All-Time Favorite Films

[johnk]

Babette's Feast

Actually, I don't feel that guilty about the last one (it won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 1988, for what it's worth).  I just don't know anyone who likes this film (besides me).

Are you kidding?! It was a magnificent film!!!!!!

Thanks, friend.  That makes at least two of us! 

[TomS]

Valley of the Dolls, with Patti Duke and Susan Hayward!

No therapy needed.

Thanks, that's a relief.  By the way I loved Babette's Feast too.  Been a while, I might check that one out again soon.

[Casper]

Movie memories come back to me with the mention of "Valley of the Dolls."  That movie and "Myra Breckenridge" were the campy films that one just had to see back in those hedonistic days. 

[jayiijay]

LOLA:

I don't want to debate you, but (a) it was the entire Top 100 that was scorned, not the top 10 alone (but films like Graduate, Schindler, and even On the Waterfront were shockers to receive such high placement - later I will send you a link with current world cinema historians top 100, none make it), and (b) no, Godfather II won more Oscars, but not other awards.  Chinatown actually swept the Golden Globes that year (Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor), did better at the critics' awards, and well, again, ranked higher at AFI.

JOHNK:

Caddyshack!!  Great choice, love that movie.  Airplane and There's Something About Mary too.  And how about Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman?  There haven't been any truly hilarious movies in awhile, I think 40 Year Old Virgin comes closest.

[Lola]

Voted the number one movie was CITIZEN KANE, Orson Welles' 1941 classic, which he directed, produced, wrote and starred in at the age of 25. The rest of the top ten, in order, are: CASABLANCA (#2), THE GODFATHER (#3), GONE WITH THE WIND (#4), LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (#5), THE WIZARD OF OZ (#6), THE GRADUATE (#7), ON THE WATERFRONT (#8), SCHINDLER'S LIST (#9) and SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (#10).

I can't say as I am shocked by anything on that top 10 list.

LOLA:

I don't want to debate you, but (a) it was the entire Top 100 that was scorned, not the top 10 alone (but films like Graduate, Schindler, and even On the Waterfront were shockers to receive such high placement - later I will send you a link with current world cinema historians top 100, none make it), and (b) no, Godfather II won more Oscars, but not other awards. Chinatown actually swept the Golden Globes that year (Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor), did better at the critics' awards, and well, again, ranked higher at AFI.

As for Godfather beating Chinatown, I was "only" talking about Oscars.    

TOMS:

There haven't been any truly hilarious movies in awhile, I think 40 Year Old Virgin comes closest.

okay now you are just scaring me! lol    I dind't find that movie funny at all   


Anyway I look forward to seeing that link!   But we all have our personal tastes and I suppose no lists changes that.

Wonder if BB will ever make any of these lists?

[sinne]

Guilty (?) Pleasures:

Airplane
Waiting for Guffman
Best in Show
A Mighty Wind
What Planet Are You From
Desperately Seeking Susan
Bridget Jones Diary
Glen or Glenda
Legally Blonde
Yentl
Young Frankenstein
High Anxiety
Rat Race

Actually, those aren't really "guilty pleasures". More like "pure enjoyment, no heavy lifting required."

[Carissa]

Ooh, we should have a guilty pleasures thread.

[Lola]

Bridget Jones Diary
Legally Blonde
Yentl

for sure! 


Jerry Maguire
Don Juan DeMarco
The Specialist
When Harry Met Sally
Sleepless in Seattle
St. Elmos Fire
Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller
The Wedding Singer
Urban Cowboy
Top Gun
Terminator
Scarface
Risky Business
Christmas Vacation
Blood Sport
Kickboxer
9 1/2 weeks
Cocktail

just to name a few guilty pleasures   

[TomS]

To Lola and jayiijay
(Clearing his throat nervously, in his best diplomatic way)
I'm flattered, both of you, but credit for Caddyshack, Airplane, Something About Mary, etc. should go to johnk.
(withdraws from the stage, slightly blushing, but feeling proud of his nice deed)

[paintedshoes]

Ooh, we should have a guilty pleasures thread.

Nah, isn't that what "favorites" really are...not "the best", but the ones we watch all the time for the fun of it?

The Fifth Element...with which I started the "guilty pleasures" thought
The Princess Bride
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Day the Earth Stood Still
National Velvet
Reign of Fire
The Mummy Returns
Mighty Joe Young
The Name of the Rose
Starship Troopers
When Worlds Collide

just a few if mine

[Carissa]

Ooh, we should have a guilty pleasures thread.

Nah, isn't that what "favorites" really are...not "the best", but the ones we watch all the time for the fun of it?

I took favorites to mean favorites.  My guilty pleasures include all of those stupid teen movies like Bring it On, Can't Hardly Wait, and What a Girl Wants.    I love them but they aren't my favorites.  That's the way I understood it.     Entertainment Weekly always did a guilty pleasure issue.  I don't know when it comes out but that's what I always think of when I hear guilty pleasures.

[jayiijay]

PAINTEDSHOES:

The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Day the Earth Stood Still
National Velvet

All classics, hardly "guilty" pleasures.  And Princess Bride is a mini-classic, imo, with a large cult following.  In fact, it is being turned into a Broadway musical, with the score to be composed by the brilliant brilliant Adam Guettel (grandson of Richard Rodgers; last year's very deserving Tony winner for Light in the Piazza; also composer of the Floyd Collins, etc.).  Bet its gonna be good.

The Mummy Returns and Starship Troopers - ok, now you can blush, LOL.

How about The Notebook as a guilty pleasure?  I think it is a very underrated film, I was misty more than once.

[Lola]

How about The Notebook as a guilty pleasure?  I think it is a very underrated film, I was misty more than once.

look at my signature line, LOVED the movie and the book!  And I don't feel guilty! 

[paintedshoes]

I liked "The Notebook", didn't love it.  Did love the film of "Light in the Piazza".

I guess that definitions can be confusing.  "Guilty" pleasures may mean more "Starship Troopers" than "Robin Hood".  I don't care.  I just love all kinds of movies and films.  Like "Bring it On" and " What a Girl Wants" and any movie that takes me out of myself and makes me happy or sad or just makes me feel...I guess that is what I want in an evening or an afternoon in a movie theater.  So, bring 'em on, is what I say.  What films make you light up at the mention of their names, at the sound of a few notes from the soundtrack, at a few words of dialogue, at an image on a poster?  That make you glad to be ALIVE?

[paintedshoes]

How about The Notebook as a guilty pleasure?  I think it is a very underrated film, I was misty more than once.

look at my signature line, LOVED the movie and the book!  And I don't feel guilty! 

Lola, I had been trying foe along time to remember where those lines came from.  Now that you say it, I can hear the lovely James Garner as he speaks those words.