Favorite movies?

What are some of your favorite movies?

A partial list of Swampy's (but not in order):

Harold and Maude
The Last Emperor
The Shawshank Redemption
The Seven Faces of Dr Lao
Metropolis
Safety Last
The Flight of the Phoenix (original)
Its a mad mad mad mad world

[msgorgeous]

Conair
gone in sixty seconds
matchstick men
superbad
baby mama

those are just a few

[Mid]

The Shawshank Redemption
The Fast and the Furious
Conair
The Green Mile
The Trouble with Angels

The Cowboys

The Santa Claus 1,2 and 3
Miracle on 34th Street

Home alone 1 and 2

Jingle all the way

Elf

Gee i like all christmas movies

[lagoya]

these are some of mine

carlito's way
rocky 1             every guy's fav
wedding crashers         cause i can relate
the godfathers 123
the deer hunter
the field
shawshank redemption
the lord of the rings triogy
pulp fiction
the usual suspects
amercian beauty

just a few

[crabby70]

Hope Floats
A Lot Like Love
Enchanted
Gladiator
All of the  Lord Of The Rings


So many still thinking

[Vance2335]

Braveheart
We Were Soldiers
The Passion Of The Christ
Apocolypse Now
Godfather
Clockwork Orange

[Momto3]

a few of my faves.....

Shawshank Redemption - LOVE this movie!
American President
Wizard of Oz
Sound of Music
Miracle on 34th Street

[peekawho]

Pulp Fiction
Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle
Casino

[joann1975]

I will not list all of mine...that would take to long..

All time favs:
Urban Cowboy, Coal Miner's Daughter and What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Favs of the week:
Little Miss Sunshine & Juno

Other Favs:
Blades of Glory, Old School, Elf, (yes, i ♥ will ferrell) Talledaga Nights, The Italian Job, ConAir

[jollyman069]

number one has to be The Godfather, The Seachers, Pulp Fiction, vinny vega is cool....lol      

[angelastevens02]

mama mia
grease
fight club
oxygen
hairspray
imagine me & you

to name a few...

[lovethebops]

Wow, the Shawshank redemption! I haven't seen it in a while, but I always love it!

My other favs include:

#1-has been & will always be!! Dirty Dancing!

Others include:

Stand By Me
Grease
My Girl and My Girl 2
Fried Green Tomatoes
Napoleon Dynamite
Sweet November
10 Things I Hate About You. RIP Heath Ledger, I LOved him!
Meet The Parents
The Breakfast Club
The NoteBook
Good Will Hunting
Dead Poets Society

[swampcritter]

Interesting how of most of the films mentioned, very few are what you would call a "chick flick" -- although Fried Green Tomatoes does count :)

Swampy neglected this important genre, and likes two chick flicks, they are:

The Witches of Eastwick
Walking and Talking

[lovethebops]

Swampy-I think The Notebook counts as a chick flick too, duh :)

Also, I don't know How I neglected to mention this, but Forrest Gump is one of all time fav's as well, or almost any Tom Hanks film at that.

Also, I am big fan of Black and White's so I have to have Casablanca in there and anything with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stuart.. Bonus if both are in it!!

[Trialanderror]

1. Falling Down
2. Fargo
3. Exotica
4. The Last Emperor
5. Jacob`s Ladder
6. Apocaypse Now
and once chick flick
7. When you were sleeping

[holly_b]

The Notebook
Walk the line
Pearl Harbour
Meet the Parents & the sequel
I'm a sucker for chick flicks! I do watch other genres though just don't like them as much.

[swampcritter]

Swampy is unfamiliar with The Notebook. He did, however, see Fried Green Tomatoes in the theater...he is racking his brains for who went with him. It made him want to stick his hand into a beehive.

One black and white that Swampy wants is -- what the heck was it -- oh yeah, "The Sea Wolf", with Edward G Robinson as the sadistic sea captain. Its one of the few films Swampy would like to see remade, because the ending is difficult for a modern audience (the ending itself is fine, just you need a better identification with the character's struggles).

[alienshadow]

Goodfellas best all time movie
Speed racer
Street Kings
Gridiron Gang
Nightmare on Elm street 1,2 they coming for you lol
Chucky
Children of the corn
XXX Vin Diseal
XXX2 Ice Cube
Man i could go all night

[lonewolf07]

Star Wars
Star Trek
All Terminator movies
Escape from New York
Anything with Sir A. Hopkins, Denzel, Samuel L. Jackson, Bela Lagosi and the Marx Brothers
The Thing
The Creature from the Black Lagoon
The Creature from the Swamp  (lol)

Other favorites have already been mentioned  = )

[crabby70]

I was just talking about the The Creature from the Black Lagoon...good one..lol...anf The Thing...

and to add to my list any movie with John Cusack...

[RockRose]

I love reading through everyone's favorites!

I'm closest to lovethebops.  It's funny,  the movies I love I've seen . . . . some like 30 times each.  They just get better and better!  Some on the list I've only seen a couple times,  some as many as 50.  The sign of a truly good movie,  in my opinion,  is how watchable it is numerous times.  

Gone With The Wind
Napoleon Dynamite
Jaws - the Original
Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark
Coal Miners Daughter

The Straight Story (TRULY a great,  although it was a studio "B" movie.  Will Geer and Sissy Spacek,  made in 1998 or so.  The only one on the list I've only watched once,  and don't really care to watch again,  but it was wonderful)

A Christmas Story
Dirty Dancing
Love Story
Wizard of Oz

[AnxiousGurl]

Ps I love you
Dirty dancing
GREASE
the notebook
Wizard of Oz
The little mermaid
The breakfast club
16 candles
Hairspray..........

There are so many more
(Oh and I love scary movies-only the good ones though not the fake ones that dont make you jump or hide your head or grab on to your bf) like texas chainsaw, halloween

[Quinns momma]

Goodfellas
Godfather 1 and 2
Terms of Endearment
Steel Magnolias
Poltergeist
Wyatt Earp
Alien 1 and 2
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Resident Evil
Casino
Road to Perdition
The Notebook


Husband is next to me saying his are Dead Alive, Evil Dead trilogy, Star Wars (any and all)..Excalibur, Conan the Barbarian, First Blood, Predator, Bues Brothers, Hellraiser 1 and 2. Halloween, The Thing (Kurt Russell).  etc....

[jollyman069]

i need to add some more movie greats..... the ten commandments, in harms way, dirty harry, high noon, all the star war movies, plus charlie brown christmas...lol

[JoyRenee]

SwampCritter--- I thought I'd NEVER know anyone else who loves The Last Emperor. I assume you mean the movie about China's last emperor, yes? LOVE IT!!!!!

I also love Amadeus!

And because I'm a woman--- Terms of Endearment, Steel Magnolias, The Notebook, Pride and Prejudice, Fried Green Tomatoes, 13 Going on 30, etc., etc.

The list is endless!

[swampcritter]

Yes, with John Lone.

Like all Bertolucci films, the cinematography is beautiful, as is the editing. If you liked that film, watch The Sheltering Sky (though this is not a recommended film for children. They won't be traumatized if they see it, but they'll be bored and/or ask uncomfortable questions). Bertoluccis later films, like Stealing Beauty and that other one (Swampy racks his brains, then looks it up), oh yeah, The Dreamers -- those films sort of go too far.


Swampy also wants to mention the Tom DiCillo comedies -- "Living in Oblivion" and "The Real Blonde" -- the first is like therapy if things aren't going well at work.

[Joni686]

WHEN HARRY MET SALLY ......
It is always interesting to me how their relationship evolved over the 12 years they knew each other before getting married.

Other than that, all the Bourne movies.  I LOVE JASON BOURNE !

[Sares]

That's east - Billy Elliott - georgeous movie!

[jollyman069]

another of the newer classics i think is dantes peak thought that movie was intense. need some help what was the name of the movie with julia roberts and hugh grant was it knotting hill? thought that was a ood movie too also just watched again pearl harbour with ben affleck

[Agiesmom]

I really like several that were already mentioned (Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club, and Meet the Parents, included).  I also really like:

Schindler's List
American Beauty
No Way Out
Gladiator
Chocolat
Slingblade
Sexy Beast

Older movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Twelve Angry Men (1957)

[msmarlowe]

THE NEW BATMAN...since its been out me and my husband has seen this 5 times and 1 in imax.

Hope Floats
Enough
Halloween
Million dollar baby
Superbad
Knocked up
P.S I love you
Divine Secrets of the YA-YA sisterhood
American Splender
Labyrinth
The breakfast club
Love and Basketball

Thats all I can think of right now...

[surprisebaby]

Wizard of OZ is my all time fav.
I also LOVE  "CAN'T BUY ME LOVE".  (one of Patrick Dempsey's first movies)

I love ELF...it is soooo cute!

Really not much of a movie lover....my dh LOVE LOVE LOVES STARWARS MOVIES!!  ugggghhhh...

[GRose]

Almost Famous
Run Lola Run
Black Snake Moan
We own the night
Super Troopers
Anchorman
Girl Interrupted
Harold and Kumar go to white castle
Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay
Garden State
Mean Girls
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill 1 and 2
My Girl 1 and 2
Other Boleyn Girl
Wedding crashers
Breakfast club
Fast times at Ridgemont High
The rules of attraction
Can you tell I LOVE movies???

[lovethebops]

I always laugh when I see Mean Girls on TV, it cracks me up...especially the part when the heavy girl at the assembly mentions her 'wide set vagina'-I die every time I hear that!

[TrudieC]

I would have to say:

The Notebook
Crash
50 First Dates (has my most favourite song in the world Over the Rainbow)
Wizard of Oz
Mash
E.T.
Memoires of a Geisha
Gone with the Wind
One Flew over the cuckoo's nest
The Grapes of Wrath
Double Indemnity (the remake)
The Color Purple

[April2]

I loved "The Notebook"!
also, most chick flicks.

Here's an oldy but goody "The Sound Of Music", love that movie!

"Coal Miner's Daughter", another oldy but goody.

"The Pursuit of Happyness"
I love Will Smith! He's one of the greatest actors of our time.

Also love "I am Legend" Good movie!

[msmarlowe]

Great list of movies.... Love the notebook, gone with the wind and One flew over the cuckoo's nest and of course the  color purple

[GRose]

I know I love that part. "I cant help that I have a heavy flow and a wide set vagina"
ahh, my sister and I could quote that movie all day.

[mj_mommy_manda]

Grose and lovethebops- 3 of my friends and I dressed up as the mean girls for "dress like a movie character day" We all bought pink shirts and wrote a quote that our character said in the movie.  It was really fun and I still wear my shirt (when Im being a scrub or working out) and people are like "what does that say??" lol

and msgorgous- I LOVED baby mama!! that is the most hilarious movie I have seen in a  LONG time.. oh geez I almost died of laughter.

I also really liked Knocked up.. Any of the movies with the guys from Superbad are usually hilarious.. I liked Superbad, but not right away.. lol I had to watch it a few times.

[have 2 kids]

conair
terms of endearment
50 first dates
sweethome alabama
pretty woman
jaws
ladder 49
(not in any particular order)

[Savas]

How ironic, the first thing I though was;

hmmm...Harold And Maude, perhaps? And there it is, in your list.

How about

The Ruling Class
Escape From New York (So bad it's Good)
Willow
Shaft (the original)
GasLight

[houseofgirls]

Almost Famous
Dirty Dancing
The Breakfast Club
54
and I know this is a little tacky, but I really like Titanic

[jeh57]

All the Freddie movies
Pretty Woman
Jaws
Smokey and the bandit
Chucky

[PlateletGal]

A few of my fav's :

Lord of the Rings
Pretty Woman
Forrest, Forrest Gump  ; ^ )
The Green Mile
My Cousin Vinny
The Notebook (get the kleenex !)
The Naked Gun
Miracle on 34th Street
Tombstone
Independence Day
Home Alone
Raising Arizona

[swampcritter]

That is one odd list...you have a bunch of slasher films, a classic thriller, a chick flick, and themn...Smokey and the Bandit -- which is a classic of its type...

[jeh57]

I loved Smokey and the bandit!! I still watch it a few times a year!! My husband,at the time,thought he could drive like Clint Eastwood....we left the movie theater and he tried driving like him.....we were in a fast car going about 90 down the freeway in Dallas....of course the police got involved and we outrun them!!! Lol...............It was fun back then!

I was so scared to go in the water after watching Jaws......my husband would start that doodleing music....i would come running out of the water!!

They don't get any better than Freddie...I have all those movies! My twins were Freddie for Halloween....they loved to flip out their hand with the little knives(plastic)..lol..

I love Chucky and The bride of chucky...she was a mean little B------!!!!

Last, but not least,Pretty Woman...what can i say??

Let me add Rambo to that list!!! Gosh,i had dreams about him!!! Lol

[kitty51]

Roadhouse  love it!! Sam Elliott dancing to all my ex's live in Texas!!

[clairelou88]

the note book
braveheart
con air
stardust

[jeh57]

Don't know what i was thinking...it was Burt he tried to drive like!

[Vance2335]

Ok I have posted some movies already but I have not seen anyone show love for Tom Cruise and Patrick Swayze besides Dirty Dancing.

TC-Top Gun and Days of Thunder
Both-Outsiders
PS-Youngblood, Red Dawn, Point Break and the great Roadhouse

www.wwpsd.com

[swampcritter]

It would be easier to watch Tom Cruise films if he wasn't such a loony.

The Firm and Rain Man were probably his best, although Hoffman was so strong in Rain Man that it eclipsed him many times.

[Ranaesheart]

Love dramas the most ...

Our Town
Lorenzo's Oil
Fried Green Tomatoes
Dead Poet Society
Steel Magnolias
300
Always
Dr Zhivago
Ghandi
The Notebook
Dances with Wolves
Gone with the Wind

[ChitChatNine]

Does a min-series qualify?

As well as an awesome novel, the mini-series

THE THORNBIRDS


C~

[crecco]

Some of my favorites:

   The Breakfast Club
   Steel Magnolias
   Beaches
   Mary Poppins
   Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
   Willy Wonka
   Gone in 60 Seconds
   Dazed and Confused
   The Parent Trap
   Face/Off
   Swordfish
   XXX
   The Fast and the Furious

[michaelgc]

Just a few:
Ordinary People
Being There
Sleuth
The Omega Man
St Elmo's Fire
The LOTR trilogy
Left Behind 1-3
Labyrinth
On A Clear Day
Guys and Dolls
Time Bandits
Krull

I have eclectic taste. ;)

[swampcritter]

What do you think of Gilliam's other films -- Brazil and Adventures of Baron Munchausen?

Also listing St Elmo's fire, what of Return of the Secaucus Seven? Shootydarns, Swampy can't remember the other film inspired by that...

[lonleylibra]

EVERYTHING by Wes Anderson!! And of course the best movie ever Pulp Fiction ! Vincent Vega is the best character ever! Jules being runner up.

[lonleylibra]

and the Motercycle Diaries, Coffee and Ciggeretts...........

[bohan54]

Annie Hall
Sling Blade

[bohan54]

Couple more

GWTW
Fargo

[TrudieC]

I'll add all of Chris's too.  It is so hard to remember!

[remar]

Bridges of Madison County
Always
Evil Dead 1 and 2
The last time i saw paris
Penny Serenade
The Thornbirds
Stand by me