my friend and me got a hankerin' for Switzerland chocolate and a good smoke

Another weird collection of Amy movies! 

Guys and Dolls (1955) - "In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game."

Source: streamed on Amazon Prime
I watched it because: I've heard good things
IMDB: 7.2/10  -  Rotten Tomatoes: Tomatometer: 91% Audience: 83%
AFI: 25 Greatest Movie Musicals (2006) #23

    100 Greatest Film Songs (2004) #42

notable quote: "If a guy did not have a doll, who would holler on him?"

MPAA rating: not rated

directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

featuring: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine

my notes: Brando is a revelation - and Sinatra dry as dust. I didn't love this movie, but it was worth seeing.

Academy Award nominee:
• Best Art Direction—Color

• Best Cinematography—Color

• Best Costume Design—Color

• Best Scoring of a Musical Picture
overall: recommended

Open Range (2003) - "A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a corrupt lawman."
Source: I borrowed the DVD from my parents' collection
I watched it because: Kevin Costner's movies are always good, especially the ones that he directed
IMDB: 7.4/10  -  Rotten Tomatoes: Tomatometer: 79% Audience: 84%

notable quote: "Most time, a man will tell you his bad intentions if you listen, let yourself hear."

MPAA rating: R

directed by: Kevin Costner

featuring: Costner, Robert Duvall, Annette Bening, Diego Luna, Abraham Benrubi

my notes: I hadn't heard anything about this film before. It just ... missed me. I'm glad it came back around into my orbit. It's a good old-fashioned Western. Morality play, romance, revenge, and family. Lovely.

overall: recommended

Dazed and Confused (1993) - "The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976."
Source: I own the DVD
I watched it because: it had been too long since I'd seen this, one of my all-time faves
IMDB: 7.6/10  -  Rotten Tomatoes: Tomatometer: 92% Audience: 90%

notable quote: "'Have you been drinking?'

    'No'

    'Are you drunk?'

    'Pfffft'"

MPAA rating: R

directed by: Richard Linklater

featuring: Jason London

my notes: This is such a special movie for me. Silly, sweet, idiotic, meaningful. 

* This soundtrack is in my top 5 ever.

overall: recommended

Hombre (1967) - "John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because

he was raised by Native Americans, becomes their only hope for survival when they are set upon by outlaws."
Source: I borrowed the DVD from my parents' collection
I watched it because: I like Paul Newman...usually...
IMDB: 7.4/10  -  Rotten Tomatoes: Tomatometer: 93% Audience: 80%

notable quote: "[Marriage is] the price you pay if you want it where you can nudge it in the night."

MPAA rating: not rated

directed by: Martin Ritt

featuring: Paul Newman, Fredric March, Barbara Rush, David Canary

my notes: feh. Newman's character is a snide, patronizing ass. He leads the rest of this crew, literally and figuratively, like a person who doesn't care at all about anyone else. I think he won in the end. Or maybe died. That says it all.

overall: not recommended

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) - "After being mistaken for an actor, a New York thief is sent to Hollywood to train under a private eye for a potential movie role, but the duo are thrown together with a struggling actress into a murder mystery."

Source: owned
I watched it because: I was on a date
IMDB: 7.5/10  -  Rotten Tomatoes: Tomatometer: 86% Audience: 87%

notable quote: "'Jesus. Look up 'idiot' in the dictionary. You know what you'll find?'

'A picture of me?'

'No! The definition of the word idiot, which you fucking are!'"

MPAA rating: R

directed by: Shane Black

featuring: Robert Downey, Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan, Corbin Bernsen

my notes: I could see this once a year 'til Doomsday. It's a surprisingly funny, charming, adorable movie—that happens to be a thriller. 
* last reviewed here

overall:  recommended

[the title quotation is from Open Range]