Shawshank Redepmtion – Anytime this movie is on I can watch it. Even in the same day. Never gets old.

Gladiator. Love it.

Saving Private Ryan

Napoleon Dynamite – so strange but still genius in its oddity

The Dark Knight

BLAZING SADDLES

Not even close. Never have I seen a movie that I can continue to watch over and over and still piece together. Simply brilliant.

A few others:
Seven
Fight Club
The Shawshank Redemption
Shaun of the Dead
Hard Candy
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Requiem for a Dream
American Psycho

and I’m not ashamed to tear up at the end.

Aside from that, Blazing Saddles and Gladiator round it out for me.

Green Street Hooligans, Dead Poet’s Society, Anchorman, Shawshank, A Few Good Men.

Shawn of the Dead
Iron Man
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Great Robert Downy Jr. Flick)
Lucky Number Slevin
Baseketball
office Space

And so many more I cant remember

“Star Wars…. nothing but Starrrrr Warrrrrs”
Alright so I am a geek, shoot me.
Episodes IV – VI only please.

Drama – A Bronx Tale, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Musical – The Music Man, Paint Your Wagon
Comedy – Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Ferris Bueller, All the “Back to the Future” movies

Good Will Hunting
Syriana
Godfather 1 & 2
Rounders
Caddyshack
Boondock Saints
Office Space
Field of Dreams
The Departed
Bourne Identity
Rushmore
Juno
Little Miss Sunshine
Shawshank
Reservoir Dogs

Too many????

always look forward to watching this one!

A very large and economically diverse list:

Ben Hur
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
A Christmas Story
Office Space
It Happens Every Spring
Citizen Kane
It’s a Wonderful Life
The Wedding Singer
The Longest Yard (Burt version)
Cool Hand Luke
The 10 Commandments
Pulp Fiction
The Godfather I & II
Bull Durham
Beavis and Butthead do America
Little Miss Sunshine
Plan 9 From Outter Space
Rudy (I know! I know!)
The Blues Brothers
The Quiet Man
In the Name of the Father

Naked Gun
Airplaine!
Braveheart
Zoolander
White Christmas
Back to the Future
The Princess Bride

Best. Movie. Ever. I bought the VHS and wore it out. I bought the DVD and wore it out. I have a new DVD of it, and still I look for it on TCM’s listings. I love this movie as much as I hate Moulin Rouge.

My guilty pleasure list (some aren’t so guilty)—
Major League
Field of Dreams
The Running Man
Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction
Star Trek: First Contact
Shawshank
Goldfinger
Austin Powers (the first one only)
The Blues Brothers
Ghostbusters
Bloodsport
Enter the Dragon

just got through watching a few older movies—-hitman and 21, both were pretty darn good. another movie i watched recently was the life of david gale—excellent movie.

monkey business (marx bros.)
a dog’s life (chaplin)
city lights (chaplin)
the big lebowski
rounders
bull durham
the fugitive

Stranger Than Fiction

any cheesy comedies from the 80’s. Caddyshack, Stripes, Blues Brothers—these are my favorites to watch over and over. Any early Mel Brooks especially Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part I and the Producers. These aren’t the best of all time, but the ones I’ll sit and watch and never get tired of. The highest quality movies I’ve ever seen include the first two Godfather movies, Goodfellas, Shawshank Redemption, the first Rocky (stop looking at me funny—it won for best picture), Unforgiven, Dark Knight, Ben Hur, Spartacus, Gladiator—too many to list as far as I’m concerned. These are great little OT posts to keep us from completely losing our minds over the game, thanks for these.

any cheesy comedies from the 80’s. Caddyshack, Stripes, Blues Brothers—these are my favorites to watch over and over. Any early Mel Brooks especially Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part I and the Producers. These aren’t the best of all time, but the ones I’ll sit and watch and never get tired of. The highest quality movies I’ve ever seen include the first two Godfather movies, Goodfellas, Shawshank Redemption, the first Rocky (stop looking at me funny—it won for best picture), Unforgiven, Dark Knight, Ben Hur, Spartacus, Gladiator—too many to list as far as I’m concerned. These are great little OT posts to keep us from completely losing our minds over the game, thanks for these.

about the double post. posting from work and the network is hit and miss on whether or not it will let me post. must’ve hit the post button twice.

so some of this list will likely mean nothing to anyone but me. In no particular order…

Life of Oharu
Ten
Taste of Cherry
Bull Durham
Borat (laughed so hard I couldn’t see the screen)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Dr. Strangelove

Documentaries:

Grey Gardens and anything by Maysles brothers
Heartworn Highways
Grizzly Man
Capturing the Friedmans

That’s enough for now :-)

I think I love it more each time I watch it.

300

Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty… For tonight, we dine in hell!

Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Casablanca
The Big Sleep
In a Lonely Place
Blues Bros
Bad News Bears
Shawshank
High Plains Drifter
The Thin Man
McKennas Gold
Kill Bill
Sin City

Be there a Cub fan who doesn’t like The Blues Brothers?

You won’t be judged (at least by me). Promise. ;-)

Fight Club
American Beauty
Boogie Nights
Big Lebowski
Good Will Hunting
Lost in Translation
The Professional
Pulp Fiction
Shawshank Redemption
Apocalypse Now
Godfather 1 & 2
Bull Durham
The Incredibles

Dramas: Rear Window, The Mission, Amadeus
Comedies: Adaptation, Twin Dragons, Coen Bros. Whatever
Doc: The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Braveheart. Platoon.

Kiss Me Deadly 1955
Ever since I saw it at the Parkway ( Clark & Diversey) in 1983. I work for a company that deals in classic and foreign films and went to grad school at UCLA and still when I first told people this was my favorite everyone thought I was nuts now it is considered by most film people to be one the most influential films of all time

Other favorites

Man Who Laughs
The Wind
Kanal
Sunset Blvd
Singin’ In The Rain
In a Lonely Place
Ordet
Palm Beach Story
Godfather ( first two parts)
Local Hero
Day for Night

These stand out in my head:

Airplane!
Fight Club
Patton
The Running Man (one of us is in BIG trouble)
Holy Grail
Shawshank
Slap Shot
The Sandlot
Blues Brothers
Groundhog Day (and pretty much all of Murray’s movies)
Field of Dreams
Seven
The Mighty Ducks
Twelve Monkeys
Saving Private Ryan

Recommended Fanpost!!!! This is my first one ever. Thank you everyone.

You like me, you really like me. (kind of fitting for this fanpost)

The Stunt Man
The World According To Garp
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
Bull Durham
Brazil
Husbands (and anything else by John Cassavetes)
A Hard Day’s Night
Eyes Wide Shut
Joe Versus The Volcano
Manhattan
The Big Lebowski
The Godfather (1, 2 and, yes, even 3)
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
Red River
My Darling Clementine
Duck Soup
Rear Window
Deconstructing Harry
A League of Their Own
The Sweet Smell of Success
Local Hero
This Is Spinal Tap

Midnight Run

The Sweet Hereafter
The Thin Red Line
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Fog of War
Way of the Gun
The House of Yes
Iron Giant
The Limey
Miller’s Crossing
My Neighbor Totoro
The Sheltering Sky
Suicide Club
Vamp
Velvet Goldmine
Last Year in Marienbad
Bubba Ho-tep

But if I had to pick one, it would probably be Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.

How about most overrated? I would have to say “There Will be Blood”

as if this wasnt apparent from my signature line.
Blazing Saddles
Better Off Dead
Heathers
Pump Up the Volume
Breakfast Club
Dirty Dozen
Patton
King of Kong – this is a documentary about a guy trying to break the all time high score in Donkey Kong. Simply Awesome!

Office Space
Serenity
Monty Python and the Holy Grail or Life of Brian
Ladder 49
Boondock Saints
Moulin Rouge
Transformers
Princess Bride
Anchorman

Donnie Darko
The Big Lebowski
Anchorman
Kill Bill
28 Days Later
Shawn of the Dead
Superbad
BASEketball (hell yes, BASEketball. Movie’s hilarious, and I’ve wanted a road Milwaukee Beers jersey for the longest time)

office space
waiting
Super troopers
hot rod
employee of the month
ferris buellers day off
son in law
biodome
the pest
rookie of the year
encino man
THE BURBS!!!
waynes world
what about bob
kingpin
teenage mutant ninja turtle 2(LOL)

2 favorite serious movies
life of david gale
american history X

Wow, from the lists of movies, it looks like a lot of younger people frequent on this site.

As you’ll be able to tell, I’m a big fan of ‘classic’ movies.

North by Northwest (Hitchcock and Grant, friggin’ great).
Angels with Dirty Faces (Love Cagney and will watch anything with him in it).
Casablanca (Same for Bogey, watch anything he did).
Godfather (One of the all time best).
Citizen Kane (top 5 all time)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (hahahahahha)
Apocalypse Now (Intense).
To Kill A Mockingbird (Peck did a superb job).
Vertigo (Hitchcock and Stewart, more great cinema).
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (Great thriller, blows the recent remake out of the water).
Duck Soup (Rufus T. Firefly: I got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it).
The French Connection (Love Hackman)
Arsenic and Old Lace (Another Hitchcock and Grant classic. Peter Lore and Raymond Massey are great as well).

If you haven’t seen all the movies on the list above, you should take the time to watch them all at least once.

I’ll also sit and watch and old spaghetti western with Eastwood (especially like ‘A Fistful of Dollars’) or some of the old John Wayne flicks. Also love any Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, Stooges type stuff as well).

but here is a shot:
Best in Show
Field of Dreams
Big Lebowski
Black Hawk Down
Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers, just great.
Rear Window
Vertigo
Dark Knight

If you haven’t seen it, go out and rent/Netflix it. If you hate it, I’ll let you charge my Paypal acct. for the rental fee :)

Also, while not a film seen in theaters, Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture from CMU is the most impactful piece of media I have ever seen.

called “the sasquatch gang”—made by some people who worked on napoleon dynamite. not the same, but it’s pretty hilarious.

“can’t hardly wait” is kind of a guilty pleasure… one of the better teen movies out there.

i also love amelie, garden state, napoleon dynamite, little miss sunshine, and my favorite movie is ferris bueller’s day off.

The President’s Analyst and Wag The Dog – The best political satires

Alien, The Andromeda Strain, Blade Runner – The best scifi movies

While You Were Sleeping, What’s Up Doc, About A Boy – The best romantic comedies

Lagaan, Run Lola Run, Seven Samurai – The best foreign films you’ll ever see

Will Penny, Stagecoach, Rio Grande – The best westerns you’ll ever see

The Princess Bride, The Lord Of The RIngs trilogy – The best fantasy flix ever

The Seven Ups – best chase scene of ALL time

…I watched the “Back to the Future” trilogy so much that I literally wore holes in the videotape. They’re still some of my favorite movies as an adult (particularly the first one).

A lot of my other favorites have been mentioned by others here. Cubs fans, as a group, seem to have good taste in movies.

Star Wars episode 4, 5, 6 and 3.

All 3 LOTR movies.

A great and very funny and obscure movie is Big Trouble with Tim Allen.

Airplane! My all time fave comedy.

Three Musketeers – 1973 – directed by Richard Lester and a great ensemble
Road Warrior – nothing compares
The Gods Must be Crazy

worst: Simple Jack

Best in Show
A Mighty Wind
Waiting for Guffman
Dial M For Murder
North by Northwest
Rope
Key Largo
Groundhog Day
Toy Soldiers
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
The Shining
The Firm
Duplex
Vacation (and Christmas Vacation)

goodfellas
heat
casino
major league (only the first one)
field of dreams
the indiana jones series
the godfather 1, 2, and 3
the rookie
the bourne series

just name a few

• but what I have seen on this list are some really good movies and alot of similar tastes in entertainment…these would be in addition to many of the above *

Full Metal Jacket (especially the first half)
Animal House
Weird Science
The Wall
Grosse Pointe Blank
Apollo 13
Die Hard (basically the first one)
Whole Nine Yards
Juno
To Live and Die in L.A. (William Petersen, big Cubs Fan, before CSI)
City Slickers
Meatballs (just the first one)
Hoosiers
…and many many more

Borat
Lord Of the Rings
Princess Bride
Oceans Movies
Transformers
Beerfest
Super Troopers
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Fight Club
Legends of the Fall
The Dark Knight
Caddyshack
Animal House
…And basically anything Jason Statham Does

and I haven’t read each and every response to this thread, but “Once Upon A Time In The West.”

Field of Dreams
Big Lebowski
King Pin
Office Space
Chariots of Fire
28 Days Later

In no particular order:
Magnolia
The Quiet American
The Lives of Others
American Beauty
Interview with a Vampire
Gattaca
Color of Money
Adaptation
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Comedies:
Beerfest
Office Space
Idiocracy
Team America

Movies that are great but tough to watch:
Requiem for a Dream
Leaving Las Vegas
Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket

Best movie so far this year that nobody has seen is, The Fall. It will be out on video Sept. 9, see this movie.

I have to add
Toy Story 1
Monster’s Inc.
Cars
Lion King 1

They are the only movies my son watched over and over that I can still watch over and over myself.