Movies
It’s been years since I’ve actually watched a movie in a theater.
Everything listed here I saw on my TV.
I mostly watch “whodunits”.
Although I find myself watching a lot more Westerns in my old age than I used to!
The whodunits, I mark with a tag of noir.
The whodunits, I mark with a tag of noir. Here is a list of them:
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The Big Heat (1953)
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The Drowning Pool (1975)
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Harper (1966)
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Marlowe (1969)
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The Blue Dahlia (1946)
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The Big Combo (1955)
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The Unsuspected (1947)
Here are the rest: Jane Austen, crime dramas, and a lone sci-fi: 🙂
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The Accountant (2016)
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Bullitt (1968)
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Mansfield Park (1999)
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No Name on the Bullet (1959)
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Pride and Prejudice (2005)
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Reacher (2012)
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Attack of the 50-Foot Woman
addendum
When I started this project, I gave each movie a short review here.
Because I hate to throw anything away, here are the first five 🙂
No Name on the Bullet (1959)
- You had me at Audie Murphy.
- Perfect hero for a 1950s movie:
- everyone is darkly suspicious of everyone else
- smoldering unacknowledged sex
The Unsuspected (1947)
- I’m also a sucker for Audrey Totter.
- She was Adrienne Fromsett in Lady in the Lake.
- I’ve had a crush on her for years 🙂
Attack of the 50-Foot Woman (1958)
- I am also a bit of a sucker for that1950’s style.
- The huge cars with giant fins.
- Extravagant floozies.
- It’s a short movie, in the Nevada desert!
Reacher (2012)
- I had finished reading a Reacher book and this movie was right there on the TV, so I watched it again. It’s kinda meh.
- I think the Reacher character is more appealing to me on the printed page than on the screen.
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
- I’m a sucker for Jane Austen … and Kiera Knightly 🙂
Where I get my movies
I subscribe to Youtube TV so there’s no penalty to record everything that strikes my fancy.
Every now few days I crank up the TCM ‘channel preview’ feature to see what’s in store, and again press the “record button” as needed!