Let’s see if we agree. Here are mine. Not in order.
- Laura
- North by Northwest
- Rebecca
- Remember the Titans
- The Hunger Games
- The Godfather
- Saving Private Ryan
- Behind Enemy Lines
- The Last of the Mohicans
- The Family Man
- Star Wars
- Munich
You can see that Top #10 became Top #12.
Caveat: I don’t generally like movies. I get bored about half-way through and want to go home. I like the popcorn, though.
Caveat #2: I saw Star Wars 7 nights in a row when it first came out.
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I felt like Harry potter is universally a great movie series
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I agree, and have watched them all, but I think the books are so much better that I didn’t include the movies. That being said, I own them all. Sounds silly for a list that sort of rolled off the top of my head, but I went back and forth about including Harry Potter. Thanks for commenting 🙂
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My pleasure to interact with bloggers across the globe.Representing Africa
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I love reading blogs and comments from all over as well. I have a close friend from Senegal, but they have lived in the US for quite some time now. He still have a business in Senegal and I will be going there in a year or two with his family. I have never traveled to Africa or Australia. I have students from Africa and love learning about their culture as they learn about ours. Where in Africa are you from?
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Exchange of cultural values I believe is fundamental in the process of trying to dish out primitivity from our societies.African culture seem to be a heritage that goes way down the roots.You should visit and see the cultural diversities across different tribes that form pillars of Africanism.I personally stay In Kenya,you would want to come around and have fun in a country that is full of wildlife and natural beauty.
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Sounds lovely.
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Trust me its a great Idea..you will find havens here,away from the madding crowd.
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i love movies and agree with two! ) godfather and north by northwest –
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North by Northwest is on right now. I’m in the other room writing this, but I have probably watched it 30 times. I’ve watched the Hunger Games more.
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I’ve only seen a few of these. I saw the beginning of “Private Ryan”, but turned it off early on. Not because it was bad, but rather that it was just too realistic and intense.
Now I think I may have to do my own list…
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Yes, although I think our list will be very, very different. If I did a true favorite list it would be at least 25. I don’t find movie escapism. I find them work. And I don’t want to work at entertainment.
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In general, I also find movies to be work. Especially going to see them in the theater, which I don’t do often. Much prefer the comfort of my own home for watching them.
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EXACTLY. Plus they are so expensive to watch in the theater.
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I agree with many of your choices. But where are The Big Lebowski, Jacob’s Ladder, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and of course, Animal House?
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Nope. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is Tim’s favorite movie so I’ve been forced to watch it a number of times. Yuck. Oh! I l left off ConAir!! I love that one!
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“Put the Bunny back in the Box” is an all time classic quote!
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You have some good ones on there. I could never come up with a list like this…there are just too many, though The Godfather tops every list for me. I also love The Sting and Usual Suspects but that’s just off the top of my head. There are others.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is another I loved, but I haven’t watched it in 20 years, so I guess I don’t love it that much., lol.
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My husband was watching North by Northwest this morning and I thought, because it is tied with Laura for my favorite movie ever, that a list would be fun. So I rattled it off in 5 minutes. Just what was on the top of my head. The only one I spent more time over was wondering if the Harry Potter movies would make the cut. They did not but the books are among my favorites.
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Moonstruck and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles have always been among my favorites. Little Miss Sunshine too.
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I didn’t like Moonstruck (I’m sorry) and I haven’t seen the others. We should stick to books, lol. I’m starting the Lost City one you recommended today.
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Haha, we’ll always have our books…
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Dances with Wolves, The Terminator (original and the others after my top ten), The Colour Purple, The Glenn Miller Story, It’s a Wonderful Life, A Star is Born (Judy Garland, and Barbra Streisand’s), Law Abiding Citizen (for the way he bumps off the judge), The Bourne series, Shooter, Fly Away Home.
Animations would be The Incredibles, Despicable Me 1 and 2, plus The Minions (cos I’m daft like that), Brother Bear, Up, Happy Feet, Lady and the Tramp, Ice Age, Dumbo.
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Wow…..I’m probably the only person on earth who hasn’t seen Dances with Wolves. My husband loved it. I liked the first Terminator but it wouldn’t make any list of mine.The only other ones on the list are the Bourne series, Despicable Me 1 and 2 (especially one) and the Minions. Oh I forgot Shawshank Redemption!!
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I saw Danaces with Wolves three times at the cinema, and we bought a video copy when it was released, but it had been cut from the film we’d seen although it still ran for three hours. When the extended 4 hour version came out in widescreen, we bought that too and having also read the book by then, it was more detailed in the indian way of life and how Stands With A Fist came to be on the prairie. I cried when Two Socks and Cisco were killed, and hated the soldiers with every ounce of my being.
Shawshank Redemption was an excellent film.
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All right you talked me into it. Dances with Wolves will be watched.
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Ha! I hope you enjoy it. Have the hankies ready.
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Uh oh. This is the first time I’ve worn mascara since my eye surgery. Maybe I’ll put the movie off another day,lol.
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It’s very good, but not worth jeopodising your health over!
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Ha! “Watches With Mascara”
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There’s got to be a poem in there somewhere Barb!
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haha you’re right! But I’m no poet.
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Some of mine are:
Away All Boats
THX 1138
The Muppet Movie
Contact
Apollo 13
anything with Tom Hanks
but my advice has always been, “Don’t judge a book by it’s movie.”
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I agree 100% with your advice. The only one on your list is Apollo 13 but I, too, love anything with Tom Hanks (one reason to love Saving Private Ryan).
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Some of those movies are new to me, I will definitely check them out!
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Taste is so subjective, and the first 3 are from the 1940s or 50s but I love them. Rebecca I had read and loved the book first, but this is the rare occasion where the movie is also phenomenal.
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Quite a few good ones on this list, but I’d need to bump a few to make room for the LoTR trilogy, Blind Side (I know I know I’m gonna have to turn in my man-card if I’m not careful), and of course Kung Fu Panda. Can’t believe you let this one slip by Barb 😉
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haha . I didn’t include LoTR because while good, the books were better. I never saw Blind Side or Kung Fu Panda lol.
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*gasp* The Blind Side! Yes!!!!
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LOTR, definitely, although I was less impressed with the Hobbit follow up. Tombstone. Star Wars, of course. Priest is a guilty pleasure favorite–the one about vampires, because I’m sure there are others out there by the same name! Guardians of the Galaxy is so much fun. Beauty & the Beast by Disney. Ultraviolet. Way too many to list!
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I too have long been a movie fan. I tried several years ago to compose a list of my top favs. I found that I couldn’t lump them together on a single list because of the diversity of genres. So I ended up with a four and a half page doc with categories like Comedy/Fantasy, Horror and Classic Vintage Drama which included 33 films from the hilariously cleaver Jimmy Stewart-Hepburn-Cary Grant “Philadelphia Story” (1940) to the inimitable drama of Bette Davis in “Now, Voyager” (1942). I mean, how can I include “The Odd Couple,” or “Ben Hur” (1959) with those folks? Nor “Psycho,” “Rosemary’s Baby,” or “High Noon.” BTW — can’t wait to see the special effects in “Kong: Skull Island,” on the big screen March 10. I saw the original version (1933) on late night TV as a grade schooler. Couldn’t get to sleep afterwards. Thought I heard growling and trees snapping in the back yard. Still don’t like zoo monkeys.
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Oh….Psycho and Rosemary’s Baby!! How could I forget those?!
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Munich was VERY good – now I’ll have to re-watch when I get a chance 🙂
In no particular order:
1) Casablanca (that scene when Bogie gives “The Nod” …)
2) The Wind and The Lion
2) The Lion in Winter (do I sense a theme?)
3) Letters from Iwo Jima
4) all the “Back to the Future” ones
5) Slap Shot
6) My Fair Lady (Audrey Hepburn’s “Move yer bloomin’ arse!” – incomparable)
7) It started in Naples
8) almost all Star Trek movies (do NOT talk to me about ‘Nemesis’, please…)
9) almost all Star Wars movies
10) Lord of the Rings. Yes, ALL. Fine, the Hobbit ones, too. The New Zealand scenery plus Smaug saved the trilogy. And the dwarven war-hogs.
… ummm … I could probably add another 50.
Honorable mention to Wall-E, Shrek and Ice Age. As well as the Marvel movies. OK OK I’ll stop. 😉
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I agree with about 1/2 of them. You should have included The Lion King to keep with your theme lol. I never saw Slap Shot or It Started in Naples. I agree about the New Zealand scenery and the LoTR were good. But I liked the books better. A no to My Fair Lady. Yes to most of the Star Trek movies and you saw what I wrote about Star Wars. I HATED Shrek. I know I’m alone with that one, lol.
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Hunger Games! Love both books and movies, though books are better.
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I agree but in this case the movies are good too. There are a few others I would say the same thing about, but not too many.
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Huge movie fans we are….12 Angry Men (awesome!), Shawshank Redemption, My Cousin Vinny, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Dead Poet’s Society, It’s a Wonderful Life, Sound of Music, Patch Adams, A Few Good Men, Rain Man, A Beautiful Mind, Crash,Singing in the Rain, Jaws…OK, I can’t count and I can go on….
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Yes, I said to another person that I forgot about Shawshank. And 12 Angry Men is so good. My Cousin Vinny is probably the only comedy I’ve ever liked. Sound of Music should have been on my list. I really like A Beautiful Mind but it wouldn’t make my cut……THE WIZARD OF OZ How in the world did I forget the WIZARD OF OZ
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Oh my. The Wizard of Oz…forgot to add that!!!!
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Oh, I LOVE Remember the Titans! ❤
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I’ve probably watched it 25 times. I graduated from high school about the same time they did, although I went to school in the North. Besides being a great sports movie, it reflects the issues the U.S. was facing when I was just learning about peaceful protests and the fight for equality. Such a good movie.
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Oh, wow, really?! That’s awesome! Yeah, definitely…it’s one of my dad’s and my favorites 🙂
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After I finish the AFI top 100, I’m gonna do my personal top 100. It’ll be nice to have another 100 blog posts that are easy to write.
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lol!! I agree they are the easy ones to write, but I love the ideas, and sometimes arguments with the responses. And I love it when readers start talking to each other. Especially about books. What we like and why we like it is so telling.
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I don’t think I could come up with a list, but I did like The Sting, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Raising Arizona, Buck, The Trip to Bountiful and Little Miss Sunshine, among others. As you can see, I have a taste for off-beat comedies.
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Don’t be mad at me, but the movies that you listed that I have seen, I didn’t like. Don’t be mad.
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Of course I’m not mad! We have different taste in movies, and that’s just fine! It just means if we ever met and decided to spend some time together, we wouldn’t go to the movies. (I saw the Star Wars movie with my husband and another couple. Our husbands loved it, my friend and I slept through it.)
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If I never saw a movie in a theater again I would be as happy as could be. Star Wars was an anomaly. But that’s funny about you sleeping. I watch movies on tv once in a blue moon. I like cable series but really never watch tv except for politics. I’ll watch Netflix for a bit before I go to sleep, but never ever ever ever a comedy.
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I’ve seen two of these movies – Remember The Titans (which they showed us at school about 1800 times) & The Hunger Games.
I don’t have a list of favourite movies. They bore me.
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I’m not a movie fan, for actually going to the theater, but the movies I like…I LOVE. We just saw Manchester by the Sea and it was incredible.
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