Sunday Question of the Week
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Sunday, August 27, 2006
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What is your one-and-only, desert-island-with-electricity-and-a-vcr, mostest favorite movie? And why?
Also, because we show extraordinary taste when choosing best of the best, let us also sink down to the nitty and the gritty. 'Fess up to your Guilty Pleasure movie, the one that would never make anyone's Best List, even your own. And yet, you love that movie and can't help watching it.
Everyone in our community--StoryBroads and blog readers--Talk Among Yourselves.
Also, because we show extraordinary taste when choosing best of the best, let us also sink down to the nitty and the gritty. 'Fess up to your Guilty Pleasure movie, the one that would never make anyone's Best List, even your own. And yet, you love that movie and can't help watching it.
Everyone in our community--StoryBroads and blog readers--Talk Among Yourselves.
Patricia Potter
Tara Taylor Quinn
Maggie Shayne
Anne Stuart
Suzanne Forster
Lynn Kerstan
14 Comments :
Ohhh, good questions. My desert island movie would have to be The Princess Bride. I just love it so much.
I think my guilty pleasure movie is Airplane. Dumb comedy makes me laugh till I cry. I watch it over and over and STILL laugh my butt off. In fact, I think I'll watch it today!
Mags
I love The Princess Bride too, and have wasted way too much brain space on memorizing the dialogue!
Guilty pleasure... well, I don't feel guilt when I'm being pleasured. :)
Pippen
I'm with Krissie! Nic Cage not only does it for me, he fits both categories. Krissie mentioned some of his great movies. For me, Moonstruck is on the Top Ten list, but I loved his early movies too, maybe even better than some of his later ones.
OMG, Valley Girl? Does it get any better--or worse, by some standards, I'm sure. But I loved that movie. Among the more recent Guilty Pleasures, Con Air stands out for me. And I will probably see World Trade Center because Cage is in it.
There is something heroic and romantic in Cage, no matter how goofy or cheesy the movie--that calls to me. He's not ashamed to be passionate about things, women, life. I love that. I haven't seen all his movies, but those qualities are what make the ones I have seen my all-time favs.
Suz
Desert island movie: Pretty Woman- The little girl's dream of a knight in shining armour swops down and pampers her.
Also I liked An Unfinished Life with Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopaz and Morgan Freeman. This movie could be a book. A young unwed mother(Lopaz) leaves an abusive relationship. Since she has nowhere to go, she goes and takes her daughter to her husbands father(Redford). The father has never met his granddaughter. His son died when he was 20. He has always blamed (Lopaz) for the death of his son. Morgan Freeman adds some great comic relief to the movie. He has lived on the ranch with Redford forever. I never really liked Lopaz, but I think she did a good job in this.
Guilty Pleasure: The Outsiders- It was great seeing those guys and how they made it big over the years, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon (major crush there), Emilio Estevez, Ralph Macchio etc..
Oh and the John Hughes film with the Brat Pack. He always knew how to indentify with teenage angst.
My desert island movie is probably Field of Dreams...I love that movie.
Guilty Pleasure movie: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers...I don't really feel guilty about liking it (and other musicals), but I was teased by my family for liking it so much...I now own it on DVD and love it.
I love THE BIG EASY.... it seduces me every time I watch it. I also love GOONIES, because it reminds me of what kind of fantasies lived in my 10 year old mind. and of course, DIRTY DANCING. and TOTALLY ANYTHING WITH NIC CAGE in it
I must have seen Six Days and Seven Nights at least a dozen times and still can't get over Ann Heche in Wag The Dog. She is my all time favortie actress.
Ray
My desert island movie would have to be Dirty Dancing. At the time it was in the theatres I met my soul mate and after spending a weekend together he told me that the song "I've had the Time of my Life" from the movie, perfectly described how he felt. We're no longer together :( but the movie and the song brings back great memories! And of course Patrick Swayze is so cute in that movie.
My guilty pleasure movie is 16 Candles. I laugh everytime I watch it. I love comedies. They're my favourite movies.
My very favorite movie is "The Big Country." Could be my western bent, but I loved Gregory Peck's good guy and Charlton Heston's kinda bad guy with his misguided but admirable loyalty.
Runner-up is "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing." What a terrific love story. I know, I know. I'm breaking the rules about only one, but. . . it's really too close to call.
As far as guilty pleasures: "Ghost." Loved the music, loved the fake psychic, loved everything about it. Can watch it over and over again, and everytime I laugh out loud and have lots of tissue available.
My favourite movie would have to be Pure Country with George Strait........
And my Guilty one that I love to watch is Black Dog with Patrick Swayze, Randy Travis and Meat Loaf......
Cryna
Favorite for me, bar none, is Lawrence of Arabia. Great epic storyline, brilliant script, fabulous actors, scenery, and music--I never get tired of watching it. Okay, of watching Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif.
My guilty pleasure is really a pretty good movie, but I watch it more often than is natural. The Court Jester is high silliness, to be sure, but Danny Kaye's at the top of his game, and the rest of the cast is right there with him. Yea, verily, yea!
LynnK
Desert island movie would be THE PRINCESS BRIDE. I never get tired of watching it.
My guilty pleasure movie would be the Jane Seymour and Anthony Andrews MFTV version of THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL. I don't care if Percy's forehead curl moves from left to right and back again during the wedding scene . . . he loves her, so THERE. ;-)And Ian McKellen as Chauvelin is a most sympathetic villain. ::sigh::
Okay, my favouritest movie of all time is Brigadoon - "You must love her an awful lot . . ." just makes me sigh every time!
My "chocolate" movie changes tho' - if I need a cry, "Steel Magnolias" brings out the sob factor, especially just after the funeral.
But "Pearl Harbour" does it too - I start to cry when then plane hits the British Channel - just manage to calm down, and the planes from Japan begin their journey, and I'm off again. And then I don't stop 'til the end!
I know - I think I may need help, lol.
Desert island movie is The Crow. I can't even describe. It's my favorite story of all time!
Guilty pleasure: Urban Cowboy, even though this movie is probably the antithesis to just about everything I normally love in pop culture. But my mom watched it all the time when I was little, and I grew up on the music, so every time I see it's on I can't help but watch it. I'm weird! :p
-cherry
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