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    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

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    4. Bob Stein, Jr. Says:

      Good List

    5. Will Says:

      Best movies should include Gettysburg, The Great Raid, Fly Boys,
      Pearl Harbor, Open Range, Ride with the Devil.

      Worst movies: EPIC the Movie, Cloverfield, Horrors of War

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