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Favorite Movies! - Menehune - 03-18-2009 Something to lighten the mood! We don't have T.V. - not a biggee we have done it before - the only downside is lack of current news - but that's ammunition for another post. We LIKE movies - had close to seven hundred but gave over half away to hospice before we came to Paradise (no cheeseburgers). Some of the people we've met (at least a decade younger) have exclaimed "How can you watch a movie more than once - BORING!". Well - boring we might be but we enjoy the reruns - we have at least 25 that we will watch at the drop of a hat - just for the entertainment - not necessarily Oscar winners but those that touch something. Sabrina - Harrison Ford Six Days & Seven Nights - Harrison Ford Abyss - Ed Harris The Client - Susan Saradon Tarzan - Disney BLade Runner - Yeah, him again - Harrison Ford The Robe - Richard Burton Ben Hur - Charleston Heston Zorro - Antonio Banderas And so on! What is that one or more than one movie that touches something in you - funny, sad, uplifting, dramatic - enough that you would watch it more than once! "Each thing I do I rush through so I can do something else" - Cemetery Nights/Stephen Dobyns RE: Favorite Movies! - pslamont - 03-18-2009 Murphy's Romance ... Sally Field and James Gardner Moquito Coast... Harrison Ford I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet hit the floor each morning, the devil says "Oh Crap, She's up!" RE: Favorite Movies! - JerryCarr - 03-18-2009 Gone with the Wind ... Vivian Leigh and Clark Gable Sordid Lives ... Beau Bridges, Olivia Newton-John, and Delta Burke 2001: A Space Odyssey ... Keir Dullea and HAL RE: Favorite Movies! - Ed Smay - 03-19-2009 My favorites are: My Fair Lady South Pacific Parent Trap Airplane Funny Girl Any Julia Roberts film On a clear day (Barbara Striesand} "From knowledge comes understanding" RE: Favorite Movies! - Kelena - 03-19-2009 Another vote for GWTW: Best American movie ever made followed by my guilty pleasure, Titanic. I hate watching movies twice, but I make an exception for these two....and Cabaret. RE: Favorite Movies! - Youser - 03-19-2009 There are so many movies and books out there I haven't seen or read, I feel I'm wasting time re-watching movies. Although having said that I recently re-watched a classic I saw many years ago - the original Twelve Angry Men with Henry Fonda. The entire film is shot in a cramped room and one of the most gripping movies ever made, without the cheap tricks and mindless dialogue in your average Hollywood movie today. Just excellent acting all through. It's sad that kids today don't read but want the instant gratification of a simplistic movie. I have piles of fantastic books I've never read just waiting to be delved into, but I find living in Paradise means I'm outside most of the day and exhausted when my head hits the pillow, so I only manage one page a night these days! So many books, and so little time..... RE: Favorite Movies! - Loretta - 03-19-2009 Legally Blonde....with Reese Witherspoon. Gets funnier each time I see it. (It is one of the very few movies I have watched more than once.) RE: Favorite Movies! - LeeE - 03-19-2009 Secret Ballot! A warm, sweet movie about a female election official sent to an island to collect votes. My Dinner with Andre. Most folks probably seen it already, but a great dialogue driven movie. Santa Sangre. Not for the faint of heart! Brilliant, strange, intense, Freudian influenced story about...well just have to see it. I once held a movie party at the small indie theater, Movie Museum, in Kaimuki and showed it. Half the audience walked out in shock halfway thru, the other half stayed and after the film, we all sat and talked about it for an hour. Mayor Harris and his lovely wife Ramona were going to come but didn't, which may have been a better career move. Schizopolis. Eventualism! Love in the Time of the Cholera. They nailed it, just like the book. RE: Favorite Movies! - Guest - 03-19-2009 The Patriot Cinderella man Gladiator LA Confidential The Bucket List The Note book Dumb & Dumber The Lathe of Heaven "original" Oh Lucky man The Big Country Forest Gump Saving Private Ryan Mutiny on the bounty (all) Witness for the prosecution. RE: Favorite Movies! - Liz - 03-19-2009 We love movies, too! Had quite an extensive vhs collection before moving to the tropics (no tv for 30+ years!). Let the kids pick through them,then donated the rest to our old library. We only brought the dvds with us and are slowly replacing some of the old faves as we find 'em. Here's some of our "drop of a hat" movies: Captain Ron Rat Race Chocolat Practical Magic Endless Summer 2 Coupling (series) Monsoon Wedding Last Holiday The Butcher's Wife The Bird Cage The Blues Brothers Love Actually Arsenic & Old Lace Billie Elliot Big Night Gosford Park The Jewel of the Nile God, the Devil & Bob Much Ado About Nothing Noises Off Sahara National Treasure Little Rascals Strictly Ballroom and many, many more... I really don't mind watching a favorite movie over again; same goes for a favorite book. aloha, Liz "The best things in life aren't things." |