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I have so many, but this is all that I can think of currently.

All the Star Wars films...yes, all of them.

All the Lord of the Rings films (I have yet to read the books, but want to)

Dances With Wolves

Rain Man

Jerry McGuire

Jurassic Park

Master and Commander

Forrest Gump

True Lies

The Abyss

Pirates of the Caribean

White Men Can't Jump

Raiders of the Lost Ark

The Last Crusade

Spiderman 2

Rocky

Rocky II

The Fugitive

The Usual Suspects

Fight Club

Titanic

Aliens

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Hero

House of Flying Daggers

Kill Bill 1 and 2

Pulp Fiction

Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the original)

Coming to America

The Matrix (but not the sequels zzzzzzz)

Lion King

The Godfather 1 and 2

Shawshank Redemption

The Green Mile

Goodfellas

American Beauty

Patriot Games

Hunt for Red October

The Wrath of Khan

The Journey Home

The Undiscovered Country

Ben Hur

The Ten Commandments

The Towering Inferno

The Posieden Adventure

Gladiator

Braveheart

Jaws

Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind

The Final Countdown

Frequency

American History X

Terminator

Terminator 2

The Land That Time Forgot

Seven

Signs

Superman 1 and 2

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we have, literally, hundreds of movies! but my most fave of all time is - it's a wonderful life. at our house we are also - harry potter, lord of the rings and miyazaki central!

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Hey, I just read they finished principle photography on Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. I didn't even know they had a script, much less that they were filming it. Cool.

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Wow, way cool. I have not seen this discussion before. Hmmm, now me gots ta think over all of me favorite movies.....

Mission, that is super cool. Aye, I am looking forward to the new Indiana Jones story. I just hope I'm not disappointed.

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Mine:

Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn)

Back to Bataan

Blazing Saddles

Das Boat

Dr. Strangelove

Invaders from Mars (1953)

Little Caesar (Edward G. Robinson)

Monty Python & the Holy Grail

Phantom of the Paradise

The Public Enemy (James Cagney)

Sahara (With Humphrey Bogart)

Star Trek II, The Wrath of Kahn

The Maltese Falcon

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

The Tanks are Coming!

They Died with Their Boots On

Titanic

Treasure of Sierra Madre

Gosh I could keep listing them! MUST STOP!

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I've given up trying to have one movie as my favorite, there are just to many. It's like trying to decide on a favorite book. Instead, I ask most folks "if you coul watch any movie ever made tonight what would you like to watch?" For me, tonight it would be "The Keep." It's still close enough to Halloween to be a night for chills and the supernatural and that TangerineDream sountrack, the images, the historical setting, the whole vision - that's what I'm in the modd for tonight.

Of course, I would want it to be on DVD so I may have to wait for a bit longer . . .

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Greydog, are you a Bogart fan? You should get Key Largo...it has both Bogart and Edward G Robinson.

I also have Dead Reckoning, To Have & Have Not, and the Big Sleep.

As for my cheesy movie favorite, it's Lost Boys. Terrible script, bad acting...great movie!

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Still thinkin' :lol:

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Hold your breath Matusalem, :lol:

I do not care much for Key Largo. I like Bogart but, that movie is not one of my favorites. I thought Robinson, while an excellent actor, played the character without enough evil (and he WAS evil). I like Bogart best as a heavy or private dick, with Sahara being an exception to that preference.

Thought he was great with Cagney in "Angels with Dirty Faces".

The three of them Bogart, Robinson & Cagney virtually defined the movie gangster and brought a charisma to the screen seldom seen today.

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Hold your breath Matusalem, 

I do not care much for Key Largo

Greydog, I would have to agree with you.

Although, that movie is on my living room shelf, I don't watch it much.

Some of the lines in 'To Have & Have Not' were good "You know how to whistle, Steve....just put your lips together and blow". Dead Reckoning as a bit of a feel-good Bogart movie but not a strong contender. I shall taske your advice. Maltese Falcon & Casablanca I have the DVD.

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Gosh this will be tough

All the Lethal Weapon movies

All the 007 movies

Most of the Indiana Jones Movies

Tequilla Sunrise

The Deep

Le Pac De Loupes

Toombstone

Dances With Wolves

1776

French Kiss

The Wedding Planner

Crossing Delancey (Don't laugh)

Anything by Mel Brooks

Lots of oldies

anything with Bogie or Grant

Especially

Casablanca

The Maltese Falcon

Room for One More

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

And all the Pirate movies of course..

Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help....

Her reputation was her livelihood.

I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice!

My inner voice sometimes has an accent!

My wont? A delicious rip in time...

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Okay...I am gonna list the movies I can think of right now off the top of me head. I am sure I will be adding to the list.

Jaws

Jurassic Park

Ghost in the Darkness

Lost Boys (campy but fun)

Dracula

Heavy Metal

Escape to Witch Mountain

Sleepy Hollow

From Hell

Practical Magic

Notting Hill

Sense and Sensability

American Graffeti

All of the Pyrate movies of course

Indian Jones Movies

Cary Grant Movies especially

Arsenic and Old Lace

The Bishop's Wife

Heidi

The Little Princess

The Wizard of Oz

All of the John Wayne Cowboy Movies especially

Big Jake

McClintock

True Grit

The Angel and the Bad Man

The Sons of Katie Elder

The Quiet Man

Gettysburg

Count of Monte Cristo

James Bond Movies

Tombstone

The Quick and the Dead

Musicals:

On a Clear Day

My Fair Lady

The Sound of Music

The King and I

Grease

Brigadoon

The South Pacific

Well I know there are more...but I gots to think a bit more before I can add them to me list.

:o

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The Dimension of Time is only a doorway to open. A Time Traveler I am and a Lover of Delights whatever they may be.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

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Here are some I can think of off the top of my head -

I always liked the Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood movies, A Fistful Of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, as well as some of the Eastwood movies that came after.

For newer movies, I really enjoyed the Lord Of the Rings trilogy. In my opinion they could have even made it even longer, or in more parts, in order to include a lot of the stuff they left out. I've read the books at least 3 or 4 times since I was young and the movies followed them pretty well.

I also liked the Blade movies... martial arts and vampires, always a good combination !

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Heh forgot a few

Dangerous Liasions

Shakespeare in Love

Moonstruck

Honeymoon in Vegas "Kappa a - a - a?"

Get Shorty

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (a true fave)

Ladyhawke

Henry V (1946)

The Patriot

The River

A Year in Provence

For Holidays

A Childs Christmas in Wales

The Snowman

The Bear (Animated Holiday)

The very best pancakes which was a charming English Import I wish I could find again

A Christmas Carol with Albert Finney

A Charlie Brown Christmas

Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help....

Her reputation was her livelihood.

I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice!

My inner voice sometimes has an accent!

My wont? A delicious rip in time...

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heh..this is just gonna keep going..

Charade - One of my Uber favorites

Only You - * sniff * Also an uber favorite

The Butcher's Wife

Roman Holiday

To Catch a Thief - Oh the clothes, the Riviera, the lines ..sigh

Barefoot in the Park

Breakfast at Tiffany's

The Big Easy - heh, don't get me started..

Centennial

wag the dog

DOA

The Truth about Cats and Dogs

Grosse Point Blank

Hunt for Red October

12 Angry Men - The book as well

A Moment in Time

Four Weddings and a funeral

Get Shorty

The Quiet Man

Cahill US Marshall

The High and the Mighty

Shenandoah - Not the musical

City Slickers

When Harry Met Sally - Who hasn't had "This stupid, wagon wheel, Roy Rogers, garage sale COFFEE TABLE" moment with a roomie?

The Whole Towns Talking

still thinking...

Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help....

Her reputation was her livelihood.

I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice!

My inner voice sometimes has an accent!

My wont? A delicious rip in time...

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Dr. Strangelove

On the Waterfront

The Wild One

Star Wars I (1977)

Glory

Crybaby

The Lost Boys

The Road Warrior

High Society (with frank Sinatra & Louis Armstrong)

High Anxiety (with Mel Brooks)

The Great Gatsy

Dr. Frankenstein (with Gene Wilder)

Caine Mutiny

Touch Of Evil (re-edited version)

Dead Calm

Well....that's the short list.

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All the 007 movies

Even The Man With the Golden Gun and Moonraker?

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” -Oscar Wilde

"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted is really true, there would be little hope of advance." -Orville Wright

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Okay, here goes, and I hope my memory is up to the challenge. :lol:

All time favorite - Lawrence of Arabia

Then, in no particlular order of preference (depends on my mood at the time):

The Quiet Man

The Searchers

Das Boat (?)

Hunt for Red October

Shakespere in Love

PotC 1,2, and 3

Underworld 1 & 2

Road Warrior

Indiana Jones 1,2 & 3

My Fair Lady

LOTR 1,2, and 3

The old Thin Man movies

Muppet Treasure Island

Mary Poppins

Nightmare Before Christmas

Lost Boys

Casablanca

Big Easy

Dangerous Liasons

Excaliber

Wuthering Heights (both the old one with Laurence O., and the newer one with Ralph F.)

The Bishop's Wife (with David Niven)

Star Wars 2,3,4 (going by George's sequence, but 1,2 and 3 by order of appearance)

All the Harry Potter movies (yeah, I know, but I like them!)

Master and Commander (Wish they'd do more of these)

French Kiss

And just because it's fun to watch, and I like the dialogue during the big car chase

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

I know that's not all of them, but it's all I can think of at the moment.

...schooners, islands, and maroons

and buccaneers and buried gold...

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The original Star Wars trilogy

Indiana Jones trilogy

Sleepy Hollow

Beetlejuice

IT

A Room With A View

Serenity

Casablanca

Singin' in the Rain

Army of Darkness

The Goonies

Dracula

Legend

Harry Potter series

Batman (Keaton)

PoTC: Curse of the Black Pearl

Labyrinth

Tombstone

House of Flying Daggers

Dear Frankie

The Haunted Mansion

The Patriot

The Cats Meow

Mystery Men

Shadow of the Vampire

I'm sure there's more...can't think of em right now.

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Mission...welll with enough Russian Vodka (It's sacrelidge to watch Bond without) even those two just for giggles..

of Course Master and Commander...that one scene...yeah! whoo! :P well all of them really...

add Bridget Jones Diary

and the Desk Set - I love that movie

ooh and the African Queen..

Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help....

Her reputation was her livelihood.

I'm a pirate, love. By nature and by choice!

My inner voice sometimes has an accent!

My wont? A delicious rip in time...

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Okay here be some more of me favorite movies I enjoy still watching:

Star Wars (the original trilogy)

Sleepy Hollow

Patriot Games

Willow

Barefoot in the Park (both the movie and the play)

In the Still of the Night

Lady Hawk

The Night of the Grizzly

Die Hard

Die Hard 2

Rocky Movies (five didn't exist)

Bed of Roses

Quigley Down Under

Hunt for Red October

Dr. Frankenstein (with Gene Wilder, this one can never be remade)

The Craft

Disney Animation Movies:

Sleeping Beauty

Cinderella

Snow White

Peter Pan

Beauty and the Beast

Alice in Wonderland

The Rescuers

The Lion King

Robin Hood

Christmas Movies:

A Christmas Carol (especially Albert Finney's version)

Santa and the Three Bears

The Little Drummer Boy

The Night Before Christmas

Home Alone

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Rudolph the Red Nosed Riendeer

Well I know there are more...so I gotta keep thinkin'.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

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Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.

The Dimension of Time is only a doorway to open. A Time Traveler I am and a Lover of Delights whatever they may be.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

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Okay a few more to add to me list:

The Bells of Saint Mary's

Dr. Seuss How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Meet Me in St. Louis

Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Clause

Christmas Carol (Alastair Sims version)

The Christmas Story ( I never tire of this one)

The Nutcracker (Ballet)

I'll be thinking on some more

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Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.

The Dimension of Time is only a doorway to open. A Time Traveler I am and a Lover of Delights whatever they may be.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

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