Favorite Movies of all time

[M.D. Rawlings]

In no particular order. . . .

The Shawshank Redemption
The Sound of Music
Godfather Part 1
Godfather Part II
It’s a Wonderful Life
Shadow of a Doubt
His Girl Friday
Titanic (1997)
Vertigo
Rear Window
Forrest Gump
Holliday
Shane
Saving Private Ryan
The Searchers
North by Northwest
Rebecca
Bringing Up Baby
Mary Poplins
The African Queen
The Maltese Falcon
The Philadelphia Story
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Shop Around the Corner
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Beauty and the Beast - Disney
Arsenic and Old Lace
Star Wars
Red River
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Casablanca
Chinatown
Finding Nemo
The Quite Man
Monsters, Inc.
Some Like it Hot
Sunset Blvd.
Double Indemnity
Citizen Kane
The Gold Rush
The Night of the Hunter
The Third Man
The Passion of the Christ
The General
Gone with the Wind
Notorious
City Lights
The Great Dictator
Modern Times
The Kid
Fantasia
Enchanted
Tombstone
Sullivan’s Travels
The Bourne Trilogy
Casino Royale
Dr. Strangelove
To Kill a Mockingbird
L.A. Confidential
The Big Country
The Silence of the Lambs
Children of Men
Fargo
Batman: The Dark Knight
The Circus
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
As Good as It Gets
Schindler’s List
The Out of Towners (1970)
The Right Stuff
Amadeus
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The Red Shoes
Alien
Blade Runner
Twelve Monkeys
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Best Years of our Lives
Lonesome Dove
Wyatt Earp
The Usual Suspects

 

[boedicca]

A lot of excellent movies on that list. I'm going to add a few more:

All About Eve
Meet Me in St. Louis
Laura
All That Heaven Allows
Imitation of Life
Magnificent Obsession
Written on the Wind
Giant
The 10 Commandments
Ben Hur

 

[M.D. Rawlings]

A lot of excellent movies on that list. I'm going to add a few more:

All About Eve
Meet Me in St. Louis
Laura
All That Heaven Allows
Imitation of Life
Magnificent Obsession
Written on the Wind
Giant
The 10 Commandments
Ben Hur

Great choices. Now that list demonstrates experience with great film. I actually own all of those titles as well, except Magnificent Obsession. I've read about it. Thanks for reminding me about it. I keep meaning to get around to it.

I'm a huge fan of the screwball comedies of the classic era as you can probably tell from the list, which are what I've been watching again in recent weeks. These are the truly great comedy films. I keep wishing Hollywood would dare to do them again. Today's comedies are trashy, vulgar, juvenile pranks and dialogue. Great screwball is sophisticated, lightening fast dialogue and light, quirky romance, sprinkled with real drama that ends with a triumphant smile.

But of course one of the reasons Hollywood doesn't do them anymore is that they work best when the female lead is dominate in some sense at the beginning of the film, though not because the male lead is weak. He's the solid, salt-of-the-earth anchor that she needs and adores. She's just an adorable eccentric, full of personality and fire. She drives him slightly bonkers with her antics before he takes control of her and the situation and eventually becomes the dominate, protectively indulgent partner toward the end. Typically, he's the forceful, but button-downed professional whom she transforms to some extent by her zest for life.

Feminism sort of gets in the way.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

I have a lot of favorites, but for me, it all comes down to the film named Lifted starring Uriah Shelton and Dash Mihok.

God bless you and them always!!!

Holly

 

[2aguy]

Star Wars....saw it in the old days when if you missed it at the theater....that was it...you didn't have another shot till it came out years later and played on ABC on a Sunday night...with commercials...

Han shot first....

Also...Raiders of the Lost Ark...

-Braveheart
-Blood of Heroes
-Ladyhawke
-The Verdict
-Slapshot
-the Godfather
-Halloween
-The Excorcist
-Return of the Living Dead...great and funny, and sad movie....

I love movies......great thread.....

The Challenge, with Scott Glen and Toshiro Mifune

 

[Billo_Really]

I didn't see Baseketball on that list.

 

[Billo_Really]

I didn't see Mel Gibson's best movie on that list.

 

[2aguy]

hmmmm...something tells me you won't see Baseketball on my list....

You will find

-Idiocracy
-Robin Hood...the Errol Flynn version....
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight...

 

[2aguy]

I liked Payback....but Braveheart was just incredible....

Oh speaking of romantic movies....

-The Terminator...
-Ladyhawk...I know...on my first list but it is a romance too
-Braveheart...ditto...

 

[Billo_Really]

Or the greatest movie of all time.

 

[Billo_Really]

I liked Payback....but Braveheart was just incredible....

Oh speaking of romantic movies....

-The Terminator...
-Ladyhawk...I know...on my first list but it is a romance too
-Braveheart...ditto...

You need to change your fuckin' user name, stalker.

 

[2aguy]

Great scene...

-Django
-Ingorious Bastards
-Reservoir Dogs

-one of the best scenes......from True Romance....the interrogation of Dennis Hopper...one of my all time favorite scenes

 

[2aguy]

I liked Payback....but Braveheart was just incredible....

Oh speaking of romantic movies....

-The Terminator...
-Ladyhawk...I know...on my first list but it is a romance too
-Braveheart...ditto...

You need to change your fuckin' user name, stalker.

I can't help what others call their threads.....

 

[Billo_Really]

I can't help what others call their threads.....

I'm not talking about threads, I'm talking about your user name, billc.

At first glance, people think you're me and that's just wrong.

 

[Billo_Really]

Great scene...

-Django
-Ingorious Bastards
-Reservoir Dogs

-one of the best scenes......from True Romance....the interrogation of Dennis Hopper...one of my all time favorite scenes

Inglorious Bastards was pretty good. I haven't seen Django yet. Liked Reservoir Dogs. That was one of his early ones. Like Planet Terror.

 

[2aguy]

Well...in a friendly tone.....how do they mistake you for me....I'm Billc...you are Billo_really....do you want to stay friendly....and talk movies?

 

[2aguy]

Another classic scene...from Reservoir Dogs....Michael Madsen dancing to Stealers Wheels...with the cop.....

 

[Billo_Really]

Well...in a friendly tone.....how do they mistake you for me....I'm Billc...you are Billo_really....do you want to stay friendly....and talk movies?

I'm just fuckin' with ya!

Anyone who likes Tarantino, is cool in my book.

 

[2aguy]

Great...I wasn't sure what you were doing there.....

Django was good...Christof Waltz was great...a very likeable Character this time....the violence was great too....and you know...Tarantino really gets great scenes out of the B-listers in his movies....they deserve more credit for the work they do...Big Daddy was good in the role....

 

[Billo_Really]

Another classic scene...from Reservoir Dogs....Michael Madsen dancing to Stealers Wheels...with the cop.....

So is this one.