A bit of fun

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I couldnt sleep last night and ended up watching a film on u tube,it got me thinking of what my favourite films were unable to just choose a few i thought i would add 3 from each catagory so heres mine.

OLDIES, Carve her name with pride, The inn of sixth happiness, The nutty professer (original Jerry Lewis one)

MUSICALS, , The five pennies, seven brides for seven brothers Calamity Jane,

Comedy Mrs Doubtfire, Coming to America, The Court Jester.

Weepie can only think of one Who will love my children.

TRUE stories My left foot, Lorenzo,s oil The colour purple

Horror The tingler, The pit and the pendulum, War of the worlds ( original )

General Ghost, Sister act (all 3) Pollyanna

Well i guess i could go on forever so it,s up to you now what,s your favourite films and is there a catagory i have left out.

Barbara.xx

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blues brothers just cos itā€™s funny and my kids loved it.

up in smoke (cheech and chong) - about illegal substance but very funny.

most tarantino films are quite funny if you get through the violence

oh brother where are you? funny and itā€™s got george clooney!!

philomena -true sad story with great acting by judi dench and steve coogan

iā€™ve seen loads of others but i have a problem with retention of memory (not at all like my bladder)

carole x

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Ooh so many! I could be here for ages. :slight_smile:

Any with Tom Hanks!

Oldies - Dr zivago, Gone with the wind, Goodbye Mr Chips.

Musical - South Pacific, ??

Comedy - Ted, Full Monty, ?

Weepie - Bridges of Madison county, The Notebook, Forrest Gump, Sophies Choice.

True - Bonnie and Clyde, Lawrence of Arabia, Calender girls, Mrs Brown.

Horror - The Exorcist (in itā€™s day!), Candyman

General - Summer with Monica, Shirley Valentine, Good Will Hunting, Ladies in lavender.

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Hilary & Jackie

This is Spinal Tap

My Left Foot

The English Patient

Edward Scissorhands

Lorenzoā€™s Oil

Rain Man

Reach for the Sky

Miracle Worker (Helen Keller Story)

A Beautiful Mind

anything with Stephen Hawking in it

Midnight Cowboy

One Flew over the Cuckooā€™s nest

Carry on Doctor

Carry on Again Doctor

Carry on Matron

Carry on Nurse

Carry on at your Convenience

Itā€™s a Wonderful Life (optimists only)

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An interesting post. Thanks for taking us elsewhere chuck!

I saw titles I have enjoyed and maybe forgottenā€¦but its hard to choose the favs, but Ill join in;;

Oldā€¦Blithe Spirit

Musicalā€¦Les Miserables

Scaryā€¦Mama

Children`sā€¦BFG

Naughtyā€¦Full Monty

Chick Flickā€¦Shirley Valentine

TV filmā€¦Mrs Caldicott`s Cabbages

Trueā€¦Titanicā€¦It Happened One Night

I could go on, but I wont!

pollx

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Best film ever Bad Santa Billy Bob Thornton .

Katy .

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I get most of your film choices but a range of Carry On films. Really? Without including Carry On Screaming?

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Hi Albrecht,I guess you like carry on films there some of the best going I donā€™t know Hillary and Jackie,donā€™t think Iā€™ve ever heard of it I see you like Lorenzo oil itā€™s a great film and a do like rain man

Great choice of films Barbara.x

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Dangerous Liaisons

The Importance of Being Earnest (original version)

Breakfast at Tiffanys (or anything with Audrey Hepburn really)

Kill Bill

Dirty Dancing (if only for the line ā€œI carried a melonā€!)

The Matrix

most of Marilyn Monroeā€™s films, likewise Bette Davis

Virtually anything with Liam Neeson or George Clooney in (I think the reasons are obvious)

The Grand Budapest Hotel / The Royal Tenembaums (Wes Anderson = genius)

and more that I canā€™t think of immediately but will kick myself for forgetting later

Sue

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Seven brides for seven brothers

Carousel

Little Voice - love this one. Michael Caine Jim Broadbent Jane Horricks Ewan McGregor Brenda Blythen

Mamma Mia

Best Marigold Hotel

The Quartet

Any Charles Dickens stories made into films or musicals.

The Vikings

Savage lnnocents

Philomena

ā€‹Mrs Caldicotts cabbages.

Shirley Valentine

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Hi Sue,

You missed the point of me including Carry On films. They are a collection of appallingly, embarrassing farcical moments that go on for too long.

Rather like MS!

Hi Crochunter (lovely nom de plume. It has bite),

Hilary and Jackie is the true(ish) story of Jacqueline Du Pre, a concert cellist whoā€™s life was turned into a tragedy by MS. I havenā€™t seen it since Iā€™ve had my clinical symptoms of MS but it may be too harrowing for todayā€™s audience. (or me, come to that). Thereā€™s no happy ending. She died aged 42.

Sorry; this is supposed to be a bit of fun isnā€™t it. Iā€™m in a maudlin mood. Blame it on the baclofen.

Anthony

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Blame it on the boogie more likeā€¦

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Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy from Company B?

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Hi

Favourite movie ā€œWithnail and Iā€

xxxxx

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Young Guns. Shawshank Redemption. Trick or Treat. In the name of the rose. Indy 1. Star Wars 4

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one of my best films is ā€˜Brassed offā€™ love it !!

J x

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Brassed off is a great film!

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Weepie, for those over a certain age ā€˜Run wild run freeā€™, probably the first film I went to see on my own, my mother thought that as it involved a horse it would be something like National velvet or Follyfoot as it turned out it upset me quite a lot!

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One of my favourites Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts - August: Osage County. Brilliant acting.

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Hi peeps sorry for not getting back to you all sooner, but theres lots of good films here and a few ive never heard off Whithnail and i a very strange name for a film,and August osage county another ive not heard off, i remember the tv program folly foot and when i read the name the theme tune came strait back to me.

Thanks all for reminding me of all the great films out there. Barbara,xx

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