Movies that I thought were good

Ok another one is "Blackfish" (2013)

Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of keeping ... See full summary »

Director:
Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Writers:
Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Eli B. Despres, 1 more credit »
Stars:
Tilikum.... the "killer" whale

This is a great and compelling docudrama. you will learn about killer whales in wild and captivity, and the ongoing story of Tilikum a killer whale that is about 30 years old now. he was kidnapped into
slavery as a child,by Seaworld and he is still there.
Everyone should see this.

Another one is
"Changing Lanes"

(2002)
98 min  -  Drama | Thriller  -  12 April 2002 (USA)
6.5


The story of what happens one day in New York when a young lawyer and a businessman share a small automobile accident on F.D.R. Drive and their mutual road rage escalates into a feud.

Director:
Roger Michell
Writers:
Chap Taylor (story), Chap Taylor (screenplay), 1 more credit »
Stars:
Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Kim Staunton

Great movie and  again original story.  

i have not seen any of these    i need to step up my movie game lol

Cold Comes the Night 2013
A struggling motel owner and her daughter are taken hostage by a nearly blind career criminal (Cranston)to be his eyes as he

attempts to retrieve his cash package from a crooked cop.

Director:
Tze Chun
Writers:
Tze Chun, Oz Perkins,
Stars:
Alice Eve, Bryan Cranston, Logan Marshall-Green

Original and compelling from start to end.

Runner Runner (2013)
91 min - Crime | Drama | Thriller


When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks

cheated him, a sly offshore entrepreneur.

Director:
Brad Furman
Writers:
Brian Koppelman, David Levien
Stars:
Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake, Gemma Arterton
Original and keeps you interested thru whole movie.

Promised Land (2012)
106 min - Drama


A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation

wants to tap into the available resources.

Director:
Gus Van Sant
Writers:
John Krasinski (screenplay), Matt Damon (screenplay), 1 more credit »
Stars:
Matt Damon, Frances McDormand, John Krasinski

This one you will learn some things about the new gas fracking method, and how it pollutes, and how they are very deceptive.
I wondered how this could be a good movie, but they did a good job, and matt damon was very good. Has a romance angle too.

The Frozen Ground (2013)
105 min - Biography | Crime | History


An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the

murderer to justice. Based on actual events.

Director:
Scott Walker
Writer:
Scott Walker
Stars:
Nicolas Cage, Vanessa Hudgens, John Cusack

Cusack does a creepy good job of portraying the killer, and Cage does a normal acting job instead of his usual over the top

stuff.
The cop he plays was 2 weeks from transferring to another job in another state,
and he gets put on a simple case, which leads to the bigger one.
very realistic and original, and well done.

The Iceman (2012)
105 min - Biography | Crime | Drama -
The true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man. When finally arrested in 1986, neither his

wife nor daughters have any clue about his real profession.


Director:
Ariel Vromen
Writers:
Morgan Land (screenplay), Ariel Vromen (screenplay), 2 more credits »
Stars:
Michael Shannon, Chris Evans, James Franco, Ray Liotta


this is based on a true story and Shannon makes it interesting, and ray liotta is good in this too.

Killer Joe (2011)
102 min - Crime | Thriller - 29 June 2012 (UK)

When a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the

insurance.

Director:
William Friedkin
Writers:
Tracy Letts (screenplay), Tracy Letts (play)
Stars:
Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple

Ok this is original concept, but is sort of a comedy. Not for everyone but found it amusing.

Mud (2012)
130 min - Drama - 10 May 2013 (USA)
Two young boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the vigilantes that are on his trail and to reunite him with his true love.

Director:
Jeff Nichols
Writer:
Jeff Nichols
Stars:
Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Jacob


Did not think I would like this, but it was good, the one kid (ellis) kinda steals the show.
Again it is original.

Pitch Black (2000)
109 min - Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller - 18 February 2000 (USA)

A prisoner transport ship and its crew are marooned on a planet full of bloodthirsty creatures that only come out to feast at
night. But then, they learn that a month-long eclipse is about to occur.

Director:
David Twohy
Writers:
Jim Wheat (story), Ken Wheat (story), 3 more credits »
Stars:
Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Vin Diesel |


This is a good low budget scifi movie. It was the first of the 3 "Riddick" movies.
I saw the recent one first("Riddick"), and liked it. Then I found the first one, then later saw the 2nd one "Chronicles of

Riddick". Better to see them in order as one leads directly to the next one.
I think the first one is maybe the best, the 2nd one was a little out there and had a british feel to it, and @ desi, was made in BC canada.
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The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
119 min - Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi - 11 June 2004 (USA)

5 years after Pitch Black, the wanted criminal Riddick arrives on a planet called Helion Prime, and finds himself up against an invading empire called the Necromongers, an army that plans to convert or kill all humans in the universe.

Director:
David Twohy
Writers:
Jim Wheat (characters), Ken Wheat (characters), 1 more credit »
Stars:
Vin Diesel, Judi Dench, Colm Feore |

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Riddick (2013)
119 min - Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller - 6 September 2013 (USA)
Left for dead on a sun-scorched planet, Riddick finds himself up against an alien race of predators. Activating an emergency
beacon alerts two ships: one carrying a new breed of mercenary, the other captained by a man from Riddick's past.


Director:
David Twohy
Writers:
David Twohy, Jim Wheat (based on characters created by), 1 more credit »
Stars:
Vin Diesel, Karl Urban, Katee Sackhoff |

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The Snow Walker (2003)
103 min - Adventure | Drama - 5 March 2004 (Canada)
7.5
A pilot and his passenger struggle for survival after crashing in the Arctic tundra.

My Summary: A arrogant selfish ex WWII pilot agrees to take a sick indian girl back to town from
way out in the tundra after being paid to do it ( he refused at first).
The plane then has a oil leak and he has to crash land in the middle of nowhere and he had gone off his flight path. The nearest settlement is 200 miles off. It is still summer but winter is coming soon.
He leaves the girl at the plane and says he will walk to the settlement, he doesn't do very good LOL so lucky he brought the girl on the plane.
Unusual movie, and you cant help but like the indian girl. I would have written a better ending , but some like this type of ending.

Director:
Charles Martin Smith
Writers:
Charles Martin Smith, Farley Mowat (based on the story "Walk Well My Brother" by)
Stars:
Barry Pepper, Annabella Piugattuk, James Cromwell