Favourite Films?

[pinksalamander]

I'm a bit of a DVD collector (although not as many as Alicia! ) I have about 60-70 DVDs at the moment. I buy them all cheap, on Amazon usually. The most I've spent on a DVD that I can remember is around £8.... I always get my Mum to buy the new ones!

I'm always wanting to add to my collection, infact I have a list of all the films I want to buy so I don't forget, and everytime I see something good it gets added!

I just today bought Fame, Nanny McPhee, The Sweetest Thing and Hot Fuzz. My favourite films are The Breakfast Club, Donnie Darko, Lolita (1998), Hairspray, Back to the Future, Footloose, Pirates, Narnia, Edward Scissorhands and Labyrinth... wow thats a long list!

So I was just wondering what everyones favourite films are, if they could recommend anything I should rent (or buy, its usually only a few £'s more to buy an older film than to rent it!) so I can add them to my list!

Fran :hearts :brownbunny

 

[pinksalamander]

Also if anyone is interested here is my list of things to buy:

E.T
Not Another Teen Movie
Juno
A.I
Superbad
Flight Plan
10 Things I Hate About You
Planes Trains and Automobiles
I. Robot
Fluke
Billy Elliot
Scooby Doo Movie
Pochahontas
Bruce Almighty
Flashbacks of a Fool
The Wizard of Oz
The Rescuers
The River Wild
Amelie
Titanic
Shrek
Romeo + Juliet
10th Kingdom
High Heels and Low Lives
Flashdance
South Park Movie
Casanova
The Railway Children
Misery
Cruel Intentions
Four Weddings and a Funeral
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Pretty Woman
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
When Harry Met Sally
Enchanted
Bridget Jones
The Hours
Shirley Valentine
Sleeping With the Enemy
Wallace and Gromit - 3 Cracking Adventures
Pans Labyrinth
Citizen Kane
Sound of Music
Coyote Ugly
West Side Story
Gattaca
Mars Attacks
Turner and Hooch
Fly Away Home
There's Something About Mary
Sixteen Candles
The Notebook
Riding In Cars With Boys
1984
Thumbelina
Phone Booth
The Notebook
Dude, Where's My Car?

Fran :hearts :brownbunny

 

[mouse_chalk]

Dirty Dancing! You have to own Dirty Dancing!!! :biggrin2:

That's one of my favourites, but I don't really have a favourite as such I don't think....

OH! Wait! The Bodyguard lol..... :rollseyes

Sweet Home Alabama too.... and Erin Brokovich (can't remember if they were in your list or not...)

Yeah, I guess I'm a bit of a girly chick-flick fan lol.... :embarrassed:

 

[pinksalamander]

Already got it.... oh I agree, everyone must own it!

We also have Sweet Home Alabama but its not actually mine. I've never seen The Bodyguard! I must watch it... thats bad isn't it? My Mum loves it.

Fran :hearts :brownbunny

 

[mouse_chalk]

pinksalamander wrote:

I've never seen The Bodyguard! I must watch it... thats bad isn't it?

:shock:

You HAVE to watch the Bodyguard!! It's sooo cheesy but so great!

 

[Becca]

Okay my fave films are:

Angus, thongs and perfect snogging (thats number 1 wooo)

Mamma Mia

King Kong

Dirty Dancing

Grease

Center Stage

Nemo

Shark Tale

Wallace and Gromit - Curse of the wererabbit

Phantom of the opera

And a lot others which I will post in a while!

 

[pinksalamander]

BabyBunnies wrote:

Okay my fave films are:

Angus, thongs and perfect snogging - Haven't seen it yet, waiting for DVD

Mamma Mia - Love it! Waiting for DVD

King Kong - Watching it now but haven't made up my mind

Dirty Dancing - Got it

Grease - Got it

Center Stage - didn't like it

Nemo - on the list

Shark Tale - haven't seen it

Wallace and Gromit - Curse of the wererabbit - saw it but prefer the older ones!

Phantom of the opera - found it boring! I just skip to the songs.. too long!

Fran :hearts :brownbunny

 

[mouse_chalk]

Finding Nemo made my cry!! When he lost his mum... :tears2:

I love the Bridget Jones' Diary films as well... Mostly cos of Colin Firth though lol..

Oh, and Closer- I remembered that the other day, I've not seen it for a while though!

 

[pinksalamander]

mouse_chalk wrote:

Oh, and Closer- I remembered that the other day, I've not seen it for a while though!

Got it!

Got the 2 Bridgets too.... i love them!

Fran :hearts :brownbunny

 

[LadyBug]

Princess Diaries and PD2

Stardust

Harry Potter 1-5

Little Secrets

Alex Rider

Eragon

Raising Helen

Christy(TV series from the 90's. my mom and i have been watching it on DVD from the library)

Anne of Green Gables(the whole set:biggrin2

Ella Enchanted(have you read the book? it's great!)

i'll see if i can think of any more

 

[TinysMom]

Some of my favorites didn't get great reviews and are even cheesy...but I like them anyway.

Let's see - when I need a pick-me-up - these are the ones I tend to grab from:

Shall We Dance? (Richard Gere version & the original Japanese version)
Pretty Woman
American President
Knight's Tale
Secondhand Lions
Mama Mia
You've Got Mail
For Keeps? w/ Molly Ringwald (I cry every time I see that one)
Renaissance Man w/ Danny DeVito
Dirty Dancing
Coyote Ugly - I LOVE LOVE LOVE John Goodman in this

I also like:

The Lake House - Sandra Bullock
The Love Letter - Campbell Scott
Follow the Stars Home - Campbell Scott
The Wedding Dress - Margaret Colin

and one that is a "made for tv" that kept me glued to the screen - I'd like to buy it ...

Going for Broke - Gerald McRaney & Delta Burke


I also like Kimberly Williams Paisley - she was in:

Identity Theft: The Michelle Brown Story (I couldn't go to bed even though I was dead tired)

The Christmas Shoes (I loved the sequel too but she was not in it)

Lucky 7 - where I fell in love w/ Patrick Dempsey

Oh - and the "Love Comes Softly" series of movies...

 

[polly]

good choices Peg Secondhand lions is a lovely film

10 things I hate about you

Green mile

Monsters inc

pretty woman

the rock (gotta have some sean connery in there )

13 going on 30

 

[JadeIcing]

pinksalamander wrote:

I'm a bit of a DVD collector (although not as many as Alicia! )

Glad to know I am famous for something.

 

[Becca]

Okay so here are my favourite films!

Angus, thongs and perfect snogging (thats number 1 wooo)

Mamma Mia

King Kong

Dirty Dancing

Grease

Center Stage

Finding Nemo

Shark Tale

Wallace and Gromit - Curse of the wererabbit

Phantom of the opera

Lassie

Over the hedge

The Golden compass

Elf

Racing Stripes

Alvin and the chipmunks

Stardust

Enchanted

Ella Enchanted

Cats + Dogs

Ghost

Pirates of the carribean I

Music and Lyrics

I think thats it?!?!

 

[TinysMom]

I forgot to list (which is part of why I even posted on this thread) - Disney's Three Musketeers with Charlie Sheen, Oliver Platt & Kiefer Sutherland. I don't think its true to the original story (which I'm not familiar with)- but I find it hilarious.

I splurged and bought it for myself on iTunes last week 'cause I really really needed something to make me laugh.

 

[drunkenbunnyhugger]

Well if you like hot fuzz, you gotta do shaun of the dead.
other big favorites of mine are:
Shawshank Redemption, Say Anything, American History X, The Game, Seven, Bourne series, Save the last Dance, Wild hearts cant be broken...
I am a huge movie person! I can list more if those arent your cup of tea

 

[Bassetluv]

Well if you like hot fuzz, you gotta do shaun of the dead.

Both are favs of mine. I originally saw Shaum of the Dead when it came out, but only just saw Hot Fuzz the other day. Hilarious!

I'd list some of my favorites, but have a headache right now...will list them later. (Love love love movies!)

 

[mouse_chalk]

Ohhhhhhh Shaun of the Dead is BRILLIANT!! Cracks me up....

I love Hot Fuzz too, it was filmed in Wells, where my aunty works, I think that she shop she works in is in scenes at times, but I can't remember what it's called... It's about an hour or so from me!

 

[pinksalamander]

Shaun of the Dead, ah, battering zombies with snooker cues to the music of Queen... it doesn't get much better than that does it?

I already have a few of these, I will post my list of owned DVDs in a minute.... maybe then we can add some new ones and discuss!

Fran :hearts :brownbunny

 

[Leaf]

Glory

Tremors (all of them, but the last one best, the old west...)

Flatliners

Cool Runnings

Blown Away

The Shawshank Redemption

Young Guns I & II

Benny & Joon

Blow

The Ghost and the Darkness

Prey (along the theme of the above movie)

The Air Up There

Full Metal Jacket

Operation Dumbo Drop

Men In Black ..

(ok, any of the Tommy Lee Jones movies - US Marshalls etc)

..

I know Im missing some but off the top of my head those are the ones I can watch over and over.

BTW - Young Guns is a $5 DVD at Wal Mart but I have yet to buy it because I don't want one without the other. :headsmack