Movies to be trapped on a desert island with... (Part I)
...along with a playing device, of course. Movies that I've experienced can be watched over and over and still enjoyed, though you have seen it all and, sometimes, practically have it memorized.
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- DirectorRob ReinerStarsCary ElwesMandy PatinkinRobin WrightA bedridden boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.The Mormon Date Movie.
Really. No knock on Mormons, mind you. This movie is almost utterly without anything that might offend a vaguely rational person. Good wins, evil loses. Love abides. No dirty language. And yet it's still incredibly fun, along with being one of the more quotable movies of all time. - DirectorDon TaylorStarsKirk DouglasMartin SheenKatharine RossA modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.Although this movie doesn't really answer any questions, it's just an exceptionally fun "What if..."? Almost guaranteed to stimulate discussion.
- DirectorLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsKeanu ReevesLaurence FishburneCarrie-Anne MossWhen a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.C'mon. If you haven't seen this movie over and over, what's wrong with you?
- DirectorRonald NeameStarsWalter MatthauGlenda JacksonSam WaterstonGrounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them.One of Walter Matthau's best. A former CIA agent, a top "field" man gets a rival promoted over him, who promptly attempts to emasculate him by assigning him to do desk work. He decides to quit, and, while at it, write his memoirs... almost guaranteed to get his rival/boss fired. A game of Coyote-and-Roadrunner ensues.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsBrad PittEdward NortonMeat LoafAn insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.The first rule of Fight Club...
- DirectorRob ReinerStarsWil WheatonRiver PhoenixCorey FeldmanA writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy.An excellent Coming of Age picture.
- DirectorSam MendesStarsKevin SpaceyAnnette BeningThora BirchA sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.Lester Burnham is reaching middle-age, and finds his life is almost unbearably dull. He's done everything right, providing for his family at the cost of his dreams, but his wife and daughter hold him in sheer contempt. What went wrong?
- DirectorTerry GilliamTerry JonesStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseEric IdleKing Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.A great introduction to Monty Python, for those who have never grasped the meaning of "Ingeniously Inspired Insanity"
- DirectorGuy RitchieStarsJason FlemyngDexter FletcherNick MoranEddy persuades his three pals to pool money for a vital poker game against a powerful local mobster, Hatchet Harry. Eddy loses, after which Harry gives him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds.Four friends decide to back one of them, a poker savant, in a high-stakes game. When the game turns out to be rigged, a chain of events is set in motion which, while remarkably implausible, manages to ring true, with an exceptionally wide-ranging set of characters, all of whom you will have no trouble whatsoever keeping track of. The intricacy of the story, the colorful characters, all produce a remarkably impressive movie.
- DirectorGuy RitchieStarsJason StathamBrad PittStephen GrahamUnscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.A follow-up, of sorts, to "Lock, Stock, and..." -- another improbably intricate story which still manages to ring true, involving a boxing promoter, a jewel thief, a gang of gypsies, a retired assassin, a deadly bookie, a pawn-shop owner... and a dog that eats everything it can.