Successfully Dating recommends Classic DVD movies that will
help you build a imaginative and fun movie library. You must keep in mind
that some of the biggest movie blockbusters, some of the highest
grossing films, and some of the most entertaining movies you'll
see are watchable only once. These types of movies are not
suitable for a well-rounded movie library collection. Our
recommendations will help you find the classics and the notable
movies that you should have, so you can be prepared to pull out an
entertaining movie to watch, at any time, that your dates and
friends will actually want to watch.
Easy Rider - This box-office hit
from 1969 is an important pioneer of the American independent
cinema movement, and a generational touchstone to boot. Peter
Fonda and Dennis Hopper play hippie motorcyclists crossing the
Southwest and encountering a crazy quilt of good and bad people.
Jack Nicholson turns up in a significant role as an attorney who
joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem
with freedom as Fonda's and Hopper's characters embody it. Hopper
directed, essentially bringing the no-frills filmmaking methods of
legendary, drive-in movie producer Roger Corman to a serious
feature for the mainstream.
The Wild One (1954) - This is the original motorcycle
movie, starring Marlon Brando as the brooding leader of a biker
gang that invades a small town. The film always looked like one of
those synthetic Hollywood ideas of subculture life in the 1950s,
which means it looks even more artificial today. But it is an
actor's piece more than anything, and toward that end Brando's
performance really is an important one in the context of his
revolutionary reinvention of film acting during that decade.
Directed by Lásló Benedek (Namu, the Killer Whale) and produced by
the socially conscious Stanley Kramer.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) - A cultish horror
favorite, 1962's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? will make you
think twice before hungrily unveiling a covered plate of food.
Bette Davis stars as Jane Hudson, a onetime child actress and
singer. As an elderly woman, she wishes to revive her vaudevillian
career, but she has become a grotesque caricature of her former
self. Over the years as her star faded, the star of her older
sister Blanche (Joan Crawford) rose, outshining the career of the
has-been Baby Jane. Jane was relegated to minor roles, which she
only won when Blanche demanded that she be awarded them.
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