Favorite Movies & Favorite Series
 

What are your all-time favorites? And what are you watching now?

I love period pieces. I just watched Dr. Thorne on Amazon. It is set in Victorian England (which I love.) It was a four part mini-series. I highly recommend it. I am also watching Under the Dome. It is interesting so far. I always wonder what sort of drugs Stephen King is taking when he writes some of his crazy stories. I like a good plot twist. I also love forensic science. My lists are not all-inclusive.

Top favorite movies: 1. Forest Gump 2. The Notebook 3. Far and Away 4.The Others 5. The Sixth Sense 6. Gone With the Wind. 7. Intersection. 8. Shrek. 9. The Incredibles 10. Castaway 11. Up. 12. Somewhere in Time. 13. Sleepless in Seattle. 14. Rodger's & Hammerstein's Cinderella (from 1968, with Lesley Ann Warren and Stuart Damon)

Top favorite series: 1. Dark Shadows. 2. Reign. 3. Ugly Betty. 4. Bewitched. 5. I Dream of Genie. 6. True Blood. 7. The Walking Dead. 8. Mad Men. 9. Lie to Me. 10. Merlin. 11. Lost. 12. Little House on the Prarie. 13. Boardwalk Empire. 14. Carnival

My Kindle has a mind of its own. (It was not my intention to put periods after every title.)

Movies: (1) To Kill a Mockingbird, (2) Princess Bride (3) Maltese Falcon (4) African Queen (5) Sleepers (6) Saving Private Ryan (7) Good Will Hunting (8) Shawshank Redemption (9) The Green Mile (10) Casablanca....not in any particular order

Books: (1) To Kill a Mockingbird (2) The Green Mile (3) Harry Potter series (4) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (5) Daddy Long Legs (6) Jennifer Chiaverinni quilt books (Elm Creek series) (7) The Good Earth (8) Stuart Woods books (any) (9) Jonathon Kellerman books (10) Faye Kellerman books...and too many others to mention

TV: Not many...watching "The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross" now. Like shows: Family Guy, King of the Hill, American Dad and Futurama (mostly the "adult themed" cartoons).

Wow Sewingsew. I forgot about Somewhere in time. That was a super movie. Also remember Cinderella coming out just as we got a color tv. Now I am dating myself. One of my favorite movies is Paint your Wagon with Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin. So funny as they both sing

No favorite shows but I do watch a lot of History channel

Favorite movies would be the Hallmark movies (since I don't remember the last time I've been to a movie theater!).But there are movies that I've enjoyed (and love their DVDs or showings on TV):The Tom Hanks/Megan Ryan movies; Audrey Hepburn movies; some of the re-makes like Casablanca and The Parent Trap.

As for books, I read all of the Elm Creek series. Enjoyed it immensely but don't care to read anymore if Chiaverini comes out with any more. I've also enjoyed several "quilting" related mystery series.

My favorite TV shows are the old replays of the Joy of Painting with Bob Ross. Also one that plays at 5 in the morning on Create is Stitch 2 Fit (Hmmm, not sure if that's the proper title...). I also tune in a lot to the EWTN channel.
A lot of my TV "watching" is mostly listening while I cut out, machine piece, or stitch by hand.

I haven't seen The Sound of Music" listed in any of the above. Maybe I am too old!! "West Side Story" is another favorite.

Julie Andrews is awesome. Love Sound of Music and Mary Poppins. African Queen was a great movie. West Side Story with Yule Brenner was another good movie. I enjoy watching Bob Ross and his happy little accidents. I forgot about The Green Mile. That was another favorite. One of the funniest movies I've ever watched was Rocketman. I also really enjoyed the series, King of Queens. Ben Stiller's father cracks me up. Anita, I'll have to check out some of the books you like. I actually have How to Kill a Mockingbird on audio book but I haven't listened to it yet. Cjsews, I used to watch Cinderella with my sister every year when I was a child. It still remains a cherished memory.

I love the Hallmark channel...I find showtime and cinemax have yucky movies..horror, sci Fi..etc. I love the feel good Hallmark movies...I can sit and relax when I watch....lol...

Favorite movies (not in any order), My Favorite Year (and I still think that Peter O'Toole should have got a Oscar), Red River (John Wayne and Montgomery Cliff), Funny Face (Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire), The Lion in Winter (Peter O'Toole and Katheryn Hepburn) and some others, but those 4 I will watch anytime they are shown.

Favorite TV, don't have very many, but NCIS of course, Major Crimes, The Artful Detective and NCIS New Orleans are the most watched.

I just finished watching Star Trek Voyager, and currently watching ST Deep Space Nine and Stargate SG1. If you like an historial history movie, try to find the British movie Belle. I enjoy watching The Martian on HBO.

What fun reading some of these favorites! Made me think a bit. My top favorite movie of all time is Rodger's & Hammerstein's Cinderella. I love loved Lesley Ann Warren and Stuart Damon together (so romantic). I also love any movie with Kate Hepburn, Maureen O'Hara, Cary Grant, Donald O'Connor or Shirley Temple (loved the dancing, especially tap). I loved all the old movies. Any movie with Tom Hanks, Anne Hathaway or Meryl Streep. Favorite books include the Harry Potter Series, Outlander Series, Maria Bostwick, Daddy Long Legs (because my mother loved this book) and all the Nancy Drew mysteries. TV is a bit more difficult to remember some of them today. I always loved Little House on the Prairie series. I like the HGTV stuff most because I like to watch the process of how something is made or re-made over. And now I'm into Prairie Woman. Also like all the quilting shows and all the Hallmark movies.
Thank you for posting your favorites. Gave me so inspiration to think of my own.

Best Movie (western category): The Cowboys. Best TV series (Sci-Fi): Stargate SG-1. Worse thing to watch in any category: ANYTHING with lawyers!

ManiacQuilter I love all the Star Trek Series and movies, except for the last one. I saw that at the drive-in 2 weeks ago and thought they focused more on the action than the plot.

Joanie2, You and I have a lot of similar tastes. I love pioneer stories. Little House almost always made me cry at the end. In my family, everyone waits to see if I cry at the end of a movie because it's predictable. Then they laugh at me.

Joanie, my son was on HGTV. He was on "Isn't That Clever," featuring his lighthouse paintings. That was 10 years ago. Remember Danny Bonaduce from "The Partridge Family?" His sister Celia was the director and I think producer for it. I think it's called "Crafters Coast to Coast" now. Celia also directed "The Jefferson's" and a popular Nicklelodeon show called "Double Dare." One of the Carol Burnett dancers was the assistant director. They filmed it in his house. I drove from North Carolina to Maine to be there for the taping.

One of the things I love about old movies is seeing how things once were, like the clothes and the cars, the hairstyles and the buildings, etc. I reaaly like a lot of the old technicolor movies. In my family, we used to watch Mystery Science Theater. Anybody remember watching that?

I love sports.....enjoying the Olympics right now.....waiting for football season to start.

favorite movies - Demolition Man / Independence Day/ James Bond movies/ Elvis movies/ time travel movies-Trancers or Sliders etc/ from the black and white era I love the Thin Man movies and anything Doris Day / Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin/ Bing Crosby and Bob Hope / Laurel and Hardy/ I love the Beach movies with Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalone - one I taped along time ago is How to Stuff a Wild Bikini / and Beach Blanket Bingo plus more.
I also like Oklahoma / 7 Brides for 7 Brothers - this was made into a series in the 80's ? and I loved it too. It had Bobby Sherman in it if anyone remembers him. He was a popular singer at the time.


favorite series - anything Star Trek to SG1/Atlantis / cop shows like NCIS/all Law and Order shows/Castle / Bones / Criminal Minds etc./ Bewitched/ Relic Hunter/ Brisco County Jr/

My all time favorite is Ice Skating. I started taping all the shows in 1989 and until the ISU refused to allow it to be shown in the states I had taped all of them. but now they are allowing us to see them again after a couple of years of not getting them. so I will be taping them again. I enjoy watching diff one's careers along the way.

I'm also a football fan. tho I'm not fanatical about it. I do like to watch the NFL but not much for college as the rules are a bit diff from NFL I don't follow any one team but I do favor the older teams as opposed to the newer ones created a few years back like the Jaguars.

I think "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" has to be my favorite book ever. I've re-read it so many times. A recent favorite is Dean Koontz's "The City" which kind of reminded me of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" in some ways, except with Dean Koontz's time travel/spirit type twist to the story. And I love Mary Higgins Clark's books, even though they're a tad predictable.

My favorite movies are nothing like what's been listed! One of my favorites is Deathproof (I think that's its name.). It has Kurt Russell in it. Those girls really give him what he deserves. I also really liked the Divergent series of books and movies. And I love to watch the ID channel with all the forensic shows, as well as things like the Great British Bake-Off and Pawn Stars. I have very eclectic taste.

Bobby Sherman was the stuff my dreams were made of. Love Doris Day, Debbie Reynolds and the old Jerry Lewis movies. I always thought Annette Funicello was beautiful. I remember her as an original Mouseketeer.

I am a Divergent series fan also. I loved Kurt Russell in Captain Ron and also Overboard. I also like Isaac Asimov movies like IRobot, Bicentennial Man, and Artificial Intelligence.

I can't name my favorite movies and books since they keep changing. But I guess if I were to pick a favorite book it would be, "Gone With the Wind". I can't pick up the book without reading some of it. Still can't say what my favorite movie would be. My favorite TV series, #1 is "Perry Mason", it if is on, I will watch it. #2 is "Murder, She Wrote". And I love almost all things Sherlock Holmes. The TV shows, the movies, the books - I love the modern versions as well as the early ones. Of course I think Basil Rathbone was the best, but Benedict Cumberbatch is also outstanding. I even like Robert Downey, Jr.

Gosh, there are so many.

Favorite movies: Seems Like Old Times (Chevy Chase and Goldie Hahn), Lieberstram (sp?) old movie mystery, I just saw a moving on The Movie Channel, a French movie with subtitles, called Madame De, with Charles Boyer, it was so good. Mainly I like comedies, spooky movies (no gross or mad-slasher movies) mysteries. Loved the Harry Potter movies.

TV shows: All in the Family, Grimm, a new show called, Brain Dead (that show is a hoot), PBS murder mysteries, English comedy shows and I love watching America's Test Kitchen, although I don't know what they are going to do with show since they got rid of Christopher Kimball (that's sad)

Books: mainly mysteries, some paranormal ghostly books, comedies. Used to listen to them on CDs while sewing, now I read them on Kindle or Nook.

Music: I am really eclectic with that, almost anything.

Movies: Fiddler on the Roof, Christmas Vacation and most science fiction.
Series: Sherlock Holmes with Benedict Cumberbatch, Home Fires, Poldark, any PBS Masterpiece, Walking Dead, Better Call Saul. Most all the Netflix and Amazon original series, anything on Acorn TV (all BBC shows and series) 30 Degrees in February, Fortitude, and many more not on regular tv.
Books: I reread these a lot. The Good Earth, The Egg and I, The Camerons, Ladies of Missalonghi, and The Jungle. Harry Potter series. I like the Agent Pendergast books by Preston and Child, lots of Sy Fy. I just read a book called The Bees by Laline Paull and it is excellent. If you like to be scared, read The Beast by Peter Benchely ( he wrote Jaws)

Fiddler on the Roof is my favorite all time movie.

I watch mostly old movies on Turner Classic because they have no commercial interruptions... heavenly. Also love the old black and white Gunsmoke episodes on the Western channel. Waiting not so patiently for the next season of Better Call Saul....

Movies, in no particular order (I'm an 80's kid...)
Stand By Me
Goonies
The Karate Kid
The Shawshank Redemption
Saving Private Ryan
Schindler's List
Dead Poet's Society
Carrie
Toy Story
Beauty and the Beast (Disney animated)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949 Disney cartoon)
Misery

TV series:
Game of Thrones (I enjoy the books too)
Band of Brothers (short series)
Orphan Black
Mash
The Twilight Zone
Jim Henson's The Story Teller (wish there had been more episodes)

Books:
Most Stephen King, too many to list favorites
Black Cross by Greg Iles
Lois Duncan books (I'll still pick one up from the library for a quick read)
Grimm's Fairy Tales

The best movie I ever watched was an old black and white movie called "The Man Who Never Was". I also love "Fern Gully".

Love Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. Christmas vacation, Rudolf, and It's a Wonderful Life are my favorite Christmas movies. Trading Places, Funny Farm, and The Great Outdoors are all awesome.

Mac, I am very eclectic when it comes to music. I don't care for rap. Like almost everything else. Love Motown.

Gosh, I feel almost outta place... I can't sit and watch mindless comedy...Adam Sandler (all others of his "type") makes my skin crawl. A thoughtful comedy is different when you have to pay attention to catch the wit and humor.

I have to have a mystery or who done it ... someone usually dies and figure out the who, what, when and where. Sports bore me to tears ... overpaid ninnies chasing balls, hitting balls, dunking balls or dodging walls (racing) .

Enjoy most music ... most .... no shrieking electric guitars or a drummer stuck on the high hats. Don't ask me the words though because I make them up as I go ... much to the dismay of my family.

I have Dr Thorne added to my watch list, but haven't watched it yet. I'm watching the Lark Rise to Candle Ford series,I'm on season 2 now and almost finished with it. I also watched Home Fires, but they haven't added to the series and left a cliff hanger ending, hate it when they do that.What did I do before Amazon Prime? Favorite movies "Dances With Wolves,Steel Magnolias, Dirty Dancing and the list goes on and on.

I love the series "Murdock Mysteries" and "Doc Martin".

I'm with you Sandra, West Side Story is my all time favorite. I saw it at the movies at least 14 times, I was younger then :-). I also loved Godspell, saw that play in Boston at least as many times as West Side Story and own the movie and play it at Easter each year.

At this moment, Brain Dead is my favorite series on TV. We laugh out heads off at the very clever opening where a singer give you the highlights of previous episodes.

In an earlier post I mentioned that West Side Story had Yule Brynner in it. That was actually West World I was thinking of. Steven Spielberg is supposed to be re-making West Side Story. I like Natalie Wood movies. This House is Condemned with Robert Redford and Splendor in the Grass with Warren Beatty are two of her movies that I liked a lot. Westworld has been re-made into a series. It is set to be released in October on HBO. Anthony Hopkins is in it.

Sleepy Hollow, I've always been a fan of the Twilight zone. I love animation too! I have all of the Toy Story movies.

Some of the greatest movies ever made were The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Avatar. James Cameron is making four more Avatar sequels. They are being released at Christmas 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2023.

Betty, I really liked Dances WithWolves too. Kevin Costner was smoking hot!

My all time favorite movie is Driving Miss Daisy. I loved Jessica Tandy. Also liked Out of Africa with Meryl Streep.

My favorite book is the Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear. The whole series is fabulous. I also love anything by Sandra Dallas and Jane Kirkpatrick.

As to television I loved Downton Abbey. Now watching Father Brown and Midwives. British television seems to be more interesting to me, even though I sometimes have trouble understanding the dialogue. I used to enjoy NCIS, but when Ziva left I lost interest. Many of the others are too lightweight or too dark for me.

Yes, I loved the movie Out of Africa, Gone with the Wind, Insurgent, Allegient, Contact, all of the Love Come Softly Movie Series, The Sarah Plain and Tall movie series, and many drama and certain particular Science Fiction Movies, and I watch The Song of Burnadette over and over in about three different versions. I also like movies such as Daisies In December, Pride and Prejudiced, most of the Holocaust type movies (thought sad) but like to hear their stories. Well, you get the idea.

For series 24, Wayward Pines, Colony, and the HGTV shows, but cannot stand "Love It or List It." lol....or the "Property Brothers" who always lie to them. lol....I like watching the Tiny Houses. I like the Animal shows like "Who Gets the Dog" etc. I also like Flashpoint and Cops Reloaded, and Alaska State Troupers. An older show we love is Hazel.

Presently watching the Olympics.

I have most of the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and books left to me by my mother about the Amish Lives. Other devotional books, and some still to be read. Best of all is my bible (both actual and online).

Yes to Isaac Asimov! How about Ray Bradburys Blade Runner. I have a running list of well over three hundred favorite movies. Right now The Painted Veil is both my favorite book and movie.

Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Summer House starring Jeanne Moreau and book
Love Song for Bobby Long
The Help
The Secret Life of Bees
Shirley Valentine
Delores Claiborne and book
Gosford Park
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Excalibur

Favorite all time TV show: Twilight Zone

Current favorite book: Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

I love to see every ones lists. Fun to see what everybody else likes.
peace

JuneBillie, I loved Sarah Plain and Tall too. Also loved Anne of Green Gables too.

Ube, Love Lisa See. Also Delores Claiborne ans Misery. I'm a huge Kathy Bates fan.

Agree to all! :D I just watched Misery yesterday. I would say I have watched Delores well over 100 times. I put it on while in my sewing room.

Ube, Have you seen American Horror Story? Kathy Bates is awesome in that.

my favorite movie is Lion King. i saw it 16 times in the theatre and about 200 times at home, along with Aladdin. That was when my son was about 3--4. Love the Wizard of Oz. I loved the Goonies, but still can't get my dh to watch it.
books, Stuart Woods, Randy Wayne Write books too.
I like C/I channel and real life mysteries, and Jail, and anything like that.
Music, i like modern country and pop. I hate rap and acid rock.

Pride and prejudice,sense and sensibility, all of Jane Austen's books and the ones made into movies, the count of Monte cristo, gone with the wind and Scarlet, PS I love you, TV. series, Ballykissangle, Monaech of the Glen, MI5, the Grafters, Downton Abbey, Outlander, (have the books but not the DVDs on this one) Oliver's travlers, and many others, I like BBC America and PBS, I have 8 book shelves of British DVDs and really enjoy them, also have about 50 quilting DVDs, and one of my best buys was The featherweight 221 and I, both the book and DVD, so I can fix and care for my girls on my own!!

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"As to television I loved Downton Abbey. Now watching Father Brown and Midwives. British television seems to be more interesting to me, even though I sometimes have trouble understanding the dialogue."

I have trouble with accents. I turn on the CC captioned part on my TV, Works great and I don't miss anything.

I love stories about human intrest. I just finished watching the whole series of "60 Days In'. It's about a group of people who volunteered to go to jail for 60 days to tell the officials what was wrong with the jail. Very interesting. the new season starts tonight.
I also love My 600 lb Life. I watch before dinner, and I eat half of what I normally would. My heart really goes out to these people.
My all time FAVORITE is, "My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding". I LOVE the gaudy gowns and their life stories. I learn how others live, and their cultural differences.

Lynnie, I have watched "My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding" and also "Toddlers and Tiaras" with my daughter. Some of their lives fascinate me. I'm going to watch "60Days In." That sounds like something that would interest me too.

I've seen "My 600 Pound Life." I feel very sad for anyone who has to struggle with that magnitude of a weight problem. I have had heavier friends tell me some of their issues and I don't think the average person realizes the problems a very large person is faced with. Something as simple as walking down the aisle of a store and it not being wide enough, or finding a seat to sit at in a restaurant or theater, can be traumatic. I had one friend who had to pay for two seats on an airplane. Someone who is very large also gets winded fast and has trouble with mobility. They are at risk for a multitude of diseases. A person who is very large also has problems with their skin. Trapped moisture can propagate sores that have trouble healing and lead to infection. I can't even imagine how defeated I would feel to know I needed to lose such a large amount of weight. Also, people can be so cruel! As sad as it is to admit, when I watch these types of shows, I feel more like my own life is manageable.