I watch metformin hcl 1000 mg a lot of movies each year, mostly to increase my ability to out-snob and out-pop culture reference anyone around. Turns out, several of these “must see”/”classic” films are quite good. To share in my pleasure and my pretentiousness, I recommend the following viewing.
1. Raising Arizona (1987)
I kind of have crush on 1987 Nicolas Cage (this includes his role as the one-handed baker in Moonstruck). I think it’s his youth and his not yet out-of-control weirdness. But then again Holly Hunter offers a lot of competition for craziest one in this film. Funny, kidnapping, prison buddies, mustaches, greatness.
2. Splendor in the Grass (1961)
I feel like we forget that films about teenagers in the 50s/60s were just as angsty as any in the John Hughes era. Splendor in the Grass gets way real for these teenagers. Taking place in the Dust Bowl in 1928, a cute teenage couple deals with sexual frustration in the worst way possible: by either sleeping with the school slut or going crazy. Despite the histrionics, this film is surprisingly watchable. Plus, I totally get why Warren Beatty was a thing now.
3. Evil Dead 2 (1987)
Um, does a Sam Raimi-Bruce Campbell/horror-comedy combination need any explanation? It’s awesome.
4. Cape Fear (1991)
This is the year I finally watched a Scorsese film I unabashedly loved that doesn’t involve the Band. I don’t particularly care for gangster films not filmed by Coppola (especially ones heavily featuring Joe Pesci), so when I got to see a creepy film with a tight plot and an especially creepy villain by Scorsese, it knocked my socks off. The scene with Robert de Niro seducing Juliette Lewis is required viewing for anyone looking for a real scare.
5. The Conversation (1974)
Speaking of Coppola, The Conversation might be my favorite of his. Everything about it is perfection: the cinematography supports the sound surveillance work of the protagonist, the slow pace of the film make the action-packed scenes stand out, and there’s some philosophical questions to grapple with at the end. Watch this movie.
6. The Seventh Seal (1957)
It’s the one where a guy is playing chess with death. But it’s also a commentary on the religion as performance art, how people grapple with dying, and lots of creepy images. Also, I totally get that old movie montage in (500) Days of Summer now.
7. The Dollars Trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966))
I finally finished watching all of Sergio Leone’s Dollar Trilogy. Yeah, I’m counting them all of them as one film. What you need to know: these are awesome. They’re not direct sequels, but star many of the same actors, and also have Clint Eastwood’s badass gunslinger in each of them. The movies might be long, but the moral ambiguity is worth it.
8. The Thin Man (1934)
My personal goal in life is to find a man just like William Powell to marry so I can have constant witty banter at all the fancy dinner parties I’m never throwing. Also, to solve mysteries with an adorable dog.
9. Ordinary People (1980)
We get to see a family’s perspective on the death of a son and how they’re dealing with things months later. It’s a quiet film that lets the actors do the heavy lifting instead of a heavy soundtrack or long pronouncements.
10. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
This is one of the most deliberately organized films I’ve ever seen. Each image is perfect in its framing and lighting to create one of the scariest bedtimes stories ever. Who knew Robert Mitchum could be such a creeper?
