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[alpha femme]

So, what are some of your favourite movies?

How about TV shows?

i'm really into foreign and indie films. but you know we all have that movie or two that makes us feel good for whatever reason. <whspers> i like beauty and the beast. don't ask me why. it always makes me feel better.

besides, where else can you get the line "i'm especially good at expactorating"?

[wildtrk]

I am not a real mainstream type movie person. Normally I go for the movie on the shelf of the video store that has only one copy available and the Sundance logo is on the front of the case.

In no particular order
Some of my all time favorites are....

North by Northwest (really anything by Hitchcock but this one is my favorite)
Cosi
Bulworth (my crispy crab cakes comment in another thread was derived from this movie)
Groundhog Day
Stealing Beauty
Chasing Amy
A Long Kiss Goodnight
Jackie Brown
Lord of War
Three Kings
Get Shorty
Le Femme Nikita (foreign)
Nine Queens (foreign)
Chocolat
Das Boot (foreign)
Hunt for Red October
Any James Bond as long as it is Sean Connery
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Layer Cake
Payback
Harold and Maude

I am sure I am leaving a few out....but I could be happy on a desert island with this list.

[supermom]

Okay--here goes--Ya'll are going to all think I am a weird o, but o well I guess.

An Officer And A Gentleman
Dirty Dancin
(I just love where Baby gets "rescued" from her dad, and in Officer, I love the scene where Richard Gere goes to the paper plant and sweeps Debra Winger up into his arms and carries her out of that place FOREVER!)

I really like "Hide and Seek" it was a spooky, realistic thriller
Annie is another feel good movie
Van Wilder
ET
The Shining

TV---hmmmmmm
Happy Days
Nip/Tuck
Amazing Race
Golden Girls
Sex and the City
Two and 1/2 Men
Days of Our Lives
The Young and The Restless (I have only watched it for 5 1/2 years. It was my great grandmother's favorite show. After she died, I started watching it---I really loved her---and everyday, I write in a journal a little note to her and tell her what Victor has been up to. Same with DOOL--only my other great grandma, and been watching it much longer)
Read Between the Lions (I watch this with my kiddos on PBS)
CSI
House
That 70's Show
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[JeepGirl]

Movies are our weakness..we go all the time!

Some fave Movies:

Silence of the Lambs
The Usual Suspects
Grease
Wizard of Oz~can't help it lol
Dirty Dancing
The Princess Bride (Just introduced my daughter to this!)
BeetleJuice
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Shawshank Redemption
Pyscho
To Kill a Mockingbird
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Shining~~Redrum..Redrum
Jaws
Forrest Gump
Braveheart
The Sixth Sense
Stand By Me
Steel Magnolias

[dede4wd]

Movies that travel with me...
Pride and Prejudice,
Resorvoir Dogs,
Chasing Amy,
Mallrats,
Legends of the Fall,
In the Company of Men,
Sweethearts,
La Femme Nikita,
Army of Darkness,
Das Boot,
The Final Countdown,
Saving Silverman,
Layer Cake,
Three Kings,
Trainspotting,
Say it isn't So,
Slither,
Wrong Turn,
History of Violence,
Crash,
From Dusk til Dawn (and almost anything by Robert Rodriguez),
The Big Blue,
The Professional,
The 5th Element,
The Abyss
More Later...

[sidrah]

I am more into the IFC and Sundance channel type stuff. But, of course, there are some others.

Godfather 1 and 2....3 sucked

Goodfellas (let's be honest anything with Robt. DeNiro or Al Pacino)

Stupid funny- Zoolander and Space Balls (I can watch start to finish Zoolander every time it is on and still laugh)

I like foreign stuff and some sing songy stuff. Like Dirty Dancing, Sing )has anyone aside from me ever seen that? No one seems to know what it is), Rent, Camp

I like mostly anything, but I go for drama, foreign, historical.

I am really not into cartoony stuff. I could never stand it, but Shrek was okay since it was more adult humor.

[Jen]

Yes, I am a girl, but I love westerns, war movies, and those "underdog" sports movies.
But then I love the Jane Austen stuff and romantic comedies. Plus really "stupid" Adam Sandler type junk...

Best Years of Our Lives
61*
Pride & Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Sense & Sensibility
Persuasion
Open Range
Glory
Band of Brothers
The Snow Walker
L.A. Confidential
Jesus' Son
Lawn Dogs
Dodgeball
Lonesome Dove
Office Space
Girlfight
Empire Strikes Back
Seabiscuit
When Trumpets Fade
I'm With Lucy
Scrooged
Serenity
The Cutting Edge


TV:
Deadwood
Arrested Development
Battlestar Galactica
CSI: Las Vegas
Sports Night

[Tankie]

This is prolly only 1/8 of my top movies but I'm just listing what comes off the top of my head first.....

Usual Suspects
May
Doom Generation
Hellraiser (series)
Puppetmaster (series)
Friday the 13th (series)
Nightmare on Elm St (series)
Halloween (series)
Sympathy for Lady Vengence
Old Boy
Lost in Translation
Akira
Tank Girl
The Hills Have Eyes (original)
Auntie Mame (with Rosaland Russel)
Resivoir Dogs
MallRats
Kill Bill
Pay it Forward
Fried Green Tomatos
Beaches
Swimming with Sharks
Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Office Space
Star Wars (all)
City of God
My Sassy Girl
City of Lost Children
Delicatessin
Spirited Away
Howl's Moving Castle
Porco Rosso

Whoops....kinda long.......

Amy

[wildtrk]

After seeing a few lists there are a couple movies I would like to have with me on the desert island.

[Addendum]

Shawshank Redemption
The Professional (Gary Oldman really is a scary guy)
Ususal Suspects (Can't believe I forgot this movie on my orginal list)
The Sting
and.....
Memento

[/Addendum]

[Arklahoma]

I watch movies all the time with my handy-dandy Netflix service; however, many are just okay. The only ones I can think of right now that I truly love are:

Pretty Woman
The Hunt for Red October
The Life of David Gale

[Elke]

I must own hundreds of movies..my fav are

Top Gun...love it
Shawshank Redemption
Never been kissed
First 50 dates
Hide and Seek
Men of Honor
I don't mind the Star wars but don't tell my husband, I like to tease him
Black Hawk Down
Ed T.V.
Jackass hehehehe
Dirty Dancing
Resident Evil...the game is awesome too
Silent Hill
Jerry Magwire
Monster
Harry Potter...All of them so far
Break Point
8 Seconds
I am sure there are many, many more I could name
As far as T.V. goes
All and any reality...Survivior ROCKS the best!
And C.S.I Vegas

[DogMa]

Movies I've seen a million times and will probably see a million more:

The Wizard of Oz
When Harry Met Sally ...
The Princess Bride
The Shawshank Redemption
Sleepless in Seattle
Diehard


Never Been Kissed cracks me up because she's a copy editor. With her own office and an assistant. Which every copy editor I know finds hilarious.

[Karakuri]

Movies:

A Clockwork Orange
BladeRunner
Fulltime Killer (foreign movie... SO GOOD!)
28 Days Later
Hellraiser (first 3 only. the rest suck.)
Nightbreed
Donnie Darko
Run Lola Run
Hackers (yes you can laugh at me. it's SO BAD, but so funny.)
Heavenly Creatures
Heathers
Star Wars - Original Trilogy and NOT the crap Lucas has been feeding us for the past few years.
Voices of a Distant Star (anime)
Equilibrium (Gunkata! SUCH an awesome movie.)
One Missed Call
Audition (kiri!kiri!kiri!) - nearly all Takashi Miike movies
Snatch
Mean Machine
Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels
Fight Club
Romper Stomper
Shogun Assassin
Fong-Sai Yuk (both of them)
The Eye
Inner Senses (this one stars one of my favourite actors, Leslie Cheung. sadly he committed suicide not long after this movie was made. i remember when it happened. watching this moves me to tears just knowing that it was his last movie.)
Shutter (awesomely scary)
Dark Water (the original)
Ringu
Shaolin Soccer and nearly every Stephen Chow movie that comes out.
God of Cookery (Stephen Chow's take on God of Gamblers which is also an awesome series of movies staring Chow Yun-Fat)
The Killer
Hard Boiled (wickedly awesome action staring Chow Yun-Fat)

ok i'm gonna stop now... i could freaking well go on and on with this. TOO MANY MORE TO LIST!

i do not tend to watch television. it's mostly a "let's see what is on" situation. if there's something on i'll like, i'll watch it.

i am a fan of shows such as The Office (UK), Spaced, Doctor Who, The Young Ones, Black's Books, Adam and Joe Go Tokyo!, Blackadder, Monty Python's Flying Circus... and so on and so forth.

[Lulie]

The Passion of The Christ
(I don't agree with all of it, but it was still a wonderful movie)

Gone with the Wind
Pride and Prejudice
Hoodwinked (I can't help it, this movie kills me)
Chicken Run (what can I say, I have a weird sense of humor)
Sleepless in Seattle
The Cinderella Story
The Perfect Man

Can you tell I am a romantic? LOL

And my all time favorite TV that will always be my favorite TV show is: I LOVE LUCY!! We have all those shows, and watch them over and over and never get bored! We recently found a website which sells tons of I Love Lucy stuff and my credit card is crying for help! LOL

[JKSRN]

The Shawshank Redemption
Forrest Gump
The Bodyguard--for soundtrack
A Star is Born--for soundtrack
Godfather series
Officer and a Gentleman
Last Tango in Paris
Pretty Woman
Saving Private Ryan
The Accused
A League of their Own
Witness
Town Without Pity
Six Days and Six Nights