Friday, October 31, 2008

Some of My Favorite Movies

OK. I'm going to post some of my favorite movies but I'm going to do it by category. The first category is Historical/ Semi-historical:

Ben-Hur - My fav. of all time
Amistad
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Passion of The Christ
The Right Stuff
The Guns of Navaronne
Force 10 from Navaronne
Quo Vadis
Spartacus (the Kirk Douglas and the more recent Goran Visnjic versions)
The Graet Escape
United 93 - Ley us never forget!!!
Patton
Amazing Grace (Wilberforce!!!) (couple of quosts from this movie:
"Having heard all of this you may choose to look the other way...but you can never say again
that you did not know" -William Wilberforce

(John Newton, former slave trader and writer of the song "Amazing Grace" to Wilberforce):
"...although my memry's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I'm a great sinner
and Christ is a great Savior"
Luther (a little confusing but good none the less)
The Great Debaters
Miracle
Masada
Roots

In figuring out my favorite movies and putting them in categories I realized that I do not like: Horror/Slasher, Western (with a few exceptions like "A Fistful of Dollars" and "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"),Gangster (not even slightly interested in movies like "The Godfather"), or Romantic Comedy (although I did like a few of the older ones like "Can't Buy Me Love").

So, anyone else have some fave Historical/Semi-historical movies?

Next category...Animation!

3 comments:

Jenn said...

Hows about Apollo 13? It makes me feel all patriotic at the end.

hipperken said...

Hanks!!!

Jenn said...

What is this......a bi-monthly blog? Where are all the thoughts bursting out 'o your head?