As I was thinking about my favorite tv personality a lot of movies came to mind.... Favorite movie hands down...Braveheart. Funny coincidence is that both of my daughters first movie was Braveheart. Laying on the couch in the hospital room, trying to nap as I had been up all night and there it is.
Funny how others' picks trigger great memories of forgotten films.
"Cool Hand Luke" reminded me of a favorite Hitchcock film with Paul Newman and Julie Andrews, "Torn Curtain." And that reminded me of Julie Andrews and James Garner in "The Americanization of Emily." And this brought up probably the greatest musical on film, "Sound of Music," perfectly cast and perfectly realized.
I remember seeing this in a grand theater, the Temple in Tacoma, with a cinerama screen, uniformed ushers, the works. Saw "Lawrence of Arabia" in this same theater.
Two other films of this era were must-sees for boys breaking into puberty: "Zulu" and "The Great Escape." I remember lines snaking around the block ...
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Dr. Strangelove
Silverado
Barfly
All Quiet Along the Western Front
Stagecoach
Napoleon Dynamite
Early John Wayne Republic Movies
And on and on.....
And on that note (obviously too many to have just one favorite):
Stop calling me Shirley (Airplane)
The Naked Gun series
The Lives of Others
Jeremiah Johnson
Office Space
Godfather I & II
Silverado
High Plains Drifter
Fried Green Tomatoes (ok, it's a chic flick, but I spent a lot of time in the south)
Just about any WWII, but especially the Band of Brothers series (more of a mini-series).
Lord of the Rings trilogy
The realism in Platoon is because the characters actually existed and the events actually happened. Yes, there was some "Hollywood" involved but not a whole lot. Just enough to make a story out of it. Oliver Stone made sure every detail was as real as it could be and he was the best judge of that as this was his personal story/experience. He gets a gold star for this one.
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