I decided to do my favorite movies for this week's Thursday 13. This led to quite a little project in categorizing and prioritizing movies, and to the discovery that my favorite movie list is quite long. On Thursday, I will announce my top 13, but here are the top contenders in each category.
Keep in mind...
* I could only count movies I've seen, and the movies that live in our home (and thus could remind me of their existence) had a much better shot of making one of the lists.
* Once I included a movie in a list, it was disqualified from other lists.
* While some of these are Great Movies, most are simply my personal favorites, the movies I enjoy watching again and again. No pretentions here.
If you think I missed something, put it in the comments and I'll consider it for my top 13 on Thursday.
Ensemble Cast
Apollo 13
The Big Chill (added 2/21)
The Breakfast Club
L.A. Confidential
O Brother Where Art Thou
Pulp Fiction
Snatch
Sneakers
The Usual Suspects
Music and Dance
Blues Brothers
Chicago
Coal Miner's Daughter
Sister Act
Top Hat
Young Frankenstein
Paranormal
Ghostbusters
Interview with the Vampire
Resurrection
The Sixth Sense
Fantasy
Field of Dreams
Just Visiting
Ladyhawke
The Mummy
Willow
Sci-Fi
The Abyss
Back to the Future
Galaxy Quest
The Matrix
Men in Black
Star Trek 4
Star Wars
Stargate
Terminator
Horror
Aliens
Blood Simple
Jaws
Pitch Black
Tremors
Epic/Tour de Force
Braveheart
Dances with Wolves
Forrest Gump
The Godfather
The Ten Commandments
Drama
Falling Down
A Few Good Men
Good Will Hunting
Ordinary People
Regarding Henry
The Shawshank Redemption
The Silence of the Lambs
Classic
Arsenic and Old Lace
Ball of Fire
Casablanca
It's a Wonderful Life
The Quiet Man
Roman Holiday
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Leslie Howard)
Sports
Bull Durham
A League of Their Own
Major Leage
Mr. Baseball
The Replacements
Western
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Maverick
Silverado
Stagecoach
Unforgiven
Foreign
Amelie
Das Boot
La Femme Nikita
Sanjuro
Tampopo
Action
Die Hard
The Fugitive
Gladiator
Gross Pointe Blank
Lethal Weapon
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Mission: Impossible
Speed
Action Adventure
The 13th Warrior
Captain Ron
The Count of Monte Cristo (Jim Caveziel)
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Princess Bride
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Comedy
Okay, this category was really hard. In order to include more of my faves, I broke it down into three arbitrary subcategories.
Gutbusters
Animal House
Big Trouble in Little China
A Fish Called Wanda
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Ref
Ruthless People
Light Comedies
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
The Birdcage
Encino Man
Happy Texas
Liar Liar
Trading Places
Comedies with Heart
Accepted
As Good as it Gets
Blast from the Past
Bulworth
Clueless
Dave
EdTV
Mumford
My Favorite Year
My Cousin Vinny
Secondhand Lions
Sixteen Candles
To Wong Foo...
Family
Beauty and the Beast
Homeward Bound
Hook
Monsters, Inc.
Mulan
ET
Hocus Pocus
Romance
Always
Heart and Souls
Love Actually
Moonstruck
Pretty Woman
Pride and Prejudice
Romancing the Stone
Sense and Sensibility
Shakespeare in Love
While You Were Sleeping
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7 comments:
Our tastes in movies must run in the family. One sci-fi you missed was "The Fifth Element".
O' Brother Where Art Thou and Shawshank Redemption would top my list of going out of the way to watch. Any time a John Wayne or Humphrey Bogart movie comes on I'll watch it (even though I have most of Bogey's movies on DVD). I also have the Sherlock Holmes collection.
For romantic comedies give me Meg Ryan - French Kiss, Sleepless, etc.
Ooh, ooh, what about Muriel's Wedding? or Priscilla Queen of the Desert? I like a little down under in my comedies with heart section.
Yeah, Fifth Element is pretty good, too.
Schuyler, I'll have to put those into my Netflix queue. My Aussie filmwatching habits are underdeveloped, sad to say.
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert was a hoot.
First, I'll second the addition of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert! (You have plenty of time b4 Thursday!)
I humbly (yeah, right) submit these titles for your consideration:
Fargo
Much Ado About Nothing
A Christmas Story
The Natural
Lonesome Dove
Like Water For Chocolate
The Color Purple
The Big Chill
Thelma and Louise
Toy Story
Serenity
Do you want butter on your popcorn?
Fargo - This was a great movie, no argument. But it's just so unpleasant, I might never watch it again. To make my list, a movie has to invite repeat viewings.
Much Ado About Nothing - Saw it once, liked it. The end.
A Christmas Story - Now, I like this movie, but I am not passionate about it the way a lot of people are.
The Natural - Loved it when it came out, but nowadays it seems kind of cheesy.
Lonesome Dove - Ick.
Like Water For Chocolate - The book was better.
The Color Purple - Never seen it.
The Big Chill - Oops. A definite omission. But it wouldn't have made the top 13.
Thelma and Louise - Didn't like it, except Brad was beautiful.
Toy Story - This was a contender but didn't make my short list.
Serenity - Okay, this one was tough. I couldn't be objective about this movie, because I was (am) so in love with Firefly. That being the case, the things that happen in the movie are just too painful.
I'm feeling a little sluggish and under the weather this week. I think I'll just go down your movie list and start watching.
Loved your TT movie list, wrote down *several* I haven't seen. Love-Love-Love Love Actually, though. Love It. Love. Love-Love.
Love.
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