Favorite movies

[ski diva]

It's Saturday night, and we often watch a DVD from Netflix. But lately we've had a tough time figuring out what to watch. Anyone have any suggestions on what we should get in the future? What are your favorite films?

Here are some of mine:

Jaws (yes, really)
The Sting
The In Laws (the original, not the re-make)
Remains of the Day
Waiting for Guffman
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavera

 

[Bravosarah]

The Sting - great movie!

My favourite movie list changes from time to time, but these come to mind at this time, in no particular order:

Charlie's Angels
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Wild Hogs
Long Way Round
Trainspotting
The Departed
All the Jason Bourne movies
All the Austin Powers movies
All the Maxtrix movies


Something abiout mary true lies

 

[SnowHot]

My all time favourite - Young Frankenstein!!
A Fish Called Wanda
Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Hunt for Red October
Holiday
Love Actually
Pirates of the Carribean
Indiana Jones(all of them)
Don Juan DeMarco(Thank Lola for the recommendation on that one)
Chocolat!
Bull Durham(Kevin Costner really got to me!)
Golf genre:
Caddyshack
Happy Gillmore
Tin Cup(feel it ring in your loins)

More to come as I have my memory jogged.

 

[Lola]

Ah . . . movies . . . gotta love 'em

Love Actually
Down with Love
Don Juan DeMarco
Princess Bride
Cars
Blues Brothers
A Fish Called Wanda
Austin Powers
Michael
Defending Your Life
Amadeus
The Big Chill
Bridget Jones
Dances With Wolves
Field of Dreams
The Incredibles
High Fidelity
Hook
Lion King
Juno
Keeping The Faith
Office Space
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Pleasantville
Across The Universe
Garden State

I could go on and on, but I probably should let someone else have a post.

 

[Robyn]

I'm not a huge movie person for some reason but do have a few favorites.

The Hunt for Red October
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Crimson Tide (yes, I know there's something about me and submarine movies)
Juno

 

[vanhoskier]

Ah, Juno is GREAT!

I love foreign films but can't think of names of favorites right now.

Old movies: Casablanca, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Manchurian Candidate (the original)

contemporary movies:
Empire of the Sun
There Will Be Blood
A River Runs Through It
7 Years in Tibet
Ocean's Thirteen
Fargo
No Country for Old Men
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou
Star Wars
Dead Poet's Society
Casino Royale (I love Daniel Craig!)

 

[Bravosarah]

No Country for Old Men

I'm with you 99% on that one, but what's with that ending!?! Seriously!

 

[BackCountryGirl]

I have too many favorites -- Roman Holiday, The Philadelphia Story, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, anything with Meryl Streep (even the River Wild!). In fact, I can't wait to see Momma Mia.

 

[vanhoskier]

I'm with you 99% on that one, but what's with that ending!?! Seriously!

Yeah, I didn't like the end either. It's that way in the book, too.

 

[vanhoskier]

I have too many favorites -- Roman Holiday, The Philadelphia Story, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, anything with Meryl Streep (even the River Wild!). In fact, I can't wait to see Momma Mia.

Oh, Roman Holiday is another old movie I like.

"Best in Show" is hysterical!

Another one of my favorites, kind of a cult classic, is "Breaking Away."

 

[Ski Spirit]

Steep
August Rush
40 Carats
Two for the Road
Love Actually
Bridget Jones
Pride and Prejudice
Persuasion
Emma
Four Weddings and a Funeral

 

[Skimom]

This could take forever to reply to! Here are a few faves that come to mind.

Trading Places - Eddie Murphy and Dan Akryoyd...hilarious!
The Shawshank Redemption
Little Miss Sunshine
Knocked Up
Terms of Endearment
Something About Mary
(Just about anything with Adam Sandler, although I didn't like "Click")
The "Bourne" movies.
Forrest Gump...(Loved that movie!)

ooooh...so many more!

 

[num]

A shortlist:

The Christopher Guest movies.
The Blues Brothers
Requiem For a Dream
Pi
Monsters, Inc
Y Tu Mama, Tambien
The Syrian Bride

 

[altagirl]

Princess Bride
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood (talk about crazy endings...)
The Departed (I keep watching it over and over again on HBO lately)
The Big Lebowski
The Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
A Fish Called Wanda
Office Space
Kill Bill (both 1 and 2)
Pulp Fiction

 

[Jenny]

Princess Bride
The Full Monty
Grease
Johnny Dangerously

 

[lynseyf]

For anyone who's not seen it "Touching the Void" is the BEST film ever
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379557/

Foreign language films that I've liked,
Amelie
Run Lola, Run,
Volver,
Life is Beautiful, the saddest film ever :Cry:
The motorcycle diaries
Amores Perros
Goodbye Lenin
Ong Bak
Infernal Affairs,
City of God

Other films
Hotel Rwanda, a must see, prepare to feel guilty though :(
American Gangster,
Shrek,
Meet the parents and meet the fockers,
Crash,
Sean of the Dead,
Walk the Line,
American History X
Million Dollar baby,
Trainspotting ( Filmed where i live )
The Prestige,
Momento,
Catch me if you can

 

[astridhj]

Thelma and Louise
Blazing Saddles
The Blues Brothers
Mars Attacks
Flåklypa Grand Prix (Norwegian kids movie from the 80s)
American History X
Walk the Line
Shrek
Ice Age
Finding Nemo
Pulp Fiction (all Tarantino movies really)
The Incredibles
Forrest Gump

 

[skiso]

I love older films and especially ones that are filmed where I'd like to be (and with whom...) so these are the few I own:
Charade – Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn, opening with a ski scene in the Alps;
To Catch a Thief – Cary Grant and Grace Kelly on the French Riviera;
Roman Holiday
Rear Window
North By Northwest
Witness (Harrison Ford in the 1980's...)

Others I would own:
Some Like it Hot
Dial M for Murder
Chariots of Fire

Newer good ones:
inside Man
Ten Items or Less

Animation:
Les Triplettes de Belleville (for Tour de France fans)
Ratatouille
Monsters Inc

Musicals:
White Christmas
Singing In The Rain

 

[vanhoskier]

Oh, yes, Amelie is a great movie! (French film, very funny).

I love old movies too. Just re-watched "Harvey" with Jimmy Stewart last night. Funny movie, and a classic.

Another good Jimmy Stewart movie is "You Can't Take it With You".....1938 - Jimmy is pretty young in that one.

"The Rear Window" is my favorite Hitchcock movie. An older, interesting Hitchcock one is "Spellbound" with a very young Gregory Peck and Ingrid Bergman.

 

[vanhoskier]

I love older films and especially ones that are filmed where I'd like to be (and with whom...)
Witness (Harrison Ford in the 1980's...)

"Witness" was filmed in my home town. I was in high school at the time and thought Harrison Ford was a hunk. My friends and I went downtown to watch the filming....we stood for hours outside the Lancaster Central Market and were rewarded by an appearance of Harrison Ford as they shot a few scenes there.

I worked as a cashier at a KMart after school hours at the time, and Harrison Ford came in that store and bought a cooler and a beach umbrella. I didn't recognize him until he was just about through the line....he had the kind of appearance that looks SO "regular guy" that he really didn't stand out. Just about knocked my socks off when I realized who it was, but I was too shy to ask for an autograph.