Favorite Movies

[Jim Craik]

On this Fourth of July weekend, alot of folks go the the movies.

I was talking to Frances about our favorite movies.............

Here is a list of some of my all time favorites, in no particular order.

Dr. Strangelove
Three Days of The Condor
Grand Prix
Catch 22
Field of Dreams
The Last Waltz
The Italian Job
High Noon
Breakfast at TiffanyS
Broadcast News
Groundhog Day

 

[tom pritchett]

Back to the future
Second hand lions
Lemans
The great escape

 

[Pat Buckley]

Long Gone
Texas Across the River
Something About Mary
Dr Zhivago
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

 

[Rick Muck- Mark IV]

Slob movies...

Blues Brothers
Animal House
Caddyshack
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
Airplane
Ghostbusters
Coming to America


Others....

Silent Running
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Star Wars (episode IV)
Goodfellas
Bullitt
Jaws
2001
Band of Brothers (relative depicted in series)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

 

[Mesa]

Band of Brothers (very well made but, so sobering i've only been able to watch it once)
Grand Prix
Lemans
Braveheart
My Cousin Vinny ("Duh Two Yutes")
The Incredibles
Men in Black I

I don't buy movies as a rule. But I own all but the last one on this list.

 

[Jimmy P]

Godfather 1 & 2 (what the hell happened in 3!?)
Lemans with the sound WAY UP for the start of the race.
Goodfellas
Grand Prix....fantastic car shots
Saving Private Ryan
My Cousin Vinnie (I can just about quote it line for line)
Das Boot (a real submarine war movie)
Roman Holiday (for the ladies) .....

 

[Doc Kaler]

Raising Arizona
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Galaxy Quest
There's Something About Mary
Saving Private Ryan
Lawrence of Arabia
Aliens series
Predator
Platoon

 

[Mesa]

I forgot about Galaxy Quest! "Ohhhh ... that's not rigghhtt"

 

[Jim Craik]

Jimmy,

I had forgotten about Roman Holiday, great flick. It was Audry Hepburns first movie. Gregory Peck told the producers to put Ms Hepburns name above the title...........

The producer said that nobody knows her, its her first movie, we cant put her name above the title.

Mr Peck said "she will win the Acadamy Award and I'll look like a jerk".

They put her name above the title and she won the award!

Speaking of Ms Hepburn.....
***Wait Until Dark***, one of the all time scarry movies!

 

[Rick Muck- Mark IV]

Raising Arizona

"But my seed could find no purchase..." Nicolas Cage before he became a running joke.

 

[Rick Muck- Mark IV]

Bridge on the River Kwai
Tommy Boy
Happy Gilmore and Big Daddy-the only Adam Sandler movies I liked
Princess Bride ("Inconceivable!", "I'm not sure you understand the meaning of the word")
Godfather
Open Range -Duval plays it very well
The Cowboys -Bruce Dern is great as the bad guy
The Shootist -John Wayne hangs 'em up the hard way
Cannonball Run -movie sucks but Jack Elam is worth the watch just for his hypodermic injection scene!
Stripes -"BLOWED UP SIR!!!!"
The Great Escape -Steve McCool
The Road to Perdition -although the graphic novel is better...
Cool Hand Luke -Paul Newman singing "Plastic Jesus"

 

[Jim Craik]

If I had to pick my favor movie of all time, I would have to say Dr Strangelove.

Stanley Kubrik's masterpiece.

I had not seen it for probably 20 years, a few years back a friend was visiting and he had not seen it. So we pulled out the old VHS tape.....

Fabulous!

It was even better now, great "Black Comedy".


Whenever folks do the "Top 10 Movies of all time" the doctor does well, often wins.

You guys need to watch this one.

 

[Rick Muck- Mark IV]

If I had to pick my favor movie of all time, I would have to say Dr Strangelove.

Stanley Kubrik's masterpiece.

I had not seen for probably 20 years, a few years back a friend was visiting and he had not seen it. So we pulled out the old VHS tape.....

Fabulous!

It was even better now, great "Black Comedy".


Whenever folks do the "Top 10 Movies of all time" the doctor does well, often wins.

You guys need to watch this one.

"Precious bodily fluids"

 

[Jim Craik]

Purity of essence.......

George C Scott, Sterling Haden, Peter Sellers, James Earl Jones, and of course my favorite Slim Pickens, fabulous.

 

[Randy V]

I'm a movie lover and could go on for days here - but here are some of the usual suspects;

The secret life of Walter Mitty (1947 Danny Kaye)
Failsafe (1964 Henry Fonda)
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 Jimmy Stewart)
The Blue Max (1965 George Peppard)
Lemans - (while not a great story - the cars, sounds and action are very moving)
Grand Prix - (see above)
2001 A Space Odyssey
Superman the movie (Chris Reeves 1st)
Star Trek the movie
Days of Thunder (based in fact - great camera work - stolen story line)
Top Gun (Action second to none - Story line re-cycled in DOT above)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Cocoon (Ron Howard film)
Batteries Not Included
Bullit
The Great Escape
Cool Hand Luke
The Lively Set (has Chrysler turbine car in it)

 

[Dalton Veitch]

I love lots of the above.
I also really enjoyed the old "A Man and a Woman", which has a GT40 in it, but irrespective of that I enjoy the evocative music, the atmosphere, etc. Memorable.

 

[Nick]

Also like lots of the above,

Lawrence of Arabia

Doc just the first few minutes for the Brough Superior but then I'm biased.




Favorite film of all time, watch it every Christmas Eve

It's a Wonderful Life - (because we need more George Bailey's he reminds me of my Dad)

"Remember George no Man is a failure who has friends"

 

[Mike Christian]

Monty Python's Holy Grail
Princess Bride

 

[Jim Rosenthal]

Rear Window. Grace Kelly with all her clothes ON is sexier than most actresses with all of them off.....

 

[Jim Craik]

Ah yes,

Grace Kelly & Gary Cooper in High Noon...........what a great flick!