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[Mark H]

Come on, it's ok to laugh at a weak joke. Have a chuckle with us over the typo.

[slapperdad]

PS- I have a great sense of humor, if something is actually funny. I guess you old guys are funny to each other. I sometimes feel like I'm posting at the rest home.

Rest home.......I would submit I'd genuinely be impressed if you could spend a week with my activities, between work and extracurriculars.

An experiment:
1. Name five of your favorite movies of all time.
2. Name five of your favorite comedy movies of all time.

I'll even go first, listing in no particular order.

1:
North by Northwest (Love Hitchcock)
Pulp Fiction (Love Tarantino)
Outlaw Josey Wales
Gran Torino (What can I say, I got a mancrush on Clint Eastwood)
Gladiator
Bonus Cape Fear (The original with Mitchum and Peck)

2:
The Big Lewbowski (The Dude abides)
Airplane
Blazing Saddles
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Burn After Reading (Anything by the Coen Bros actually)
Bonus Caddyshack or Dr. Strangelove

Hear me out C77, I'm going at this from a different angle. Give it a chance and play along, no tricks, and no wiseass comments, unless any of your favorite movies have Meg Ryan in them, then all bets are off.

[Mark H]

Agree with Airplane and Blazing Saddles (which you couldn't make anymore).

Agree with Gran Torino and Outlaw Josey Wales.
Add Casablanca and Second Hand Lions.

All the same movie really. A flawed and bitter man finds redemption and selfless love.

[Tyler Durden]

1. The Descendants
2. Road House
3. Leaving Las Vegas
4. Shawshank Redemption
5. Pulp Fiction


1.Dazed and Confused
2.Shakes the Clown
3.Spinal Tap
4.Animal House
5. The Hangover

[eclipse09]

Slapper Dad I liked this part of the thread so much I am chiming in even if I wasn't asked. Seems to be a theme on this board. Ha!


1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. LOTR Trilogy (yes I like them and the books).
3. Dirty Harry
4. Bad News Bears
5. Die Hard

Bonus Shawshank Redemption and West Side Story (a better telling of Romeo and Juliet IMO)

1. Mr Deeds Goes to Town
2. Monkey Business (Marx Bros)
3. Any Bill Murray movie, but picking one it would be Meatballs
4. Bachelor Party
5. Tootsie

Bonus: Animal House

[slapperdad]

Generation Gap- Most of those movies I've never even heard of. What about, Single Girls, can you dance to it? Road house, Pulp Fiction, you are kidding. You guys like to read, favorite books? Gunning for Justice, anything by Jerry Spence, I got it, you guys probably like those love novels. Outlaw Josey Wales, seriously is that a real movie? It's funny that Tyler would like a movie called dazed and confused.
1) The Breakfast Club
2) Clueless
3) The Devil Wears Prada
4) The Hangover
5) Reality Bites
6) Mean Girls

Old Movies
1) Any of the Back to Future Movies
2) Trading Places
3) The Nutty Professor
4) Open Range- My dad likes this one
5) Shirley Temple- Little Princess
6) THE BEST OF ALL TIMES- A league of our own

Greatest American Novel- The Grapes of Wrath
2) Beloved
3) All the Pretty Horses
4) Uncle Tom's Cabin
5) We need to talk about Kevin- You can relate this book to this web sight. We can change Kevin to Tyler!
I'm writing a book on the Supreme Court- A Case Study of American Justice. A case study of the 20th Centuries three most important cases. "Roe v Wade", "Brown v The Board of Education", Citizens United".

I'm not sure it's a generation gap, for instance North By Northwest was made several years before I was born. Shirley Temple was before any of us were born. I do read a lot, but not particularly big on novels. I'm more of history guy. You mention Gerry Spence, not sure I've ever seen a bigger ego, but he is a fascinating dude.

Nice work on the book about the Supreme Court, you're starting to get it grasshopper, it was a stretch, but I see what you're doing.

[PDad]

All time favorites is tough - I'll do a "deserted island" mix.
- 10 (comedy & Bo Derek)
- 48 Hours (cop action/comedy)
- Forrest Gump (mix)
- Tombstone (western)
- Top Gun (action)

Comedies:
- Airplane
- Beverly Hills Cop
- Brooks: History of the World Part I, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles
- Pink Panther series

Series (at least 3 good movies)
- James Bond
- Clancy: Hunt for Red October, etc.
- Lethal Weapon
- Raiders of the Lost Ark, etc.
- Star Wars

Lesser known movies:
- Body Heat (1981 remake of Double Indemnity)
- Breaking Away (Little Indy bicycle)
- Cast a Giant Shadow (Kirk Douglas organizing/leading 1948 Israeli army)
- To Sir, with Love (Sydney Poitier teaching Brit HS misfits about life)
- Usual Suspects (Kevin Spacey's first Oscar)

[Tyler Durden]

Are you all telling me that NOBODY is gonna comment on my choice of Shakes the Clown?

[jtat32]

Good lists - Breaking Away is a great call. I'll add mine, but I'm probably forgetting some.

Comedies:
1) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2) Spinal Tap
3) Duck Soup
4) The Out of Towners (the original with Jack Lemon)
5) Dr. Strangelove

Some that were favorites of mine when they came out (and I was younger):
1) Bad News Bears
2) Stripes
3) Arthur
4) She’s Gotta Have It

Non-comedies:
1) Rebel Without A Cause
2) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
3) Goodfellas
4) Clockwork Orange
5) Deer Hunter

Series:
Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns

[PDad]

To Sir with Love- Great Film! That song is great too. Lulu, I think?

Yes, it's Lulu. We had the soundtrack album.

Heads-up - Citizens United is 21st century, not 20th.