<p>I saw Lust and Caution with my sister. Ithought it is a very good movie. H would not like to see any movie with English subtitle.</p>
<p>We both loved Michael Clayton.
Into the Wild looks great - haven’t seen it yet.<br>
We saw Liar Liar the other week - thought it might be really stupid - but we laughed up a storm. You gotta like Jim Carey though…
Beautiful Mind
Motorcycle Diaries (really liked this - beautiful scenery, great acting)
The Fastest Indian (love Anthony Hopkins).
The Spanish Prisoner
All of Me (Great Comedy - Steve Martin is awesome)
Trading Places - one of my favorite comedies.
Forrest Gump</p>
<p>I like many (not all) action films and my h likes some of the art house and foreign films - so we tend to be able to find a lot of common ground.<br>
Good comedies are hard to find though…and my h refuses to watch the romantic comedy stuff. I save those for trips away with the girls.</p>
<p>We found this gem at the public library: “The Onedin Line” - a BBC TV drama that ran for 9 years. They only had the first year at the library - if anyone knows how to get the rest of this series - please let me know. It’s absolutely stunning.</p>
<p>The Onedin Line was a popular BBC television drama series that ran from 1971 to 1980. The series is set in Liverpool in the late 19th century and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its owner James Onedin. Around this central theme are the lives of his family, most notably his brother and ‘partner’, shop owner Robert, and his sister Elizabeth, giving insight in the lifestyle and customs at the time, not only at sea, but also ashore (mostly lower and upper middle class). The series also illustrates some of the changes in business and shipping, such as from wooden to steel ships and from sailing ships to steam ships. And it shows the role that ships played in affairs like international politics, uprisings and the slave trade.</p>
<p>H&I also liked the movie Gladiator with Russel Crowe.</p>
<p>I second the Bourne movies
<3 them
They’re not romantic at all, they’re totally action movies, but I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like them…unlike a lot of today’s action movies they’re not just an accumlation of a lot of things blowing up and random car chases—there is an intricate plot and a lot of suspense, fantastic storyline. </p>
<p>ACROSS THE UNIVERSE!
Amazing movie if you love the Beatles. It is awesome to see the visual interpretation of all the different songs, and it’s pretty crazy, when you think about it, that they were able to successfully and entertainingly create a storyline connecting so many of their songs. </p>
<p>ummmm. I liked Knocked Up. </p>
<p>Billy Elliot–quirky but insanely good movie about a poor English boy who wants to do ballet and is amazing at it, but must hide it because of problems at home, father wants him to do a “boy sport,” etc. fantastic.</p>
<p>Spiderman if you haven’t seen it. </p>
<p>Good Will Hunting–great acting, very funny and touching.</p>
<p>I’m spoiled. H is more sentimental than I am. I call movies mush that he cries at. But we both adore good movies. We go to film festivals, screenings, see gazillion movies a year.</p>
<p>Our first date, if you could call it that, was Kurosawa’s Ran which we both adored.</p>
<p>I will make a suggestion of action flicks with some psychological development and gorgeous guy costars. The leader in this genre, IMO, is The Hunt for Red October. Alec Baldwin when he was really cute. One of my favorites. The PhD geek bests the military types. At least that’s the way I see it.</p>
<p>I really loved the Bourne triology.</p>
<p>Spy Game has a fascinating and world weary Robert Redford. His Sneakers is also a favorite. Thriller, but with many cute guys. My first glimpse of David Strathairn.</p>
<p>Recently seen at Williamstown Film Festival: Grace is Gone. John Cusack not being cute but really acting. My S and H really liked it, but it is a bit slow.</p>
<p>I liked Knocked Up more than H; the kids loved it. We are just more vulgar than H; it’s a toss up between S and me.</p>
<p>H & I love Top Gun - never get tired of watching it.
The Patriot, Good Morning Vietnam, Billy Jack and the sequels, The Aviator…</p>
<p>Into the Wild - I took H there. He didn’t know the story and I’d read the book. Even knowing the story and how it ends, I still cried…can’t wait for it to come out on DVD. H really enjoyed it too.</p>
<p>How could I have forgotten:</p>
<p>Roxanne
LA Story
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Trading Places
*To Have and Have Not<a href=“Bogart%20and%20a%20very%20hot%20Bacall”>/i</a></p>
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<p>I remember this movie very well. I want to check this movie out and watch it again.</p>
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<p>In that vein, how about Troy? Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, and Sean Bean (in skirts!) for the women, and some reasonably attractive women and lots of warfare for the men. The new Director’s Cut has extra violence and nudity added, but I don’t think the story is improved significantly.</p>
<p>I second The Aviator. Terrific movie, and not really aimed at one gender.</p>
<p>A History of Violence with Viggo Mortensen seems to appeal to both genders. The second sex scene was a bit too intense for me, though.</p>
<p>We both loved Little Miss Sunshine. It was one of the few movies we all sat together as a family and watched this past year and really enjoyed. </p>
<p>I hate big epic battle movies which he loves. I fell sound asleep in the opening scene of Gladiator for example. Or maybe that was Braveheart. We can find a middle ground with movies like The Departed. Or pretty much anything with Leonardo DiCaprio in it.</p>
<p>I second “Little Miss Sunshine” - it was absolutely delightful!</p>
<p>These are great, great suggestions!!! I’m writing them all down. </p>
<p>I absolutely love Liar, Liar for some reason (only movie I’ve watched many, many times & laugh till I cry each time…maybe because I’m in the legal field?).</p>
<p>We both did like Troy a lot (saw it in the theater). I’ve heard great things about the Bourne movies too…was hoping to catch the 3rd while it’s still in the theaters.</p>
<p>Much appreciate the insights!! Hub would be thrilled, I’m sure, just to never have to sit through anything resembling “Before Sunset” again…!</p>
<p>I fell sound asleep in the opening scene of Gladiator for example. Or maybe that was Braveheart.</p>
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Ill take Russell Crowe anyday over Mel Gibson- I saw Master and Commander twice 
( I admit I played solitaire during the bloodier scenes of Gladiator though</p>
<p>I saw the opening scene in Bravehart (I think it involved the aftermath of a bloody battle–dead bodies, etc.?) and ran from the room.</p>
<p>Stereotypically female…makes it hard to find a mid-ground w/hub.</p>
<p>I saw parts of Master & Commander the other night, though (non-bloody sections) & it was engaging…!</p>
<p>Ha-ha. Before Sunrise/Before Sunset are movies that my kids and I (the dad) adore, and my wife can’t stand. You probably should have tried Before Sunrise first – a much less depressing movie, and both Delpy and Hawke were younger and prettier then. </p>
<p>Movies that seem to swing both ways in terms of appeal:</p>
<p>The Bourne movies (as everyone has said)
The Die Hard and Lethal Weapon franchises
Casino Royale
Pulp Fiction
Big, thoughtful gangster movies like The Godfather and The Departed
Classic hard-boiled detective: The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, Chinatown, Usual Suspects, Sea of Love, recently Gone Baby Gone
Exotic locale political thrillers/romances: The Year of Living Dangerously, The Sand Pebbles, Indochine, The Conformist, The Last Emperor, Farewell My Concubine, The Lives of Others, Gorky Park
Gross-out comedies with a heart: American Pie, Animal House, Fast Times, M<em>A</em>S<em>H, There’s Something About Mary . . . and absolutely Knocked Up
Actually, lots of Altman besides M</em>A<em>S</em>H: The Player, Nashville, California Split, Gosford Park, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Brewster McCloud
Tampopo and A Taxing Woman
High-quality martial arts movies with strong women that aren’t as gross as Kill Bill: Crouching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, The Iron Monkey, Hero, The Temple of the Golden Flowers</p>
<p>I got a tip a few weeks ago from this board - Days of Heaven. 1978. Richard Gere…looking fine.
Rented it and loved it. Beautiful. H liked it too.</p>
<p>If movies like American Pie, Pulp Fiction, and Kill Bill are making the list, then let me suggest Tie Me Up Tie Me Down with Antonio Banderas, before he came onto the US film scene. It’s subtitled, but if you’re a Banderas fan, you’ll like it. To me, it’s kind of the same as watching the aforementioned- profane, erotic, politically incorrect. But sort of mesmerizing in a train wreck kind of way. You might have a problem renting this movie as it was slapped with an X rating (although that’s pretty surprising if you’ve ever watched the movie- more like R to me).</p>
<p>“Upon release in the United States, this film was slapped with the newly created and feared NC-17 rating due to his sexual themes and minor violence. Compared to R rated films of the present such as “Basic Instinct” and “The Matrix,” this film is tame. Refusing to edit his work, Almodovar criticized the MPAA for its’ decision to market the film with an NC-17 rating. Due to this rating, the film did not do too well at the box office as expected.”</p>
<p>Thanks for all those additional titles!! Adding them to the list…!!! Interesting about the Almodovar movie–the kids & I saw Zorro & found Bandaras engaging.</p>
<p>Hub & I both completely enjoyed Casino Royale!! It had that great combo of action plus a fairly complex human/emotional component.</p>
<p>JHS–that’s really interesting that you & your kids liked the “Before…” movies! Blockbuster didn’t have the first so we started w/the post-mortem of their affair w/Before Sunset…! I love those talking flicks & this one has stayed w/me (ideas, emotions, etc.) for days. “My Dinner w/Andre” is a good one if you like conversational/idea-filled movies (my favorite for many years!).</p>
<p>Just checked H’s list of movies that he has with Netflix. I’ll spare you movies like Top Gun, Butch Cassidy,Monty Python,and Indiana Jones movies though some wives might enjoy them but here are some oldies that could work: Anger Management, Super Size Me, Borat, Bruce Almighty, Click, Chinatown, Tootsie, Jurassic Park, Cocoon, Philadelphia, ET, The Green Mile, Cast Away</p>
<p>I know most of these have been seen, and seen again, but if someone has missed them they might be useful. My H enjoys a lot of movies that were Broadway musicals like Westside Story too. He also watches any movie with sports themes (ie: The Natural). I really don’t watch those with him, but some wives and husbands might enjoy them. There are lots of them.</p>