odessasteps Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 RIP to both Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford. http://youtu.be/StcJVOIxLdo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 In some "lesser" stuff that I know some people have seen but I feel like I am the only one who watched it For example - My Fellow Americans and Barbarians at the Gate 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 I feel like if I was around in the 60s I'd have gone to see every movie he made that decade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 God I just realized that both were now dead and it has ruined my day http://youtu.be/S_qh1jNFRo0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assfax Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Man called Sledge was my favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Even though I had no real understanding of politics when I saw it (I was 14), I still really enjoyed My Fellow Americans at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Bummer. If you guy's ever get around to it, check him out in The Children's Hour. He plays love interest to Audrey Hepburn who gets accused of being a lesbian lover to Shirley McClain. He has a scene near that is pretty damn beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Marlowe is a criminally underrated movie. Rockford Files is possibly the best PI show ever made (I think only Magnum comes close). Hell I even liked Garner in Space Cowboys! James 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Just came in to recommend The Children's Hour. A devastating film about how a lie can destroy so many lives. Garner is fantastic as the town doctor who stands by his friends when everyone else has abandoned them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted July 20, 2014 Author Share Posted July 20, 2014 There's also Murphy's Romance and Victor/Victoria from the 80s. I saw a picture of him earlier with Diannah Carroll at the March on Washington. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramsey Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Some of my earliest memories are of my dad watching the Rockford Files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 He and his wife had been married since 1956 - they had met at an Adlai Stevenson fundraiser So at least someone won from Stevenson's Presidential Bids #jokesonlyreallyoldpeopleget 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GojiColin Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 If you haven't read it his autobiography The Garner Files is a really great read. The chapters dealing with filming Maverick and how he had to fight to get out of his studio contract were really fascinating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin877 Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 I liked Tank, very over the top premise but a fun movie nonetheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caley Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 I love James Garner, he had this amazing vibe to him that made him compulsively watchable, even as the feisty grandfather in '8 Simple Rules' (He was brought in after the death of John Ritter). His best, criminally-underseen role is probably 'The Americanization of Emily' where he delivers this speech I don't trust people who make bitter reflections about war, Mrs. Barham. It's always the general with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. It's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades. We shall never end wars, Mrs. Barham, by blaming it on the ministers and generals, or warmongering imperialists, or all the other banal bogeys. It's the rest of us who build statues to those generals and name boulevards after those ministers. The rest of us who make heroes of our dead and shrines of our battlefields. We wear our widow's weeds like nuns, Mrs. Barham, and perpetuate war by exalting its sacrifices. and he just nails it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew POE! Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 James Garner made The Notebook a very watchable movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted July 20, 2014 Author Share Posted July 20, 2014 From Grand Prix 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mco543 Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 My Fellow Americans is still one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. It's very depressing that they're both gone now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipGofern Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Barbarians at the Gate was awesome. Perhaps the best made for HBO move ever (granted I haven't seen any of the current ones). Everytime I see KKR mentioned in business articles, I can't help but picture Johnathan Pryce. The Maverick movie by Mel Gibson also might be my favorite of the "TV series remade into summer movie" genre that infected Hollywood for 5-6 years until it got overtaken by comics and young adult novels. I liked how it respected the series and the TV western genre in general rather than spend 90 minutes making fun of it. Of course, Rockford Files is one of those timeless classic series. I know in my head the dumbass remake idea got canned because NBC failed at every one they tried but in my heart I like to think the series never gets remade because it'll be damn near impossible to find a tv actor is as effortlessly cool as Garner was in the role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted July 20, 2014 Author Share Posted July 20, 2014 I didnt want Rockford remade, but at the time. Sawyer from Lost would have been a good candidate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted July 20, 2014 Author Share Posted July 20, 2014 How did we forget ... http://youtu.be/pBFs-QeqjFM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LethalStriker Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Really like him in Space Cowboys, makes me sad that other then Tommy Lee Jones all of those guys are probably gone in roughly ten years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanChessgame Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 He was a suave motherfucker in "The Great Escape". /had figured he had already died years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted July 20, 2014 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Was watching him on 8 Simple Rules just a couple days ago, and marveling at how high he wore his pants. Seriously, it was like Abdullah. I could well be alone in this, but I thought he and David Spade worked well together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Support Your Local Sheriff is one of my favorite goofy movies of all time and Garner did such a great job playing it all off with a straight face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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