To ask what your favourite film is.

[KellyElly]

I always think, oh I really want to buy/watch that film and then I forget what it was. Need som good suggestions to update my dvd collection

idobelieveinfairies I see a liking for Leo DiCaprio there

Jack and Sarah - can't believe I forgot that one, I need a duvet day I've not watched it in yonks

MissFaversam I am unable to like As Good As It Gets.

The part where he says 'you make me want to be a better person', makes me do a big roll eye. The best compliment he can pay her is to tell her how she affect him.

Maybe it's beacuse I don't like Jack Nicholson too much . . . . . . .

Wow, Leslie, you're just a little ray of sunshine aren't you.

Howards End,.

Jane Eyre - Zelah Clark and Timothy Dalton.

The Remains of the Day

The Godfather

Casino

The Way We Were

Lots.

Pan's Labyrinth, if I was forced to pick a stand out favourite. Actually most stuff by Guillermo Del Toro but a lot of the rest has me cowering behind the couch.

But also - Blade Runner, American Beauty, Napoleon Dynamite, The Princess Bride, Lost In Translation, Sin City, V for Vendetta, The Fifth Element, La Vie est Belle....I'll stop.

Of all time?

Gone With The Wind

No, Leslie, you were implying that liking "talentless d-listers" makes women appear brain dead - the implication being that they should like your approved list of films in order to appear the opposite, ie intelligent. What I believe is that a person likes whatever they happen to like and that has no bearing on their intelligence or how intelligent they appear to be. You insulting fellow MNers just because you don't approve of their film preferences is really really odd in my book.

You actually said that what other people like is "galling." Why? Why do the film preferences of other people bother you so much?

There's another thread about Donnie Darko - have heard mixed reviews. What do your think? It's cheap on Amazon so am thinking will give it a go.

Harry Potter
Forest Gump - seen it so many times and still cry!
Love Actually - Christmas isn't complete without it

Bit like books really - seems that people aren't actually allowed to admit to what they really like watching / reading for fear of being judged. Sure the Kindle phenomenon will change all that though as no one will be able to tell what we're reading. Posing in coffee shops reading Kafka will become a thing of the past etc.

Anyway, back to the OP....

Depends on mood really but love Life is Beautiful, Sleepless in Seattle, Something's Gotta Give, It's Complicated, Lost in Translation, The English Patient and many more.

Nottinghill
Twilight

Dogma!

Legally blond how do you like those apples lesley

Ooh Cross of Iron greenhill. One of the greatest war films ever made, except for all the other ones I like.

I had a big crush on James Coburn so my mum kindly lied outrageously about my age to get in.

They weren't that strict at the pictures then. She was quite a lax mother too. She also had a Coburn-crush and a love for Pekinpah's brand of extreme violence.

I need to go shopping, I have pan's labyrinth on the list ( its always on too late) and V for vendetta ( kids love it)

Shawshank redemption, any one?

laurenamium That's my film to cheer me up when I'm sad :)

Bloody love the Shawshank Redemption. And I always get emotional at many points but especially at the end on the beach!

Awwwwww.

Goodfellas and Trading Places are two of my favourites. However I would happily watch Elf, on repeat, indefinitely.

A matter of life and death. Everyone behaves themselves wonderfully, and Roger Livesey is so cool.

Eadter Patafe

I have loved you so long

The shop around the corner - original

Brief Encounter Sense and Sensibility

Starwars originals not new

Copycat

True Lies

Leaving Las Vegas

Once upon a time in the west

Man Woman and Child

The jane Austen book club

Gone with the wind

Seven brides for seven brothers

Carousel

West side story

Old Frankenstien movies

So do I squoosh, introduced DS (13) to it, he loves it

Oh don't tell me that squoosh, will have to watch it now and see if my eyes stay still

Oh I get it leslie...you were being ironic.

Oh Yeah Jean de Florette and Manon des Source, lovely films to watch. I also love daft films like Dodgeball, Meet the Fockers and anything with Will Ferrell.