Watching every movie on Jeff’s lists, #2
Now I’ve finally seen Walking Tall
I just started writing this series of posts, but I’ve been working through a Netflix queue of Goldstein movies for a few weeks now. So far I’ve watched Three Days of the Condor, The Parallax View, The French Connection, The French Connection II, The Laughing Policeman, The Conversation, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Marathon Man, and Straw Dogs. My favorites were The Laughing Policeman and The Conversation. I’ve realized that Gene Hackman is probably my favorite actor, and Walter Mathau is right on up there, which is kind of surprising.
Anyway, I think that’s pretty good progress, especially since my wife positively hates Jeff’s taste in movies, so I end up watching these after she’s gone to bed or on the rare nights she goes out without me. She’s out of town this week. Hopefully Netflix gets two or three movies to me before she gets back.
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Your wife is INSANE!
I’m curious: what did you think of Straw Dogs?
Really really enjoyed it, I love Peckinpah. I can certainly see why it was controversial, what with her seeming to enjoy the rape scene.
Oh, and to respond to Jeff. How odd, she said exactly the same thing about you.
Yeah, I liked it, too.
That movie is disturbing now–I can’t imagine what it would have seemed like a few decades back.
For some classic Matthau, don’t miss The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. And count all the ways Tarantino ripped off that movie.
He ripped a line out of Charley Varrick for Pulp Fiction, and that movie was marketed with the phrase “Kill Charley Varrick!”
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three is on my list, now I’m looking forward to it even more.