Your top 10 Fav movies

[Cbz40]

Tombstone

Wyatt Earp.....Kevin Costner's , Burt Lancaster version was pretty good.

Gone With the Wind

Peyton Place

Return of Peyton Place

The Thing.......The 1952 version....scared the hell out of me.

The Ten Commandments

The Robe

Psycho

Blackboard Jungle

Thunder Road......Robert Mitchem

The Alamo....John Wayne

In Harms Way......John Wayne

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon....John Wayne

The Horse Soldiers....John Wayne

Tom Mix & Smitt.....

 

[Yeagermeister]

Tombstone

Wyatt Earp.....Kevin Costner's , Burt Lancaster version was pretty good.

Gone With the Wind

Peyton Place

Return of Peyton Place

The Thing.......The 1952 version....scared the hell out of me.

The Ten Commandments

The Robe

Psycho

Blackboard Jungle

Thunder Road......Robert Mitchem

The Alamo....John Wayne

In Harms Way......John Wayne

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon....John Wayne

The Horse Soldiers....John Wayne

Tom Mix & Smitt.....

the silent or talkie versions?

 

[silverbear]

the silent or talkie versions?

You just KNEW somebody was gonna go there...

Looks like cbz hasn't been inside a movie theater since the invention of pea salad, doesn't it??

 

[arglebargle]

As an old west quasi historian I have a lot of opinions on westerns that portray actual events. Earp was a shameless self promoter and his version of the events of OK Corral is the only known version to the majority of the world. Earp literally took this story to Hollywood himself trying to sell it.

I won't tell you which one to like better or bore you with some of the details that the popular storyline avoid, or even the eventual fate of Ike Clanton. I've studied all of it. I even know the great great nephew of Wyatt Earp, whose name is Wyatt Earp. No joke, he is a stuntman/gunfighter for the Arizona Gunfighters who do gunfight shows all over this state. Some of them appeared in a documentary I wrote and I get in to all of their shows for free. They do the popular version in their shows.

Long and short of this is, Wyatt was no saint like the Henry Fonda version in "My Darling Clementine" which is a great movie. Nor were his brothers or Doc. Were they more law abiding than the Clantons, et al? Probably. Those 2 movies come closer to the true story than almost 100 years of Earp's version. Therefore I like them both.

I agree with you that I like Costner better as Earp than Russell. Kilmer, for me, was Doc. I think he aced the part. Both stole the show in their movies in my opinion.

Hey Hos, are you familiar with the book 'A Dynasty of Western Outlaws' written by a old Kansas City newspapter reporter? If so, what's your opinion of it?

For those who really want to see a different spin on a western film, check out the film 'Utu!', which is set in New Zealand, and is the story of the Geronimo of the Maori, the last band to fight it out with the Brits, circa 1865... Some fun stuff, and beautiful scenary!

 

[Faerluna]

Shakespeare in Love
The Shawshank Redemption
Amadeus
Braveheart
Dances With Wolves
Full Metal Jacket
The Color Purple
The Usual Suspects
LotR series
Harry Potter series

 

[Deputy493]

Tombstone

Wyatt Earp.....Kevin Costner's , Burt Lancaster version was pretty good.

you need to read Frontier Marshall if you haven't yet about Wyatt Earp, great book.

Many like Tombstone better of the two movies and it was entertaining, but Wyatt Earp with Costner was far more accurate as to what really happened......although both movies have some inaccuracies and are hollywoodized in many parts.

 

[Champsheart]

No paticualr order -

Rocky Series
Lord of the Rings series
Starwars series
Scarface
Any old Clint Eastwood western
Face Off
Con Air
Heat
Under Siege
Cheech and Chong series

 

[tomson75]

No paticualr order -

Rocky Series
Lord of the Rings series
Starwars series
Scarface
Any old Clint Eastwood western
Face Off
Con Air
Heat
Under Siege
Cheech and Chong series

Seriously?

 

[JawsJaws]

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1,2 remake,beginning,3,4 in that order)
Band Of Brothers -(6 disc series couldnt stop watching)
Night Of The Living Dead- (filmed close to where I live..been there and took pics)All the zombie movies seemed like they were made around western PA
Frequency- (Dennis Quaid)
Box Of Moonlight- (John Turturro and sam Rockwell)
The War- (Kevin Costner)
Southern Comfort- (Keith Carradine Powers Boothe)
What Dreams May Come- (Robin Williams)
Titanic (Leonardo DeCaprio)
Pearl Harbor
Bad Boys- (Sean Penn one)
Backdraft- (Kurt Russell)
Escape From Alcatraz
Some of the first ones I can think of. Take the love scenes out of Titanic and Pearl Harbor though.

 

[DallasEast]

A true top ten list for me:

Patton

The Bridge Over The River Kwai

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Kill Bill Volume 1 & 2 (technically, it's one movie )

Ghandi

Star Wars: A New Hope

John Carpenter's The Thing (sorry CBZ )

Escape From New York

Spider-Man

Dog Day Afternoon

Like most everyone else, there are too many favorites to list after the first ten.

 

[Champsheart]

Seriously?

Yep! Love both of them.

 

[the kid 05]

nice group of movies.

i love the matrix trilogy, but IMO the first matrix was 10 times better then the 2nd and 3rd.

amd what is LOTR?

i think each of the matrix movies has their own thing cept for the second one...first one, the lobby...well whats left of it any whoooo, the third one, i'm pretty sure the fights still going on

 

[sacowboysfan513]

Here's my top 10 in no particular order:

1.) Saw 1 - #2 Was good but not as good and they overdid it in #3. The first one was pretty mind blowing when I first watched it.

2.) Dumb and Dumber - Best Jim Carey movie IMO. Hilarious!

3.) Shawshank Redemption - Terrific story.

4.) Silent Hill - I'm a big fan of the game and this was definately the best movie that has been based on a game. I hope there is more.

5.) Shaun of the Dead - Great comedy. Best zombie movie I have seen.

6.) Spider Man 1 - What a fun movie to watch.

7.) Spider Man 2 - I had even more fun watching this movie.

8.) Princess Bride - A classic.

9.) Gladiator - Just thought it was a great movie.

10.) The Matrix - I never wanted to see a sequel so badly as I did after I finished watching this movie.