Movies you'd recommend

Jasdip

14 years ago

Just last nite DH and I watched Dear John. It a very good movie.

What other movies do you recommend? Either chic-flicks; feel-good movies or good suspense/drama ones.

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Georgysmom
14 years ago
Taking Chance with Kevin Bacon and While You Were Sleeping with Sandra Bullock. Two totally different movies. While You Were Sleeping is one of those movies that just gets me. I think I've watched it 20 times. Every time I'm scrolling and see that it's playing, I'll watch it no matter what point it is at. Taking Chance is a beautiful heart touching movie.
User
14 years ago
We bought a Zoo
Nights in Rodanthe
Message in a bottle
Bridges of Madison County
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lydia1959
14 years ago
Source Code (suspense)
What's Your Number (R rating, cute chick flick)

Some slightly older ones that I watch over and over..
Fever Pitch (romantic comedy)
While You Were Sleeping (also recommended by Georgysmom)
The Holiday (romantic comedy)
The Proposal (romantic comedy)
Changing Lanes (suspense)
13 Going on 30 (romantic comedy)
Benny and Joon (romance/drama/comedy)
ronm80
14 years ago
I agree all good movies
While You Were Sleeping
Nights in Rodanthe
Message in a bottle
Bridges of Madison County
also good
you've got mail
sleepless in Seattle
Seabiscuit
Secretariat
Steel Magnolias
Maid to Order
Fried Green Tomatoes
A river runs through it (beautiful sceenery)
Crossing Delancey
Tin men (feel good and very funny)
Driving Miss Daisy
Father of the Bride, 1991
My Girl
Forrest Gump
Big
pam_25f
14 years ago
I love American President. The President's plane gets hijacked. Oh, and Independence Day.
Georgysmom
14 years ago
Oh, the American President with Annette Benning and Michael Douglas. Another one I can watch over and over.
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14 years ago
One Flew over the cuckoo's nest
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we watched Water for Elephants last night it was very good.
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14 years ago
My Favorite Year with Peter O'Toole. Love.
Jasdip
Original Author
14 years ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned The Notebook. It's my hands-down favourite movie.

We've seen several of these mentioned, but there are some that we haven't.

I'm thinking along the lines of movies in the past few years. We haven't seen anything the past few years. Dear John was a movie from last year or 2010, and it was good.

Another one that we saw that is a couple years old is Knight and Day with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. It was really good too.
Nita__AZ
14 years ago
The Kings Speech
Shall We Dance with Richard Geer
Georgysmom
14 years ago
The Kings Speech is a must see!!
nelles_gw
14 years ago
Love Actually
Lone Star
minnie_tx
14 years ago
Crossing Delancey
glad you mentioned that one. I have the VCR and think I'll watch it tonight haven't watched in about a year. A Feel good (the pickle man)
patti43
14 years ago
The Help got really good reviews, but I haven't seen it. The book was wonderful!
pammyfay
14 years ago
Truly, Madly, Deeply
Sliding Doors
rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
14 years ago
There are several I would recommend...some are relatively new and others are older.

Good Will Hunting
The Bridesmaids
Midnight in Paris
O Brother, Where Are Thou?
October Sky
The Red Violin
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Shutter Island
The Lincoln Lawyer
The Pianist
pammyfay
14 years ago
I just finished watching "Tower Heist" and really liked it.

"Bridesmaids" is funny, but be forewarned: There are a couple of scenes that are either gross (in a "gross funny" way, perhaps) or have sexual language you might blush at. But the actress in them did get an Oscar nomination!

Also: "The Visitor" -- maybe a little more serious than what you're after, but a really good movie.

And for a tearjerker: Something from 2000 -- "Frequency"
pammyfay
14 years ago
And yet another one (they are floating through my memory slllowwwly!):

"Return to Me" with Minnie Driver and David Duchovny and Carol O'Connor (from "All in the Family").

(That's one of the movies that if I see while channel-surfing, I will always stop to watch again and again.)

Sweet and funny and some really "awwwww" touching moments.

(JASDIP: With all these great movies mentioned, it's possible we won't hear from you for months!)
katlan
14 years ago
Frequency was a good movie. Scent of a Woman (1992)was awesome. Also loved Shining Through (1994). These are older movies, but I watch them every time they are on.

Armageddon, with Bruce Willis if you like action stuff. Also like all the Die Hard movies, all the Alien movies and all the Predator movies.

Oh, thought of another one, The Skeleton Key.
susanjf_gw
14 years ago
action adventure are my faves...

red(bruce willis)
push
salt
hitman
transporter (all 3)
losers
laura croft
liz
14 years ago
I'm sitting here with "The Abyss" running in the background...I'll never get tired of this movie...

All great recommendations!

Larry Crowne...Tom Hanks sure can act!
Get Low...excellent film with Robert Duvall
Be Cool...great movie with John Travolta
Life As We Know It...I played an extra but ended up on the cutting room floor
Limitless...Bradley Cooper is really good in this!
Moneyball...such a feel good movie
Mr. Poppers Penguins...Jim Carrey always makes me laugh
O Brother Where Are Thou...really funny
Secondhand Lions (another Duvall film
The Lincoln Lawyer (Matthew Mcconnahay is sooo pleasing on the eyes!)
The Usual Suspects...what a great who done it!
The Vow...another Nicoloas Sparks film...I've just discovered his books and they are fabulous!
minnie_tx
14 years ago
Crossing Delancey
Thought I had it taped will have to look for it in the $5 bins now
kudzu9
14 years ago
Ok...no one mentioned "Amelie," the sweetest, wackiest, most wonderfully romantic French film in years?

Also, "The Ilusionist," with Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, and Jessica Biel. A turn of the century romance-mystery-thriller.

Finally, "Hugo," Martin Scorsese's latest film, about an orphan hiding in the attic of a Parisian train station, and trying to cope with life. If this movie doesn't charm you, check your pulse...you may not be alive.
Jodi_SoCal
14 years ago
Two of my very favorites...

Always with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfuss

Don Juan DeMarco with Johnny Depp and Marlon Brando

Jodi-
Jasdip
Original Author
14 years ago
WOW! You guys are really coming through with great ideas!!!
I'm going to save this page for sure!

Pammyfay is right. If I'm AWOL for any length of time, I'm busy watching your favourites. Thanks so much!
chisue
14 years ago
The Help
Water for Elephants
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
The Illusionist
J. Edgar
Barney's Version
Another Year
All Good Things
Contagion
Moneyball
Shrink
Of Gods and Men
The Debt

So many of these were great BOOKS first!
neesie
14 years ago
For suspense I would highly recommend the Count of Monte Cristo, Silence of the Lambs (such a no-brainer maybe that's why no one recommended it) and the Hand the Rocks the Cradle. Another suspense movie, really old, would be Dial M for Murder.
User
14 years ago
Scoop (Woody Allen movie with Hugh Jackman &Scarlett Johansson. Really cute and entertaining)

Red Eye (Rachel Adams, suspenseful popcorn movie)

Smoke Signals (wonderful Native American Movie)

Dance Me Outside (another really good Native American Movie)

Gods and Monsters (about director James Whale, fantastic performance by Ian McKellan)

The Witches (Angelica Houston, sort of a kid's movie, but definitely enjoyable for adults ;o)

The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio

Unconditional Love (Kathy Bates, quirky but really entertaining)

Horrible Bosses (sort of crude and really funny)

Rogue (about a monster crocodile, fantastic Australian scenery and very good for a monster croc movie)

Max Manus (About the WWII Norwegian Resistance)

Dirty Tricks (with Martin Clunes (Doc Martin)

The Queen (Helen Mirren)

If you appreciate old movies, I really love The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.
Jasdip
Original Author
14 years ago
Oh, Hand that rocks the cradle....I remember that when it first came out. Dial M for murder, isn't that the original one that the Michael Douglas movie was based on? I love him!!

I never have seen Silence of the Lamb....am I the only one in the universe?

When I see and think of Kathy Bates all I picture is Misery!! Remember that movie???? with Paul Newman. Wow.

Copying and pasting this thread!!!!
Jodi_SoCal
14 years ago
Oh my, didn't know that The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio was made into a movie. I loved the book. Just added the movie to my Netflix queue. Thanks Petra.

Jodi-
sable_ca
14 years ago
Dolores Claiborne, with Kathy Bates. I like her in anything; this one is a favorite. Gritty, though.

Nobody's Fool, with Paul Newman. Fantastic cast, great dialogue.

I love the original Dial M For Murder, with Grace Kelly and Ray Milland. Elegant in that special Alfred Hitchcock way. Watched the remake (Michael Douglas) and found it a literally bloody mess; in the end, who cared.
User
14 years ago
Jodi, it's definitely worth watching. Both Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson were really good, as were all the children.
Jodi_SoCal
14 years ago
Ok, if we're going back in time and you want a thriller, check out Rear Window with Jimmy Stewart. Was my fav movie when I was a kid.

And speaking of going back in time ... gotta watch Somewhere in Time with Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour.

Jodi-
pump_toad
14 years ago
I just finished reading Dear John and noticed that is on FX tonight at 7:00 . I plan on watching to see if I like it as well as the book. I do like N. Sparks books but I am usually disappointed in the endings. Evidently I am not realistic because I like happily ever after sometimes.
Lois
ronm80
14 years ago
Oh my I have save this thread. Jodi had several I had forgoten about. thanks.
Always with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfuss
Rear Window with Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly
User
14 years ago
Jodi, Rear Window is one of my favorites! Also, Goodbye Mr. Chips (the orginal). Very old movie, but so touching I cry buckets each time I watch it.
Jodi_SoCal
14 years ago
How about the 1967 film To Sir with Love with Sydney Poitier ... I still cry every time I hear the theme song by Lulu.
mare_wbpa
14 years ago
Funny Girl
The Way We Were
chisue
14 years ago
"OSS-117 Cairo, Nest of Spies" with Jean du Jardin, star of the award-winning silent film "The Artist". (You will LAUGH!)

Three George Clooney movies: "Michael Clayton", "The American", and "The Descendents".

I wanted to strangle that priest in "THe Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio"!

"The Lion in Winter".

"Oklahoma"
Sally Brownlee
14 years ago
Same Time, Next Year
The Apostle
A Few Good Men
The Four Seasons
Last Holiday

And Taking Chance...I dont think I can watch this again. Bring a BOX of kleenex

I could go on for a while if I think about it....

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