2025: Here are my favorite movies:

Level Zero – any time this movie is on TV, and I come across it, I stop looking for something to watch, and I put down the remote. It doesn’t matter much if I’ve seen it recently, or if I come in half way through.

A Night at the Opera
Blazing Saddles 
Casablanca 
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Star Wars 
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
The Seven Samurai 
The Sting
The Usual Suspects 
This Is Spinal Tap 
Tombstone
Young Frankenstein


Level 1 – if see this movie is going to be shown on TV, I will watch it from the beginning, provided I haven’t seen it in a few days at least.

2001: A Space Odyssey 
A Christmas Story
Airplane! 
Apollo 13 
Brazil 
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 
Buckaroo Banzai and His Adventures Across the 8th Dimension
Bull Durham 
Caddyshack
Cool Hand Luke 
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 
Gone With the Wind 
The Great Race
Jaws 
L.A. Confidential 
Miller’s Crossing
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
National Lampoon’s Animal House 
Night of the Living Dead (1968) 
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Raiders of the Lost Ark 
Schindler’s List 
Some Like It Hot 
Tender Mercies 
The Hustler 
The Maltese Falcon 
The Shootist 
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 
The Verdict 
Toy Story 
Up


Level 2 – I want to watch these movies at least once a year, from the beginning.

3:10 to Yuma  (Both versions)
Aliens 
Apocalypse Now 
Big Trouble in Little China
Blade Runner
Cat Ballou
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 
Citizen Kane 
Das Boot
Die Hard 
Dirty Harry 
Duck Soup 
Fantasia 
Ferris Buehler’s Day Off
Full Metal Jacket 
Goldfinger 
GoodFellas 
Henry V (1986)
Pulp Fiction 
Raising Arizona 
Repo Man 
Saving Private Ryan 
Say Anything… 
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 
Stagecoach (1939) 
The Big Sleep (1946) 
The Godfather 
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 
The Green Berets
The Incredibles
The Outlaw Josey Wales 
The Princess Bride
The Right Stuff 
True Grit (Both)


Level 3 – these are movies I find are worth watching for their portrayal of firearms or firearms owners.

3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Bonnie and Clyde
Buckaroo Banzai and His Adventures Across the 8th Dimension
Die Hard 
Full Metal Jacket 
Heat
Last Man Standing
Miller’s Crossing
Pulp Fiction 
Saving Private Ryan 
The Big Red One
The Longest Day
The Outlaw Josey Wales 
The Shootist 
Tombstone