great list!
Dances With Wolves
Die Hard
Braveheart, Tombstone and Armageddon top my list.
Sea Biscuit
A River Runs Through It
Secretariat
Facing The Giants
Fireproof
Someone made a remake of Red Dawn last year, but it’s been on the shelf since the problems with MGM and Sony.
I wanna see if, but who knows if it will go straight to video?
Casino Royale
The Dark Knight
Seecondhand Lions
Silence of the Lambs?
This list seems lacking, but these are a good start to a discussion I guess.
No list is complete without this one..
Second Hand Lions
Katyn
Goodbye, Lenin!
The Lives of Others
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
(Note that none of these came from Hollywood)
I will recommend a film you probably have never heard about, but it was the number one film on National Review’s best conservative films of the last twenty five years...William F. Buckley apparently said it was one of the best films he ever saw.
I watched it, and was thoroughly impressed.
“The Lives of Others”, made in 2006. What was life really like behind the Iron Curtain? This movie, albeit fictional, shows the viewer...very well made, good story telling.
The Worlds Fastest Indian
Go back fifty years and you will include some really great movies.
The Quiet Man
Sgt. York
The Fountainhead
Groundhog Day
Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life
In no particular order...
To Have and Have Not
Galaxy Quest
The Princess Bride
Strange Brew
The Big Lebowski
Red River
The Seven Samurai
The African Queen
Father Goose
Kill Bill (1 & 2)
Mr. Majestyk
Airplane
Blazing Saddles
Any of the Zatoichi series (with Shintaro Katsu)
Too bad it’s ONLY 15. I got more.
2nd the “A River Runs Through It”
Rev. Maclean: Each one us of here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don’t know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.
King’s Speech