What's your favorite movie/tv series? (And why)

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VonDerTann said:
think the Jeremy Brett portrayal of Sherlock Holmes was just masterful. Every story was a classic.
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I love this series, too. I’ve been a Sherlock Holmes fan since i was a child.

If you haven’t watched the “Sherlock” series featuring Benedict Cumberbatch, watch it! I was a skeptic, but by the end of the first episode, I loved it!

I’ve been googling “Best Sherlock Holmes” ever, and in most of them, Jeremy Brett is considered the best, and Benedict Cumberbatch is ranked right after him. I agree with this.

Also, interestingly, several of these polls include The Great Mouse Detective, a Disney cartoon. I’m so glad–this is a wonderful movie and does a great job of portraying Holmes and Watson. If you have some time, watch it.
 
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Gosh, ❤️ That British TV.
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I love “Keeping Up Appearances.”

And of course, The Great British Baking Show! I started watching this show one evening, and my husband scoffed. I told him to sit down and watch it, and by the end of the show, we were both enthralled and HOOKED!

Mary Berry’s Cherry Cake is really delicious, BTW, and fairly easy to make (except cutting up the candied cherries).
 
It started out promising. At the end of the day, Elementary was a much better modern day Sherlock Holmes adaptation. And closer to the original stories.
 
To each his own, normally I like British tv better also. Holmes, as a recovering addict, was very believable in elementary, having relapses and struggles. That helped it a lot. The humor was certainly better. And they did a fine job following the themes of Doyle’s stories.

It actually got better overtime, where as the British one got worse (or less better).
 
Viki63 said:
My favorite for relaxation is the sc-fi comedy Galaxy Quest.
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I’ll second that! And it was so much more than slap-stick comedy. The heartfelt scenes with the late great Alan Rickman can bring a tear to the eye. Unfortunately the studio did a half-hearted job promoting this film because they did not have any confidence in it.
 
Someone mentioned “Twelve Angry Men”, a great Henry Fonda film, originally a play. I love that movie!

Other favorites:
  • “A Walk in the Clouds” (because I work in the wine industry and I love the portrayal of family)
  • the entire “Rocky” series (including the “Creed” movies) mainly because I love the story of how Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay and wanted to play Rocky himself and had to fight to see his work come alive.
  • “A Few Good Men” (best Tom Cruise movie and with no sex!)
TV shows… not many. The only one I watch with any regularity is “NCIS” and only because of Gibbs (Mark Harmon) but the last few seasons haven’t been as good as the first few seasons.
 
Victoria33 said:
Do you like the 1925 version? I haven’t seen the whole thing. I do see it is still, a very highly praised movie as well, checking IMDB ratings (Internet Movie Data Base in case anyone does not know that).
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@Victoria33 sorry for the delay in replying.

The 1925 Ben-Hur is good, the plot plays out a little differently than the Heston version.

It’s over an hour shorter.

Just one advisory so you’re not shocked by it, there is a brief shot of female nudity during a parade in the 1925 film. (This was before the Hays code.)
 
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I also vote for The Wizard of Oz, The Princess Bride, It’s a Wonderful Life, Galaxy Quest and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and add
That Thing You Do (it’s such a happy movie and the song, even though it’s played multiple times throughout the movie, never grows old)

There are so many other movies that I would also vote for but that would make this list far too long (This is Spinal Tap, Going My Way, almost any MGM musical, The Thin Man…).

As for TV Series:
Jeopardy! (That counts as a series, right?)
The Office (The American version – mainly for the Jim and Pam courtship but also for Creed, Erin (her overall cuteness but especially her part in the final episode) and Toby.
Emergency (ok, Randolph Mantooth was my pre-teen celebrity crush but looking back I see they made a special effort to make things accurate and it influenced the creation of paramedic programs nationwide).
 
I’ve just finished watching a series on TV/Internet called ‘Great Courses: The Black Death: The World’s Most Devastating Plague’ by Purdue Univ professor Dorsey Armstrong, Ph.D.

It’s a series of 24 lessons/lectures with lots of paintings, diagrams, Illustrations and personal stories and quotations from writers of the day.

I enjoyed it because I like history, wanted to learn more about the details of how it unfolded, and especially how Christendom coped with it and was affected by it.

In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, I found this series illuminating to see how it is similar to the Black Death in some ways and very different in others.

It also helped me realize that even though the world is going through tough times now, it pales to the loss of human life encountered in the Black Death of the 14th century.

I liked it and recommend it to others who would like to see how Medieval European society dealt with a far deadlier pandemic.
 
Although I like movies that are only based on real life happenings…I must state that sometimes I tend to deviate to other movies that are based on near real life happenings…so that stated…I really liked the movie called “Deer Hunter” back in 1978. It was about a little town in Pennsylvania and it featured three steel workers destined to serve in Viet Nam. It showed the “love” between the three…I could actually feel it! It was so strong! Also, tradition was apparent in the movie because of a wedding involving one of the three…how a drop of wine spilled onto the dress of the bride depicting bad luck to come. And the Songs…“you’re just too good to be true”…by Franke Valle. Anyway…the movie was nominated for nine awards but received five, and was noted as the greatest american film of all time…and is listed as one of the best films ever made! Wow…enough said! An inspirational work! 😷 🦌 💕 ⛪ 🇺🇸
 
Gotta add another show to my favorites now. Battlestar Galactica, the 2004 version.
 
Favourite Movies
-Crimson Tide
-Hunt for Red October
-Unforgiven
-All the Harry Potter movies
-any film noir, Alfred Hitchcock, or war films
-Mr Skeffington, and any other old film

Favourite TV Shows
-The Office (American)
-Father Brown
-Jeremy Brett’s Sherlock Holmes
-The Americans
-Amazon’s Jack Ryan w/John Krasinski
-Amazon’s The Man in the High Castle *highly recommended show about an alternate ending of WWII, wherein Germany and Japan win and split America
 
One of the best films of all time: The Third Man, screenplay by Graham Greene. Unforgettable pictures of post war Vienna, great plot, memorable zither music. Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten.
 
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Limoncello4021 said:
One of the best films of all time: The Third Man, screenplay by Graham Greene. Unforgettable pictures of post war Vienna, great plot, memorable zither music. Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten.
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It’s showing Saturday at noon Eastern on TCM.
 
Another great TV show? The original Dragnet with Jack Webb, coming over from radio. So many great aspects:

–“Joe Friday” was so named because he could be of any ethnicity.
–The LAPD had many links to the show. One was Sgt. Gene Roddenberry, who helped adapt official case files into episodes. He liked it so much he created Star Trek.
–Dragnet was the first TV show to have a dedicated Christmas episode.
–Many viewers thought Joe Friday was real and often walked into LAPD HQ asking to meet him.
 
Sadly, no cable anymore. TCM is the only channel I miss.
Fans of the film must take The Third Man tour in Vienna. It is fascinating.
 
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