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Last year I put together a list of my favorite 50 movies of all-time (in order). OK I went over.

I'll bet some of these are your favorites too.

What did I miss?

Rank Title

1 Animal House
2 Caddyshack
3 Die Hard
4 Stalag 17
5 A Christmas Story
6 Christmas Vacation
7 Star Wars
8 Raiders of the Lost Ark
9 Home Alone
10 Trekkies
11 The Rocky Horror Picture Show
12 Star Trek IV
13 Groundhog Day
14 Jesus Christ Superstar
15 Star Wars II The Empire Strikes Back
16 Miracle On 34th Street
17 Trading Places
18 Usual Suspects
19 Planes, Trains & Automobiles
20 Sixth Sense
21 Airplane!
22 Blazing Saddles
23 The Terminator
24 Rat Race
25 Die Hard II
26 It's a Wonderful Life
27 Almost Heroes
28 Office Space
29 Space Balls
30 UHF
31 The Jerk
32 Blues Brothers
33 Pulp Fiction
34 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat
35 Ferris Bueller's Day Off
36 The Warriors
37 Romancing the Stone
38 Major League
39 Major League II
40 Angels in the Outfield
41 Princess Bride
42 Funny Farm
43 Lethal Weapon
44 Meatballs
45 A Very Brady Sequel
46 Airplane II
47 Hunt for the Red October
48 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence
49 Shawshank Redemption
50 No Country for Old Men
51 Christmas in Connecticut
52 Easy Money
53 Back to School
54 9 to 5
55 The Wizard Of Oz
56 Austin Powers in Gold Member
57 Moonraker
58 Back To The Future
59 Revenge of the Nerds
60 Visa Versa

Other top 100 movies:

Couch Trip
Castaway
Brewster's Millions
The Producers
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas
Return of the Jedi
Ruthless People
Vacation
Vegas Vacation
Police Squad
Hot Shots
Down Periscope
Up in Smoke
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
The Spy Who Loved Me
Weekend at Bernie's
Ghostbusters
Shallow Hal
It' a Mad, Mad, Mad World
Enemy Below
Beetlejuice
Men in Black
The Fugitive
The Comebacks
Oh, God!
Jingle All the Way
The Santa Clause
Cannonball Run
Victor Victoria
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Fortune Cookie
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Scar Face

The Godfather Triology

Good list. I've been on a more mainstream kick with movies lately.

Some faves:

The Manchurian Candidate
The Accidental Tourist
The Great Santini
Fargo
The Godfather / Godfather II
The Patriot

Just for starters ...

Amazons on the Moon

Forrest Gump
Kingpin
Jaws
Anything with Pacino
As Good as it Gets

Then who would protect the rain forests?

Actually I screwed the title up .....

It is "Amazon Women on the Moon". Great movie.

Here's my top five.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. The Blues Brothers
3. Into The Wild
4. Batman Begins
5. Mary Poppins

This is my top five today. It may be different tomorrow.

1. To Kill a Mockingbird (Atticus Finch is my hero!)
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Unforgiven
4. Casablanca
5. The Fifth Element

Also among my top 100

How could you possibly forget:

This is probably my fav movie if not one of my top three ever:



(No Country for Old Men, just in case you never saw it.)

I also loved - believe it or not - Schindler's List. If a movie can make me cry then it's got me.

As far as my favorite comedies go, I would have to pick either The Jerk or Napoleon Dynamite. (If you saw Napoleon Dynamite and didn't find it funny, you probably weren't picked on in school.)

I liked this movie a lot, but it wasn't even my favorite of the year. There Will Be Blood took that one.

Yes, There Will Be Blood was great too. Expertly acted.

-Time for a nap.

These are in no particular order... Just the best of the best, for me.

The Dark Knight Trilogy
No Country for Old Men
Predator
Jaws
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Goodfellas
The Shawshank Redemption
Seven (sometimes known as Se7en)
American Beauty
Major League
Slap Shot
Animal House
Caddyshack
Guardians of the Galaxy
Dumb and Dumber
The Lion King
L.A. Confidential
Dirty Harry
The 40 Year Old Virgin
BASEketball
A Christmas Story
Clerks
Mallrats
Indiana Jones Trilogy (not including that awful 4th one)
Die Hard
Ghostbusters
The Blues Brothers
Iron Eagle
Hackers
The Matrix
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Miracle
Good Will Hunting
Top Gun



Also, pretty much any movie involving Jason Voorhees, outside of Jason X.

I have a feeling Fury Road will be added to this list very soon.

Yes, Spergon FTWynn, when Jaws originally came out it freakin' excellent! I was a young kid then, saw it in the theater. God was it fun/scary/exciting to watch!

Best all-time scary movie? The Exorcist.



I saw parts of it when I was a kid and probably shouldn't had, as it really freaked me out at the time.

Christmas Carol/Scrooge compliation personal fav 1951 Allister Sim as Ebonizer Scrooge best version. Others:Wild in the Streets,Starman,Close Encounters,Godfather thrilogy,Home Alone pts1,2,3,War of the Worlds,Planet of the Apes,Grump Old Men,Grumpier Old Men,Greatest Story Ever Told,Jesus of Nazereth,Jesus Christ Superstar,Star Trek series,Mobsters,Dillinger Robin Hood(Kevin Coster),Road House,Crossroards,Ghost.

OH MY GOD!!! IT'S MY EX-WIFE!!

I dunno what it is about that movie, but it did absolutely nothing for me. I just saw it for the first time in the last year.

Can't even blame it on the era, because I consider the 70's a golden era of horror.

I was laughing more than anything when the little was calling her mom names.

and btw, Fury Road goes on my list. Hot damn that movie was awesome. I recommend it to anyone.

sorry the scariest movie ever made is Hellraiser 2... whish they would redo it with better effects.

But the story itself... too believable to me..to close to home, guess that is why it scares me so.

ZULU
The original.

great movie

In no particular order, since my favorites change with my mood, although

CASABLANCA is always #1!

Casablanca
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Pulp Fiction
Niagra (very under rated dramatic performance from Marilyn Monroe)
Love Actually
Some Like It Hot
Miracle on 34th Street (original version only)
It's a Wonderful Life
Life is Beautiful
The Blues Brothers
The Fifth Element
African Queen
North By Northwest
It Happened One Night
Gone With the Wind
His Girl Friday
Philadelphia Story
Philadelphia
Forest Gump
The Bishop's Wife
Monkey Business
Sabrina (both versions, actually)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Charade
On Golden Pond
Woman of the Year
Breakfast Club
Nightmare on Elm Street
The whole Star Wars series
The first THREE Indiana Jones movies (that fourth was freaking dreadful!)
Toy Story (all 3 of them)
Finding Nemo
Aladdin
The Little Mermaid
Brave
Braveheart
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
The Princess Bride
Cars
Rush
E.T.
Ferris Bueller
Ghostbusters
Dead Poet's Society
Godfather Trilogy
Good Morning Vietnam
Scrooged
A Christmas Carol (most versions - but I'm drawn to the George C. Scott and the Patrick Stewart versions most)
Coming to America
Christmas Vacation
Die Hard
Die Hard 2
Big
A Christmas Story
Caddyshack
The Shining
Clue
Goonies

(and there are more, but this is all I can think of right now) LOL!

Right on 40'. Right up there with my all time favorite "Cars"...

Oh, and almost forgot: "Seven Samurai". Black and white with English subtitles ... a true classic!!!

Superman The Movie 1978

The Big Lebowski

Some of my all time favorites:

Saving Private Ryan
The Exorcist
The Descent
Pulp Fiction
The Raid
The Patriot
Ghostbusters 1 and 2
Nightmare on Elm Street
Saw 1
Fury
Platoon
Most Marvel comic movies
We Were Soldiers
Unbroken
The Rock

This is a fantastic thread.

I'm always looking for new movies to check out.

In no real order some of my favorites are as followed....

*Serious films*

The Godfather Part I & II (Not part III for obvious reasons).
Bravehart
Goodfellas
Casino
The Departed
V for Vendetta
The Dark Knight
We Were Soldiers
Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (Excludes The Hobbit series).
The Punisher (2003 w/ Thomas Jane)
Remember The Titans
About Time
Brothers
Nightcrawler
Zodiac
Ex Machina (Great movie, one of the best I've seen in a few years).
Drive (with Ryan Gosling).
Terminator (I & II)
Aliens
The Warriors
Star Wars (All six of them).

*Comedies*

Ghostbusters
Stripes
Walk Hard: The Dewy Cox story
Anchorman (the first one).
Strange Wilderness
Grandmas Boy
Happy Gilmore
Billy Madison
The Waterboy
50 First Dates

*Guilty Pleasure Movies*

Predator
Predator 2
Starship Troopers
Con Air
All of the Avengers movies (Excluding the first Captain America which was an absolute abortion of a movie).

Totally forgot these;
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Both the American and Swedish versions)
The Girl Who Played with Fire
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

The American versions of the last 2 haven't been done yet, although I hear Played with Fire is in the works.

Don't mess with Lisbeth!!

Anyone mention 3 great Christopher Nolan pictures that are not Batman flicks?
1. Memento
2. Insomnia
3. Inception

Also on my list:White Christmas,James Bond compilation,Men in Black i,2,3,Mars Attacks,Dirty Dozen,Major Leagues 1,2,Rankin-Bass Christmas series(Rudolph,Frosty the Snowman,ect),Batman,Wizard of Oz,Having A Wild Weekend (Brit title Catch Us If You Can),Dances With Wolves.

All three are VERY solid movies SuperBrown.

Also add Wayne's World 1a & 2 which copied events that happened in my life,residence Aurora,oh vs Aurora,Il and Garth's look alike resemblance and more.

don't forget The Prestige.

Nolan is the best director going right now.

These are movies I'll watch anytime, every time:

The Shawshank Redemption

Lord of the Rings trilogy

Jurassic Park 1

A Boy and His Dog (starring a young, YOUNG Don Johnson. Based on the writings of Harlan Ellison, one of my faves)

A Clockwork Orange

Marathon Man

Bird (directed by Clint Eastwood, a loose biopic about the life of Charlie "Bird" Parker, legendary Jazz saxophonist)

Mo' Better Blues (Love seeing Denzel W play a totally flawed character)

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NOTE: I can't treat this like a "favorites" list. My brain no longer works that way. This is the list I can come up with RIGHT NOW.

Tomorrow, that list will be different.

Hellraiser 2 was awesome! I even saw it twice, a while back.

Caught the last half of Field of Dreams last night on TV ... one of my favorite sports movies of all time. If you don't cry at the end of the movie I'm impressed.

They're remaking the original Hellraiser and rumors has it that Clive Barker himself is heading up production.

JMO but none of the several Hellraisers were scary. Hellraiser 2 was by far the best outta the series.

Scariest movie ever... hmmm! For me I'd have to say Steven King's It or Exorcist or Grave Encounters. Grave Encounters was freaky!

I'm kind of tired of remakes of old horror movies.

I saw the Poltergeist remake over the holiday weekend and it was AWFUL.

A couple of horror movies I really enjoyed recently for those interested....

As above, so below -- Very creepy and intense found footage movie. The acting, suspense and production value is solid enough to keep you engaged, and the main plot and back story is actually really interesting. You'll find yourself really interested by the middle of the movie.

It Follows -- This movie doesn't go for cheap scares. It has a very retro 80's style feel to it. It's more of a creepy and grotesque kind of story with very eerie music, cinematography and disturbing images. The acting and dialogue is kind of sub-par, but overall it's a very high quality horror movie. It's different, which is good.

Insidious -- Cheap scare ghost story, but done really well in my opinion. The second one wasn't nearly as good.

Grave Encounters -- Found footage style movie. I thought it was really creep with a handful of tense moments and good scares. I'm sure those of you who have seen this will differ in opinion. They made a sequel, it wasn't very good.