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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Mathman on February 03, 2004, 01:27:41 AM
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Just some random personal Top 5 lists
Books (in no particular order):
Without Remorse - Tom Clancy
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
The First Team - John B. Lundstrum
Black Hawk Down - Mark Bowden
Smoker - Greg Rucka (my favorite of the Atticus Kodiak series - highly recommended)
War Movies:
Black Hawk Down
Kelly's Heroes
The Longest Day
Tora Tora Tora
The Blue Max
Westerns (non-John Wayne):
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
High Noon
Open Range - much more entertaining, IMO, than Dances With Wolves
Unforgiven
John Wayne Movies:
Donovan's Reef
McClintock
The Searchers
True Grit
The Quiet Man
Action Movies (non-war):
Boondock Saints
Die Hard
Pirates of the Carribean
The Killer (my favorite of John Woo's Hong Kong movies)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (absolutely my favorite movie of all time - reluctant hero who kills Nazi's - whats not great about it?)
Sci-Fi Movies:
The Final Countdown
Blade Runner
Aliens (the greatest combination of action and Sci-Fi)
Minority Report (a film noir movie with a sci-fi setting)
Star Wars (the one that came out in 77, not the crap that is recent nor the edited one that added the worst thing ever - Greedo shooting first)
Car Chases in Movies:
The Rock (who wouldn't want to run a VW bug over with a Hummer?)
Ronin
The French Connection
Die Another Day (Bond car vs. another "Bond" car)
Bullit - the greatest ever
TV Shows:
Magnum PI - "Ivan, did you see the sunrise this morning?" - my favorite single episode of any show
ER - the first 3 seasons
NYPD Blue - with Jimmy Smits
Homicide - most underrated police show
24 - one man saves the world in real time - the pace of the show is like crack and about as addicting as it too, farfetched, but entertaining
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I completely agree, except for Open Range. It's not that good of a movie.
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Books
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Piece of Cake - Derek Robinson
The Tempest - William Shakespeare
Gorky Park - Martin Cruz Smith
Berlin Game - Len Deighton (in fact any of the Samson novels is worth reading)
Films
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Cannonball Run
The Empire Strikes Back
Leon
Master and Commander
Comedy Series
Fawlty Towers
Father Ted
Blackadder
Red Dwarf
Dad's Army
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Books
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945- By John Toland
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the coming of the Great War- By Robert K. Massie
The Forgotten Soldier- By Guy Sajer
The Last Battle- By Cornelius Ryan
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich- By William L. Shirer
The Guns of August- Barbara Tuchman
War Movies
Judgment at Nuremberg- 1961
Paths of Glory- 1957
Bridge on the River Kwai- 1957
The Train- 1964
The Longest Day- 1962
Schindler's List- 1993
Saving Private Ryan- 1998
Tora! Tora! Tora! -1970
Westerns
High Noon- 1951
Red River- 1949
The Searchers- 1956
Blazing Saddles- 1974
John Wayne Movies
The Searchers- 1956
The Longest Day- 1962
McClintock- 1963
Rio Bravo- 1959
Action Movies
True Lies - 1994
Raiders of the Lost Ark- 1981
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines- 1965
Any of the "Up and Cummers" series, starring Randy West
Sci-Fi Movies
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back- 1980
Contact- 1997
The Andromeda Strain- 1971
2001: A Space Odyssey- 1968
Alien- 1979
Aliens- 1986
Fantastic Voyage- 1966
Car Chase Movies
I ****ing hate car chase movies!
TV Shows
Hogan's Heroes
Brady Bunch
M*A*S*H*
Fawlty Towers
Comedies
Some Like it Hot- 1959
Blazing Saddles- 1974
This is Spinal Tap- 1984
The Naked Gun- 1988
Ghostbusters- 1984
Fast Times at Ridgemont High- 1982
Drama
Judgment at Nuremberg- 1961
Lawrence of Arabia- 1962
Vertigo- 1958
Schindler's List- 1993
Citizen Kane- 1946
Twelve Angry Men - 1957
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Personal favorites:
Books:
Catch-22
Slaughterhouse 5
Baa Baa Black Sheep
All Quiet on the Western Front
JG26
War Movies:
Kellys Heros
Glory
The Thin Red Line
Patton
The Last Samurai
Comedy Movies:
Office Space
UHF
Clerks
Monty Pythons Search for the Holy Grail
High Fidelity
Action Movies:
Heat
Ronin
Casino
Goodfellas
Oceans Eleven
Sci Fi Movies:
Star Wars (ANH)
The Empire Strikes Back
Aliens
Alien
The Last Starfigter (Centauri says so)
Women:
Aria Giovanni
Kate Beckinsdale
The dancer from last Thursday, Sierra I think
Erica Campell
Mercedes (the car model, not the cum dumpster)
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AWSOME!!
Magnum was my fav show. That episode was one of the best.
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Books:
America's Hundred Thousand
JG26
Blackhawk Down
Thud Ridge
Shogun
War movies:
Saving Private Ryan
Das Boot
Hamburger Hill
Thin Red Line
Tora Tora Tora
Action movies:
Heat
Ronin
Die Hard 2
True Lies
Proof of Life
Sci-Fi movies:
Terminator 2
Aliens
The Matrix
Pitch Black
Stargate
Drama/Sappy movies:
Clear and Present Danger
Always (John Goodman & PBY's)
Braveheart
Interview with the Vampire
The Fugitive
Comedy:
Office Space
Wayne's World
Major League
Mr Baseball
Blue Collar Comedy Tour
T.V. shows:
Babylon 5
Farscape
Brimstone (damn shame they canceled it)
Space: Above and Beyond (another canceled one)
Homicide
Definitely agree with ya on Homicide, Math. A much under-rated series!
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Books (in no particular order):
The Corps series by WEB Griffin.
Without Remorse, Clancy
Sword Dancer, Jennifer Roberson.
Americas hundred thousand ( Just tons of great aircraft info.)
Devil’s guard, Robert Elford (rare hard to find book but worth the read)
Tank Sergeant Ralf Zumbro
War Movies:
Black Hawk Down
Band of brothers.
Saving private Ryan
84 Charlie Mopic
Hamburger Hill.
Westerns (non-John Wayne):
Silverado
Open Range
Unforgiven.
Young guns 1&2
John Wayne Movies:
Hatari!
McClintock
True Grit
Sands of Iwo Jima.
The cowboys
Action Movies (non-war):
True lies
Die Hard
Pirates of the Caribbean
Raiders of the Lost Ark (absolutely my favorite movie of all time - reluctant hero who kills Nazi's - whats not great about it?)
Indiana Jones and the last crusade.
A knights tale.
Last action hero.
Sci-Fi Movies:
Blade Runner (but not the crappy directors cut, and that’s all you can get on DVD.)
Aliens
Star Wars 4 5 and 6. All the new ones can suck my nuts
The fifth Element.
Car Chases in Movies:
Ronin
Bullit - the greatest ever
Smokey and the bandit.
TV Shows:
Magnum PI – The best show EVAR!!!
Simon and Simon.
Hill street blues.
sinefeld
Comedies:
Jay and silent bob strike back.
Kingpin
Something about Mary
Me myself and Irene
Say it isn’t so…. Sister fordicator!!! LOL
American pie Series.
O Brother Where Art Thou
Drama:
A few good men.
Rounders.
American history X.
Tuff turf (bad I know but I like it)
Heaven knows mister Alison.
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Movie Endings
1. The Natural
2. Raiders of The Lost Ark
3. Rocky (the original one was great)
Can't think of any more right now.
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Comedies:
1) Rat Race
2) Airplane!
3) Any Naked Gun movie
4) Hot Shots
5) Spaceballs
Sci-Fi:
1) Starship Troopers
2) Star Wars: ROTJ
3) Pitch Black
4) The Sixth Day
5) The Matrix
War:
1) Zulu
2) U-571
3) Kelly's Heroes
4) Midway
5) Pearl Harbor (the old one, not the Ben Affleck crap)
TV shows:
1) The Simpsons
2) Law and Order
3) Frasier
4) Wings
5) Futurama
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5) Pearl Harbor (the old one, not the Ben Affleck crap)
LOL, that is so true.
:aok
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Comedy
Fawlty Towers, wish they made more than 12
As Time Goes By, just calm neat comedy
Movies
All John Waynes westerns
Zulu
All Tom Sellecks westerns
HBO
Band of Brothers, I taped it so friends without HBO could see it
The Roger Maris Story
TV
NYPD Blue
Third Watch
Law and Order, Special Crimes
Homicide
Tim Conway skits on Carole Burnett