The Friends of Eddie Coyle, for one. Directed by Peter Yates pre Bullitt and the godfather of ensemble cast movies. With Robt Mitchum and Peter Boyle, etc. Released not long ago on DVD tho it may be hard to find. A multi plot working class south Boston crime drama. It's bitchin. Probably a first look for most of you. Worth finding. OK, how about Mystic River, another tho modern south Boston crime drama with acting off the flippin charts! What you got?
Wayne Parham Messages: 18787 Registered: January 2001
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I'll have to check that one out, thanks for the tip!
I've found myself watching TV series on CD lately. Rescue Me is the latest series I've watched. I loved Mad Men, but then we switched to U-Verse, which doesn't have AMC. Lost was OK at first, but it got too weird for me. (Then again, Rescue Me is pretty nuts).
But that's off-topic. Back to your subject, here's a movie from years past: Sharky's Machine. It was the first time I saw Burt Reynolds play a part that wasn't like Smokey and the Bandit, or some other character typecast the same way. He's really pretty good in this movie, surprising to me when it first came out.
A second look? I would say most scary or suspense filled movies. I'm always finding something new that I missed. Like the Sixth sense or Silence of the Lambs. There was always something that I missed!
It's not a movie, but a series worth a second look is Six Feet Under. I watched the whole series in about a month for free from the library. Absolutely riveting...character development and story line were top notch.
Anybody like British comedies? Got two for you, the original Bedazzled written by and starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, and The Wrong Box with Michael Caine, Cook and Moore, a long list other notables, and a pricless cameo by Peter Sellers.
There was a British comedy I used to watch on public television. It was called "Waiting for God". It was about a group of pensioners in an assisted living home and it was hilarious. That and "Are You Being Served" are my absolute favorites.
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