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As we have agreed for maybe 10-12 years now, Casablanca and African Queen are as good as it gets....


After that, I am just picking 3 I really like and don't care if anyone else likes them.


The Wizard of Oz. It makes me think of my Mom. It replayed at a local theater and she took me to see it when I was maybe 5 years old....the first movie I ever saw on the big screen. Mama and I had a "date" that day...a date that has lasted my whole life. She's been gone 22 years now, but when that movie is on, I watch and cry just like I did when I was 5 when Dorthy clicks her heels 3 times wanting to go home. I wish I could click my heels 3 times and go home one more time and watch that movie with my Mama....for that reason, that is my #1 movie ever.



The Cowboys, starring John Wayne....a great movie about driving cattle across the plains with a bunch of boys as the Cowboys....a great script...pretty forward for the day. A great movie.



E.T......sort of reminds me of the Wizard. Mom had never seen it and it was on TV one Thanksgiving several years before she passed. We popped up some corn and watched. She was mesmerized. A good day.

Loved the African Queen but I absolutely hated Casablanca.

Band of Brothers was a miniseries but man I have probably watched more than any movie outside Josie Wales.

J/C

I should've included a Disney flick on there. I think I'd have to bounce out Casino Royale and put Mary Poppins in there instead.

As far as a mini series, Lonesome Dove rules.



If they play that in some marathon weekend, I can sit there from start to finish...what??? 10-12 hours worth??

Thanks, that could be very interesting.....I'll check it out.

Road to Perdition had one of my favorite scenes in any movie, spoiler do not click if you want to see it:

I figured I throw in some of my favorite foreign films.

1. Saving Grace - Good British comedy about a widow growing illegal plants to pay her bills.
2. Waking Ned Devine - Old man wins lottery and dies. Who gets the ticket?
3. Snatch - The 'come again Pikey?' feature on the DVD is pretty cool. Early Jason Stratham movie.
4. Lock, Stock, and 2 Smoking Barrels - Get your Cockney to English dictionary ready. Earlier Jason Stratham.
5. Monty Python's Life of Brian - We force all Middle East leaders into a room and play this movie non-stop until they realize how idiotic they are when dealing with religions.

so by foreign, you mean British?

They make the best comedies.

1. Original Planet of the Apes. ( was a huge Planet of the Apes fan as a kid)
2. Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
3. Dr. Strangelove.
4. The End. ( Burt Reynolds, Dom Deluis)-
5. The Avengers. ( Probably the most fun I've ever had at a movie theater)

I do have a hard time remembering the last really good Iranian comedy I saw .......

no doubt, the dry humor plays best on the big screen. love the adaptations that combine American physical comedy with the British dry wit (Rat Race, Fish Called Wanda).

Good call on The Help! Makes you wonder who those white southerners thought were really doing the legwork in raising their kids while they tried to stifle the Civil Rights Movement....

That said, similar movie- but a classic- is how I start out my top five (like others; no particular order):

-Imitation of Life: Absolutely heart-wrenching story of a black maid who has a baby with a white Creole man and the daughter ends up totally white. The daughter is treated like any other white woman until people find out that her mother is black, and her treatment gets a total 180. The daughter was very self-deprecating about being bi-racial and took most of that out on her mother. I balled like an absolute baby near the end of this one.

-Tank Girl- The soundtrack alone makes me love this movie, but many of its themes are still relevant today (total 90s flick) and it takes comic-book action and humor to real life...

-V for Vendetta- Enough said. I think on some level, when we think of vigilantism and when it's justifiable to use it ourselves, V is our alter-go (or at least mine )

-The Children's Hour- It baffled me that I hadn't heard of this until this year, but Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine (sp?) play boarding school teachers accused of being lesbians by a petulant problem-child- and although initially untrue- turns out to be, despite not being under the circumstances brought about and well after-the-fact. It's amazing to me that- at least at that time in the 20th century- that it didn't impact their careers negatively. I mean they couldn't even have anyone say "they kissed" or the actual words "lesbian" or "gay" (as it was at one point forbidden from being said in the theater even in NY). I balled like crazy during this one, too, and was kind of pissed off about the ending. But, hey. If a movie brings out that sort of catharsis, it's done one hell of a job.

-Chitty Chitty Bang Bang- Had to throw in my favorite childhood movie! Though, for some reason, I am still jokingly harassed about how I was inexplicably afraid of the car early on. Of all children's movies, this one brings back the best sense of "If I could turn back time" nostalgia.

Just throwing this out there. Men in Black 3 was actually good to my surprise. It was MUCH better than the 2nd film.

I consider myself to be a big film buff, so it'd be far too painful to get the list down to 5. Instead, I'm going to cheat and do a top 10 list.

1. The original Star Wars Trilogy (there's no way I can separate these apart. I consider them one single seven-hour movie.)

2. Excalibur

3. Brainstorm

4. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

5. Indiana Jones 1

6. Indiana Jones 2

7. Bridge on the River Kwai

8. Poltergeist

9. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

10. Singin' in the Rain

There are probably an additional 10 to 15 films that I consider in my "Favorite Movies" list, but you gotta draw the line somewhere.

Wow, this is really hard.

I'm going to have to say in no particular order my faves are:

1) Pulp Fiction
2) Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
3) ALL the James Bond movies (more so bonds without Daniel Craig in them)
4) Dawn of the Dead 1978
5) A tie between Friday the 13th series and A Nightmare on Elm Street 1-3

Others that would break the list include:
The Untouchables
Jaws
Christine
Die Hard 1-4
Fight Club
Black Christmas
Rocky 1-4
The Shining

Ahhhhhhhh, too long of a list!

More favorites:

Up the Academy
Airplane!
48 Hours and Another 48 Hours
Taken
The Longest Yard (Both versions)
Back to the Future Trilogy
Slap Shot

I thought that "New Nightmare" was an interesting and original twist on the horror genre.

Slap shot was awesome, Hanson Brothers rule!! lol

One i cant believe I forgot was Rocky. Wasn't a big fan of the others but the original is a true classic.

I agree about New Nightmare made in the nineties. That was really unique how Craven made that film. I especially loved it that Robert Englund played himself in the movie. That was different but it worked very well. Actually come to think of it, I don't own that one, I should get it.

I'm probably the only one in America who watched the entire "Police Acadamy" collection. It was fun, though.

Personally I'm waiting for the American Pie Nursing Home sequel ................

Jaws

Slap Shot

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Shawshank Redemption

Goodfellas

Not in any order:

Indiana Jones & The Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Sting
Bull Durham
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Breakfast Club

Geez, that was pretty difficult ...