Great movies. Not intended as an exhaustive list, but if you haven’t seen any of these, you should:
G/PG Movies
PG-13 Movies
R Movies
Series
Year | Minutes | Series |
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2018 | 593 | Altered Carbon |
2001 | 600 | Band of Brothers |
2017 | 969 | Future Man |
2005 | 1287 | Rome |
2022 | 365 | Severance (Season 1) |
2022 | 240 | The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window |
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What’s with this movie list? NO Jaws, NO Dirty Harry, NO Hunger Games; yet you have the trendy, leftie, “Watch the CIA try and kill the plucky hero, because the CIA are Your ENEMIES, unlike the nice KGB, who WEREN’T!” Bourne Identity!
Jason Bourne is a Democrat’s wet dream!
I’m not into suspense or horror — I find real life provides more than enough of that for my appetite — so no Jaws even though it’s iconic.
Aside from that one iconic Dirty Harry scene (“Well do you, punk?”) I can’t remember that any of the series can compare to more modern police/crime thrillers in terms of something you’d want to sit and watch all the way through. This is actually true of a lot of older movies that were groundbreaking in their day but that are just painfully slow and dull in contrast to more recent films.
Hunger Games may have been fantastic for fans of the books, but for guys like me who knew little of them it was just irritating to have the movie assume so many essential premises and plot points.
And yes, Bourne Identity was an excellent movie: Engaging and self-consistent from beginning to end. I didn’t think its pretext was overbearing, but I guess if you’re hypersensitive about government conspiracies you should steer clear of a lot of these movies.
Can’t agree with you on either Dirty Harry or Hunger Games; D.H. is iconic in that it was the first film to show a serial killer as neither crazy nor superhuman, but just nasty and doing it for payment. Furthermore, the race to reach each phone box said the bar that even Die Hard With a Vengeance couldn’t top (they played for humour: D.H. played for tension).
And I saw Hunger Games before reading the books, and still regard it as the best blockbuster since ET, and arguably since Jaws (the makers concentrated on character and character development rather than set-pieces and huge SFX; & while Schindler and Private Ryan did too, they weren’t aimed at the popcorn masses).
Government conspiracy doesn’t worry me; but Hollywood always dissing the real life good guys does: the most obvious example of late is Argo, with the Britsshown as cowardly and ineffectual. But the truth is, it was the Brits who hid the Americans, and ferried them to safety — in a pink Austin Maxi, no less!
Like your list, but no Godfather 1&2 (3 is terrible so no knocks there)?