Happy New Year!!! Can you believe it? It's 2015 already. Every year it feels like as if the year passes quicker and quicker.
This is the first Thursday Movie Picks of 2015 and we're now in the 25th week of the series! If you're reading this now, I'm so glad you decided to join us in the new year.
Before we start, for new people who may have just wandered here, the rules of this weekly series is simple: Each week there is a topic for you to create a list of three movies. Your picks can either be favourites/best, worst, hidden gems, or if you're up to it one of each.For further details and the 2015 theme schedule visit the series main page here.
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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Bank Robberies.
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Dog Day Afternoon (1976)
So this is the movie that sparked today's theme. Wow has the bank robbery in this one go totally wrong from the start. From there not being much money in the bank to one of the robbers flaking out to being completely surrounded by the police so soon and to complete that is the media circus that follows as the robbery stretch on for several hours.
Flypaper (2011)
This is my hidden gem for this week. I knew nothing of this movie and only picked it up because of two of the recognisable names in it. Ended up enjoying it. There's action, its funny and it has some pretty good unanticipated turns. In Flypaper a man (played by Patrick Dempsey) gets trapped, as one of the hostages, in a bank when it is held up simultaneously by two different teams of bank robbers. Unable to get to the pharmacy to get his meds, he becomes increasing neurotic and obsessively tries to figure out how the two robberies could occur at the same time.
The Lookout (2007)
I have mentioned this movie before; it was one of my picks for Movies Featuring Amnesiacs. I'm picking it again because it is a perfect pick for today's theme and because I don't think it's widely seen even though it's great. In the Lookout, ex-school hockey star Chris (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is left with brain damage which severely affects his short term memory after a car accident. Due to his mental incapacitation Chris now works as a janitor for a bank and soon finds himself becoming a target of thugs planning to rob the bank as he can provide entry to it.
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So that's it...my three picks. What three movies made your list today?
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I've only seen "Dog Day Afternoon" from your list, but man that's an all-time great. "Flypaper" sounds really interesting. Happy New Year!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat choices, loved the lookout such an underrated film
ReplyDeleteIt is :)
DeleteOh darn it. I got to get on this fast. I've got two films down and I need to find a third.
ReplyDeleteOh man, why didn't I think of The Lookout? I love that film!
ReplyDeleteI found my way to this through A Fistful of Films. What a terrific idea for a series! Can't wait to look through the backlog of former entries.
ReplyDeleteDog Day is a flat out great movie. I didn't really care for The Lookout but I've never heard of Flypaper, it sounds fun. I've added it to my Netflix queue.
Don't have a blog but I listed three movies over at Fistful
1. Bunny O'Hare-A curio with Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine dressing as hippies and robbing banks on motorcycles!
2. Inside Man-A great cast in a clever movie
I blundered a bit on my third, How to Beat the High Co$t of Living, it's more of a heist movie. My fault I didn't read the rules more completely first.
So I'd sub Bonnie and Clyde, that ones about bank robberies for sure.
I saw Inside Man a few years ago, didn't like it. Have yet to see Bonnie and Clyde. I'm a little late with compiling this years Blindspot which I've been meaning to take part in so Bonnie and Clyde would probably end up on the list.
DeleteI've never heard of Flypaper, but I'm intrigued! The Lookout was on my list for a bit, too. Very neat little movie with great performances. I'm glad I'm playing along this year :-)
ReplyDeleteFlypaper is such an entertaining movie.
DeleteI'm glad you've joined as well :)
I had to go with Dog Day Afternoon as well. It's just always the first movie that comes to mind when I think about bank robberies. Great picks! I haven't seen Flypaper, but The Lookout is a really good idea. Forgot about that one.
ReplyDeleteHaha I know right, which was why it sparked today's theme. We spend so much time with the characters in the midst of a bank robbery....gone wrong.
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