[shaw8700@outlook.com]

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

[Keithtama]

I would add “The Graduate”

[Switter]

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.

[phojo]

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.

[Jiller]

Originally Posted by Flyers999

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.

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.

[opinionist]

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

[Lottoguy]

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

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by Keithtama

I would add “The Graduate”

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 .

[garykoca427@gmail.com]

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.

[jimjamuser]

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!

[hypart]

Accidental tourist is my all time favorite

[NavyVet]

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

[bobmarc]

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

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by NavyVet

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

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.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

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 .

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.