Lounge The best movie franchise according to the gamblers

Hi there!
Every year there are tons of new movies. And during few last years many franchise were renewed or created. E.g. StarTrek, StarWars, James Bond movies, Bourne, Hobbit/LOTR, Bridget Jones let alone many more.
I was just thinking what's the gamblers's most favourite movie franchise... If movies are something we have in common besides gambling.
So feel free to post your favourites movies, why you like them and just let's have a nice talk and discussion!

 

Tolkien, no question.

But with a second "Avatar" in production, that could change: absolutely loved the original.

 

James Bond for sure.
As a finger the song and the movie Goldfinger, scared me.

Starwars was good as a novelty of Hi tech movie making and I did wait on line for the first 2....in the days when movie theaters showed just one movie.....before the widespread multiplex.

If I were gambling at the Orleans.....and wanted to take a break and pass some time and see a movie upstairs at their multiplex......a James Bond film would be the perfect selection for me.

The thing about Bond....is that you can lose track and not see a few Bond Films.....and pick up on the newest one without losing anything in the translation.

With some of the others you really get the best out of the movie if you have seen all the previous ones.

 

Have you seen all Bond's movies?

 

no.but I would have no problen going to see one tomorrow having missed the last few.

 

The Die Hard series.

Ken

 

In terms of pleasure received from watching them all, over the years (not quite movies, more like short subjects): The Three Stooges.

 

does anyone know what short subjects are? Fuck I forgot all about them. Although I never saw the stooges as a short subject.I remember cartoons though being shown.
The stooges were shorts shown on a local kiddy show....with "officer Joe Bolten" introducing each short.

Could you imagine the outrage/ meltdown if a local TV show provided the stooges as saturday morning fare for kids today......you know, a kid sitting down on a saturday morning to watch the stooges.....after playing a video game where he killed and maimed a few dozen men women and children.

Its a wonder I survived....watching the stooges, and opening thousands of cans of soda that produced a razor thin metal shard.

 

Jolly Good?

Ken

 

Remember Claude Kirshner and Clownie?

He was on channel nine I think, and limited to the NYC TV market (including north Jersey).

How about Andy Devine of "Andy's Gang?"

Gunga and Rama? Really?!

 

I just looked up his name, by googling "is thats whats troubling you bunkie"
eddie lawrence has a kiddie tv show that i thought was hysterical when he would do his monologue.(i am guessing over 50 years ago)

one of the very first comedians i remember...even before soupy.

 

https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/...=cab13b924e45986713b1f1455c899f3e&action=view

 

Also......Underworld series. I love them!

Ken

 

Oh nice! Which is your favourite?

 

Alien/Predator franchise. Also Terminator.

As far as those named in the poll goes, LOTR then James Bond.

 

1st and 3rd movie.

Ken

 

What's your top10?

 

OMG thats a lot of thinking. Very few even in my top 20 are current movies. Fuck CGI.

Ken

 

Well it doesnt matter

 

Schindler's List
Saving Private Ryan
Pulp Fiction
Dances With Wolves
The Thin Red Line
Good Will Hunting
Philadelphia
Millers Crossing
Donnie Brasco
Casino
Apollo 13
Last of the Mohicans
Hang Em High
The Guns of Navarone
Where Eagles Dare
The Hustler
The Magnificent Seven
The Dirty Dozen
A Fistful of Dollars
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Cool Hand Luke
Planet of the Apes (original)
Once Upon a Time in America
2001
2010
The Godfather
Apocalypse Now
The Deer Hunter
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
American Graffiti
The French Connection
Dog Day Afternoon
A Bridge Too Far
The Falcon and the Snowman
Wall Street
The Big Red One
Ice Station Zebra