List 30 movies you love that are probably on no one's all-time best list

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valdeere said:
I wonder if I can think of 30 of my favorites that aren’t too mainstream!
  1. The Secret of Roan Innish
  2. Ever After
  3. A Little Romance
  4. Just Like Heaven
  5. Serendipity
  6. Midway
  7. The Iron Giant (cartoon but I bawled my head off)
  8. Cool Runnings
  9. Harvey
  10. Once Around
  11. The Quiet Man
  12. Sliding Doors
  13. I.Q.
  14. While You Were Sleeping
  15. Real Genius
  16. Persuasion
  17. Nicholas Nickleby
  18. White Nights
  19. The Count of Monte Cristo
  20. Heartbreak Ridge
  21. The Rainmaker
  22. Return To Me
  23. Emma (BBC Version)
  24. Meatballs
  25. Throw Momma From The Train
  26. The Sands of Iwo Jima
  27. Sixteen Candles
  28. Godspell
  29. Mulan
  30. 50 First Dates
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Why Valerie, you’re a romantic! 😃
 
child_of_God85 said:
Ok, I’ll try to list 30, but not sure if i can think of that many. Whenever someone asks me to think of favorite movies or whatever my mind seems to go blank.
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You did great! Except for…
Midnight Velvet
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I’m guessing this is either Doris Day freaking out in the fog—Midnight Lace; or Dennis Hopper freaking out in an oxygen mask—Blue Velvet. 😉
 
Here are mine, in no particular order (boy, this took a lot longer than I thought it would!) 🙂

1.The Princess Bride (“As you wish” and how can you go wrong with Peter Falk?)
2.Them (big Ants)
3.They Live (aliens you can only see with funny glasses and Rowdy Roddy Piper–need I say more)
4.Monty Python’s Holy Grail
5.Mr Moto movies–(Japanese detective aka Peter Lorre–great character actor)
6.Secret Window (Johnny Depp–creepy movie)
7.Ed Wood (Johnny Depp–wonderful movie about bad movies)
8.The Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, etc (gotta love Bruce Campbell)
9.The Quick and the Dead (I like Sam Raimi, too)
10.Darkman (Sam Raimi again)
11.The In-Laws (Peter Falk, again. “Serpentine!”–this is probably on someones best list, though)
12.The Thing From Another World (old sci-fi, probably on someone’s best list)
13.Night of the Demon/Curse of the Demon (scary old movie)
14.The Shadow (yea, it’s Alec Baldwin, but I liked it)
15.Coming to America (Arsenio Hall and Eddie Murphy–funnny)
16.Young Frankenstein (I’m sure it’s on a best list, but I love it!)
17.Lost Horizon of Shangri-La (old movie about crashing in Shangri-la–Frank Capra director)
18.Secret Agent (an Alfred Hitchcock movie, not well known)
19.Gaslight (husband tries to make wife think she’s crazy–old movie w/Ingrid Bergman)
20. Clue (not the best movie, not the worst, I enjoy it)
21. Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan and Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson)
22. Signs (Mel Gibson, faith, forgiveness and aliens)
23. 12 Monkeys (futuristic movie with a twist and Bruce Willis)
24. Top Secret and Real Genius (Val Kilmer, totally inappropriate, but funny)
25. Willow (fantasy/adventure movie, huh, it has Val Kilmer in it too)
26 Neverending Story (another fantasy/adventure with puppets and such)
27. The Dark Crystal (similar to above, more muppets)
28. Big Trouble in Little China
29. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (is this too popular?)
30. This is Spinal Tap (my dh’s favorite movie) or A Mighty Wind or Best in Show (we like mockumentaries)

Jennifer
 
SPINAL TAP - that’s gonna be on people’s best lists - it’s fantastic isn’t it 🙂
 
Cranch said:
You did great! Except for…
I’m guessing this is either Doris Day freaking out in the fog—Midnight Lace; or Dennis Hopper freaking out in an oxygen mask—Blue Velvet. 😉
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Blue Velvet :uurgh: David Lynch is just too weird for my tastes.
 
LilyM said:
Blue Velvet :uurgh: David Lynch is just too weird for my tastes.
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Eraserhead—2 hours of my life I will never get back. On the other hand I think Dune was a fantastic achievement. IMHO a great visualization of a complex book.
 
puzzleannie said:
I can see I am a bit older than you, but I’ll try

the Quiet Man
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre (any version, Charlotte Gainsborough has been the best so far)
Little Women (any version, Winona Ryder has been the best so far)
How Green Was My Valley (should also be on anyone’s top films of all time list, the novel was also excellent) Dada! Dada! the boy crying for his father trapped in the coal mine still gives me chills.

Bridge on the River Kwai (madness! madness!)
The Longest Day, still one of my favorite war movies

this has been remade several times, but the version I have in mind is with Charlton Heston in the 50s, the major who is disciplined by being sent to run a boys military boarding school, Major Payne is the latest re-make but I can’t remember the title of this one.

They Were Expendable, another favorite war movie
Glory
Yankee Doodle Dandy, this fits the criteria of “I watch it every time they show it”

Dark Victory
Now Voyager
Bette Davis is not one of my favorites but those and
Guess Whose Coming For Dinner and
All About Eve are all pretty good

The Best Years of Our Lives
The Bishop’s Wife
Bringing up Baby - best Cary Grant comedy ever made
this is the movie to watch when you are depressed, laughter cures what ails you

There is one with Claudette Colbert as an army nurse who gets her group off Bataan and describes what they went through, which I forget the title, but I watch it whenever I see it.

The Thin Man (the original, the rest went downhill)
Topper
My Man Godfrey

I also have a secret addiction to Shirley Temple movies

vintage Hitchcock:
Spellbound
Rebecca
Vertigo
Rope
Strangers on a Train

Nine to Five - Lily Tomlin is superb
Barefoot in the Park (again, Jane Fonda is not a favorite, but light comedy is her forte)

a totally idiotic Goldie Hawn-Chevy Chase thriller, where she unwittingly holds the clues to a plot to kill the Pope, the scense with Dudley Moore as an orchestra conductor who keeps getting into trouble because of Goldie are priceless comedy. I had the name when I started typing but can’t remember now.

Trapped in Paradise, more recent comedy with Nicholas Cage, think it is now my favorite Christmas movie, surpassing
It’s A Wonderful Life
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everyone is entitled to his own opinion…but you mention…longest day…that flick is an inaccurate portrayal of Gen.Theodore Roosevelt Jr…TR was a hero on the Omaha beach…he did NOT just walk around in a daze as portrayed by Fonda…He directed the rescue and actions of over 20,000 US troops that fateful day…moving them off the beach to safety…Gen.Omar Bradley called TRs action that day…'in all my 40 years of military service I never saw a more courageous act…incredible" TRjunior was awarded the congressional medal of honor for that longest day…he had suffered two previous heart attacks and at age 57 a month later …he died and was buried on Bastille Day. TR junior is americas unknown hero…Nino
 
I would like to ditto many movies on other people’s lists but I will restrain myself and try to offer some new one’s in the interest of variety,

In no particular order:

1 Jean De Florette
2 Manon des Sources
3 My Left Foot
4 Dangerous Liasons
5 Empire of The Sun
6 Dead Calm
7 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
8 Muriel’s Wedding
9 Take the Money and Run
10 Fun With D*ck and Jane
11 Catch Me if You Can
12 A Beautiful Mind
13 The Man From Snowy River
14 Dead Man Walking
15 West Side Story
16 Amadeus
17 7 Up
18 Moulin Rouge
19 The Truman Show
20 Picnic at Hanging Rock
21 Strictly Ballroom
22 The Party
23 The Muppets Take Manhattan
24 Mon Oncle
25 The Castle
26 Shine
27 The Interview
28 Babe
29 Proof
30 The Year My Voice Broke
 
The Battleship Potemkin
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
My Cousin Vinnie
National Lampoon Christmas Vacation
Mommie Dearest
Home Alone
Attack of the 50-Foot Woman
Night of the Lepus
One Potato, Two Potato

I’ll have to think of some more… 🙂
 
gee, 50 posts and no mention of a movie I enjoy at least once each year:

The Jazz Singer with Neil Diamond… okay, so my age is showing in this 25+ year old movie… but I think it’s cool for the music in spite of his full head of hair and much weak acting.

I think the other 29 are already mentioned, but I don’t think I saw Play Misty for Me

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CarolAnnSFO said:
The Battleship Potemkin
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
My Cousin Vinnie
National Lampoon Christmas Vacation
Mommie Dearest
Home Alone
Attack of the 50-Foot Woman
Night of the Lepus
One Potato, Two Potato

I’ll have to think of some more… 🙂
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Gotta love the killer rabbits! Do you like Day of the Triffids? I really enjoyed the British TV series remake from the early eighties.
 
I don’t have 30 but I do have a few in no specific order:

Disney’s Aladdin
Disney’s The Lion King
Braveheart
The Passion of the Christ
Jesus of Nazareth
The Robe (A Christian movie about the Roman soldier’s robe that Jesus wore before he was crucified.)
Dragonheart
Planet of the Apes

And there is probably more movies that I would list as my favorites but I can’t think of them right now.
 
Cranch said:
You did great! Except for…
I’m guessing this is either Doris Day freaking out in the fog—Midnight Lace; or Dennis Hopper freaking out in an oxygen mask—Blue Velvet. 😉
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Oops, sorry, it is the Doris Day Midnight Lace. I saw it once on TCM and loved it. Too bad it isn’t available on DVD:(
 
Cranch said:
Why Valerie, you’re a romantic! 😃
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If you say so 😉 If I had posted ALL of my favorites, which include ones that are probably on everyone else’s top lists, then you might not think so…who knows?
 
CarolAnnSFO said:
The Battleship Potemkin
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
My Cousin Vinnie
National Lampoon Christmas Vacation
Mommie Dearest
Home Alone
Attack of the 50-Foot Woman
Night of the Lepus
One Potato, Two Potato

I’ll have to think of some more… 🙂
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Oh my gosh,the theme song to Attackof the Killer Tomatoes is HILARIOUS!
 
I don’t think I can name 30 movies. Maybe not even 10.

First and foremost, the ONE movie that fits this category to a T for me, is:

Cliffhanger with Sylvester Stallone. John Lithgow is SO over the top as the bad guy that he just completely MAKES the film. (I probably could list more Stallone films that fit the bill as well. He was the king of good/bad movies for me for awhile).

Aspen Extreme - “Dexter Rutecki lived a life…” If you’ve seen it, then you know what that means. If not, you should.

Can’t Buy Me Love - quite possibly one of my all time favorite movies, probably because I felt a bit like the hero. Or at least I wanted to be him. Patrick Dempsey’s best role.

Iron Eagle - Never say die!

The Raven - Karloff, Price, Lorre, & a VERY young Jack Nicholson. I watch it every year at Halloween.

The Last Man on Earth - Again, Vincent Price. I love his old horror flicks…and this one has zombies.

Robocop - “I’d buy THAT for a dollar!” (Somewhere I read a review that claimed Robocop was a retelling of the story of Christ…I don’t get that Ah, here it is hollywoodjesus.com/robo_cop.htm )

Others:
Big Trouble in Little China
The Goonies
Labyrinth
Tombstone

Oh yeah, how could I forget…

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.
 
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