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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Thunderbolt & Lightfoot

How seriously can you take a movie that opens with Clint Eastwood as a minister who needs to dodge bullets halfway through his sermon? Not very - but this film fools you. Thunderbolt & Lightfoot easily makes the 191 Movies list because of the terrific action - but it floats to the top because this movie features real characters that keep you interested all the way through. The always-great Jeff Bridges generously under-plays so the chemistry with Eastwood works. The rest of the cast is stellar; George Kennedy as a nasty killer who suffers from asthma (at the wrong moments) - Geoffrey Lewis as a truly unlikely criminal and a great little bit by Eastwood favorite Bill McKinney as a deranged driver with rabbits in the trunk of his souped up muscle car. You watch Thunderbolt & Lightfoot for the action, but you watch it again and again because it's always fun to see how these very odd friendships play out.


Saturday, August 28, 2010

Welcome To 191MOVIES Blog

Here's hoping you'll join in and contribute to a list of movies that people watch a crazy amount of times.  These are the movies you can always count on to make you laugh or take you away from your life for a couple of hours.  These movies are sometimes classics, but usually they're just simply watchable.  Over and over watchable.  So think about the movies you watch a lot.  Think about you being glued to your screen and somebody saying "Are you watching THAT again?"  We hope you're comment and let us know about the movies in your life that draw you back time after time.  To see the complete list, please pay a visit to 191Movies.