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The movies have captivated me for as long as I can recall. My father and I used to watch movies together on Sunday afternoons down in the family room. It was during these lazy days spent on a couch that I was introduced to luminaries of the screen such as Bogart, Hepburn, Tracy, Grant, The Marx Brothers, you name it. Ahh, they truly do not make 'em like they used to...and I'll take that one with me to the grave.

I'll warn you, I am extremely harsh on movies anymore and it takes a lot to impress me in the realm of filmdom. The typical Hollywood formulaic flick with its overpaid, talentless "actors" who can do nothing more but read cue cards will take only slight less heat than the sh*t pies that count entirely on computer generated fodder to drive the plot because the writer and director can't come up with anything exciting in reality. Are the great storytellers of the silver screen completely gone and forgotten?!?

Top Ten Favorites
Comedies • Dramas • Guilty Pleasures • Sports Movies • Tear Jerkers • Inspirational • Documentaries • and even Chick Flicks

Greatest Comedies
1941 • Ghostbusters • A Christmas Story • The Jerk • Coming to America • Caddyshack • Stripes • A Night at the Opera • Raising Arizona • Airplane! • The Big Lebowski • Fletch • Hot Shots! • This is Spinal Tap

Guilty Pleasures
Flash Gordon • Clash of The Titans • The Last Dragon

Romance/Romantic Comedies
When Harry Met Sally • Sleepless in Seattle • Cousins • The Princess Bride • Before Sunrise

Now THAT'S Drama
Silence of the Lambs • Memento • 12 Angry Men • The Seven Samurai • Casablanca • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest • It's a Wonderful Life • To Kill a Mockingbird • Se7en • 2001: A Space Odyssey • High Noon • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington • Rocky • Patton • Mr. Roberts

Lights, Camera, Action/Adventure!
Star Wars • The Empire Strikes Back • Raiders of the Lost Ark • The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly • Jaws • T2: Judgement Day • Rambo II • The Princess Bride • E.T. • Close Encounters of the Third Kind

The Tear Jerkers
Brian's Song • Always

What Were They Thinking?!?
Computer Generated Crap • The Lost Art of Acting • Rehashed Cinema • The Great Storytellers Have Left the Building

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