POLL: Favorite Movie of All Time?
#83767 - 06/27/04 02:52 PM
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I'll start.
My first choice is "Summer of '42."
Second choice: "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir"
Third choice: "Somewhere in Time."
Fourth choice: "Young Frankenstein"
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Hmm...
#83770 - 06/27/04 03:01 PM
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I think the honors go to "The Princess Bride". No matter how many times I watch it, it's still just as fun as the first time I ever saw it.
My nostalgic favorite is "Breakfast Club". I can recite the entire movie, hehe. Yeah, I date myself as an '80s kid there. 
And not really a "favorite", but I tend to like anything with Fred Astaire in it. Looooove the old movies.
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This is a tough one because I love movies and go to the theater all the time.
1. Dances With Wolves
2. Plans, Trains and Automobiles
3. The Breakfast Club
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Forgot one
#83776 - 06/27/04 03:16 PM
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Janey
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Bringing Up Baby with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant. I love this very funny movie. My kids love it too.
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I love so many movies it's hard to pick a favorite, but I would say my top 3 would be Moulin Rouge, Bridget Jones's Diary and Trainspotting.
Kelly
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Good ones Janey! I love The Breakfast Club and Dances with Wolves. Don't know the other one though.
I don't watch TOO many movies, but I LOVE The Life of David Gale, I am Sam, and Unfaithful.
And then of course I'm a HUGE Chris Farley fan  Have Tommy Boy memorized.....
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not kidding...
#83790 - 06/27/04 03:49 PM
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Harry Potter III: The Prisoner of Azkaban.
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Cara!
#83832 - 06/27/04 05:45 PM
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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is a must-see!! It has Steve Martin and John Candy starring in it, and they play these two men who end up going on a road trip together even though they've never even met before. And it's truly hilarious!
I love the movie I Am Sam!!! I almost started bawling because I felt so bad for them! And Tommy Boy rocks, too! 
As for my Top 3:
1) Sixteen Candles
2) Pleasantville (yeah, yeah. Groan!)
3) Billy Madison
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Fearless
Shawshank Redemption
Jerry Maguire
Love...Actually
Casey, I have one word for you: "Inconceivable!" I love that movie, too...
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My favorites have to be:
1. Rainman
2. Indecent Proposal
3. Mommy Dearest
Oh and....
4. Wizard of Oz.....come on guys, who can forget that movie!
Fatal Attraction was on the other night and I forgot how GOOD that movie was too.
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My top favorite movie of all time is The Wizard of Oz...brings back fond memories of being young.
And, of course, my ultimate favorite holiday movie is A CHRISTMAS STORY. I watch it every year.
Kristine
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oh I HAVE LOTS..
cheesy girly movies are my favorite...
1. Clueless
2. Sweet Home Alabama
3. Legally Blonde
4. My bestfriend's wedding
5. Beauty and the Beast the disney version
6. Stepmom.. ugh thats my cry movie
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I love movies but can never remember what I just saw. I did rent Mystic River this week and enjoyed it but it stayed with me for a couple days. You know how they do that sometimes.
All time favorites...
1. GI Jane
2. The Big Chill
3. Field of Dreams
I also love the Harry Potter movies, the chick flicks (my daughter and I watch them over and over), and anything with Tom Hanks in it is a winner.
Good post Bevrs!
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I have quite a few fave's
1)Patch Adams
2)Shawshank Redemption
3)Sweet Home Alabama
4)Days of Thunder
5)Hope Floats
6)Sam I Am
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Casey!!
#83879 - 06/27/04 08:59 PM
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Quote:
I think the honors go to "The Princess Bride". No matter how many times I watch it, it's still just as fun as the first time I ever saw it.
My nostalgic favorite is "Breakfast Club". I can recite the entire movie, hehe. Yeah, I date myself as an '80s kid there.
Casey, you stole my answers!! Lol. The Princess Bride will be my favorite movie always and forever. And The Breakfast Club also ranks right up there... along with Sixteen Candles and all the other John Hughes classics.
My favorite newer movie is Pirates of the Caribbean... I could stare at that pirate all day.
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i have alot of favorites here are some:
1)Pure Country (George Strait)
2)Hope Floats (Sandra Bullock)
3)Sixteen Candles,Pretty in Pink,Breakfast Club (Molly Ringwald)
4)Mystic Pizza,Dying Young,Sleeping with the Enemy,Steel Magnolias,Pretty Woman (Julia Roberts)
5)My Big Fat Greek Wedding
6)Tommy Boy
7)8 Seconds
There is probably more, i just cant think of them right now.
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Ok ok... MAYBE I'll watch it I'm not a fan of John Candy...I don't know what it is about him, but I don't like him...or Ben Stiller. They just annoy me!
I am Sam - I ALWAYS cry in that movie!! I love that movie because he's autistic in it, and I have a lot of experience with autism so it just hits home.
I love Billy Madison!
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Shawshank Redemption - I forgot about that one, I could watch that a million times and not get sick of it!
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I have soooo many favorite movies...but the top 3 would probably be:
1. American History X (Edward Norton is awesome in it)
2. True Romance (love Tarentino)
3. The Never Ending Story
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Remember the Titans and Shrek!
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Ben Stiller
#83966 - 06/28/04 07:48 AM
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Bevvy
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Cara, I'm with you on this guy. For a long time, every time I saw him on TV, he just disgusted me, and I couldn't figure out why. He just looked really UGLY to me -- and then, just the other day, a light bulb went on! I now know why I find him so repulsive:
Do you remember the episode on "Friends" when he dated Rachel? He had a mean side to him in which he became enraged for no reason whatsoever, but no one saw it except Rachel. He played that role so convincingly that I still see that maniac every time I see his ugly face.
I guess that's what you'd call a good actor -- but I have a hard time separating the actor from the freak.
It's like Ed Herman. He was so great as Glenn Miller that every time I think of Glenn Miller I picture Ed Herman, and whenever I hear Herman on the cable history channel emceeing antique car programs, I keep thinking of Glenn Miller.
Ditto with Gary Bussey. To me, he'll always be Buddy Holly.
Bev
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The problem with these is that I don't have one specific favourite movie and I'll also forget about ones sometimes til someone mentions it, and then I'll think, 'oh ya,I realy liked that one too'
so in no particular order:
Shawshank redemption
Amelie
It could happen to you
Life is Beautiful
Top Gun
Hunt for red October
Vanilla Sky
and the older James Bond films are fun (silly, but fun)
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Quote:
The Never Ending Story
Kimm, I love that movie too!!
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Yes!!!
#84034 - 06/28/04 11:00 AM
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Bev,
I remember that episode!! That's so funny. He is gross to me too! I wonder if it was just a different person playing his roles if they would bother me? I think it's just HIM. For some reason he looks hunchback and just gross to me. And I really didn't like that movie 'Something about Mary' because of him! He just grossed me out the whole time - that was the kicker for me.
My husband is dying to see 'Dodgeball' (Yes, he likes really corny movies a lot), and I am just dreading it because of Ben.
I thought I was the only one!
~Cara
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I can't stand Ben Stiller, and I never watched Friends, so I can't even blame that. Just don't like him. Yuck.
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Yes! I am showing these posts to my husband about Ben Stiller later. He thinks I'm crazy.
Ok but I am probably the only one with this -- (dont laugh)...I have an AWFUL phobia of 'little people' and muppets and E.T. I feel SOOO bad about the little people thing - it's hard to explain - like if there is one of them, I'm ok...but if it's like a CROWD of them - I can't handle it. For example, the Lord of the Rings movies - I watched about 30 minutes with my husband and almost threw up! I couldn't even have him watching it in our apartment because I could hear their voices and it made me sick! Isn't that wierd?!?!
Also - I HATE the muppets, they make me nausous, and E.T. In 6th grade my Spanish class was watching E.T. in Spanish, and I got a note to sit out of class for those 2 days.
I thought this 'phobia' would go away when I got older....and I mean it's better - but I just get these really weird nausous feelings.
I've got to be the only one with that.... LOL!
BTW - if anyone else reads this I really hope I didn't offend anyone with the little people thing. I don't know why I'm like that!
~Cara
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after 1960 the pickins are slim, for me anyway.
One: Meet Me in St. Louis(anything with Judy Garland)
Two: Out of Africa(love Robert Redford and the costumes,sets, etc.)
Three: Das Boot(normal people in war regardless of country would rather be doing something else!)
Four: Battleground(get a kick out of Van Johnson trying to find TP)
Five: Lawrence of Arabia
Six: The Great Dictator(Charlie kicking the globe around -lol
Seven: Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
Eight: 1776
Nine: The Enchanted Cottage -1945
Ten: The War of the Worlds(the alien head still scares the poop out of me!)
Eleven: The Monty Python Movies
Twelve: It Happened One Night(Clark Gable-need I say more)
I could go on forever but these are ones I could watch again and again and not get sick of them!
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Das Boot!
#84206 - 06/28/04 07:29 PM
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Bevvy
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Heather, you're a gal after my own heart!
Oh Yeah! "Das Boot"! I forgot! I gotta add that one to my list.
So tell me, Girlfriend, have you seen "Summer of '42"? Jennifer O'Neal is SOOO beautiful and does an incredible job. It's a real tear-jerker!
"Enchanted Cottage" was good too.
Did you happen to see "The Boy In Blue"? It's what got me so interested in the sport of rowing.
Yeah -- movies before 1960. GREAT flicks back then.
You MUST have loved "Psycho," then.....?
Bev
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Monty Python!
#84212 - 06/28/04 07:50 PM
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I can't even believe I forgot those. Heh.
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Me either, I LOVE Monty Python!! The Holy Grail is definitley one of the funniest movies ever!
I'm glad some other people agree about the LOTR movies! lol
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Heather Robin, You are from eastern PA too? Whereabouts? I'm between Allentown and Philly.
After I put Mommy Dearest as one of my favorites I wondered what people would think.  I actually think the acting was excellent that's why  I by no means approve of what she did to her daughter  So please don't take it the wrong way.
Glad to have a PA buddy.
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I was just curious. Depending on your viewpoint, I know alot of people get a kick out of it being over the top and all the rumored mishaps that happened during filming. Supposedly it was Joan's ghost . I think it is almost a cult classic. And I am from the camp that doesn't believe that Joan beat her kids. Let's just say I am close to a reliable source of information. Yes, I am from Eastern PA, I grew up in the Allentown area and now live in Berks County. I think there is one other person who lives in the Phila area, it is always nice to meet a local!
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Really????? I knew nothing about the filming or controversy over it. I just remember watching it years ago and thinking out good Joan acted in it and how good the child actors did. And cult???/ Ewww that's freaky. Ok I guess I won't tell anyone anymore that I like that movie...makes me look bad
Anyhow, we probably live real close. I'm in Montgomery county right next to berks. My husband does real estate appraising on the side and has been to the Berks county area a million times!
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the movies you mentioned but will look for them either thru Netflix or on Turner Classic Movies. I have just lately become a fan of Anthony Perkins. I saw him in Catch 22 and there is just something about his acting...so smooth almost like he isn't acting, just going with the flow. I think what he had is hard to find in actors today, especially the big names. My husband and I feel that there are a ton of great actors out, even better than the big celebrities, they are just undiscovered or hanging out in art films and stage. We both took several film classes in college and are always on the look out for good stories. My husband loves this group of Italian horror flicks from the 60's or 70's, I can't think of the titles. I also need to add one more film. Summertime with Katherine Hepburn. You can see the love and pain and sadness through her eyes, she doesn't even have to say a word, now that is acting!!! 
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In no particular order.....
Wizard of Oz
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Ghost
Titanic
Dances with Wolves (anything with Kevin Costner in it)
Erin Brochovich (anything with Julia Roberts in it)
Open Range
Dead Poets Society
Sixth Sense
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from your list of favorites! We all like different movies for different reasons, and it doesn't make you look bad! I am a big war movie freak and I know alot of people find that strange. Anything about World War II and look out, I'm watching it! Faye Dunaway did an interesting portrayal of Joan there are lots of stories behind Mommie Dearest just go to the library and check out movie books. And cult films are films that take on a life of their own like Pink Flyod the Wall, The Rocky Horror Picture Show they become part of our culture for some strange reason. Remember that Johnny Depp movie Ed Wood? Ed Wood films are considered cult classics because the special effects and acting are so obvious and fun.
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is from the Bucks County area in Penna., near me. My girlfriend who is a state trooper was "guarding"(for lack of a better term) his new movie set that they filmed in Chester County, also near me! I am not sure when it is coming out I think Glenn Close is in it and it is a period piece with a freak ending I am sure!
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QT movies!
#84292 - 06/29/04 07:27 AM
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My favs ...
#1- kill Bill Vol 2
and runner ups (in no particluar order)...
kill bill vol 1, reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction,
The Crow, Showdown in Little TOkyo, Rumble in the Bronx, Kiss of the Dragon, Romeo Must Die, Amelie, Full Metal Jacket, Teenage Mutant ninja Turtles #2, Suicide Club, Girl Interrupted, Virgin Suicides...
I love movies!
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My BF and I went on a kick awhile back, cause we both had only seen parts of Goldfinger, to watch all in senquential order. We only got up to Goldfinger before he could take no more.
I could, though... Sean Connery is hot!
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28 DAys Later.
I am done. i promise not to list anymore!
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Noooo!
#84297 - 06/29/04 07:43 AM
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How do you not love the muppets?! Rizzo the Rat's my favorite. I LOVE anything with puppetry. Forgot to list them on my faves, I just have tooo many favorite movies!
I am such a big dork- I loved LOTR, but not my fav.
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Even just for David Bowie! Sheesh!
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I LOVE When Harry Met Sally. I could watch it over and over again (in fact, I have!) and I still laugh and laugh. I think it is so witty and well written - I even saw the stage show of it in London a little while ago starring Allison Hannigan and Luke Perry!
#2 = Shawshank Redeption
#3 = Usual Suspects
#4 = Bridget Jones (I cannot wait for the second one!)
#5 = Sister Act (I can't help it)
#6 = Dirty Dancing (another guilty pleasure)
I could list so many more, I am totally a movie person. I have seen all the movies in the "Classic" (meaning older than any New Release) that I would ever want to see in our tiny Blockbuster! I am getting a bit panicky about that!
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Sorry - they just make me sick! I don't know why....
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hubby and I don't watch movies but maybe once a year!
I used to want to be an actress growing up...had LOTS of faves:
The Neverending Story. I was just sooo in love with it. Part I and II (did you know Jonathan Brandis commited suicide?!)
Monsters Inc.
I loved all the Disney movies I ever saw up to/including Lion King.
Hope Floats
Clueless
Sleepless in Seatlle
When Harry Met Sally
(anything with Meg Ryan, Toma Hanks, and can't remember his name but Harry in Harry met Sally)
You've Got Mail
Legally Blonde
Breakfast Club
Pretty Woman
Run Away Bride
Wedding Planner
I could go on forever...I know I've let some out...but here's a start! Ohh...I also loved Rain Man...such GREAT acting
I actually did a paper in college on Tom Cruise. I was never a fan of HIM but I was of his acting! So I did a survery for English class on Tom Cruise and people liked him for his performance more than his looks, etc.! It was fun. The proff wanted me to send it on to Cruise...ha! Like he ever owulda seen it. College is fun stuff!
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thanks for resurrecting this post Ruchie, its exactly what I am in the humour for today...
Mine in no order are:
Muppet Treasure Island
east is east
lost in translation
Shawshank redemption
Amelie
Mary Poppins
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -really looking forward to the remake of this with Johnny Depp, its out over here really soon
Four weddings and a funeral
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
I like thrillers/suspsense too and love what i call saturday afternoon movies from the 50s like Audrey Hepburn and Gidget!
I will DEFINITELY add to this...!
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The Italian Job (original) with Michael Caine; Get Carter (again, original) with MC, Scary Movie 2 (its hilarious) and Me Myself & Irene, so funny! Oh and the Back to the Future Trilogy - classic!
There are loads that I've forgotten too.....
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I am such a sucker for realy long love stories!!!
LOVED Titanic, Pearl Harbor, Dances with wolves, North and South Book one and two, ECT ECt!!!!
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I really like a lot of the movies you listed Sheri. You have good taste!
How's your new guy?
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Ooooohhh, Life is Beautiful. What a GREAT movie!!! 
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Casey, I love the Breakfast Club too...and Pretty in Pink... and Some Kind of Wonderful.
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Impossible to answer. One move that comes to mind for me is Vanilla Sky. I know a lot of people don't like it but I've seen if several times as think it's pretty great.
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My favourite movies are a little varied, and I noticed that a couple weren't mentioned yet:
American Beauty
Amelie
Moulin Rouge
Lost in Translation
Requiem for a Dream
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