Favorite movies/mini series

Just wondering what everyones favorites are .
Mine ,in no particular order ,are ..
The Godfather
God father2
Goodfellas
Dances With Wolves ( long version )
Saving Private Ryan
Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Forrest Gump
The Wizzard of Oz
Best little Whore House in texas
Scarface
Mini series .... Shogun, Centenial, and Rome

Not sure that I have any real favorites, but I like older movies and whatever I list I would likely forget more than I could remember but they would include
Von Ryan's Express
The Great Escape
The Sand Pebbles
The Sound of Music
Voyage to the Center of the Earth
Captain Nemo (any of the various versions)
Swiss Family Robinson

Somewhat more contemporary
Indiana Jones movies
Star Wars & Star Trek

As for TV series, any of the Star Trek series but Next Generation and Deep Space 9 would rate high. I look forward to "24" also. I can't think of any "Mini Series" that I've ever watched.

Besides a few already on your lists, I'll repeat

Star Wars series
and add
Terminator series
and then add any good auto chase movie starting with
Bullitt and
Ronin
then add most Clint Eastwood movies. I especially like the spaghetti westerns (Sergio Leone produced and filmed in Spain, the start of the man with no name westerns, can anyone forget: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly? I'll bet you can all whistle the theme song.)

Gotta add Heat, the gun fight scene is big time intense.

On the tube I enjoyed Miami Vice and have the first season set of the DVDs

Victory by Design was a exotic car series on Cable TV that had a sound track that would drive any motor head crazy.

Victory at Sea was the first TV series I can remember and it is still great.

I thought the Godfather was great. II and III were okay, but the 1st one I still watch on occasion.
Tora, Tora, Tora - Made you feel like you were there, on ship (ex Navy man here! )
True Lies
Basic Instint
Operation Petticoat - old submarine movie. They ended up painting the sub pink.
All Bond Flicks. Goldfinger is my fav. But I can watch about any of them over and over.
Exorsist (the 1st movie my wife and I went to ....what a first date, I had read the book and wanted to see the movie, little did I know she had seen the movie already and just wanted to go out with me! )
Bullet
Great Escape ....most steve McQueen movies.
20,000 Leauges Under the Sea
Swiss Family Robinson

I like the HBO mini series.
Sopranos
Band of brothers
Deadwood
Rome etc.

Gunsmoke

BlackHawk Down
Gladiator
Lord of the Ring
Utlimate Fighter and Boxing

I'm missing a bunch, but those come to mind.
Looking back over these, one should be able to tell I'm deathly against violence on TV!!!

My favorite of all time is The Man Who Would be King.
A close second is The Name of the Rose.
A closer second is The Quiet Man.
And then there's Waking Ned Devine.
How about Everlasting Piece.
Another is Boondock Saints.
Two Smoking Barrels.
the list goes on and on...
Anybody ever see Black Sunday?
Keep your eyes peeled for The Prince of Providence.

All the Best,
Martin

Fire Fox
Bat 21
Top Gun, the flying parts
The Final Countdown, again the flying
Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Westerns
Braveheart, ofcourse
Quigley Down Under
Sixth Sense
A Christmas Story

Dad I didn't even have to read the name to know it was you. ; )

Mini Series
Band of Brothers
Sex and the City

Movies
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Harry Potter(s)
Forrest Gump
Dirty Dancing
Saw 1 and 2

There are many more, but those are the ones that stick out in my mind at the moment.

American Graffitti
Grease 1
Star Wars (all of them)
Pretty Woman
Dirty Dancing
Smoky and the Bandit

AFFitness13 said:

Dad I didn't even have to read the name to know it was you. ; )
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Darn! and,I left out Brave Heart,and Band of brothers just to confuse You

Oh boy. This is actually a tough one. I don't have many favorites. Heck, I barely ever watch movies. But here are the ones that I like:

The Jurassic Park movies (I liked the first one the best, II and III are ok)
Black Dog
The Hunt for Red October
Sink the Bismarck
Titanic (not the mushy love story crap)

Well, that's about all I can think of right now. One movie I want to see and I know I would like is Das Boot. I want to get the uncut version.

I can't beleive nobody mentioned Lonesome Dove.

Heck of a mini-series. Excellent cast - especially Robert Duval and Tommy Lee Jones

BTW,
these days I tend to watch movies to see the "work" of various actors. I have my list of favorite actors and they tend to make the movie. However, though I enjoy James Caan's work, I won't see something like "Mickey Blue Eyes" due to the fact that Hugh Grant is in it.

HG (sucks) in a movie kills it for me. To me, if he's in it it's a little too girlie for me. I don't waste my time putting up with something like "Hope Floats" with the wife to make points either. I remind her that she has plenty of sisters if she wants to see that stuff.

I enjoy the actors that have been "all over" the place, but you never know who they are. I also enjoy watching the movies when I can get IMDB for trivia and to watch for goofs.
Like Danny Trejo, Robert LaSardo, Brion James, James Remar, Dennis Hopper, Lance Henrickson. These guys show up in all sorts of movies (Brion James' has passed already though)
I also have a shorter list of chicks that I like to watch.
In a nutshell, this is how I make my picks for entertainment.

Someone also mentioned Deadwood - a truly awesome, groundbreaking Western. Ian Mcshane is awesome.

Gladiator
Shawshank Redemption
Ben Hur
Man on Fire
Tom Horn (Steve McQueen version)
The Great Escape
Saving Private Ryan

Yeah well I still knew it was you.