Top 5 favorite movies

[jewelerman]

There are some great choices....my choices...
1-Moon Struck(1987)
2-Rear Window(1953)
3-Casablanca(1942)
4-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid(1969)
5-Princess Bride(1987)

 

[justjulia]

I still absolutely love "When Harry Met Sally."

 

[Fancy605]

Date: 6/27/2008 11:21:14 AM
Author: ladypirate
The Princess Bride

Dave

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Mystery Science Theatre 3000: The Movie


I know--not really any heavy drama in there...I guess movies I want to watch over and over again tend to be a bit more light hearted! Hard to choose just 5, though.

Ohhh, now if we''re taking movies I watch over and over again, I have a list that includes some VERY silly ones. Aside from Princess Bride, my BFFs and I are forever watching:

School of Rock
Dodge Ball
Wedding Crashers
Center Stage
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Clueless
Billy Madison
(I think Juno''s about to make the list too)

In fact, I''m pretty sure about 25% of our conversations are made primarily of lines from those movies. Poor DH. When all the girls are over, he just listens and looks half amused and half concerned.

 

[Miranda]

Braveheart
Jaws - only the first one
Princess Bride
The Shawshank Redemption
Gone with the Wind


OK, that was 5, but, there are a few more I like a whole lot.
300 - hello beefcake!
How to lose a guy in 10 days

 

[purrfectpear]

I love every movie that you''ve all listed with the exception of The Princess Bride. A friend was wild about and forced me to watch it. It just didn''t do it for me, but I know there are a lot of fans.

Legends of the Fall
Memoirs of a Geisha
Mildred Pierce
Gone with the Wind
Schindler''s List


I''m also a big fan of Finding Nemo and 101 Dalmations.

 

[zoebartlett]

Date: 6/27/2008 10:40:01 AM
Author: gwendolyn
Everything Is Illuminated
Grosse Point Blank
The Princess Bride
Office Space
It''s A Wonderful Life
12 Angry Men

(I listed 6 because the OP listed 6.

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I know the director. Great movie!

 

[zoebartlett]

Date: 6/27/2008 12:31:13 PM
Author: Haven
A Christmas Story
Breakfast at Tiffany's
When Harry Met Sally
Steel Magnolias
Elf

Ask me again tomorrow and I'll have a new Top 5!

"Fra-geel-ay...it must be Italian." LOVE this movie. I watch the marathon every year on TBS. I've made my family watch it so often with me that they refuse to do it again. We'll see about that. I can usually bribe them with chocolate chip cookies.

When Harry Met Sally is one of my all-time favorites too. I watch it whenever I catch it on cable.

I'll go with favorite genre, not movie. I'm a sucker for any romantic comedy, most of which are probably chick flicks. Serendipity, Say Anything, and Sleepless in Seattle are just a few that I love. I'm not sure I'd rank How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days as one of my all-time favorites, but I LOVE Matthew McConaughey (and Kate Hudson). I also love John Cusack and Jeremy Piven.

 

[Haven]

Date: 6/28/2008 12:15:00 AM
Author: ZoeBartlett

Date: 6/27/2008 12:31:13 PM

Author: Haven

A Christmas Story

Breakfast at Tiffany''s

When Harry Met Sally

Steel Magnolias

Elf


Ask me again tomorrow and I''ll have a new Top 5!

''Fra-geel-ay...it must be Italian.'' LOVE this movie. I watch the marathon every year on TBS. I''ve made my family watch it so often with me that they refuse to do it again. We''ll see about that. I can usually bribe them with chocolate chip cookies.


When Harry Met Sally is one of my all-time favorites too. I watch it whenever I catch it on cable.


I''ll go with favorite genre, not movie. I''m a sucker for any romantic comedy, most of which are probably chick flicks. Serendipity, Say Anything, and Sleepless in Seattle are just a few that I love. I''m not sure I''d rank How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days as one of my all-time favorites, but I LOVE Matthew McConaughey (and Kate Hudson). I also love John Cusack and Jeremy Piven.

I watch the marathon every year, too! My whole family piles into my parents'' family room, we order a ton of Chinese food, and stare at the tube for HOURS. In fact, my first bridal shower was a holiday-themed shower, so everyone gave us wonderful gifts associated with a holiday. Well, we''re Jewish so technically we don''t need any Christmas items, but my mom assigned Christmas to herself and gave us two night lights of the leg lamp, wrapped them in brown paper bag paper, and carefully drew out the "FRAGILE" stamp on each one. It was HILARIOUS.

I also own a pink bunny hooded sweatshirt. My sister got it for me a few years ago for Chanukah. I might be a bit too obsessed with that movie.

Fancy>/b>--We speak "movie" too! My entire family does it. When I first brought my FI around my family he told me that he didn''t understand half of what we were talking about. I was baffled at first, and then I realized that we slip in vague references to movies about every other sentence. He''s catching up, now. I can watch any Will Ferrel or Steve Carell movie repeatedly. In fact, my sisters and I often rewind the best parts so we can watch them over-and-over-and-over again. I saw Semi Pro for the first time on our flight from London to the U.S. and apparently I was laughing really loudly because several of the students I was traveling with came over to see what I was doing.

 

[UCLABelle]

Gone with the Wind
Roman Holiday
Sabrina/Breakfast at Tiffany''s
Pride and Prejudice (all versions)
300

I know they are technically 6, but I just LOVE all of them! 300, clearly the odd one out!

 

[canuk-gal]

HI:

Too many!!!!! But off the top of my head.....

Muriels Wedding
A Christmas Carol (Alister Sims)
Gladiator
Immortal Beloved
Zooloander
The Snow Walker

cheers--Sharon

 

[jewelerman]

zoolander is a funny movie.

 

[D2B]

hmmmm

Romeo and Juliet (director Baz Lohman (sp?)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Lord of the Rings trioligy (love a good fantasy)
The Lion and the Witch and the Wardrobe (simply because the series was my favourite childhood read)
Dr Zhivago/gone with the wind (cant decide between these 2 originals)

Highly recommend the unbearable lighntess of being with Daniel Day lewis

D2B

 

[diane5006]

Amadeus
Apollo 13
Dolores Claiborne
Shawshank Redemption
Pirates of the Caribbean 1/2
Muppet Christmas Carol/ A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott)

These are the one i always watch when they are on...love lots of others too

 

[Demelza]

The Ice Storm (beautifully haunting)
Brokeback Mountain
Best in Show
In the Company of Men (really disturbing and interesting)
The Hours (I had a hard time deciding between The Hours, Georgia, and Kramer vs. Kramer)

 

[westjenn]

My Top 5:
Lost in Translation
The Hours
Life is Beautiful
The Departed
There Will Be Blood

 

[Lynn B]

Interesting thread!

My, so many of you are such *serious* movie watchers!!!

I tend to prefer light-hearted movies with happy endings... maybe it's because of my profession (hospital social work) and the many sad stories I see and hear every day... it's just not what I tend to choose for entertainment. And also, I absolutely CANNOT watch pain or torture. No war movies, either.

So, that being said, let me preface my list by also saying that I watch little to no TV and very few movies. Would much rather usually be doing something else. So, with that disclaimer, and off the top of my head... my favorite movies include...

1. Big (LOVE that movie, have seen it 3 times, a RECORD for me!)
2. Overboard (just cracks me up)
3. Dumb and Dumber (I know, I know... totally mindless and completely, outrageously stupid... and honestly, I'll be the first to admit it... but it just kills me with how stupid and shamelessly FUNNY it is!) -- *ducks* !!! --
4. Officer and a Gentleman (Richard Gere is a hottie!)

I can't even think of a 5th one!

ETA: Oh, just about anything with Drew Barrymore -- love her! And some of her movies are just so darn sweet! There, that should count as #5, right?!

 

[peachy]

As everyone has said, 5 is tough!!

Sense and Sensibility (the Emma Thomspon version)
Moonstruck
The Birdcage
Singing in the Rain
Breakfast at Tiffanys

I also really love Elf! Will Ferrell did a superb job! Oh, and Forest Gump and ...

 

[Tacori E-ring]

Hard...

Shawshank
Dirty Dancing
Drowning Mona
Run Lola Run
Roman Holiday (with Audrey of course!)

 

[princesss]

The Princess Bride
Shawshank
Roman Holiday
Juno
Saved!

That was tougher than I thought it would be...

 

[mela lu]

Top 5:

The Notebook
The Lakehouse
Moonstruck
Frida
Vanilla Sky

other noteworthy titles:

My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Life is Beautiful
Groundhog Day
The Green Mile
12 Monkeys

 

[diamondfan]

I loved their chemistry in the Notebook!

I love Legally Blonde, Gone with the Wind, Coming to America, When Harry met Sally and My Fair Lady. (order not pertinent)

I also love Clueless, The King and I, Auntie Mame, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Pretty Woman, Armageddon, Barefoot in the Park, Love Actually, Raiders of the Lost Arc, Sleepless in Seattle...there are so many! I love romantic comedies, romances and action films.

 

[simplysplendid]

I want to play!

Lord of the rings
Sound of Music
Forrest Gump
Pretty Woman
Sleepless in Seattle

These are movies that I can and i have watched over and over and over again!

 

[simplysplendid]

Date: 6/28/2008 5:19:41 PM
Author: westjenn
My Top 5:
Lost in Translation
The Hours
Life is Beautiful
The Departed
There Will Be Blood

That's the one I like but couldn't remember the name. This was the only one foreign film that made me cried.
And if i can choose another one, that would be The Legends of the Fall.. I love Julia Ormond in that one.

 

[wishful]

OMG what Am I thinking???????

I forgot to put my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE OF ALL TIME


Little Miss Sunshine.

Hands down the funniest (and sweetest) movie I've ever seen.

I might go watch it right now!

 

[westjenn]

I just looked up "Phar Lap". It looks good! I''m going to have to try to find it, maybe on Netflix?

 

[Patiently_Waiting]

The Shawshank Redemption
Gone with The Wind
A Christmas Story
Pulp Fiction
Star Wars (Original Trilogy - Episodes IV-VI)

 

[miraclesrule]

Date: 6/28/2008 6:38:31 PM
Author: Tacori E-ring
Hard...

Shawshank
Dirty Dancing
Drowning Mona
Run Lola Run
Roman Holiday (with Audrey of course!)

That''s one of my top five favorite of all time...and that choice is harder as you get older.

It''s great to see someone else who has even heard of it. Yayayaya Tacori!!

Top 5 (total torture narrowing them down)
1. Braveheart
2. Miracle Worker
3. Run Lola Run
4. Day of the Dolphins
5. The Lion King, or The Client or Double Jeopardy or Searching for Bobby Fisher or I am Sam or, Life of David Gale or Pretty Woman, or The Titanic or Runaway Bride or Overboard ....this "or" list could go on and on.......

 

[OUpearlgirl]

I was driving this weekend and "Singin in the Rain" was playing on my ipod, and then I realized I forgot it from my list. I am crazy about Gene Kelly.

 

[Linda W]

Me too. Love the way he dances.

 

[Linda W]

OH I know, I love Frank Sinatra. My dad knew him well. He said he was a very nice man.