the Titams
- Hoop Dreams (is the actual story)</p>
<p>When it comes to boys I think focusing on particular actors often works
- Bruce Willis (the Die Hard series and a bunch of other action movies)
- Will Smith (Independence Day, I-Robot)
- Matt Damon (the Bourne movies)</p>
<p>Some others
- The Hunt for Red October
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<p>Be sure to check out the “watch immediately” options (something like that) especially if your boys have" X box Live".</p>
<p>Now I can’t stop thinking about movies.</p>
<p>“Master and Commander” with Russell Crowe. Especially good with surround sound.</p>
<p>“Eating Raoul” is quite gross. If you liked “Waiting for Guffman”, what about "Best in Show’, which is absolutely hysterical…</p>
<p>Yes. Best in Show is almost as good as Waiting for Guffman. I couple of movies that come to mind that are great</p>
<p>Sleuth- This has Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine battling wits in this two man show. </p>
<p>Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare- Two great war movies adopted from Alistair Mclean novels. Where Eagles Dare is the answer to the trivia question of what film did Clint Eastwood kill the most people</p>
<p>The Producers- Original Mel Brooks movie with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder- This is one of my kids favorite movies along with Young Frankenstein</p>
<p>Curb Your Enthusiasm- The season when Larry David gets to play in The Producers on Broadway is amazing. The last show when they do a spot on takeoff on the movie is one of the greatest tv shows of all time. Anne Bancroft is great in the last thing she does before her death. You have to have seen the movie prior to watching the tv spoof to get all the inside jokes.</p>
<p>Another mockumentary: This is Spinal Tap
My son likes most Jackie Chan and Jet Li movies.
Vertigo is a very atmospheric Hitchcock movie set in San Francisco, with Jimmy Stewart.
The Big Lebowski
The recent Batman movies
Lawrence of Arabia
Cowboy Bebop series - animated so might not be okay for older son, but it’s really good
Groundhog Day
The Italian Job (did someone already say that?)
Princess Bride</p>
<p>Strange that your older son never got into Battlestar Galactica! I was about to recommend it from the likes you listed for him. He’ll just have to roll his eyes and put up with it when the 2nd half of the season comes back in Jan, eh? :)</p>
<p>Dexter is excellent, though on the gory side so your husband may not like it (the main character is a serial killer/blood-spatter analyst for the police). Perhaps he can do what my mom does when we watch bloody things as a family, and watch with a magazine in hand that he can put up as a shield!</p>
<p>He’ll be back in school. I think he was caught up in a book or something when we started watching it. I can’t imagine why he wouldn’t like it either!</p>
<p>We watched the new Sleuth, but the old one isn’t on Netflix!!! :mad:</p>
<p>If your son is not weirded out Tom Cruise, Mission Impossible (s), Minority Report, War of the Worlds. My son used to like John Woo action movies : Paycheck, Hard Target, Broken Arrow, Face Off.</p>
<p>Two more–The Rock (with Sean Connery), and Blazing Saddles–absolutely hilarious.
What about Bull Durham, The Untouchables, No Way Out (what do you know, Kevin Costner actually made some okay movies)</p>
<p>Not classics but maybe he’d like a couple of Jackie Chan movies - Rush Hour and Rush Hour 2. They’re kind of funny. If he likes Bond maybe he’d like ‘Three Days of the Condor’ with Robert Redford - a good one. And if he likes Redford, ‘The Sting’ is good. And since that also has Paul Newman it brings up ‘Butch Cassidy…’. And speaking of ‘The Sting’, ‘Paper Moon’ (another con type movie) is pretty good.</p>
<p>For classics - I just watched (re-watched?) all the Alfred Hitchcock Hour episodes on hulu.com. I also like the old Perry Mason shows (old B&W episodes - not the movies). Any movie made by Alfred Hitchcock is good.</p>
<p>Also, try to rent the original ‘The Italian Job’. I saw that in theaters when it came out and remeber it as pretty good but I haven’t seen it since. The remake is good too as others have mentioned.</p>
<p>I didn’t get them at all, but the Tin Man videos got lots of play at our house.</p>
<p>I just asked H for suggestions, and he said anything with airplanes (and action, but drama and comedy are fine too):</p>
<p>Executive Decision
Airforce One
Catch me if you can
The Aviator
The Terminal
Apollo 13
and the classics - Airplane and Airplane II movies.</p>
<p>Also, Harrison Ford movies seem to be his favorite: K-19 (about the doomed Soviet submarine), Airforce One (already mentioned that), The Fugitive, etc. and of course the Indiana Jones series!</p>
<p>I do think they might like Jackie Chan movies. Sports movies are out. No one has much interest though there have been a few I’ve enjoyed. (Breaking Away comes to mind.) They both liked Apollo 13. I don’t know if we’ve seen those other Airplane movies. I’m up for the few Harrison Ford movies I missed (i.e. The Fugitive) We saw K-19 when S2 decided to watch a bunch of submarine movies. (He liked Das Boot too.) They liked the Sting. S2 would probably like Butch Cassidy, but S1 is anti-cowboys.</p>
<p>I second Master and Commander.
Also, great for Christmas time: Joyeaux Noelle, an amazing true story about WW II.
We have seen The Hunt For Red October so many times that we joke about it and quote from it.</p>
<p>S1 refused to go see Master and Commander. We went with S2 who said it was the best movie he’d ever seen. We once tried to listen to the book on tape on a long car trip, but it was too slow for both of them, though they’ve both read most of the Hornblower books. There was a BBC series of the Hornblower books that was okay.</p>
<p>Blade Runner
12 Monkeys
Brazil
Strangers on a Train
Shadow of a Doubt
Touch of Evil</p>
<p>If mathson liked “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,” he might also like “Curse of the Golden Flower,” “House of Flying Daggers,” and “Hero.” All three are Chinese martial arts films by Zhang Yimou set in a historical/epic setting.</p>