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| Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:08 pm Post subject: What's your favorite film? |
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I just found out that one of my all-time favorite films, Casablanca, was made the same year my mother was born, 1942.  I'm probably very old-fashioned, but I like it and watch it from time to time. I especially appreciate the music and the dramatic black-and-white filming.
Another one I really like is "Much Ado About Nothing" from 1993, based on Shakespeare's play and starring Denzel Washington, Emma Thompson and Keanu Reeves among others. It's a real vitamin pill and it always makes me laugh. One reason why I like it so much are the two main characters, Benedick and Beatrice, who remind me of myself and my husband some thirty years back.
What's your favorite and why?
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Can't say as that I have a favorite, exactly. I love chic-flic's. And I've recently found that my honey gets into them too, lol. I really like scary movies too. With a hand to squeeze through the more scary parts, I can watch the whole thing! 
However, Cabin By The Lake was always a favorite of mine. It's old enough to where it was on television a time or two when I was growing up. It's a suspesneful thriller type movie. I'd say scary, but others are much worse. It was one of the first films of its type that I watched, which is probably why it's stuck as one of my favs.
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My favourite film - well trilogy - has to be Lord of the Rings. Fabulous scenery and superb acting as well as great graphics.
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Mine is Grapes of Wreath.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:55 am Post subject: |
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*making notes*
I've watched "Lord of the Rings" several times. The other two I haven't heard about. I really need to re-stock the film library.
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I like "Midnight Cowboy" a lot. "The Graduate" is great also. I actually never made a top 3 or similar because I find that once you do that you lose something magic when you watch those movies again. I just watch and enjoy with categorising 
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My list of favourites is all in my head, and since I suffer from a very bad memory the list changes every month, and I'm not even aware of it. 
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One of our very favorites are Ballad of the Sad Cafe'. This was a story I read years ago and loved. The movie is a vintage Vanessa Redgrave film set in the Old South. It is a strange love story. The other is "The Man Who would be King." This is an old Sean Connery, Michael Caine flick about being power hungry. Find them and watch them and see what you think. 
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*searching through my favorite online-dvd-shop*
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Nope, nothing there. I found the book though, so I might buy that instead.
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I love "Giant" . . . an old movie with Liz Taylor and James Dean . . . it goes through three generations . . . based in Texas. Then "Gone With the Wind" . . . and "Overboard" with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell . . . it is funny with a good ending . . . riches to rags to riches
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I've got "Gone With the Wind", but will search for the other two.
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I like High Noon with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir with Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison, Brigadoon with Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse, Always with Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter and John Goodman and Windwalker with Trevor Howard and Nick Ramus.
And The Lord of the Rings which I have watched more than...well let's just say more than a few times. 
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Gary Cooper was sooo handsome, and Grace Kelly lovely. Nice tips, toni, thank you.
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I simply like movies that ends with unusual twists and sagas.
There are actually quite a few movies that I like, but special mention must be made of "The Usual Suspects" with Kevin Spacey and of course I cannto resist science fiction and fantasy - ultimate favorites here is the Lord of the Rings Trilogy - all three of them are great.
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I'm a Robert Redford fan, most of his movies are a good watch, but I like one in particular, I think it's called "Three days of the Condor", and a more recent film "An Unfinished Life". Another film that I needed to watch several times was "6th Sense" with Bruce Willis. Talk about a twist at the end. I never saw it coming. ("I see dead People" - "they don't know that they are dead" said the young boy, in a harsh whisper.)
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