Crackle, and Good Movies

Jack Nicholson - one great actor

Check out Crackle.    Sony runs this nice website with movies and TV series that stream smoothly with a standard 10 Mb/sec internet connection.   The movies are truly free - you just have to put up with 1 minute of video ads every 20 min or so.   You can pause, move forward and backward.  And you can even go backward over an ad break and not have to rewatch the ads.  And the selection of movie titles is decent.

While on the topic, here are some of Keith's movie favorites.  Most of the below links go to trailers on Youtube.  Use your browser's back arrow to return from there back to here. 

              key: ** movie name **  - excellent because of some very well done or unique elements

12 Angry Men
12 Monkeys (1995)
1984 (1984)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 

The Abyss
** Alien **  very very scary
Aliens
The Andromeda Strain (1971)

Animal House 

Apocalypse Now (1979) 

** Argo **
** As Good as it Gets *(1997) human situations with excellent excellent humor

** Avatar **
Back to the Future

Beavis and Butthead Do America

Being There (1979) 
Big Fish 

The Birds (1963) 

** Blade Runner **

** Blood Diamond **

** Blues Brothers **  Jake and Elroy (Belushi and Akroid), Ray Charles, the Queen of Soul - Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway.  And great fun!
** Brainstorm (1983) ** 

Brazil

Bullet (1996) 
Cheech and Chong - Up in Smoke

A Clockwork Orange (1971) 
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Contact (1997)
Cowboys and Aliens

Crimson tide 

The Crying Game (1992) 
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Dawn of the Dead (1979) 

Deliverance (1972) 

The Devil’s Rejects

Die Hard (1988) 

** The Dirty Dozen (1967)  **

Dirty Harry (1971) 
District 9 (2009)

** Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) **

** Dude Where’s my Car **
Easy A
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) 

Elf
Enemy Mine (1985)

The Exorcist (1973) 
** The Explorers **

Fargo (1996) 

** The Fifth Element **
The Fly (1986)
Forbidden Planet

** Forrest Gump **
Frankenstein (1931)
The Fugutive (1993)

** Galaxy quest ** lots of laughs
** Gattaca (1987) **

** Ghosts of Mars (2001, John Carpenter) ** not a zombie movie, but similar
** As Good as it Gets *(1997) human situations with excellent excellent humor
** The Goonies **
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 

Groundhog Day (1993) 

Hair (1979) 
** I Spy ** (2002)
The Incredibles 
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013) some great Jim Carey skin crawling scenes
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Iron Man
Iron Man 2 
** Iron Man 3 (2103) **  the villains are great, the humor is good

It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 

** Joe’s Apartment  **

** Kill Bill ** excellent fighting, extreme and well done charaters.  not a Kung Fu movie, but similar
** Kinky Boots ** human situations with a nice touch of humor

** The Life of Pi ** nice visuals, fantasy - but not really

M*A*S*H (1970) 

Mad Max (1980) 
The Matrix
Men in Black (1997)
** Metropoils **

Midnight Cowboy (1969) 
Minority Report (2002)

The Misfits (1961) 

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) 

National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) 
Night of the Living Dead

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 

** Out of Africa **
** Outlander **

** Paint Your Wagon (1969) **

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Pink Panther (1964) 

Platoon (1986) 

Poltergeist (1982)
Predator (1987)

The Producers (1968)  

** Pulp Fiction (1994) ** much violence, but outside of that just plain good stories and great acting
** Rare Birds ** quirky

** Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2010) ** good science and logic are lacking, but the ideas and the human/animal distinctions are really thought provoking
The Road Warrier
** The Rundown **
** Serenity (2005) ** Cowboys in Space!   And great humor and characters, both subtle and non-subtle.   There's a just as good series that goes with this - "Firefly"

** The Shining ** Jack Nicholson - what more needs to be said?
Short Circuit (1986)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 
Sin City (2005)

** Sleeper (1973) **

** Slum Dog Millionaire **
** King Solomon's Mines (1950) **
** King Solomon's Mines (1950) ** classic adventure with some early, very nice video clips of Africa and Africans
** Kinsey (2004) ** uncomfortable topic handled very well, witty, sharp, dramatized-documentary
** To Sir, With Love (1967) ** Sidney Poitier's non-verbal as well as verbal expressions of his thoughts and emotions are just incredible
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
** Star Trek (2009) **  fun, fun, fun
** Star Trek - Into Darkness (2013) **  still good fun, not so dark as the name suggests.  James Kirk renegade and hero first, but sex driven horndog at a very close second.   Scotty, Bones, Spock and Ohura all quite the characters.  Nice humor.  Well done villain.
Starship Troopers (1997)

** Step Brothers **
** Super 8 **
** Tank Girl **
** Thank You for Smoking **
Team America: World Police
Terminator 2:  Judgement Day

The Three Stooges Thor The Time Machine (1960)

The Truman Show (1988)

** V for Vendetta **
** Virus (1999) **  I would have liked it better with less gore and more sf, but as-is it's not half bad.  Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Sutherland 

** Warm Bodies ** new twist on zombie plague, new twist on an old father-daughter dilemma, good fun!
Waynes World
** Zero Dark Thirty ** good story, impressive scenes from Pakistan, and you've gotta love the Pentagon characters