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serious crayons:
I don't know why we don't already have a thread devoted to movies we liked in the past and are rewatching. Sometimes, I find, they are just as wonderful as I remembered them. Other times .... not.

So tonight my baseball-besotted son and I watched Bull Durham. We're on a baseball streak and will probably report on a few others as we go along. Anyway, this is one I always loved, and I would say it held up pretty well. I think my son liked it from a baseball perspective, and I could still enjoy it as a character-drive romantic dramedy. At times it's a bit schlocky and heavy-handed in ways that might not have seemed obvious in 1988 (or at least, didn't to my 31-year-old self), but kind of are 21 years later. Not so much so as to wreck it, though.

As I've said here elsewhere, I really like Kevin Costner in light roles. This, Tin Cup, Field of Dreams, The Upside of Anger. He can be so light and natural and sexy. I usually don't like him in dramas, where he can be too ... too. However, one of his best roles was in A Perfect World, which is kind of in between. That movie is underrated. If you haven't seen it, I recommend it. I'm putting it on my "Rewatching movies" queue as we speak.

It's so hard to believe that Tim Robbins is about my age, because here he plays the dewy sexy newbie, but nowadays tends to get typecast as the crazy codger. Does that mean I'm a crazy codger?

min:
I've never seen any of the movies you've mentioned so can't comment on them.  I do like Kevin Costner and he has acted in some pretty awful movies.

Tim Robbins...I've only seen him in 'The Shawshank Redemption' - brilliant.  Does he do a great 'crazy codger'?   :laugh:  Doesn't mean you are just 'cos you're close in age.   ;D

'Back to the Future' is one movie I like to rewatch, mainly because I've always enjoyed Michael J Fox's acting.  It captured my attention when it came out and I couldn't get enough of it, as well as BttF 2 and 3.  I like the idea that you can change your future by changing things in your parents' past.  The sins of the father.... ;D

Berit:
I loved Hair when it came - and still does  :-* Treat Williams, oh so  :-* :-* :-*

I laughed at Smokey and the Bandit but that didn't last when I saw it again  :( :( :(

Many more has passed, I'll be back "waves"

Berit:

--- Quote from: min on June 07, 2009, 03:51:12 am ---
'Back to the Future' is one movie I like to rewatch, mainly because I've always enjoyed Michael J Fox's acting.  It captured my attention when it came out and I couldn't get enough of it, as well as BttF 2 and 3.  I like the idea that you can change your future by changing things in your parents' past.  The sins of the father.... ;D



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My son, born 1994, loves Back to the future, all 3 of them.We watch them quite often  :)

serious crayons:

--- Quote from: min on June 07, 2009, 03:51:12 am ---'Back to the Future' is one movie I like to rewatch,
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Of all the movies I've ever rewatched years later, I would say Back to the Future may be the most successful of all. It was every bit as good as I remembered, and my sons loved it even more than I did and watched all of the sequels numerous times.

Another really good one that I liked seeing again and they liked too was Big. What a delightful movie. Even though those back-to-the-past movies have become a cliche, they're almost always pretty watchable. I also liked 13 Going on 30 and, more recently, 17 Again. But "Big" and BTtF really set the bar, IMO.

On the other side of rewatched movies is Raiders of the Lost Ark. I remembered that as one of my favorite movies. But when I watched it again with my (then pretty young) sons, they hated it and even I did not enjoy it as much as I remembered. It seemed surprisingly slow moving and, from their POV, too scary and gory, even though I thought by then they had seen far worse.

It's weird how movies age well, or don't.

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