Favorite Movies

[kleeber]

Here's a couple sleepers that are among my favorites:

Blood Simple (the Coen brothers' first movie)

True Romance (an early Tarantino film--check out the cast, lots of big names) Gotta love a movie where the main character packs a 3" SW 625.

[cowboybart]

I didn't see these on anybody's list:
The Holy Grail
Red Dawn (the original)
Black Hawk Down

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Thin Red Line

[jim_k]

In order:

With people in them:
Groundhog Day
It's A Wonderful Life

For fun:
The Princess Bride (really a classic, and could be on about all of these lists, except animated and historical. Action, development, ensemble, spiritual, great moments)
The Man Who Knew Too Little

War:
The Deer Hunter
Platoon
We Were Soldiers

Action:
Aliens

Animated:
Sleeping Beauty
Tangled

Beautiful moments:
Black Beauty (the scene on the island when the boy gets on the horse in the water - awesome on every level: sound track, camera work, set-up of the scene and its development)
China Syndrome (Jack Lemmon in the reactor when it's melting down - for the acting)
The Return of the King (when the king's daughter kills the wraith, after informing him "I am no man!" - for the irony/downfall of the arrogant and powerful at the hands of "weak")

Historical dramatization:
For Greater Glory

[hafejd30]

The Rock
American Sniper
Lone Survivor

[Mozella]

Johnny Dark (I was too young to realize how gay Tony Curtis was)
Them (I learned what Formic Acid is)
War of the Worlds (1953 version, Academy Award for Best Visual Effects)
Lonely are the Brave (Spoiler: At the end of the movie, Kirk Douglas and his horse get run over by a truck full of toilets.)

[yew plucker]

[QUOTE]Lonesome Dove/QUOTE]

I'm with ya drybean, the best western ever made. Ever. Since the advent of movie making. Since the dawn of story telling. etc...

[YDKDY]

Saving Private Ryan
The Sting
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
The Man Who Would Be King
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

[WV1951]

Field of Dreams
The Pelican Brief
Jaws
Taken(1)
Star Wars(first)
Jurassic Park(first)

[ifithitu]

Forrest Gump
Outlaw Josie Well's
DrumLine
Tombstone
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
Sargent York

These are a few of my favorites

[LongRange]

my latest...

deadpool
hit man

[Nor Cal Mikie]

Decoration Day
The Fourth War