Lonesome Dove (1989)

Please forgive me for this one, as it is a T.V. mini-series, but I am going to consider it a movie! Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones are two semi-retired Texas Rangers now ranchers living on the Rio Grande in a fart of a town Lonesome Dove. Jake Spoon(played by Robert Urich) tells them of all of the unsettled land up in the Montana territory, so they decide to take their herd up there to settle. This movie has smoking, tobacco use, whores, drinking, fighting, murder, unseen rape, swearing, theft, grand theft, and violence. More importantly though, it has horses, ranching, cattle, whores, and cowboys. This was a good movie to watch and enjoy. When watching it, just take into account the era of when it was made, computer or animated graphic were still in infancy, but they were trying so just laugh and move on. Robert Duvall was great in this movie, thus cementing my opinion on him being my favorite actor. This will not make my top 100 list due to me being torn on the fact as to whether or not this is a movie, but if it is on T.V. I will stop and watch it for a spell.

On the Waterfront (1954)

First of all, any movie with Marlon Brando and Karl Malden in it cannot be bad (A Streetcar Named Desire). This is a story of corruption and mob mentality on a waterfront docking union. Terry Malloy (Brando) gets caught up in the romance of working with the mob as an inside man, due to his brother being number two in the union. A cat and mouse chase ensues, intermixed with romance, fighting, murder, and deception, with good winning out in the end. Brando is probably best known for his line "You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender."
This is a good movie that will make it onto my top 100 list. As a side note, this was Eva Marie Saint's first movie on the big screen.

It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)

I don't know what made me laugh more- watching the movie, or listening to my 6 year old laugh his head off as he watched the movie along side me. Either way this is a fun slap stick comedy movie and I will give is 3.5 stars. Great for family's to watch together. 100% better than the remake which came out about 10 years ago. My dad talked me into watching the original.

Thanks for all the good memories E. Taylor. Rest in Peace

Bell, Book & Candle (1958)

Just a dumb 1.5 star movie, the only reason I watched it was because Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak, and Jack Lemmon were in it. I got it from the library. Kim Novak is a witch who casts a spell on Stewart so that he will fall in love with her. The rest of the movie a 3rd grader could have written. Pretty Lame. I watched some of it in fast forward I got so bored.

Key Largo (1948)

Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore, Edward G. Robinson, & Claire Trevor. Bogart and Bacall were married when they shot this film, and Bacall was only 24 years old in 1948 so this is the youngest I have ever seen her in a movie.

This is a fun 3 star movie about a mob that takes over a nice Florida keys hotel during a hurricane destroying everything around them outside. It was hard for me to take Robinson seriously as a bad guy, just like it was for me to take Harrison Ford as a bad guy in "What Lies Beneath". You get so used to watching someone play the good guy it make it tough to see them doing anything else.

The script is nothing to write home about, but the acting is good.

Dr. Zhivago (1965)

This is a bonifide 4 star movie. I made it through all 192 minutes. For the middle hour, I was convinced this was going to be a 5 star movie and make my top 100 list. I changed my mind because I did not like the last hour of the movie as much as the first two hours, and I didn't care for the ending of the movie meaning the last 20 min.

This work has so much to offer- a wonderful scenery of war torn Europe (specifically Russia) during WWII, a great love story, wonderful characters, great acting, etc. The script was so good that it required me to rewind the movie a few times to actually catch what the character was saying because there were times where there was some deep dialogue going on that really was fascinating.

Rod Steiger who was incredible in the movie "in the heat of the night" and won an oscar for it, was just as good in this movie. Omar Sharif & Julie Christie were great together. I love how the movie portrays -40 degree weather so well that I think I actually was cold watching this movie and had to get a blanket.

I thought it was funny to see "Obi Wan" from the first Star Wars movie playing a role in this movie as commander Yevgraf. Geraldine Chaplin turned in the weakest performance in the movie, everybody else was great. I need to do some more reading online about this movie, there were 2-3 parts where I was really confused and I still don't understand everything that happened. This is a great movie and I would recommend sticking with it. It did take me 3 nights to watch it. I loved how they filmed the part of them living in the train as they were traveling, it seemed so realistic.