Favorite Christmas Movies
Bernard and the Genie
Blackadder, Blackstock, Nightcrawler - awesomely sweet!
Miracle on 34th Street
Dutch girl scene - damn allergies!
A Christmas Story
Worth watching on infinite loop
Next: Non-Christmas Holiday movies
Easter Parade
Fred and Judy sing, dance.
Groundhog Day
Watch it over and over.
Halloween
Scream through all the sequels.
Next: The Movies of John Wayne
They Were Expendable
Got flak from costar: Duke [John Wayne]'s military service - Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports - Straight Dope Message Board
Stagecoach
Breakthrough 1939 role for Duke.
True Grit
Bold talk from fat man!
Next: Movies with a character named Virginia.
The Hours
Nicole Kidman with fake nose.
Spider Baby
Second weirdest movie I’ve seen.
The Last Man on Earth
Called “Virg.” Short for “Virginia”?
That was a tough category! Almost made this a zombie thread! but I got a hankering to play it again.
Next: movies with unconventional score choices.
Forbidden Planet
Electronic music makes flick SF-ier
Silent Running
“PDQ Bach” scores SF eco-fable
Raising Arizona
Yodeled Beethoven sets quirky tone
Next: Movies with resurrection that aren’t Easter stories (in honor of the holiday and the revived thread)
Movies with resurrection that aren’t Easter stories (in honor of the holiday and the revived thread)
Dungeons and Dragons: Almost killed Courtney Solomon’s career.
A.I. One last day with Mom.
Friday The 13th Part V: Corey Feldman, why’d ya dig?! :eek:
Next: Live-action films with talking animals.
Glad you did! You can search on IMDb.com for character names, incidentally.
Live-action films with talking animals
Babe
Pig and barnyard friends prevail.
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Cat, two dogs have adventures.
Guardians of the Galaxy
Don’t mess with gunslinging raccoon.
Next category: Movies in which Jesus appears.
Barabbas
Freed criminal inspired to believe.
Jesus Christ Superstar
All singing, all dancing. Ugh.
Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925: the silent version here.
Next category: Movies featuring rabbits.
Movies featuring rabbits.
Harvey
Invisible, but very much there.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Bugs cameos in groundbreaking flick.
Donnie Darko
Creepy rabbit bedevils our protagonist.
Next: Movies with important scenes shot in a church.
The Bishop’s Wife
Cathedrals are churches, aren’t they?
Elmer Gantry
Tent Revivals with ASM, also.
Vertigo
Chapel time brief, but memorable.
Next: Movies about Jews where no one is named Anne Frank or Jesus.
For Your Consideration
Movie about Purim within movie.
The Ten Commandments
Charlton Heston crosses a river.
Wholly Moses
Dudley Moore emulates Monty Python.
Next: The Film Oeuvre of Sir Laurence Olivier
Rebecca
Did he know the name?
Bunny Lake Is Missing
Better movie than you’d think.
Dracula
The only decent Universal remake.
NEXT: Movies starring an actor from Criminal Minds.
Eyes Wide Shut
Not big role for Gibson.
Reversible Errors
Turow adaptation; Moore played Farwell.
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Gubler was Nico (Intern #1).
Next: Wes Anderson movies.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Campily curious, caring con-men composition.
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Clooney’s cartoon character conquers crooks.
The Royal Tenenbaums
Prodigious progenies’ painful paterfamilias perishes.
Next: Woody Allen films.
Take the Money and Run
Bumbling criminal just can’t win.
What’s Up, Tiger Lily?
So funny I nearly burst.
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Hey, is murder so bad?
Next: Steven Spielberg films.
Jaws
The shark is not working.
The Color Purple
Took a lot of flack.
The Terminal
Based on true story. Really.
Next: Same title, different movie (I leave to whoever answers this whether to sum both movies in five words, or post two reviews per title).
The Avengers
Steed & Peel/WW2 Flick
9
SciFi Animation/Italian romantic musical
Broken Arrow
Jimmy Stewart western/stolen nuke
Next: Movies that take place mainly onboard a boat or ship.
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Why Europe has no breadfruit.
The Titanic (1943)
Joseph Goebbels’ MST3K-worthy propaganda film.
Lifeboat
Great film; best Hitchcock cameo.
Next: Movies that take place mostly on a train (and Strangers on a Train doesn’t).
Murder On The Orient Express
There are too many clues!
Silver Streak
Wilder and Pryor: comedy gold.
The Polar Express
Creepy Christmas kid’s cartoon feature.
Next: Leonard Nimoy’s non-Star Trek films.
**Leonard Nimoy’s non-Star Trek films. **
In Search of…
First popular show about woo.
Civilization IV
Everyone loves his technology quotes.
The Simpsons
“The cosmic ballet goes on.”
Sorry about the non-movie entries, but I’m not familiar enough with his film work to do it any justice.
Next: Movies about kidnapping.