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Let's talk movies...Your Best and Worst picks

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    meliss    May 31, 2010   Los Angeles, CA

    I've been looking at my friends' favorite movie lists on Facebook and seeing some pretty interesting choices. I tried to make a top 10 list but honestly drawing a blank on lots of the great movies I've seen. There are some that jump out at me because I've seen them so many times:

    - Best Classic: Bridge on the River Kwai (never gets old, plus whistling that tune is so much fun)

    - Best Fantasy: Lord of the Rings series (my favorite books of all time, and the movies did them justice. The good looking actors were an added gratituous bonus)

    - Best Comedy: What About Bob (wasn't popular critically or in the box office, but it's still funny to me after 20 years)

    - Best International: Life is Beautiful (So heartbreaking but poignant)

    - Best indie: Office Space (awesome story of my everyday corporate life)

    I still need to think of #1 favorites in drama, mystery, horror and romance. Those are harder to pick.

    My pick for worst movie of all time would be Midnight Express for personal reasons. Such a horrible, biased, unfair and one-sided portrayal of my home country. Even after the director and screenwriter both later admitted to sensationalizing the story and distorting the facts for "dramatic effect", the cliche it created will never disappear from pop culture. If only I had a dollar for everytime I heard a bad "have you ever been in a Turkish prison?" joke...

     
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    AudzinLuv    September 2012   Augusta, GA

    This is a fun, right off the top of my head list of favorites:

    • Classic:  The Enchanted Cottage, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House
    • Romance:  The Notebook, The Bridges of Madison County
    • Drama:  Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, Splendor in the Grass, Beaches
    • Horror:  Night of the Living Dead (B/W version), The Exorcist
    • Comedy:  National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    • Musical:  The Sound of Music, Grease 2
    • Fantasy:  Legend, Harry Potter (love 'em all)
    • Western:  Tombstone, Westward the Women
    • Independent:  Lost in Translation

    Hmmmmm, worst movie I've seen recently:  The Box w/Cameron Diaz.....sooo stupid!

     
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    Blondee    August 24, 2012  

    Here's my top 10 list (not in any particular order)

    -Inception

    -The Shawshank Redemption

    -Toy Story 1, 2, & 3

    -Up

    -A Beautiful Mind

    -The Departed

    -Wedding Crashers

    -The Blind Side

    -Elf

    -Green Mile

    I've seen some pretty bad movies, but I can't stand any kind of Bruce Lee/Jackie Chan action type movie. Or any movie with "The Rock" in it. ugh. I'm also not really into romantic comedies. I guess I have to be in the mood for them.

     
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    Treasure43    September 18, 2010  

    Comedy: Wedding Crashers, Superbad

    Romance: The Notebook

    Action: Inception

    Horror: Silent Hill

    Musical: Moulin Rouge, Newsies

     

     

     
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    soonerpsych    June 26, 2010   Oklahoman at heart, now in Southwest FL

    I can never pick favorites out of these things!

    Classic: The Wizard of Oz

    Fantasy: Harry Potter movies, The Chronicles of Narnia

    Comedy: Wedding Crashers

    Indie: Lars and the Real Girl

    Drama: The Prestige (mystery as well?), Batman Begins

    Romance/Romantic Comedy: The Notebook, He's Just Not that Into You, PS I Love You

    Animated: Beauty & the Beast, Toy Story

    Worst movies: Cube, Silence of Sleep, pretty much anything horror, The Village

     

     
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    karo    April 14, 2013   Nashville, TN

    Some great movies up there! I love Christmas Vacation, Superbad, The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Color Purple... ah, so many!

     
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    FutureSpice    September 17, 2011   New York

    Oh man I can never think of my favs when asked to list them, but I'll give it a try:

    BEST:

    Classic: Sound of Music, Father Goose

    Comedy: Knocked Up, Sorority Boys (I know...but it makes me laugh so hard...), Super Troopers, Anchorman, Billy Madison

    Drama: Dead Poets Society, Million Dollar Baby, Green Mile, Forrest Gump, Life As a House

    Romance: Circle of Friends, The Notebook, Love Actually, Dirty Dancing

    Foreign: Life is Beautiful, Amelie

    Animated: The Little Mermaid, Up, Shrek movies

    Fantasy: Chronicles of Narnia (I'm not into many fantasy movies)

    Indie: Sunshine Cleaning

    Christmas (totally needs to be its own category): Elf, Christmas in Connecticut, Santa Claus 1 & 2

    Horror: The Exorcist (original), Silence of the Lambs, the first two Saw movies

    WORST (in no particular order): Most horror movies, anything with Steven Seagal, Little Nicky, the Baby Genius movies, 2012

     

     

     
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    Treasure43    September 18, 2010  

    Ooh I forgot worst!

    Worst: The Happening (just awful, DH and I wanted to walk out of the theater!), The Family Stone. I'm sure there are more but those two jump right out at me.

     
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    kate169    May 21, 2011   Virginia

    Top 5 Best:

    The Hangover

    The Notebook

    The Pianist

    The Departed

    Pirates of the Carribbean

    And I only have one worst...lol

    REMEMBER ME....HATED it. lol

     

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