My Favorite Movies

A movie that goes against the normal Hollywood tendency towards "happy endings" The ending was proper and satisfying.

Of the three, this is the only one worth watching. The other two are mostly a waste of time. This is still funny. "Hang onto your ass, Fred!"

One of the funniest movies of the 80's. Still funny and Bernstein's score really adds to the hilarity.

Damn near perfect on all counts. The car chase alone is worth the price of admission. And Carrie Fisher was perfectly cast as the spurned girlfriend.

Much, much better and more cohesive than the American version (which doesn't suck, BTW) and a better morality play to boot. Big monster wiping out a city. What's not to love?

Such a great idea. So poorly executed.

If not my favorite movie, certainly in the discussion. It's a well known movie, and I can't add anything to what has already been said. You either like it or you don't.

Underlying the comedy is a nasty murder and a good whodunit. This is a great adaptation of the book by Hammett. Really worth watching. More than once.

Another quality movie, driven by the chemistry of Powell and Loy. More witty dialog and another mystery solved.

Easily Mel Brooks crowning achievement. Funny, lovingly done and great knockers!

Brilliantly done and couldn't be made today. Too many jokes and such that the Political Correctness Squad would crucify them for trying. Still, screamingly funny.

Too scattered to be truly great. Still, it's good to be the Kind!

Watch this movie and lets go have a catch...

This has a great cast, and believe it or not, Shirley Temple was well suited to the role she was in. Of course, Myrna Loy is in it...

I just love this movie. Tierney shines, but Dana Andrews really makes this film work. Webb is amazing in this. He is so delightfully evil and nasty...

Fantastically romantic. A chick flick before there were such things. Still works because of its timeless setting. Close to Tierney's best role. Except for Laura...

Best live action Batman movie ever made.

Terrific animated film. I saw this in a theater and am so glad I did. Great fun.

This one I really liked. Great fun and a solid plot and motivation. It goes a long way to showing that a portion of the Bat Villians are tragic figures.

A great adaptation of the Spidey mythos. Keeping the heart and soul of the story even with the changes. McGuire is solid as Peter Parker.

Unbelievably good. Stellar cast, and well developed characters. Good character design and a solid story. What animation can be if done with thought.

Every person cast in this movie was perfect for their parts. Maureen O'Hara never looked better. A movie that never needed to be remade.

A great love story and one of Wayne's best performances. Obviously a labor of love for all involved. The fight scene is only upstage by Wayne dragging O'Hara across the county...

Funny, and sweet. One I watch every year. Whether I need to or not...

What starts out as one sort of story quickly changes into another. Sort of like life. A movie that made me think. I like films like that.

A classic musical, with a fairly thin plot. Like most musicals, but that's what makes them fun...

Batman is more of a supporting character than the central figure of this movie. Anyone, and I mean anyone who says the Harvey Dent portion of the movie could have been excised and used as the basis for a third Batmovie missed the point. Harvey WAS the story. Harvey represented Gotham, the climb from the muck and the fall back into it. This was Harvey's story, with the wonderful performance by Ledger of The Joker and Bale's Batman merely both sides of, if not the same, a similar coin.

This is quite simply the best comics to film adaptation since Superman. It blows the Spider-Man movies out of the water, and the leavening of the grim with humor (the banter between Bruce Wayne and Alfred was priceless) helped to make it so. What are you waiting for? If you haven't seen it, go! If you've already seen it, go see it again!