Your all time ten best movies.

Some movies we watch just once and others we purchase the DVD and watch over and over. It would be interesting on what all of you think are your ten best movies of all time. Here are ours. We take them when traveling in the WC.

1. The quiet man
2. My cousin Vinney
3. Gone with the wind
4. Red River
5. A few good men
6. Blast from the past
7. Overboard
8. It happened one night
9. It's a mad mad mad world
10. A tie between Greedy and Miracle on 34th street "1947 version".

Here's my favorites

The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
The Wizard of Oz
2001 A Space Odyssey
Miracle on 34^th Street (the one with Natalie Wood as the little girl.)
Forrest Gump
Lawrence of Arabia
Star Trek The Wrath of Kahn
You’ve Got Mail

Not necessarily in the following order.

1. Forrest Gump
2. Pretty Woman
3. Dirty Dancing
4. White Christmas
5. Independence Day
6. Ocean's Eleven (the original with the "rat pack")
7. The Long Long Trailer
8. Singing in the Rain
9. Viva Las Vegas
10. Pelican Brief

Here are mine :
Slapshot
Blazing Saddles
Grand Torino
Porkeys
The Great Excape
The Hellfighters
Backdraft
Ladder 49
Bullett
The Towering Inferno

Here are mine: no special order
Taking Chance HBO 2009 dir Ross Katz ( with Kevin Bacon a must see movie )
The World's Fastest Indian 2005 dir Roger Donaldson
Shane 1953 dir G Stevens
Braveheart 1995 dir Mel Gibson
Birth Of A Nation 1915 dir D.W. Griffith
The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 dir David Lean
The Grapes of Wrath 1940 dir John Ford
Rebel Without a Cause 1955 dir Nicholas Ray
The Hustler 1961 dir Robert Ressen
Schindler's List 1993 dir Steven Spielburg
American Graffiti 1973 dir Gro. Lucas

When you see other people's list you see movies you forgot that you liked ,too

My top 10 movies in no certain order
The Longest Day
Thunder Road
Saving Pvt Ryan
Man From Snowy River
Midway
Band of Brothers
Back Draft
Ladder 49
Bullett
PT 109

His Gal Friday
North By Northwest
Red River
They Were Expendable
Winged Victory
The Star Wars Series (all 6)
Star Trek (The Wrath of Kahn & The Long Voyage Home)
Smokey and The Bandit (gotta love Jackie Gleason)
Red Dawn
Entrapment (or anything with Sir Sean)
Dances With Wolves (OK, OK I know this is # 11. So I got carried away)

That's ok Mike I think my list keeps get longer everytime I see someone else's list. Maybe it should be the top 100 Jim

Ohhhhhhhh. Cary Grant.

I'd like to add
11. Philadelphia Story
12. High Society

Same story, different actors - I like both versions

13. It Happened One Night
14. You Can't Run Away From It

Same story, different actors - I like both versions

15. Irma Le Duce

Okay - that's it for me.

Until next time lol

1. Jeremiah Johnson
2. Blazing Saddles
3. Pale Rider
4. Open Range
5. Monte Walsh
6. True Grit
7. The Sacketts
8. Paint Your Wagon
9. Lonesome Dove
10. Dances with Wolves

Honorable mention:

The Green Mile
Full Metal Jacket
Driving Miss Daisy
A Fish Called Wanda
Planes Trains & Automobiles
Sleepless In Seattle

TC

1. Pork Chop Hill
2. Midway
3. The Quiet Man
4. The Great Excape
5. Shane
6. Bullett
7. Band Of Brothers
8. Lomesome Dove
9. Forrest Gump
10. Red River

I have several favorites, too many to list, but these are some that I never tire of watching no matter how many times I've seen it.

Casablanca
Red River
Secondhand Lions
Its a Wonderful Life
Shane
Stagecoach
Lonesome Dove
As Good as it Gets
Open Range
The Notebook

and,
Where the Red Fern Grows
El Dorado
Pay it Forward

One could go on and on. Everyone else's lists bring back many, many memories of many, many more. Good viewing to all.

Oh yes, Second Hand Lions. That's another of my favorites that I can watch over and over.

Avatar, blows star wars out of the water to me.
Saving prv ryan
cool hand luke
one flew over the cookoo's nest
reservor dogs
Easy Rider
apocolyps now, spell check
goodfella's
Oh brother where art thou
serpico

I'm not much of a movie guy, but there are a few
1) Arthur
2) Animal House
3) The Good the Bad and The Ugly

Sound of Music
Fiddler on the Roof
In Harms Way
Lonesome Dove
Open Range
Braveheart
Apollo 13
Sleepless Seattle
Band of Brothers
Ken Burns national parks & civil war series
Tender Mercies
We Were Soldiers

Most Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise, Robert Duval movies

Has Robert Duvall EVER made a bad movie?

I happened to catch a Twilight Zone episode that had him in it back when he was a pup. He was good way back when!

TC

TC wrote:Has Robert Duvall EVER made a bad movie?

I happened to catch a Twilight Zone episode that had him in it back when he was a pup. He was good way back when!

TC

I seen that episode just a few weeks ago! He's one of my favorite actors as well.

Some of my Fav's

1 The Unforgiven - My absolute favorite!
2 Shawshank Redemption
3 Escape from Alcatraz
4 Wyatt Earp
5 The Mummy
6 Open Range
7 The Count of Monte Cristo
8 Deliverance
9 Blazing Saddles
10River Runs Through It

Many many more!

How about the all time car wrecking movie:
The Blues Brothers

Is the reason the movie RV is not on the list because it reminds us of the misgivens the some or most or all of us have over the years.

No one has mentioned any of my favorites..

Ace Venture - Pet Detective.
Dumb and Dumber
Office Space
Back to the Future Trilogy
Indiana Jones Trilogy (haven't seen the recent one)
The Goonies
Austin Powers
Pulp Fiction
Meet the Fockers
Gran Torino
The Fugitive

You can tell when I grew up....or not

1) caddyshack
2) stripes
3) pale rider
4) tombstone
5) slapshot
6) smokey and the bandit
7) joe dirt
dumb and dumber
9) christmas vacation
10) two mules for sister sara

There are plenty more but those movies seem to stick in my mind when I thought of it. I love the stupid no thinking humor. John Candy and Chris Farley movies are at the top of the list also.

TC wrote:Has Robert Duvall EVER made a bad movie? TC

Nope, not in my opinion.

scottz wrote:

TC wrote:Has Robert Duvall EVER made a bad movie? TC

Nope, not in my opinion.

I agree,, also never seen a bad film with Glenn Ford. Of course

Clark Gable
Jim Stewart
James Cagney
John Wayne
Robert Mitchum
Gregory Peck
all were movie giants.

Maxtor wrote:

scottz wrote:

TC wrote:Has Robert Duvall EVER made a bad movie? TC

Nope, not in my opinion.

I agree,, also never seen a bad film with Glenn Ford. Of course

Clark Gable
Jim Stewart
James Cagney
John Wayne
Robert Mitchum
Gregory Peck
all were movie giants.

Good call; many of my favorites.

Definitely some of the best.

Let's not forget the great actresses -
Kathryn Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn
Debora Kerr
Elizabeth Taylor
Angela Lansbury
Lucille Ball
Natalie Wood
Claudette Colbert
Grace Kelly
Ginger Rogers

Scruffy and Tater wrote:Definitely some of the best.

Let's not forget the great actresses -
Kathryn Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn
Debora Kerr
Elizabeth Taylor
Angela Lansbury
Lucille Ball
Natalie Wood
Claudette Colbert
Grace Kelly
Ginger Rogers

You forgot
Gina Lollobrigida
Raquel Welsh
Dolly Pardon
Jane Mansfield

If U'all missed any actresses. You check this list:
http://www.cinemateca.org/people/film_actors_female.htm

Maxtor wrote:

Scruffy and Tater wrote:Definitely some of the best.

Let's not forget the great actresses -
Kathryn Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn
Debora Kerr
Elizabeth Taylor
Angela Lansbury
Lucille Ball
Natalie Wood
Claudette Colbert
Grace Kelly
Ginger Rogers

You forgot
Gina Lollobrigida
Raquel Welsh
Dolly Pardon
Jane Mansfield

I have to add Mae West to Maxor's list.