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Favorite All-Time Movies...

Classic Film Favorites:
The Kid
The Gold Rush
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921 version)
Casablanca
The African Queen
It Happened One Night
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Thin Man (series)
Ball of Fire
Meet John Doe
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
The Westerner
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Rear Window
North By Northwest
Doctor Zhivago


More Recent Films:
The English Patient
Out of Africa
Amadeus
Apocalypse Now
Remains of the Day
The Hunt for Red October
The Shawshank Redemption
The Breakfast Club
Notting Hill
About a Boy
Reality Bites
Girl, Interrupted
 
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Star Trek (2009)
The Lord of the Rings
Avatar
Pan's Labyrinth
The Orphanage
Adaptation
The Prestige
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
Alien
Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince Part I
The Descent
28 Days Later
Zodiac
Amelie
500 Days of Summer
 
Ask me tomorrow and this list might be different:

Alien
Star Trek II: TWOK
To Catch a Thief
Fletch
Field of Dreams
When Harry Met Sally
Silverado
The Great Escape
The Hunt for Red October
Major League
 
Ooh, fun topic:)

In no particular order
The Sound of Music
Return of the Jedi
The Fellowship of the Ring
Mary Poppins
Persuasion
Bend It Like Beckham
Much Ado About Nothing
Star Trek IV
Star Trek (2009)
The Cutting Edge
Sleepless in Seattle
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Sleeping Beauty
 
These are, in no particular order, films that I stop and watch every time if I am clicking around the dial so I guess this makes them my "favorites":

  • A Few Good Men
    Stalag 17
    Goodfellas
    the Blues Brothers
    Caddyshack
    Animal House
    the Caine Muntiny
    Anatomy of a Murder
    the FBI Story
    Dirty Harry
    High Plains Drifter
    Superman
 
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
Cinema Paradiso
The Third Man
My Favorite Year
Lawrence of Arabia
Rear Window
The Birds
The Red Violin
Star Wars
Lord of the Rings
Love, Actually
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The English Patient
The Constant Gardener
It's a Wonderful Life
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Great Escape
 
I'll restrict myself to a Top 20 -

Singin' in the Rain
Duck Soup
Field of Dreams
The Bishop's Wife
Broadcast News
Grosse Pointe Blank
LA Confidential
The Insider
Star Trek (09)
Annie Hall
Jaws
Goldfinger
Superman
The Incredibles
Silverado
North by Northwest
Thirteen Days
Galaxy Quest
A Night at the Opera
Groundhog Day
 
The Star Trek series (all 11)
The Star Wars series (all 6)
The Indiana Jones series (all 4)
Independence Day
Corvette Summer (hey, I liked it)
The Time Machine (1960)
The Superman series (all of them, even 3 and Returns)
The Batman series (yes, all six)
Galaxy Quest
Sapceballs
SpaceCamp
 
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Tombstone
Lonesome Dove
Planet of the Apes (1968)
It's A Wonderful Life
Uncle Buck
Doc Hollywood
Keeping the Faith
Crimson Tide
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Rio Bravo
Nobody's Fool
 
In alpha order...
The Adjustment Bureau
Avatar
The Bourne Ultimatum
Casino Royale
Dark Knight
Despicable Me
Gran Torino
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Run, Fatboy, Run
Star Trek
Star Trek VI
Yes Man
 
Casablanca
The Hunt for Red October
The Great Escape
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Rear Window
M
Fargo
The Empire Strikes Back
Duck Soup
Before Sunrise
 
Boondock Saints/Boondock Saints: All Saints Day
Apollo 13
The Garden of Sinners (movie series aka: Kara no Kyoukai)
Inception
Paprika (2006)
Jurassic Park
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Bourne Identity/Supremacy/Ultimatum
Batman Begins/The Dark Knight
Perfect Blue
Transformers: The Movie (1987)
V For Vendetta
Star Wars Trilogies
Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2
The Fugitive
Sword of the Stranger
Shawshank Redemption
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Summer Wars
 
Number one of all-time:

THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER

And the next nine:

Predator
Alien
War of The Worlds (George Pal version)
The Empire Strikes Back
Action In the North Atlantic
The Enemy Below
Run Silent, Run Deep
Gray Lady Down
Transformers (first Mike Bay one)


Hmm. I detect a theme here. "Dive, dive!"

But where is Crimson Tide?

or Das Boot?

Mine are variable but generally, when asked, :


The Lion In Winter
Blazing Saddles
Beverly Hills Cop-(I just can't pass it when flipping through)
Pretty Woman
The Incredibles (or maybe Wall E, let's flip a coin)
The Longest Day
Silverado
Christmas Carol-Alistair Sims in the original B&W
Hackers
Jesus Christ, Superstar
Across the Universe
Shawshank Redemption
Patton
Chaplin
The Sting
Star Wars
The Breakfast Club
STWOK
Close Encounters
The Matrix
Butch Cassidy ("Who are those guys?")
The Blues Brothers
The World According to Garp
The Big Chill
Major League
Citizen Kane
 
Back to the Future
Dirty Harry
Star Trek (2009)
The Fifth Element
The Dark Knight. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Baby's day out
Titanic
 
In no particular order...

  • The Right Stuff
  • The Quiet Man
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • All the President's Men
  • Lord of the Rings trilogy
  • Gettysburg
  • Cars
  • A Few Good Men
  • Superman
  • Love Actually
  • Shaft (1971)
  • Toy Story 3
  • Field of Dreams
  • McLintock!
  • Shoes of the Fisherman
  • The Godfather trilogy (yes, even Part III)
 
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