Older Movies on the Big Screen Wishlist

Revival house or repertory cinema is not that big in the Dallas area and the few theaters that serve this function are in the shady part of town so yours truly chooses not to go to them. That and they start at midnight.  My kids do not care how late I stayed up the night before I have to be up early.  I will probably give in when an old movie on my big screen wishlist makes it to town.  Something like Dirty Harry, any of the Dollar trilogy, Classic Bonds, and Escape from New York will get me to go.

I did get to cross off one movie on my big screen wish list this past week.  Cinemark theaters has been doing a Classic series for the past few months and 1976's Best Picture Rocky was showing this week.  Look around the blog and you will see there is some love for Stallone on here.  I was not introduced to Rocky Balboa until 1982's Rocky III.  I had to catch up with with Rocky previous chapters on VHS.

I showed up thirty minutes early for the show not knowing what kind of crowd to expect.  It had been raining for about twenty four hours straight and it was cold outside so it was quite funny when I walked into an empty theater by myself.  Slowly before showtime a nice size crowd did fill the theater.  I was reminded this past summer when I saw The Avengers on the big screen opening night just how fun watching a movie with a crowd is. 

Watching Rocky with a crowd was no exception as the funny parts of the movie seemed that much better compared to sitting in my living room for the umpteenth viewing.  The part that really got to me and always does was the end.  The fight is over and Rocky accomplished his goal of going the distance with the champ.  Who won the fight is not known yet, it was that close so the judges are tallying their score cards.  Rocky is looking around for his girlfriend Adrian to share the moment. When she is able to get in the ring she tells him she loves him for the first time.  At that moment Rocky does not care who won the fight.  He is the champ not matter what.  Queue the music.

Do you have any movies on your big screen wish list?

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I have got 3 weeks of catching up to do here.  I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a beginning of a Happy New Year!  Here we go with the newest to oldest:

I have read nothing but love for this movie and too bad it bombed at the box office.  This is a much more true rendition of Dredd compared to the Stallone version.  This Dredd keeps his helmet on and it comes with a bunch of action and violence!

Tim Burton re-imagines his original Frankenweenie and brings it to animated goodness!

TV's funniest animated show and maybe just TV's funniest show over all.  Think James Bond meets the office and it makes for a great sitcom.  Look forward to checking out the episode where Archer meets his hero, Burt Reynolds.

There is a lot of love going around for this movie so a blind buy seemed appropriate here.  Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a hot commodity right now and better yet Bruce Willis has been brought back to some relevance here.  I love a good time travel movie and Bruno has already made a good one with 12 Monkeys.

FX's Justified had a tremendous second season with a great bad guy so season three of the show went with many bad guys to take on United States Marshal Raylan Givens.  Timothy Olyphant plays one cool cat in this modern day Western and always manages to stay one step ahead of the bad guys.  I also have to mention the fantastic work of Walter Groggins here as Boyd Crowder, Raylan's old friend and closest enemy.  Highly recommended.

Totally unnecessary!  So bad they even had to bring back the three boobed girl to try to save this thing.

Always nice to see Clint back in front of the camera.  Clint plays an aging baseball scout that is losing his eye sight and needs the help of his daughter, the always cute Amy Adams.  This is a good flick and think of it as the anti-Moneyball movie.  This even has some nice work from Boyband Timberlake in it.

Director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) has crafted one heck of a movie here.  This is a real seedy black comedy that takes place in Austin as a family hires a hitman to kill their Mom/ex-wife for the insurance money.  Great cast here too with McConaughey, Gina Gerson, and Thomas Haden Church!  A real nice surprise here.

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Rocky on the Big Screen

Cinemark Theaters has been running a Classic Series of movies lately and they finally hit on one that has been on my big screen wishlist for awhile.  1976 Best Picture Rocky will be playing tomorrow night and Harry will be there.  The first Rocky movie I saw in the theater was part 3 so I have been looking forward to this for a long time.  This is such an uplifting movie and is one of my favorites.  Yo Adrain!

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