<p>Some older movies I love that are not chick flicks are the Christopher Guest movies - </p>
<p>Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman, The Mighty Wind and Spinal Tap. </p>
<p>Recently, one of my favorites is Little Miss Sunshine.</p>
<p>For Hubs and Wives…</p>
<p>The Lives of Others
Waitress (just released on dvd)
Chicago
Cinema Paradiso
A Beautiful Mind
Little Miss Sunshine
The Departed
As Good As It Gets
The Notebook
Four Weddings and A Funeral
Love Actually
The Fugitive
Fried Green Tomatoes
Working Girl
Rain Man
Witness
Tootsie
Crimes and Misdemeaners
When Harry Met Sally
Annie Hall
The Thomas Crown Affair (With Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo)
A Clockwork Orange (I’m kidding).</p>
<p>Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row” with Nick Nolte and Debra Winger is one of my all-time favorites.</p>
<p>One more- Fanny and Alexander. Both of us hated it when in our 20s. H and I watched it 10 years later and absolutely loved it.</p>
<p>Those are great recommendations, thanks for those!</p>
<p>I forgot about the Thomas Crown Affair (that was an awesome hub/wife flick!).</p>
<p>JHS–“Before Sunset” was definitely painfully pessimistic (& realistic) re: adult relationships (I identified w/a lot of the guy’s thoughts…!). Maybe that why hub hated it (moreso than the talkiness).</p>
<p>Love Actually would never work with my h. Hates all Hugh Grant films. Same with Fried Green Tomatoes and Four Weddings and a Funeral - I know not to even try them.
We have lots of common ground - but I won’t watch violent war movies (think Saving Private Ryan) and he won’t watch what he calls “chick flicks” - like Brigid Jones Diary.
Thomas Crown Affair works though. And we loved Best in Show. Great flick.
Another one we liked: Sneakers. Redford’s getting a bit old in this but still looks good to me! Not a great movie but certainly a fun movie.</p>
<p>I also can’t even begin to think about watching Saving Private Ryan, toneranger. Hub & I saw Bridgit Jones’ Diary in the theater–it was definitely a bit much on the female side for him (showed the side of women men generally dislike & thus likely don’t care to see on the big screen – weight & relationship obsessions, etc.).</p>
<p>I saw a cute movie the other night “Just Like Heaven” w/Reese Witherspoone & Mark Ruffalo. It was really, really sweet & romantic. Didn’t see it w/hub, but thinking that it might not be completely unpalatable for a guy…!</p>
<p>Toneranger, if your husband hates Hugh Grant, Love Actually is going to be a problem. There is a scene in Love Actually where one of the characters, played by Andrew Lincoln (who is excellent), makes a video of Keira Knightly at her wedding. When Keira Knightly realizes what is going on …and then says, “It’s all of me”… Plus I love the music in that scene. Both pieces. I think it is one of the best scenes ever filmed. I think most men would enjoy seeing that video. 
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<p>Here is the link. A minute of the scene is cut off at the beginning which takes away from the scene, but I can’t find the full version in English.</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Sad moment in Love Actually](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0GqVpW2A1w]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0GqVpW2A1w)</p>
<p>Now if you speak Italian…</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Love Actually: Juliet and Mark scene 1 (ITA)](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3lO_MnqRwM&feature=related]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3lO_MnqRwM&feature=related)</p>
<p>I also love this scene.</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Love Actually](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA8q2iTTj14&feature=related]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA8q2iTTj14&feature=related)</p>
<p>I love Fried Green Tomatoes. Hugh Grant isn’t in that one. </p>
<p>I’m probably not a real man. :)</p>
<p>Amazing Grace was recently released on DVD and it is excellent–history, romance, social conscience, fine acting–entertaining but not too fluffy. Both my husband and I liked it very much.</p>
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<p>Absolutely! This is one of my husband’s all time favorites. I like it too - just not as much as he does. Robert Redford, and Meryl Streep.</p>
<p>An American President - a romance, a younger Michael Douglas, some hysterical (but intelligent) dialogue.</p>
<p>I wasn’t sure if H would like it, but we rented The Notebook. He actually shed tears. Very touching movie.</p>
<p>dstark–those are my two very favorite scenes from Love, Actually. The video one is such an beautiful visual of his feelings for her. The sign scene is touching. So much more powerful because it’s the reticent guy revealing his true emotions. Thanks for linking them.</p>
<p>Guys do stuff like that in real life…don’t they? At some point?? lol</p>
<p>dstark–if you don’t mind my asking—why do you think guys would like those scenes? Don’t they hate to show their feelings and prefer to do it via earning money for us & building things? (gross generalization, yes). Or, would they really like to be emotional? </p>
<p>Sorry to highjack this w/a relationship question, lol.</p>
<p>I think you can hijack your own thread.:)</p>
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<p>From memory: “Dig it, Miss Wade! You’re the president’s girlfriend!”</p>
<p>I liked it a lot, even though the politics is pretty shallow and more than a little hard to believe. The relationship is great. How would the president order flowers for a woman without his staff doing it for him?</p>
<p>Did you know it was written by Aaron Sorkin?</p>
<p>Hm. I must be an old cynic because D and I thought the Notebook was the funniest movie we ever saw. The Alzheimer’s section was just so sappy and manipulative, and I speak as someone with that disease in the family.</p>
<p>Luckily, no one was in the theater the day we saw it.</p>
<p>S watched it at Williams; the girls finally said he was not allowed to open his mouth again!</p>
<p>Haven’t actually tested it on H.</p>
<p>Beautiful movie: Girl in the Cafe – political and a very unlikely love story with Kelly McDonald of Gosford Park (good one) and Bill Nighy (Love Actually) and a discussion of the Milennium goals. Background of Rekyvik (sp?) and wonderful Icelandic music. </p>
<p>Written by Richard Curtis (Love Actually) directed by David Yates (Harry Potter V).</p>
<p>WashDad: One can see the genesis of West Wing and the reuse of several actors – Martin Sheen, girl who later plays Ellie, +.</p>
<p>Oh, mythmom, I’m glad to hear you say that. I also laughed out loud at the Notebook and its ridiculous take on Alzheimers - and I lost my mom to the disease in 2000. Unfortunately I saw the movie with a friend who was very involved in the story and did <em>NOT</em> appreciate my snorts.</p>
<p>Also checking in to second the rec for the Christopher Guest mockumentaries. H & I both love those.</p>
<p>Love Actually is one of my favorite movies ever! Thanks for the links, Dstark.</p>
<p>I also really liked Fried Green Tomatoes.</p>
<p>And even though I love “mushy” (think Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, When Harry Met Sally (loved that one!), Heaven Can Wait, Love Story, etc.), I hated The Notebook. It’s like they were trying WAY too hard! Most of my friends did not agree with me, though.</p>
<p>Oh, also loved Cinema Paradiso, and another great one (but major tear jerker) is Life is Beautiful.</p>
<p>Dstark,</p>
<p>Upon reviewing your list, I just realized you’re just a hopeless romantic…and that’s a good thing! :)</p>
<p>Sleepless in Seattle makes fun of H/W movie preferences :)</p>
<p>Jolynne Smith, some guys would like those scenes and some would be totally turned off by them. We are not all the same. </p>
<p>There was a book I read (I can’t remember the title) where you take this test and you see how manly you are by your score. 30 was top. All I can say is, I was more manly than my wife who also took the test. :)</p>
<p>The older I get and the older my kids get the more emotional I get. (I used to suppress these emotions). Now I don’t care. What is …is. I find this with many men. </p>
<p>Those are the men I hang around with. :)</p>
<p>Those scenes. Keira is beautiful. I love the way she was filmed. I love the way she speaks and moves. I love the music. I thought the actor (Andrew Lincoln, who should be in more movies) was great, and obviously I can relate on some level.</p>
<p>Jolynne, and curiousmother, you have good taste. :)</p>
<p>Curiousmother, yes I am.</p>