Ten Highly Enjoyable New Year's Eve Related Movies
1. The Gold Rush (1925)
***One Of The Best Silent Classic Starring Chaplin***
"In 1998, the American Film Institute chose “The Gold Rush” as one of the 100 greatest films ever made. Chaplin referred to the film as “the picture that I want to be remembered by.”
"The Gold Rush," perhaps more than any other Chaplin film, best captures that elusive moments, sad quality about the little tramp that penetrate so many of his films.
"The Gold Rush" set in the year 1898, during the gold rush of the time, Chaplin portrays as a silly-witty prospector, one of the many who have bravely come up to face the harsh climate conditions of Alaska, in search for pure gold. After struggling through a blizzard, he comes across a cabin. From there, much lies ahead for him. He experiences being abandon in the cabin with a fellow prospector named Big Jim McKay, and also falls in love with a woman he meets in Alaska named Georgia, and attempts to win her heart.
I strongly recommend Chaplin films to anyone who is quite interested in early cinema but is turned off by the idea of silent pictures. He's so expressive and so fun to watch that I promise you you will forget that you're watching a silent film.
"The Gold Rush" set in the year 1898, during the gold rush of the time, Chaplin portrays as a silly-witty prospector, one of the many who have bravely come up to face the harsh climate conditions of Alaska, in search for pure gold. After struggling through a blizzard, he comes across a cabin. From there, much lies ahead for him. He experiences being abandon in the cabin with a fellow prospector named Big Jim McKay, and also falls in love with a woman he meets in Alaska named Georgia, and attempts to win her heart.
I strongly recommend Chaplin films to anyone who is quite interested in early cinema but is turned off by the idea of silent pictures. He's so expressive and so fun to watch that I promise you you will forget that you're watching a silent film.
2. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
***A Fascinating,Unusual And The Dark Side Of Hollywood***
"Joe Gillis: You're Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.
Norma Desmond: I am big. It's the pictures that got small."
"Sunset Boulevard" right up there with "All About Eve" as one of the best written and best performed films of the 1950's.
Gloria Swanson plays Norma Desmond who is a lonely insecure once famous silent film actress living in isolation with her servant in a lavish, but neglected Hollywood mansion from the 1920's. William Holden plays the role of Joe Gillis, a down on his luck B film Hollywood writer who accidentally discovers her mansion. she watches her past films in her own theater. She dreams of making a comeback, writing a ridiculous script, and hoping to send it to Cecil B. DeMille and make him direct it.
The plot was also suspenseful when you have two people like Swanson and Holden working together on opposite sides. The idea of having a "Norma Desmond" in "Sunset Boulevard" gave it more mystery and made it more interesting. Everybody should watch this movie at least once in their lifetime.
3. When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
***A Delightful And Beautiful Romantic Comedy Film***
"Harry Burns: I have been doing a lot of thinking, and the thing is, I love you.
Sally Albright: What?
Harry Burns: I love you.
Sally Albright: How do you expect me to respond to this?
Harry Burns: How about, you love me too.
Sally Albright: How about, I'm leaving."
Harry Burns (Billy Crystal) meets Sally Albright (Meg Ryan) in 1977 when they need someone to share a drive with to New York after graduating college in Chicago. The film shows how, after a couple of bad starts, they begin and develop a friendship, which stays constant throughout their turbulent romantic lives. However, the film raises the question, 'Can men and women ever be just friends?'.
Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan have this unbelievable chemistry on-screen together that is so apparent in this film. It truly works with the witty dialogue about the crucial observations of relationships and the differences of gender.
This film can bring tears to those who watch it every time. It is film like this that give hope to people that one day, they will find that one person who challenges them, and loves them for exactly who they are. "When Harry Met Sally" is the perfect film to watch for people of all ages. Highly recommended.
Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan have this unbelievable chemistry on-screen together that is so apparent in this film. It truly works with the witty dialogue about the crucial observations of relationships and the differences of gender.
This film can bring tears to those who watch it every time. It is film like this that give hope to people that one day, they will find that one person who challenges them, and loves them for exactly who they are. "When Harry Met Sally" is the perfect film to watch for people of all ages. Highly recommended.
4. Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
***A Film Filled With Hope, Love, Pain And Fun***
"Annie Reed: Destiny is something we've invented because we can't stand the fact that everything that happens is accidental."
"Sleepless in Seattle" a charming tale of fate and soul mates. Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are perfect as Sam and Annie who are made for each other. The story is simple, remade from Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr's 1957 classic "An Affair to Remember" and it's impossible to describe how good this movie makes you feel even if you've seen it countless times like I have!.
This movie is one of Nora Ephron's best. Tom Hanks couldn't be more charming and the story, though very simple, is about as sweet as they get. I won't give away the ending, but the nature of fate and location collide in a way that you won't forget.
This movie is one of Nora Ephron's best. Tom Hanks couldn't be more charming and the story, though very simple, is about as sweet as they get. I won't give away the ending, but the nature of fate and location collide in a way that you won't forget.
5. Trading Places (1983)
***A Thoroughly Enjoyable And Well Crafted Comedy***
"Billy Ray: Merry New Year!
Beeks: That's 'happy.' In this country we say 'Happy New Year.'
Billy Ray: Oh, ho, ho, thank you for correcting my English which stinks!"
"Trading Places" is a movie that deals with Louis Winthorpe III( Dan Aykroyd ) who is a successful New York commodity broker with a mansion in Philadelphia and Billy Ray Valentine( Eddie Murphy ) who is a hustling beggar, but they traded places. Jamie Lee Curtis is good in it playing Ophelia, Paul Gleason is also good in it as an F.B.I. Agent, and Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche are good, too as those two brothers who are rich.
Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd in their prime. Both are funny, neither are silly and useless, and both portray the best of character's fit for a movie. Both will keep you laughing until you cry.
It's engaging and entertaining with a strong story, amusing material, good performances and good all round delivery. Not a classic as some would suggest but certainly a very enjoyable comedy.
Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd in their prime. Both are funny, neither are silly and useless, and both portray the best of character's fit for a movie. Both will keep you laughing until you cry.
It's engaging and entertaining with a strong story, amusing material, good performances and good all round delivery. Not a classic as some would suggest but certainly a very enjoyable comedy.
6. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
***A Witty, Well Performed And Coen Bothers Perfect Comedy***
"Amy Archer: Norville Barnes, you don't know a thing about that woman. You don't know who she really is. Only a numbskull thinks he knows things about things he knows nothing about."
"The Hudsucker Proxy" story of this film is simple. Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins) who is a college graduate gets a job in the mail room of the hugely successful Hudsucker Industries. On his first day on the job the chairman of the Hudsucker industries commits suicide. Board of Directors led by Sidney J. Mussberger (Paul Newman) decides to lower the companies stock by hiring an idiot in his place, then taking advantage of lowered stock price. Barnes is that innocent idiot.
Only the Coen Brothers could take a tired holiday format and inject into it a measure of surrealism and a large amount of humor. People who found this too arty or the comedy too black really missed the point - it is in fact a traditional family holiday movie.
Only the Coen Brothers could take a tired holiday format and inject into it a measure of surrealism and a large amount of humor. People who found this too arty or the comedy too black really missed the point - it is in fact a traditional family holiday movie.
7. Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
***Highly Original And Definitely Has It's Moments***
"Bridget: It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces."
Renee Zellweger plays the titular Bridget, a 32 year old single woman in London who is sick of her lonely lifestyle and boring job at a publishing company. Not long after starting to keep a diary, she begins a passionate affair with her serial-cad sex-god boss Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) but things don't go quite as well as she planned. But is she destined to end up with Daniel or nice-but-dull Mark Darcy (Colin Firth)?
Renee Zellweger fits the bill perfectly for the part of Bridget Jones and she didn't do badly with the British accent. Hugh Grant plays a different character to what we're used to when in romantic comedies, but it is definitely a good thing.
8. About a Boy (2002)
***A Charming, Brilliant Story And Modern Morality Tale***
"Fiona: Will, am I a bad mother?
Will: No. No, you're not a bad mother. You're just a barking lunatic."
"About A Boy" is actually quite simple story: we have Will, a guy who has never done anything at all significant in his life and has thus never really grown up, and he meets Marcus, a poor 12-year-old who has grown up to quickly without really realizing it, is bullied at school, he's killed a duck with a loaf of bread and his mother has just attempted to kill herself. Bizarrely the two end up reluctant friends, and manage to give each other a healthy dose of some much needed thoughtful ideas
The acting is delightful. Grant gives the performance of his lifetime. Toni Collette is fabulous. And Hoult is also good. All in all this movie is charming and funny. I would recommend it to anyone with a heart and sense of humor.
The acting is delightful. Grant gives the performance of his lifetime. Toni Collette is fabulous. And Hoult is also good. All in all this movie is charming and funny. I would recommend it to anyone with a heart and sense of humor.
9. Strange Days (1995)
***A Violent, Disturbing And Sizzling Sci-Fi Action Thriller Film***
"Talk radio host: Now, just so the, the rest of us know how much time is left, when is the rapture supposed to hit exactly? Is it midnight New Year's Eve?
Lori: That's right.
Talk radio host: Aha. Is that midnight L.A. time or, or Eastern Standard Time, or what? I mean, what timezone is God in anyway?"
"Strange Days" set in a futuristic world, the black market virtual reality is all the rage. Ex-Cop Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes) is the guy you go to for all your virtual dreams. He can get you anything from the ultimate vacation to porno and everything in between. Nero's world is soon to be turned upside when on the New Year's Eve of the millennium, he receives a video tape which contains the murder of someone he knows.
Many people don't know this, but "Strange Days" was actually written by the Director, James Cameron, shortly before he did Titanic.
The lead actor Ralph Fiennes is fantastic and is just bad enough to not be considered a hero, however the bad performances of the other actors by comparison, the happy ever after ending and hits violent nature lets this film only just escape from being a masterpiece.
Many people don't know this, but "Strange Days" was actually written by the Director, James Cameron, shortly before he did Titanic.
The lead actor Ralph Fiennes is fantastic and is just bad enough to not be considered a hero, however the bad performances of the other actors by comparison, the happy ever after ending and hits violent nature lets this film only just escape from being a masterpiece.
10. 200 Cigarettes (1999)
***A Hardcore And Rocking New Year Party Time***
"Lucy: You need to find somebody that likes you the way you are.
Kevin: And who would possibly like me the way I am?
Lucy: I have no idea."
"200 Cigarettes" is described as an episodic film. It revolves around a number of people on New Years Eve of 1981 and climaxes at one big rock party. These people seem to miss each other, yet also go through their own problems to try and understand themselves and their part in life. Some of them realize the truth about themselves, while others of them simply continue to go on as they were.
Courtney Love and Christina Ricci the standouts, while Kate Hudson shows real promise as a comic actor. It is true that although there was a lot of talent in this film, most of the acting was mediocre. This seems to defy explanation. Somehow though, I forgave all of them since I so thoroughly enjoyed myself.
Courtney Love and Christina Ricci the standouts, while Kate Hudson shows real promise as a comic actor. It is true that although there was a lot of talent in this film, most of the acting was mediocre. This seems to defy explanation. Somehow though, I forgave all of them since I so thoroughly enjoyed myself.
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