Your Top 10 Favorite Movies of all Time
 

You can just name the movie or, like I'm doing, you can add a comment about it.

Casablanca – Ingrid Bergman!
De-Lovely – Cole Porter’s fascinating life and great music.
The Wizard of Lies – Mesmerizing layout of what Bernie Madoff got away with.
Gone With The Wind – When adjusted for monetary inflation, it is still the highest-grossing film in history.
Paddington – Aunt Lucy was so good to him when he was a cub.
Alvin and the Chipmunks – Favorite Christmas movie.
Ten Commandments – Let my people go.
Seabiscuit – Holy Lazarus!
The Big Country – Great score by Jerome Moross that was only one of two categories nominated for an Oscar, but didn’t win. Burl Ives won for supporting actor. None of the big stars (Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Charlton Heston, Charles Bickford, Chuck Connors) were even nominated. What a joke.
The Blues Brothers – I ran out of gas, I had a flat tire and didn't have enough money for cab fare, My tux didn't come back from the cleaners, an old friend came in from out of town, someone stole my car, there was an earthquake, a terrible flood, It wasn't my fault, I swear to God!

Giant
Electric Horseman
Argo
Secondhand Lions
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
The Philadelphia Story
Raintree County
the Fast and Furious Series
The Art of Racing in the Rain
National Velvet
Snowman

1. Gone With the Wind
2. A Letter to Three Wives
3. Wizard of Oz
4. The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers
5. Picnic
6. The Grapes of Wrath
7. Fury
8.He’s Just Not That Into You
9. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
10. The Big Country

Caddyshack
The Big Lebowski
Animal house
Bad Santa
Happy Gilmore
Airplane
Die Hard
Star Wars
Back to the Future
Avatar

Harvey.
The Shining.
Casablanca.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
The Fellowship of the Ring.
Die Hard.
Alien.
Saving Private Ryan.
The Wizard of Oz.
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Pulp Fiction
Body Heat
The Sting
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Unforgiven
The Fugitive
The Princess Bride
The Silence of the Lambs
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Usual Suspects

Honorable mention for--


Stagecoach.
The Shootist.
Unforgiven.
The Wild Bunch.
Jurassic Park.
Tombstone.
E.T.
Fury.
Gladiator.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

On the Waterfront

The Godfather

Unforgiven

Fargo

Some Like It Hot

No Country for Old Men

The Professional

Saving Private Ryan

Good Will Hunting

The Silence of the Lambs

Love Actually (is all around us.)
Casablanca (We will always have Paris)
Bridge of Spies (Would it help?)
Second Hand Lions (The talk)
Young Frankenstein (Why thank you, doctor)
Moonstruck (Snap out of it!)
Wild Hogs (These guys are posers)
RED (I kill people, dear)
National Lampoon Christmas Vacation ( Sh*****s full)
Scrooged (The b**** hit me with a toaster!)
Blazing Saddles

Okay, that is more than 10. Consider it a Black Friday sale.

Godfather 1
Godfather 2
My Cousin Vinny
Goodfellas
Caddyshack
Fargo
Rio Bravo
StarWars V
StarWars VI
The Good, The Bad and The Ulgy

Lord of the Rings (the entire trilogy as it was really one movie).
The Wizard of Oz.
The Shootist.
Fiddler on the Roof.
Unforgiven.
Schindler's List.
Lawrence of Arabia.
The Ten Commandments (1956 Version).
Lincoln.
Caddyshack.


HONORABLE MENTION

Zulu.
Braveheart.
The Green Mile.
Flight.
Quigley Down Under.

1. Sunset Blvd
2. Chinatown
3. Taking of Pelham 123 (the original)
4. 12 Angry Men
5. Terrifier
6. Gilda
7. Network
8. A Face in the Crowd
9. Sudden Impact
10. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

and the many more i may have forgotten, but this is the meat of the menu :beer3:

I must watch Quigley Down Under at least once a year.

Looks like all my 11-20 picks have been mentioned by someone here except for The Shawshank Redemption and Of Mice and Men (1939). My wife doesn’t like the former because it’s a prison movie; she claims women don’t like that genre. I’m not sure about that.

Agree with many of above.
Would add, The Producers, Bourne series 1,2 and 3, plus Cool hand Luke.

I see several on here I would’ve put if you said the 20 best movies.

I would add “The Graduate”

1. Lord of the rings trilogy
2. Logan
3. Book of Eli
4. Saving Private Ryan

No particular order:
Star Wars rogue one
Oblivion
My cousin Vinny
Guardians of the Galaxy
Gladiator
Ferris Bueller's Day off.

I am sure I am probably missing some that could replace ones in the bottom six though.

So many, Casablanca, original Robin Hood with Erol Flynn, In Harm’sWay, Longest Day, Space Cowboys, My Fair Lady, Mister Roberts, Hunt for Red October and many more but nothing recent that relies on special effects instead of a strong storyand good acting.

I was of the same opinion about prison movies until Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. Of course, I read the books before since I had just about all Stephen King books.

King Arthur
Apollo 13
I, Robot
Midway
Wing Commander
Where Eagles Dare
The Shadow
Serenity
Star Trek, The Voyage Home
El Dorado

The Godfather
Shawshank Redemption
Braveheart
Saving Private Ryan
Close Encounters of theThird Kind
Wizard of Oz
Big Country
It's a Wonderful Life
Shane
Jaws

One of the posters on Talk of the Villages is the niece of Ann Bancroft and Mel Brooks. She did not seem very impressed with Hollywood. I have had very mixed feelings about my interactions with them over the past 35 years .

Favorite Movies
 

I wrote a book about my favorite 100 movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood, the 30s through the 50s. My top five were:

The Best Years of Our Lives
Double Indemnity
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Singin' in the Rain, and
King Kong - 1933 version

Others in the top ten included Casablanca, The Searchers, Witness for the Prosecution, and 12 Angry Men. Gone with the Wind was in my top 100 but not my top ten.

A Clockwork Orange, The Good the Bad and the Ugly (3 part series), Saving Private Ryan. Das Boot, North by Northwest, Lolita, Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket, Alien, The Matrix, Dune-(original), District 9, Blade Runner, The Road Warrior, The Fifth Element, and Prometheus staring Noomi Rapace. And I forgot - Bad Santa, Pulp Fiction, Silence of the Lambs, Gladiator,The Godfather, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid, The Graduate, The Hunt for Red October
..........Yes, I like to over do things sometimes!

Accidental tourist is my all time favorite

Not the best, but these are just my personal favorites:

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Star Trek: The Voyage Home
Elf
Christmas Vacation
August Rush
Somewhere in Time
Silent Running
Brokeback Mountain
Airplane
Ted

The Godfather....The Sting...Shawshank...Graduate....Goldfinger....Avat ar...Star Wars...Argo...Goodfellas...One Flew Over Cuckoos Nest

My younger brother's 2nd wife's first son has a small part in August Rush as one of the gang of street children run by the Robin Williams' character.

There would sometimes be movie production trailers a few hundred feet from our Rohnert Park CA home in the parking lot of the Red Lion Inn. I did walk our cocker spaniel puppy around 1990 but really only talked about duck poop with any of the people out-and-about . But those movie trailers sure gave me ideas. I was sending out a lot of snail mail soon after that in 1991. Some of these were connected in some way with movies.

In chronological order:

Sunset Boulevard
Rear Window
Dr. Strangelove
2001: A Space Odyssey
Day of the Jackal (original 1973 version)
Animal House
This is Spinal Tap
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Pulp Fiction
Stop Making Sense

but you gotta love Mel!!!! :BigApplause:

I have had various interactions with various movie stars and they would usually just dodge, excuse or push off to someone else. But not always. This was usually about my 224 613 Project which has been about improving access to useful materials in all types of libraries for survivors/victims of crimes. Much progress has been made though from what I could find in Reno libraries in late February of 1976. I found next to nothing.

Writing on someone else's art seemed to happen when the guy behind me at the Petaluma theater asked me "Did you see that ?" when 612 showed up in the movie Outbreak on a test tube. I looked for the guys while leaving the Northern CA theater but did not see them . This was around March 14, 1995.

...............and Dances with Wolves.

Silent Running.
Absolute classic.
One of the best/funniest scenes, Huey, Dewey, and Louie cheating at cards.
I still worry how Dewey is getting on watering the surviving plants!

Huge favorite of one of my supervisors at the U of MN Law Library. She was paying for private Lakota lessons. She was over the moon when it won various Academy Awards. Good people there for the most part with a few extremely ambitious exceptions.

1. Casablanca
2. Casablanca
3. Casablanca
4. Casablanca
5. Casablanca
6. Casablanca
7. Casablanca
8. Casablanca
9. Casablanca
10. Casablanca

One of my favorites. Also loved The Maltese Falcon.

Panic in the year zero! It’s amazing. Filmed in the 50s or 60s. I’m not gonna give away anything else you have to watch it.