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I started to look for some of my favorite movies but since I own around 800 DVD movies (+) and I really like most of them. I guess I have a few that aren't that great but less than 30.clunkers, and on some days even those are OK. I decided to list a few of them but then I started getting writers cramp since I liked so many of them. I decided to list a few movies and then favorite Actors which is far easier. Anyone have more great westerns, who done its, spy movies and adventure flicks? More great actors?


Some Favorite movies

Blade Runner,Alien, Star Wars, Jeepers Creepers, Fright Night, MIB, The Dark Knight
Enemy at the Gates, Hollywood Homicide, A simple Plan, Fargo, Live and Die in LA, DOA
Cliff hanger, True Lies, Mr Brooks, Kill Bill 1&2, The Cleaner, The Game, LA Confidential
Heist, Freejack, Ruthless People (Too many good westerns to list)

I find that I liked almost every movie made staring these actors .....Just a few of the most prolific actors that turn out great movies almost every time.

Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Tommy Lee Jones, Morgan Freeman, Michel Douglas, Ashley Judd,
Jud Law, Harrison Ford, Billy Bob Thornton, Kevin Cosner, Antonio Banderas

WHAT??? No Madonna?? No Cher??

Silent Running
Clockwork Orange
Easy Rider

I love Kubrick but Peter Fonda painted a picture of Louisiana that Hollywood has never lived down. Screw Peter Fonda.

BS....1978 I was chased down by three Red Neck Trucks who tried to dump me in the drink on the 22 mile Atchafalaya Basin Bridge. Dam good thing I had a fast Motorcycle.

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Pale rider.
High plains drifter.
The unforgiven.

wow...now THIS is what i'm talking about. a thread bringing some light and not heat! way to go slacker...i knew you had it in you!!!

where to start??? plenty of good choices above. "Catch 22" definitely makes my list....one of those rare times when the movie comes close to being as good as the book.

"Sometimes A Great Notion"...another movie that stands toe to toe w the book.

"Young Frankenstein" and "The Producers".

"North by Northwest", "Rear Window", "The Birds"

"Das Boot"

and one of the best westerns IMO..."The Hateful Eight"

I always thought" Papillon" was a cool movie and thought the movie "Little Big Man" w/ Dustin Hoffman conveyed a message about how the Native Americans were really rat phucked by whitey..LOL

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Dr Strangelove

Sleeper (Woody Allen)

Alien (only the original one, not the 2nd and 3rd)

Raiders of the Lost Ark

The Great Escape

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

One movie that leaves me with bad memories is THROW MAMA FROM THE TRAIN. Wait ... This explains why PALE RIDER is a favorite.
Leaving the theater, five people were expressing concerns that their cars were missing. Funny thing is all were firebirds and camaros. Of course my new firebird was gone also. Victims of a chop shop.
Anyway...
The reason I love PALE RIDER is the last line from Clint...

"Long walk" and the reply, "Yup"... BIG SMILE... That was a lifetime ago.

Dustin Hoffman playing the part of Mr. Dega was not content on that island with his pigs, but he gave up trying to get back to a normal life, like so many other people content with their pigs.... those pigs have a nasty habit of driving their owners insane if left alone with them, with no other bodily contact, you do know their eyes are almost like human eyes?... their corneas can be implanted onto human eyes you know..