What are some favorite movies?

Posted by samuelmyrick @samuelmyrick, May 16 1:06pm

I have loved movies since I first watched Tarzan as a kid. Now they are a valuable distraction for me as I feel empty and isolated and alienated. Here are a few of my favorites:

Adaptation
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Saving Private Ryan
Little Miss Sunshine

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adr | @adr | Jun 22 5:59pm

In reply to @scottrl "Midnight Express gave me nightmares." + (show)

Everything about the movie was so ominous. Especially the sound track. I can hear it playing in my head after all these years.

I can also hear the "Jaws" sound track. I watch it every July 4th! Love the actors. Scary parts is when the shark isn't even present but you hear the music, The movie is 49 yrs. old and I still love it, know every line.

adr | @adr | Jun 22 6:00pm

In reply to @shivey "Dr Zhivago You’ve got Mail Moonstruck" + (show)

Dr. Zhivago was the first movie I ever saw. It was with my Mom.

itchyd | @itchyd | Jun 23 9:32am

In reply to @shivey "Dr Zhivago You’ve got Mail Moonstruck" + (show)

My wife's not exactly a cinephile, but she is totally nuts about "Moonstruck". I like it, too. Just something about the scenes out in front of the Met resonates with me. Cher's fabulous, as usual and a young Nicholas Cage showed his promise that was occasionally fulfilled in later roles.

itchyd | @itchyd | Jun 23 9:38am

In reply to @adr "Everything about the movie was so ominous. Especially the sound track. I can hear it playing..." + (show)

"Here's to swimmin' with bowlegged women." - Sam Quint

adr | @adr | Jun 23 4:13pm

In reply to @itchyd ""Here's to swimmin' with bowlegged women." - Sam Quint" + (show)

was the characters name Sam?? Who knew.
Quint is such a colorful character. "Eleven hundred men went in to the water, 316 men came out...." Quint

"Is that $3,000 bounty on the shark in cash or check?" Denherder. I still bust out laughing at this line every time.

itchyd | @itchyd | Jun 23 7:05pm

In reply to @adr "was the characters name Sam?? Who knew. Quint is such a colorful character. "Eleven hundred men..." + (show)

3 grand does'nt seem like enough, especially in today's $ !

I got "Sam" from a Google search. I don't recall if anyone mentions Quint's first name in the film. I always thought "Quint" was his first name.

My favorite dialogue is during the comparing of scars and Richard Dreyfus shows the "scar" from his broken heart.

timt347 | @timt347 | Jun 24 12:06pm

Here are some movies that I enjoyed.

Idiocracy
An Inconvenient Truth (and its sequel) It inspired me to write a haiku version of it (with pictures).
Planet of the Apes [the first one, from about 1970]
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Inside Out
Being There
Contact
Blazing Saddles
Shape of Things to Come [1936]