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My favourite ever (and perhaps a little embarrassing) film, ever.........

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MOIST · 24/04/2017 19:04

Robin Hood. Prince of thieves.

I just love it.

My best ever present was when DH bought me the video. He put the DVD in my stocking at Christmas last. I may have cried a bit.
The Bryan Adams song makes me fill up every time.

I am ashamed that I have just written this and my favourite film isn't something intelligent and high brow but I am a bit post-nights-deletions and I have had wine.

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TheNiffler · 24/04/2017 20:35

Dante's Peak Blush

I really like the bit where the granny melts in the lake.

Ellieboolou27 · 24/04/2017 20:36

Dirty dancing
Cocktail
Top gun
Officer & gentleman
Can you tell which era I grew up in 😄

LoupGarou · 24/04/2017 20:39

VisionsofJohanna we clearly have fabulous taste. I was watching it with 3 yr old DS again the other day and I was trying to talk to him about the sexism etc and how we jut don't do or think a lot of those things now as we know they're wrong, and could he give me an example of one of those? He beamed and said yes - we don't run or dance around animals, we walk calmly so we don't scare them! Grin

bran · 24/04/2017 20:41

Oh yes to Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, kidnapping, chaste flirting, dancing, singing, shaky scenery, it's got it all. I really fancied the brother that was played by a ballet dancer.

Mycutiemarkisrubbish · 24/04/2017 20:42

The Hangover. Kills me every time.

I think I'm also the only person in the world who really likes the Keira Knightly Pride & Prejudice (though it's not as good as the BBC version, obviously).

Gone With the Wind doesn't deserve to be on here, it's not remotely embarrassing!

bran · 24/04/2017 20:43

I also love, and watch again and again, Grosse Pointe Blank. It has great music, good fight scenes and really snappy, bitchy dialogue.

Maudlinmaud · 24/04/2017 20:44

Has anyone said Titanic? I have watched it about sixty million times. My dc shout not again when I get the dvd out.

GetInTheFuckingSea · 24/04/2017 20:45

I am a total sucker for the big old corny "women's films" as they were called - Imitation of Life, All That Heaven Allows, Waterloo Bridge etc. Also anything with a hard boiled hero whose weak spot is a beautiful dame eg The Maltese Falcon, The Third Man, Casablanca ("Ees that cannon fire? Or ees eet my heart pounding?") etc.

Load of old hokum but I love them.

TheStoatIsStoatallyDifferent · 24/04/2017 20:47

Robin Hood is a classic! It's one of the very few films that DH and I watch whenever we come across it when channel hopping.

Pitch perfect is probably now my favourite of all time! I love it and sing along to the soundtrack in the car very loudly!

GetInTheFuckingSea · 24/04/2017 20:47

Just realised that DOOM also features heavily in my favourite films. I do love a good old doomed heroine or hero.

CurlsandCurves · 24/04/2017 20:50

Cocktail. Always had a soft spot for a bartender. But even when I was young it was always Bryan Brown I went for not Tom Cruise.

Cool Runnings. It was on tv last weekend, both kids were put plying at friends and DH and I chilled out no watched it, it's just as good as I remember it.

allegretto · 24/04/2017 20:51

Tinkly - me too! As a teenager I used to watch all his films and write to all the tv channels urging them to show more of his films. Slightly obsessed!

skinnymalinkmalojin · 24/04/2017 20:51

Strictly Ballroom and Evita. I've watched Strictly Ballroom with my 10 year old- it's one of her favourites too.

neonrainbow · 24/04/2017 20:53

A Knight's Tale for me too!!

VisionsofJohanna · 24/04/2017 20:56

LoupGarou hilarious. Your DS has a fine grasp of petting zoo etiquette if nothing else! What a film.

Absy · 24/04/2017 21:07

Fifty first dates, but i own my love of it. It's a great film (though I don't tell many people that in general I really like Adam sandler movies).

There's a moment in the Kiera Knightley Pride and Prejudice that I really love - where the guy who fancies her sister gently touches the ribbon on her dress. Makes me come over all giddy at him fancying her that much.

I met Bryan Adams last year and he was really, really nice. And good with babies

cakesonatrain · 24/04/2017 21:09

Grosse Pointe Blank is fricking awesome, and not at all embarrassing.

IamnotaStepfordHousewife · 24/04/2017 21:12

Twilight saga for me. I'm obsessed with it.

CrowOnTheBroom · 24/04/2017 21:16

I think I've found my people, nothing to be ashamed of here! All these films are classics I tell you!
I can recite most of Robin Hood Blush Con Air is also one of my all time favourite films.

TheNiffler · 24/04/2017 21:17

Brigadoon. I do love a kitsch old musical

MollyCule · 24/04/2017 21:21

Haha Niffler I forgot about Dante's Peak! Dirty Dancing is no embarrassing in my opinion :-). I love lots of thr films others have mentioned.. another true guilty pleasure for me is Look Who's Talking.

MollyCule · 24/04/2017 21:22

Also pretty much anything with Sandra Bullock.. have watched Miss Congeniality a lot.

GlitterRollerSkate · 24/04/2017 21:24

Hahahahaha I watched Robin Hood today!! Bloody love that film.

paddypants13 · 24/04/2017 21:26

Strictly Ballroom! Love that film, massive cheese fest.

Also love Robin Hood P.O.T. it's brilliant.

Wornoutbear · 24/04/2017 21:28

The Godfather, Scarface, Gone with the Wind, Moonstruck, Evita, The Bishops Wife (the David Niven version) A Matter of life or Death, It's a Wonderful Life, Casablanca, Mildred Pierce, All about Eve, and Sunset Boulevard. I remember watching Waterloo Bridge with my Mum, and we cried so much that when my Dad came home from work, he thought there'd been a death in the family!!

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