Movie/film suggestions.

@immatthewj Since you listed two political movies, one I’d recommend is The Contender, starring Joan Allen (who should have won best actress) as a VP contender, Jeff Bridges as the president, Gary Oldman as a GOP senator and William Patterson, Christina Slater, Sam Elliot and Saul Rubinek.

I actually did see that, @nonoise ; as I typed a few posts ago, except for his roles in Arlington Road, True Grit (remake) and Masked And Anonymous, I am not much of a Jeff Bridges fan (another subject I seem to be the odd man out on). I wasn’t crazy about him in The Contender, but I actually really enjoyed the movie.

Speaking of political movies, did you ever see The Ides Of March with Ryan Gosling and George Clooney? If so, what did you think of it?

And I noted that you also picked no Country For old Men (which is way way way up high on my list); did you watch another Cormack McCarthy generated movie, The Counselor? I liked that one almost, if not as much, as No Country, but again I seem to be the exception.

Woody Harellson did a great job in LBJ.

@immatthewj Actually, I like Jeff Bridges as an actor. From Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, to Against All Odds and on to the present. He was also in that one movie I listed, Bad Times at the El Royale, as a criminal, posing as a priest but having spent way too long in prison, can't quite remember which room he stowed his stolen loot from an old bank robbery. Chris Hemsworth has an especially delicious role as a mudering, sadistic cult leader. 

I liked The Ides of March with Ryan Gosling lost in the fog of a primary war and George Clooney going against type as a sleazy, calculating candidate that he works for. I also liked The Counselor and especially, the back and forth over the phone between the cartel leader played by Ruben Blades and Michael Fassbinder as Ruben intellectually schools Michael in the world he wrongly stepped into. That was some might fine and chilling dialogue. 

All the best,
Nonoise

As I typed, @nonoise , I was thinking I would be the odd man out on that one.  Thunderbolt is one of my least favorite movies he (Jeff Bridges) was in, but you know what they say:  "It's a good thing we all don't like chocolate ice cream."  Or something like that.  And I remember when it came out, Thunderbolt tha is, it was very popular in Montana, as was Rancho.

And I completely agree with you about The Counselor.  

I also liked The Counselor and especially, the back and forth over the phone between the cartel leader played by Ruben Blades and Michael Fassbinder as Ruben intellectually schools Michael in the world he wrongly stepped into. That was some might fine and chilling dialogue. 

. . . and I meant to say, @nonoise , is that I particularly liked the part and the dialogue for the role that Brad Pitt played.  And I thought that he (Pitt) carried it off nicely.  Better than nicely.  (McCarthy wrote some great dialogue in book, No Country, also, and in the film they followed the dialogue of the book very closely.