Movie thingy

[serene]

I got a bonus rental (customer-satisfaction bribe) from Netflix today, so I was checking out my queue, and browsing around, when I clicked on the link for "The Movies You Have Rated", and so I'm gonna list the movies I or someone in my household have given five stars. If you feel like it, go to your netflix queue or equivalent, and do the same (or equivalent). Alternatively, you could just list the movies you love. I have gotten some really good recommendations by asking that question in the past, so why not.

By the way, to me, five stars equals, as Netflix says, "I loved it", not "I thought it was a high-quality movie", necessarily.

In alpha order:



Amelie (2001) (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain)
American Beauty (1999)
Angels in America (2-Disc Series) (2003)
Best in Show (2000)
Better Than Chocolate (1999)
Bound (1996)
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Bull Durham (1988)
Chicago (2002) Top 100
Children of a Lesser God (1986)
Coal Miner's Daughter: Collector's Edition (1980)
The Color Purple (1985)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) (Wu Hu Zang Long)
Dogma (1999)
Dumbo (1941)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Equilibrium (2002) (This one must've been someotherguy :-)
Fargo (1996)
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
The Fifth Element (1997)
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (2-Disc Series) (1938)
Foul Play (1978)
Freeway (1996)
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Gandhi (1982)
Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns (2003)
The Godfather (1972) (Mario Puzo's The Godfather)
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Grease (1978)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Hotel Rwanda (2005)
The L Word: Season 1 (5-Disc Series) (2004)
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Top 100
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Major League (1989)
Memento (2000) Top 100
Norma Rae (1979)
Oklahoma! (1955)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Osama (2003)
Philadelphia (1993)
Places in the Heart (1984)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1958)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
The Quiet Man (1952)
Rain Man (1988)
Schindler's List (1993)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Sleeping Beauty: Special Edition (1959)
The Sound of Music (1965)
South Park: Season 1 (3-Disc Series) (1997)
Spartacus (1960)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
The Sting (1973)
Torch Song Trilogy (1988)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Just reading the list made me kinda happy.

Comments

[brotherelf.livejournal.com]

If you liked Dogma, maybe you'll like Clerks.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Loved Dogma. Hated Clerks. Go figure. :-)

[okoshun.livejournal.com]

Amelie (2001) (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain) *****
American Beauty (1999)****
Best in Show (2000) ***.5
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)*.5
Chicago (2002) Top 100 ***
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) (Wu Hu Zang Long) ****
Dogma (1999) ***.5
Fargo (1996) ***.5
The Fifth Element (1997)*** (I watch this repeatedly for some reason...)
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) ***.5
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) ***
Grease (1978) **
Little Shop of Horrors (1986) **
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Top 100 *****
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)****.5
Memento (2000) Top 100 ****.5
Philadelphia (1993)****
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1958) ** (Major cheese factor)
The Princess Bride (1987) ***.5
Pulp Fiction (1994) ***.5
Rain Man (1988) **
Schindler's List (1993) ****
The Sixth Sense (1999) ***.5
The Sound of Music (1965) ***
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) **
The Usual Suspects (1995) *****
The Wizard of Oz (1939) ***

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

was it you who gave fifth element five stars? it makes my little feminist heart shake with rage. it's pretty; i think the opera scene is brilliant, and i'll watch bruce willis in anything that isn't a war movie, but ugh.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

No. I didn't like the movie. It was someotherguy. (In fairness, I should say I didn't like the parts I managed not to sleep through.)

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Heh. I slept through most of it the first time I saw it, too. In all fairness to the movie, however, it WAS the 2nd of a double-feature, at the old Union City Drive in, which I saw as the first set of movies I'd gone to since Allegra was born. I was a tad sleep-deprived at that point. :^) (First movie of the double feature was MIB, not that you were actually wondering :^)

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Sad. I think the ultimate message of the movie is wonderful. The Fifth Element, the one that is the key, is, of coure, LOVE. I can't say I adore the movie and would give it five stars, but I certainly am not in a state of rage over it.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

that's not what i take the ultimate message of the movie to be at all, actually. but serene's lj is probably not the place to argue about it.

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

No argument, but a question: What DO you think the "Fifth Element" is, then?

[firecat]

This is a combination of my tastes and the OH's. Also we haven't been rating our Netflix movies regularly, so it's out of date.

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
As Time Goes By: TV Series
The Bone Collector (1999)
Casablanca (1942)
Das Boot (1981)
Dave (1993)
Fist of Legend (1994)
Gattaca (1997)
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (2000)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Incredible Adventures of Wallace & Gromit (2001)
La Femme Nikita (1990)
The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
Lone Star (1996)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Monty Python's Flying Circus (14-Disc Series) (1969)
Mother Night (1996)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
The Secret of Roan Inish (1993)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Still Crazy (1998)
Tampopo (1986)
Tootsie (1982)

[firecat]

As for "movies I love," this list leaves out Wings of Desire, L.A. Story, and most movies by Peter Weir.