TV/Movies Megathread

[mongers]

I suggest each Languishite spend the next 3 hours coming up with their own favourites list.   

Done

Well post it, myself I don't have that degree of concentration this late. 

[11B4V]

Dude watch Unforgiven and Pale Rider. Both excellent.

True Grit, I like the new one better, just preference really. I would count the entry as interchanable with old/new.
I didnt think Wayne made a convicing drunk. Felt like he was forcing it too much. I feel Bridges blew him away. IMO Wayne was more at home in roles like The Searchers or The Shootist.

Pale Rider was a minor dose of pooh.  And I should know, I paid to see it.

The Searchers, now that was a movie. My favorite John Wayne flick.

After The Green Berets: A Nixon Campaign Production, of course.

I bet you hate Top Gun too.

I'll watch The Blue Max any day over Top Gun.   

[Ideologue]

I bet you hate Top Gun too.

You can be my wing man any day.

You're everyone's problem. That's because every time you write a movie review, you're unsafe. I don't like you because you're dangerous.

[Ed Anger]

If anybody suggests Flyboys, I will punch them in the nuts.

[Ed Anger]

Or Red Tails: A George Lucas Joint.

[mongers]

Dude watch Unforgiven and Pale Rider. Both excellent.

True Grit, I like the new one better, just preference really. I would count the entry as interchanable with old/new.
I didnt think Wayne made a convicing drunk. Felt like he was forcing it too much. I feel Bridges blew him away. IMO Wayne was more at home in roles like The Searchers or The Shootist.

Pale Rider was a minor dose of pooh.  And I should know, I paid to see it.

The Searchers, now that was a movie. My favorite John Wayne flick.

After The Green Berets: A Nixon Campaign Production, of course.

I bet you hate Top Gun too.

I'll watch The Blue Max any day over Top Gun.   

Agreed.

For war films there's so many to choose from I'm surprised at the omission, one of my favourites being 'The Train'.

[Ideologue]

As others have pointed out, that list has too many omissions and reads like some whose only been watching movies for 10-12 years.
Lots missed out, which is why it can't be 'essential'. 
Now if they'd called it 'My favourite films, a 20something's view'

Personally, you can't have an definitive/'essential'/greatest movie list, it can only be well, personal. 

I suggest each Languishite spend the next 3 hours coming up with their own favourites list.   

I made a list at work the other day when I the whole project was called into a meeting that didn't impact my team.  (Two of my coworkers also made lists, independently and of an unrelated nature, one of favorite baseball players and the other of states.  I think we might have caught the autistism. )  I did realize that my top ten were largely movies from my lifetime, excluding iirc Lawrence of Arabia and The Invisible Man, and I felt bad.

[Sheilbh]

For war films there's so many to choose from I'm surprised at the omission, one of may favourites being 'The Train'.

Yep. And the Thin Red Line which is one of my favourite films.

[Eddie Teach]

I bet you hate Top Gun too.

You're everyone's problem. That's because every time you write a movie review, you're unsafe. I don't like you because you're dangerous.

[Queequeg]

For war films there's so many to choose from I'm surprised at the omission, one of may favourites being 'The Train'.

Yep. And the Thin Red Line which is one of my favourite films.

The Melanesian choir can make me tear up instantly. Did you like The New World?

[11B4V]

For war films there's so many to choose from I'm surprised at the omission, one of may favourites being 'The Train'.

Yep. And the Thin Red Line which is one of my favourite films.

I have not seen that yet.

[Sheilbh]

I have not seen that yet.

It's not entirely a conventional war film but it is a really very, very good film.

But I've got a bit of a soft spot for war films that aren't really conventional war films (Life and Death of Colonel Blimp springs to mind) or war films that are set on the home front. Where war isn't necessarily the setting it's just the overwhelming fact of the film.

Edit: The Thin Red Line is far more of a classic war film than those.

Edit: Or Casablanca the best non-war war film

[11B4V]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo for the love of God.

[11B4V]

Anyhoo

http://www.wildaboutmovies.com/2013_movies/Movies_In_Theaters_2013.html

[Eddie Teach]

I don't recall there being a Ronin 2 or 3.