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Gidget · 08-11-2008, 04:15 AM

In no particular order

The Kite Runner
The Lives of Others
Legends of the Fall
The Orphanage
Godfather II
The Sound of Music

Spaz · 08-15-2008, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by FarrahWaters

Well, just off the top of my head...

Legally Blonde (just kidding, never seen it)
Eat Drink Man Woman
Memento
Sense and Sensibility
Sideways

Mini-series: Band of Brothers
Pride and Prejudice (yes, I'm a girl)

I'm surprised you like Band of Brothers. I don't know a female who likes that show...

UteStar · 08-15-2008, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Parrot Head

Along the lines of my secret brother UteStar and SoCal, it's hard to number my favorite flicks as best movies ever as opposed to those I can watch over and over. Some are...

Dumb and Dumber
Waiting for Guffman
Pretty much anything else Christopher Guest, but led by Spinal Tap
Shawshank -- honestly, I own the DVD but have never watched it straight through. But who doesn't get sucked in whenever it's on TBS?
Back to the Future

I agree with Parrot...I can watch anything by Christopher Guest multiple times...loved Best in Show and Spinal Tap especially. I posted a response on the first page of this thread, so I am adding some titles to it as well as re-mentioning some of my favorites.

Other movies that I will watch no matter what I am doing if it comes on TV:

Airplane
Godfather 1 or 2
Shaun of the Dead
Gladiator and 300
Dr. Strangelove
Kill Bill, any of 'em
Most Hitchcock flicks (especially North By Northwest and Vertigo)
Naked Gun
Matrix (the first one, none of the others)
Aliens

And there are plenty of others but my mind is blank for now.

Spaz · 08-15-2008, 04:25 PM

Wow - I started the thread not realizing how old it was. Oh well, here's some of my favorites:

The 5th element
Star Wars trilogy
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Force 10 from Navarone

I loved Shawshank, O Brother, Batman Begins, and countless others, but these are the movies I've watched hundreds of times (except for Force 10 - I can't find it anywhere, have only watched it about six times), but still get excited about when I feel a hankering to watch them.

Levin · 08-15-2008, 04:42 PM

Rear Window
On the Waterfront
Ferris Beuller
Spies Like Us
Raging Bull

SeattleUte · 08-15-2008, 05:53 PM

I'd put Do the Right Thing in my top 10, maybe top 5. It seems to be a forgotten great one these days.

SoCalCoug · 08-15-2008, 06:31 PM

1. My Cousin Vinny
2. Strange Brew
3. Airplane
4. Smokey and the Bandit
5. Napoleon Dynamite

My criteria is how many times I can watch it and still laugh, and quotability.

Black Diamond Bay · 08-15-2008, 07:25 PM

My list:

Sweet Home Alabama
What's up Doc?
Groundhog Day
Notorious
The Enforcer

Gidget · 08-15-2008, 07:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gidget

In no particular order

The Kite Runner
The Lives of Others
Legends of the Fall
The Orphanage
Godfather II
The Sound of Music

Ah yes, how could I have forgotten LOTR trilogy? I have seen all of the movies many times, and I love them more and more eveytime. Surfah always gives me a hard time for knowing what the name is of the riders of Rohan . . . anyone, anyone?

Black Diamond Bay · 08-15-2008, 07:54 PM

Does anyone else on here ever get bored watching movies? I don't go to movies anymore, because I found myself getting impatient waiting for the end so I could leave, and when I watch them at home I usually wander in and out of the room in the middle, just to take a little break. Anyone else feel that way about them?

08-11-2008, 04:15 AM	#61
Gidget Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: With Surfah Posts: 329	In no particular order The Kite Runner The Lives of Others Legends of the Fall The Orphanage Godfather II The Sound of Music __________________ I am a philosophical Goldilocks, always looking for something neither too big nor too small, neither too hot nor too cold, something jussssst right. I'll send you a card from purgatory. - PaloAltoCougar

08-15-2008, 04:25 PM	#64
Spaz Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,371	Wow - I started the thread not realizing how old it was. Oh well, here's some of my favorites: The 5th element Star Wars trilogy The Lord of the Rings trilogy The Man Who Knew Too Little Force 10 from Navarone I loved Shawshank, O Brother, Batman Begins, and countless others, but these are the movies I've watched hundreds of times (except for Force 10 - I can't find it anywhere, have only watched it about six times), but still get excited about when I feel a hankering to watch them. __________________ "My days of not respecting you are certainly coming to a middle." -Malcolm Reynolds "It doesn't mean that if we lose a game or when we lose a game people won't then jump on and say the quest is over. Because they will. But they've missed the point." -Bronco Mendenhall on "The Quest"

08-15-2008, 04:42 PM	#65
Levin Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 1,484	Rear Window On the Waterfront Ferris Beuller Spies Like Us Raging Bull __________________ "Now I say that I know the meaning of my life: 'To live for God, for my soul.' And this meaning, in spite of its clearness, is mysterious and marvelous. Such is the meaning of all existence." Levin, Anna Karenina, Part 8, Chapter 12

08-15-2008, 05:53 PM	#66
SeattleUte fairlds.org Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 10,665	I'd put Do the Right Thing in my top 10, maybe top 5. It seems to be a forgotten great one these days. __________________ Interrupt all you like. We're involved in a complicated story here, and not everything is quite what it seems to be. —Paul Auster

08-15-2008, 06:31 PM	#67
SoCalCoug Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Orange County, California Posts: 3,059	1. My Cousin Vinny 2. Strange Brew 3. Airplane 4. Smokey and the Bandit 5. Napoleon Dynamite My criteria is how many times I can watch it and still laugh, and quotability. __________________ Get your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Yewt! "Now perhaps as I spanked myself screaming out "Kozlowski, say it like you mean it bitch!" might have been out of line, but such was the mood." - Goatnapper "If you want to fatten a pig up to make the pig MORE delicious, you can feed it almost anything. Seriously. The pig is like the car on Back to the Future. You put in garbage, and out comes something magical!" - Cali Coug

08-15-2008, 07:25 PM	#68
Black Diamond Bay Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: California Posts: 1,000	My list: Sweet Home Alabama What's up Doc? Groundhog Day Notorious The Enforcer

08-15-2008, 07:54 PM	#70
Black Diamond Bay Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: California Posts: 1,000	Does anyone else on here ever get bored watching movies? I don't go to movies anymore, because I found myself getting impatient waiting for the end so I could leave, and when I watch them at home I usually wander in and out of the room in the middle, just to take a little break. Anyone else feel that way about them?