Flash Gordon is only one of the movies that are on my list of: “Movies I will stop and watch while channel surfing.”
Here are a few more:
Goodfellas ( A must in any many real man’s movie collection).
Absence of Malice ( I like the story).
All three Back to the Future Movies.
The Magnificent Seven ( See Goodfellas).
Just about any of John Wayne’s later movies. ( Hellfighters and Green Berets in particular).
A River Runs Through It
Field of Dreams
About Last Night
Body Heat ( A young Cathleen Turner naked-need I say more).
Wall Street
Gardens of Stone
Last of the Mohicans ( The Daniel Day Lewis version)
Casablanca
Strategic Air Command ( Jimmy Stewart and B-36’s!)
Network
Animal House
Caddyshack
Blues Brothers
Basic Instinct
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Any Dirty Harry movie.
Speaking of Clint Eastwood-Tightrope is on the list too.
Lord’s of Discipline ( a terrible movie, and a smear job on my alma mater, but I can’t stay away from it).
The Paper
FM ( This movie has not been around for a LONG TIME).
Silver Streak
And that’s only a start-no wonder I don’t get anything done. What are your additions to this list?
Skippy,
I would add:
They Were Expendable
Bridges of Toko Ri
McClintock (John Wayne)
Big Jake (John Wayne)
Any of the Sean Connery, Roger Moore 007 movies
Operation Peticoat
The Caine Mutiny
Father Goose
Stalag 17
The World of Suzi Wong
Hawaii 5-0 (not a movie, just the show)
All good choices.
Skippy,
Army of darkness
Alien (only the first one)
Any even-numbered Star Trek Movie
Kelly’s Heros
Silverado
Any Scooby Doo cartoon (not a movie, but still)
Stripes
Blade Runner
Tora Tora Tora
Any MST3K (A TV show about movies?)
Enter The Dragon
Kevin,
MST3K is a great choice. My wife doesn’t get it, but I sure do.
More on my list:
Hogan’s Heroes (TV not a movie)
Apocolypse Now
Purple Hearts
Boys in Company C
Kung Fu Movies (the ones from the 70’s with the bad dubbing)
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby Road movies
Three Stooges
Up In Smoke
Blues Brothers
Back To School
Easy Money
Maurice,
Actually Autofocus was sort of a movie version of Hogan’s Heroes.
Richard,
If you are going to have Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi)-then you have to have Kiki’s delivery service (Majo no Takubin). Equally as good.
Ran
The Searchers
Jaws
The Green Papaya(slow moving story
by beautifully filmed)
Psycho
Vertigo
Schindlers List
Seven Samurai
Godfather ( 1&2)
The Wild Bunch
Lord of the Rings
Silence of the Lambs
Crouching Tiger….
Just few more:
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
History of the World
Airplane/Airplane 2
Dracula, Dead and Loving It
Hey guys, way to skew young! Except for Richard’s picks, almost none of the movies came out since 1990. That’s 20 years ago.
In Harm’s Way
The Bridge Over the River Kwai
The Sand Pebbles
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Prince of Darkness
The Thing (John Carpenter’s version)
The Wild Bunch
Patton
Cupojoe-I would submit it is a comment on the quality of recent movies.(and our ages).
Dr. Stragelove
…plus almost all the above cited movies. And +1 on Skippy-san’s note about quality of recent movies…
w/r, SJS
please add –
The Big Lebowski
Black Hawk Down
Heartbreak Ridge
Casino
Midnight Run
Papillion (sp)
Blow
The Hunt for Red October
Maltese Falcon
La Femme Nikita (French version)
Almost Famous
Rudy (Only when I am alone – I’m sorry, its not very good, but it always makes me cry)
The Battle of Algiers
Spirited Away
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Major Dundee
Cross of Iron
Paths of Glory
Butch Cassidy
Silence of the Lambs
Grave of the Fireflies…..
Perfect Blue
Japan makes some awesome anime, though
I am NOT a fan of manga…
Skippy,
Never heard of Autofocus, I have to do a search for it. A good movie from Japan about WW2 is one called “The Burmese Harp.” About the troops fighting in Burma. Made back in the 50’s it is pretty good.
Autofocus was the story of Bob Crane. It tells how he got wrapped up in kinky sex and how that led to his undoing as an actor and probably he his murder too. Greg Kinnear plays Bob Crane.
Autofocus was awesome.
Another one for the list:
Tombstone
Skippy,
First off part of your list seems to be typical cruise movies. Monty Python? Goodfellas? Caddyshack, Blues Brothers, Animal House? Nearly all of these I have seen in MWR collections on the 6 deployments that I have been on. That being said I would add the following:
Time Bandits
Old Yeller
20K Under the Leagues
Treasure Island
Wing and a Prayer
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Meet John Doe
High Noon (Classic Grace Kelly and Gary Cooper)
Spartan
Spies Like Us (The Doctor scene, enough said)
Seven Samuari
The Thin Man
The Third Man (I enjoyed more the sewer scene then the cuokoo scene)
Charlie Brown’s Christmas
Ice Pirates (total B-grade cheese fest, but good for a weekend afternoon inside due to rain)
Lifeboat
N by NW
Harvey
The Getaway (the 1960’s one with Mr. Cool himself Steve McQueen)
The Caine Mutiny
Away All Boats (Richard Boone
Double Indemnity
Red Dawn
The Breakfast Club
National Lampoon Vacation series (which nearly all of them remind me some how of traveling with the Navy)
Yes there are a couple of classic Disney live actions on there. Simply cause they were good movies. Even though I spent most of my time growing up in the 80’s the picken’s there seem few and far between.
Mr Roberts
SAP,
Well-I do like cruise movies. But your movies are pretty good too.
Skippy,
I am not complaining. Just an observation. It always seems to me that the lower brow the movie the quicker it seems to become a cruise/deployment movie. Then the longer and more often it is play. Meanwhile a good movie gets shown once or twice in a blue moon and usually right in the middle of flight ops/sleeping time. Then there are about a dozen plus movies that I have either scene the climax for, the start of, or the drama start; but have no idea how they got to that point or resolved the drama.
Back in the days of 16 mm- we had a pilot who was very devout. That meant when he stood SDO he had a dilemma since your performance as SDO was, in part judged by the quality of the movie you picked. This guy solved the problem by asking his Sailors to recommend good, dirty, movies. He would get one then arrange for someone else to actually roll the movies. ( sometimes he had to pay someone)
I knew the era of the Ready Room movie had died however when one of our female JO’ s on the Ike cruise had picked the lion king. And female JO’s from other squadrons came to see it. ( In my day going to someone else ‘s ready room was just not done).
Movie Officer what is the movie tonight?
They shoot horses don’t they, sir
Any skin?
No sir.
CANCEL IT!
I have heard stories from family friends of some of the interesting (some would say underhanded) events they had pulled to get new movies. Like trading out a well worn copy of the 1943 “Lassie” with some film at the British Army O Club in HK via swapping films in the cans and then walking back out with the cans in the bottoms of golf bag or garment bag. Another event supposedly was cause some fighter puke, knew someone, in Hollywood got a hook up of some good films and they wouldn’t share with the rest of the airwing. So while the ship was in Yokuska during the standard WESTPAC port visit, late one night some enterprising elements of the attack community “borrow” these films and left a box of old school “Astroboy” films all of which where in the original Japanese. Hijinks ensued during the next roll’em
Much Ado About Nothing
Ensign Pulver
Ronin
Heat
Battleground
Hamburger Hill
Napoleon Dynamite
Breaker Morant
Run Silent, Run Deep
The Guns of Navarone
Full Metal Jacket
Animal House
Northwest Passage
12 O’Clock High