Just too many.
BUT…
one of the most memorable performances was Al Pacino in SCARFACE.
What a character.
Mel Gibson in Braveheart was great too.
Here’s a quiz:
use this line to name this 1980’s comedy?
Yeah, Lay that Pipe!
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Limus.
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Blue juice.
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the Goonies or the lost boys.
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sprout
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the kite runner.
I’m not sure thats the right order or if its even right, just the first 5 of my favorite films that came in to my head
hard task, but in no particular order:
Monty Python & The Holy Grail
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Life of Brian (Blessed are the Cheesemakers!)
The Great Escape
Slippery When Wet (or pretty much any old Bruce Brown movie)
Tough to pick 5, but these come to mind:
Almost Famous
Forrest Gump
Talladega Nights
Bull Durham
The Natural
a few more:
The first Star Wars trilogy
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Apocalypse Now
Tommy Boy
Dumb and Dumber
Big Wednesday…
Ghost Busters
Back to the Future
Heartbreak Ridge
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Five Summer Stories
Dr. Strangelove
2001: A Space Odyssey
Endless Summer
Rushmore
Buttman’s Big Boob Bangeroo 25
; )
Hmmm…impossible to whittle the list to 5…how to establish criteria?
Movies I can always watch:
Joe Vs. the Volcano
Twister
Dante’s Peak
Office Space
Idiocracy (new to the list…)
and/or …
Pow Wow Highway (find it…a “small movie” from early Sundance days…the concept of “War Pony” will never be the same)
Hysterical (“What difference does it make?” Hudson Brothers classic…)
The Hired Hand (Good reminder of what too much time on the road can bring)
Apocalypse Now (Tremendous allegory for modern life)
Blade Runner (the vision…)
maybe…
The Far Shore (The only real challenger to the first “Endless Summer”…could have been that level of a crossover hit…)
Innermost Limits
Sunshine Sea (recently viewed again for the first time in 3 decades…I must have imprinted on that like a baby duck…first saw as Waves
of Change the day before I started high school or maybe my sophomore year)
Lifeguard (it’s not like the 70’s didn’t have some cheesy moments for real on occasion…the basic story of this is timeless for surfers)
Big Wednesday (yeah I know…but I bet if it was on heavy rotation on cable I’d get sucked in every time I stumbled on it)
and wait…
Red Dawn
Festival Express
The Meaning of Life (Python)
To Catch a Thief (always makes me want to chuck it all and head to Europe)
Everyone Says I Love You (same as above…I cannot explain this movie…Woody Allen, Paris at night in the holidays, a party where everyone dresses like a Marx Brother…not that I would ever do or be able to afford anything one sees in this film…it just feels good)
and then…genres
The Crawling Eye (representing the post-nuclear bomb era black and white horror/sci-fi genre)
The Thin Man (representing that era of genial anti-authoritarian shennanigans)
B Westerns (Roy Rogers and Tim Holt westerns…all apparently shot in a few select California locations…the stories all run together but the locations are part of my DNA and the idea of just riding around having a good time was downloaded into my soft little mind along with family tales of 1930’s Hawaii…I never had a chance…)
A Night at the Opera (Marx Brothers…anything they did before WW2…sheer joy, one-liners, authority treated with the respect it deserves)
Easy Rider (representing 60’s exploitation)
Dr. Strangelove…no one born after 1969 will really understand. “We cannot allow…a Mineshaft Gap!”
Patton…George C. Scott “God forgive me I love it so.”
The Big Lebowski…“Dude, you want a toe?”
Shakespeare in Love…“It’s a mystery.”
Bullitt…McQueen at the top of his game. There hasn’t been a better cop flick yet.
I’ve got to go again;
The Princess Bride (“You keep using that word – I do not think it means what you think it means”)
What About Bob?
Goundhog Day
The Trouble With Harry (Hitchcock does comedy?)
Freeway
seven samurai is awsome! herb have you checked out another kuosarwa film. the hidden fortress .so good!
ill also add 80 s skate movie thrashin !!!
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Sands of Iwo Jima, Flying Leathernecks or True Grit (all classic John Wayne)
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Treasure of the Sierra Madre (“We don’t need no stinking badges!”)
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Jerimiah Johnson (Saw it at least a dozen times over the years)
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Kelly’s Heros (“Knock off wit da negative waves…”
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Cool Hand Luke
Bullitt is effing classic…greatest car chase scene. Hasn’t been many as cool as McQueen.
In no particular order,
Gladiator…(a pity revenge is a heroic pursuit, and violence a legitimate way to resolve disputes in so many movies) , but just a great story.
Crossroads… I got to see Steve Vai play without standing in line for an hour and having 15-yr olds puking on my shoes.
Saving Private Ryan… the closest I’ll get to knowing what my father-in - law went through along with so many other people.
LOTR Trilogy
The Hunt for Red October
also,
Swing… a warm look at Gypsy culture warts n all plus some great music
Gorillas in the Mist… the difference between involvement and commitment.
The Commitments
Ben Hur
Groundhog Day
The Perfect Storm… celebrates all the everyday unsung heroes out there
Jesus of Nazareth
Herb,
I think there should be a special catagory for those who watched ‘‘Samurai Movies’’, without english subtitles, at the old
Haleiwa, and Koga theaters on the North Shore in the 1960’s.
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Rashamon
Swords of the Samurai
Imperial Blade
That was a special time in many peoples lives. And a special part of the North Shore surfing experience.
Alas, both theaters are long gone, and the Samurai movies now have english subtitles. Progress?
Okay, I’ll stick my neck out–way out
whatever makes my daughter happy – Babe, Sound of Music, Mary Poppins kine
Janis
Bible movies from the 50s, 60s, 70s, on TV
It would be great if there were any surf flicks about, like, hulls, and maybe fish…
- Cool Hand Luke … (my all time favorite movie. i could type an essay on this one… they couldn’t break him.
only God understood him and in the end, when he thought he had nowhere else to go, he finally surrendered to
God and God took him home.)
the rest in no particular order…
- Time To Kill (if nothing else, just for the emotions it envokes… this movie makes me want to kill. talk about
internal struggle.)
- The War (another internal struggle… how much does the viewer hate the “Lipnickies” only in the end to realize
that really they need love… love your neighbor, love your enemies.)
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Whale Rider (thanks for reminding me Ambrose… when she’s doing her chant up on stage, i still get choked up)
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Big Wednesday (2 scenes stand out in my mind… when Jack punches Matt and kicks him off the beach -heavy- …
and later at the wedding when Bear tells Jack to share a drink with his friends -heavy-… love the fight seen with the
crashers too. anytime Ray Charles comes on the radio singing “what i say” it reminds me of that scene and i have to
turn it up… “Big Al, i’ve been wating for this for a long time!”…)
lotr is basically a story about a couple of gay midgets lost in the bush
The General (Buster Keaton)
That’s Hollywood!
Lawrence of Arabia/Lord Jim/Hero(Jet Li) (tied)
Hiroshima - The Documentary
Any Chris Bystrom/Don King Surf Movie
Some folks blew up Surf’s Up last year but personally I thought Ratatouille had a much better message and the Pixar animation was breathaking. I pick that as the best animation in the last decade.
Quote:
lotr is basically a story about a couple of gay midgets lost in the bush
LOL
Yeah the book was (is) much better.
Been thinking… ( slow day at work today),
Family Man… makes ya think how some choices you make can govern the direction of your whole life ,
Transformers… the whole family loves it
THE INCREDIBLES
frodo is the lord of sams ring
gollum wants some action to
“preciousssss”