Either No Country for Old Men or Tombstone. Yours?

I liked both of those,for different reasons. And Blazing Saddles,and on and on. Bob

Tombstone was awesome

i like blazing saddles too, its hilarious

and yes, tombstone was awesome, even though some of it may not be historically accurate

Animal House

The Ghost And The Darkness

Could never narrow it down to just one, too many good movies made in the last 100+ years. "Favorite movies" are those that no matter how many times I've seen them, when they are showing on TV I have to watch them. In no particular order at all:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
AI (Artificial Intelligence)
The Shawshank Redemption
A Clockwork Orange (almost anything by Stanley Kubrick)
Aliens II - the best of the bunch
Gladiator
Almost any Barbara Stanwyck movie from the 30's and 40's
The Graduate
The Wild Bunch
Kill Bill vol. I and II
Forbidden Planet
Young Frankenstein
Band of Brothers (technically a mini-series, but still a favorite)

and that's just off the top of my head. Let me give this some more thought...

Chariots of Fire
Platoon
The Deer Hunter
The Patriot
Gladiator
The Ghost and the Darkness
The Shawshank Redemption
Braveheart

Unforgiven.

Secondhand Lions

"The Return Of Red River Johnny." No one will ever top that one.

Second in line would have to be "Gone With The Wind."

L.W.

"The Return of Red River Johnny."

Leanwolf, if I remember you correctly, I must ask if you were involved with that one.

I'm clueless. Never heard of "The Return of Red River Johnny".

Nahh, John, I'n not that old. Actually, I saw that flick many years ago, one summer Saturday afternoon at a theatre in the small rural town in which I grew up. I was home from my Freshman year in college and thought I'd drop in the theater for a good Saturday afternoon shoot-'em-up double feature.

It was undoubtedly the all time worst movie I had ever seen... and I had watched a whole bunch of movies growing up. After it was over, I went and got my best friend, same age, who also, as I, loved movies, good, bad, or mediocre. I told him, "You have got to see this western movie! You'll never see another one like it!"

We went back to the theater so he could see it too. Afterward he said, "I oughta kill you for completely wasting 90 precious minutes of my life."

Fifty years later he and I still laugh about it. It had not one actor in it I'd ever seen before, even on the Saturday afternoon "B" and "C" movies.


Years afterward in Los Angeles, I was the Story Editor on a western teevee show at MGM. One day in the producer's office, a conversation came up about really bad westerns. I told them about The Return Of Red River Johnny. No one had heard of it but curiosity was aroused in everyone, including the star who was in the office at that time. (Filming was over for the day.) So the producer had the Production Manager try to find a copy so we could screen it for laughs.

He couldn't find a copy even in the Hollywood film storage vaults which house thousands and thousands of old flicks, clear back to many of the early silent movies. Probably a very small independent film company shooting on a shoestring and it very quickly fell into film oblivion... along with the company.

So... when someone asks, "What's your favorite flick?" I say The Return Of Red River Johnny, hoping against hope that some one of us geezers might have seen it when young and we could share some yuks about unbelievably bad flicks.

Hope all is well over there in your neck of the woods, and also with your writing.

L.W.

I don't mean to hijack the thread but I had a young man ask me just the other day what were my favorite movies of the past 15 years. I really drew a blank. A few in my list probably fall into that category, but honestly, I think what Hollywood is producing lately is entirely forgettable. So if we can bend a little and consider television I would have to say "Lonesome Dove." My wife and I watch primarily British series we get through Netflix. In the past year we have enjoyed "Foyle's War," all seven seasons of "MI-5," and recently watched "Little Dorritt."

Band of Brothers

Gone Baby, Gone

I too like the British series' aired on PBS.

Downton Abbey

All the Dickens tales

Danger UXB

Piece of Cake

Anything with Hercule Poirot.

There is a movie on right now that makes the top 15 in my book, Signs

That is a GREAT movie! I bet I've watched it 10 times.

Bob

ConAir

I was on set the morning they flew the Stearman under the overpass at SH 21 and US183 btwn Austin and Lockhart. Pretty impressive.

As for my all-time favorites.

"Casablanca" and "The Searchers".......

Bob N.

To answer in catagories:

Best comedy: The Holy Grail by Monty Pyton

Best western: Pale Rider

Best drama: No Country for Old Men

TxDeerHunter: Indeed "No Country For Old Men" is in my Top Ten and I enjoyed "Tombstone" as well.
Rounding out my Top Ten Favorite Movies Of All Time would include the following"

#1: The Wild Bunch
#2: The Godfather
#3: No Country For Old Men
#4: American Graffiti
#5: Jeremiah Johnson
#6: The Last Picture Show (and part deux "Texasville")
#7: Blazing Saddles
#8: Shindlers List
#9: Easy Rider
#10: The Deer Hunters

See you at the movies.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Here's some of my favorites

Sound of Music
Gran Torino
Breach
Sling Blade
Saving Private Ryan
Napolean Dynamite
Animal House
Neighbors
The Man Who Wasn't There
Holy Grail
Tom Horn
Blues Brothers

Last of the Mohicans.

Blazing Saddles

Blazing Saddles
Forrest Gump
Unforgiven
Goodfellas
Midway
Tora Tora Tora
The Right Stuff
Full Metal Jacket
Quigley Down Under
Wind Talkers
Dances With Wolves

Too many to name just one....

Rio Bravo

Goodfellas was a great movie

reading all yalls posts has got me thinking about all these great movies i didnt even take into consideration...i like yalls taste

faceoff

The Searchers, by far the greatest western ever made. And when I want to bust a gut laughing, Blazing Saddles, then again I bust a gut just looking at Mel Brooks.

Though I did not put it on my list, my girlfriend and I went to Blazing Saddles and I proposed to her after the movie. Been together 37 years and counting. Must have been a good movie.

The Hangover

My favorite western is The Cowboys
My favorite comedy is My Cousin Vinny
My favorite action is Die Hard
My favorite Sci-fi is Star Wars
My favorite romance is The Notebook
My favorite thriller is Resident Evil
My favorite war movie is Merrill's Marauders

There might be other genres, but that's all I can think of right now.

Blazing Saddles....hell yea!!
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Both of the Grumpy Old Men flicks
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Full Metal Jacket
We were Soldiers
Saving Private Ryan
The Town
Open Range
All 007 and would like another please
Star Wars....1976

Gangs of New York

The Grapes of Wrath...

We were soldiers was great

Rocky IV

Rocky 1
The Game
Bull Duram
Major League
Second Hand Lion

Blues Brothers

Some of my favorites in to particular order...

Godfather I & II
The Sting
The Sand Pebbles
The Great Escape
Kellys Heros
The Alamo
Raders of the Lost Ark
Casino
The Malteese Falcon
Anatomy of a Murder
Patton
Ledgens of the Fall
A River Runs Through it
James Bond(pretty much all of them)
The Hunt for Red October
Slap Shot
The Deer Hunter

Patton, one of the classic's

casino....yep

1.Last of the Mohegans (with DD Lewis)
2.Tombstone
3.The Best Years of Our Lives

This is an old black and white film from immediately after WW2. I think all of us veterans should watch it about once a year: on Memorial Day.

Gotta be Jaws. Just the first one, the rest are pretty lousy. Ravenous and the Outlaw Josey Whales probably round out the top 3.

Some I'd consider my top choices:

Lonesome Dove
Tombstone
Bogart movies
John Wayne movies
Charlie Chaplin movies

I usually appreciate the acting of Gene Hackman, Robert Duval, Val Kilmer, some Eastwood

Man from Snowy river
Return of the man from snowy river
Quigly down under
Lonesome Dove

I am sure with some more thought I could add some, but

Shawshank Redemption.. My pick for the greatest picture ever made

True Grit

Saving Private Ryan

The Wind and the Lion

Way too many to pick one...
Walking Tall (original and remake both)
Deliverence
The Outlaw Josey Wales
High Plains Drifter
Smokey and the Bandit
Convoy
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
True Grit
Rooster Cogburn
The Shootist
Fast Five(watching as I type this on HBO)
W.W. and the Dixie Dance Kings
The Wrestler
Gran Torino
and prolly one of the stupidest movies ever made but I love it...Joe Dirt

True Grit
Searchers
Lonesome Dove
The Wind and The Lion

Heat

Bothered me all night that I didn't include this:

Cosmic children


Should give EricM some grins.

Last of the Mohicans

Honorable mention goes to:

Green Berets
Dirty Harry (many of the Clint Eastwood movies)
An Officer and a Gentleman (saw with wife on first date)
Quigley Down Under (all of the Tom Selleck westerns)
We Were Soldiers
Open Range

For something funny: Major Payne

GotAmmo: I am so glad your post reminded me of the movie I so absolutely and thoroughly enjoyed.
"Heat"!
I would add this movie to my all time favorites list and put it near the top of my now "Top Eleven" list.
What an incredible and incredibly well made movie.
After spending 29 years in LE in a large west coast metropolitan city I can relate to just about every character (good and bad), every scenario and every interaction of characters in that movie!
I think both Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro gave THE best performances of their careers in this wonderful movie - I literally get lost in it.
The scene where Pacino and DeNiros characters have "a talk" over coffee is just awe inspiring - acting at its absolute best.
I had the same talk with about two dozen criminals during my career - although my talks were not with classey criminals - they were with bikers, Black Panthers, SDS types, drug dealers, Cuban criminals, pimps and the like.
None of whom took my lame attempts at setting them straight to heart - and most all of them ended up in the "walls" (Walla Walla State Prison).
The main shoot out scene in "Heat" actually makes my crotch area sweat.
The movie is also directed without flaw - IMO.
Thanks again for reminding me of my oversight.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

You probably also like "Ronin" then.

Expat

I like your guys taste in movies, a few of my favorites are:

Blazing Saddles
Animal House
Pale Rider
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Quigley down Under
Gran Torino
Das Boat

Heat is a good one, kind of forgot about it

Lonesome Dove
God Fathers 1 & 2
Lord of the Rings movies, looking forward to the Hobbit
Sam Elliot & Tom Selleck Westerns
Shawshank Redemption

Don't really classify as movies, but "Band of Brothers" and "Game of Thrones"

The Cowboys...a favorite John Wayne
Gran Torino
Aliens
Princess Bride
Once Upon A Time In The West
Groundhog Day
To Kill A Mockingbird
Taken
Big Trouble In Little China

To name but a few!

Holy cow! 6 pages of "favorite movies", including everything from Joe Dirt to Blazing Saddles, and nobody has said:
Raiders of the Lost Ark?

Wow.

And since nobody else seems to be stopping at just one either, add
the original Star Wars trilogy
Where Eagles Dare
The Jason Bourne trilogy
And no, they aren't movies, but LOST, Firefly, and the new Battlestar Gallactica series.

Last Of The Dogmen
Gran Torino
The Quick and The Dead!
The Devil's Advocate
Unforgivin
Pale Rider
tombstone
A Perfect Murder
Casino
Legends Of the Fall- great movie!
HBO series- The Sopranos
Beowolf
Could go on and on...

Full metal jacket...saving private ryan

caddyshack...dumb and dumber...super troopers

jaws...

casino...goodfellas

Casablanca

Top Gun
The Hunt for Red October
Last of the Mohicans
We Were Soldiers
Saving Private Ryan
Heat
Colors
The Departed
True Grit
Quigley Down Under
Legends of the Fall
A River Runs Through it
Predator

Original Star Wars trilogy

007's

Gettysburg
Casablanca
Tombstone
The Princess Bride
The Quiet Man
The Outlaw Josey Wales


(and for something completely different:)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

The Gun Runners- Audie Murphy

The Mighty Quinn- Denzel Washington

Quigley Down Under- Tom Selleck

Mystery Alaska- Russell Crowe

The Wild Geese- Burton, Moore, Kruger, Harris

Syriana- George Cloony

1.CoolHand Luke
2. Unforgiven
3. The Departed
I

The Searchers is certainly up there on my list. I had the good fortune of seeing it in a theater last month. John Wayne is amazing in that movie.

Shane.....

W

"A knights tale" and "Zulu" come to mind.....in point of fact, I have a liking for the "Guns of Navarone" as well.

Also a quirky wee flick from Bruce Willis called "The Fifth Element"....surprisingly funny.

Top 1 & 2 both with John Wayne, of. Course
The Searchers
The Cowboys
3. Tombstone
4. Lonesome Dove
5. Dirty Harry
6. The Good, Bad, & Ugly
7. Quigley
8. Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid.
9. Jeremiah Johnson
10. Mountain Men staring Charlton Heston & Brian Kieth. A must see !!!!
Honorable Mention... Last of the Mohicans,Outlaw Josey Wales, & Legends of the Fall.... And of course ... Blazing Saddles !

To Kill A Mockingbird

el dorado
caine mutiny
angels with dirty faces
battle of the bulge
true grit
serpico
apocalypse now
josey wales
dirty harry
blues brothers

Kill Bill vol. I and II

The Wild Bunch.

13th warrior

Cool Hand Luke / Paul Newman

"Harry Potter".
It's a really great movie,with beautiful visuals, fantastic special effects...love it!!!!!!!!!!

Also Lonesome Dove is my favorite.

Too many to list, but I never get tired of watching "The Wild Bunch".

Same here.
Out of Africa's another goodun, but I'll watch just about anything that old enough to not have Madona or Rosi O'Donnel in it.

Tombstone and Jaws.

Lonesome Dove

Jeremiah Johnson

Grumpy old men
Grumpier old men
An unfinished life
A Christmas story
On golden pond
My name is nobody
Old Yeller
Affliction
Ted

Ok, I know this thread is old but I consulted it tonight because I had time to watch a movie and figured y'all wouldn't steer me wrong. I saw the Searchers mentioned several times in this thread so I thought I'd give it a shot. I figured good reviews, John Wayne... it has to be awesome, right?

Wow, what a disappointment. Talk about a crappy film. Acting is piss poor, the sissy that follows John Wayne around is a pussie AND a queer (not to mention the worst actor of the bunch), way too much boring crap like the love story between the sissy and the Swedish chick, the sissy fight at the end wtf?, and my God is it LONG! Of all the westerns, even just John Wayne films, how could you recommend this one? The Searchers is a turd among classic westerns.

The best part of the entire film, by far, is when the sissy kicks that squaw out of his bed and down the hill. That was pretty hilarious.

Jumanji and Bruce Almighty and on and on.. Tombstone would watch this weekend.

the best shoot em up/action movie I have seen recently is "The Raid: Redemption"
http://youtu.be/uWlmhMSnVdM

the best war movie is "My Way" http://youtu.be/F6RjuNYnA7c
http://youtu.be/oUxQQwpBcxY

this one ya gotta see ! as good as Saving Private Ryan

Bourne Identity
Taken
El Dorado (John Wayne)
True Grit (John Wayne)
Pirates of Caribean I
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Kung Fu Panda
3:10 to Yuma (Russel Crow)
The Dark Knight Rises

BLAZING SADDLES
Cool hand Luke: You just have to watch that no matter when it comes on.
The Green Mile
Young Frankenstien
The Jerk
Jeremiah Johnson
Predetor
The Cowboys
The Good, Bad, and the Ugly
Mc Clintock
Rooster Cogburn
Bridge Over River Kwae
Outlaw Josey Whales
So many more, none new.

Treasure of Sierra Madre
African Queen
Red River
Monte Walsh
Dances with Wolves
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Little Big Man
The Grey Fox
The Gods Must be Crazy
Lonesome Dove
Rancho Deluxe

On Any Sunday

Grumpy Old Men is one I can watch and laugh at every time