# favorite movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 24, 1999, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies/7215 "1999-08-24T00:35:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Misha77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Misha77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misha77)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies/7215/41 "1999-08-29T03:23:00Z")
I love almost any John Hughes movie. The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, all that. Hmmm… other movies… Dead Poets’ Society The Shining 4 Weddings and a Funeral Jacob’s Ladder Rush The Fisher King Lone Star Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Fast Times at Ridgemont High There are many others, I’m sure ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies/7215/42 "1999-08-29T05:55:00Z")
Harvey - James Stewart, “He’s a pooka, you know.” The Wizard of Oz - “Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more.” The Manchurian Candidate - “Why don’t you play a little solitaire?” (The movie was better than the book, I think. Put me right off hydrangeas.) * * * Bob the Random Expert “If we don’t have the answer, we’ll make one up.” ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies/7215/43 "1999-08-29T06:34:00Z")
Now that you folks have jogged my memory a bit, in no particular order: Dr. Strangelove Harvey Gone With The Wind The Birds Kelly’s Heroes The Godfather (I only) To Sir With Love Holy Grail Life of Brian Men in Black 2 Days in the Valley Eat Drink Man Woman Zandalee (NOT to be confused with Xanadu!) Leaving Las Vegas Fargo The Great Lebowski The Color Purple Nuts U Turn Slingblade Forrest Gump Zero Effect Box of Moonlight Life is Beautiful Sirens Clerks A Walk on the Moon Rose Dog Day Afternoon Fantasia Shawshank Redemption The Jerk After Hours The Spanish Prisoner Born on the Fourth of July Full Metal Jacket Fried Green Tomatoes Heavy How to Make an American Quilt Chasing Amy Happiness Annie Hall/Manhattan(I get them confused) The Groove Tube Shakespeare in Love Sophie’s Choice Bridges of Madison County Coal Miner’s daughter Silence of the Lambs Dead Again the first two Frankensteins Young Frankenstein …and the only 2 musicals that I ever really liked: Wizard of Oz and Hair. Not to be negative, but what was so great about Field of Dreams? Tried to get into it, but it left me cold. Wait, no, don’t try to explain. You either get it or you don’t. I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 1999, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies/7215/44 "1999-08-29T07:44:00Z")
To answer your question, TennHippie…I have no idea. I’m not a big fan of baseball movies; I wasn’t expecting to like Field of Dreams; I did not see it in a theater; when we rented it, we got Field of Dreams and a movie I chose, which I don’t even remember…and somehow…I ended up liking Field of Dreams… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-movies/7215.md?page=2)