The Ten Movies You Just Can't Do Without

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Strictly off the top of my head and in no particular order.

Joe Dirt
Open Range
Forrest Gump
Gettysburg
We Were Soldiers
Act of Valor
Ben Hurr
Kingdom of Heaven
Saving Private Ryan
Patriot

22

That was Vernon Wells, not Freddy Mercury. He was in Mad Max 2 also.

One of my favorite bad guys

23

Collateral

John Wick

Fury

The Princess Bride (lots of quotable lines)

Red Dawn

The Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises

The Avengers

V for Vendetta

The new True Grit

24

Definitely.

25

Some need no introduction but some I feel do being lower profile movies.

  1. Warrior

Tom Hardy starred in this before he got that popular.

About two brothers who are competing MMA fighters. It’s about their struggles, inner demons, one’s checkered past as a Marine and them both coming to grips with their childhood, their father, their relationship now, and forgiveness. It’s an extremely powerful movie.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1212910-warrior/

  1. The Departed

  2. Fury

  3. Alien/Aliens

  4. Rounders

  5. American History X

  6. The Fugutive

  7. The Hunt For Red October

  8. Cinderella Man

  9. 127 Hours

This being based on a true story makes it all that more remarkable what an amazing film it is. The guy is a mountain climber who gets trapped by himself. The isolation he endures, the torture, and the courage he has to do what he had to do to survive makes it awesome.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/127_hours/?search=127%20hours

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26

Princess Bride, a chick flick? Inconceivable!!

Collateral
Heat
Ronin
Way of the Gun
Forbidden Planet
Point Break
Hunt for Red October
Manchurian Candidate (original of course)
Man on Fire (Denzel Version)
Star Wars: a new hope

Put on random play and leave the TV alone.

27

I’ve decided that I forgot Highlander because it had Queen, Sean Connery, and Katana swords before they got played out.

28

I watched that last night. Something tells me I have seen it a long time ago, or parts of it. That is a good one. That’s one of those… ‘there’s just no good way out of this’ situations.

29

Princess Bride, Fifth Element, and Out Cold are about the only movies that displace Pixar or Pixar-Disney movies for my top fifteen most watched.

Monsters Inc., Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Up, Ratatouille, Inside Out, Toy Story, Big Hero 6 round out the rest.

Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, and Serenity fill out the rest of the top 15.

30

Oldboy is kind of a cult classic among the people who make action films, so you may have seen bits and pieces of other movies that were done in homage to Oldboy.

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  1. Tombstone
  2. Unforgiven
  3. The Untouchables (the shootout at the train station is amazing)
  4. Saving Private Ryan
  5. Glory
  6. Scent of a Woman (next to Patton…this is the best movie speech ever!)
  7. Heat
  8. The Lost City
  9. Hildalgo
  10. Collateral

There are others…but these are my favs.

32

That is a great way to describe it.

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I am Legend(alt ending)
The Postman
Star Wars(all of them)
Star Trek(the two new ones, hope more are to come)
The Terminator(all of them)
Alien(most of them)
Avatar
Predator(most of them)
Fury
Band of Brothers
Saving Private Ryan
Lone Survivor
American Sniper
BlackHawk Down
We were Soliders
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Act of Valor
Tombstone
The Searchers
Open Range
Silverado
Quigley Down Under

only 10…ooops.

34

My list, in no specific order:

-Escape from New York

-The Empire Strikes Back

-Raiders of the Lost Ark

-Lord of the Rings

-Alien/Aliens

-Seven Samurai

-Last of the Mohicans

-Black Hawk Down

-The Thing

-The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

35

Adding “The Dogs of War” (1980) to my list.

Great movie for so many different reasons.