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Besides books, what are your favorite movies?

Amanda #questionnaire

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Kym

Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal.

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Alyssa

Far and Away, Avatar, and The wedding date are my three favorite movies

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Claire

Love Actually, White Christmas, Holiday Inn, Gladiator, And I really loved Dunkirk and Murder on The Orient Express last year

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Anand

Prepare thyself, in no particular order.

Forrest Gump
Life of Amelie Poulan
Arrival
Up
Metropolis
M
Ivan’s Childhood
Life is Beautiful
The Dark Knight
Primer
Ajantrik
Meghe Dhaka Tara
Pather Panchali
Seven Samurai
Looking for Eric
Das Leben Den Anderen
Goodbye Lenin
The diving bell and the butterfly
12 angry men
Evolution
Motorcycle Diaries
Nosferatu

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AmandaQuestion author

I just watched Forrest Gump for the first time in so long last night and immediately remembered why I love it.

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Jessie

Up and Life is Beautiful are some of my favorites as well

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Jessie

Motorcycle Diaries was the one based on Che Guevara?

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Anand

@Jessie Yup

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Rita

E.T. I wish Steven Speilberg would make a sequel. Movies never live up to reading the book! 🙂

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Edna

E.T. is still my favourite also.

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AmandaQuestion author

Is E.T. based on a book?

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Rita

You know, that is one thing I never checked out is E.T. in book form. If a book came out about E.T. sequel that I would grab it, read and then watch the movie. 🙂

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Miriam

Pride and prejudice
Breaking dawn part 2
Mean girls
Titanic
Diary of a mad black woman
The notebook
“I know because when they’re on I watch till the end” ?

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AmandaQuestion author

Mean Girls is one of those movies that never gets old

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Miriam

i know right!! ?

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Jessie

Omg mean girls…me and my brother can recite scenes from it…???? it is such a great movie

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Jazmine

The Notebook! I cry every time I see it.

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Allison

@Jessie “if you’re from Africa, why are you white???” ?

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Shayna

The new It movie is my new obsession lol. I rewatch and reread Harry Potter a lot too

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Jeff

Anything with John Turturro in it.

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Jessie

Hayao Miyazaki anything
Gone with the Wind
Bette Davis also made great films and Judy Garland…lol I am a bit of an old movie enthusiast…also Gene Kelly?
Bella Lugosi as Dracula
I love well made true story films and biographies…documentaries and mobster movies?

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Anand

Hayao Miyazaki is amazing!

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Angie

Love and Basketball

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Gwynn

Gone with the Wind, The Imitation Game, Chocolat, It’s Complicated, Silence of the Lambs

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Debbie

I love Chocolat ❤️

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Anand

Loved Silence of the Lambs!

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Tram-anh

all Hayao Miyazaki movies, Aliens, Abyss, Patriot games, Clear & present danger (love Jack Ryan character) … I might miss a lot but this is my list for now

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Judy

Seven Brides For Seven Brothers Harry Potter Avatar Lord of the Ring The Princess Bride and Little Women

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AmandaQuestion author

Anybody want a peanut?

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Judy

Huh?

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Lee

I remember seeing Seven Brides in the theater when it came out. Great movie.

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AmandaQuestion author

It’s a quote from The Princess Bride that Andre the Giant says.

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Judy

Ahh ok now I remember

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Katherine

To Kill A Mockingbird

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Debbie

Westside Story

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Rachel

I’m a horror junkie. I love A Beautiful Mind, Sweeny Todd, Downton Abbey, and I got all 7 seasons of the Golden Girls for Christmas. I just own a bunch of movies that I love. ????

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LaToya

@Titanic
50 First Dates
Superbad
Life is Beautiful
Twilight Saga
Sound of Music
Back to the Future trilogy
@The
@Willy

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AmandaQuestion author

LOVE Back to the Future but mainly the first one

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Jerusha

Too many to name them all!! Star wars, fast and furious (all), Harry potter series, notebook, arsenic and old lace, holiday inn, anything Disney, marvel, dc, benhur, the lost goes on

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Cathy

Big Fish
Fried Green Tomatoes
Lady in the Water
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Driving Miss Daisy
The Color Purple

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AmandaQuestion author

I love Big Fish

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JoAnne

I watch classic movies and Christmas films.

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Lainie

I love Fried Green Tomatoes

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Lee

One of my favorites too

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Kariann

Thomas Crown Affair (Pierce Brosnan version), star wars, Harry Potter, Twister, Do you believe?, Miracle on 34th Street (original version)

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Griselda

To name a couple. The bridges of Madison County and The English Patient.

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Jqlin

Home Alone 1& 2
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Fast and Furious (all of them)
Iron Man trilogy
The Avangers
Thor trilogy
Captain America
Guardians of the Galaxy 1&2
And i love The Walking Dead

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AmandaQuestion author

Home Alone is my Christmas tradition. I watch it every year around that time.

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Jqlin

Me too ??? it’s my christmas tradition every year ??? but i only love watching the 1st and 2nd movie

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Sarah

Hacksaw Ridge and anything Marvel!

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Jqlin

Oh and how come i forgot? Spiderman Homecoming ??

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Lanny

City Slickers, The Breakfast Club, Flightplan.

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Ashleigh

I don’t watch a whole lot of movies, but my favorites are:

The Family Stone
The Wedding Date
Mean Girls
St. Elmo’s Fire
Sixteen Candles
All the Harry Potter movies
All the Twilight movies ??? (don’t judge ?)

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Paige

Harry Potter series, beauty in the beast, tangled, the notebook, a walk to remember, Aladdin

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Tiffany

In no particular order: The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Shawshank Redemption, Harry Potter, Hobbit trilogy, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Homeward Bound, Ferris Bueller, The Producers, Shakespeare adaptations, Monty Python Holy Grail, to name a few, lol.

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Barb

Michael!!

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Barb

Phantom of my opera, Secret life of pets

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Debby

The Exorcist

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Barb

Mine, yours and ours

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Serenity

French Kiss, Speechless, Lucky Christmas, Sister Act 1 & 2 , How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Lemonade Mouth, Kate & Leopold, Beetlejuice,Abducted: Fugitive for Love, & the list goes on.

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Allison

Love French Kiss!!!

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Laura

You’ve Got Mail, Groundhog Day, Gone With the Wind, The Color Purple, Schindler’s List, Heathers, Pride & Prejudice, and many many more.

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Briana

Top favorite is not a book to movie, The Boondock Saint. Book to movie is The Green Mile, The Color Purple, Fried Green Tomatoes, Anne of Green Gables (the Megan Follows ones)… and lots of others

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Kirby

Fifth element.
LOTR.
The day after tomorrow.

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EM

The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca! ❤

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John

Master and Commander, Narc, Gregorio Cortez, American Gangster….the list goes on.

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Sherry

Chinatown..the outsiders..doubt..silkwood..green mile..forrest gump..moonstruck..mask(cher)..the lost boys

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Steven

Transcendence

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Kiera

I love Marvel films SO much. Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars, Divergent, Hunger Games (though, Catching Fire film pissed me off). Most movies I love are action/adventure, sci-fi and fantasy ones.

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Allison

Captain Jack Sparrow ? *swoon*

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Judith

Reds, H P, Fried Green Tomatoes, Kings Speech, 4 Weddings & a Funeral, Robin Hood(Errol Flynn), the Client, Moonstruck, Sense & Sensibilty, Persuasion, & I know its not a movie, but Downton Abbey

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Judith

Oh, shoot fogot Godfather 1 & 2

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Kiera

Indiana Jones. I’ve always loved those.

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Allison

He’s such a hottie. ?

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Michelle

Steel Magnolias, Fried Green Tomatoes, Green Mile, anything by John Hughes. I could go on forever lol

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Barb

I loved those!

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Allison

Steel Magnolias ??? It guts me every time.

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Brigitte

Bringing up baby or anything with Cary Grant. Sense and Sensibility, Jezebel, Now Voyager

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Barb

King and I

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Stefanie

I love French and Swedish movies

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Gigi

The Heat, Love Actually, About Time, 50/50

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Randall

Predator, Alien, Rebecca, The Usual Suspects, The English Patient, First Blood, August Osage County and The Bridges of Madison County.

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Sage

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), X-Men, Logan, Capt. America: The Winter Soldier, The Help, The Conjuring, The Shining, Carrie, It Follows.

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Khalid

Fifty shades

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Debra

Somewhere in Time ??

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Robert

Much Ado about Nothing, Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.

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Femke

What we do in the shadows, Dark Crystal, the original Transformers movie from 1986ish and almost every movie Tim Burton made

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Caylynn

Anything involving Marvel, Disney, and DreamWorks. I also love a majority of action movies like Taken, Kingsmen Secret Service, Dark Tower, etc.

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Johnna

So many, it would be hard to list them all!

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Annette

The Devil Wears Prada?, As Good As it Gets, Shallow Hal

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Allison

As Good As It Gets is one of my all-time faves. My hubby and I can sit and quote the entire thing ? I ? Jack.

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Annette

Me too, I love that movie!

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Lee

Roadhouse, anything with John Candy or Chevy Chase in it.

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Mickey

My top 5 movies.
Beyond The Valley of the Dolls
The T.A.M. I. Show
Network
Shadows
8 1/2

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Jeanie

Cinema Paradiso

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Jazmine

Some Like it Hot, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Phantom of the Opera, Chicago, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Sweet Home Alabama, Mulan. I could go on lol I love movies.

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Emily

the lucky one. Supermen men of stell.

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Kandasamy

Shawshank redemption

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Kimmy

Dear Zachary, a letter to a son about a father. The best documentary I have ever seen. It made me cry and laugh. I was outraged and truly felt every emotion with one film. Please take the time to check it out. It’s on Netflix.

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AmandaQuestion author

I remember watching the trailer for it because there were other people who told me about it too and I remember thinking ‘there is no way I can watch this without bawling my eyes out.’

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AmandaQuestion author

Also unfortunately I can’t watch it on Netflix because I live in Canada and Canadian Netflix doesn’t have it. ?

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Kimmy

It moved me. I was truly moved.

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Allison

Sooo many….but here are a few that come to mind right away:

Something’s Gotta Give, Dirty Dancing, Along Came Polly, Shawshank Redemption, Boondock Saints, Bridesmaids, The Devil Wears Prada, National Lampoon’s Vacation movies, Practical Magic, Steel Magnolias, Patch Adams, and anything with Sandra Bullock, Anne Hathaway, Julia Roberts, Jack Nicholson, Robin Williams and Tom Hanks.

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Rita

Am I imagining it I don’t know but I keep thinking of either a movie or a book about a doll that comes to life and is evil. Thoughts anyone? 🙂

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Michelle

Chucky

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Rita

@Michelle YES…thank you Michelle! I find that very spooky and thrilling. I wish Stephen King would pen a book on that subject! 🙂

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Louise

Wasn’t there a movie with Ann Margaret about a doll that called the shots with it’s owner?

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Evie

Was it called Magic? I remember this it scared the hell out of me when i was a kid.

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Louise

Maybe I can Google Ann M.. and it’s come back.

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Evie

Just imdb it… It was called Magic and Anthony Hopkins was in it too

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Louise

I just checked and it was made in 1978, Magic is correct. Why the heck did that come to me. Ha! don’t think I saw it. Thanks, ladies!

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Evie

It creeped me out lol

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Evie

Sooo many but absolute favorite is The Crow.

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Nicole

Top 10 faves

Pretty in Pink
Pride and Prejudice (1985 version)
Some Kind of Wonderful
Can’t Buy Me Love
Silver Bullet
The Burbs
The Sound of Music
Mrs Doubtfire
Back to the Future movies
National Lampoon movies

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AmandaQuestion author

Love Sound of Music ?

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Meredith

The Pagemaster, Aquamarine, Practical Magic, The Holiday, Last Holiday, Dinotopia, and The 10th Kingdom, just to name a few.

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