Movies

I love going to the movies... Here are some I've liked..

IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD

My favorite movie of all time. Made in 1963, I must have seen this film 20 times so far. Where else will you find Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Mickey Rooney, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters, Dick Shawn, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Peter Falk, Jim Backus, William Demarest, Buster Keaton, Don Knotts, Carl Reiner, The Three Stooges, Andy Devine, Sterling Holloway, Arnold Stang, Stan Freberg, Norman Fell, Jimmy Durante, Jack Benny, Jerry Lewis, Spencer Tracy, and Ethel Merman ALL in the same film?

ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS

Made in 1964, this was much better than the grade B Sci Fi of the time. I was all of.. what 10 when I saw this. Loved it. Still do. Course, now we know the science in it is completely wrong, but the movied still is great after all these years.

A Knights Tale

I saw this in the theatre and thought it was a strange idea using rock music as a backdrop for a medieval jousting movie, but it worked pretty well. The thing I liked best about this film was the way the characters got along and interacted. They seemed like a great bunch of people and you could just see how they all fit in the group.

This movie is a joy to watch and I've seen it dozens of times because as I channel surf I'll stop on it every time.

Ocean's Eleven - The Remake

STAR WARS - The original set.

STAR TREK - All but the first one.

THE GUNS OF NAVVARON

THE LONGEST DAY

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN

GONE WITH THE WIND

A hundred B-movies when I was growing up.. it was bad Sci-Fi, but it was the only Sci-Fi available.

2010 - I love 2001 when I first saw it.. but it was just to strange for most people. 2010 is well acted and tightly plotted - and the science is good.

SUNSET BOULEVARD - Wow.. this was eerie!

The Shawshank Redeption

Dr Strangelove or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Rear Window

The Usual Suspects

Silence of the Lambs

The Sixth Sense

Toy Story

Ants

A Bugs Life

The Wizard of Oz - especially the scene where the munchin hangs himself... oh and listening to it with Dark Side Of the Moon playing is a trip.

A Clockwork Orange

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Aliens (note: Not Alien.. I liked the later versions better)

Blade Runner

The Sting

The Princess Bride (okay I admit it... )

Time Bandits

The African Queen

Shakespeare in Love

Patton

The Philadelphia Story

The Truman Show (and Liar Liar - but not Ace Ventura...go figure)

Die Hard & Die Hard 2

Young Frankenstein

Blazing Saddles

Terminator & Terminator 2 & Preditor

Henry V

Back to the Future

The Apartment

The Killing Fields

A Fish Called Wanda & Fierce Creatures

All the Presidents Men

The Day the Earth Stood Still

My Fair Lady

Harvey

Apollo 13

The Sound of Music

In the Heat of the Night

Oliver!

Patton

The French Connection

The Godfather

My Favorite Year

The Sting

The Godfather, Part II

Rocky

Annie Hall

Amadeus

The Last Emperor

Rain Man

Driving Miss Daisy

Dances With Wolves

The Silence of the Lambs

Unforgiven

Schindler's List

Forrest Gump

Braveheart

Shakespeare in Love

American Beauty

Gladiator

A Beautiful Mind

Mutiny on the Bounty

Gone With the Wind

Casablanca

An American in Paris

Around the World in 80 Days

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Gigi

Ben-Hur

West Side Story

Most of the BOND films... sigh