Some of My Favorite Movies

 

So EVERYONE who knows me knows I like Spaghetti Westerns, primarily The Good, The bad, and The Ugly". So That movie would be #1 for me in any genre. It happens to be a western, so that's cool. Anyway, I like a lot of movies. So what follows is my list of some of my most favorite movies. These flicks had a lasting impact on me. That isn't to say there weren't other great movies from over the years. This is by no means an exhaustive list. It's just the movies that impacted me in a big way.

I'm not listing them in any real order, so here goes.

The Searchers

Alien (1979)

Unforgiven

Excalibur

Flash Gordon

Superman (1978)

Full Metal Jacket

The Thing

The Shining

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Chariots Of Fire

Close Encounters

American Werewolf In London

The Road Warrior

Escape From New York

Star Wars (original trilogy)

Airplane

9 To 5

Rocky 1 & 2

Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan

First Blood

The Right Stuff

A Christmas Story

Beverly Hills Cop

48 Hours

The Terminator

Amadeus

2001 A Space Odyssey

2010 The Year We Make Contact

Back To The Future

Pee Wee's Big Adventure

Crocodile Dundee

Top Gun

The Fly

Predator

RoboCop

Lethal Weapon

The Untouchables

Raising Arizona

Die Hard

Coming To America

Beetlejuice

Batman (1989)

Ghostbusters

Glory

Goodfellas

Miller's Crossing

Barton Fink

Big Lebowski

Blood Simple

Fargo

The Man Who Wasn't There

Wayne's World

Tombstone

Jurassic Park

Shawshank Redemption

Pulp Fiction

Forrest Gump

Braveheart

Seven

The Usual Suspects

12 Monkeys

Brazil

Jabberwocky

The Holy Grail

The Meaning Of Life

Saving Private Ryan

There's Something About Mary

The Matrix

Gladiator

Lord Of The Rings (trilogy)

The Hobbit (trilogy)

Pirates of the Caribbean

Madagascar

The Dark Knight (with Heath Ledger)

Patton

Catch 22

Little Big Man

Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory

The Godfather

Deliverance

Jeremiah Johnson

Papillon

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Blazing Saddles

The Longest Yard

Jaws

The Outlaw Josey Wales

The Bad News Bears

Smokey and the Bandit

Halloween

Dawn Of The Dead

Being There

The Jerk

No Country For Old Men

There Will Be Blood

Kill Bill

Sin City

Iron Man

Inglorious Bastards

A Serious Man

Inside Llewan Davis

True Grit (both of them)

Django Unchained

The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance

Young Frankenstein

Great Movie Novelizations

 

A lost form of literature is the movie novelization! Here are some good ones.

• Star Wars (1977) – Written by Alan Dean Foster (credited under George Lucas), this became one of the best-selling movie novelizations of all time.

Star Wars-Novelization

Halloween (1978) – Written by Curtis Richards (a pseudonym for Richard Curtis), notable for expanding the story with a unique prologue about an ancient Celtic curse in Ireland.

Halloween-Novelization

Logan's Run (1976) – Adapted from the 1967 sci-fi novel by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson, which closely mirrored the futuristic film.
The Omen (1976) – Written by David Seltzer, who also authored the original screenplay for Richard Donner's horror classic.
Escape To Witch Mountain (1975) – Based on Alexander H. Key’s 1968 novel, published as a Disney movie tie-in.
Planet of the Apes sequels – Paperbacks like Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970), Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), and Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973).
The Omega Man (1971) – Tied to the Charlton Heston sci-fi film, which was adapted from Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel I Am Legend

Escape From New York (1981) - by Mike McQuay and originally published in 1981 by Bantam Books.

Escape From New York-Novelization

Check this out...

https://archive.org/details/vintagesciencefi00pete/mode/2up

My Most Influential Books #73: The Book of Alien

 

https://archive.org/details/lccn_930368436

My Favorite Artists #10 - Simon Bisley

 

His ability to draw HUGE veiny muscles is second to none.

My Favorite Artists #9 - Ken Steacy

 

One of my favorite artists is Ken Steacy. His work was simple, yet AWESOME! I fell in love with his style. VERY ahead-of-his-time.

I was particularly impressed with this particular story!

This story is contained in the issue of Epic Illustrated (#11) seen below. I bought this off the rack in 1982. It was impressive.

You can read it and enjoy it for yourself. Follow the link below.

https://archive.org/details/epic-illustrated/epic%20illustrated%20%20%2311/page/n1/mode/2up

My Favorite Artists #8 - Brian Bolland

 

His work on Judge Dredd was phenomenal (see below). His work on Batman was incredible. Love this guy's artwork. Check him out...

https://archive.org/details/TheKillingJoke_201804

My Favorite Artists #7 - Mike Mignola

 

This guy was/is the master of high contrast shadows. It's also called "chiaroscuro". I LOVE his style. 

https://archive.org/details/the-city-mike-mignola-ray-bradbury/mode/2up