Hmmmmm, that’s an interesting question…
It seems that anytime watching a movie comes up, the same films are always on the list.
When we were kids, Dad played ball with the boys; me, we watched the original “Star Trek” and “Mission: Imposible” series. So, it is no surprise that I would also like watching the films. The favourite “Star Trek” movies are “The Motion Picture” with “V’ger” and “The Return Home” where they go back in time for the whales.
Tom Cruise provides an interesting take on the “Mission: Impossible” tales and his stunts are something to behold. He does all of the stunts himself, no matter how dangerous or outlandish.
Speaking of stunts…”Top Gun: Maverick” takes the cake! The first time I saw the film, I thought that the flight scenes were done with CGI – Computer Generated Imagery – but when I found out they were live shots, I was blown away! Navy “Top Gun” pilots made the runs with the actors as “second seaters”. Those shots were absolutely incredible!!
Then there’s the original “Star Wars” trilogy. I happen to like Mark Hamil and Harrison Ford (and they aren’t hard to look at either 🙂 ). From a filmmaking point of view, there are some interesting shots and sequences.
Speaking of flying and interesting camera shots…Clint Eastwood in “Firefox” is a good film. Shot during the Soviet era, the film was shot in Czechoslovakia which took away a bit from the Moscow setting but the story was still interesting and had some great airborne shots.
I have lost count of how many times I have watched “Hidden Figures” but the film has some very powerful messages. Taken from a book about women working at NASA, the film is set in the early 1960’s; an era of segregation. One of the most powerful lines in the film is after Katherine makes were speech about how far she has to go to find a “coloured bathroom”; Kevin Costner’s character knocks down the “Whites Only” sign and after telling Katherine to use any bathroom she wants (preferably closest to her desk), he tells the gathered crowd, “here at NASA, we all pee the same colour.
Sitting and enjoying a film is a little more difficult for me because my minor in college was mass communications and I took several classes about television and filmmaking. I constantly look at how a film is edited, shot, and put together. I sometime have to spend more time listening and not concentrate on the video to enjoy it for what it is.