Movies We Love

Shawn and I recently have taken to swapping our no longer needed items with other folks online. There are quite a few sites out there for swapping books and DVD's, but none are better than BookMooch and SwapaDVD.

We especially enjoy the DVD site since we love movies, but are also not too keen on the idea of spending loads to expand our current titles. Especially while we have so many disks collecting dust on our shelf (yes, Hotel Rwanda and Million Dollar Baby were incredible movies, but they're not the kind of films you watch over and over again). But this site offers the best of both worlds – get rid of movies you don't want and get those you do.

So, in honor of our new disks and the old disks we've always loved, here are some of the titles we own categorized for our convenience...

Romantic comedies* for which there is no good reason to like except for the fact that of course, we like them...

13 Going on 30
How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Two Weeks Notice
The Wedding Singer




Romantic comedies for which there is very good reason to like...

Guys and Dolls
Say Anything
Sleepless in Seattle
The Princess Bride
You've Got Mail





Movies which feed my addiction to all things Jane Austen...

Bride & Prejudice
Bridget Jones's Diary
Clueless
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice (BBC)
Sense and Sensibility
You've Got Mail



Overly girly movies that Shawn refuses to watch over and over again...

Drop Dead Gorgeous
Legally Blonde
Little Women







Overly boyish movies that I refuse to watch over and over again...

The Aviator
Casino
Cast Away
Catch Me If You Can
Gladiator
Rounders
Star Wars: Episodes I-III



Movies both of us will happily watch over and over again...

Back to the Future
A Beautiful Mind
Chicago
Dead Man Walking
Gone with the Wind
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
A League of Their Own
Mean Girls
On the Waterfront
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Star Wars: Episodes IV-VI
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Walk the Line

TV shows we will watch over and over again...

30 Rock
Arrested Development
The Office (BBC)
The Office (NBC)






Comedies that make us squirt milk out our noses (if we happen to be drinking milk while watching them)...

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Anchorman
Dodgeball
Meet the Fockers
Meet the Parents
Office Space
Spaceballs
Talladega Nights
The 40 Year-Old Virgin
Wedding Crashers

For when we're feeling heroic...

Batman Begins
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 3






Kids movies we are not ashamed to love...

Aladdin
Beauty and the Beast
A Bug's Life
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Finding Nemo
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Little Mermaid
Mary Poppins
Monsters, Inc.
Shrek
Shrek 2
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Christmas movies that are even good in the summertime...

A Christmas Story
Elf
It’s a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street





-- Lisa

* Film critic, Roger Ebert, once wrote that, "romantic comedies are the comfort food of the movies. There are nights when you don't feel like a chef who thinks he's more important than the food. When you feel like sliding into a booth at some Formica joint where the waitress calls you "hon" and writes your order on a green and white guest check." I whole-heartedly agree.