Movies that get better with age

[ZooCougar]

American Psycho: brilliant movie. Saw it when it first came out but I guess I didn't appreciate it. Also the scenes where he gets jealous his buddy's business cards are hilarious for some reason.

Mulholland Drive: what a mind slapper.

 

[Gurleyman]

American Psycho: brilliant movie. Saw it when it first came out but I guess I didn't appreciate it. Also the scenes where he gets jealous his buddy's business cards are hilarious for some reason.

Mulholland Drive: what a mind slapper.

The gold standard in that genre (modern era) of course is Shawshank. Box office dud, now a classic.

Personal preferences in that same vein - Arlington Road and Heathers. Both were in and out of the theaters in no time. I still quote Heathers regularly, and Robbins and Cusack were brilliant as the creepy couple in Arlington Road.

 

[ZooCougar]

The gold standard in that genre (modern era) of course is Shawshank. Box office dud, now a classic.

Personal preferences in that same vein - Arlington Road and Heathers. Both were in and out of the theaters in no time. I still quote Heathers regularly, and Robbins and Cusack were brilliant as the creepy couple in Arlington Road.

Agree on all.

Another one. Raising Arizona.

 

[Palatine]

The Big Lebowski.

 

[Husky68]

African Queen

 

[HuskyHawk]

Agree on all.

Another one. Raising Arizona.

Anything by the Coen brothers has staying power. By the way, for anyone who never saw their first film, Blood Simple, it's superb.

 

[Dogdeacon]

I think Goodfellas is another classic example. Very good to begin with yet somehow keeps getting better - kind of perfectly as if it is the movie son of Godfather. It is Sonny not Michael (still waiting for that), does that make Casino the Fredo (serviceable but flawed)?

Its easier to rise from average or unnoticed to popular (Gross Point Blank) or more classicaly cult popular = Rocky Horror Picture Show - certainly has to be the all-time leader in box office receipts after original release.

 

[coachcap]

Agreed on Shawshank. Also can never get enough of Chariots of Fire.

 

[G0UCONN]

The Ladykillers (with Tom Hanks)

O Brother Where Art Thou

A Few Good Men (loved it from start but it really holds up)

Step Brothers (may have moved into top five all time comedies on my list)

 

[ZooCougar]

The Ladykillers (with Tom Hanks)

O Brother Where Art Thou

A Few Good Men (loved it from start but it really holds up)

Step Brothers (may have moved into top five all time comedies on my list)

Step Brothers never gets old. Never.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I think Goodfellas is another classic example. Very good to begin with yet somehow keeps getting better - kind of perfectly as if it is the movie son of Godfather. It is Sonny not Michael (still waiting for that), does that make Casino the Fredo (serviceable but flawed)?

Its easier to rise from average or unnoticed to popular (Gross Point Blank) or more classicaly cult popular = Rocky Horror Picture Show - certainly has to be the all-time leader in box office receipts after original release.

I think Goodfellas is a little over-narrated. Let the dialogue tell us the story instead of the narrator. The first few times there is so much happening that I don't notice, but now it is all I hear. Still a great movie, but I would argue it gets worse with age.

Tombstone definitely gets better with age. Parts of it are a little hokey, and Paxton, who is a serviceable actor typically is actually pretty bad in Tombstone, but overall it is a really good film. Val Kilmer is awesome. The escalation of hostilities and the Earp's attempts to stay out of a fight are really well done. The scene where Ringo and Holliday first meet each other is excellent.

Carlito's Way is another. Watching it over and over again your realize how trapped he is by his environment, and how hard it is for him to go clean.

 

[Dogdeacon]

Tombstone definitely gets better with age. Parts of it are a little hokey, and Paxton, who is a serviceable actor typically is actually pretty bad in Tombstone, but overall it is a really good film. Val Kilmer is awesome. The escalation of hostilities and the Earp's attempts to stay out of a fight are really well done. The scene where Ringo and Holliday first meet each other is excellent.

I agree with you on Tombstone, although I saw it in a theater with a big group of friends and we'd smuggled beverages in so I was a big fan from the jump. Now I just watch it for Val Kilmer's Doc, I find Russell's Earp* a little too perfect and Dana Delany belongs in a different movie.

* He even had Wichita State in Final Four

 

[G0UCONN]

Tombstone buried the Wyatt Earp movie with Kevin Costner that came out a few months after it....Val Kilmer is tremendous in it.

 

[ZooCougar]

Tombstone buried the Wyatt Earp movie with Kevin Costner that came out a few months after it....Val Kilmer is tremendous in it.

I agree. Tombstone would have been a completely unremarkable movie without Val Kilmer. He should have won an Oscar for best supporting actor for that role.

 

[CL82]

Ground Hog Day

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I agree. Tombstone would have been a completely unremarkable movie without Val Kilmer. He should have won an Oscar for best supporting actor for that role.

Tombstone had a monster cast. It is the first movie I remember seeing Billy Bob Thornton in. Billy Zane, shortly before Titanic. Michael Beihn was never more than a character actor, but I thought he was excellent as Ringo. The crazy guy from Lost and the General from Avatar were also in the movie. Thomas Hayden Church. I agree that Kilmer was great, but I also thought that Sam Elliott was terrific.

The first time I saw Tombstone, I didn't think it was much more than a good western, but after watching it quite a few times, I think it is one of the best westerns ever.

 

[temery]

I just recently watched "O Brother Where Art Thou."

Really good movie.

The Ladykillers (with Tom Hanks)

O Brother Where Art Thou

A Few Good Men (loved it from start but it really holds up)

Step Brothers (may have moved into top five all time comedies on my list)

 

[Waquoit]

I just recently watched "O Brother Where Art Thou."

Really good movie.

That's a good one, I liked it much better the 2nd time around. It's bona fide.

 

[temery]

Top on my list for this is Pulp Fiction. I didn't understand much in the first viewing.

American Psycho: brilliant movie. Saw it when it first came out but I guess I didn't appreciate it. Also the scenes where he gets jealous his buddy's business cards are hilarious for some reason.

Mulholland Drive: what a mind slapper.

 

[ZooCougar]

Whats funny about this thread, is that When I was in college my roommate and I basically had two movies. Heat and Tombstone, we could just about quote each movie word for word.

Tombstone had a monster cast. It is the first movie I remember seeing Billy Bob Thornton in. Billy Zane, shortly before Titanic. Michael Beihn was never more than a character actor, but I thought he was excellent as Ringo. The crazy guy from Lost and the General from Avatar were also in the movie. Thomas Hayden Church. I agree that Kilmer was great, but I also thought that Sam Elliott was terrific.

The first time I saw Tombstone, I didn't think it was much more than a good western, but after watching it quite a few times, I think it is one of the best westerns ever.

 

[ZooCougar]

Top on my list for this is Pulp Fiction. I didn't understand much in the first viewing.

If you want to be confused, then watch Mulholland Drive.

 

[Adios]

Watership Down.

 

[zyron]

The first time I saw Tombstone, I didn't think it was much more than a good western, but after watching it quite a few times, I think it is one of the best westerns ever.

Unforgiven came out a year earlier and is a much, much better western.

 

[RS9999X]

One that I like is "Syriana" . It takes several viewings and helps to have the DVD. One of George Clooney's better movies. Another is Michael Clayton. I think these will grow in stature as the years go by.

 

[Waquoit]

Watership Down.

Considering I haven't seen it since it came out, I think of that movie quite a bit.