Casablanca.
Saving Private Ryan.
Sands of Iwo Jima
Can’t believe we’ve gone this far and no one has mentioned Deliverance!
Just for good measure, I’ll throw in Silverado.
“dick flick” indeed!!
Here’s some more:
**Ransom
Lethal Weapon series
Mad Max series
Braveheart (hey I like Mel Gibson)
Predator 1 and 2 (hey I like Danny Glover too!!)
Henry V
The Godfather series
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God bless you, Yondan, for Jeremiah Johnson.*
*Lonesome Dove
Shane
A Man For All Seasons
Camelot
True Lies
Alien series
The Abyss
Willow
Speed
And it should be the original with James Caan. I didn’t see the recent remake – who knows, maybe it was good, too – but somehow, I doubt it was better than the original.
Everything I’d add has already been named, so I’ll just double-nominate The Godfather I and II, The Great Escape, and every western starring Clint Eastwood.
The Mission
Mountains of the Moon
The Professionals
Point Blank
Emperor of the North (I’ll just nominate most of Lee Marvin’s movies and be done with it, but not The Klansman or Prime Cut)
Big Trouble in Little China
My Name Is Nobody
both Trinity films
Tango & Cash
The Sand Pebbles
Bullitt
since we’re including Leone films:
A Fistful of Dynamite
if anyone knows a woman who likes that movie, let me know.
I say a Three Stooges festival counts as a movie.
Freaks
Tora!Tora!Tora!
Private Parts
The Blues Brothers
Dumb & Dumber
I Am A Fugitive From A Chaingang.
I wholeheartedly second The Outlaw Josey Wales. Best western ever made.
Glory
Remo Williams (The Adventure Begins)
Top Secret
UHF
The Maltese Falcon
Oh, and I forgot…
Repo Man
The Thing
The Shootist
The Cowboys
Animal House
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Blazing Saddles
The Caine Mutiny
The Manchurian Candidate
Rio Lobo
Excalibur
Platoon
Stripes
Pink Floyd The Wall
Pulp Fiction
Usual Suspects
Full
Metal
Jacket
Showgirls - A movie about a young woman attempting to find success as a dancer and the emotional toll she endures when betrayed by those around her. With naked tits.
Ok but before you see army of darkness you have to see its prequil first: EVIL DEAD II
And yes as people who are not in the know I do realize I said part II!
Bottle Rocket
Dead Alive
Swingers
Just to name a few.
The Paul Newman film Hombre. It has a superb villain, Richard Boone - surely one of the most menacing screen presences ever. What would YOU have done if he came up to you in that stagecoach station, 6’2" and 200lb, looking like (to quote) “the Wrath of God”, and demanded your ticket, with one hand on his revolver?
Also, surely, Jaws. No, not for the shark, but for the brilliantly-portrayed relationship between the Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss characters. Saw a documentary recently where Dreyfuss explained that it was pretty much like that in real life, Shaw challenging him to drinking competitions and arm-wrestling and so on!