Hiya HIC! oooo- movies! I'll play! I like lots of the ones you picked esp Shadowlands and A Beautiful Mind...I'll have to check out a couple of the others...

some of my favorites are:

The Great Escape
The Mission
A Man for All Seasons
The Sound of Music
The Golden Bowl
Pride and Predjudice (with Colin Firth)
Amazing Grace

Father Goose
The Princess Bride


wow- there are so many, I can't think of any more just now...

Mine are really nothing classic but here are few.

Sound of Music
Ordinary People
Rudy
Doubt
Love and Other Drugs
When Harry met Sally

I see some of my favorites on everyone else's lists but there are lots I haven't seen. I'll have to watch them. Here are some of my favorites:


Milagro Beanfield War
My Life as a Dog
American Dreamer

I watch a lot of films as telly here is mostly rubbish and DVD rentals are cheap from the library.

These are top of my faves list:

August Rush
The King's Speech
Frida
Awakenings
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont
(Her Majesty) Mrs Brown
Love Actually
Amazing Grace
My Family and other Animals
Hawking
Man on Wire

landa - Awakenings - YES> hardly anyone knows about that - it has always remained an imprint on my mind. I was talking to T about it the other day.

Pretty Woman is all I can remember - I have watched it many times.

I always forget what I have watched...

HIC - Opal Dreaming - I never went back to finish watching the second half of that.... Mental Note

Somedays

Wow, there are a lot on here that I've never seen or even heard of. Must keep this in mind the next time I'm looking for something new to watch.

Thanks for replying everyone.

I LOVE movies! My family loves movies and use movie quotes with each other all the time. It's been fun reading every one's lists and adding a few to my "ok have to watch that" list.

My favorites would include:
Casablanca
Moonstruck
Addams Family
The Color Purple
Lord of the Rings trilogy (honestly lost track of how many times I've watched them).
Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice (BBC - Colin Firth version)
Much Ado about Nothing
Princess Bride
Blindsided
Bringing up Baby
Anything with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
The Philadelphia Story
Muppets Christmas Carol
A Christmas Story
Chariots of Fire

(MUST. STOP. TYPING)

oh, just a few more
The Blues Brothers
Babe
An Ideal Husband (Rupert Everet version)
The Importance of Being Ernest (Colin Firth verson)
Emma (Gynweth Paltrow version)
Persuasion
Jane Eyre (recent one with Michael Fassbender, fantastic adaption of the book.)

Return to the future
Die hard
Don't tell mum the babysitter is dead
Honey I shrunk the kids
Indiana Jones
(because these remind me of Christmas at home when I was young)

The Wedding Date
The 10 things I hate about you
The Princess Diaries
One fine day
(because I'm a hopeless romantic teenager deep down )

Lord of the Rings
Pretty Woman (thanks SD)
Avatar
Casino Royale (I thought I loved Pierce Brosnan. That was until I saw Daniel Craig )

Being a total horse nut, my first three should come as no surprise.

Secretariat
Seabiscuit
The Black Stallion
Bridesmaids
Blazing Saddles
Ordinary People
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ocean's Eleven (the whole trilogy)
Good Will Hunting
Buck
Funny Farm
The Bourne Trilogy (love those movies)

This is great- I've just added a bunch of movies to my Netflix queue!

Here are my favorites, defined as movies I've seen a thousand times already, but would still watch if I stumbled across them while channel-surfing:

Being John Malkovich
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I Heart Huckabees
Fried Green Tomatoes
Adventures in Babysitting
House of Yes
Clerks
Bridesmaids
Willow
Four Weddings and a Funeral
The Hangover
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
The Big Lebowski
Beetlejuice
Princess Bride
Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
The Matrix
Ghost
Big
Groundhog Day
Edward Scissorhands
Fight Club
Airplane

Draggers - Pretty Woman, me too - I know the lines before they say them. I watched it last weekend so it is in my mind.

I can't remember any movies - I zap them from my memory..... Love the ones ppl are writing.

SomeDays,

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Originally posted by SomeDays:
landa - Awakenings - YES> hardly anyone knows about that - it has always remained an imprint on my mind. I was talking to T about it the other day. ... Somedays

So cool to find someone else who knows this film - usually people look at me blank-faced when I mention it. Don't know how many times I've watched it now, but it makes me cry every damn time.

[SPOILER ALERT]

Leonard: It's quiet.
Dr Sayer: It's late, everyone's asleep.
Leonard: I'm not asleep.
Dr Sayer: No, you're awake.
landa: BLUB!

Gut-wrenching and heart-warming in equal measure. And De Niro is spectacular.

landa

Hello again everyone ,

I found a new-to-me therapy movie while browsing on Netflix and watched it last night. Thought I'd come back to my thread here to recommend it. It's called "The Treatment." Here's the blurb from netflix:

"Neurotic prep school English teacher Jake Singer (Chris Eigeman) seeks therapy after he gets dumped. Along the way, he meets and woos a gorgeous and wealthy widow (Famke Janssen) while his shrink (Ian Holm) -- who may or may not be real -- badgers him with Freudian mind games. Director Oren Rudavsky's smart romantic comedy, based on a novel by Daniel Menaker, won the Best New York Award at the Tribeca Film Festival."

I'm not sure I would have appreciated it as much if not for being in therapy, but oh, I thought it was hysterical! The shrink was priceless and their dialogue cracked me up.

FYI, there doesn't appear to be any rating info on this on netflix. . . there is some explicit sex talk, some cursing, and a non-kid-appropriate (imo) scene or two. None of it was done in a triggering or offensive way, I thought, but I know preferences vary so thought I would mention this.

Anyway, I found it really fun, clever, and amusing. Have any of you seen it?

All time favorite - Sound of Music.
Dude, Where's my car?
Hangover
Pretty Woman
Arthur - Best!
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
All spaghetti Westerns
Titanic
and the list goes on.....

I saw that one, HIC- and yes- funny, weird and it stuck with me, somehow. I thought the shrink was hysterical, too- LOL!

I love movies although these days I don't have much time for them and I see a lot of kid movies with my son when I do go.

Kashley... I loved loved the Black Stallion, especially the part that was filmed when they were on the beach. That was all filmed in Sardinia, Italy. It was so gorgeous there.

My List

Gone With the Wind
The Sound of Music
West Side Story
Bye Bye Birdie
Dirty Dancing
Working Girl
Saturday Night Fever
Grease
Titanic
Casablanca (Bogey)
To Have and Have Not (Bogey again)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo and Juliet (with Oliva Hussey)
Summertime (in Venice with Katherin Hepburn)
Three Coins in the Fountain (in Rome)

Kid Movies

Lion King
Finding Nemo
Charlotte's Web

As you can tell from the list, I mostly love romance and musicals.

Thanks. It was fun.
TN

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I saw that one, HIC- and yes- funny, weird and it stuck with me, somehow. I thought the shrink was hysterical, too- LOL!

I know, I can tell it's going to be one of those that sticks with me too. It had such a unique feel to it-- ridiculous and inspiring at the same time. (Like therapy, maybe?)

"I am the last of the great Freudians! A line that extends back through Moses, Plato, and Aristotle. Moral visionaries!"

Loved that line (Although I may be misquoting it a bit, need to watch the movie again).

Guy's Mostly i like to watch horror movies. and there are lots of horror movies in mine favorite list. But here i'm going to suggest you a movie that i have seen most. And the movie is Twiligt Eclipse. ITs one of best movies that i have ever seen.

Yes, oh my gosh I love that part, Draggers! And then when they have her camp out beside the house. So funny!

OK so I am a little late to respond...

Meet the Fockers (all of them)
Slumdog Millionaire
Driving Miss Daisy
Steel Magnolias
Fried Green tomatoes
One flew over the cuckoos nest
Liar Liar
Ace Venture Pet detective
Best Exotic Marriot hotel
Arthur
Mississippi burning
Dead Poet's society
Forest Gump