Lists like this are not worth the “paper” they’re printed on, but I’ve been a fan of moving pictures all my life.  They’re a part of me as much as my family, baseball, good books, and chocolate.  
  
This list started at twenty, then fifty, and finally stopped at the Major League Sixty.  I wanted to add a bunch more but decided to pick a second tier, instead.  I’m going to forget some really good ones, so there will be revisions.  I freely admit that I wimped out and put them in alphabetical order instead of listing best to worst.  That’s the privilege of being the listmaster. 

Here’s the rules:
  
1. Tried to pick the best one out of a set of movies.  In other words, I chose what I thought was the best James Bond, Star Trek, or Tom Hanks movies.  Doing so freed up room for other choices.  I broke this rule a few times.  

2. Had to have seen the movie from opening frame to ending credits.  I’ve never seen all three hours of Ben-Hur, so I don’t know if I’d pick it over Gladiator or The Ten Commandments.  This rule was iron-clad.  

3. Had to have seen the movie in the last twenty years.  I figure your taste in movies between the ages of 5 and 25 is more influenced by pop culture and fads than anything else.  After you hit The Big 2-5, seeing a movie is more of commitment in time, energy, money and planning, especially if you have kids.  In other words, after the first quarter of your life, it’s more important that movies are good than popular.  For the most part, anyway.  

4. Tom Cruise movies were automatically eliminated from the Top Sixty because he’s a freak.

Comments welcome!

Major League Top 60
2001: A Space Odyssey
Addams Family Values
Airplane!
Alien and Aliens
Baseball Four-Bagger
Batman Returns and Batman Begins
Beattlejuice
Best Years of Our Lives, The
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles / Young Frankenstein
Body Heat
Blues Brothers, The
Braveheart
Carrie
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Das Boot
Die Hard
Dogma
Dr. Strangelove / The Day the Earth Stood Still
Fifth Element, The
For a Few Dollars More
Galaxy Quest
Gandhi
Glory
Godfather Trilogy
Gone With The Wind
Great Escape, The
Grosse Point Blanke
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Incredibles, The
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Judgment at Nuremburg
Killing Fields, The
Last Starfighter, The
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Matrix, The
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
North By Northwest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Patton
Philadelphia
Raising Arizona
Return of the Jedi
Road Warrior, The
Romeo and Juliet Trilogy
Scared Straight
Schindler’s List
Serenity
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
Silence of the Lambs, The
Star Trek: First Contact
Starship Troopers
Sting, The
Ten Commandments / Gladiator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Thunderball
To Kill A Mockingbird
Toy Story Duo
Truman Show, The
We Were Soldiers

Barely Missed Making The List
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
Adventures of Robin Hood, The
Amadeus
Animal House
Apocalypse Now
Austin Powers: Man of Mystery
Bridge Over The River Kwai, The
Caddyshack
CastAway
City Slickers
Dirty Dozen, The
Forrest Gump
Ghostbusters
Good Will Hunting
Groundhog Day
Maverick
Million Dollar Baby
Minority Report
Mummy and Mummy Returns
Planet of the Apes (original)
Princess Bride, The
Shrek
Sixth Sense, The
Spider-Man / X-Men
Titanic
TRON
Wizard Of Oz

Not even invited to Spring Training
Any Jackie Chan movie
Back to the Future Trilogy
Chicago
E.T.
Independence Day
Moulin Rouge
Sin City

Three Worst Movies Ever Made
Phantom of the Opera (21st century version)
Pocahontas
Xanadu