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

If I choose to see a movie more than once, then it is a good movie in my opinion. Any movie that rewards repeated viewing is a "good movie" in my opinion.

There was a CLEAR and OBVIOUS decline in the quality of Hollywood movies around the year 2015. In fact, anything from the 2010's is iffy to say the least. I don't know exactly what happened but there was a steep decline in the quality of material churned out by the studios around that time. Too much woke garbage, and DEI casting. Oh yeah, and the rise and proliferation of Ass-Kicking Female characters. So dumb. Also the fact that many non-black characters were black-washed into being "people of color". Most glaringly stupid example...

But I digress...

Interestingly, that yawning void in cinematic quality was filled by good TV shows like "The Walking Dead" (2010-2019) and especially "Breaking Bad" (2008-2013) which, in my opinion boasted some of the best acting performances ever lensed. That goes for "Better Call Saul" too (2015-2022).

NOTE: In my opinion, "The Walking Dead" should have wrapped up in 2019 with Season 9, episode 5. It had pretty much run its course by then. Anything after that is just milking the series for money. It is still going on even to this day (as of October 2026). They are going to ride that horse until it dies. That is one thing I really loved about Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. They told a story, and then wrapped it up. They didn't go on and on. I respect that.