The Outlaw Josey Wales
True Grit (Original)
High Noon
Rio Bravo
Any other good western
Godfather series
A good war film (made before 1970)
Dirty Harry
Blues Brothers
to name but a few.
Given the choice of reading a book or watching a film, the book will win every time. Hence I don't have many DVD's but I do have a very big library of books.
I enjoy reading westerns for escapism and history books, especially 20th century military history.
Most modern populist action films I find very boring, along with poor remakes of classic films (True Grit remake is better than most, but not as good as the original) where the scripts and plots seem to written for children of 6 and under to be able to understand.
Modern Hollywood action / crime/ terrorist film plots, seem to consist of the following:
Opening with big black power and diesel explosion effect, lots of automatic weapons firing, hero not scratched, some baddy sidekicks killed, few more encounters with baddies, lots more machine gun fire until most baddy sidekicks are killed, hero not scratched, baddy plant bomb and you know it is that from the aluminium box, big industrial switch, big red light and big 4 digit LED display, which hero switches off with big industrial switch with 1 second to go, second biggest baddy and hero fist fight, hero wins, second biggest baddy runs off, until hero shoots at him from half a mile away with short barrel pistol, and kills him with ease, number 1 baddy escapes in car, slow speed car / car or car / bike chase made to look fast, with high speed cutting to different film angles, revving engines, squealing tyres, and the original hit the pile of boxes or trash can at the side of the road (I bet you haven't seen that before), stop at big industrial complex for final encounter, number 1 baddy dispatched, industrial complex destroyed by another big black powder / diesel explosion. The End.
There you go, now you know the plot for all these types of modern Hollywood films that will save you a fortune in DVD rental costs.
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