Blazing Saddles is a great one but don't think one could be made like it today. It is heavily censored when on television which make it even more funny.

I would add Casablanca, and Lawrence of Arabia in any order.

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The Godfather

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check out movies from 1939

'Sunset Blvd', 'Chinatown', 'Unforgiven.', top 3. fave horror is the original EvilDead, Terrifier & anything William Castle. fave musical, Victor/Victoria.

A Few Good Men.....so many quotables from that movie. AND My Cousin Vinny!

Any time I hear a little bit of Many Men Have Gunz I always find myself re-watching that movie short order.

So many great movies on this list I'm going to be watching some oldies in the near future. Also a lot of movies I think are either over rated of just plain bad, that said I noticed no one mentioned:

Sling Blade (one of my favs and should be on this list somewhere)

and a few really bad ones
Caveman w/ Ringo Star, Shelly Long, Dennis Quaid, Barbara Bock, John Matuszak (zug zug Lana)
Rock Horror Picture Show

Slingblade was a GREAT movie! thx for the reminder

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LOVED My Cousin Vinny. It isn't often that an actor can appear in a movie completely out of character relating to the roles he or she usually plays and do as well as Joe Pesci did in that movie. Hilarious! Fred Gwynne as the judge, too.

Another movie along those lines was Leap Of Faith, with Steve Martin as the charlatan faith-healer Jonas Nightengale in the only serious role I've ever seen him in. A really excellent movie in all respects that never really got the recognition that in my mind it deserved, especially for the revelations of many of the ways such phonies "motivate" people to make donations. And with a really great (and unexpected) ending.

:1rotfl: Yes, this was SO bad! Walked out of this one!

Yeah, they practiced fire drills in theaters when that was showing

:a040: Lol! Some people seemed to think it was funny though.

Of course humor is so subjective. When friends and I saw "Brady Bunch" movie we thought it was hysterical but people were walking out. It was mostly younger people that couldn't relate to the "Bunch" genre of the '70's I guess. Stupid humor but relatable to those of us that grew up watching Brady Bunch.

Agree the one with Alistair Sim is so good, but my personal fav is now the one with George C. Scott (Patton). As Scrooge, George Scott is just amazing (listen to some his "mutterings" to himself while various "spirits" are speaking to him ! Classic for sure.

On my "greatest" list is Dr. Zhivago, and NOT because it's a "love" story, but for the powerful message it gave at the time (probably would not be made in Hollywood now !). Also War and Peace, The Last Emperor, and Gandhi are on my list... obviously I favor big epic like films ! Pearl Harbor, Out of Africa, Passage to India... they "don't make um like that any more"....LOL !

No kidding!!! 1939 was a GREAT year for movies. The thirties in general were good, I think because of the hardships of the Great Depression, people need the escape that movies provided & 1939 was the pinacle.

Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Dark Victory, Wuthering Heights, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Three Musketeers & lots of others.

We could have a separate thread just about 1939 movies.