About Old Movies A year ago one of the local video stores went out of business and had a bundle sale on their movies. They placed 25 random movies in boxes and sold them for $25 a box. I picked up four or five boxes. It is interested how some very low budget movies are real gems. I just watched THE WAR, written by Kathy McWorter. The movie starring Kevin Costner and a young Elijah Woods—one of the better child actors of that era. What made the movie so exceptional is the perfect casting and the powerful screenplay that covered everything from severe combat PTSD to a strong family. Whenever I see a movie where the father makes a decision and the mother instantly berates him I turn it off. (I guess that is the misogynist in me—not born as such—created.) This movie the wife is as solid as they come defending her husband even to her children. A real old school woman. There wsa another old Elijah Wood movie when he was around nine years old—PARADISE staring Don Johnson and Melanie Griffin and again written by a woman, Mary Donoghue—a powerful story about a lost child. Then there is EMPIRE OF THE SUN where a very young Christian Bale is absolutely astonishing as a 13 year old actor and again surrounded by a powerful cast and storyline. Few people have heard LIFE AS A HOUSE—a low budget film about a father dying and making a difficult reconciliation with his teen age son played by a newcomer—Hayden Christenson. Of course then there’s your whole set of LONESOME DOVE with Duvall a great western actor only surpassed by Clint Eastwood. I think why I like movies of that sort is they have an actual PLOT and do not depend on special effects and unrealistic action.
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 19:32:37 +0000
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