Naps-a-lot Bear's Usual Suspects
My list is more or less in order of how much I favor them all the time (I don't really have to be in a mood to watch movies, generally speaking. However, movies do vary for me in terms of the amount of times I could watch them end-to-end without hating them. I will indicate the ones that I could watch forever with a *).
The Usual Suspects* (1995) (most perfect movie ever made; please feel free to discuss)
Tank Girl* (1995)
The Princess Bride* (1987)
You've Got Mail** (1998)
Labyrinth (1986)
Clue* (1985)
If Lucy Fell* (1996)
Amelie (2001)
Bridget Jones' Diary* (2001)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971; not the newer abomination)
Silence of the Lambs (1990)
The Secret of N.I.M.H. (1982)
A few of these movies I experienced for the first time with Lunanshee, like The Princess Bride, Labyrinth and Clue (and If Lucy Fell, I believe). It is interesting to me that we are each other's best movie buddies, but our tastes differ quite a bit.
--see 'Comments' for movies that almost deserve to be on this list--
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Naps-a-lot Bear's Honorable Mention List
While pondering my list of favorites, I thought about the movies that most often end up either stacked around the TV or that never get re-shelved because they are needed again too soon to help me make my list. There are many of them that don't deserve the title "Favorite", but do deserve to be mentioned. Many of these really intrigued me (and continue to do so) and a couple of them started out on the Favorites list, but kind of fell off the end.
Fight Club*+ (1999)
The Crow (1994)
The Long Kiss Goodnight* (1996)
The Boondock Saints + (1999)
Basic* + (2003)
Closer + (2004)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Equilibrium (2002)
Pride and Prejudice (both the 1995 and 2005 versions)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair (1990)
Goonies (1985)
I would like to note that Lunanshee actively despises both Fight Club and L.A. Confidential (as well as the Usual Suspects, which is at the top of any movie list for me). She would probably hate Closer too, but I don’t think that she has seen it.
She also pooh-pooh’s the BBC versions of the Chronicles of Narnia movies, but I loved them and still hold them in high regard. If you look at them with an eye to what was going on in terms of special effects at the time, they are really awesome movies. Sure, our modern special effects are doing the movies justice in their current incarnations, but I grew up watching these versions and promptly bought the boxed set of all three as soon as I knew it existed.
Lunanshee is entitled to her opinion on these, but I think it is a shame that she can’t get over the fact that the effects look pretty cheap these days. We both have strong opinions, which makes us better bloggers (perhaps), but in this case, it is my opinion that she is being a bit of a snob. Fortunately, I still love her anyway.
*=I could watch these movies over and over again (and sometimes do)
+ = a movie that I pondered over for at least 2 days after the lights came back up.
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