My Favorite Movies

Perhaps the ultimate time travel film as well as an excellent comedy. This film is widely known and popular and will remain a classic. Michael J. Fox is great as Marty McFly and Christopher Lloyd is absolutely brilliant in perhaps his greatest ever character role. The story is gripping and intense and follows through on all its tie-ins. My personal favorite movie of all time. Zemeckis does wonderful work with camera movement and the set-ups for cinematography are brilliant. An added bonus is that Empire magazine listed Back to the Future in spot 23 for their 500 greatest films of all time - the 23rd film! Top 25 is awesome and shows that people love this film.

Just as fun and exciting as the first with even more twists and turns. Double the time travel chaos and make the Delorean fly and you have a recipe for a great new story. The way they film this using the actors in different roles and in the same places at the same time showed that the editors were working overtime on this one. Not as classic as the first in some ways, but not any less fun! The only thing that hurts it is the fact that Back to the Future is a trilogy. It's one main story and this is the middle of it, that's all. When looked at a whole this film feels much better.

The third part of one big story is executed nicely. The old west as the setting adds new flavor to the series since the same tricks used in other times don't work here. Doc and Marty have to really pull together to get out of situations here and their relationship is given more development. The story is good and the climax is just what you expect from this series. It caps the time-traveling trilogy off with a bang (a time travel bang of course). I love this series.

Greatest Superhero Movie Ever. Although I may be bias. Excellent follow up to the first in any matter and showed me how awesome Doctor Octopus could really be.

My favorite of the Herbie movies. It's a classic and full of fun. It began the saga and stars veteran Disney actor Dean Jones. Jones performs at top of his game and his dry wit and sarcastic humor are in good shape. David Tomlinson makes a great villian and is intstantly recognized by true disney fans (notably for Mary Poppins and Bedknobs and Broomsticks). Buddy Hackett is hilarious as the first believer in Herbie as well as the namer - he adds an extra element of comedic relief in this comedy. Beyond the bounds of the term Classic this is a must see of the Disney films. Excellent in acting and technical areas it is definitely worth the watch.

Walt Disney captured the classic mystery well while keeping his own humor and songs in the mix. This mouse Sherlock Holmes is great fun to watch. With all the Disney sequels lately, where's this one?

Superb camera shots. Great special effects for 1994 yet with a completely 1930's/'40's feel and look. It brought the radio program hero to life.

My favorite Star Wars of all I love this one and have watched it the most. Just a wonderful ensemble end for the characters in the Star Wars universe. Truths are foretold and everything wraps up in a spectacular land, space, lightsaber battle. Good from start to finish!

A classic Sci-Fi comedy that features an all-star SNL cast which is fun and visually stunning.

Perhaps the greatest Indy adventure! Sean Connery as his dad and all his sidekicks show up in this great adventure with compelling music.

A great intro to a great series. It has all the key moments that is expected of Star Wars.

Amazing concept which panned out into a hilarious film.

Wonderful comic-based film about a cool hero who uses a jet pack to save the day. Timothy Dalton once again delivers a superb performance as an actor gone bad while the film has a great 1930's feel with lots of action, comedy, and drama. A classic that can be watched again and again.

Clever and ingenious comedy! One of my favorites.

Seems a little long in the middle with Yoda. Love the asteroid chase though! A great film all the same though and it is a real fun one to watch.

Excellent music and comedy. This is a fun film and Belushi and Aykroyd can't fail in it....because they're "on a mission from God".

The quint-essential classic space sci-fi. A Masterpiece. This is the one that began the pop culture phenomenon that may be the biggest thing to be in our life times. It is still influencing things today and the fans want more and more.

Perhaps the best modern monster movie. High paced action and adventure mixed with humor and horror elements make this an enjoyable and intense watch. One of my favorites.

It feels very much like the original three. I really enjoyed watching this and Star Wars IV A New Hope back to back because it connected the entire series for me. This really did connect all the lose ends and answer questions long asked since the original trilogy. Brought me the closest to the feel I had watching the original trilogy for the first time.

Equally as clever and fun as the original. The additional characters are fun and seeing our favorites head out on a big world journey is quite entertaining. Very charming and well done it has a little bit for everyone.

Superb film. As the first full CGI film this one really delivers. A great all-star cast and an incredible story makes this a fantastic classic. This is the Disney/Pixar film that started it all. It was clever to use toys as the characters since it had never really been done before and is what made this a hit. The most original of the Pixar I think besides Monsters, INC.

Hilarious and in my opinion the funniest Ernest movie. Jim Varney is at his best as the naive and dim-witted hero Ernest P. Worrell. Playing dual roles as hero and villian Varney out does himself along with some of his classic character routines (such as the old lady in green). Shockingly funny - especially due to Ernest getting magnetized every time he is electracuted. His jail break techniches are classic slapstick and the whole film makes me laugh.

Captures the Jules Verne novel in an incredible and realistic way. David Niven performs the punctual Phileas Fogg as if he was the character come alive. Equally good and the main "spectacle" of the film is the performance by Cantinflas as the French manservant Passepartout. The music is always in the style of the country that is currently being seen. Speaking of which the scenery and the cinematography is absolutely marvoulous with large cinescopic scenes capturing the fullest range of the lands being travelled through. The audience is allowed to experience foreign lands and traditions through this movie and have fun in the process. Adding to the fun is the multiple cameos within the film (producer Michael Todd is credited with coining the cameo role). The scenes flow smoothly together and the story never seems to lag - the director knows just how long to focus on scenery and then to move back to the story. An epic film that was picked as best picture by the Academy Awards, Golden Globe and most everyone else. One of the greats!

Fun and a great family film. Dean Jones returns as Jim Douglas and Don Knotts plays his hilarious mechanic. While it lacks the originality and cleverness of the first in the series this new director to the Herbie series does put the focus on Herbie and develops the little car's characteristics more.

A wonderful follow up to the fisrt film, this one tends to be a little bit darker and not as cultish as the first.

Suprised me since I had no idea what to expect. Really liked it. Very well done comic-based film. The plot has depth, humor, and fun mixed with action and great creatures and characters. Versatile heroes and villians alike make this one of the better superhero/comic-based films done. Feels gritty like Batman, with humor like Spider-Man, and colorful characters like X-Men. Guillermo del Toro delivers a wonderful film.

Perhaps the greatest adventure movie. This Spielburg/Lucas classic is watched by many and started the saga.

This is an amazing film showing the life of one of America's greatest heroes. A man who fully showed what our country is about by having God and country first. Wonderfull acting by Gary Cooper who was handpicked by the real Alvin York. Walter Brennan also delivers a great performance. A film that should stand out in film history as one of the all time greats this definitely deserves its title as a classic.

Absolutely funny and enjoyable. Shirley Temple is adorable as usual and supported by a hilarious cast. This one makes me laugh every time and is my favorite Shirley Temple movie.

Had all the adventure of Raiders, the wit and fun of Last Crusade, and even darker elements like Temple of Doom. This Indy adventure fits right into the series and seems to make them all feel together. Set in 1957 when space and aliens and atomic warfare were all scares this Indy addresses them all and pits Indy against (no not Nazis) Russians during the Cold War. Fast paced and clever it even brings back Raiders star Karen Allen to reprise her role as Marion Ravenwood. Spielberg, Lucas, and Ford do it again in this welcome addition to the adventures of Indiana Jones.

Hilarious film mainly due to Laurel and Hardy. The three little pigs and the cat and the fiddle and "Mickey Mouse" characters had humor as well. Fun and enjoyable even if some of the songs are just ok.

Wonderful live enactment of a popular video game. Mario and Luigi look in fine form and all kinds of memories from the games are in there. Goombas, Toad, Bullet Bills, and Bob-Obs are seen just to name a few. Fun and clever.

Indiana takes on the forces of evil and takes us on another great adventure. Second in the series but set time wise before Raiders.

Wonderful animation. Groundbreaking story of the two opposing holidays coming together. It should never have been done - but it was, and very very well done.

Well done adaptation of the classic book by C.S. Lewis. Narnia comes to life and Aslan is amazing - right out of the book. One of Disney's best modern films.

Excellent quality, plot, characterization, and visuals. It seems slow by American movie standards - but it therefore has more heart and feels more real than a fast-paced action flik. It's amazing.

One of the best movies I have seen in a long time. It shows the struggles that William Wilberforce went through in his fight against the British slave trade. It is performed magnificantly by all invloved especially Gruffudd, Gambon, and Finney. Touching and moving on both slavery and belief in God. This shows the amazing events surrounding the infamous song in an amazing way. A classic in our modern era of movies that doesn't have to be course or crude or even dark to be a wonderful film.

One of the greatest holiday movies ever!

Santa delivers again. I like my present!