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Since I'm too lazy to work on a tractor today I'll post this. I really lean towards Blazing Saddles. Maybe Unforgiven or Open Range as a close second.
 
i like alot of them Alot.....But i have to say the one at the top probabaly EL Dorado...The Duke sittin and listening to Dean Martin and Ricky Nelsen sing....that enjoyable!
 
Hands down, best movie ever "The Grapes of Wrath" with a young Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell as his mother.

Honorable mention "How Green was my Valley",,,,,,,,,,,,,, "Casablanca",,,,,,,,,,,,,,Citizen Kane,,,,,,,,,,,,,Now Voyager,,,,,,,,,,,Our Vines have tender grapes,,,,,,,African Queen,,,,,,,,,,Maltese Falcon

More recent great movies: Sling Blade,,,,,,,,,,,Shine,,,,,,,,,,,Shawshank Redemption,,,,,,,,,,,,Hearts in Atlantis

I have around 400 old classic movies recorded, fun hobby plus over 10,000 old time radio programs on my I Pod

OLD John T
 
If its about westerns, The Wild Bunch with stars like Holden, Borgnine, Oates, Johnson, just great action. Paul Newman in Hombre, Hud, or High Noon with Gary Cooper.
 
Not a movie but I've been watching Longmire on Netflix. Modern day kind of western, set in Wyoming near an Indian reservation. Pretty good show so far.
 
Flight of the Phoenix
Dr. Zhivago
Gone with the Wind
Pride and Prejudice
Lonesome Dove
 
I just finished watching "Hell on Wheels" on Netflix,it was filmed in Alberta,It is a great show, 50 episodes and I didn't want it to end.. another show that is on Netflix now is "American Odyssey",, I watched when it was on Direct TV,, another great show, it shows the kind of people that we have in power...I'm watching "Strange Empire" now,, it's good, set on the Montana/Alberta border in the late 1800's... I am really enjoying Netflix,, "NO" commercials...a lot of variety...
 
I'm surprised nobody mentioned "Dances with Wolves." I like all others mentioned, but I think Dances with Wolves is especially great, not just for the superb acting (Costner's best ever) but it was a real turning point in telling a western saga from the perspective of the Indians.
 
Hmmmmm, I forgot about Forest Gump. I didn't
see some of the other movies you listed but
read some of the books.
 
that's Rio Bravo. wish they would show it more often on satellite TV.
I think I seen El Dorado enough to memorize every line spoken.
 
Some favorites:

Cool Hand Luke, Casablanca (hard to believe the Nazis were still in Africa when that was filmed), The Natural, Hoosiers, Witness, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Caddy Shack.
 
(quoted from post at 19:55:34 04/11/16) Since I'm too lazy to work on a tractor today I'll post this. I really lean towards Blazing Saddles. Maybe Unforgiven or Open Range as a close second.
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I'm partial to westerns and like all that have been mentioned. I like "Quiggly Down Under", Almost any western that was filmed in the 50's.
 

I wouldn't say it was the best ever , and I didn't really care for Willie Nelson until I saw "The Red Headed Stranger"

Another vote for Cool Hand Luke .
 
Yes "Quiggly Down Under" was good..I like all of Tom Selleck's movies,,and of course John Wayne...
 
Napoleon Dynamite, hands down. Best low budget comedy movie ever, keep seeing something I missed before every time I see it. Loved "Dances with Wolves" even though I read the book first.
 
"It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" or maybe "Airplane".

The other day I turned on the TV and the "Wizard Of Oz" was on and I caught I think the last half hour. It picked up from where they were sitting at the door to the City Of Oz, I think and they were crying, and the gate keeper guy was looking out the front door at them and he was crying, and got them in to see Oz. Oz told them that they needed to go get the wicked witch of the east's broom and bring it back and then he would grant their wishes, he scared the cowardly lion so bad that he ran and dove through the glass window on his way out. Now having seen that movie countless times over the years, here's the part I never ever caught until I saw it this weekend. Dorothy, the tin man, the scarecrow, the lion, and toto were walking through the woods towards the witch's castle and in plain as plain view, the scarecrow had a revolver in his right hand. I TAPED IT, HE DID. He had a six shot revolver in his right hand, clearly. In one scene they even had a closeup down the bore. Where did the scarecrow get that revolver? And why when the flying monkeys came and attacked them, tore the scarecrow to shreds, picked up Dorothy and Toto and flew them to the wicked witch's castle, why didn't the scarecrow blast any of the flying monkeys? He had a large bore six shooter in his hand. Wasn't loaded or what? No brain to tell him to???

Mark
Dont believe me? Watch closely, scarecrow packing heat
 
Not many great movies being made any more. Too focused on the special effects and not enough storytelling.

Remember, when the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
 
Bridge On The River Kwai;

Casablanca;

It's A Wonderful Life;

Dr. Zhivago.

No particular order.

Dean
 
I really like a lot of the movies mentioned, but I'm going with American Sniper. It's not a great movie compared to some as far as plot and actors, but it is very moving to watch. I've seen it a few times now and one thing that stands out for me is that the theater, even in truckstops, is always quiet during the movie. Most times during a show there are people talking, or at least eating and playing on their phones during a movie in a truckstop. But when that movie plays it is totally quiet. After it is over everyone gets up and leaves with little or no talking. That is something you don't see with any other movie I know. If you haven't seen it I recomend it. It is not light viewing tho and not for small kids.
 
"Water Hole #3", and "The Hallelujah Trail" come to mind.

After watching "The Hallelujah Trail", my sides hurt for a day from laughing. Burt Lancaster got off one of the best lines ever when, as a Cavalry Colonel, he said, "Give a woman an acorn and next thing you know you're up to your rump in oak trees".

Also, a woman was preaching temperance, and in her speech asked, "Do you realize both of my husbands literally drank themselves into an early grave?" Lancaster said, "I can't imagine why".

"Support Your Local Gunfighter" and "Support Your Local Sheriff" also come to mind.

You'll notice I shied away from the usual "Gone With The Wind", "The Sound of Music", etc.
 
Josey Wales - #1 best movie ever


"The Siege of Firebase Gloria" - best war movie. Anybody seen that one?

Open Range - dang best western since El Dorado
 
Two that I can watch every time they come on tv are Fargo and Pulp Fiction.
And for oldies I've even got a dvd of "The Long Long Trailer". For a fan of fifties cars it is a must see.
 
I was always most fond of "Blade Runner". It is a good sci-fi mix of all the classic themes.

In today's world, it does not seem as far-fetched as it did in 1982.
 
WELLllll... hate to tell ya but it is a stage prop. Solid rubber and silver spray paint. No chambers. It was fun to watch and as many times I have watched the movie that never registered! Good call. I can still remember watching it as a kid on our 13 inch Emerson black and white. I rebuilt my parents a 25 in Philco when I worked part time in a repair shop. The first time the OZ was on I almost had a heart attach when she opened the door in Munchkin Land! WOW it's in color!
 
Hahahahaha, hahahaha, that's great! Iv seen that movie many times and don't remember seeing that either, I was probably too scared as a child to have seen the gun, the flying monkeys, the house fell on the wicked witch, the green witch, ect, good observation!
 
Gone With The Wind brought back fond memories, thank you very much. I used to see the gentlemen who purchased the movie rights for Margaret Mitchell's novel quite often. He was a major stockholder in the company I worked for and stopped in regularly. He had also purchased the rights for technicolor for a song because the great movie moguls of that day didn't think moviegoers would want to see pictures in color just as they didn't think people would want "talkies" some years earlier. How wrong they were. He was one of the wealthiest men in the world (top ten) when WWII (The Big One) started. He was old enough to not be called but he dutifully volunteered, went to OCS and was commissioned in the Army Air Corps and assigned to intelligence. While working with the French Underground, he was captured and put on a POW train destined for Germany. A US air strike on the train destroyed the locomotive and derailed the train. In the confusion, he escaped and made his way back to the Underground. Interesting character. He also coined the term "crew cut" by convincing his Yale rowing crew that they could make better speed by cutting their hair short. A champion polo player and all around athlete he was called "Jock" by his friends. His name was John Hay Whitney. His sister, Joan, gave birth to the New York Mets and was principal owner of the Mets after failing to keep the Dodgers in New York.
 
A lot of the movies listed are among my favorites. I am a fan of the old WWII movies, Battle of the Bulge, and like someone mentioned, Saving Private Ryan. When 'Fury' came out I had to go to the theater and watch it....excellent! It is about the ground battle towards the end of WWII. The American advance groups equipment is pretty much depleted and the American units at the front are just trying to hold on. This was after the Battle of the Bulge and for some reason, this movie just puts me right in the middle of the fight.
Thanks for this thread Sprint 6.
 
For me it is Smokey and the Bandit, the first one. John Wayne, Clint Eastwood all are good ones. Also like the James Bond movies.
 
All the movies I have seen listed are great movies. I do tend to lean towards basically anything the Coen Brothers have done.
 
Always liked the Planet of the Apes movies. Back to the Future series as well. So many to mention. I do remember when I got done watching The Matrix....I said out loud Whoa....I have to watch that again (to understand it lol) Never said that about a movie before.
 
Blazing Saddles is # 1 for me. Also any Clint Eastwood and John Wayne, also Charles Bronson's Death Wish. Movie "The Gods must be crazy" is a good one too, makes you think about this world we live in..
 
I haven't seen a movie since the seventies or eighties, but I did like "Back to College" with Dangerfield.
 
I took High School German so when I sat in the movie theater I could get about 1/3 of the dialog right off the bat. Sub titles always help but it was neat to understand a lot of it. When they are stuck on the bottom in the straights and the magazine guy ask the captain what are our chances? The captain says Das stut meir lied. I am doing this in sqwissy German. Anyhow it means I am so sad I want to hand you my heart. "we are screwed" I was sitting there trying to hold my breath long enough. The ending of that movie the first time I saw it the entire audience walked out in silence! There is their sub doing a slow sink right in the dock! It was next a German TV mini docudrama and ran like almost six hours. I would guess several nights worth. Look it up on Wiki, Very good read. If you pick up the super dooper blue ray version it is almost six hours long.
 
"On Borrowed Time", a 1939 classic

"Le Mans" with Steve Mcqueen

Also "A Bridge Too Far", "American Graffiti", "Taxi Driver"

Hard to have a true favorite; depends on what mood I'm in.
 
I like all the ones mentioned so far and will add The Quiet Man with the Duke and Maureen O'Hara, The Sting with Paul Newman and Mel Brooks's the History of The World, Part 1.
 
A lot of very good WWII movies out there.

Anything with Jimmy Steward.

Maybe the movie that made the biggest impression was Star Wars - saw it without hearing anything about it, didn't have any expectations. Wow.... It might not be the best movie ever, but it took my breath away the most.

Out of the mainstream, quiet little movies I liked was 'The Night Before' which somehow struck my funny bone years ago. And 'The Wrestler' which is a little more adult view of human nature.

American Graffiti was pretty good too, not in the classics of old, but need to see that again some day, had a lot in it.

Paul
 
If I may say so.......
There is no "best movie ever."
There are MANY really excellent movies as well as some real dogs. That which is said to be the greatest is only in the opinion of those who like it.

Now that you mention it, some of my favorites were the early Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns. Most anything with John Wayne was good. There were also some good old movies that were fun to watch. Like Sunset Carson, Rocky Lane with his sidekick Nugget Clark, Frog Milhouse, Bob Steele, Gene Autry, and let us not forget Roy Rogers.
 
Reading through all the responses has jogged my memory back to a lot of great films. For drama how about Midnight Cowboy or the English Patient. Action/adventure, Sorcerer with Roy Schider, a remake of Wages of Fear. Rosemary's Baby was a scary movie. No violence, no blood, just scary. An old oater, The Westerner, is my favorite western.
 
Anything with Eastwood or John Wayne. Charlton Heston was great in Mountain Men. Have always liked movies with Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson.
 
So much of Blazing Saddles almost never got made! Read the Wiki site about it cause it is quite a read. "What is a dazzling urbanite like you doing in a rustic setting like this"??? Love when Mongo punches out the horse! "We offer a laurel wreath and a hardy hand shake to our new Sher..." I heard the politicaly correct crowd in 1974 gasp. Too blasted bad! Reading the Wiki page I started laughing through the whole thing. Camp town races, Lily Von Shtupp, Would you care for another grussen monger? Know that is just a little off. Our phoney bolognia jobs, Howard Johnson with only one flavor, YES and NO with arrows on the back of Mongo's ride, And the Waco Kid. Little punk shot me in the a*******. Oh please enough. Candy Gram
 
Though I hardly consider American Graffiti one of the "greatest" movies, it is certainly one of my favorites.

Dean
 
I was going to say American harvest or race against the harvest same movie different title
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Of all the tinkerers, gear heads, racers, motorcickle riders on here... Where's "Worlds Fastest Indian"?

Honorable mention:

Second Hand Lions
Forest Gump
Three Stooges
 
I know what you mean.

For me it is one of those where everything comes together: right plot, right actors, right soundtrack, right pacing
 
Blues Brothers is another one of my favorites. So many quotables in there.

I like that scene where they're on the elevator and you can hear the Muzak version of Girl from Ipanema. Such a great juxtaposition with the violent mob chasing after them.
 
Dang, I was going to comment, but I nearly every movie I wanted to mention had already been mentioned. Two I didn't see were Top Gun and the spoof, called Hot Shots, which was hilarious.

Best I've seen though was Saving Private Ryan.
 
Too many to choose just one... and all over the place for subject matter:

Gone with the Wind

The Ten Commandments

ALL of the John Wayne westerns.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

A Star is Born

The Bucket List

Deliverance

Animated: Ice Age... especially the first one.

Animated: Open Season... especially the first one.
 
The Searchers, cool hand Luke, Hud, Magnificent Seven, Patton, She wore a yellow ribbon, blazing saddles, Mcclintock, Good bad and the ugly, The great escape, wild bunch, Psycho, Grapes of wrath, Casino, godfather, goodfellows, High noon, Baby the rain must fall
 
Not movies, per se, but mini-series:

Winds of War and War and Remembrance
Shogun
Root

Movie: Exodus
 
In Harm's Way with John Wayne and Patricia Neal.
Das Boot.
And of course, the BBC mini series adaptation of the greatest novel ever written - Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth and Jenner Ehle
 
Blazing Saddles!!!!!!
A Million ways to Die in the West
Operation Petticoat
Jaws
Das Boot
Saving Private Ryan
Memphis Belle
Strategic Air Command
Top Gun
Green Hornet
This is the End
 

I read down through many of what has been Posted I didn't see

Lonesome Dove? Maybe it was too long?? & Open Range..

I guess I'm a Duvall, Wayne & Hanks Fan as well...
 
Great to see someone mentioning "Operation Pettycoat". I was crewmember of USS Balao ( the Pink submarine" for short while, though not in 1959 when film was made. You could chip down through several layers of paint on the hull and find pink paint, though. When I reported aboard in 1964, they soon learned that I had not seen the flick, and that is all the excuse the y needed to roll out one of the complimentary copies they were give to show it again on after battery! Great comedy that was made aboard an operating US submarine, no mock-ups as in other submarine movies.
 
Well... I can't say it was the greatest movie ever but I don't see any mention of "Oh Brother Where Art Thou".
Good music and funny too.
 
Good post.
Balao was the namesake of it's class.
A tough hulled, deep diving bugger that the Japanese didn't think we could build.
Balao was the biggest class of subs ever built.
They served well and brought most of their crews home. I'm pleased to meet someone who served on her. May I ask what your rating was?
 
I have the impression "The World's Fastest Indian" was watered down to appeal to a wide audience and that caused it to miss its mark. It was a good movie but with more focus on Munrow and what he did to the bike it could have been the greatest gearhead movie of all time.
 
Apparently you haven't seen "The Bridges of Madison County". If that was the only Clint Eastwood movie you'd ever seen you'd hate him.
 
Gene, 'Grapes of Wrath' is one of my favorites. Maybe because Oklahoma, my birthplace, wouldn't let it be seen in the State. (Censored) as it put the bankers in a bad light. Well Gene, I'm letting you know that Oklahoma, even until the late 70's, closely resembled the 'live cartoon' Dukes of Hazzard. Yeah, I'm an 'Okie' but I have no pride in what my State, unnatural home of the Cherokee Nation, became.
 
If you like historical :

The Emigrant
The New Land
About Swedish Imigrants lives in Sweden, trip to US & life in MN.
Both made in Sweden w/ eng. subtitles. 1971-72
 
I like a lot of those listed two that were not on list Von Ryan's Express and the Lone Ranger (with Johnny Depp)
 
(quoted from post at 19:20:10 04/11/16) Not a movie but I've been watching Longmire on Netflix. Modern day kind of western, set in Wyoming near an Indian reservation. Pretty good show so far.
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Is Longmire on now? Are they current or old? If so where. I watched up till last year but can't find it now.
 
That was on the T.V. last week ! I watched it and it was funny. But I cringed when they were wrecking all those (now) classic cars. They dont make them like that anymore !
 
Longmire is a newer series. It did get cancelled off the original channel but is now still showing new episodes on Netflix. Cant tell you when as I don't get that but have heard its there.
 
I just wasted time watching Bitter Harvest because it was mentioned here. It sucked! I could see what was going on half way through.
 
There's a few actors that you can be confident in seeing a good show. Denzel Washington (really liked him and Christopher Walken in Man on Fire), Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Leonardo DiCaprio (not a big fan, but he makes some good ones).

Watching Josh Brolin in Men in Black 3 it was easy to forget you really weren't watching a younger Tommy Lee Jones.

Mel Gibson's The Patriot was a good one. Loosely based on the story of the swamp fox, a colonial who in public posed as a loyalist, his men would raid loyalist homes while they were at his parties. Tavington was based on Benestre "Benny the Butcher" Tarleton, who, upon catching up with a small force of militia and colonial regulars, set formation and marched his tired men into the Battle of Cowpens, with no knowledge of the colonial formations or the lay of the battlefield, turning the tide of the war. That small colonial force was led by Morgan and the militia was his unit of riflemen. They had a nasty habit of sniping the British officers, leaving the regulars with no leadership on the field, rendering them ineffective. Contrary to the movie, General Lord Cornwallace was not at that battle.

Ben Johnson loved to ride, and John Ford loved to film him riding. He, Tom Selleck, Sam Elliot, and Jeff Osterhage worked quite well together in a couple Louis L'Amour adaptations.

I liked the Jeff Bridges version of True Grit better than John Wayne's. Most John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart westerns are worth a watch, especially with Maureen O'Hare. She and Olive Carey had good roles and played them well. Olive Carey was in the searchers, and in Night Passage with Jimmy Stewart.

I want to see the searchers and she wore a yellow ribbon. John Wayne named his son after his character in the searchers, and the shootout at the corral in ribbon was played out how Wyatt Earp explained it happened on a movie set when he was an old man.

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry. Tore up the county but didn't actually hurt anyone, and got theirs in the end. That movie is the sole reason for my life-long want of a sub-lime dodge charger.

They say if you pause the DVD on the right frame at the end of Vanishing Point, you can see the trunk lid badge from the Camaro that they actually towed into the dozers.

The last one I can think of that hasn't been named yet is The Last Samurai. Tom Cruise plays a drunk, retired US soldier who is hired to train the Japanese army to fight the Samurai, but finds peace while living among them through the winter after being captured, redemption through fighting the Japanese army with them to protect the people and the way of life that brought him that peace.
 
(quoted from post at 22:38:20 04/11/16) Blazing Saddles is # 1 for me. Also any Clint Eastwood and John Wayne, also Charles Bronson's Death Wish. Movie "The Gods must be crazy" is a good one too, makes you think about this world we live in..
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I haven't seen the "Gods must be Crazy" in years. I always remember the scene where the guys is trying to get the jeep through the gate. It reminds me of an old tractor and gates we had when I was a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVBxQMSYLng
 
It comes and goes depending what station is broadcasting it. The line is given by Madeline Khan when the screen it blacked out while she seduces the sheriff. Very easy to get cut.




http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/BlazingSaddles


Look under "black".
 
(quoted from post at 22:20:10 04/11/16) Not a movie but I've been watching Longmire on Netflix. Modern day kind of western, set in Wyoming near an Indian reservation. Pretty good show so far.
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That is a very good show.
 
(quoted from post at 23:57:47 04/11/16) Saving Private Ryan.

That movie should be made required viewing in all high schools.
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Ageed!! The opening scenes of that movie is as close as anyone who wasn't there is going to get to being there.
 
(quoted from post at 00:28:41 04/12/16) All the movies I have seen listed are great movies. I do tend to lean towards basically anything the Coen Brothers have done.

You have good taste.
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(quoted from post at 10:38:36 04/12/16) Well... I can't say it was the greatest movie ever but I don't see any mention of "Oh Brother Where Art Thou".
Good music and funny too.
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It's quite high on my list, thanks for mentioning it.
 
(quoted from post at 10:43:22 04/12/16) Apparently you haven't seen "The Bridges of Madison County". If that was the only Clint Eastwood movie you'd ever seen you'd hate him.
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Why? I thought he was particularly good in that film.
 

I'd like to say that this is the best thread that I have ever seen on this site....although... it is in the wrong forum.
 
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