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Offline kimmer

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« on: August 17, 2013, 03:26:16 PM »
Help! Sneakers and I are in a rut. We're bored with our happy movies and would appreciate recommendations from all of you for:
  • happy movies or
  • romantic-comedies or
  • musicals or
  • chick-flicks or
  • a combo of any of the above
We don't do horror or vampire, and seldom do foreign language. Anything else, we'll hunt down a copy and give it a try.

I've already searched the web, and I've saved some lists that are posted, but what we'd really appreciate is knowing titles for movies YOU have enjoyed. If you want to tell us why you enjoyed, feel free. I promise not to start sharing as we watch these -- unless you want ... and I'd be happy to start a movie thread if anyone was interested .. or someone else could.

Anyhow, hope you have some suggestions.




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« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2013, 04:29:12 PM »
My wife recommends "The Letter Writer", "The Bouquet" & "Shakespeare in Love!" These being 3 that are on Netflix and that we've watched on the ROKU!
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« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2013, 07:18:22 PM »
I recommend The Artist, Frost/Nixon, The Man Who Cried, Best In Show and Young Frankenstein (among others).

DO NOT SEE Inception or the latest Batman flick. My wife and I made the mistake of buying both on DVD, turned them off after less than an hour, and threw them away. Of course, if you like gratuitous violence, car chases and explosions, bad acting and murky plots, be my guest.
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« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2013, 08:40:35 PM »
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gratuitous violence, car chases and explosions, bad acting and murky plots
Do they make other kinds of movies?! dntknw.gif OTOH, I'll second Young Frankenstein or almost any other Mell Brooks movie. That one kinda fits all four of your categories! laughhard.gif Especially the 'song and dance' routine with the highly talented Frankenstein musical scene.
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« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2013, 09:01:39 PM »
Thanks. Need more.  toothgrin.gif

For clarification, the movie doesn't have to meet all four points (and I modified my original post). It can be happy. It can be a romantic-comedy. It can be a musical. It can be a chick-flick. It can be a musical romantic-comedy. Etc. Mostly we want HAPPY movies. Nothing dark. No non-fiction, documentaries. No politics. No horror. Okay, some would say politics and horror are the same thing. wink.gif laugh.gif

I've added a few movies to our Netflix queue, a couple we own, and we'll pass on a few that are too dark.

Keep 'em coming!
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« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2013, 03:58:33 AM »
All time favourites...

Bette Davies in Mr Skeffington
Gregory Peck in Hornblower
Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina
My Fair Lady
Blithe Spirit with Rex Harrison
The Court Jester with Danny Kaye
Working Girl with Harrison Ford
Three Wishes for Cinderella
The Gods Must Be Crazy I and II

Series to look for
Miss Marple
Mapp and Lucia
Death In Paradise
Sherlock Holmes -new and old

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« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2013, 05:13:20 AM »
More Films!

Babette's Feast
Gregory's Girl
Local Hero
Amelie
Comfort and Joy
Stardust
Kundun
St Trinian's (old versions)
Lavender Hill Mob
Driving Miss Daisy
To Kill a Mockingbird
Whisky Galore
Passport to Pimlico
Kind Hearts and Coronets
The World's Fastest Indian
The Mouse that Roared


Series to watch
Darling Buds of May
Poldark
Ballykissangel
Hamish McBeth
Goodnight Sweetheart
Monarch of the Glen
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« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2013, 05:58:02 AM »
"Twenty Feet From Stardom"

It's a documentary about backup singers at the top of the game in rock & roll. Very well done, great music, fascinating stories. Still in some theaters.
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« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2013, 07:19:26 AM »
I don't know, all the recent rom-coms and chick flicks just seem to fall short for me. If I want to watch something that's truly funny or clever, I go back to classics like Arsenic and Old Lace or His Girl Friday or Sullivan's Travels. I've seen them all before, but they still hold up and are as good as when I first saw them. Plus, you get real faces that actually move and truly snappy banter as dialog.

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« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2013, 08:41:25 AM »
Humphrey Bogart movies:
• African Queen - one of the best movies ever !
• Casablanca

Laurel & Hardy movies

Marx Brothers movies

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid w/Robert Redford, Paul Newman & Ketherine Ross - Excellent !!!

Cat Ballou w/Lee Marvin & Jane Fonda

Dr. Strangelove w/Peter Sellars, George C. Scott, Slim Pickens & James Earl Jones - action/adventure

Pirates of the Carribean series w/ Johnny Depp - excellent Adventure/Comedy/Action - Crank up the volume!

Peter Sellars Pink Panther movies

The Notebook w/James Garner & Gena Rawlands - Drama

I'll definitely second "To Kill a Mockingbird" w/Gregory Peck - one of the best dramas ever!

To name a but a few

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« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2013, 09:55:12 AM »
James Garner/Jodie Foster - Maverick (I loved it and now I want to watch it again)

To Kill a Mockingbird was on the other day.  I started watching and interestingly enough, my eldest daughter (aged 19) sat down and started watching it with me.  She then rummaged about and found my old school copy of the book complete with pencilled horses in the margin to read.

Great film.

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Romancing the Stone
National Treasure
The Librarian series
MASH - film better than series imho
Northern Exposure - series is wonderful
The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Gigi
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (old one, please)
Shogun
Any Mel Brooks film - The Producers, Blazing Saddles.....
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« Reply #11 on: August 18, 2013, 11:24:22 AM »
When you say foreign, I'm guessing you mean foreign language, rather than simply non-US films....

Couple we enjoyed - The Dish and The Man Who Sued God (Billy Connolly as the man who argued against the Act of God clause in insurance policies); The Time Traveller's Wife.

Caroline's all-time favourite comedy film - and I enjoy it too - is the all-star nonsense of It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (think that's the right number of Mads); Smokey and the Bandit

As a guide, can you tell us the names of a couple of films in each of your genres that you've enjoyed so we can get a better handle on your tastes? smile.gif
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« Reply #12 on: August 18, 2013, 11:41:33 AM »
Every Which Way but Loose - great films

Mmmmm..... Clint Eastwood
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« Reply #13 on: August 18, 2013, 01:00:18 PM »
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You folks are grand! Many thanks.

Some we've seen - but not in a long time so the reminder is grand. Some are on our dvd shelves as favorites, and some are new to us.

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When you say foreign, I'm guessing you mean foreign language, rather than simply non-US films....

Yes, too hard to follow. I edited my OP. Thanks.

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As a guide, can you tell us the names of a couple of films in each of your genres that you've enjoyed so we can get a better handle on your tastes?

no2.gif We're trying to watch movies we normally wouldn't pick or think of, and if I tell you what we often watch and enjoy, then you won't feel free to just recommend movies. Yes, I'm a stinker. laugh.gif
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« Reply #14 on: August 18, 2013, 01:55:18 PM »
http://youtu.be/NBvgKU6B45Q
Robert Donat Deborah Kerr and a very young Glynis Johns i the 1945 Perfect Strangers
You will have to a bit of fishing from that utube page to get other clips of same film.
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