Best Movies Ever?

[Windy City Walleye Hunter]

Godfather hands down, not even a question. Also in that catagory has to be Goodfellas and Casino

Comedy: Animal House

Sports Theme: For Love of The Game

Coolness Factor: The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, Rounders

Horror: The Exorcist, or go old school with The Haunting (orig version)

[lookincalifornia]

uk comedys:shaun of the dead,the life of brian, the holy grail(in that order)

us comedys:swingers, blazing saddles, the big lebowski

mob: goodfellas

eastwood: the good the bad and the ugly, kelly's heros, the outlaw josie wales

ww2: private ryan, flags of our fathers, dirty dozen

drama: the usuall supects, primal fear, seven

sports: 8 men out, pride of the yankees, hoosiers

[Chef]

I'm sitting here reading these responses and laughing my A$$ off!

I can't believe how many great movies didn't come into mind as I put my original three down.

Private Ryan--wow, I love that movie too. For realism and gut-feeling effect. True. Also, the Deer Hunter is just a little intense--whoa.

Kelly's Hero's is great fun. We Were Men. Braveheart.

For those of you who love Fast Times at Ridgemont, you MUST read the book by Cameron Crowe--it's ten times funnier than the movie if you can believe that and it's only 100 pages, so you can read it in in about 2 hrs.

Did anyone else ever see Jackie Gleason in Chico? He played a deaf-mute who was the town whipping boy--talk about a tear jerker.

Steve Foss--Being There--Love it! Peter Sellers last movie before he died. He was great in House Party and the Pink Panther movies. Steve Martin--you should be so talented.

[koonie]

American History X

Sling Blade

Sleepers

A Time to Kill

8mm

The Omen

The Bourne Identity, Ultimatum, Supremacy

The Cowboys

McKennas Gold

Florida Straits

Hellraiser

Can't think of the name of a movie with Richard Gere and Edward Norton. Norton kills someone and pretends to have two personalities. Gere is his lawyer. The ending is awesome. Great movie. Can anybody help me with the name?

[caseymcq]

Can't think of the name of a movie with Richard Gere and Edward Norton. Norton kills someone and pretends to have two personalities. Gere is his lawyer. The ending is awesome. Great movie. Can anybody help me with the name?

Primal Fear

[caseymcq]

Best Movie Ever: A River Runs Through It

No particular order on the rest of these.

Great Movies: Braveheart, Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, Forest Gump, Field of Dreams, Good Will Hunting

Sci Fi & Action: Transformers, Any of the Star Wars series, Spiderman series, First two X-Men, Indiana Jones series (I haven't seen the newest one though), Armegeddon

Sci Fi/Horror: War of the Worlds (new one), The Butterfly Effect, 13 Ghosts, The Mothman Profficies (this one was way freaky)

Maffia / Organized Crime Movies: Casino, Goodfellas, Carlito's Way, The Untouchables

Westerns: Tombstone, Unforgiven, The Quick and the Dead,

Comedey: American Pie series, 40 Year Old Virgin, Dodgeball, Wedding Crashers, Anchorman, Old School

[jparrucci]

Greatest ever? Godfather I

My favorites would include Godfather I & II, Saving Private Ryan (was on TNT last night).

I think those 3 are the best of all. I think you can judge a movie by when flipping throught the channels, is that movie going to make you stop and watch it every time, regardless of how many times you have seen it?

Others that make me set down the remote are: Goodfellas, Donnie Brasco, Major League, Dumb and Dumber, The Shawshank Redemption, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Tombstone, Pulp Fiction, Blazing Saddles, The Sandlot, and the first 3 Indiana Jones. Anytime I'm flipping through channels, and one of these is on, its pretty much a safe bet that unless its the 4th quarter of a game that I've been watching, I am going to stop on watch one of these. New releases that might make this list as time goes on include Gran Torino, and No Country for Old Men-loved both of those.

[Raider4ever]

D'oh!!! How could I forget "Kelly's Hero's"!!! Yes Eastwood, Savalas, Sutherland, and O'Connor were good. But, the Casting Director should of gotten an Oscar for slotting Don Rickles as "Crapgame". Pure genius.

Tear-Jerkers for Guys: Brian's Song and Old Yeller

[huckfin]

Best "Hunting movie" Red Dawn

Up In Smoke

[lookincalifornia]

I think you can judge a movie by when flipping throught the channels, is that movie going to make you stop and watch it every time, regardless of how many times you have seen it?

i don't think i have ever changed channels on jaws, and that is always on

[UdeLakeTom]

I can't believe that when they do the top 10 sports movies, Brian's song never comes up...

Tear jerker ??? Officer and a Gentleman

Silver Streak...Sting.

Comedy...Animal house and Revenge of the Nerds. Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the original). We have all met at one time or another the characters in that movie.

Saving Private Ryan and Pearl Harbor.

[dan z]

lots of good movies out thier...

great movies in my list are

forest gump,happy gilmore,shawshank redemption,annapolis,top gun,august rush,days of thunder...

these are just a few of the top of my head

[Windy City Walleye Hunter]

I keep hearing about Kellys Heros that is not getting mentioned. How about The Dirty Dozen, classic, also a remote stopper fo sho!

[Wanderer]

I'll go along with ALOT of what's been up here.

Seems like only one other person said Jeremiah Johnson though. Surprising.

Gladiator right next to it tough.

Other top notchers though have been:

Legends of the Fall

A River Runs Through It

Saving Private Ryan (Most anything Tom Hanks)

My Cousin Vinny

Almost Famous (Anything Kate Hudson) There was good Hoodoo one on after How to Lose a Guy in 10 days. Don't rem the name.

Liar Liar

Never Cry Wolf

Tombstone

Dances With Wolves

Gangs of New York

And those other ones I can't believe I didn't mention.

Oh, There's Something About Mary. Is that hair gel?

[Chef]

Dances with Wolves is a great movie. What ruined it for me was hearing that Costner renegged on some promises he made to the Lakota for them helping with production and location. Not sure if it's true for sure, but I didn't hear anything to the contrary.

Jeremiah Johnson is awesome too.

How about The Great Escape? A Bridge Too Far?

[papabear]

McKlintock, Cowboys, 8 Seconds,

The Great Mancini, Apacolypse Now, Tora, Tora, Tora; Battle of the Bulge, the Green Beret, MASH,

Slap Shot, Animal House, Blues Brothers, young blood

When a Stranger Calls very suspensful for a recent movie

Twilight?... actualy good movie, especialy when the dad is cleaning his guns before the boy comes in, he slams his double barrel closed and says let him in

Pure Country is my vote for romance.

[Jim Almquist]

For old time comedy I always liked the Marx Brothers and new comedy would be Caddyshack.

The Great Escape and The Bridge over the river Kwai would be my favorite war movies.

The Good The Bad and The Ugly and Tombstone for westerns.

[toughguy]

new comedy would be Caddyshack.

Isn't that movie 30 years old?

[crothmeier]

Funny:

Animal House

Dumb & Dumber

Office Space

Wedding Crashers

War:

Platoon

Behind Enemy Lines

Hunt for the Red October

Sports:

Varsity Blues

Friday Night Lights

Action:

Rambo First Blood

Other:

Casino

Top Gun

Forrest Gump

Shawshank Redeption

[Jim Almquist]

Originally Posted By: jimalm

new comedy would be Caddyshack.

Isn't that movie 30 years old?

Its in color so it can't be all that old

[toughguy]

I'm not knockin Caddyshack. Great movie. I just wouln't call it new. I guess it's all relative.

[nate larson]

Okay...here are a few of my favs in no particular order:

Goodfellas

Godfather 1&2

Unforgiven

Casino

Taxi driver

One flew over the cookoos nest

Grand Torino

Donnie Darko

Cool hand luke

The princess bride

Fargo

Silence of the lambs

The lord of the rings trilogy

A few good men

Raging bull

The deer hunter

It's a wonderful life

Blues Brothers

Shawshank redemption

Slap Shot

Strange Brew

Animal house

Blazing saddles

Spaceballs

Old School

Caddyshack

Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss

Raising Arizona

That's it for now...I am sure I am leaving some out but I can add those later.

[Raider4ever]

Put Silver Wings on my son's chest.... The theme song is a tearjerker everytime.

Using the "Remote Stoppage Factor" I would have to include Green Berets; Good, Bad, and Ugly; Fletch; Caddyshack; Blues Brothers I; There are other movies I could add but I own them (Great Escape, Victory at Sea, Stripes, Blackboard Jungle, Battle of Britain; etc.)

[McGurk]

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[child23]

My personal favorite is Open Range and not the cartoon one. Its the one with kevin costner