We watched Courageous last week - make sure that
after you watch it, check out the special features "Courageous in 60 seconds" I laughed so hard I gave myself a headache!
Most of the movies I've seen lately are crap - if there's a plot at all, it's the same plot from eight other 'blockbusters' and most of them seem like they were written by 15 year old boys - poop jokes and boobies and things exploding and some guy (or a babe in latex) flying through the air in slow motion with a gun in each hand.
Or they spend the budget on special effects and they hardly bother with a plot at all.
The last decent movie I saw was
"The Help" - but it's not something I'd want to watch over and over.
Agreed about Shawshank, Tim Robbins has been in a few decent movies - has anyone seen Jacob's Ladder? Anyhow, here are some of my favorites (in no particular order): The Green Mile, The Usual Suspects, Arsenic and Old Lace, Flushed Away (Aardman), LOTR, Silent Running, Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrels, Despicable Me, Shrek, Bladerunner, Waking Ned Devine, In Bruges, Memento, The Good The Bad and The Ugly (weird I know but I love Clint Eastwood in those old dusters!) Probably more but it's late and I can't think of any right now.