Film recommendations for me laddo

Has anyone mentioned the original Cat People?

alleycat said:

Has anyone mentioned the original Cat People?

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I think so, but that's one that bears repeating, frequently.

You can add a whole bunch of the Val Lewton-produced films as well - Isle of the Dead in particular is a favorite of mine, though The Ghost Ship is probably considered more important.

IdiotsRUs said:

Dude, are you trying to make me bankrupt? Nice list.

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Thanks. Be happy I kept it age-appropriate, or I'd've had to include a few dozen things more, like Peeping Tom or Spider Baby or Blood Feast.

I didn't even list the essential serials, either. So, here they are:

Adventures of Captain Marvel, Spy Smasher, Secret Service in Darkest Africa (a major source of the plot of Raiders of the Lost Ark), Flash Gordon, Drums of Fu Manchu, Tiger Girl (Linda Stirling - Rrrrowwwrrr!), and many more! No, not Minnie Moore - many more!

Dude... King of the Rocket Men. If we are including film serials, then the inspiration for The Rocketeer has to be on the list.

BigWords said:

Dude... King of the Rocket Men. If we are including film serials, then the inspiration for The Rocketeer has to be on the list.

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Absolutely! I just listed the first few that popped into my overworked and underpaid brain. Some other good ones are The Masked Marvel, The Mysterious Dr. Satan, The New Adventures of Tarzan, and Zorro's Fighting Legion. The silent Son of Tarzan is pretty good, too.

I have almost 130 serials in my collection.

... The Secret Garden, 1949 and The Little Princess, 1939 are cool. Both have fantasy elements.

Thought of a few others:

Dragonslayer - Older Disney live-action movie, holds up decently today.
Dragonheart - I consider Draco the dragon to be the first modern stand-alone CGI character, and one of cinema's greatest dragons of all time.
Young Sherlock Holmes - Surprisingly well done movie in which Holmes and Watson meet at a boarding school and investigate mysterious murders.
Dreamscape - Psychics can enter other people's dreams. I've always had a soft spot for this one; loved the concept, and the story's not half bad.
War Games - A classic "hacker hits the wrong computer" story; at the dawn of the Internet, a boy (Matthew Broderick) inadvertently starts playing a war game with the computer behind America's nuclear missle defense system.

The Rocketeer (kind of a spoof as I recall, but your laddo might enjoy it).

Hey IRU how abouty Army of Darkness: It's fun seeing Ash, the witless hero, somehow saving the day.

And I'll add my voice to Captain Horatio Hornblower: Classic melding of two of Forresters novels into one rip roaring adventure yarn with Gregory Peck nailing the lead. (So to speak).

IdiotsRUs said:

hehe, oh that was an early one. He has 'Shiny, let's be bad guys' as a text tone.

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Could be stating the obvious, but Indiana Jones?

Comedy?
Danny Kayes' 'The Court Jester'?
Crosby/Hope's 'Road to Morocco'?
A Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis movie? I can't recall any of them, but they're 'classics' I think, and offer perspective on the whole 'dim-wit' style of comedy. Jerry Lewis = Adam Sandler?

frimble3 said:

Comedy?
Danny Kayes' 'The Court Jester'?
Crosby/Hope's 'Road to Morocco'?
A Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis movie? I can't recall any of them, but they're 'classics' I think, and offer perspective on the whole 'dim-wit' style of comedy. Jerry Lewis = Adam Sandler?

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Court Jester is a good one. The Inspector General is also good.
Road to Morocco is probably the best of the Road Pictures. The others are good, except the last one, IMHO
I'm not a huge Martin & Lewis fan, but a few are tolerable. Scared Stiff is a remake of Bob Hope's The Ghostbreakers, so it starts with some good source material and doesn't mangle it too badly. Artists and Models is mildly amusing.

SirOtter said:

Court Jester is a good one. The Inspector General is also good.
Road to Morocco is probably the best of the Road Pictures. The others are good, except the last one, IMHO
I'm not a huge Martin & Lewis fan, but a few are tolerable. Scared Stiff is a remake of Bob Hope's The Ghostbreakers, so it starts with some good source material and doesn't mangle it too badly. Artists and Models is mildly amusing.

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Yeah, not much on Martin & Lewis myself, but if we're taking the kiddo on a tour through movie history, they should at least be mentioned. I seem to remember Jerry Lewis's 'Cinderfella' as being okay.
After all, some guys like the Three Stooges, so he might like Jerry Lewis.

frimble3 said:

After all, some guys like the Three Stooges, so he might like Jerry Lewis.

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Hey, now. Don't be dissin' my Stooges.

SirOtter said:

Hey, now. Don't be dissin' my Stooges.

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I wouldn't dream of it, that's why there are so many movies, something for everybody.

IdiotsRUs said:

All covered.

But today I got a few dvds in the post - Passport to Pimlico, Green Mile (we have it, but it's on vid and the video player's borked sooo) and a special bonus Equilibrium. Got a few more on order too. My poor credit card...

The Road movies - I vaguely recall those and I suspect he'd love the Morocco one - he loves going there, and keeps nagging to go back, but seeing as our favourite cafe got blown up last year....

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AIR the Road movies were filmed on soundstages (probably the same one for all of them) so it's probably not going to remind him of the real thing.

The good, the bad, and the ugly

Fletch (PG, funny)

Seven years in Tibet

Fight Club (possibly greatest movie ever)