QOTD: 2/5/04: Favorite Movies

[TracyD]

Time for another fun question. Well, hopefully they are all FUN (and informative) to some degree...

Name your favorite movies! (Can be oldies or new releases)

[Paris Madeleine]

I have a very LONG list! graemlins/crazy.gif

Angel Eyes
The Count of Monte Cristo (2001)
Frequency
The Lion King
28 Days Later
Braveheart
Girl with the Pearl Earring
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
The Last of the Mohicans (1994)
Hair Spray
The Breakfast Club
The Stepford Wives
Robin Hood (Disney Cartoon Version)
Smoke Signals
The Joy Luck Club
Pirates of the Carribean
Philadelphia
Schindler's List
Swimming Pool

And I will add (even though I've not seen it yet) Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ. I graemlins/sobbing.gif at the preview, it was so moving!

[Ginaki]

Now Voyager
Imitation of Life
From Here To Eternity
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
The Maltese Falcon
The Usual Suspects
My Fair Lady
Murder On The Orient Express
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Mystic River
Stella Dallas (with Barbara Stanwyck)
Beaches
The Odd Couple
The Caine Mutiny
The Perfect Storm

[ February 05, 2004, 10:35 AM: Message edited by: Ginaki ]

[JenJen_in_NYC]

chasing amy
dirty dancing - "nobody puts baby in a corner!"
flashdance - "if you close your eyes, you can see the music"
some kind of wonderful - "you look good wearing my future"

also love -
friday
breakfast club
ferris bueller
less than zero
anything else from john hughes
princess bride
the craft
200 cigarettes

[mountainlass]

Schindler's List
Dirty Dancing

[Mrs Peterson]

How fun! Got a couple myself:

Heathers
Shawshank redemption
Clockwork Orange
Bramstoker's Dracula
Interview with a Vampire
Saving Private Ryan

[VolGrl02]

I am a total chick flick kind of gal!

Dirty Dancing
You've Got Mail
Waiting to Exhale
First Wives Club
Legally Blonde
Finding Nemo
Save the Last Dance

[GotThatFIre]

I have quite a few so I'll try to remember the most favorite ones:

The Five Heartbeats
The Joy Luck Club
Frailty
The Bridges of Madison County
Stomping at the Savoy
The Mirror Has Two Faces
The Blue Dahila

As I'm low on estrogen right now, I really can't pull anymore from my memory, but I like these a lot.

GTF

[Paris Madeleine]

Originally posted by Mrs Peterson:
Heathers
Shawshank redemption
Oh! I cannot believe I forgot these! Shawshank Redemption is beyond one of my most favorite movies. It made me a Tim Robbins fan forever...

which reminds me to also add "Dead Man Walking."

[lafnsing]

Well, the 2 movies that I can recite along with the show because I have watched them so many times are:

The Cutting Edge (beautiful story about an ice skater and a hockey player)

Necessary Roughness (Scott Bakula plays a man who played football in high school but never went to college. He is recruited by a Texas college to play.)

Then some other favs are:

Sister Act (Whoopi)
Dangerous Minds (Michelle Pfifer)
Fly Away Home
Free Willy

[doglover722]

saturday night fever
risky business
wild at heart
fast times at ridgemont high

can you tell i grew up in the 80's?? smile.gif

cat on a hot tin roof (liz and paul)
all the other young paul newman movies

plus the sci fi classics logan's run, omega man, the one about soylent green, planet of ape movies...

i can hardly even remember any newer movies they just aren't as good to me...

[annied77]

The Princess Bride. My all time absolute forever favorite. (my husband brought over his laptop with that on DVD and a bouquet of flowers when we were first dating because he knew it was my favorite. We watched it sitting on the floor with the computer on an ottoman...)

I also really like Good Fellas, Casino, and most other "mafia" movies. I really love DiNiro.

[jennylomond101]

No "Amelie" for you Paris????

My faves are (in this order)

1. A River Runs Through It
2. Sleeping Beauty
3. The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys
4. Road to Perdition/Mystic River <tied>
5. Geronimo

[Paris Madeleine]

Originally posted by jennylomond101:
No "Amelie" for you Paris????D'oh! But, of course, mon ami!

[latebloomer]

OK, a three way tie-with quotes

The Princess Bride "I want my father back, you son-of-a-*****".
Monty Python and the Holy Grail "It's only a flesh wound".
and of course,

A Christmas Story "You'll shoot your eye out, kid!"

[Medb48]

I love getting ideas from other people's lists! smile.gif

Enchanted April
Amelie
Muriel's Wedding
Widows' Peak
The Castle
Bridget Jones Diary
Saving Grace (There are two with the same name about two different story lines and both are good)
Passion Fish
The Big Easy

[pinkbruin]

Every Christmas we watch "Trading Places", "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles", and "A Christmas Story". Never get tired of them!

[Eep]

Wow everyone has posted most of the ones I really like. My all time favorites would have to be.

Dogma: because I don't care what religion you follow everyone should want a god that happy and wonderful. And whe wears plaid boxers!!
The Last Unicorn: So so pretty.
Battle Royale: nunchucks? **** nunchucks.
and Sleeping Beauty from back in the day when Disney was the god of animation

[362436]

I agree with Paris. There are so many that I'm sure I will leave out several. But here it goes...

Bridget Jones' Diary
Billy Elliot
The Color Purple
Saving Grace (British movie-don't know the other one mentioned above)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Monty Python The Life of Brian
Amelie
Charlie's Angels (both movies can't remember the exact titles)
Snatch
The Little Mermaid
The Lion King
Boys on the Side
-and so many more that I've forgotten.

Mary

[362436]

I knew that I would forget something!

Muriel's Wedding

How could I forget this one! I know it sounds so cheesy but I LOVE ABBA! -and so this movie is such great fun!

Mary smile.gif

[Loggerlady]

Good Question!

I would have to say my favorites are:

Pretty Woman
Hope Floats
The Parent Trap
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Coyote Ugly
Runaway Bride
Miss Congeniality
Beauty and the Beast

I'm sure there are many more, but these are the ones that I can think of off the top of my head!

Oops..edited because I forgot:
Titanic
Pearl Harbor
:D

[ February 06, 2004, 01:48 PM: Message edited by: Loggerlady ]

[treesaw]

Howdy gang,

My all-time faves are:

Heathers
Run Lola Run
Fight Club
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Memento
The Graduate
My Fair Lady
Grease

Recent fave:
Lost in Translation

[robintess]

here are a few of mine smile.gif
Pretty Woman
Pretty in Pink
Love actually
GI Jane
When a man loves a woman
maid in manhatten
Family Man
Forest gump( love tom hanks)

[basketnurse]

I can't believe no one has mentioned "It's a Wonderful Life"--no Jimmy Stewart fans??
That is my mostest favorite--others include:
Pretty Woman
The Big Chill
Flash Dance
Dirty Dancing
Holiday Inn
Jumpin' Jack Flash

Kathy

[service10]

I wanna play...

Ummm some repeats,

Heathers
Run Lola Run
Amelie
Legally Blonde

City of Lost Children(French)
Rasing Arizona
The money Pit
Anything that John Waters did
Anything that has music by Danny Elfman
Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me
Freaks
Rocky Horror(on a sat night in Milwaukee)
Indiana Jones
True Romance
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Ed and His Dead Mother
Twenty Bucks
Six Degrees of seperation
Reservoir Dogs
Caddy Shack
Annie
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas


OMG...I know there are more!!!

[jefrado22]

Just got a big kick out of Calendar Girls...

[whatfun2]

I have a few....

* Meet me in St. Louis
* Miracle on 34th St.
* Easter Parade
* Singin' in the Rain
* When Harry Met Sally

( There are more, but these are some of the all time favorites!)

[jaci]

My favourite movies are those I can watch over and over again and never get sick of them.

Sliding Doors
Happy Gilmore*****
Men in Black
Monsters INC
The Lion King
Meet The Parents*****
Tomb Raider
Finding Nemo
Poltergeist
Zoolander** I know what a You Goolygy is!!! ;)

[aspire]

Some of my favorites:

Young Frankenstein
Beaches
When Harry Met Sally
Bruce Almighty

My 80's favorites (brings back all the memories):
Breakfast Club
St. Elmo's Fire
Flashdance
Ferris Bueller's Day Off

And lately, I've been enjoying music & concert DVD's better than movies (Sting, U2, Diana Krall, Norah Jones, Outkast, Dave Matthews, Jars of Clay- anything except my DH's bluegrass collection). I think that's symbolic of the fact that I can't seem to find time to watch a real movie lately, but I can play the music DVD's while doing other things.

[ February 11, 2004, 12:09 PM: Message edited by: aspire ]

[Kayleigh6]

Diana, my ALL-TIME FAVORITE movie is MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS, also! smile.gif

Other favorites are:

Rock Star
Almost Famous
Thelma and Louise
Interview With The Vampire
Pulp Fiction
Point Of No Return
Dances With Wolves
Big Daddy
Pretty Woman
The Lion King
Beauty And The Beast

[KimR]

My all time favorite oldie is a great musical...
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers....KimR

[JetsFan]

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Bridget Jones' Diary
Saving Grace (w/ Tom Conti)
American Dreamer
Midnight Run


not necessarily in that order!!!

[Poohgirlsmom]

Fitzwilly - If you have not seen it, watch it!
Rebeccca
A Very Special Favor
Rhubarb

[India-Ink21]

Favorite Movies:

Angel Eyes
Valentine
Shallow Hal
Pure Country
Enough
Serendipity
Ghost Ship

[lilbunnygirl]

Ok....I've got to have my say too!! LOL

Austin Powers series
A Walk in the Clouds (truly romantic and glorious)
Hudson Hawk
Lord of the Rings series
CHarlies Angels
Italian Job (wouldn't it be great to drive like that??)
Bourne identity
X-Men series
Pirates of the carribean smile.gif

There are a ton....also like Beauty and the Beast animation and treasure planet too smile.gif

[SewingRoomWindow]

I love old classics as well as new stuff.

Anything with Betty Davis
French Kiss
When Harry Met Sally
U571
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The Women