<p>MiamiDAP - forgot about Green Card. That was enjoyable. Peter Weir (director/writer) actually directed several of my favorites during the 80s and 90s (The Year of Living Dangerously, Witness, Dead Poets Society & The Truman Show). </p>
<p>Breakfast Club is a semi-classic, also good, but I wonder if it would stand up today? Maybe I’ll add it to my queue.</p>
<p>wombatsoup - Gran Torino & Doubt are both already in my queue.</p>
<p>MiamiDAP - Moonstruck was ok, if my queue gets lean I may add it. Loved Nicolas Cage in Raising Arizona!</p>
<p>toneranger - I’ll look those up. (Grizzly Man, rather than Grizzly Bear.)</p>
<p>achat - I liked Millionaire, but adored Milk and loved Frost/Nixon. It was a tough year for the voting group, that’s for sure.</p>
<p>Saw Changeling a little while ago. I thought it was good. Definitely held my attention.</p>
<p>Once. Then buy the soundtrack. Just lovely.</p>
<p>Great suggestions. I couldn’t remember the name of a movie I wanted and just saw it on this thread Young at Heart. So many others I’ve liked or wanted to see are listed. </p>
<p>Another thumbs up for the previously mentioned:
Lars and the Real Girl
Last of the Mohicans</p>
<p>No one has mentioned (at least I think no one has mentioned):
An Unfinished Life with Robert Redford and Morgan Freeman
3:10 to Yuma with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale - a western</p>
<p>northeastmom - Changeling is in my queue.</p>
<p>pugmadkate - Once was my favorite film of 2007. Own it and the soundtrack! </p>
<p>ignatius - I just added An Unfinished Life & 3:10 to Yuma. Thanks.</p>
<p>Just saw A Wedding for Bella. It was sad, it was sweet, it was funny, and it had some romance.</p>
<p>northeastmom - I do love Scott Baio so I added it. Might be too sappy for me though. I have to be in the mood for sap.</p>
<p>I agree with that. You have to be in a certain mood for that movie. I also would not give it as great of a review as most of the reviews written by movie watchers on Netflix, but I did like the movie.</p>
<p>I just watched “Keeping the Faith”. I enjoyed this one. It was entertaining and funny. I just thought that it seemed to be a bit on the long side.</p>
<p>I just remembered one of my favs–Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It stars Jim Carey (in a serious role, and he is quite good), Kate Winslet and Kirsten Dunst. I highly recommend it.</p>
<p>Another favorite, although I haven’t seen it in years, is The Big Chill. Love the music and just about everything else about it.</p>
<p>S2 was watching The Untouchables this morning. - I was really tempted to watch with him! This weekend we all got sucked into watching Master and Commander again. Still great even though it combined different parts of the books, they really got the characters right.</p>
<p>OK, I watched a couple of films in the last two weeks…
In Bruges - funny in parts but not my cup of tea. I guess I don’t like black comedies- hated Fargo.
Frozen River - a bit bleak but I loved it.</p>
<p>“Hope and Glory” - a great movie, based on the memories of a young boy who lived through the Blitzkrieg in London in WWII. Funny and touching.</p>
<p>I was rereading this thread to get ideas for movies and realized I wrote The Secret Gardener when I meant The Constant Gardener in an earlier post.</p>
<p>3:10 to Yuma
Three Burials of Melchiades Estrada</p>
<p>Food Inc.
A must see for everyone who eats. For everyone!
The audience applauded at the end of the film!
I hope it wins an Oscar for best documentary this year.</p>
<p>^^^
yes, terrific and very informative movie. Don’t plan to go out to dinner afterward though.</p>
<p>Followed up by reading In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan.So I’ll be spending more on food now…and taking more time to prepare it. Hopefully, will save on hc bills down the road.</p>