Is there a movie

Katybug

Katybug

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....that you enjoy watching over again, and even again?


For me, almost anything with Meryl Streep, but my favorite is IT'S COMPLICATED. A real chick flick for sure, but I don't remember ever laughing so hard as I did first time I saw it...laughed 'til I cried. OUT OF AFRICA is another outstanding one I've seen several times. She is the best actress I've ever known.

I'm sure lots of you ladies may feel the same way I do about THE SOUND OF MUSIC....one of the best ever.
 

I do love "Somewhere In Time"; don't know why, as it's so darn sappy...but Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour are perfect for the roles. Madame X (the first one) is very good, too. I'm sure there's others I can't think of right now.
 
Somewhere in Time is also a movie i could repeat all the time. Loved it, and the old-fashioned part of it. Great acting.
 

My favorite chick flick is Sleepless in Seattle, and I've seen it countless times. Anything that Nora Ephron has written is tops with me. And also, her books made me laugh from start to finish .. just loved her work ... everything she did!
So sorry when I heard she died.
 
maxHR said:
"no country for old men" made by the Coen brothers
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Oh my gosh, that movie spooked me. Everyone in it died, but have to admit the acting was excellent. It is definitely a man's movie. If I remember clearly, which doesn't happen often, it won for best picture that year.
 
There are several I just love watching, no matter that I have seen them several times. Some of the best are :

Frequency ...with Dennis Quaid, not quite time travel, but close, great plot, and heartwarming story.
LadyHawke ....beautiful love story with unique twist, she is a hawk by day, by nite he is a black wolf. Most awesome Fresian horse !
Usual Suspects..... Took me a couple times to really understand this Kevin Spacey classic.
The Italian Job.... Fast paced, and amazing gold heist with MiniCoopers.
Short Circuit.... Just plain LOVE this movie, and it was filmed in Astoria, Oregon, where I would love to live !
Almost Like Heaven.... Just looks like a ghost story, one to steal your heart.
Ghost.... List wouldn't be complete without this one . Makes me cry every time.
Hunt for Red October....no romance, just lots of drama, and great acting, wonderful plot !
 
Jillaroo said:
That's an easy one Katy, it's Pretty Woman with Julia Roberts & Richard Gere, never get tired of watching it, and the part where those sales women turned her away, i can relate to that.
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This movie is on my "hated it" list. It's a retelling of the Pygmalion story a la My Fair Lady. I prefer George Bernard Shaw's version where the heroine breaks free of the men who would control her. I watched the Julia Roberts character begin to grow and discover herself only to surrender to the Richard Gere character. I could have wept.

I much prefer the English adaptation "Educating Rita" where Rita rejects Michael Caine and chooses freedom for herself. Yea!
 
Jillaroo said:
That's an easy one Katy, it's Pretty Woman with Julia Roberts & Richard Gere, never get tired of watching it, and the part where those sales women turned her away, i can relate to that.
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I completely forgot that one, Jill. I've probably seen it 25 times and will watch it anytime it's on. Excellent chick flick, one of the best for me....unbelievable fairy tale that it is.
 
A Clockwork Orange - beside the ultra-violence I find the made-up language fascinating

Circle of Iron - a martial arts movie scripted by Bruce Lee with David Carradine playing multiple characters

Of course, the classics - The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, etc.
 
SifuPhil said:
A Clockwork Orange - beside the ultra-violence I find the made-up language fascinating

Circle of Iron - a martial arts movie scripted by Bruce Lee with David Carradine playing multiple characters

Of course, the classics - The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, etc.
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Ha! Clockwork Orange remains one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. Widely acclaimed and hate to admit I didn't understand it at all. The classics you mentioned I loved.
 
"City of Angels" is another one I really enjoyed. Not a huge fan of Nicolas Cage, but he did well in that one.



"Jacob's Ladder" is a good one, but very, very strange...still can't really figure it out.
 
Katybug said:
Ha! Clockwork Orange remains one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. Widely acclaimed and hate to admit I didn't understand it at all. The classics you mentioned I loved.
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I cannot count the number of times I've read the book and watched the movie - it HAS to be close to 100 times each. I did a college paper on the creation of the language that the author, Anthony Burgess, used in the book. It was a mixture of several languages and dialects with a sprinkling of then-current slang. I even taught it to my two sons, that's how much of a fan-boy I am.

And it's another one of those movies that I can sit and recite the dialogue word-for-word from start to finish, with the proper inflections, accents and movements. :mask:

Anne said:
"Jacob's Ladder" is a good one, but very, very strange...still can't really figure it out.
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Another great one! I admit I had to watch it a few times to figure it out, because it's so far out of the ordinary and the special-effects are so spooky.
 
I'm not into chick flicks, they bore me senseless and like Warri, I cringe at those 'happy surrender' endings. "Surrender, Hell!", when it comes to romance call me Patton! Romance is strictly truce by negotiation on my books.


I suppose the most repeated on TV movie that I still sometimes watch is Terminator 2. Says a bit about my basic personality and bad taste in movies.

Clockwork Orange was a watershed book, but intensely disliked the movie. More sick than illuminating a point.
Liked 'No Country..." but I like most movies Tommy Lee is in. He picks gooduns.
Must admit to watching Ladyhawke more than once, mostly for Rutger and the scene of that horse prancing through the cathedral more than for the 'plot'.

Most watched just for eye candy, soundtrack, spec effects, and/or entertainment/plot or laughs depending on the mood...
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Dances with Wolves
Aliens
Pulp Fiction
Terminator 2
LOTR
The Blues Brothers
The Dish
..and believe it or not... Ferris Beuller's Day Off.
 
Speaking of chick flicks with happy endings, what's not to like about War of the Roses with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner?
 

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