Bethluvsfilms

FAMILY PLOT

FREAKY FRIDAY (1976)

TAXI DRIVER

Not a fan of him at all....period. The only exception to the rule would be A PERFECT WORLD....I thought he was better than usual in that. Other than that one movie he's unbearable to me. I can watch ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES, but only because of Alan Rickman's wicked performance as the Sheriff of Nottingham. Costner could never hope to hop into Errol Flynn's shoes, much less fill them.

CLOCKERS

I've been dying to see this movie, I've always liked Ewan McGregor and it would be interesting to compare it to Kubrick's film. I didn't read the book DOCTOR SLEEP though, so maybe I should read that first then see the movie. Hard to imagine the little boy Elliot as a dead ringer substitute for Jack Nicholson.....but then I've hardly seen a lot of Henry Thomas in any of his adult roles. I'll have to see it to believe it.

Great film, very suitable for the Fourth of July.

QUIZ SHOW

1776 is a good movie and I agree it's not shown often enough. But it does feel fitting that it should be shown on the Fourth of July. And I agree it does boast fine performances from the main leads (William Daniels in particular, who always seems to me to be vastly underrated).

SCHINDLER'S LIST

Natasha Richardson

Lynn Redgrave

Bill Owen

Richard Todd

Seen just about all of these. 1161, 1163, 1167, 1168 and 1170 are the best of the bunch in these. 1169 I never cared very much for. The rest I can watch once in a while.

Thorley Waters

MISTER ROBERTS

Burt Young

Perry Lopez

Dick Foran

Sonny Tufts

I love BRAVEHEART, TITANIC and FARGO (but I respect your right, Lorna, to dislike them), but I loathe SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE and THE ENGLISH PATIENT with a passion and AMERICAN BEAUTY left me cold. I'll acknowledge that BEAUTY is well acted but not the sort of movie I'd want to watch over and over again.

Love all these movies, especially THE SEARCHERS. MY DARLING CLEMENTINE would be a very close 2nd.

Steve Cochran

I can't believe I overlooked this pairing either, as I have several of their films they did together on DVD. My favorite of their on-screen teamings is HORROR OF DRACULA as well. They were such good friends in real life too.