Hollywood A-List

[dadadadio]

I'm doing some organizing and found this unfinished work in my Hotmail drafts folder. I have a few half written ideas floating around. I feel the need to purge....spring cleaning for my brain. This one is as close to being finished as I'll get. Here it is, as-is. I may cross post some version of this to 40-something.

Hollywood is a guilty pleasure

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[i_beckygardens]

Cary Grant and pretty much anything he ever starred in

after that I have to say movie and plot are more important to me than stars, for example, I can't stand will ferrel and yet I like several movies he's in despite his being in them, same with own wilson. I like Julia roberts but a lot of her movies are simply okay, or worse.

[dadadadio]

Stranger Than Fiction is a movie Ferrel did where I thought he did a good job. It's a very original plot and the rest of the cast is great.

[farranger]

I'm sorry, but I don't see Dwayne ("The Rock") Johnson on your list. How can I take you seriously?

[dadadadio]

It was really close, he was on the bubble, but The Rock just missed the cut. He, Jean Claude Van Dam, and Steven Segal.

[dadadadio]

Under Siege, not a great movie, is the only Segal movie I've watched from start to finish and I give Tommy Lee Jones all the credit for getting me through it. It's not awful. ....really it's not.

[sharpchick]

Meryl Streep, Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Tom Hanks, Clint Eastwood (more of what he's directed than what he's starred in).

[dadadadio]

Streep is almost a no-brainer I should say "duh" for not having on my list but so many of her movies are in the genres I don't flock to. She's not always on my radar screen but she is amazing.

I love Eastwood westerns, especially the old Sergio Leone films.

[shoo]

I love Netflix too, but it's because of the vast collections of foreign and indy movies.

I'm personally sick of Hollywood. (not the old classics)
The Rear Window, Wonderful Life, God Father 1 & 2, stuff like that...

[dadadadio]

That distaste for much of Tinsel Town is why I call it a guilty pleasure. I love Hitchcock, old Bogie movies and many of the Classics. That was the golden age of Hollywood but they still put out some quality work. It sometimes gets lost amidst all the garbage.

I think it's great when an Indy movie wins big and the studios have to eat crow.

[shoo]

*nods*

You are absolutely right. Crash was one of those surprises Lot's of well done movies are getting made.

[wooddragon]

May I just say, your list is fabulous! I would agree with almost every one of your choices.