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PennyK 09-02-21 02:38 PM

Favorite Movies of All Time
 
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bubbles76 09-02-21 02:49 PM

I know I could watch these movies over and over:
  1. The Mirror Has Two Faces
  2. The Little Princess - the one with Amelia Shankley. Yes, technically a mini series.
  3. Trading Places
  4. Emma - any of them
  5. Office Christmas Party
  6. Galaxy Quest
  7. Princess Caraboo
  8. The Incredibles
  9. Shrek 2
  10. The Princess Bride
  11. What Women Want

I know I've seen these at least 10x each, if not more.

BunnyHop 09-02-21 02:51 PM

Fun!

In recent years, the movie I keep watching over and over is Arrival, with Amy Adams. It's a bit of a mystery, and rewards a re-watch. Love the music, too.

Older movies? All About Eve is wonderful.

Not quite so old, but a tv movie from the seventies that deserves to live on: Love Among the Ruins with Katharine Hepburn and Lawrence Olivier. Parts of it are a bit clunky and awkward, but there are some scenes that stand with the best of cinema in terms of screenplay. And her costumes are fabulous.

Holiday movies? I'm kinda burned out on the actual classics, so I tend to watch Trading Places (Eddie Murphy) and Die Hard, both set AT the holidays, if not about the season.

Still not ditching my dvds of the classics, though. I'll come back around. One I do always like to watch while baking cookies is The Homecoming with Patricia Neal, that started the whole Waltons phenomenon. This original movie is my favorite.

How could I forget The Princess Bride? Inconceivable. :)

And Soapdish is fun too.

Gams 09-02-21 03:08 PM

My very favorite movie ever is Casablanca.

Also love:

From Here to Eternity
Miracle on 34th Street(the original with Natalie Wood)
Last of the Mohicans
Notorious
The Big Chill
Terminator 1 & 2
Rear Window
Charade
Roman Holiday
Sabrina (original with Audrey Hepburn)
Bulitt (love car chase)
Gentleman’s Agreement
Johnny Belinda
Mildred Pierce

I have all of these on DVD and watch them all the time.

Joni O 09-02-21 03:18 PM

Any Shrek
Any Vacation
Any Airplane
The Birdcage
The Notebook
The Way We Were
Pretty Woman
Charly
The Wizard of Oz
Overboard

PennyK 09-02-21 03:20 PM

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bzar 09-02-21 03:28 PM

great thread! i needed this diversion.

1. Star Wars (from 1976)
2. Empire Strikes Back
3. Return of the Jedi
4. Pretty in Pink
5. Spiderman (live action) - all versions
6. Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson)
7. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
8. Hard Day's Night
9. My Cousin Vinny
10. Midnight Run
11. The Devil Wears Prada
12. Working Girl
13. Ghost
14. Jersey Boys
15. Ghostbusters 1 and 2
16. A Star is Born (Streisand)
17. The Intern (Robert De Niro)
18. Serpico
19. Frankie and Johnny
20. Home Alone

Izzy 09-02-21 03:32 PM

Sound of Music
Remember the Titans
Shawshank Redemption
Breakfast Club
League of Their Own
Cast Away (Or anything with Tom Hanks)

mimikz 09-02-21 03:48 PM

Desk Set
To Catch a Thief
The Thomas Crown Affair w/ Pierce B
The Great Escape
Who’s Killing the Great Chefs of Europe
Bringing up Baby and really anything with Katherine Hepburn
Adam’s Rib

And so many that I’ve already seen listed :sun:


Mimi K

Sollamyn 09-02-21 03:48 PM

Not in any certain order--just the order they happen to be in my storage drawer:

Groundhog Day
Airplane!
The Graduate
M*A*S*H
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Young Frankenstein
Singin' in the Rain
Princess Bride
Any of the Thin Man movies
The Gay Divorcee (or any of the Astair/Rogers movies, but this one is my favorite)
It's a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story
When Harry Met Sally
You've Got Mail
Meet Me in St. Louis
Price and Prejudice (Firth/Ehle version)

I think that's about it.

Donna

SpiritYogi 09-02-21 04:21 PM

Dirty Dancing - my all time favorite that I watch a couple times a year. RIP, Patrick / Johnny :(
Wizard of Oz
Gone With The Wind
Jumanji series

Mopsy 09-02-21 04:23 PM

My immediate reply is "The Sting", and I have the movie poster over my desk to prove it :cool:

I'm not a big movie person, but the ones I can watch more than once, in no particular order:

Chicken Run
The Philadelphia Story
My Fair Lady
1776 (really, I'm just a history nerd)
Airplane
Costume dramas, especially Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle

Malinda 09-02-21 04:32 PM

Oh, lots of good ones already listed!

Off the top of my head:

All About Eve
Carefree (Fred & Ginger)
Singin’ in the Rain
Notorious
Casablanca
The Princess Bride
Anastasia (animated)
Office Space
The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer (Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, a teenaged Shirley Temple)

Paine 09-02-21 05:19 PM

The Scarlet Pimpernel with Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymour in the lead roles.:love: This is the 1982 version--the other movie versions aren't as good, IMO.

bzar 09-02-21 05:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mopsy (Post 2939555)
My immediate reply is "The Sting", and I have the movie poster over my desk to prove it :cool:

I'm not a big movie person, but the ones I can watch more than once, in no particular order:

Chicken Run
The Philadelphia Story
My Fair Lady
1776 (really, I'm just a history nerd)
Airplane
Costume dramas, especially Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle

The Sting should have also been in my reply! i agree!

sugar rose 09-02-21 05:53 PM

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Izzy 09-02-21 05:58 PM

Agree with The Great Escape!!

Laura S. 09-02-21 06:17 PM

In not particular order:

It's a Wonderful Life
Rocky (the first one)
Tender Mercies
Hoosiers
Coal Miner's Daughter
Big
Apollo 13
Forrest Gump (See a trend? ;))
E.T.

Gams 09-02-21 06:55 PM

Can’t believe I left out:

Pillow Talk
The Bishop’s Wife
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
The Trouble with Angels
Summer Magic
The Magnificent Seven
The King and I

I’m sure there are plenty more I’m forgetting.

Paula N 09-02-21 07:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BunnyHop (Post 2939541)
Still not ditching my dvds of the classics, though. I'll come back around. One I do always like to watch while baking cookies is The Homecoming with Patricia Neal, that started the whole Waltons phenomenon. This original movie is my favorite.

I love The Homecoming . One of my must-watch movies every single Christmas.

I also love That Touch of Mink (Doris Day/Cary Grant) and Lover Come Back and Pillow Talk (Doris Day/Rock Hudson).

Some others I can watch over and over:
Steel Magnolias
Dirty Dancing
Last of the Mohicans
Back to the Future
Apollo 13

kittybug 09-02-21 07:58 PM

Oooh fun thread!! Just off the top of my head and in no particular order:

Rosemary's Baby
The Exorcist
The Shining (have to re-watch these first three every October!)
Strictly Ballroom
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
Office Space
Practical Magic
The Matrix
Almost Famous
Young Frankenstein

Hmmm....I know there are more though, many more! :p

YetAnotherDeb 09-02-21 08:15 PM

I can’t believe no one has mentioned my two faves: To Kill a Mockingbird and Fiddler on the Roof.

Also:
Schindler’s List
The Sting
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Fried Green Tomatoes
Desk Set
Bringing up Baby
African Queen
McFarland, USA
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Turner and Hooch :o
Imitation of Life with Lana Turner - when Mahalia Jackson sings I cry like a baby. That woman had a serious set of pipes!
Baaaad movie, but worth watching for a 30-second surprise at the end: Diggstown
Mask: Good story, and bonus, Sam Elliot has never looked better! :o

I know there are many, many more, but these immediately come to mind. I’m also a fan of black-and-white movies. I want to get a copy of Hud with Paul Newman.

I rely on DVDs because I can’t cant stream and don’t have cable. This thread is going to be printed and closely examined for titles I need to order! Thanks!
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YADeb

YetAnotherDeb 09-02-21 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Izzy (Post 2939547)
Sound of Music
Remember the Titans
Shawshank Redemption
Breakfast Club
League of Their Own
Cast Away (Or anything with Tom Hanks)

Izzy, have you seen McFarland, USA? It’s a feel-good sports movie and I like it better than Remember the Titans, which I also really like.
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YADeb

Gams 09-02-21 08:29 PM

Speaking of crying like a baby - when Montgomery Clift plays Taps in From Here to Eternity with tears streaming down his face, I cry like a baby. Of course, I have a soft spot for Monty Clift anyway. Every time I see his face I want to hug him and tell him everything is going to be okay. LOL

And another movie for my list - Ordinary People. The only time I’ve ever felt like smacking the crap out of Mary Tyler Moore.

YetAnotherDeb 09-02-21 08:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gams (Post 2939588)

And another movie for my list - Ordinary People. The only time I’ve ever felt like smacking the crap out of Mary Tyler Moore.

I agree on both counts - excellent movie and MTM was despicable!
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YADeb

Leonana 09-02-21 09:52 PM

Moonstruck
When Harry Met Sally
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Groundhog Day
A Christmas Story
Beetlejuice
Princess Bride
The Music Man
Singin’ In the Rain
Brigadoon
Rear Window

loulou 09-02-21 10:04 PM

Boy, my list seems so unwholesome compared to most of these.

All time best:

Platoon

Pulp Fiction
Inglourious Basterds
The Departed
The Hurt Locker
Saving Private Ryan
The Silence of the Lambs
Mystic River
Fargo

Of course The Great Escape and in that era, The Dirty Dozen.

Gone With the Wind

Amadeus. What ever happened to Tom Hulse?

bubbles76 09-03-21 07:00 AM

Loulou your list sounds great! I've seen Pulp Fiction, Silence of the Lambs, and Fargo :) There are so many movies on everyone's respective lists that I like, but I haven't seen as many times as the others. The ones I can say I have seen more than 10x I consider favorites. I think Schindler's List is amazing, but so very, very sad that it would just hurt me to see that one more than twice.

Can't believe I left off Calamity Jane and Office Space! Office Space was as close as you could get to mimicking my first job out of college, minus the one or two key events.

Gams 09-03-21 07:03 AM

The Full Monty (I LOVE this movie!)

Something’s Gotta Give (This movie makes me laugh a lot.)

I think Tom Hulce is semi-retired. I’m not sure if he still does, but he used to have a place next to a friend of mine.

PennyK 09-03-21 07:19 AM

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Pat58 09-03-21 07:48 AM

I gravitate toward Golden Age of Hollywood films, especially book adaptations. Never get tired of them!
  • David Copperfield (1935 with Edna May Oliver)
  • All of the B&W Christmas Carol versions
  • Miracle on 34th Street
  • The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (with Rex Harrison)
  • Babes in Toyland a/k/a March of the Wooden Soldiers
  • The Good Earth (with Paul Muni - despite my disagreeing with the lead characters being Caucasian)
  • In fact, anything with Paul Muni
  • The Grapes of Wrath (Henry Fonda)
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (with Joan Blondell)
  • Any Bette Davis movie especially Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
  • The Women
  • Mildred Pierce
  • The African Queen
  • King Solomon's Mines
  • Mutiny on the Bounty
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Charles Laughton)

ALL THINGS Godzilla! All the James Bond iterations, and most Alfred Hitchcock movies - the boring early ones excluded. And all the Universal horror movies.

Stop me - I need to go home and watch TCM now. :D

laurawd 09-03-21 08:51 AM

Scrooge, the 1970-something musical version with Albert Finney. A masterpiece.
Wizard of Oz.
It's a Wonderful Life.

Vantreesta 09-03-21 09:35 AM

So hard to choose! In no particular order:

Wizard of Oz
Footloose (the original-I refuse to watch the newer one bc you can't have Footloose without my first love Kevin Bacon!)
Forrest Gump
Nightmare Before Christmas
Beetlejuice
Corpse Bride
ParaNorman
Halloween (first one)
Halloweentown (first two)
Hocus Pocus
Mary Poppins
Alice in Wonderland (all of them!)
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
Robin Hood Men in Tights
Spaceballs
Field of Dreams
Purple Rain
The Great Outdoors
Funny Farm
Money Pit
Wayne's World
The Goonies
Dark Shadows (Johnny Depp)
House of Wax (Vincent Price, who I love so much that my dog's middle name is Vincent :D )
Edward Scissorhands
Sleepy Hollow (Johnny Depp)
Prancer
Christmas Vacation

Clearly the word "favorite" is loosely defined in my world! :)

psupam 09-03-21 09:55 AM

Anything with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers
Charade
original Sabrina
Ordinary People
the Way We Were
Kitty Foyle
It Happened One Night
It's a Wonderful Life
The Magic of Ordinary Days (one of the few Hallmark movies I watch again)
Witness
The Big Easy
Sense and Sensibility
Bridget Jones
Mamma Mia
I'm sure many more.

Pat58 09-03-21 10:01 AM

Vantreesta I adore Vincent Price!

PennyK 09-03-21 10:04 AM

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Sissy B 09-03-21 10:08 AM

Bridget Jones's Diary
Bridget Jones The Edge of Reason
Bridget Jones's Baby
Sweet Home Alabama
American Dreamer
Captain America
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Captain America: Civil War
Ant-Man
Mary Poppins (with Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke)
The Music Man
Mamma Mia
Pillow Talk
Hocus Pocus
Last Holiday

Christmas Movies:
A Christmas Story
The Holiday
Christmas in Connecticut (with Barbara Stanwyck)
A Miracle on 34th Street (with Maureen O'Hara)
White Christmas

Scorpio6 09-03-21 10:20 AM

I guess my list is going to be really different.

1. Bye Bye Braverman (the 1969 version)
2. Heathers

Scorpio6 09-03-21 10:23 AM

I guess my list is going to be really different.

1. Bye Bye Braverman (the 1969 version)
2. Heathers
3. Do Not Disturb (Doris Day)

Izzy 09-03-21 11:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by YetAnotherDeb (Post 2939587)
Izzy, have you seen McFarland, USA? It’s a feel-good sports movie and I like it better than Remember the Titans, which I also really like.

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YADeb

Thank you for the suggestion. I work in a library and we have the movie so I am going to check it out.

Mary


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