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current threadprevious conversation, Ray has finally settled on a list of films he feels is worth passing on, after spending a laborious amount of time trying to narrow it down. ]All right, as requested! Ray's Recs: A Special Selection.
Now I did try to narrow it down to things I thought you might actually like, or at least maybe find interesting. While also still giving you a little bit of everything.
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Singin’ in the Rain - Three movie stars of the 1920s during the transition from silent movies to talkies. It’s also a musical.
Chicago - In 1920s Chicago, beautiful femme fatales Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart both find themselves accused of murder and do their damnedest to avoid execution by milking their 5 minutes in the spotlight for all its worth.
A Streetcar Named Desire - Southern debutante Blanche DuBois has to flee her troubled past, secrets in tow, to New Orleans to live with her brash sister Stella and even brasher brother-in-law Stanley.
Casablanca - A man is forced to choose between his love for a beautiful woman or fighting the Nazis.
Titanic - A tragic tale of romance aboard a sinking ship. Based on true events!
Grease - A lively musical set in the 50s about a bad boy and a good girl having to overcome their differences if they wanna make love work.
Footloose - A young Kevin Bacon stars as a good-natured teenage boy who moves to a town where they’ve banned dancing and rock’n’roll.
Moulin Rouge - Christian, young romantic poet, falls in love with an escort named Satine. A bawdy musical set in France.
West Side Story - Romeo & Juliet, if they were an Italian man named Tony and a Puerto-Rican woman named Maria respectively associated with rivaling gangs.
An Affair To Remember - Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr play a man and a woman who meet and form an instant magnetic connection. Seeking new directions in their life and both also already being spoken for, they agree to meet again in six months at the top of the Empire State Building if they’re both single and have achieved their ambitions.
Some Like It Hot - Two musicians who witnessed a crime have to go into disguise to hide from the mob, and Marilyn Monroe steals the show as always as the ravishing singer, Sugar Kane.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Marilyn Monroe stars as the glamorous Lorelei Lee, showgirl engaged to a very wealthy man whose father hires a PI to follow her due to his suspicions about her intentions.
Pretty Woman - Richard Gere, a businessman, hires Julia Roberts, an escort, for a week to accompany him to work functions and the two fall in love— question is, can they make it work?
All About Eve - A cunning young actress named Eve, played by lovely Anne Baxter, schemes her way in stardom after she’s taken under the wing of Broadway success Margo Channing, played by the even more lovely Bette Davis.
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Tom Ripley longs for a life of wealth and indulgence, and one day acts upon a dangerous opportunity which might just allow him to obtain it.
Strangers on a Train - Two men both seeking to be rid of someone in their lives meet on a train, and one of them suggests to the other one they should each commit the other’s murder so that neither of them get caught.
Midnight Cowboy - Jon Voight plays the handsome young hustler Joe Buck, who hopes to make it big in New York City. There he finds an unlikely soulmate in Dustin Hoffman’s limping conman, Ricco.
Rebel Without A Cause - James Dean plays the troubled teenage new kid, Jim, who no sooner arrives in town before yet more trouble finds him and the two other teenage outcasts he’s formed a bond with.
On The Waterfront - Marlon Brando plays up-and-comer Terry Malloy, who throws a boxing match at the behest of the mob. But little does he know how much he’s already gotten himself into.
The Man Who Knew Too Much - A couple and their daughter vacationing in Switzerland become acquainted with a man who is later assassinated during their stay, but not before he tries leaving them a clue as to what happened to him.
Foxy Brown - After a low-level crook gives up the undercover cop who’s dating his sister in an effort to try and settle his mob debts, Foxy Brown (played by the bewitching Pam Grier) is determined to avenge her lover’s death even if she has to go against her brother and the mob to do it.
Charlie’s Angels - Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz, and Drew Barrymore play a three woman detective team and their enigmatic boss, Charlie, kick-ass and take names with their ingenuity, martial arts skills, and charisma.
Dream Girls - A musical which tells the story of how R&B music came to be in the 60s and 70s, inspired of course by The Supremes.
Fantasia - This one’s a cartoon, but it’s actually breathtaking. Just trust me.
Far From Heaven - Julianne Moore is a housewife in the 1950s who discovers both that her husband is gay, and that she might be falling in love with a black man.
It’s a Wonderful Life - George Bailey’s a man who cracks under the pressure of his stressful life and nearly commits suicide on Christmas Eve, but then gets to see what his life would be like without him in it.
The Shawshank Redemption - A man is sentenced to life in prison despite his repeated pleas of innocence, but he develops a genius plan for escape.
Pulp Fiction - A crime thriller made up of seven different short stories that are actually all connected.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s - The magnetic Holly Golightly, as played by Audrey Hepburn, takes interest in a new man living in her apartment building, but there’s much more to Holly than meets the eye.
this is perfect tbh; Ray is the sweetest
[He's not really that mad about it, but he is affronted just enough that he wants to make Ray squirm a little before he tells him that.]
he's really been enjoying this whole novel "making friends" thing
Oh, shit! Dukes, I am such an idiot.
Jesus, that's even the reason I left off The Sound of Music, too!
[ And if he was going to only recommend one of the two-- wait, no. Not the point. ]
Sorry about that. I think I got too caught up in the list making to even notice.
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[Suffer a little more with that nothing response, Ray.]
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Well the rest of them don't have any Nazis!
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[ Still... #oops again. ]
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[It's definitely more than he'd been expecting.]
I'll see about going in some sort of order. Are all these an hour or two long, like most films?
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Most of them. But Titanic is actually 3 hours long, so... be prepared for that.
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I'll tell you what, when I finish all of these, I'll take those extra 10 titles.
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Can do. Or better yet, you tell me which ones you liked best and I'll see if I can come up with 10 new ones off of that.
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