Either we need to start coming up with more exciting activities for our weekends or I need to look into the possibility of writing fiction. Because our weekend involved the following activities in no particular order by popularity or frequency:
Eating
Sleeping
Catching up on Real Housewives of both the O.C. and N.Y.
Eating
Buying a shower gift at Pottery Barn
Going to a wedding shower
Eating
Sleeping
Eating
Going to church
Eating
Sleeping
Watching T.V.
Look. Don’t be jealous. I can’t help that this is the kind of excitement that rules my life.
At one point we had big plans to take the training wheels of Caroline’s bike, medicate ourselves, and attempt to teach her to ride without them. But when we came out of church on Sunday morning, it was raining. Actually, rain isn’t really the right word. It was more like that annoying light mist that I find to be totally non-committal, the kind that makes you feel silly for carrying an umbrella even though you know your freshly straightened hair will be shot all to heck without one.
A few weeks ago, I noticed that The Black Stallion was coming on and I recorded it for Caroline. I couldn’t remember the entire movie because it had been thirty years since I’d last seen it and I can’t even remember to buy more paper towels at the grocery store. When it’s written on a list. That I’m holding in my hands. Anyway, since it was a rainy day, we ended up watching it and she fell a little bit in love with it. In fact, there’s a scene where the little boy feeds The Black some sugar cubes which eventually led us to HEB to purchase some sugar cubes of our very own because she had no idea a thing of such pure goodness existed and wanted to experience it for herself.
She also wanted to ride a black Arabian horse across a beach at full speed. But you can’t buy that at HEB.
And not to beat a dead horse (I apologize.), but while we were in HEB we ran into a friend who was desperately looking for Jello brand sugar-free pudding and all he could find was the HEB brand. He may be one of the most frugal people I know, but he still wanted his brand name Jello and I don’t blame him. I may write a letter to HEB. And Bill Cosby.
I didn’t watch the Oscars from start to finish last night because I believe in the power of the DVR and its ability to fast forward through the awards for best lighting, but I watched the highlights. I think Cameron Diaz and Sandra Bullock get my vote for best dressed. In fact, Sandra Bullock’s hair makes me want to look into getting some type of high-shine treatment done. I don’t know if such a thing exists, but my word at the shiny, sleek hair. I want to go to there. Oh, and her speech where she thanked her mother? Did me in.
Speaking of things that did me in, was it just me or did the tribute to John Hughes make you a little bit teary? It was like watching my high school years flash before my eyes. I watched all those clips and thought how every one of those movies fall into the category of movies I will stop and watch every time they’re on T.V.
And then I started thinking of other movies I will stop and watch every time they’re on T.V. and came up with this list that is definitely not comprehensive, but rather an adequate representation of my taste in cinema. This may be the reason that I’ve never been asked to be a member of the Academy. Well, this list and the fact that no one in Hollywood has a clue that I exist.
1. The Philadelphia Story – the version with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant
2. Gone with the Wind
3. Rocky I, II, III, IV – I have no explanation, but it’s true.
4. Sweet Home Alabama
5. Coalminer’s Daughter – I can recite every line from memory.
6. Little Women – I believe I’ve mentioned this before.
7. Grease 1 and 2 – I should be ashamed to own up to 2, but Cool Rider redeems it.
8. Bridget Jones’ Diary – Colin Firth.
9. Best in Show – So many levels of genius in one movie.
10. Lonesome Dove – Technically it’s a miniseries, but it’s pure greatness. It’s the reason I have a large crush on Robert Duvall.
So what movies will you stop and watch every time they’re on? And whose dress did you like the best last night? And were you kind of happy that Avatar didn’t win? I’m sure it was a lovely movie, but I’m not a big fan of James Cameron or blue sci-fi people. Forgive me.
On a totally different note, you need to go read Shaun Groves’ post, The Parable of the Zebra.
Not in any particular order:
Sleepless in Seattle
You’ve Got Mail
The Perfect Storm
Steel Magnolias
Forrest Gump
And I thought Sandra Bullock was very elegant in her gold dress.
The Princess Bride
Pretty Woman
My Big, Fat, Greek Wedding
Monty Python’s Holy Grail
Airplane
Sandra Bullock looked stunning… I want to be her.
Oh how I LOVE when I am first to comment!!! I feel like I should do just like I see on the first DOZEN Woot comments: “FIRST”
That always makes me giggle.
WOW. Your movie lists. Are we sure we are not distant cousins…or twins separated at birth (not to insult you at all…you are way cuter, and way funnier…maybe I am the annoying cousin at your family reunions who follows you around, copying everything you do…)
My movie list is VERY similar to yours, cousin! (cracking myself up) I was JUST quoting Best in Show…the quote that no one EVER gets… “We both love soup.” That just made me cry tears of hysteria…
When you said you have a crush on Robert Duvall, I literally squealed out loud. Because. So. Do. I. Oh my word!!! Of course I fell in love with Gus!!! And I’ve loved him in every movie since!
Gone With the Wind…Moment of Silence…Scarlett and Rhett (cue Tara’s Theme here) Pat my heart, and shake my head…
Okay, I’m rambling on so much I’m not going to be first anymore…and that will really crush my spirit…
TTYL, Cuz!
(I totally understand how much of a dork I am)
Love Can Build A Bridge. And pretty much any Julia Roberts movie.
Also, I really have a very ugly place in my heart for that misty-rain. I have very curly hair, and if it’s raining, naturally I don’t flatiron it. But if it’s not supposed to rain, and then there’s that mist crap and my hairs doesn’t get wavy, just frizzy, I get angry.
And I totally cried when Sandra gave her speech. The Blind Side reminds me so much of my own story with my own mom, and when I saw it with her I was a big blubbery mess, and I was again tonight. Man.
See!!! I rambled on too long…and now I’m
SECOND!!!!
i’m with you on the mist. i’m naturally curly, and it messes with my curls in a bad way!
some of my movies:
any of the godfather trilogy
legally blonde
office space
west side story
the american president
urban cowboy (yep. i admit it.)
my best friend’s wedding (’cause it’s pretty much about my life. except in my version, i’m julia’s character and i get dermot!)
and i’m completely in agreement about avatar. i haven’t seen it and have no desire to!
1. Thrilled Avatar didn’t win. One of my dear college friends summed it up as, “Dances with Wolves in Outer Space.” I tend to agree.
2. Love, love, love Lonesome Dove. Must go find a copy…
I didn’t watch the Oscars (gasp!). I do however love Grease One and Two.
I want a coooooolll rider, a cooooooolll rider. If he’s cool enough, he can burn me through and through….:)
I don’t really have a list of favorite movies, but I do have to watch City of Angels with a box of tissues every time it comes on tv, which is not often. I also love the movie True Romance. It’s has a ton of violence, but it’s oh so good!
Well, except for the Rocky series, I’m in love with all of those movies too. And Colin Firth…sigh….I love him in the A&E version of Pride and Prejudice. No one tops him as Mr Darcy(coming out of the lake in that white shirt…is it getting warm in here?). So many chick flicks, so little time.
And yes…I was thrilled Avatar lost. James Cameron needed a good, swift kick in the ego, and all Avatar was(I didn’t see it, but feel like I have, KWIM?) was a liberal mouthpiece…gotta save the planet and look how mean those conservatives are to the poor oppressed tribe. No thanks. Nothing gets me going like some good old Hollywood hypocrisy….Haiti needs help, the poor are in trouble and Buuuussshhh didn’t help them, slam the evil capitalist pigs……oh, I did I mention that my dress is made by Gaultier? And look at those gourmet snacks and gift baskets for us? Blech. Now..what was the subject again?
Well said, Jo. All of it, but particularly the part about Mr. Darcy in his white shirt.
Anything withthe “Brat Pack”
The Man from Snowy River
Fun with Dick and Jane (gets me EVERYTIME)
Anything with the “Brat Pack”
The Man from Snowy River
Fun with Dick and Jane (gets me EVERYTIME)
Only a little related to your topic today–before you take the training wheels off, go to Target and purchase a balance buddy. Someone told me about this when I was in the midst of training twins and I now tell everyone who mentions taking training wheels away. It is a U-shaped handle you attach to the bike where the training wheels are taken off. It is a back and nerve saver when teaching a child to ride without training wheels. The kid never really knows when you are holding on and when you are not–so long as they are looking forward.
Breakfast Club
Mrs. Doubtfire (yes everytime I see that it’s on, I must watch)
Love The Philadelphia Story, it is on the manually erase on my DVR
The Man Who Came to Dinner (Christmas, but good anytime of year)
Oh, good. I loved Cameron Diaz’ dress too (and Sandra’s!), but I had no idea if anyone else would. I would totally buy Cameron’s dress to wear while I was sippy cups.
I really liked the Hughes tribute. Sixteen Candles and Ferris Bueller stand the test of time.
And I just love Home Alone. It came out when I was in 5th grade, I think, and everyone mimicked the “aaaaah” scene with the aftershave for years. 
I thought Sandra Bullock’s speech was perfection. Loved her little throwaway about George Clooney throwing her in a pool once.
I have not seen Avatar, and don’t care too. Those blue things freak me out. Ben Stiller was evidence of that.
My list?
Paper Moon
Dirty Dancing
The Major and the Minor (Ginger Rogers…cute cute movie!)
Grease
Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken (I have not seen this on TV, but if it was I would drop everything to watch it)
Most everything else I love I have on DVD
oops…I meant “while I WASH sippy cups”
Dirty Dancing, Grease 1 and of course 2, (Let’s Bowl) Footloose, Pretty Woman, Legally Blonde and any 80′s movie with Molly Ringwald in it, oh yeah, and Beauty Shop (I know, I know……but there is something about Queen Latifah doing hair and it’s always on when nothing else is at odd times of the night.
Dirty Dancing
The Karate Kid 1 & 2
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
The Notebook
Sixteen Candles
The Wedding Singer
I think that’s it
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Oh my gosh the John Hughes tribute SO made me relive my highschool days! I also got a litttle teary eyed! What teenage girl in the 80′s didn’t wish that Jake Ryan would get her a cake on her birthday?
- The Notebook
- The Bridges of Madison County
- Dead Poet’s Society
- Any John Hughes movie
- Steel Magnolias
- Almost Famous
- Shawshank Redemption
I also loved the John Hughes tribute, but how can we talk about it without wondering aloud what on God’s green earth happened to Judd Nelson? I had to rewind to hear the announcer say who he was. I understand aging (I mean, Matthew Broderick has gray hair), but what has happened to him is entirely different. That made me teary-eyed on a whole different level.
I will watch Pretty Woman every time it is on and I see it listed. Sleepless in Seatle is another one…all the ones you listed I would watch again and again. I am a movie buff…love the movies.
The tribute to John Hughes WAS like a walk down memory lane!
I was also a tiny bit happy that Avatar didn’t walk away with all the awards… It was high time for a woman to win Best Director, and I was glad her movie won, too!
Cannot say enough about Sandra!! You go girl!
I ALWAYS drop everything to watch You’ve Got Mail, Cheaper By the Dozen, Father of the Bride, Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally… basically, I love Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks and Steve Martin (not necessarily in that order).
I did love Sandra Bullock’s dress. I loved Helen Mirran’s dress, too. (sp?) I think she dresses so well for her age… elegant and chic. She knows how to emphasize the positives very well. And I know she was just a spokesperson, but I thought Oprah looked very pretty last night, too.
It didn’t bother me that Avitar didn’t win. I’m pretty sure James Cameron will have a couple more Oscars on his shelf before his career is finished, and I don’t get into blue people with funny accents either.
I was thrilled Sandra Bullock won, but I equally loved Julie and Julia and I thought Meryl Streep was wonderful in that movie… and I hate she has been nominated so many times and never won. I wish there could have been a first and second place Oscar for that one.
I only watch the last hour of the Oscars. It’s the best part!
I don’t think I saw ANY of the movies that were nominated for the big award this year. The only one I really thought about seeing was Blind Side because I think Sandra Bullock is like, almost NORMAL, you know? Also…not sure I could get into skinny blue people. That said…
When I was about 11 years old, Grease II was playing on HBO during our family’s vacation at the beach. My sister and I spent more time IN the room singing, dancing and pretending to be Pink Ladies than we spent in the sand by the water. What can I say, clearly we were strange little kids! Now, whenever I see the big number in the bowling place it’s all I can do not to gag. And sing along.
THE movie that I’ll watch every single time it’s on…
1. Star Wars Episode 4 (otherwise known as the first one, the 1977 version.) I know! It’s just awesome. I drive my kids insane because I can’t help but say the lines along with the actors. They usually try to lure me into the yard and lock me out so they can watch in peace.
Others that suck me in and make me forget the laundry for a while:
2. Dirty Dancing (Patrick Swayze…sigh)
3. Pretty Woman (because I wish someone would give ME a pile of credit cards and tell me to go shopping! and that I had her hair!)
4. Bringing Up Baby (Hepburn and Grant are hysterical in this one!)
5. Sleepless in Seattle (Tom Hanks…he seems like somebody you could be friends with)
6. E.T. (because I wish I had an ET instead of our stupid dog! at least we could share Reeses Pieces)
7. Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Finding Nemo. (umm…because I’ve felt more and more like Dory lately…forgetful and confused!)
And then pretty much everything you’ve mentioned…they’re all good!
I didn’t watch much of the Oscars, but did catch the John Hughes tribute–like so many others have mentioned, those are all the movies I grew up on and still watch whenever they are on. I also agree with your #4, 7, and 9.
I will stop and watch many movies, but “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” with Sarah Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt is a fav. And I have to admit I also watch ones like Office Space, Caddyshack, and Old School.
romancing the stone (know every line. “how do you vant to die, joan vilder? slow like a snail? or vast like a shooooting stah?)
hope floats
sleepless in seattle & of course,
ferris. bueller’s. day. off.
loved zoe saldana’s purple dress…could never wear it, mind you, but she ROCKED it. feel certain it will end up on a worst list somewhere.
thrilled avatar did not win!
I didn’t watch the Oscars, but I’m with you on Lonesome Dove. Best. Western. Ever. My husband calls me “Lorie Darling” and it gives me the tingles.
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My list of movies that I’ll drop everything to watch is pretty extensive. Basically, any excuse to sit on the couch and do nothing is always a good one for me. And when it’s not animated, bonus!! (I have a 4 year old and an 8 month old so the odds of it not being animated are slim…)
I LOVED Sandra Bullock last night! I thought she looked great, her speech was great, her hair was awesome, but probably my favorite part was watching her husband tear up while she was up there.
shawshank redemption
It still captures me after a hundred zillion times…
and of course any DIE HARD movie…
I loved Sigourney Weaver’s red dress. I loved the John Hughes tribute and I was THRILLED the blue people didn’t win.
I will always watch
A Few Good Men
Steel Magnolias
Pretty Woman
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Breakfast Club
Dirty Dancing
We are huge, huge(!) Lonesome Dove fans. We recite the lines from it frequently. My husband, ever the comedian, says “I guess you go where I say go, girl” when we are getting ready to leave the house. *snort*
I love SWA! “Yes, Kate could use a drink.” ROFL!
I watched most of the Oscars but sleep over road my eyes staying in the open position. Thank goodness I have a husband who loves me and set the DVR. I totally got teary eyed at the John Hughes tribute. I loved that his family was there and they to were crying. Very moving! Now on to my list of movies I watch EVERY TIME they are on.
Sixteen Candles, Grease- it’s a given, Can’t Buy Me Love, To Kill A Mocking Bird, Coraline, 8 Seconds, Coal Miners Daughter, Twister-don’t ask, Saving Private Ryan, and now my brain is mush! I know there are at least three more I watch but can’t think of them for any thing!
A few of my ‘must watch’ movies are:
Forrest Gump
The Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
To Kill A Mocking Bird
Steel Magnolias
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Rudy
Fried Green Tomatoes
Steel Magnolias
Bridges of Madison County
Forrest Gump
Rear Window
Roadhouse-Just long enough to see Patrick Swayze’s naked butt, then I’m done
I always watch “How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days” whenever it is on. Which is kinda funny because I have the DVD in my cabinet and I could just pull it out and watch it without commercials…
And, my all-time favorite is “Gone with the Wind.” LOVE IT. A close second is To Kill a Mockingbird. I still wait for that trial to have a different outcome….
I will always stop and watch: Pretty Woman, Dirty Dancing, Princess Diaries, It could happen to you, P.S. I love you (LOVE IT!), Goonies, Back to the Future 1,2,3, Indiana Jones. I could go on and on!
No particular order:
Pride and Prejudice (Kiera Knightley version)
Sweet Home Alabama
Legally Blonde
The Mummy
Lara Croft
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
10 Things I Hate About You
Bring It On
Bridget Jones Diary (the first)
Dirty Dancing
I did an Oscar dress review here http://www.elzabelz.blogspot.com
Vera Farmiga had my favorite gown, but I also loved Sandra Bullock’s whole look.
Urban Cowboy (sissy and bud)
Officer and a Gentlemen “way to go Paula, way to go”
Steel Magnolias
CoalMiners Daughter
Forest Gump
Singles
Breakfast Club
When Harry Met Sally
This post made me crawl out of “lurkdom”. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Lonesome Dove – and my now not-secret crush is on Woodrow. I know – - craziness!
Other that Lonesome Dove
You’ve Got Mail
Braveheart
The Philadelphia Story
What I want to know is why do I stop and watch these on TV when I have them on DVD?
I love your blog!
Am I the only one who thought the awards would never, ever end? I bounced back and forth watching it. Loved Sandra Bullock’s dress, her acceptance speech, her husband-oh my! and pretty much everything about her. Also loved Meryl Streep’s dress and wish I had somewhere to wear it-note to self find big occasion requiring great dress.
Movies I love
Sleepless in Seattle, Shawshank Redemption, You’ve Got Mail(the part where they meet in the park and she says “I wanted it to be you” kills me every time. Legally Blonde, Gone with the Wind, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Office Space. In a category of their own-Holiday movies I love-White Christmas and Holiday Inn and of course National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, which was on this weekend.
Your weekend beat mine by a mile. Hope you get some rest this week.
On a different note, I bought the self tanner that you recommended and am loving it!! Thanks for the information
I didn’t know the Oscars were on. I was watching Saving Private Ryan. I would have liked to have seen the John Hughes tribute. I bet it is on You Tube.
I looked at pictures of some of the actors walking the red carpet. Most of those women were so skinny! “Eat something!” I thought Sandra and Cameron looked glamorous, though.
My husband said Avatar was a sci fi Pocahontas.
I second Goonies and the Indiana Jones movies! “We named the dog Indiana.”
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Because I Said So
Raising Helen
Bring it On
A Few Good Men
Tommy Boy
Lonesome Dove is total greatness! Gus is my hero, but Call really won me over in the end…I will watch it over and over.
Agreed on the John Hughes tribute- my childhood favs. Was it me, or was Molly Ringwald a bit unstable on her feet last night? And Anthony Michael Hall – he went from being this dorky kid to holy moly all out MAN.
And I agree with another commenter – what in the world happened to Judd Nelson?
Other favorite movies that I always stop to watch:
Dirty Dancing
You’ve Got Mail
Why You Were Sleeping
Frequency
Dead Poet’s Society
Grease
Last of the Mohicans …”No matter what occurrrrssss…..stay aliivvvee! I will fiinddd Youuuuu!”
Hee Hee. Great post BigMama!
My ‘must see’ movies:
Urban Cowboy (Bud & Sissy get me every time!)
Smokey & the Bandit
Dirty Dancing
Speed
Point Break
8 Seconds
Pretty Woman
The Goonies (I LOVED this movie when I was younger!)
Home Alone (This is the first movie I ever saw in a theater!)
Look Who’s Talking
If he’s cool enough he can burn me through and through!
We took this song and turned it into a sorority rush skit…
Tombstone – Val Kilmer’s “I’m your Huckleberry” is my favorite movie line EVER
(seriously, chills even now)
Ever After – my girlie and I loooove to watch this together!
Elf
An Affair to Remember (1957 – Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr)
Love Affair (1994 remake of the above, with Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, and ohmyword Katharine Hepburn was aMAZing in her role!)
Sabrina (both of them… the 1957 original AND the 1995 remake — love them! Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn, followed by Harrison Ford and Julia Ormond… With the same director for both movies? SO GOOD.)
Regarding Henry (Harrison Ford and Annette Bening)
The American President (Michael Douglas and Annette Bening)
Rush Hour 1 and 3
Independence Day
Dances With Wolves
Pretty Woman
Grease
The Man From Snowy River (that cliff scene? the horse? that music? yes to all of it.)
Pirates of The Carribean series
Oceans Eleven (hello George Clooney AND Brad Pitt)
…and new to the list, definitely near the top of it, The Blind Side. I will own it just like the rest of the ones I’ve listed. Gracious, it was so good.
(I realized after typing these that Annette Bening, Harrison Ford, and Mary McDonnell are in more than one of my favorite movies. How funny, I never noticed that before.)
I’ll usually watch:
Any musical. Especially… My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, The Music Man… anything with Judy Garland & Andy Rooney – “Come on fellas! Let’s Put On A Show!”
On Golden Pond
Officer & A Gentleman
Pretty Woman
Notting Hill
Harrison Ford (anything)
Benny & Joon
Tom Hanks (ditto)
Jimmy Stuart (anything)
When Harry Met Sally
Total Recall
Love your list. Bummed I missed the Tribute. Cried with Sandra. Cried with Jeff… ’bout time
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Fried Green Tomatoes (love it when I get to see the Winn Dixie scene!)
When Harry Met Sally
Top Gun (I can’t help it. Kenny Loggins draws me in.)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Didn’t get to watch all of it, but I agree with your picks. Thought Sandar and Cameron looked wonderful. I thought the sweet girl who was in that movie, Precious, looked really nice too. I can’t remember her name.
I really felt out of the loop because I hadn’t heard a lot about many of the movies that were up. Frankly, there werent’ many of them I carried to see. Except for the one that Sandra Bullock was in that she won the Oscar for. I just haven’t had a chance to see it yet.
Due to an unplanned tummy bug which at times involved simultaneous synchronized throwing up by my 5 year old and myself, I found myself listening to the ENTIRE Oscars during the middle of the night here in Ireland. My 5 year old has made a great recovery and is bouncing up and down asking to be fed. I am feeling a bit more delicate.
I need to introduce my daughters to Little Women before this summer, as we will be in Concprd, MA this summer where she lived when she wrote the novel.
I don’t get the hype about Avatar – saw it – but didn’t think it is all that wonderful as everyone is trying to make it — glad his ex won -ha! And too long for a woman to win – even though haven’t seen hurt locker. Sandra – was so rooting for her – she is like someone you can just see being your friend– her speech made me cry. The stuff on John Hughes – was just perfect – made me miss Ally Sheedy (however you spell it) but why has she just disappeared – she was so good!
Ghost and Steel Magnolias… The BEST!!
oh and so glad Up got animated picture – it is one of my all time favorite movies!
Top Gun.
I know it’s cheesy and dated, but I CANNOT look away if it’s on.
Urban Cowboy, Pretty Woman, Footloose, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club (RIP JH)
The Notebook
American Gangster
The Fifth Element (YES, I know it’s a ‘B’ movie, but I still love it)
The Proposal (or anything with Sandra Bullock – I just want to have dinner with her and Jesse James… could you imagine?? It would have to be a blast.)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World
and last but definitely not least… HOT FUZZ!!!!! If you haven’t seen it, you really should.
“I want a C-O-O-L R-I-D-E-R. ” Not Michelle Pfeiffer’s greatest moment, but an awesome movie nonetheless. Thanks for sticking that song in my head all day. Not.
Dances with Wolves
Bull Durham
Forrest Gump
Sweet Home Alabama
Legally Blonde
Any Harry Potter movie, esp. the earliest ones
Pillow Talk – Rock Hudson, Doris Day
Move Over, Darling – James Garnes, Doris Day
You’ve Got Mail
Big
Gone With The Wind
The Notebook
Regarding Henry – the BEST Harrison Ford movie
Freaky Friday (jamie lee and lindsay version)
The Parent Trap – either version, but the final kiss at the end of that movie may be the best on-screen kiss ever. Watch it.
Urban Cowboy, also a great kiss, on the dance floor
Look Who’s Talking
Grease
I just realized I watch way too much TV
I only watched three movies at the theater last year (Up, Julie and Julia, and Blind Side), so I had no idea about most of those movies. I don’t know if the film that one for Best Film was any good at all, but I was just so thrilled that James Cameron didn’t win. And Ben Stiller’s blue-faced bit? Priceless, even though he irritates me just a tad.
I was so torn this weekend because TBS was showing Legally Blonde and VH! had Grease and THEN Grease 2! Throw Sweet Home Alabama, Top Gun, Shawshank Redemption, and Gone with the Wind and I would STILL be sitting on the couch!
Just so you know…Grease 2 is my favorite movie…maybe ever.
Not information I share regularly…but just ‘tween us girls, right?
Some Movies I’ll Watch Over and Over…
Sweet Home Alabama
You’ve Got Mail
Star Wars 4,5,6
Hope Floats
I loved Demi Moore’s dress and Sandra Bullock’s too! Maybe I just like that I feel in the know because I know that Rachel Zoe mostly likely picked out that dress for Demi.
Oh, how I love to hear about, I mean read about people’s faves! Missed the Oscar’s last night so I will have to look up Sandra’s speech. I really enjoyed The Blind Side. My whole family is REALLY into the true sports movies.
My list:
Remember the Titans
Sweet Home Alabama
Ocean’s Eleven
Deja Vu
My Julia movies: Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride
My Tom movies: The Firm, Jerry Maguire
Places in the Heart (1984 – Sally Field, Danny Glover, John Malkovich)
GI Blues (favorite Elvis)
Forgot to mention that I did see Avatar in 3D with my family. The forest was beautiful, but the misuse of God’s name and the tribe worshipping The Great Mother made it not worth it to me.
The John Hughes tribute totally had me—- my teenage years in a nutshell.
Love Sandra Bullock— Hope Floats is a fav of mine!—- she seems like a gal you could just hang out with.
I always stop and watch Urban Cowboy, 13 Going on 30, Coalminers Daughter, Grease, so many……
Lonesome Dove is on my list, as well as
Hatari-I love the Baby Elephant song!
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Christmas Vacation
Dirty Dancing
Sabrina-the original one
any Sandra Bullock movie almost
There are more but I’m drawing a blank!
Steel Magnolias
Raising Arizona
A Christmas Story
Any of the three original Stars Wars movies
As the taxi was driving us to the airport yesterday to leave San Antonio, we drove past a van that had an “I <3 HEB" bumper sticker. LOL! You need one for your car:)
(I was glad Avatar didn't win either. I didn't see it…it looked weird. And it just got too much hype!) And I'm so glad Sandra Bullock won! L.O.V.E. Her!
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Top Gun
Dirty Dancing
Steel Magnolias
My favorites!
Dirty Dancing and National Treasure
Were we supposed to list our favorite movies? Sorry. I skimmed your post, afraid that you might reveal last night’s winners. I have a very mean friend who has eliminated cable from her life and wanted me to dvr it, then watch it with her tonight. Oh my!
So, I will never see it again.
Anyway, yes Lonesome Dove and Robert Duvall. I love that movie so much and was so attached to Gus, that when he died I went into a deep sadness and it took me two weeks to get over it. My parents were so concerned (I think I was a sophomore). That is the best movie ever. Although I’m afraid if I watched it now, coupled with the realistic sadness of life, I might have to be on suicide watch.
I’m not an Oscars watcher, but movies are big time at our house.
Always will watch:
Empire of the Sun
Driving Miss Daisy
Fargo
any Jane Austen flick
Office Space
The Shawshank Redemption
Love Actually
Open Range
The Straight Story
Gran Torino
Looking at my list… I am so random.
I loved Sandra Bullock’s dress and I was so happy she won the Oscar for Best Actress. I watched her interview with Barbara Walters last night and she said if she won she would try real hard not to cry because her mom always hated when people got up there and cried. She held it together .
Cameron Diaz, loved her dress and her hair. Hair envy for sure, especially since I had my hair cut shorter.
On to the movies… I just watched Sweet Home Alabama… love it…Grease 1 , Little Women, I laughed over your Rocky 1, 2, 3, 4 because we love the Rocky movies, glad we are not alone. lol How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Elf, AND I will watch old Doris Day movies, but not her musicals.
Hunt For Red October, without fail, every single time, even though a VHS and DVD sit in my midst.
Thanks for the link to Shaun’s blog. I loved the zebra connection he made on the spot.
What other version of The Philadelphia Story is there? I feel dumb for not knowing!
Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby.
I haven’t watched the Oscar’s yet, we DVR’ed them as well and will get around to them today – it’s the first time I’ve wathed in years and the first time ever for the hubs. *lol*
Sweet Home Alabama – love it. I’ve had a crush on Patrick Dempsey all the way back from “Can’t Buy Me Love” days.
Little Woman is a classic. I actually call my Mom “Marmy” every now ad then because of the movie.
I love Robert Duvall – he was great in the Godfather movies. I’ve never watched all of Lonesome Dove, the part where they’re crossing the river after the big rain and hte kid fallas off and there are a lot of snakes did me in. Haven’t watched it since.
I’m a sucker for Grease, especially the music to it. “Cool Rider” is one of my go-to songs to perk the day up, hubs will play it just to see me do osme of the hand motions. *lol*
Colin Firth is hot – he was actually on my “cheat with a celebrity list” this week. *lol* Me and the hubs are making one up to see who we put. We’re dorks, I know.
I love just about any movie with Molly Ringwalk, the move “Shag”, “3 Men and a Baby/Lady” (this could be because I have a crush on Tom Selleck),” The Departed” (I’ve been on a mobster movie kick) and I can’t remember what all, I have to omany. My parents owned a video store in our small town, so I have a lot of my favorite movies on VHS, so Id have to go look at all of ‘em.
Cinderella Man
Miss Potter
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Delurking to join in the fun! Let the record show that I was a blubbery mess by the time Sandra Bullock–who looked indeed like a little slice of heaven on earth–mentioned her mom in her acceptance speech and thanked all moms. She seems to me like a down-to-earth normal gal who also happens to make good movies. Did you hear that she also attended the Razzie awards Saturday night to pick up her “worst actress” award (for All About Steve)? How totally cool is she?
I was also glad that Avatar got nada. Bupkus. Zilch. That James Cameron rubs me the wrong way–and how completely awesome was it that his ex-wife, Kathryn Bigelow, wins for best director? Na-na-nee-boo-boo, stick your head in doo-doo James Cameron
As for movies that stop me from whatever it is I’m doing to watch them again and again, I am a sucker for:
50 First Dates
Sixteen Candles
Gone With the Wind
Steel Magnolias
Hope Floats
Love Actually
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Forrest Gump
Office Space
From reading so many of the comments to your post, I see that there are a few movies I need to look into!
Ah…where to start.
Agree on Avatar. Saw it…thought it was Pochantas with great special effects but James Cameron really, really bugs me. (I am proud to say I never saw Titantic.) I’m very happy for Hurt Locker.
I thought Sandra, Meryl, Penelope, Anna Kendricks and Rachel McAdams were all beautiful with GREAT dresses.
On the down side, worst has to be Charlize…she should know better with Miley a close 2nd. (Stand up straight girl.)
Movies I can watch over and over again:
You’ve got Mail (Don’t know why, just can’t stop myself)
Bridget Jones Diary (Colin Firth…I love him too)
Casablanca (Bogie at his best)
Ferris Bueller (Bueller…Bueller)
Best in Show (Agree…on so many levels)
Princess Bride (My name is Ingio Montoya)
There’s probably a few others, but that’s enough for now.
Steel Magnolias- I actually start to cry when I just SEE that it’s on TV let alone when I actual stop to watch it. Then the ugly cry ensues. It’s still worth it!
Sweet Home Alabama
You’ve Got Mail- I know every single word.
Top Gun
Shag (If you haven’t seen it, you need to. Seriously. Like yesterday.)
That’s only the tip of the iceberg but I’ll stop…
As far as the dresses go…Sandra and Cameron looked gorgeous. Dress, hair, makeup, everything. I’m also curious, does Demi Moore sleep in a time capsule? She literally does.not.age. She looked great. And Mariska Hargitay….gorgeous in Navy. I’m team Kathryn Bigelow all the way. James Cameron was literally shocked he didn’t win best picture. But he’s laughing all the way to the bank so I don’t feel too sorry for him!!
Steel Magnolias and Top Gun- only until Goose dies- then I’m free to change the channel. Weird, I know.
And Sandra Bullock, oh my word! Possibly the best acceptance speech I’ve EVER heard! (And there is such a thing as a deep shine treatment thing. My hair dresser offers it- I’ve never done it personally but a young girl at our church who is in Pageants does it and her hair is gorgeous and shiny all the time!)
In no particular order:
Jurassic Park (all of them)
Twister
The Sandlot
Steel Magnolias (also own it on DVD and can recite every line. It is my Coal Miner’s Daughter.)
Best In Show (for SO many reasons)
Office Space (I once owned a red Swingline. I still miss it.)
There are many others. But I’m afraid if I admitted all of them, it would be disasterous to the length of this comment and probably open me up to some sort of psychoanalization I don’t care to receive at this point in my life.
Also? LOVED Sandra Bullock. Used to live in Austin and she’d come in to eat at the restaurant I worked for, wearing shorts and a t-shirt like us regular people. Such a nice person. And yes, her speech was awesome. I also loved seeing Jesse James get all misty.
I am so out of touch with Hollywood that I “didn’t feel comfortable” watching. Like they were the cool crowd and I had no business there. Wait that may have been Andie at Steff’s party from Pretty in Pink. NVMD. Anyway – Sweet Home Alabama for some reason seems to stop me in my tracks that and any John Hughes film
Have a great week Big Mama.
I loved Matt Damon’s wifes dress, it was my favorite. And speaking of Matt Damon and movies:
The Bourne Trilogy – love them all
Star Wars 1-6 – I seriously love the marathons days
Legends of the Fall – Brad Pitt, need I say more?
Steel Magnolias
Braveheart
Sweet Home Alabama
Top Gun
Fried Green Tomatoes
I’ll stop there.
I actually wrote a post a while ago on my Top 5 favorite movies. I forgot about Coal Miner’s Daughter though, I love that movie, I can totally relate to it because I was born in that area and know that is exactly how it used to be!!!
So for the rest of my favorites, here is a link to my top 5 list.
http://imissmayberry-dee.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-have-been-thinking-about-this-while-i.html
Father of the Bride
Grease
Footloose
Okay, your weekend schedule is all to real. Meanwhile, Sweet Home Alabama works for me. Love the Tiffany’s scene… even though she so was not meant for him.
Forces of Nature…Love that Sandra Bullock
Yes… I too felt that twinge. The 80′s were a blast!
1) Sixteen Candles
Dan In Real Life
2) The Wedding Singer
3) The Count of Monte Christo
4) Fried Green Tomatoes
5) Steel Magnolias
6) Blast From the Past
7) Anne of Green Gables
I have more…but these are just a few….that I looooove!
I just heard about ur blog tonight, at a writing class where a girl named Annie spoke, and I think she said ya’ll are friends.
I think you and I may be twin sisters separated at birth, or kindred spirits at the very least.
Susan
(I’l let ya in on a little secret, that ‘s my “alias”, for like when I order take-out at a chinese place and they cannot pronounce my name…the a is soft. suzahhnn)
The movies I would stop and ruin an entire day of doing housework for are:
1. Dances With Wolves
2. A Christmas Story
3. Mr. Holland’s Opus
4. Zoolander
5. Fight Club
6. Legally Blonde
I too am not so interested in freaky, blue characters. So, I didn’t really mind that Avatar didn’t win either. On another note, you inspired me to create a movie list of my own (www.shoestoblues.blogspot.com). Oh the things I could accomplish if I deleted my movie package. Nonsense.
Sugar cubes rock! I may have to get some for my kids.
The Wedding Singer
Napoleon Dynamite
Any John Wayne movie
Any Godfather movie
Steele Magnolias
Parenthood (I cry EVERY time at the end when the whole family is in the waiting room)
Forrest Gump
I didn’t watch the awards show last night. Movies I ALWAYS stop to watch no matter how many times I’ve seen them include Dirty Dancing, Pretty Woman, & Steel Magnolias!
Cool Rider. Oh yes. BEST. SCENE. EVER.
I am a sucker for the old musicals. Annie, Oklahoma, Sound of Music. I will never turn off Rodgers and Hammerstein.
And I loved Sandra Bullock’s look and her shiny, shiny hair, too. Somehow when I try to get mine that shiny, it just looks really, really greasy. Maybe I’m just not wearing the right bedazzled cocktail dress to pull it off.
Sandra’s dress was the best of the entire night. And I actually loved Avatar for it’s INCREDIBLE eye-popping special effects, but I was rooting for The Hurt Locker and so I was glad they won for various reasons. Personally, I’ll stop and watch almost any movie, but here are my top favs of all time:
You’ve Got Mail (it’s great for while you’re ironing because let’s face it, we all know this one by heart anyway and you can see all the faces in your head.)
Steel Magnolias (So many one-liners, so little time.)
Little Women (1994. I weep.)
Only You (am I the only one who loved Robert Downey Jr. pre-rehab?)
Polyanna (and basically anything else with Haley Mills; hello Summer Magic!)
A woman after my own heart. I LOVE Grease 2. I think I can recite every word to the entire movie. Plus I’m alittle fond of the character Michele Pfiefer plays. We share the same name.
Love the site. Will be back.
Stephanie M.
Loved Sandra’s dress, and Cameron Diaz looked fab, for once. she seems to try so hard to look bad most times.
Movies I watch over and over and . . .
Lonesome Dove, yes please.
Russell Crowe in Master and Commander and A Good Year
Bridget Jones I and II—yes, Colin Firth
Crying movies: The Color Purple, Little Man Tate, Ghost
Red October
Sleeping With the Enemy(sad but true)
The Sound of Music
Wizard of Oz
and any Doris Day Flick
I know I’m a few days late on this one but here we go (in no particular order):
Pride & Prejudice – the BBC masterpiece version OR the Keira Knightley version
You’ve Got Mail – I just can’t help myself
Back to the Future I, II or III
Singing in the Rain
Hope Floats
The Village
Steel Magnolias
Lord of the Rings – all of them!
Harry Potter – all of them!
Father of the Bride I or II
Sandra Bullock is one of my all-time favorite actresses, so she could have worn a trashbag to the Oscars and I would have been into it. However, the dress she really wore (instead of a trashbag) was GORGEOUS. Kristen Stewart’s dress was also very nice, in my opinion.
Pride and Prejudice – version with Colin Firth
Sixteen Candles
Miss Congeniality
And I’m with you on Grease 1 and 2. What ever happened to that British dude?