I have no idea how I missed this thread!

favorite movies in no particular order:

War of the Worlds (1950s version)

It's a Mad, Mad,Mad, Mad, Mad, World (and its recent descendant Rat Race)

All the old Universal Monster films

all of the Marx Brothers films

Just about all of the Pink Panther films (the last 2-3 were HORRIBLE!)

just about any type of Giant Monster runs amuck films (Godzilla, Rodan, etc.)

the original King Kong movie

Ruthless People

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Fantastic Voyage

WarGames

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

the Big chill

Breakfast club, Pretty in Pink, and Sweet sixteen

Silverado

Streets of Fire

the 1970s Three Musketeers and its sequel the Four Musketeers

the original Airport and its sequels

the disaster films of the 70s (with the Towering Inferno being my favorite)

The two Sting movies (admittedly the 2nd wasn't as good as the first, but how can any movie with Terri Garr in it be bad?
 

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

just about anything with Danny Kaye in it (the Court Jester leading the list)

early Bruce Lee films (especially Chinese Connection)

the Big Brawl

Strange Brew with Doug and Bob McKenzie (ok, this one is just a guily pleasure...)

That's Entertainment parts 1 and 2

Singin' in the Rain (just about any movie with Gene Kelly in it... heck I'd even include Xanadu!)

Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein

Fiddler On The Roof

12 Angry Men

Grease

West Side Story

Patton

Tora!Tora!Tora!

Paint Your Wagon

All of the James Bonds films up til Timothy Dalton-- haven't seen any since

The Thomas Crown Affair (with Pierce Brosnan)

the Wizard of Oz

The first 2 Christopher Reeves Superman films

the Michael Keaton Batman films

the Back to the Future movies

Close Encounters of a third Kind

all the Indiana Jones flicks

the first 3 Star Wars flicks (20 years was bit long to wait for a sequel)

ET

the Jazz Singer (with Neil Diamond)

What's Up Doc? (With Barbara Striesand and Ryan O'Neil)

Paper Moon

anything done by Mel Brooks (with Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein leading the pack)

Wait Until Dark (with Audrey Hepburn-- heck just throw in any movie with Audrey in it!)

the Secret of My Success

the Airplane Movies, along with Top Secret

just about any Disney animated movie as well as its Pixar movies

the 1960s Batman movie (that TV show is one of my all-time favorites)

the Seven Samurai and its western adaptation The Magnificent Seven

Psycho -- and just about any film done by Alfred Hitchcock

Murder on the Orient Express (1970s version)

Capricorn One

Murder by Death (I'd even go as far as to add most of Neil Simon's movies in here)

the Silver Streak

the Smokey and the Bandit movies along with Cannonball Run and Hooper (Burt Reynolds comedies)

Private Benjamin

The Mad Max movies

Terms of Endearment

Sky High

Foul Play

Butterflies are Free

Being there

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Mary Poppins (could really add most of Disney's live action movies here)

Time After Time (H.G. Wells meets Jack the Ripper in modern day San Franciso)

Zorro the Gay Blade, and the Legend of Zorro (recent version)

most of Woody Allen's movies from the 60s and 70s (Sleeper is my favorite, Manhattan was the last one of his i saw)

Most of the Planet of the Apes movies

When Worlds Collide

I'll stop there, but I KNOW there's tons more. One of these days I really have to see Citizen Kane.

Gregg

MJB - The term, "scarred for life" jumps to mind... I think I'm just too twitchy sometimes, I mean, even E.T. creeped me out (still does, actually). I'm just a bit too easy to freak out. I remember once, while watching some horror movie in a theater with a group of friends, I twisted a hole in someone's shirt sleeve!

Agree with you on that lol!!

As a "TV Geek" of the 70's/80's, I used to read the entire TV Guide each week and "plan" my viewing.  Sadly, I wasn't allowed to stay awake 24 hours a day to catch all the late-night horror films (the good ones!), but I caught a few.

Anyhow - one thing I had that I LOVED was this giant yellow book that was about 1000 pages thick called something like "The History of Television".  It had EVERY show from the birth of television to the time it was published (1978?) and I absolutely loved that book.  It has the premise, the cast, cross-references - all in a portable format that I could read when away from my precious, precious TV and comic books.....

Then, in the 90's I gave it all up and moved to the mountains (seriously - the Rockies).

So I don't know any shows from 1988- circa 2005ish.  Even now I watch very little.

What are the good cartoons I should "catch-up" on?  (gotta love DVDs)

MJB - I think that hearing how great it was prior to actually going had something to do with building up his expectations. It had been built up so much, he couldn't really help but be disappointed. The first time I went was with a good-sized group, and, one of the kids from the car behind mine, jumped out - ran up behind the one I was in, and grabbed me while we were passing "The Hitchhiking Ghosts" section. I thought it was *SO* scary, of course, I was scared of the dark, and about 10 or so at the time...

Unrelated (somewhat), but this week's comic shipment to Comic Shops has a wonderful hard-cover book on Dave Stevens ("Brush With Passion: The Art & Life of Dave Stevens).

This gets my absolute highest recommendation.
It's fantastic and makes me feel very sad that we lost this great talent so young.

Of course, Betty Page is featured within the pages.

Um not quite so, the Middle East is filled with Christians and Jews living happily over there. One example of religious freedom is that the Prime Minister of Lebanon by law is required to be Christian. And if you go to any Middle Eastern country you'll see almost EVERYONE trying to be all American and stuff. You can't judge a whole region or religion based a few crazy maniacs running around out there, and don't believe everything you see on tv. Sorry but I feel very deeply about this subject since I'm from the Middle East.

And I'm sure glad it doesn't!!!

Ah, yes!  The Disney Afternoon!  Thanks for reminding me, Gregg!

I actually remember watching that on Saturday afternoons, back when cartoons actually aired on Saturday afternoons.  Tale Spin, Goof Troop, Darkwing Duck...all favourites!  Loved them, loved them, loved them!  And, yes, Robin Williams was the BEST Genie, but Dan Castellaneta made the role work too...even if he did sound more like an excited Homer Simpson. 

Now it's all stupid Hannah Montana and Zack and Cody and High School Musical.  Blah.