{"id":1254061,"date":"2022-01-29T13:23:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T18:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1254061"},"modified":"2022-01-29T13:24:04","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T18:24:04","slug":"nolte-7-of-the-most-underrated-movies-ever-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-7-of-the-most-underrated-movies-ever-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolte: 7 of the Most Underrated Movies Ever \u2014 Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnolte-7-of-the-most-underrated-movies-ever-part-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1254061&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screenshot-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">For more than 50 years, ever since the day I saw <em>Dirty Harry<\/em> on the big screen, I\u2019ve been a movie fanatic \u2014 every kind of movie, all sorts of movies\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Today, not so much.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In pursuit of political purity, movies have lost their artistry. Characters are <em>identities <\/em>rather than complicated individuals, themes have been twisted into lectures, and the desire to entertain and enlighten replaced with the desire to preen, divide, and insult.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood no longer wants us coming together to share a universal experience. Instead, Hollywood wants to pervert our children with gay porn and transsexual voodoo, wants us to cheer our own virtue and judge the other fella based on his hat and skin color.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of exploring human nature, movies are looking to rewire it into a big, conformist pile of pro-establishment blah.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>We<\/em> haven\u2019t changed. <em>We<\/em> still love movies that do what movies are supposed to do. <em>Spider-Man: No Way Home<\/em> proved that. While the sycophants in the entertainment media lie about woketard flops being victims of the pandemic, along came a movie eager to entertain that broke box office records and did so at the height of the omicron surge.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that you will never run out of movies to love. After 50 years, after a half-century of dedicated movie watching, I continue to find gem after gem after gem after gem. Out there \u2014 and you don\u2019t have to look very hard, just back \u2014 there\u2019s an endless treasure trove of two-hour dreams ready to take you away\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In part two of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/10\/03\/nolte-5-of-the-most-underrated-movies-ever-part-1\/\">this series<\/a>, here are seven titles you might have missed\u2026<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eye_of_the_Tiger_(film)\"><strong>Eye of the Tiger<\/strong><\/a><strong> (1986) <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This is one of those great genre films about an everyday man who returns home wanting nothing more than to live a normal life. In this case, that man is the great Gary Busey. After too many years away, he\u2019s back in the bosom of his family and ready to appreciate the simple things. Unfortunately, political corruption and a motorcycle gang make that impossible.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>While the movie\u2019s conclusion is a little over the top in that glorious 80\u2019s fashion, <em>Eye of the Tiger<\/em> deserves credit for avoiding &nbsp;silly contrivances. For example, as soon as things get hairy, Busey\u2019s character agrees to skedaddle, but, well, too late\u2026<\/p>\n<p>This is a revenger that does what good revengers do. You hate the bad guys and love seeing them go down. The Mighty Yaphet Kotto supplies the social commentary, Seymour Cassel is beyond sleazy as a corrupt sheriff, and then there\u2019s that scene with the coffin\u2026 Holy moly.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Duel_at_Diablo\"><strong>Duel at Diablo<\/strong><\/a><strong> (1966) <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We\u2019re only four weeks into 2022 and already the great ones are dropping like flies, and none greater than Sidney Poitier.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><em>Duel at Diablo<\/em> partners Poitier with another one of the all-time greats, The Mighty James Garner, in one of the best Westerns you\u2019ve never seen.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Poitier is introduced to us as a bit of a dandy, until we discover his character, Toller, is really a down-in-the-dust horse trainer who\u2019s finished his work, bought a new suit of clothes, and wants to go gamble and ramble. Garner plays Jess, a man on a quest to avenge the murder of his Apache wife.<\/p>\n<p>Ingmar Bergman regular Bibi Andersson plays Ellen. She\u2019s married to the town\u2019s businessman (Dennis Weaver). She\u2019s also a former Apache captive who keeps returning to the Apache for reasons of her own.<\/p>\n<p>The plot effectively turns, Toller and Jess team up to lead a wagon train of munitions across Apache territory, and what happens next is brutal, suspenseful, exciting, and filled with some of the most effective cavalry scenes ever put on film.<\/p>\n<p>This is also the rare Western that tells two truths at once, that recognizes the federal government\u2019s appalling treatment of the American Indian without downplaying the shockingly savage behavior of the Apache.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A_Civil_Action_(film)\"><strong>A Civil Action<\/strong><\/a><strong> (1998)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>John Travolta, Robert Duvall, James Gandolfini, William H. Macy, Kathleen Quinlan, Dan Hedaya, John Lithgow\u2026<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Oscar-winning screenwriter Steve Zaillian adapted Jonathan Harr\u2019s best-seller and also directs.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of those movies that starts as one thing and then surprises you by being about something bigger. In this case, we have a slick corporate thriller-slash-courtroom drama that catches you off guard as it becomes the poignant story of a mercenary personal injury lawyer (Travolta) who discovers a conscience.<\/p>\n<p>Travolta is superb, everyone\u2019s superb, and the story is a true one.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U_Turn_(1997_film)\"><strong>U-Turn<\/strong><\/a><strong> (1997) <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You\u2019ve seen it before \u2014 <em>Red Rock West<\/em> (1993), <em>The Hot Spot<\/em> (1990)\u2026 A hard-luck guy rolls into a small town full of dark secrets and before long it\u2019s all about steamy sex and murder.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>In one of his most appealing roles, Sean Penn plays Bobby Cooper, a Vegas-bound degenerate desperate to settle up with an unforgiving bookie. A blown radiator hose and a beautifully-staged robbery strands him in Superior, Arizona. At first, things are looking up in the form of a breathtakingly sexy Jennifer Lopez, but, well\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Written (novel and screenplay) by future Oscar-winner John Ridley, Oliver Stone directs (and sometimes over-directs) his only feature uninterested in social commentary.<\/p>\n<p>A knock-out cast (even in tiny roles), our greatest living director, a terrific script full of believable but shocking plot twists, sex, violence, and gallows humor all add up to a top-notch neo-noir .<\/p>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Land_(2021_film)\"><strong>Land<\/strong><\/a><strong> (2021)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You would think Robin Wright\u2019s feature directorial debut would send the Woke Nazis into spasms of joy and launch an ocean of affirmative-action think pieces heralding her genius\u2026 Well, Wright didn\u2019t earn much of that because her little movie is deceptively anti-woke.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Edee Holzer (Wright) is an urban professional who suffers a terrible tragedy and discovers that the modern world, with all of its medications, distractions, and therapy sessions, can\u2019t fill the hole.<\/p>\n<p>Desperate for any kind of peace, Edee abandons her old life, moves to the reddest state in the country, goes off the grid, and gets back to basics. No iPhones, no electricity, no vehicle, no Internet, no Starbucks, and no going back. Completely unprepared, she\u2019s deliberately stranded herself in the middle of the wilderness with only a few canned goods, some seeds, and a firearm. Things quickly go sideways and eventually she\u2019s saved (in more ways than one) by \u2026 a<em> man<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>After a first act that\u2019s a tad overwrought, once this nicely directed, 89-minute gem settles down, it has something interesting to say about grief, rediscovering your purpose in the over-caffeinated modern world, the virtues of rugged individualism, and how no man (or woman) can be an island.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mr._Skeffington\"><strong>Mr. Skeffington<\/strong><\/a><strong> (1944)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you love those classic female-driven melodramas [<em>Mildred Pierce<\/em> (1945), <em>Dark Victory<\/em> (1939), <em>A Letter to Three Wives<\/em> (1949), etc.] as much as I do, <em>Mr. Skeffington<\/em> (1944) is a real find.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Bette Davis plays a local beauty constantly surrounded by admiring suitors. For all the wrong reasons, she marries Mr. Skeffington (the always brilliant Claude Raines). Addicted to being worshipped, she\u2019s serially unfaithful and then time does what it does and\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Beautifully written by <em>Casablanca <\/em>scribes Julius and Philip Epstein, expertly directed by Vincent Sherman, and all of it packaged in the brothers\u2019 Warner production values, this is not just a movie about the obvious, but one about forgiveness and how we will find ourselves desperately alone in old age if we forget what matters.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shoot_to_Kill_(1988_film)\"><strong>Shoot to Kill<\/strong><\/a><strong> (1988)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Sidney Poitier\u2019s return to the big screen after a ten-year absence is a dynamite fish-out-of-water thriller about a city cop (Poitier) who teams with a mountain man (Tom Beranger) to hunt down a brutal murderer in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest. Overseas, it was titled <em>Deadly Pursuit<\/em>.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Funny, exciting, action-packed, suspenseful, clever\u2026 It\u2019s nuts how forgotten this is. You can\u2019t buy it on Blu-ray.<\/p>\n<p>You can, though, watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9beAuz0wDZk\">a pretty good copy<\/a> on YouTube \u2026 and <em>you should<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><strong><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>. <em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than 50 years, ever since the day I saw Dirty Harry on the big screen, I\u2019ve been a movie fanatic \u2014 every kind of movie, all sorts of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}