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RE: Favorite Movies! - Beachboy - 03-23-2009 these are some of my all time favorite movies, and they are not in any particular order. I hope you folks can relate to some of my picks, and agree with them!? 1.) "Mondo Kane" 2.) "At Play in the Fields of the Lord". (Tom Berrenger & Tom Waits) 3.) "Damn Yankees" 4.) "The Big Chill" 5.) "Robinson Crusoe" 6.) "Blade Runner" 7.) "The Godfather pts. I & II 8.) "Dr. Strangelove" 9.) "TAxi Driver" 10.) "Lawrence or Arabia" ----------- Let's get together and over grow the government!!!! RE: Favorite Movies! - mella l - 03-23-2009 I seen a few more than once! Enjoyed everyone's list and here are a few more to consider! Dead Poets Society The Scarlet Pimpernel The Matrix The Fifth Element The Game- Michael Douglas (Old but good) Very Good! Edward Sizzorhands South Pacific Wizard of Oz A Fish Called Wanda The Piano Evening (2007) Last but not least "Ladyhawk"! The Wire an HBO series of 6 seasons mella l RE: Favorite Movies! - kani-lehua - 03-23-2009 i forgot to mention: fatal attraction a few good men pretty woman ---------------- "chaos reigns within. reflect, repent and reboot. order shall return." microsoft error message with haiku poetry RE: Favorite Movies! - olin137 - 03-25-2009 Really interesting to compare lists. Some have specific themes (action, feel-good, scifi, etc), while others are very eclectic. Also interesting is reading the lists of others where a specific list will contain some of my favorite movies but also some I didn’t like at all. As for viewing the same movies again, I see at least three good arguments: 1. If it’s well done, doesn’t a good movie rise to the level of being a work of art? If you like the Mona Lisa, would you only look at once? If you have a favorite song, do you only listen to it once? 2. If you’re in the mood for a movie, sometimes a favorite movie you’ve seen several times is by far the best thing available. 3. A good movie, or even specific parts of a movie, can be almost like an old friend, something familiar that makes you feel good, recall an emotion, relax you, etc. As for some specific movie suggestions of my own, here’s a few I didn’t see, or missed, on others’ lists: Red Violin – Maybe Samuel Jackson’s best performance, especially some scenes where he says little if anything, but conveys everything. First Star Wars that came out (episode 4 in the later chronology?) – campy, fun, but with some serious undertones. Other episodes don’t make my list. Inside Man – Really like Clive Owen, but he doesn’t do many movies that really exploit his talents. Gotta have a western or two, so how about among Tombstone, The Unforgiven, High Noon, Shane. Zulu – lots of fighting, but typically good English group performances by good actors, good music, heroic without being jingoistic or exaggerated – based evidently pretty accurately on real events. The Last Mimzy – terminally cute kids, little heavy on the message, up positive in the end. Army of Darkness – Absolute guilty pleasure. Contact – Thoughtful and one of few movies to have scenes showing why scientists can get enthralled with their work. Surprise endings: Sixth Sense and The Usual Suspects. Jumanji – When I saw it, I and the rest of the audience were belly-laughing frequently. As Good As It Gets – great cast and movie, inspite that I didn’t buy that Helen Hunt couldn’t get a “real” boyfriend. And how about movies that were good, but maybe weren’t on any all-time list, and had some great individual scenes such as: Marisa Tomei’s scene at the end of My Cousin Vinnie where she’s telling him off for not wanting people to help him; the onboard officiers meal scene in Master and Commander where the captain tells a joke that works both in the movie and with the audience – something hard to pull off. RE: Favorite Movies! - Blakeyboy1 - 03-25-2009 I'd like to give a shout out to those listing some of my faves: JerryCarr - Sordid Lives Loretta - Legally Blonde Kani-Lehua - On Golden Pond, First Wives Club Aki - Planes, Trains and Automobiles Mella - Edward Scissorhands And I would like to add: C.A.M.P. Lost Boys Beautiful Thing Shelter House Bunny Princess Diaries Pieces of April Badder Santa Hoot Halloween 1, 2 and H20 -Blake http://www.theboysgreatescape.blogspot.com/ RE: Favorite Movies! - hikatz - 03-25-2009 Many of my favorites are already on the lists, some others I enjoy! Gods Must Be Crazy Some Like It Hot Ruthless People Money pit (reminds me of the house we are in)[] It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World Odd Couple Saving Grace Full Monty Home Alone Ghostbusters Chariots of Fire Raiders of the Lost Ark Die Hard Beverly Hills Cop Thirty Nine Steps Picnic at Hanging Rock Once Upon a Time in the West Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon RE: Favorite Movies! - Blakeyboy1 - 03-26-2009 Ah some good one Hikatz... Die Hard is my fave Christmas move :-) -Blake http://www.theboysgreatescape.blogspot.com/ RE: Favorite Movies! - Jon - 03-26-2009 The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - Errol Flynn True Grit Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan The Alamo Sons of Katie Elder The Quiet Man Water World The Postman How about a list of your favorite books.... Wasp The Stainless Steel Rat Space Viking Planet for Texans Ringworld Protector Ender's Game Battlefield Earth Deathworld A Princess of Mars Outlaw of Torn ----------------------------------------------------------- I do not believe that America is better than everybody else... America "IS" everybody else. HBAT RE: Favorite Movies! - Wendy - 03-26-2009 I never get tired of watching these: The Notebook Memoirs of a Geisha Vegas Vacation 50 First Dates Honeymoon in Vegas Song of Bernadette Forgetting Sarah Marshall Seven Years in Tibet Catch me if You Can Sound of Music Meet the Parents Shaun of the Dead Napoleon Dynamite Ferris Bueller's Day Off Legally Blonde RE: Favorite Movies! - maud gonne - 03-26-2009 I generally don't like watching a movie more than once, but these are some of my exceptions: Casablanca - I can only take the wrenching once or twice a decade Wizard of Oz - so delightful, esp the songs What's Eating Gilbert Grape - Depp & DiCaprio at their best, plus the mother's role is unique Soylent Green - the futuristic projection is stunning, less glitzy than BladeRunner and a great surprise ending Sixth Sense - love playing it a second time with the added knowledge from the surprise ending African Queen - Bogey & Hepburn, & if that's not enough, love,adventure & suspense while floating down the river in Africa A&E's Pride & Prejudice - so true to the book & such great acting Notorious - Cary Grant & Ingrid Bergman - my favorite Hitchcock. Great scenes: (1)Vanessa Redgrave's cameo in "Julia" (2)Bette Midler talking to her parents on the phone while on heroin in "The Rose" |