Favorite Cop Movie

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How the fuck did I forget Running Scared? That is absolutely my favorite cop movie! I love the scene where they're in Julio's car and he calls the car phone and Billy Crystal is saying "tell him I said hello" the whole time.

One of my wife's absolute favorites. (And mine as well.)

"You have the right to remain dead."

[98z28]

My theory is non law enforcement viewers enjoy Super Troopers a lot more than law enforcement folks.

Not so sure. That movie is the closets I've seen to what life on the job is actually like. It's a hell of a lot more realistic than Cops.


Super Troopers is one of my favorite movies of all time.

[Bigghoss]

Not so sure. That movie is the closets I've seen to what life on the job is actually like. It's a hell of a lot more realistic than Cops.


Super Troopers is one of my favorite movies of all time.

I forgot how many times I've done "meow" while checking badges at the gate. Another guy and I even did repeater once.

[HCM]

Brian Keith as Papa.

Plus, the greatest movie soundtrack ever! Sarah Vaughn, Chet Baker, Joe Williams, Julie London...
(Okay, half the soundtrack is great, the other half is disco or somesuch shit)

Also, one of those movies that are better than the book.
True story: Eastwood sent Reynolds the script for Any Which Way But Loose, and Reynolds told him "You make Smokey And The Bandit in California and I'll make Dirty Harry in Atlanta."

Brian Keith and Bernie Casey:

[HCM]

Clockers. Kind of the East coast's answer to Colors.

Clockers is good but it is more of a crime / gang movie than cop movie.

[HCM]

No one has yet mentioned Crime Story.

Very good but it’s a TV show rather than a movie.

[Erick Gelhaus]

With bias to my era & the early influences ... while there are several I enjoy, Colors would be my favorite without hesitation. I was thinking about the movie the other day. I remember several of my college classmates bailing from a friday afternoon criminal justice class to go catch the movie's opening in our city. Near the end of my career, and having worked/trained with both LAPD CRASH and LASD OSS, I appreciate the movie all the more but from a different perspective.

A trainee had to talk me into watching End of Watch and I'm glad he did. I enjoy that one a lot. As I do anything Wambaugh was involved in. They are uniformed, patrol centric films. Which is where all but one of my assignments have been.

I didn't watch LA Confidential until I was finishing my under-grad stuff and I took film study. It is a good film. SuperTroopers is funnier than hell but that doesn't make it a cop film.

TV wise ... 240Robert had a huge influence on me looking towards L/E, High Incident was excellent, Barney Miller is spot-freaking-on about being a detective, Southland got an awful lot right.

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New Jersey needs an entry...Cop Land

[Rex G]

Movie: Heat. (This one was difficult; so many to choose.)

TV series: Police Story.

[LtDave]

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