Movie Marathon (Part 1)

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Best Best Picture Oscar Winner of the Decade (no repeats of decades)

  1. 1960s - The Apartment (1960)
  2. 1940’s - Casablanca (1943)
  3. 1970’s - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1976)
  4. 1980s - Platoon
  5. 1950s - The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  6. 1930s - Gone with the Wind (1939)
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Best Best Picture Oscar Winner of the Decade (no repeats of decades)

  1. 1960s - The Apartment (1960)
  2. 1940’s - Casablanca (1943)
  3. 1970’s - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1976)
  4. 1980s - Platoon
  5. 1950s - The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  6. 1930s - Gone with the Wind (1939)
  7. 2000s - No Country For Old Men (2007)
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Best Best Picture Oscar Winner of the Decade (no repeats of decades)

  1. 1960s - The Apartment (1960)
  2. 1940’s - Casablanca (1943)
  3. 1970’s - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1976)
  4. 1980s - Platoon
  5. 1950s - The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  6. 1930s - Gone with the Wind (1939)
  7. 2000s - No Country For Old Men (2007)
  8. 1990s - Unforgiven
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Best Best Picture Oscar Winner of the Decade (no repeats of decades)

  1. 1960s - The Apartment (1960)
  2. 1940’s - Casablanca (1943)
  3. 1970’s - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1976)
  4. 1980s - Platoon (1986)
  5. 1950s - The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  6. 1930s - Gone with the Wind (1939)
  7. 2000s - No Country For Old Men (2007)
  8. 1990s - Unforgiven (1992)
  9. 2010s - The King’s Speech (2010)
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Best Best Picture Oscar Winner of the Decade (no repeats of decades)

  1. 1960s - The Apartment (1960)
  2. 1940’s - Casablanca (1943)
  3. 1970’s - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1976)
  4. 1980s - Platoon (1986)
  5. 1950s - The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  6. 1930s - Gone with the Wind (1939)
  7. 2000s - No Country For Old Men (2007)
  8. 1990s - Unforgiven (1992)
  9. 2010s - The King’s Speech (2010)
  10. 1920s - Wings (1927/28)

Pass

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Film in which an actor surprised you when you saw how good he/she was

  1. Naked Gun: 2.5 – Priscilla Presley
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Film in which an actor surprised you when you saw how good he/she was

  1. Naked Gun: 2.5 – Priscilla Presley
  2. Safety Last! - Harold Lloyd

He’s best known now for his stunts and pratfalls, but I was really impressed by his acting, too. Even in a silent film, he conveyed everything from joy to annoyance to love with remarkable authenticity.

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Film in which an actor surprised you when you saw how good he/she was

  1. Naked Gun: 2.5 – Priscilla Presley
  2. Safety Last! - Harold Lloyd
  3. Judy - Renee Zellweger

I almost forgot that I wasn’t actually watching Judy Garland.

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Film in which an actor surprised you when you saw how good he/she was

  1. Naked Gun: 2.5 – Priscilla Presley
  2. Safety Last! - Harold Lloyd
  3. Judy - Renee Zellweger
  4. Captain America: The First Avenger - Chris Evans

When I heard that the guy who had played the sophomoric wise-ass Johnny Storm in two Fantastic Four movies had been cast as Captain America, I had serious doubts. But, Evans was letter-perfect as the everyman-turned-hero, and became one of the linchpins of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Film in which an actor surprised you when you saw how good he/she was

  1. Naked Gun: 2.5 – Priscilla Presley
  2. Safety Last! - Harold Lloyd
  3. Judy - Renee Zellweger
  4. Captain America: The First Avenger - Chris Evans
  5. Extremities - Farrah Fawcett
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Film in which an actor surprised you when you saw how good he/she was

  1. Naked Gun: 2.5 – Priscilla Presley
  2. Safety Last! - Harold Lloyd
  3. Judy - Renee Zellweger
  4. Captain America: The First Avenger - Chris Evans
  5. Extremities - Farrah Fawcett
  6. Stir of Echoes - Kevin Bacon
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Film in which an actor surprised you when you saw how good he/she was

  1. Naked Gun: 2.5 – Priscilla Presley
  2. Safety Last! - Harold Lloyd
  3. Judy - Renee Zellweger
  4. Captain America: The First Avenger - Chris Evans
  5. Extremities - Farrah Fawcett
  6. Stir of Echoes - Kevin Bacon
  7. The People Vs. Larry Flynt - Courtney Love
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Film in which an actor surprised you when you saw how good he/she was

  1. Naked Gun: 2.5 – Priscilla Presley
  2. Safety Last! - Harold Lloyd
  3. Judy - Renee Zellweger
  4. Captain America: The First Avenger - Chris Evans
  5. Extremities - Farrah Fawcett
  6. Stir of Echoes - Kevin Bacon
  7. The People Vs. Larry Flynt - Courtney Love
  8. Continental Divide - John Belushi

Belushi in a rom-com? Yes, and he makes it work. Unlike drunken frat-boy Bluto, and Joliet Jake Blues, both of whom would do what no reasonable person would do in the circumstances; Belushi plays a Chicago investigative reporter sent to interview an environmental researcher in the Rockies absolutely straight. The plot unfolds as expected, with Belushi given some great lines (“The bear ate my cigarettes!”), but he’s always in character according to the movie. It’s not a movie for Belushi fans who want to see him as Bluto or Jake, but he proves that he can act in this one.

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Film in which an actor surprised you when you saw how good he/she was

  1. Naked Gun: 2.5 – Priscilla Presley
  2. Safety Last! - Harold Lloyd
  3. Judy - Renee Zellweger
  4. Captain America: The First Avenger - Chris Evans
  5. Extremities - Farrah Fawcett
  6. Stir of Echoes - Kevin Bacon
  7. The People Vs. Larry Flynt - Courtney Love
  8. Continental Divide - John Belushi
  9. Reese Witherspoon - Devil’s Knot
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Seconding this one.

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Film in which an actor surprised you when you saw how good he/she was

  1. Naked Gun: 2.5 – Priscilla Presley
  2. Safety Last! - Harold Lloyd
  3. Judy - Renee Zellweger
  4. Captain America: The First Avenger - Chris Evans
  5. Extremities - Farrah Fawcett
  6. Stir of Echoes - Kevin Bacon
  7. The People Vs. Larry Flynt - Courtney Love
  8. Continental Divide - John Belushi
  9. Reese Witherspoon - Devil’s Knot
  10. Emma Stone - La La Land

(And I second Belushi in Continental Divide, well worth seeking out)

Which brings me to…

Well Known Actors in Little-Seen Movies That Are Worth Seeking Out

  1. Robin Williams in Moscow on the Hudson
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Well Known Actors in Little-Seen Movies That Are Worth Seeking Out

  1. Robin Williams in Moscow on the Hudson
  2. Winona Ryder (et al., including Roberto Benigni), in Night on Earth, dir. Jim Jarmusch, 1991.
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Well Known Actors in Little-Seen Movies That Are Worth Seeking Out

  1. Robin Williams in Moscow on the Hudson
  2. Winona Ryder (et al., including Roberto Benigni), in Night on Earth, dir. Jim Jarmusch, 1991.
  3. Michael Moriarty – “Q”.

Street-wise smart-alec in a B monster pic.

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Well Known Actors in Little-Seen Movies That Are Worth Seeking Out

  1. Robin Williams in Moscow on the Hudson
  2. Winona Ryder (et al., including Roberto Benigni), in Night on Earth , dir. Jim Jarmusch, 1991.
  3. Michael Moriarty – “Q”.
  4. Rene Zelweiger - New in Town (also Harry Connick Jr, JK Simmons)
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Well Known Actors in Little-Seen Movies That Are Worth Seeking Out

  1. Robin Williams in Moscow on the Hudson
  2. Winona Ryder (et al., including Roberto Benigni), in Night on Earth , dir. Jim Jarmusch, 1991.
  3. Michael Moriarty – “Q”.
  4. Rene Zelweiger - New in Town (also Harry Connick Jr, JK Simmons)
  5. Henry Fonda - Twelve Angry Men

I include this movie because it’s a stellar old black and white movie that I bet lots of people younger than 40 have never seen.