Tommy Lee Jones won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for The Fugitive because he not only matched Harrison Ford’s star-power in this film, he honestly surpassed it. This film belongs to Jones: he is in command from start to finish. This is historically-great acting from Jones.
food trucks used to sell you 3 amazing tacos for like $5 cash only.
then people with master’s degrees discovered them and now it’s $18.50 for 3 mid tacos plus a screen asking for a 20% tip
Wade Garrett in Road House (1989) is the kind of role that reminds you why people loved Sam Elliott so much. The second he walks into the movie, it feels like everybody else is trying to keep up with his level of effortless cool.
If I have to pay $6 rent a 40 year old movie off Amazon when I have a Prime subscription then we should just reopen Blockbuster. I'd rather have their employees judge my life choices.
Red Dawn had every kid in 1984 turning their neighborhood into a battlefield. Bikes, BB guns, forts… we weren’t scrolling, we were “at war” till the streetlights came on.
“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.”
-Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
I think about this scene often. It’s from the movie A River Runs Through It. Turn up the volume and give this a listen before bed.
You won’t regret it.
"Your wife is not your best friend. Your dog is. Lock the two in the back of a trunk, come back two hours later and see which one is happy to see you". Coach Lou Holtz
RIP Coach Holtz. The best motivational speaker I've listened to
The USS Indianapolis monologue in Jaws (1975) is chilling every single time. Robert Shaw delivers it like a man remembering something he can’t ever escape, and the whole film goes dead quiet around him. One of the greatest speeches ever put on screen.