Favorite Movies

KatWAG

@doeydo I love that Dumb and Dumber made your list

arrippa

KatWAG said:

So I started to read The Princess Bride and thought the book was so stupid I couldnt finish it.

Am I the only one who hates this book (thus why I wont see the movie)? Do I need to turn in my ovaries?

I didn't like the book, but I love the movie.

 

My picks:

Empire Strikes Back (if you only want to see one SW movie)

Jurassic Park

Princess Bride

Clueless

The Sound of Music

Pitch Perfect

Robin Hoods: Men In Tights (guilty pleasure)

Airplane!

 

 

 

 

beethery

COMING TO AMERICA. Hands down favorite movie of all time.

cupcait927

I'm not a huge movie person but I love anything Wes Anderson. Moonrise Kingdom is my favorite of his and Fantastic Mr. Fox is a pretty close second. I'm a huge fan of 80s movies but I just hate sitting through a whole movie. I lose interest by like halfway through. Anything over two hours gets a big fat nope from me.

Kahlyla

Lots and lots of good stuff here. Seriously, listen to these ladies!

And I will just add Empire Records (well, and Serenity, but you really must watch all of Firefly first. I mean, I would start that tonight.).

Wait, has Mean Girls not been mentioned yet?!

cupcait927

@Kahlyla I forgot about Empire Records. I used to know that whole movie line-by-line. My sister and I watched it way too much when we were younger.

daria24

Everyone that loves Breakfast at Tiffany's should see How to Steal a Million, with Audrey and Peter O'Toole. It's a romantic heist movie that is just soooo charming.

My favorites are:

My Favorite Wife

The Awful Truth

Wages of Fear (which is this AMAZING French thriller)

A Room with a View

Sense & Sensibility

Clueless

Pitch Perfect

I wouldn't call it a "Favorite" because it's depressing, but it's one of the best movies I've ever seen in Children of Men. 

hellosweetie1015

Inkdancer said:

My must watch movies list:

Lady Jane (early Helena Bonham Carter and Cary Elwes YES PLEASE)
Casablanca
The Princess Bride

The Man from Snowy River

WAT.

*ahem*

Princess Bride is fantastic. 

I think it's worth noting, however, that I am rather in your boat. FI has been slowly introducing me to his favorite movies.

The man had two hundred favorite movies when we met two years ago, and he adds 30 or so each year. Getting him little presents is easy, but we will never get me caught up with his neverending list.

tpwkalyn

Also, anything directed by David Fincher.

Fight Club, The Social Network, SE7EN, & Gone Girl are some more of my top faves.

amelisha

FI likes the Princess Bride way more than I do - it's totally not an ovary issue, haha. I like it more for the nostalgia factor than for its merits as an actual movie, I think. FI says the same thing about Labyrinth, which I LOVE and he doesn't really get so much.

I'm into classics, so I came to recommend Bringing Up Baby, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, and An Affair to Remember. And anything Gregory Peck ever did.

FI's all-time favourite is The Big Lebowski, and it is one of my favourites now too. So dumb. So brilliantly directed. There's a theatre in our city that occasionally plays it and encourages everyone to come in bathrobes and they serve White Russians.

I'm kinda into foreign films too. I love Almodovar's stuff - Volver, Bad Education, All About My Mother- and stuff like Y tu mama tambien, Sin Nombre and Amores Perros. I think they're classics in their own right for sure, especially Amores Perros, which is hard to watch but SO GOOD. Devastating, but good.

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Rain Man, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Casablanca, Singin in the Rain, Seven Year Itch

porkchops926

I liked both the Princess Bride movie and book, but I agree, it's one of the few cases where the movie actually works better. Every character in it is perfection. 

I also have to echo Shawshank Redemption, FI made me watch it last year and it was phenomenal. 

I can't come up with a huge list off of the top of my head but one movie I watched recently that was fantastic was Whiplash. Easily the best new movie I've seen in years.  

mrsk616

gangster squad

lawless

inglorious bastards

public enemies

fury

zero dark thirty

(im starting to notice a theme here) 

anything with christian bale

law abiding citizen

the gamer

the ugly truth 

sweet home Alabama

killers

all the fast and furious movies especially 5 and 6. 

avengers

million ways to die in the west

  

eta: not all christian bale as i do not like american pyscho, and to fix me typing Christine instead of Christian

Inkdancer

hellosweetie1015 said:

Inkdancer said:

My must watch movies list:

Lady Jane (early Helena Bonham Carter and Cary Elwes YES PLEASE)
Casablanca
The Princess Bride

The Man from Snowy River

WAT.

I know!!!! Almost nobody I know has seen this movie and it is just incredible. Did I mention that Patrick Stewart is also in it?

climbingsingle

beethery said:

COMING TO AMERICA. Hands down favorite movie of all time.

YES. How could I forget this?? Trading Places too. 

themuffinman16

GONE WITH THE WIND

Steel Magnolias

Fried Green Tomatoes

Pretty Woman

Christmas Story

The Fugitive

Clear and Present Danger

Cinderella Man

Braveheart

Clueless

Erin Brokovich 

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Groundhog Day

The Help

When Harry Met Sally (love this movie)

Overboard,

The American President, Goodfellas (<3)

Office space

Must Love Dogs

Father of the bride

Mean Girls

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Forest Gump

LITTLE WOMEN (love love love this movie)

Shawshank Redemptiion

As Good As It Gets

Ocean's Eleven

The Family Stone 

The Secret of Nymhh

A perfect Murder

The Neverending Story

The Game

Mona Lisa Smile

Walk the Line

Ray

Under the Tuscan Sun 

Juno

Cast Away

Terms of Endearment

ETF format

themuffinman16

@Doeydo: I loved The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.

knottie9c5ed33df4bbd226

My favorite movie ever is Back to the Future II so I would say that! Adventures in Babysitting, Almost Famous, Ferris Bueller, My Best Friend's Wedding..

SmileDamnit

Lonesome Dove (favorite book and movie...or miniseries, if we're being technical). Hands down thee best epic story about adventure, love, friendship. Oh! I want to cry just thinking about it. And, it's where Gus got his name.

madamerwin

afox007 said:

Two favorite movies, though not sure I would consider them classics: 10 Things I hate About You and True Romance.

I watched 10 Things I hate About You on a daily basis in 7th grade. Love that movie. Other than that:

Princess Bride

The Neverending Story

Back to the Future I and II

The Breakfast Club

Sixteen Candles

Dirty Dancing

Fargo

Pulp Fiction

Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, and 2001: A Space Oddysey (and anything else Kubrick)

The Shawshank Redemption

madamerwin

beethery said:

COMING TO AMERICA. Hands down favorite movie of all time.

YES! I forgot about that movie! Good one.

climbingsingle

I forgot Little Women too. Omg, do I love that movie. 

bethsmiles

KatWAG said:

So I started to read The Princess Bride and thought the book was so stupid I couldnt finish it.

Am I the only one who hates this book (thus why I wont see the movie)? Do I need to turn in my ovaries?

I hate the movie. Hearing people quote it is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

KatWAG

bethsmiles said:

KatWAG said:

So I started to read The Princess Bride and thought the book was so stupid I couldnt finish it.

Am I the only one who hates this book (thus why I wont see the movie)? Do I need to turn in my ovaries?

I hate the movie. Hearing people quote it is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

The only reason I would ever consider seeing it is because it has Saul from Homeland and I love him. (and his beard.)

beethery

The Fall (with Lee Pace hhhnnnnngggggg)

NowIAmSyp

Did anyone say Jurassic Park?  

That's my "black hole" movie- I get sucked into watching it no matter what my plans may have been, lol

bethsmiles

soontobesyp said:

Did anyone say Jurassic Park?  

That's my "black hole" movie- I get sucked into watching it no matter what my plans may have been, lol

Jurassic Park has some sort of hypnotic control over me. If I'm flipping through channels and it's on, I have to watch it! Only the first one though.

bethsmiles

KatWAG said:

bethsmiles said:

KatWAG said:

So I started to read The Princess Bride and thought the book was so stupid I couldnt finish it.

Am I the only one who hates this book (thus why I wont see the movie)? Do I need to turn in my ovaries?

I hate the movie. Hearing people quote it is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

The only reason I would ever consider seeing it is because it has Saul from Homeland and I love him. (and his beard.)

I love Cary Elwes but he can't save the movie for me. Maybe Saul from Homeland can do it for you though. Pretty much everyone I know loves it, I guess I just don't get it. 

wrigleyville

madamerwin

bethsmiles said:

KatWAG said:

bethsmiles said:

KatWAG said:

So I started to read The Princess Bride and thought the book was so stupid I couldnt finish it.

Am I the only one who hates this book (thus why I wont see the movie)? Do I need to turn in my ovaries?

I hate the movie. Hearing people quote it is like nails on a chalkboard to me.

The only reason I would ever consider seeing it is because it has Saul from Homeland and I love him. (and his beard.)

I love Cary Elwes but he can't save the movie for me. Maybe Saul from Homeland can do it for you though. Pretty much everyone I know loves it, I guess I just don't get it. 

I think that if I had not watched it so many times as a kid (if I had not seen it until adulthood), I probably would not like it either. I think that it's one of those movies you have to watch as a kid first to appreciate it. I have a co-worker who recently watched it for the first time, and she thought it was awful.