Red Dawn remake

[Mtn.man]

Space balls
Young Frankenstien
Blazing Saddles

[Troublco]

I just watched Blazing Saddles again a week or so ago, wife picked it up for $2 on Black Friday. Anti-gun or not, Mel Brooks is a riot.

I don't know how I could have forgotten Saving Private Ryan. What a well done movie. Braveheart and Rob Roy were both good, and I really don't care if people say they weren't terribly historically accurate. It's a MOVIE. Sort of like when some professors were whining about Apocalypto. Again, MOVIE. Not a documentary. This is ENTERTAINMENT, if they want accuracy try an encyclopedia. Even then, whose accuracy are you going to get? Anytime you have a conflict, accuracy is mostly defined by the winners.

Also on my like list were-
The Missing
300
Master and Commander
The Last Samurai
Kingdom of Heaven
3:10 to Yuma
The Horse Soldiers
Ghost and the Darkness
We Were Soldiers
Shooter
The Sand Pebbles

On my Gratuitous Action Flick List -
The Punisher (The one with Thomas Jane and John Travolta)
The Underworld movies
all the Pirates of the Caribbean movies
all the Mummy movies
Iron Man
all the Tremors movies (Bert's the greatest!)
Pitch Black and the Chronicles of Riddick
Quigley Down Under
All the Indiana Jones flicks!
Swordfish
And, of course, Beowulf

I can't find Space Balls or I'd have it too! And I haven't seen Young Frankenstein in years. I haven't seen Way of the Gun yet, but right now Gran Torino is next on the watch list. I can't believe I've let myself miss that one this long!

[Irving]

My favorites that go along with the genre in this thread would have to be:

Saving Private Ryan
Revolver
Rock n' Rolla
Heat
BlackHawk Down
The Last Samuri
Sword of the Stranger
Ghost in the Shell
Fight Club
Kill Bill series
Jurassic Park
Goodfellas
Appleseed
Vexille

As far as more action and less content I'd add
Ninja Scroll (kind of cheesy lines but awesome violence and adult situations. Not for kids)
Pitch Black
Matrix (First one only. After the second one I didn't even bother anymore)
300
Other mediocre movies like those.

[Mtn.man]

Open Range was pretty good.

[Bailey Guns]

"Open Range" is on my short list of all time great westerns along with "Unforgiven".

The only issue I'd challenge with "Open Range" was Costner's 12-shot SAA in the final gunfight scene. It was explained on the DVD edition 2nd disk, though, so he knew it was an issue that purists would catch.

My favorite line from "Unforgiven" was when Hackman called Eastwood a coward for shooting an unarmed man:

Little Bill Daggett: "Well, sir, you are a cowardly son of a bitch! You just shot an unarmed man!"

Will Munny: "Well, he shoulda armed himself if hes gonna decorate his saloon with my friend."

[Mtn.man]

Yeah thumbs up on Unforgiven as well.

[Elhuero]

Open range is great. The main tough is bragging about killing their friend and charley just shoots him in the face.

That's the way to handle a gunfight.

[Marlin]

"Leave the gun,,, Take the canoli"

[theGinsue]

I was really disappointed in Land of the Lost with Will Ferrell. I think i laughed about twice the entire movie.

In my opinion, that is par for the course in ALL Will Ferrell movies. I can't stand the guy or his movies. I can tolerate just a couple of the comedies by Adam Sandler too.

Someone mentioned MANY posts back that Hollyweird doesn't have any original ideas any more. I agree wholheartedly, but one movie I've been waiting to see for a couple of years now is the remake of Logan's Run. This movie is still catagorized as being "in production" and is now listed as coming out in 2012.

[Irving]

I'm a little over half way through Red Dawn. Early '80's indeed. haha. Even though I read the post about Patrick Swayze being in it, it took me about 30 minutes to realize who I was looking at.