Posts from B5Erik in thread „Message Board Top 25 Movies“

Thanks for the kind welcome messages. I'm a DVD addict, and since there are so many John Wayne movies on DVD it just kind of feeds that addiction - in this case it's a good addiction!

It's funny, I saw most of The Quiet Man on TV in my late teens, and I thought it was pretty good, but nothing I'd want to buy. I haven't seen it since. I was a little surprised to see it on top of the list over movies like The Searchers and The Shootist. I'm going to have to re-examine that one - some of my co-workers also had very good things to say about The Quiet Man!

True Grit is next on my "to watch" list, and I'm really looking forward to it.

Oh, yeah - I already knew about Deep Discount DVD - that is a great source for DVDs! Low prices, free shipping - you can't go wrong! (OK, their free shipping is slow, but at their prices who cares?)

I hope to have about 30 or so John Wayne DVDs in my collection by the end of the year.

I hope to be a fairly regular contributor to this board, looks like a great bunch of John Wayne's fans!

I'm brand new to this board, and it looks like I'm a month and a half too late for the voting. That's OK, I'm not upset about it... The hell I'm not!

Then again, I haven't seen 25 John Wayne films - yet.

For years I tried to get all of Humphrey Bogarts movies, and with the exception of his early works (many of which are now lost) I've got almost all of them on tape, laserdisc, or DVD.

I always liked John Wayne, but I never saw anything as a teenager or young adult that really caught my attention (I liked the parts of The Green Berets that I saw, and I liked the parts of The War Wagon that I saw, but I never really saw an entire John Wayne movie until I was 30).

Now I'm on board - John Wayne really was something special, and there's a damn good reason that he became such a beloved figure. Now I feel like I really missed out - but, on the other hand, I'm REALLY enjoying discovering all of these movies on DVD!

So let me list my favorites so far....

1. The Shootist
2. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
3. The Searchers
4. Rio Bravo
5. El Dorado
6. The Alamo
7. Sands Of Iwo Jima
8. The Fighting Seabees
9. The War Wagon
10. The Longest Day
11. The Spoilers
12. The Cowboys
13. Rio Lobo (This one's just OK, a "by the numbers" John Wayne Western)

That's all that I've seen. I've got a lot to catch up on, don't I? I need to win the lottery so I can buy all the rest of the John Wayne movies currently available on DVD! Either that or get a second mortgage on my house!

Anyway, I'm glad that I found this board.

(Next on my "to watch" list is True Grit - I got that in a 3 pack with El Dorado and Rio Lobo and I saved it for last.)