Top 5 movies

[cb7893]

If you liked 1917 and like words from those who were there, you should see They Shall Not Die Young

Wow!

s/b They Shall Not Grow Old

I apparently have!

 

[Joseph97Pio]

In no particular order:
Braveheart
The Right Stuff
Hitch/Notting Hill
Saving Private Ryan
Ace Ventura/Dumb and Dumber

Honorable Mention:
Terminator 2
Shawshank Redemption

 

[Twins4us]

Top 5 is impossible. It's like asking what is the best way to prepare / eat bacon. (that one's for Capt. MJ)

Pulp Fiction
Caddeyshack
Seven
50 First Dates or Happy Gilmore
The Longest Day

 

[Heatherg21]

Just remembered a few additions (movies are like bacon, you can't just have one favorite way to eat bacon, why have such limited movie favorites?)

Money Pit
Weekend at Bernie's
Sound of Music (watch every December, singing the whole way through)
Aliens 2
Rocky 1

 

[OldRetSWO]

Yeah, seems like I've spent years of my life at kids' concerts...always interferes with a game I want to watch, etc.

Bad News Bears IS really funny for sure. Interesting how my 2 youngest boys though, sort of laughed and squirmed at the same time first time seeing it. It truly has every single one of the inappropriate and "un-PC" topics that could be captured in a single piece of cinema. Offhand, I can think of racism, sexism, racial stereotypes, underage drinking, drunkenness, delinquency, physical abuse, profanity, bullying, even a mild shot at the Catholic Church (over the used of protective equipment). Perhaps Blazing Saddles is the only movie that surpassed BNB in its level of "current" inappropriateness (throw in the Nazi's).

Damn they're funny though!

I'll see your Bad News Bears and raise you an "Airplane!"

 

[Capt MJ]

I keep seeing movies on this thread, and thinking, “yeah, that one too.”

And Schindler’s List. So powerful. Makes me cry buckets every. single.time.

And, anything with Daniel Day-Lewis. Unbearable Lightness of Being. My Beautiful Laundrette. There Will Be Blood. Lincoln. All of them, especially Last of the Mohicans (the cinematography, the score, so satisfyingly well done). So well-chosen.

Chocolat. For a small gem of a movie.

 

[Day-Tripper]

Casablanca (1942)
The Godfather (and Godfather Part 2) (1972 & 1974)
Annie Hall (1977)
Patton (1970)
Captain Blood (1935)

Better Topic - MOST OVERRATED BEST-PICTURE OSCAR WINNING MOVIES (much more entertaining a topic) of all time:

Shakespeare In Love (1997; Best Picture vs. Saving Pvt Ryan, American History X, really?)
The Irishman (2019; can Scorcese be criticized for anything? This pseudo-movie was crap!))
Kramer vs Kramer (1980; Best Picture, Best Picture vs. Apocaplyse Now, Norma Rae & All That Jazz & The China Syndrome, really?)
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2004-----WTF???? Is this even a movie? vs. Ray, Sideways?)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989; a good movie but better than Born on the 4th of July, Dead Poets Society, Field of Dreams or My Left Foot? Don't think so.)

 

[flieger83]

THANK YOU!

Someone actually chose "Captain Blood!" An outstanding movie! Of course, I may be biased...I find most Errol Flynn movies to be superb:

The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Dawn Patrol
Elizabeth and Essex
The Sea Hawk
Santa Fe Trail
Dive Bomber
They Died with their Boots On

And many more....

Steve

 

[Casey]

Top Gun
Lion King
Dark Knight
Skyfall
Sound of Music

Probably in that order

 

[THParent]

Oh, I loved The Sea Hawk. Great movie.

 

[justme]

Of course, I may be biased...I find most Errol Flynn movies to be superb:

Steve

Dont forget Against All Flags, where he is a British officer who goes undercover as a pirate... and perhaps the one with my favorite Errol Flynn line ever, The Adventures of Don Juan... "There's a little Don Juan in every man. and since I am Don Juan, there must be more of it in me."

 

[Day-Tripper]

THANK YOU!

Someone actually chose "Captain Blood!" An outstanding movie! Of course, I may be biased...I find most Errol Flynn movies to be superb:

The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Dawn Patrol
Elizabeth and Essex
The Sea Hawk
Santa Fe Trail
Dive Bomber
They Died with their Boots On

And many more....

Steve

You've cited the best Flynn movies, but to Flynn-addicts there's always more.

Can't forget "Adventures of Don Juan" (has last Warner Bros. contract movie).
And Westerns like "Dodge City" & "Silver River", "San Antonio" & "Montana".
War films like "Desperate Journey", "Objective Burma!", "Edge of Darkness", "Northern Pursuit" & "Uncertain Glory".
British Empire-centric films like "Kim", "That Forsyth Woman" & "Against All Flags".

Sadly, a mere 15 or so years into his career as a leading man Flynn was a washed up, drunken, drug-addled, thrice-divorced, bankrupt shell of the man he once was.

Which, of course, only added to his legend!

Cheers!

 

[Tmac54]

The Quiet Man
It's a Wonderful Life
Pale Rider
Blazing Saddles
The Magnificent Seven (original of course)
Three Days of the Condor
Kelly's Heroes
The Dirty Dozen
Brian's Song
Stripes
To Hell and Back
Caddyshack
Rudy
Rocky
Braveheart
And yes, it would be inconceivable to leave out 'The Princess Bride'

 

[AROTC-dad]

it would be inconceivable to leave out 'The Princess Bride'

I saw what you did there!

 

[justdoit19]

I am going to have to add one :

1917.

Wow, fantastic editing. Shooting. Scenery. Story. Acting. The whole package. Our whole group loved it, which says a lot BC my DH does not suspend his disbelief easily.

Any the cherry on the top, was seeing it at the Bow Tie Cinemas at the Annapolis Mall, with my mid. LOVED it.

 

[Billythekid]

Facing the Giants
Groundhog Day
Jerry McGuire
A Man Called Horse
Diehard

 

[Allyoop]

Pride & Prejudice (Keira Knightly one)
Love Actually (Yes... I know!)
The Terminator 1 & 2
Begin Again
Lethal Weapon 1, 3, & 4

AND... I have to add...JOKER! It was amazing!

 

[Devil Doc]

AND... I have to add...JOKER! It was amazing!

I agree. Joker was amazing.

My wife and I watched Midway Sunday night and I am totally impressed with everything about it. The CGI, the acting, the historical accuracy. Woody Harrelson could play the part of a mushroom and I'd be all in. And what a great job of acting in the role of Dick Best. whew, I will watch it again.

 

[unkown1961]

The Searchers
Hud
Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest
Spotlight
The Report (just watched on Amazon Prime, Adam Driver does a great job as the Senate staffer who exposed the CIA's method of "interrogation"
Airplane
Holy Grail
From Russia with Love
Annie Hall
Kelly's Heroes
Casablanca
Ip Man

 

[unkown1961]

Casablanca (1942)
The Godfather (and Godfather Part 2) (1972 & 1974)
Annie Hall (1977)
Patton (1970)
Captain Blood (1935)

Better Topic - MOST OVERRATED BEST-PICTURE OSCAR WINNING MOVIES (much more entertaining a topic) of all time:

Shakespeare In Love (1997; Best Picture vs. Saving Pvt Ryan, American History X, really?)
The Irishman (2019; can Scorcese be criticized for anything? This pseudo-movie was crap!))
Kramer vs Kramer (1980; Best Picture, Best Picture vs. Apocaplyse Now, Norma Rae & All That Jazz & The China Syndrome, really?)
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2004-----WTF???? Is this even a movie? vs. Ray, Sideways?)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989; a good movie but better than Born on the 4th of July, Dead Poets Society, Field of Dreams or My Left Foot? Don't think so.)

FYI, The Irishman didn't win, Parasite did. I liked Irishman though but don't think it was a "best picture" nominee - that CGI of the young faces didn't match up with the old actors' body ovements. I actually thought that The Report should have been nominated.
About Apocolypse Now, I thought that was really overrated. There are much better Vietnam movies.
And what about Raging Bull losing to Ordinary People or Goodfellas losing to Dances with Wolves?