Movie Mania

Last week I asked people for their lists of favorite movies.  Submissions were sent in, and we now have one huge list of sweet flicks to watch.  I put my picks at the end of each category, because it's my blog and this makes me feel special.  So browse the categories, find some new movies to watch, and send me scathing e-mails if I failed to include something from your list. 

As you go through the list, make note of the movies you want to see, but have not, AND tally up the movies you have seen, and tell me in a comment how many of the listed movies you have watched.  If the movie is listed in more than one category you get to count it as many times as it appears.  If you've seen the movie listed in red you get minus ten points.  The person who has seen the most movies on this list gets the prize.  What is the prize?  Fame and Glory!  (Give me a break - I just had to buy school clothes for my brats.)  But you'll get special honors here in Blogland.  So don't forget to tally!

(Disclaimer: I have included a comment here and there in BLUE.  Those are simply my thoughts, not the opinion of the person who submitted the title.) 

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Best Family Movies of All Time:

Rio

The Kid

Beauty and the Beast

The Princess Bride

Enchanted

The Princess and the Frog (have never seen this, nor two others in this category all the way through)

Despicable Me

Mary Poppins

Meet the Robinsons

Bridge to Terabithia

Tangled 

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Labrynith

Nightmare Before Christmas
Hairspray
Prince of Egypy
Legend of the Guardians

And My Picks:  Nanny McPhee, Ramona and Beezus, Matilda

Blow Your Mind Fantasy and Sci-Fi Flicks:

The Mummy 

Harry Potter series 

Galaxy Quest

Star Trek

Star Dust

Serenity

The Dark Crystal (freaks me out)

The Princess Bride

Return of the Jedi

Lord of the Rings

Avatar

The Fifth Element

Minority Report

The Matrix

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 

Legend 

The Frighteners
 Lord of the Rings
Lady in the Water
Interview With the Vampire

And My Picks:  Frequency, War of the Worlds (new), Carriers 

Hold Your Breath, It's Time For Horror and Suspense:

It

The Stand  (I was raised on Stephen King movies.  Is this one my favorite?  Mayhap it is, and mayhap it ain't.)

The Haunting (the old version, not the new stupid one)

Red Eye

When a Stranger Calls

Silence of the Lambs

The Shining  (I love people who love Stephen King movies)

The Descent

Aliens  (Not to be confused with Alien.)

Taken

Rear Window

The Shining

Disturbia

I Am Legend

The Village

The Skeleton Key

The Others
Signs
The Sixth Sense
The Chernobyl Diaries

And My Picks:  Wait Until Dark, Psycho, Case 39  (I watched Case 39 shortly after having heart surgery.  That movie gave me such violent heart palpitations I almost had to go to the ER)

Laugh 'Til You Pee Yourself Comedies:

What About Bob?

50 First Dates

Shanghai Noon

Young Frankenstein

Anchorman

Court Jester

Clue

Zorro: the Gay Blade

Grown-Ups

Juno

So I Married an Axe Murderer  (Chemicals in the Colonel's Chicken.  It's true.)

Clue

500 Days of Summer

Date Night

Undercover Brother

White Chicks

Twilight  (Comedy indeed!)

Shallow Hal
The Hangover
Arrested Development (TV show, but submitted because it was worthy)
50/50  (just saw this one and it is good)

And My Picks:  Little Miss Sunshine  (my others were already mentioned)

 And Now I Present, Dramas:

Contagion 

Dead Poet's Society 

Sabrina - the old one 

Legends of the Fall  (I will say that the person who submitted this referred to the edited version, but felt she couldn't include it because it's normally rated R.  And now I will tell you that not once did I ever check to see if any of my picks were rated R.)

P.S. I Love You

Pride and Prejudice

Big Fish

Chocolat

Where the Heart Is

Schindler's List  (Love.)

The Help

The Shawshank Redemption

Fight Club

Finding Forrester

National Treasure 

Secondhand Lions 

Sommersby 

Somewhere in Time
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
500 Days of Summer

And My Picks:  Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo + Juliet (not Romeo and Juliet), It's Kind of A Funny Story, Erin Brockovich (that's four!  Good job!  You can count!)

Documentaries that WON'T bore you to death:

(You people must watch more documentaries.)

The Last Emperor

Nazi Officer's Wife 

My wedding video

Supersize Me

Disneynature Earth

Michael Jackson's Moonwalker
Life In A Day (youtube)

And My Picks:  Babies, (already mentioned, I know) The Lottery, Forgiving Dr. Mengele

Duck and Cover, Here's Action Adventure:

National Treasure

Runaway Jury  (Andrew and I still fight over this movie sometimes)

Frequency

Indiana Jones

Taken

Mission Impossible

Iron Man

Pirates of the Caribbean

Kingdom of Heaven

Hunger Games

Fly Boys

Braveheart

Independence Day

The Bourne Identity

Casino Royal

Kull The Conqueror

The Mummy

Van Helsing
V For Vendetta
Revolver
Inception

And My Picks:  Saving Private Ryan, Real Steel, The Italian Job  (I really couldn't think of much.  Not my favorite genre.)

La-Di-Dah!  Musicals!

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

Phantom of the Opera

Annie

My Fair Lady

42nd Street

Moulin Rouge

Fiddler on the Roof

South Pacific

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Newsies
Rent
Singing In The Rain  (I've never seen the movie, but I love this song:  click me, I'm a link)

And My Picks:  were already mentioned.

Put Away the 3-D Glasses, It's Time for Classic Films:

Gone With the Wind

The Long, Long Trailer
Dial M for Murder

Debbie Does Dallas  (um....I think they were joking...)
Twilight  (again...joking...I hope)
Austin Powers Goldmember  (it's the music...Oh!  We should have had a "Best Soundtrack Category!)
The Wizard of Oz
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Roman Holiday
Some Like It Hot
The Scarlet Pimpernell (Leslie Howard version)
Pride and Prejudice (the 6-hour BBC version)
The Sound of Music
And My Picks that have not been mentioned:  12 Angry Men, Rear Window


Films étrangers:

To Live
Raise the Red Lantern
Monty Python
Pan's Labyrinth
Life Is Beautiful
Amelie
The Dinner Game (or, Le Diner De Cons)
Departures
Like Water For Chocolate 
East/West
The Return
Pan's Labyrinth

My Picks:  Already mentioned...(Dinner Game and Life is Beautiful)  (we should probably all watch more foreign films.)


The Movies Most Recently Watched By Our Troupe of Critics:

The Amazing Spiderman
Mission Impossible (Which one though...?)
Sliding Doors
Contagion
The Avengers
Pajama Game  (Is this another porn? I'm afraid to look it up.)

Real Steel

Three Men and A Baby  (I thought about naming the person who watched this so we could all poke fun...but I'm not going to.)

Footloose (remake)

Sabrina (the new one)

A History of Violence

This Means War

And Mine:  (which will be the best)  The Prizewinner of Defiance Ohio, Get Smart, It's Kind of a Funny Story. 

Finally - Someone made three more categories of his own, but I feel that this is already a dreadfully long post, so I won't include them.  Except for...

Seeking a Friend For the End of the World

He and I both loved that movie, and it needs to be on this list. 

If you made it this far - go get yourself a treat.  And don't forget to comment with your total!