I don't know if this subject has been brought up before, but I wanted to ask you and also share my favorites. I favor Jane Austin a lot, the English writer.

I LOVE these movies:

Romance & Drama

Pride & Prejudice (the 6 hour long version with Colin Firth)
Sense & Sensibility
Howards End
Persuasion
You Got Mail
Sleepless in Seattle
Immediate Family

Adventure & Suspense

Volcano
Dantes Peak
Asteroid
The Day After Tomorrow
The Day After
Deep Impact
Star Wars (all episodes)
The Chronicles of Riddick
Pitch Dark

And probably more but these are the ones that came to mind.

I love sci-fi stuff and disaster scenarios like Asteroid and Deep Impact whcih was the movie about the comet heading for earth.

I am a hopeful backyard astronomer that barely has time to practice the hobby, but LOVE space and stargazing.

How about you all?

I still like to this day..

Dirty Dancing..the original

Top Gun...Love Tom Cruise

Pretty Woman...

Great topic !!

I love this movies !


The Outsiders
La Bamba
Practical Magic
The Notebook
Sixteen Candles
Walk the line



I think this topic will get us renting more movies when we see everyones favorites

I have a collection with all of Julia Roberts.. Favorite of those is My Best Friends Wedding.

The Notebook
Titanic
Glory Road
Man on Fire
The Color Purple
Erin Brockovich
Radio
Walk the line

I love to watch "based on true story" Movies..
I dont like scary movies much, I love Drama.. Some Action movies.. haha not much though, I cant think of one off the top of my head!!

Great topic!

Some of mine would be:

American President
Corrina, Corrina
Frequency
Gone with the Wind (I can quote it word for word....I think I've watched it too much)
Drumline
The Color Purple
Parent Trap (The old one)
McLintock!
Most all Adam Sandler movies...not much substance, but cheesy enough to be fun.
Days of Thunder

I'm sure there are more but I've only had one cup of coffee!

See you reminded me about ...

Radio
And So many I see on Lifetime !!

All Lifetime and Hallmark movies, but my most favorite is

Bridges of Madison County

First of all ANY movie with Matthew McConuahay (Spelling?) automatically becomes my favorite. But others include:

Dirty Dancing
Karate Kid (first one)
Maid in Manhattan
Enough
Something to Talk About
Pretty Woman
Sleeping with the Enemy
Face to Die For
Face to Kill For
50 First Dates
Sweet Home Alabama
Legally Blonde
Steel Magnolias

mine are the:

The Breakfast Club
Grease
ANYTHING w/Johnny Depp
Pride and Prejudice (the new one)
Napoleon Dynamite

My favorites are:

The Breakfast Club
The Outsiders
8 Seconds
Wedding Crashers - anything with Vince Vaughn because i think he is hilarious

Here are mine:

Pride and Prejudice (the long one)
Kelly's Heroes
The Great Santini (based on the novel by Pat Conroy)
Hunt for Red October
We Were Soldiers
Patton
Windtalkers
Saving Private Ryan
Anna and the King (with Jodie Foster)
Harry Potter (all 4)
Interview with the Vampire
Elizabeth
Stripes
Mary Poppins
Cinderella

My husband and I never can agree on what to watch. He doesn't like the girly stuff, hates to watch war movies with me because I tell him what's wrong with the haircuts and stuff and refuses to watch the "Great Santini" after the first time because I cry through it. He likes stuff like American Pie and the X-Men and I don't like them.

The Princess Bride is my all time favorite. Also in my top 10:

The In-Laws (the original, not the horrid remake with Steve Martin, ew!)

The Blues Brothers

Zoolander

Rushmore

Raising Arizona

Miss Firecracker

Charlie Brown Christmas

Mary Poppins

Wizard of Oz

My top five would have to be:

1. The Deer Hunter (it's set in Pittsburgh - my hometown!)
2. The Godfather Part I
3. Amadeus
4. Dances With Wolves
5. Braveheart

Here are my TOP 10:

1. Sixteen Candles
2. Pretty Woman
3. Titanic
4. The Secret of my Succes ( Love Michael J. Fox )
5. She-Devil
6. Legally Blonde
7. 50 First Dates
8. The Goonies
9. Gone with the Wind
10. Overboard

I could go on and on..... ~Diana~

I have seen a bunch of my favorites while reading here.... I love the old 80s movies ie: Flashdance, Footloose, Top Gun, Wierd Science, Breakfast Club, Etc... I also love Sence and Sensibility, Pretty Woman, The Libertine, and Lost in Translation.
By the way... if you remember the movie "3 o'clock high" That was filmed in my home town - Ogden, Utah and my parents went to that very high school.

Here are some faves--I'm sure my memory will be jogged by your lists too:

Princess bride
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Napoleon Dynamite
Monty Python's Search for the holy grail
To Kill a Mockingbird
Amadeus
Manon of the Spring
The Spanish Prisoner
Saturday Night Fever
ET
Anything with Jack Black

I second the Princess Bride. I like old stuff like the Thin Man movies with William Powell and Myrna Lloyd and anything Bogart. I'll take Bogie over Brad Pitt anyday.

1. Braveheart
2. Steel Magnolias
3. Labyrinth (such wonderful acting skills.....GAG) I still love it
4. Sixteen Candles
5. How to lose a guy in 10 days
6. Gone with the wind
7. Pretty Woman
8. Overboard
9. Robin Hood (Disney cartoon version)
10. Princess Bride

okay - my absolute favorites of all time:

Chocolat
The Shawshank Redemption
Backdraft
Clueless
The Sound of Music (its a tradition!!!!)

Chocolat
The Shawshank Redemption

oh yeah, those are great too!!

Gone With the Wind
The Wizard of Oz
The Sound of Music
To Kill a Mockingbird
Casablanca
To Have or Have Not
The Birds
Psycho and all the Hitchcock movies
The Princess Bride
The Shining
The Silence of the Lambs
9 to 5
Die Hard
Jaws
The King and I
Inherit the Wind

Oh definitely agreed on Shawshank and Sound of music (tradition indeed lol).
Can't list any others right this minute - faves list is long but still reeling from just watching The Constant Gardener (great movie WOW)

I would have a hard time listing them all but a couple stand out:

Finding Neverland
Phantom of the Opera
Moulin Rouge
Finding Forrester
Goodwill Hunting

My favorite all time movie is:

SAY ANYTHING

Yes, I am a child of the 80's! : )

I love 80's and early 90's movies like: 16 candles, pretty in pink, weird science, romancing the stone, overboard and better of dead. I also like a time to kill (Matthew is dreamy in that one ----sorry denise I know he's all yours) all the old Disney cartoon flicks, monster in law, lourd of the ring ( the whole series) I love the wedding singer ! Forrest Gump, Finding neverland, goodwill hunting, 9 to 5 ,

Ok any movie that's not for my kids and gets me out of the house (except horror)

I'm a huge fan of the Wizard of Oz!!!

My other favorites include Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Little Mermaid and City of Angels (I cry everytime).