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My Top 50 Favorite Movies.

 

 

"I'm going to make you an offer  you can't refuse."

 

1. The Godfather  Leave the gun, take the cannoli.

2. Once Apon a Time Hollywood  "Bounty Law"   

3. Apocalypse Now              I love the smell of napalm in the morning

4. Goldfinger                        NO Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.

5. The Big Lebowski          A world of pain, Smokey. MARK IT ZERO!

6. A Clockwork Orange    Viddy well, little brother, viddy well.

7. Star Wars, Episode IV      Use the force, Luke.

8. Amadeus                       I'm a vulgar man, but my music is not.

9. North By Northwest   I'm being followed. Can you do something ?

10.  Pulp Fiction         Mmm Mmm Mmm! This IS a tasty burger!

11. Rocky Horror Picture   Janet!...   Dr. Scott! ...  Rocky!

12. Lawrence of Arabia                 Nothing is written.

13. The Doors                                    This is the strangest life I've ever known.

14. Saving Private Ryan                 Tell me I have led a good life.               

15. Forbidden Planet                      ID, ID, ID - What is this word ID?

15. Das Boot                                      ALARM!

16. Borat                                             Great Success!

17. Magnificent Seven                    It's just a small job south of the border.

18. Animal House                             TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!

19. 2001 A Space Oddesy                Dave, can you hear me Dave?

20. Blade Runner                              Lost in time. Like tears in rain. Time to die.

21. A Christmas Story                      You'll shoot your eye out.

22. Raiders of the Lost Arc             Snakes! Why did it have to be snakes!

23. Fargo                                            Is that your buddy in the wood chipper?

24. Back to the Future               I'm going to send you back... to the future!     

25. Jaws                                              We're gonna need a bigger boat.

26. Titanic                                          I'm the King of the World!

27. Full Metal Jacket                      Get with the winning team...

28. The Blues Brothers                   We're on a mission... from God.

29. Easy Rider                                   You know Billy, we blew it.

30. Woodstock                What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000

31. The Good,  Bad, and Ugly     You stay. I'll kill him and be right back.

32. Day of the Jackal (1973)         Half in advance, half on completion.  

33. It's a Mad, Mad World            No taxes? Everybody has to pay taxes!

34. Airplane!                                     And don't call me Shirley!

35. Cleopatra                                   On-your-KNEES!

36. Inglorious Basterds                 Y'all will git me one hundred Nazi scalps.

37. Young Frankenstien                What knockers!

38. Blazing Saddles                         That's HEADLEY Lamarr!

39. Cool Running                        Introducing the first Jamaican bobsled team!

40. Local Hero                                   You want to buy my church?

41. FURY (2014)                                  Best Job I ever had.

42. The French Connection            That car's dirty I tell you.

43. The Graduate                              Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?

 44. The Fifth Element                     Leeloo Dallas, mul-ti-pass!

45. Dr. Strangelove         Mr. President, we must not allow a mineshaft gap!

46. Austin Powers           That's Austin Powers...Danger... is my middle name.  

47. Chinatown                                   Forget it Jake. It's Chinatown.

48. The Time Machine (1960)        I'm speaking of the fourth dimension.

49. Oh Brother Where Art Thou?        I'm a Dapper Dan man.

50. Idiocracy                                       You mean water? Like in the toilet?

 

The Dude: Yeah man. It really tied the room together.

Donny: What tied the room together Dude?

The Dude: My rug.

Walter: Were you listening to The Dude's story, Donny?

Donny: I was bowling.

Walter: So then you have no frame of reference here, Donny. You're like a child who wanders in - in the middle of movie.

 

My all time favorite cult classics.

 

Oscar winners - maybe not. But they sure are fun!

 

1) Monthy Python & the Holy Grail

2) The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

3) Barbarella

4) The Fly (1958 - with Vincent Price)

5) When Worlds Collide

6) 12 Monkeys

7) Brazil

8) Fight Club

9) Night of the Living Dead

10) Logan's Run

We have collected literally thousands of movies and maybe a couple of hundred television series on media from Laser Disk to DVD to BluRay.

Lately we have been having a lot of fun adding 3D BluRays, as our television set is 3D capable. We have a home theater setup in our home and enjoy watching movies frequently.

 

HONORABLE MENTIONS: In addition to the movies mentioned above, here are some more great movies that we like very much: National Lampoon's Vacation, Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Bridge on the River Kwai, Sunset Blvd., What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Modern Times, Metropolis, Her (2013), Animal House, Scarface, Ed Wood, Raging Bull, Papillon, The Piano, Goodfellas, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Goldeneye, The Pink Panther, Battlestar Gallactica (2004), The Longest Day, Bullitt,  JFK, American Hustle (2014), The Green Berrets, The Final Countdown, Pearl Harbor, It's a Wonderful Life, Silent Movie, Love and Death, Take the money and run, Casino Royale, Battle of the Bulge, Guns of Navaronne, Thunderball, Midnight Cowboy, Shogun, Lonesome Dove, City Slickers, The Road to Bali, White Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street, Camelot, City of Gods, Rio, Vanishing point, Silverado, Hang em High, etc.

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