We've talked about books and music, so how about movies! What are some of your favorites?
I love The Mummy and The Mummy Returns
Lion King
Bambi and Jungle Book are childhood favorites
An American Werewolf in London (my favorite werewolf movie)
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Princess Mononoke
Captain Blood (1935 Errol Flynn pirate movie. I fell in love with it the first time I saw it)
and both Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
This is tough, I love movies, lots of movies.
Childhood favorites:
Last Unicorn
Labrynth
Comedy/family:
Pacifier
Find me Quilty
Horror/thriller:
Dawn of the Dead
Resident evil
resident evil 2
Saw I
Deep Blue Sea
Lake Placid
Action:
XXX
Fast and Furious
Pitch Black
Cronicals of Ridick
Charlie's Angel's 1 and 2
Romance:
Ever After
wedding Singer
Never been Kissed
Fever pitch
And that is just a start. as you can see. My favorite actors are Drew Berrymore and Vin Diesel. I also like Sean Connery.
Let see...
LofR of course
Shawshank Redemption
You've Got Mail
Cutting Edge
Noises Off
Young Frankenstein
Clue
Family Man
Lion King
Fox and the Hound
Airplane
Those are not all my favorites, but those are the ones I can watch over and over and never get tired of them :)
I like lots of movies! :D
Mummy & Mummy Returns... I agree with you there, Becki. :D They are so fun!
Other favorite movies... Serenity, The Cutting Edge, The Matchmaker, Fight Club.
But I like watching most things that started as comic books, anything that has crazy butt-kicking women as main characters, and anything that has any of my Cinema Boyfriends in it. ;) I'd sit through just about anything for Oded Fehr or Nic Cage or Colin Firth.
Gone With the Wind - I just love that film, and for a pre-WWII movie it has hardly aged at all
Star Wars - the original trilogy, not the new ones
Goldfinger - just sums up Bond to me
Top Secret - with a very young Val Kilmer
Toy Story
I have so many....
LotR (all 3 of them)
Little Miss Sunshine
Shot In The Dark
Liar Liar
Dragonheart
Blade Runner
The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy
Young Frankenstein
Clue
The Goonies
The Mummy and The Mummy Returns (Ardeth Bey... :love5:)
13 Going On 30
Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
Miss Congeniality
The Adventures of Milo and Otis
Pride and Prejudice (the A&E version)
Scent of a Woman
Sixteen Candles
Dirty Dancing
Lady and the Tramp
Shrek
The Emperor's New Groove
Signs
The Village
The Sixth Sense
The Matrix I
Pirates II
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
What's Up Doc?
Adventures In Babysitting
Moonstruck
Legally Blonde
The Land Before Time
Clueless
Gladiator
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
The Lion King
The Last Unicorn
Beauty and the Beast
The Little Mermaid
Bambi
The Rescuers
Aladdin
Sleeping Beauty
Finding Nemo
All Dogs Go To Heaven
Rock-A-Doodle
X-Files: Fight the Future
Star Wars (the oldies)
I could go on forever.....
OMG! I forgot Casablanca and Roman Holiday!
The ones I have and tend to watch over and over are the typical ones: LotR and HP series. I also have an incomplete collection of Monty Python but am expanding that.
However, I tend to watch musicals and sing along:
Chicago
Moulin Rouge
Jesus Christ Superstar
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Phantom of the Opera
There are more, but if I go look at them now, I'll have to pop one in and my flatmates won't appreciate me singing them awake at this time of the morning!
Quote from: "Dana"I have so many....
You have more favourites than I've watched in my entire life!
I watch Beauty and the Beast. That's it.
I can't list them, there are too many...
Last time I tried to narrow it down to a manageable list my head almost exploded. :cherry:
LotR (all 3 of them)
Little Miss Sunshine (I LOVED this movie. It was so good)
Dragonheart
13 Going On 30
Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
The Emperor's New Groove
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
The Land Before Time (up to the 4th one then they started getting to childy, even for me.)
The Little Mermaid
Date Movie (Stupidest movie on the face of the planet (excluding Napolean Dynamite) but I still liked it)
The Producers (Best musical EVER)
Rent
Phantom of the Opera
Harry Potter 3 and 4
Shrek
101 Dalmations (Both animated and live, though the animated one was my favorite until I was ten)
Fox and the Hound
Pirates of the Carribean (Both "Curse of the Black Pearl" and "Dead Man's Chest")
Finding Nemo
Gremlins
I could just continue listing my Movie shelves if you want...
I am a rare soul and do not like movies- I do not go see them often, I have not seen many. As a result, my favorites list is probably about half of what I've seen, total. My list also almost entirely follows a theme, if you can guess it :D
Battlestar Galactica (yes, the 1978 version spun off from the movie)
Star Wars
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek: First Contact
Jurassic Park
Gattaca
Phantom of the Opera
Ooooh, Avril! I forgot Gattaca! That is one of my favorite movies of all time! Don't know how I missed it!
Empire Strikes Back is still my favorite Star Wars movie, but I'm not as big a dork about Star Wars as I was 5-8 years ago. ;) I still have my VHS THX remastered non-special edition tapes though. :D Those were the bomb before the DVDs came out.
The movies I've seen more than anything else are probably X-Men, The Cutting Edge, Empire Strikes Back, and The Mummy. I pretty much NEVER get tired of those movies!
I have too many favorite movies to list all of them - If I tried, I'd leave one out and feel really dumb when I read back over the list later.
So, I'll just list a sampling:
Fight Club
LotR trilogy
All SIX Star Wars movies (and I LIKE Jar Jar Binks, dammit!)
The Dawn of the Dead remake
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake
Spaceballs
Shawshank Redemption
Independance Day
Titanic
Lion King
10 Things I Hate About You
28 Days
My Dog Skip
Anchorman - The Legend of Ron Burgandy
50 First Dates
Children of Men
Talladegha Nights - The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Casablanca
Spidermans 1, 2 and 3 (I KNOW it's gonna be good!)
All the Harry Potters (except perhaps the 3rd - in which the story had been butchered to the point of being nearly unrecognizable. This did have the added benefit of helping me convince no less than 4 different friends to read the book - which led to them being addicted to the series - because they were so confused by the movie and I told them how much it left out and they wanted to see if I was exaggerating)
The Island
Snakes on a Plane
and I'm gonna stop my list there... before the rampant and blatant misspelligns escape the confines of the post and kill us all in our sleep.
How could I forget My Dog Skip! I love that movie! And Spaceballs too! And I forgot Homeward Bound, The Fox and the Hound, Toy Story 1 and 2.... And even though these aren't movies, my family and I watch them _all the time_: the complete seasons of LOST on DVD and the complete seasons of Frasier on DVD. When we can't decide on a movie to watch, we just stick in LOST or Frasier :D
Quote from: "april"This is tough, I love movies, lots of movies.
Childhood favorites:
Last Unicon
I was obssessed with that movie when I was younger! Actually, it is sort of funny that you mention it, because my mom and I were just talking about it the other day...
Quote from: "Anwen"Quote from: "april"This is tough, I love movies, lots of movies.
Childhood favorites:
Last Unicon
I was obssessed with that movie when I was younger! Actually, it is sort of funny that you mention it, because my mom and I were just talking about it the other day...
:P I'm still obsessed with it. Although the book is WAY better. Actually, it's mostly the same with a few scenes filled it so that things make more sense. It's the only movie that makes me cry
every damned time.
I'm also a fan of:
The Dark Crystal
The Shawshank Redemption
The Usual Suspects
Tremors *blush*
The Maltese Falcon
any of the Indiana Jones movies
Breakfast at Tiffaney's
The Cabinate of Dr. Caligari (best party movie because you can talk through it)
The Fifth Element
... and probably some others that I've forgotten. My favourite was (when I had tv) being up past midnight watching either old black and white movies, or weird B movies on the Space channel. :)
Oh man I totally forgot The Dark Crystal. And
QuoteSnakes on a Plane
Hehe so stupid.
Quote from: "Patrick"QuoteSnakes on a Plane
Hehe so stupid.
That's what makes it so AWESOME!
I love all types of movies: romance; drama; comedy; action adventure; even some kids movies... let's see, naming them could be a problem.
Romance
Somewhere in Time
The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan
Titanic
The Lake House
Drama
Panic Room
Dances with Wolves
Purple Rain
Gattaca
Fight Club
Mean Machine (original pommie version)
Independence Day
Behind Enemy Lines (Owen Wilson *swoons*)
Frequency
Any Sandra Bullock movie
Comedy
50 First Dates
Rush Hour 1 & 2 (Gotta love Jackie Chan *heart does a flip*)
Shanghai Knights (Owen and Jackie *falls over in a dead faint)
Shanghai Noon (*ditto*)
Sweet Home Alabama
all of the Flying High movies (yeah I have a sick SOH)
Dragonheart
Action Adventure
Anything with Bruce Willis
Anything with Jackie Chan
The Bruce Lee Story
Speed 1 & 2
God, I could go on, but those are the ones that spring to mind. I'd have to go through the DVD collection to list them all.
Shaffit! I forgot disaster movies!!
Disaster Movies
Dante's Peak
Tornado
Twister
Volcano
Daylight
Armageddon
Sudden Impact
The Poseidin Adventure (original is cheesy but good to watch on a cold winters night)
And if there were a worst movie thread...
SAW 1 & 2
The Grudge 1 & 2
- would top the list, followed by Unbreakable ( the only BW movie I hated!)
Quote from: "Kaysea"And if there were a worst movie thread...
SAW 1 & 2
The Grudge 1 & 2
- would top the list, followed by Unbreakable ( the only BW movie I hated!)
Dude! I loved the Saw movies and the Grudge movies! lol
Quote from: "Amanda"Quote from: "Kaysea"And if there were a worst movie thread...
SAW 1 & 2
The Grudge 1 & 2
- would top the list, followed by Unbreakable ( the only BW movie I hated!)
Dude! I loved the Saw movies and the Grudge movies! lol
Nah, couldn't stand either of them. No horror in one, just gore. And no horror in the other, just some goth chic on a good day... ;)
Quote from: "Kaysea"Quote from: "Amanda"Quote from: "Kaysea"And if there were a worst movie thread...
SAW 1 & 2
The Grudge 1 & 2
- would top the list, followed by Unbreakable ( the only BW movie I hated!)
Dude! I loved the Saw movies and the Grudge movies! lol
Nah, couldn't stand either of them. No horror in one, just gore. And no horror in the other, just some goth chic on a good day... ;)
Ah, well, that's the difference. I, on occasion, really enjoy a spot of plain old gore. *G*
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Ah, well, that's the difference. I, on occasion, really enjoy a spot of plain old gore. *G*
That reminds me, Texas Chain Saw Massacre - (original) - sux. Never bothered seeing the remake.
Oh and there was one my brother hired when he was about 15, it just had screaming women all the way through it. *rolls eyes* Drove me nuts so I took the remote control off him and wouldn't let him watch the movie after the first 15 minutes. Bloodsucking Freaks - or something like that.
Give me good old fashioned goth horror/murder mystery.
I can watch any Midsomer Murder or Inspector Frost (hmmm.... David Jason he might be old but ^_^)
Quote from: "Kaysea"I can watch any Midsomer Murder or Inspector Frost (hmmm.... David Jason he might be old but ^_^)
Give me Taggart any day, but those of you in the USA may need subtitles for that one!
Quote from: "emma"Quote from: "Kaysea"I can watch any Midsomer Murder or Inspector Frost (hmmm.... David Jason he might be old but ^_^)
Give me Taggart any day, but those of you in the USA may need subtitles for that one!
Have to agree, Taggart was good, but only the original movies with Mark McManus - the craggy guy was great to watch!
Went downhill after he died, it just didn't have the hard/jaded-ness that I loved about him.
The new guy is pretty good, but they got rid of almost all the original cast. But they can't rename it - nobody would take a Detective series called 'Burke' seriously! (Well not here anyway!)
Quote from: "emma"The new guy is pretty good, but they got rid of almost all the original cast. But they can't rename it - nobody would take a Detective series called 'Burke' seriously! (Well not here anyway!)
*falls off chair laughing*
No I can understand that....
Movie that I would stop to watch even if the paramedics were wheeling me out of the house?
Support Your Local Sheriff
Movies I will always stop channel surfing to watch?
Robin Hood (Errol Flynn)
Indepence Day
Movies that don't hit the small screen much?
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Young Frankenstein
Quote from: "Mikel"Young Frankenstein
Oh Gene Wilder?
That was on a couple of weeks ago here!!!
Looove Gene Wilder, and Richard Pryor - together they're fantastic!
Quote from: "Kaysea"Looove Gene Wilder, and Richard Pryor - together they're fantastic!
Remember that movie they were in together where one of them was blind and the other deaf? See No Evil, Hear No Evil or something like that... That is one of my favorites too. So funny!
Quote from: "Amanda"Snakes on a Plane
Haha! Yes!
And that reminds me to add Club Dread.
I just remembered one of my favorites! "The Long Kiss Goodnight"! (Oddly enough, I was reminded when we were having a discussion on Snakes on a Plane earlier! The forum is reading my mind!)
I have to add "Meet the Robinsons". I just saw it and its growing into my favorite Disney movie the more I sit and think. All I have to say is I hate puppets and I'm never wearing hats AGAIN!
Quote from: "Kaysea"I can watch any Midsomer Murder or Inspector Frost (hmmm.... David Jason he might be old but ^_^)
Hee hee. I love Midsomer Murders though they can be quite icky for a wimp like me. The characters are great and the body count is always high! My father wants to know if there's anyone left alive in Midsomer.
My favourite line from the show is included in this Wiki snip:
One feature of the programme is the extremely large number of deaths, especially considering that Midsomer is a small, rural county. Because of the slightly bizarre nature of the place, this does not seem entirely improbable. The show at times even plays on this lack of realism, with characters within it often commenting on the astoundingly high numbers of deaths. For example, when he is called to a murder scene on his first day, Detective Sergeant Dan Scott asks, "Is the body count always this high around here?". Barnaby replies drily, "It's been remarked upon."