Movies You Love

[annxburns]

Oh God NO! They are remaking "The Birds". More to the point Michael BAY is remaking "The Birds".

No, no, no.

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[Carolina]

Tonight I fell in love with Waking the Dead. It's not the best movie ever, parts of it are sappy and melodramatic, but God, it was fabulous. It left me a blubbering mess.

Billy Crudup broke my heart. Jennifer Connelly made me believe he could fall so deeply in love with her. The ambiguous ending/resolution of their story was wonderful without selling out.

Most people would probably consider this movie a bust, but man, did I love it.

[kostgard]

I'll add my voice to the chorus of Shawshank Redemption love. One of my favorite movies ever, and one of the few where I felt the movie was better than the book.

And speaking of movies that make me stop what I'm doing and watch it when they pop up on tv - Back to the Future. I never think of it as a "favorite" and I don't own it, but when I see it while flipping channels, I always stop.

So I Married an Axe Murderer is my favorite comedy. I view it anually, on principle. It's good for the mood. Actually, I haven't had my 2005 viewing yet. No wonder I've been feeling so inexplicably blue.

God, I love this movie from the good ol' days before Mike Meyers started annoying the crap out of me. My friends and I always throw around quotes from his Scottish father to each other.

"Head! Pants! Now!"

Galaxy Quest and Run, Lola, Run stay in pretty heavy rotation, as does Emma (the Gwynnie Paltrow version, which is strange because I can't stand her now) and Sense and Sensibility.

As far as the love 'em or hate 'em movies, I love Moulin Rouge!, and I love Amelie and Lost in Translation and I don't care who knows it.

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Wow, y'all have already mentioned so many of my favorites, I'll just say WORD to Galaxy Quest, Clueless, His Girl Friday, and South Park (I get so excited when I see it's coming on Comedy Central, and then the next day I'll be unloading the dishwasher singing "Kyle's mom is a big fat bitch").

Other movies I have seen over and over and never get tired of are My Fair Lady (great music and dialogue -- "she's so deliciously low"), Sabrina (the old one with Audrey Hepburn -- even tho it is ridiculous to pretend that William Holden and Bogie are brothers, the movie is just delightful), The African Queen (a different Hepburn with Bogie, equally delightful), and, a movie I love to watch if I'm sick or down, Stuart Saves His Family, because it's so funny and sweet.

Oh and Paper Moon! Another beloved oldie. Tatum and her dad are just perfect together, and I think this may have been the first time I ever saw Madeline Kahn, a comic genius, and that brings me to....

Young Frankenstein, one of the funniest movies ever made, I can watch it over and over. Great cast: Gene Wilder, MK, Peter Boyle, Teri Garr, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, and, inexplicably, Gene Hackman.

[schmoosie]

I love the movie Baby Boom. I don't know why it makes me happy. I also love The Secret of My Success, but not all the 80's rom coms. I hated the Back to the Future movies. And I'll pretty much drop everything I'm doing to watch Willow or Krull.

[Karrit]

I have seen the The Quiet Man no less than 20 times. Just a gorgeous film. Maureen O'Hara is wonderful, the character actors are well cast, and John Wayne is at his most appealing.

Room With a View is a perfect film. And in a wonderful reversal, male nudity, not female. I just wish that Daniel Day Lewis was included in that scene.

Crossing Delancey Why don't they make more movies like this? Wonderful story, great acting, Sylvia Miles was a riot.

[kiran]

Major Word to Sleepless in Seattle, Clueless, Moulin Rouge, A Life Less Ordinary and The Wizard of Oz.

I also love basically any Richard Linklater film, the new version of Great Expectations (what? It was pretty and Ethan Hawke made me sob with "This is my heart, and it is breaking), Wuthering Heights (Laurence Olivier version) and My Man Godfrey (with Carole Lombard), I just love when shes jumping on the bed screaming "Godfry loves me!!!"

[sasharae]

Whenever Edward Scissorhands comes on TV, I just can't turn it off.

I also love The Lost Boys, Dead Poet's Society, The Talented Mr. Ripley and Don Juan DeMarco. TLB and DPS remind me of my teenage years, DJD makes me feel good (Brando and Depp in the same movie is a beautiful thing) and TMR is just a brilliant film, IMO. The Ripley books are some of my favorites as well.

I just thought of one more: Interview With the Vampire. I love everyone's performances, especially pre-batshit crazy Tom Cruise. I think it's one of his best films.

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It's nice to see so many others here like those wonderful older movies. But the one I wish to add is from 1992

The one that I love is....Enchanted April.

I first saw it one damp, cold night and when I came out of the theatre, I felt wonderful.

It takes place in the 1920s, a few years after the end of WWI. Two English women see a newspaper ad offering an Italian castle, San Salvatore, for rent for the month of April. Each of them has reasons to want to go, to escape their husbands for a bit and have some time to themselves. To cover the cost, they must find 2 other women to share the costs. The quartet is rounded out by a wealthy socialite and an older lady who have their own ideas about how the month should be spent.

The month that the 4 spend there, together with the others who join them, changes their life as the castle's beauty works its magic on them.

The 4 women were played by Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson, Polly Walker and Joan Plowright. The 2 husbands are Alfred Molina and Jim Broadbent. Michael Kitchen is the owner of the castle.

The story is not what you might think, and as others join the original 4, the castle continues it's magic.

This is a really wonderful movie, especially for some evening when you need a real lift.

The scene where the ladies open the shutters in their bedrooms the morning after their stormy night-time arrival to discover the splendid view of the garden and the Mediterranean below is wonderful.

Unfortunately, the movie is not yet on DVD, so you'll have to hunt around for VHS, but it's well worth having. It's one of those movies I gave as gifts to my sisters.

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I also love Moulin Rouge and Clueless.

Continuing with the Jane Austen love, I have seen MANSFIELD PARK at least a dozen times. 13 Going on 30 gives me warm fuzzies. Mean Girls makes me laugh. And I have no idea how many hours I have spent on the LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy. I'm talking extended versions for all three movies. That's 3.5-4 hours each. I need a life.