What's your favorite movie?

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Just thought I'd ask, seeing we have a diverse crowd here. I'll post my favorite three.

  1. Dances With Wolves
  2. Tombstone
  3. Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
 
Boondocks Saints I
Gladiator
Sling Blade

I know, weird huh?
 
Boy that's a hard one, so many good ones.

No Country for Old Men
Good Fellas
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
Saving Private Ryan

Gosh, the list goes on, these were just at the top of my head.
 
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MY list:)

Red Dawn
In Harms Way
Star Wars


I know I'm a bit of a hawk :D
 
My oldest son and I used to watch every John Wayne movie that was on TV and he developed quite a library of VHS tapes. I think they are stored with the 8 Track tapes. He and I watched a lot of westerns and a lot of comedies and really enjoyed them. I haven't had the chance to watch many movies, except sitting down with my wife to watch a Hallmark movie, as we did last evening. Since I have been down with my surgery, we are hooked up to Netflix and have watched quite a few movies, mostly me by myself of an evening while my wife is at work. I have searched for a lot of old, old movies on Netflix that I watched when a child. Quite a few are not available, such as Paleface and Son of Paleface. One of my favorite old westerns is 'River of No Return' with Marilyn Monroe and Robert Mitchum. Last evening before the Hallmark movie, 'Beyond the Blackboard', my wife and I settled for a movie my late brother had recommended, 'World's Fastest Indian". That is an excellent movie.
 
Are you gonna skin that smokewagon? I'll be your huckleberry! Well........bye.

Tombstone of course
 
I. Westerns:
1) 'Open Range' - (Killin people is one thing, but if you really wanna piss a man off just shoot his dog! :D)
2) 'Geronimo: American Legend' - (Best Line/Scene = "You're a fool, but at least you're a brave one!" :cool:)
Pretty much anything with quintessential cowboy Robert Duvall in it!!!

II. Personal Cult Movies (I could watch, watch & re-watch):
1) 'Mad Max At Thunderdome' (a classic, cheesy hoot) :p
2) 'Oh Brother, Where Art Thou' (when you need an intelligent laugh w/good music) :cheers:
3) 'Stranger Than Fiction' (off-the-charts quirky)
4) 'Greenfingers' (my fav Brit-humor w/a good story/moral)

III. Comedy (a couple of the cults above + these - in no certain order):
1) 'Madea's Family Reunion', 'Madea Goes To Jail' & 'Why Did I Get Married' (pretty much anything Madea or Tyler Perry)
2) 'Major Payne' or 'Blankman' (pretty much anything Damon Wayans & NOT the other Wayans brothers)
3) 'Bucket List' (funny/serious twist with a good end-of-the-line moral)
4) 'Elf' (a family Christmas annual in our household)
5) 'What About Bob', 'The Man Who Knew Too Little', 'Stripes' (big Bill Murray fan)
6) 'Crocodile Dundee' (can't go thru life w/o a little Aussie humor)

IV. Inspirational:
1) 'Pay It Forward' (to me the only worthwhile reason God has us down here on earth) :10sign:
2) 'Radio' (yeah, I'm man enough to admit that this one makes me cry - I wish more people in this world were a whole lot more like the ones we consider "lesser") :eek:
3) 'Invincible' & 'Remember The Titans' (for sports picker-uppers)
4) 'A Family Thing' (w/Robert Duvall & James Earl Jones on forgiveness & racial reconciliation)

V. International (subtitled):
1) 'Il Postino' (Italian romance based on Pablo Neruda's poetry)
2) 'Partition' (an all-time personal fav, a real sleeper)
3) 'Arranged' (yeah, I'm not ashamed to admit it - watch it secretly with the wife if it bugs you)
4) 'Amalie' (French humor/quirkiness)

VI. Action:
1) 'Blood Diamond' (brutal, but good life-lessons)
2) 'City Of God' (ditto #1 - been there & it's actually worse in real life)
3) 'Body Of Lies' (tops for sheer suspense & Russel Crowe was the living embodiment of a low-life bad guy, Leonardo Dicaprio has really excelled/come into his own in these kind of parts)
4) 'Black Hawk Down' or 'Hurt Locker' (for military movies)
5) 'Lord Of The Rings' Trilogy (pretty much the ONLY sci-fi type movie I really, REALLY liked)

VII. Random (in no certain order or genre & no less favs than any of the above - in some cases, maybe even more):
'Slumdog Millionaire', 'Kite Runner', "Lost In Yonkers', 'A River Runs Through It', 'Somewhere In Time', 'Sweet Home Alabama', "All The Kings Men', 'Of Gods & Men', 'Rain Man', ect...NOT always a huge fan of standard Hollywood-drivel/formula-movies - Love a lot of INDIE, offbeat, quirky stuff (admittedly sometimes a crapshoot, but there are also some real hidden jewels out there)...

I like a lot of the other ones mentioned by some of you guys too - I HAVE A REALLY HARD TIME WITH PICKING OUT ONE FAV O.K.!!! (P.S. I don't really watch that many movies or TV...try to keep in mind that this is a collection from a lifetime so far of over 50 yrs - LOL)
 
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Ten Great Movies

The Deer Hunter
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Boogie Nights
Slumdog Millionaire
The Social Network
The Sand Pebbles
Witness for the Prosecution
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Dr. Strangelove
Casino
 
Lonesome Dove
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Falling Down
We Were Soldiers

Theres a lot of others, but these stand out in my mind.

BobM
 
I'll sure throw a second vote behind "Dr. Strangelove", (black comedy), "Lonesome Dove", ( possibly the greatest western), "Sand Pebbles", (everybody was in love with Candace Bergen), I'll add "Cinema Paridiso", "The Mission", " The Wind and the Lion", "Chariots of Fire", "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", " The Magnificent Seven", ( "because nobody throws my gun at me at me and says run"!), and last but foremost, " To Kill a Mockingbird".
 
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I like a lot of the other ones mentioned by some of you guys too - I HAVE A REALLY HARD TIME WITH PICKING OUT ONE FAV O.K.!!! (P.S. I don't really watch that many movies or TV...try to keep in mind that this is a collection from a lifetime so far of over 50 yrs - LOL)
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I certainly don't know half of the movies you mentioned, but which one is fifty years old???;) I did copy the list and will use it as a guide to search Netflix tonight.

Contrary to what some think, my wife and I have been to the movie theater. Seems like only yesterday we were there for the opening of that blockbuster, 'The Ten Commandments'.
 
I like one NElaboholics favorites "For love of the game", great movie!

The original "Willy Wonka and the Choclate Factory"... Gene Wylder is awesome.

And The Who's "Tommy". I know people my age don't understand me. Weird huh?:D

I almost forgot one of the funniest movies ever, "This is Spinal Tap". Hilarious!
 
the cowboys with John Wayne
hd and the marlboro man
lonesome dove
fist full of dollars
and fast and the furious all of them
 
1. The Man From Snowy River
2. Last of the Dog Men
3. Any John Wayne western
ok, ok, and I must add that I love all the old James Bond movies and Star Wars movies.
 
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