Some Favourite Movies

Big Country sounds good. I will add it to my movie queue.

@correjean: Just curious, which of the ones on my list are the ones you haven't seen? If you haven't seen Pursued, and you get a chance to see it, do. In agreement with a synopsis I just read, it is really more of a suspense movie than a cowboy movie. Definitely recommend that one. (By the way, apparently there are some other movies with similar title. This move was made in 1947, I think.)

Haven't seen the ones I highlighted in red.

@correjean: You've seen How to Murder Your Wife? I'm amazed! BTW I checked out your page. Can you tell be how to post a video? Appreciate it.

My all-time favorite movie (surprise surprise) is Tombstone!  Val Kilmer should have won an Oscar (he wasn't even nominated!) for his portrayal of Doc Holliday IMHO.  Kurt Russell should have at least been nominated for his portrayal of Wyatt Earp ... and wasn't Billy Bob Thornton a real chunker in that flick?  Costner should have been ashamed of that Wyatt Earp garbage he put out at the same time.

I recently borrowed Tombstone from the library. Doc Holiday was my favorite character in it. Quite good.

Thanks for all of the posts. Yes I think that " Tombstone " is a terrific film and Val Kilmer certainly played his role very well. I didn't see that Costner film but I think that the film that he did on the Cuban Missle Crisis was a very important comment on the history of that era ( " Thirteen Days " ). 

In my humble opinion, Burt Lancaster was the ultimate Wyatt Earp in 1957's "Gunfight at OK Corral." Hard to top Kirk Douglas as Doc Holiday, but I agree Val Kilmer got royally hosed when the Academy did not nominate him for his " I'm here, Huckleberry" performance. I read that Kilmer's decision to initiate the O.K. Corral gunfight by winking at the Clantons and McLauries was improvisation and not in the script. Henry Fonda's Earp ( "My Darling Clementine") like Costner's just isn't in Lancaster's league. Walter Brennan may have been the ultimate Ike Clanton. What a tremendous and verstile character actor he was. Hard to believe his natural speaking voice was a distinct Boston accent.

"You gonna do something or are you just going to stand there and bleed?"  -- Val Kilmer didn't have all the good lines in Tombstone!

How about this comedic anti-war movie: King of Hearts.

Thanks for the updates. I recently had the chance to see the movie " The Big Country " again and I still feel that it is very good. Burl Ives had a career performance and won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1958 for his role in this film. 

The subject of Jack Nicholson recently came up in another one of my threads and I wanted to mention a couple of his newer films here. " As Good As It Gets " has become one of my favourite Romantic Comedies ( of course he had a lot of help in that film ). A movie that is not mentioned as often is " Anger Management " that Nicholson did with Adam Sandler. I thought that Nicholson and Sandler worked quite well together and I found this film to be quite funny as well. Another movie that I liked was entitled " About Schmidt " due to also having been downsized at my job some years back.  

It has been said that JN's stomach enters a room 5 minutes before the rest of him does!  I don't think I've seen a movie of his that I liked since "Chinatown."

Thanks for the post Javan64. There are some Stars down in Hollywood that like to keep busy and projects like " Chinatown " or " One Flew Over The Coo- Coo's Nest " do not come along too often. Mind you Jack also did that Western ( The Missouri Breaks ? ) with Marlon Brando, I thought that it was not a bad film. There were some other good players in that movie but I'm notoriously bad with names  lol.  

In the thread that I've got on the go about TV shows I mentioned the sad recent passing of Andy Griffith. After I wrote that post I got to thinking about a Motion Picture that Andy was in, probably shortly before the " Madlock " TV series started however I can't recall the name of that film. Andy played a bad guy who commited murder and Johnny Cash was a Sheriff who was trying to investigate things. Anyone happen to remember that movie by any chance ?   

Is this it?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085977/

Thanks for the info Corrijean, the only problem with the movie is to accept Andy as a bad guy  lol.

Thanks for the post Chesstower.

Speaking of interesting movies I just had the chance to watch " Airplane " again. It is quite odd and yet very funny ( surely you must be joking, no I'm not joking and don't call me Surely  lol ).