Favorite Movies and Series of all time...

[michelle]

I remembering watching The Hobbit when I was a kid and I thought it was the most boring movie ever. Actually, that's really what makes me not ever want to watch LOTR.

[Josh]

Hah! I even had the record. I think I wore it down I played it so much. Go figure.

Of course, the Hobbit movie and the LOTR movies are significantly different

[sarah]

The Secret of Nimh terrified me! I couldn't even watch the whole movie when I was a kid. Truth be told, it still creeps me out. I watched a little with Justus when Lulu and I stayed over and the creepy owl showed up in my dreams that night! (Of course it doesn't help that I have a strong aversion to rats!)

[sarah]

Now to answer the question originally posed...

I am at somewhat of a disadvantage here having grown up without TV or VCR, so that lets me out of most of the shared memories. The first movie I remember seeing in the theater was The Black Stallion and other that being scared of the ship wreck, it was a big hit! (yes, a lot of things scared me when I was little!)

My mom used to take me to the Disney movies, until I told her I didn't want to go anymore. The tale is one of those family stories now. I guess I wrote a letter to Disney telling them that their movies were always "poor this, poor that". I don't recall the incident but I have no doubt it happened!

Growing up without a TV or VCR, some weekends we would rent a VCR and Chandra and I each picked out a movie for the weekend. Chandra almost always chose Annie (or at least it seems that way in my memory!) and I would usually select some movie about a horse or a dog. Oh, one movie I love when I got older (still do) Man from Snowy River!

Now favorite childhood books, I can list a few more there! I was always either outside with my ponies, or somewhere with my nose in a book.

[aimee]

Annie was a favorite here too. I really wanted her hair, so my mom would stick those squishy pink curlers in and my hair would turn into frizz central the next day . I loved Punjab! He was sooo spookie and mysterious (and stereotypical) and brave! And of course who couldn't love Sandy

[Josh]

Not ashamed to admit it... I liked Annie a lot too. We had the soundtrack even. Punjab was cool and the whole anarchist throwing bombs bit was pretty hilarious looking back now.

[aimee]

Yea, it is kind of sad how old favorites begin to look a little bit cheezy when you get older

A new favorite of mine is "Dear Frankie" it is a Scottish? foreign film and very lovely. I cried all the way through it, and still liked it in the end!

[krhagan19]

I like lots of films.

Epic:
Lawrence of Arabia
Ben Hur
10 Commandments
LOTR Trilogy

Sci Fi:
Star Trek (JJ Abrams)
Star Trek Generations
Star Trek First Contact
Star Trek The Voyage Home
Star Trek Wrath of Khan
Star Wars Empire Strikes Back
Serinity
Alien
Aliens
Terminator
Terminator II Judgement Day
Forbidden Planet
Silent Running
Blade Runner

Action:
Casino Royale (new version)
Golden Eye
Moonraker
View to a Kill
True Lies
Kill Bill Vol 1
Kill Bill Vol 2
The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded
Speed
Mission Impossible 2
Mission Impossible 3
Twister
The Transporter
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

DRAMA:
Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)
Henry V (Keneth Branagh)
Bram Stokers Dracula
Chinatown
Pulp Fiction
True Romance
Leone The Professional
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Master and Commander
A Beautiful Mind
American Beauty
Schindlers List
Saving Private Ryan
Conspiracy (HBO)
Downfall
American Gangster
Man on Fire
Doubt
The Shipping News
The Usual Suspects
Bravehart (even though the director/star is a raging anti-semite)
8 MM
Blood Simple
Fargo (considering putting it in comedy but oh well these are the breaks)
JFK
Nixon
American History X
The Believer
Apollo 13 (for Brian)
Philadelphia (also for Brian)
Forrest Gump (also for Brian)
Road to Perdition (also for Brian)
Castaway (also for Brian)
The Passion of the Christ (even though director/producer is a raging alchoholic antisemite)
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Casino
Goodfellows
The Thomas Crown Affair (Pierce Brosnan Version)
Sleuth (Michael Caine Version)
Get Carter (Michael Caine version)

Horror:
Halloween (Original, not the torture porn new version)
A Nightmare of Elm Street
The Thing (John Carpenter Version)
Event Horizon
The Others
The Descent
The Blair Witch Project
Final Destination
The Excorcist (expanded original)
One Hour Photo
Insomnia
Phantasm
Alien (duplicate listing but it diserses it)
Poltergeist

Comedy:
Death to Smoochy
Sleepless in Seattle
Youve Got Mail
The Hangover
Borat
Bruno
The Bird Cage
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Terminator 3
The Terminal
Raising Arizona
Christmas Vacation
Stop or my Mother Will Shoot
True Lies
Austin Powers 1-3

Comic Book /Graphic Novel Based:
Watchmen
The Dark Knight
Batman Begins
Iron Man
Superman (original with Christoper Reeves)
Batman (Tim Burton)
Batman Returns
Batman Forever
Spiderman 2
The Incredible Hulk (Edward Norton version)
The Crow
Hellboy I and II
The Mask
Men in Black
V for Vendetta
Wanted
X Men 1-3

Animated (drawn)
Beauty and the Beast
Lion King
Little Mermaid
Treasure Planet
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Jungle Book
Sleeping Beauty
Aladdin
Fern Gully the Last Rainforest

Animated (CGI)
Up
Toy Story 1-2
Finding Nemo
Shark Tails
The Polar Express
Beowulf

Musical:
Sound of Music
Mary Poppins
Fiddler on the Roof
Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Tim Burton)
The Wizard of Oz
Guys and Dolls