What're your personal all time favorites?

Some of mine, starting with the one I liked for the longest time -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vdfidy_d2k

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G86I_tp8Z6g (nice title song from it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bcD5Oydujo

and another real favorite movie -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b70dRx2ZlG4

I'm all-in for Clint Eastwood movies; Josey Wales, Pale Rider, and maybe my all-time favorite, Dirty Harry. Particularly where he basically points the 44 Mag at an orifice and tells them to cough.

Shane, and the Kilmer/Russell version of Tombstone are in the top three.

Animal House, MacArthut and Patton

One thing hardly anyone knows about Thunder Road is, it was based on a true event. A moonshiner ran off the road in Knoxville and was killed. Robert Mitchum heard about it and it gave him the idea.

Regarding Emperor Of The North, here's some more of the sound track - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ9KjVc-ui8. It's the part where A-No.1 teaches Kid Cigarette how to stop a passenger train by greasing the rails so they can bum a ride. The Kid first finds him relaxing in the town dump and I rather like A-No.1's comment, "Kid, like I was telling you, there was a day when the dump had class...my God, how the trash in this country has gone to Hell..."

That film was loaded with humor, great scenery and acting, realistic railroad action and also the most violent fight scene bar none. But, it's always been notoriously hard to find a video of it, and unfortunately many were turned off by its opening over the top graphic scene...where that hobo was cut in half after he went under a train (actually in real life I saw something similar to that a long, long time ago).

Anywho, other favorite films, by genre -

Gangster flicks - Goodfellas
Cop movies - Dillinger (with Ben Johnson - in my younger days that movie served as partial inspiration for applying for a job with the FBI)
War movies - Battleground and Pursuit Of The Graf Spee (no phony Hollywood heroics in either)
Spy movies (based on real events) - Operation Cicero (aka Five Fingers) and The Man Who Never Was
Spy movies (fictional) - all the early James Bond up to and including Diamonds Are Forever, but only those with Sean. I never cared for that "other guy".
Clint Eastwood - Pink Cadillac and Bronco Billy
John Wayne - The Quiet Man and The Shepherd Of The Hills and Searchers

Made for TV series - Breaking Bad (imo the best thing on TV in recent years, bar none) and BB favorite episodes - "Fly" and "Faceoff" and "Full Measures". Here's my favorite song from it - http://www.bing.com/videos/sea...3FADFAD2A1934EF5BA9B. Well, OK, just one more. It's the Los Pollos Hermanos commercial - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJYUs2UH0SM

Sometimes a Great Notion...

Doesn't get any better than Jan Reno in "The Professional" an army of one stands up to overwhelming odds. Lots of gore but also a love story.....r in w.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...on:_The_Professional

Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption.

Quigley Down Under.

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Originally posted by Gatogordo:
Quigley Down Under.

+1!!

Agreed with Idaho, Tombstone is up there.
Smokin' Aces was pretty decent, same with Rambo series. The Expendables was pretty great as well. My favorite movie though, bar none, of all time and at any time was Airplane!

Open Range

It's been at least 10 years since I've bothered to go to a movie, so I'm not very good at remembering titles. In the old days I saw a LOT of movies (I had two buddies from high school who ended up owning/managing movie theaters, and I always got in free).

So here's my shot at it.

Westerns..."Treasure of the Sierra Madre", "The Magnificent 7", and whichever one it was that kept almost continuously playing Delegueño in it.

War movies... "Wake Island", and just about anything starring John Wayne. Oh, and "Zulu" made in more modern times.

Crime movies...one where a couple of guys tried to break out of Alcatraz which ended with one of them on the front of a laundry miniature rail cart being machine-gunned, and several of the jimmy Cagney movies of the "I'm not going to the 'Chair', so you're not taking me alive"-genre.

TV series...the whole "Victory at Sea" run.

Here's another vote for Tombstone.

And my second-favorite movie also stars Val Kilmer: The Ghost and the Darkness.

Those are the only two movies I can watch again and again.

Well, except for the B&W adaptation of Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber:The Macomber Affair

Hey Canuck,

That was Rio Bravo with John Wayne, Dean Martin,
Rick Nelson, and Angie(YOWZA!!)Dickinson.

In order:

John Wayne:

The Searchers/The Quiet Man/She Wore A Yellow Ribbon/McClintock.

Clint Eastwood:

Outlaw Josey Wales

Robert Redford:

Jeremiah Johnson

Mel Brooks:

Blazing Saddles

TGTBATU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nEULLfAed0

Quigley Down Under,12 O'clock High,Stalag 17,Memphis Belle,The man who shot Liberty Valence,The Shootist.That is only the icebergs tip.

The Big Lebowski, Apocalypse Now, Talladega Nights, and Wedding Crashers.

I like to laugh and I like the idea of not being beholden to The Man. I appreciate it's not even close to real but then again, our involvement in Vietnam seems hardly truthful. I like to laugh and NASCAR is retardedly funny. Well,.........Wedding receptions can be a bundle of fun.

I also like The Last Samurai quite a bit. When I'm jet boating the upper reaches of a rocky river I say to myself out loud, "Too many minds,.....No minds!"

Josey Wales
The Patriot
Braveheart
Shenendoah
Blazing Saddles
Snatch
And Quigley mind screwed me into building a rifle

Lets face it.Mr. Selleck was only the co star.The Star was that rifle.No disrespect for Tom. + yes Tx.kill art. I love all your selections as well. We cannot pick just one. Kinda reminds me of the old adage about if you could only have one rifle,what would it be?For me,a 375 H+H on a 98 action.

Interesting generational response. Personally:

Anything with John Wayne (Hatari is a personal favorite, as is Red River, The Alamo, Rio Bravo, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Shootist, etc. ).

Anything with Clint Eastwood (Grand Torino is my favorite, I think).

Anything with Humphrey Boghart (especially anything with Lauren Bacall).

Schwartenager movies -- wasn't he the one who coined the phrase "girly men"? I don't like thos movies.

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
In order:

John Wayne:

The Searchers/The Quiet Man/She Wore A Yellow Ribbon/McClintock.

Clint Eastwood:

Outlaw Josey Wales

Robert Redford:

Jeremiah Johnson

Mel Brooks:

Blazing Saddles

Dadgummit! Those are some of my all time favorites too!


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On the dark side:
Sleepers is really dark
The shootist is a sad and dark view of my changing country

"Valdez is coming" with Burt Landcaster

Does anyone like "Kill Bill"??

It's been on a lot and I admit an odd kind of attraction, as long as it's not too often...the snow scene of that duel was pretty cool, where she says "for a last look you could do worse"...

War of the Buttons

Stephen

Cross of Iron. Starring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason. Director Sam Peckinpah

If you haven't seen these Guy flicks then you are missing out:





Death Hunt (great use and show of classic US firearms)

The Postman (gets low ratings from females and girly men)

Emperor of the North (Brutal fight scene between Lee Marvin and Earnest Borgnine)

Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior (better than Jackie Chan ever was)

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Originally posted by D Humbarger:
Cross of Iron.

I liked that, too.

Grenadier, you've got two on my list of favorites, "Death Hunt" and "Emperor Of The North".

Actually, the "Emperor" just happens to be my all time favorite movie, regardless of type.

Little known facts about it - it originally was to be called Emperor Of The North Pole (after a hobo legend), but they thought movie goers might think it was a movie about Santa Claus, so they shortened the title.

It was also built around a real life story, from way back.

And, it was filmed on the now defunct Oregon, Pacific & Eastern. The road used to have an Espee connection, and later became a tourist railroad, but now the tracks have been removed. I think they did one of those "rails to trails" deals out of it.

The covered bridge is still there as seen in the movie and if you know the town of Cottage Grove you can spot some of the places where it was filmed, including Dorena Reservoir.

One of the passenger train's heavyweight cars was in fact named the "Cottage Grove".

Incidentally, several good movies were filmed there over the decades, including the "General".

There was a factual "goof" in the movie however, being the scene where they nearly had a head on with the fast mail at that switch. Remember it? Do you know what it was about that scene that couldn't have happened in real life? Hint, the same thing was wrong in the movie (also a good guy flick) "Runaway Train".

I remember going to see Cross of Iron with Pop and my Uncle and Cousin. Also like:

Odd Angry Shot (Aussy Vietnam )
Where Eagles Dare
Ice Station Zebra

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Originally posted by D Humbarger:
Cross of Iron. Starring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason. Director Sam Peckinpah

Ya gotta throw in "The African Queen" with Bogey!

Enemy at the Gates

How The West Was Won
The Score
Mogambo
Platoon
Rob Roy
Lonesome Dove

Surprised nobody mentioned Top Gun.

Some comedies with these actors:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPAV6hhwRBA

Vashper...by "guy movies" we meant movies FOR guys - as in action adventure.

Anyway, that reminded me of Laurel & Hardy (old U.S. comedy act - one fellow even looked like him).

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Originally posted by Shack:
Vashper...by "guy movies" we meant movies FOR guys - as in action adventure.
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Thanks! I didn't know this category. My browser said "In issuing a new reply on request «gay movies»"
But now I get it: http://www.filmsite.org/maxim100.html

The best guy film in Russia is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sun_of_the_Desert

and, well, some American (with Eastwood), and may be Polish ("Va-bank").

In no particular order

Blazing Saddles
Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men
Police Academy.....the first one none of the folow ups
Raiders of the Lost Ark.....none of the crappy follow ups
Star Wars.....way ahead of it's time.....groundbreaking
Stripes
Full Metal Jacket
Young Frankenstein


Probably some more

BTW the only Tarantino film I like is 4 Rooms

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Originally posted by Labman:
Surprised nobody mentioned Top Gun.

I can't stand Tom Cruise