BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies

Subject: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: RangerSteve
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 08:55 PM

I just watched "Hairspray". No car chases, no edge-of-your-seat suspense, no one got killed, the villains and good guys all got what they deserved. there was no deep message, and I was left feeling happy. Others I'd put in this categorie are "Harvey", "Princess Caraboo", "Amalie", "The Solid Gold Cadillac", I'll probably think of others later.

What would you include?

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 09:06 PM

Harry and Tonto:

But then, I wouldn't describe the movie as merely pleasant and satisfying. That sounds a little too innocuous.

I'd agree with all of your other choices, too.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 09:06 PM

The Princess Bride...
The secret of Roan Inish...

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: frogprince
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 09:23 PM

Waking Ned Devine

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Alice
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 09:23 PM

http://www.imdb.com/

some on my list of feel good movies:
Green Card
You've Got Mail
The Court Jester
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Alice
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 09:28 PM

btw, I LOVE Waking Ned Devine.

I just read on the internet movie database that a remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty is
planned for 2009. Horrors!! No one can do justice to the part like Danny Kaye. And
they plan to cast Mike Myers as Mitty. ooooh nooooo.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Amos
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 09:33 PM

The Illusionist.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Alice
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 10:21 PM

The Committments

American Women aka The Closer You Get
Men in a small Irish coastal town put an ad in an
American newspaper to invite women to visit their village.
Very funny!

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Don Firth
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 10:52 PM

84 Charing Cross Road.
When Harry Met Sally.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Mickey191
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 11:05 PM

Just finished "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"-very enjoyable.   

St. Patrick's Night-"The Boys From The County Clare." good music-laughs-no message

Sleepless in Seattle & When Harry Met Sally

Lastly-I can't believe I watched it and enjoyed the heck out of it. Great Dog-Great Kid Actor- "Air Bud"

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Alice
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 11:11 PM

Strictly Ballroom

Spinal Tap

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Bert
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 11:15 PM

Saving Grace

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 01:04 AM

Firelight
Little Miss Sunshine
While You Were Sleeping
My Man Godfrey

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Partridge
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 01:34 AM

An affair to remember

Now Voyager

Sliding Doors

All of me

I loved Waking Ned too

Pat x

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: alanabit
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 03:17 AM

I like Capra movies and anything by James Stewart. "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington" will always be a favourite, as will "Harvey", which has already been mentioned. "It's A Wonderful Life" may be a bit soppy, but it is another favourite.
As I am not a dance fan, the second half of "Singing in the Rain" gets a bit much for me. However, the first half hour and the final scene are some of the most joyful comedy I have ever seen.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 03:38 AM

It depends entirely on your satisfaction level. I'm perfectly happy watching the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies - especially 'The Hound of the Baskervilles', solid plot, excellent scenery, amazing acting and no bloody soundtrack drowning the dialogue!

Makes me feel better whenever I watch it.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: gnomad
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 04:10 AM

Chocolat... It will only make you fat if you re-watch it too much.


M.Hulot's Holiday... priceless


Anything from Aardman [sp??] studios - Wallace & Grommitt etc

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: alanabit
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 04:14 AM

"Chocolat" is thoroughly charming. I have the Basil Rathbone "Hound of the Baskervilles" on DVD too, and it's smashing.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Grab
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 04:53 AM

My #1 take-to-a-desert-island film is "Bagdad Cafe" - brilliantly scripted, cast and acted.

Two with Billy Connolly - "The man who sued God" and "Mrs Brown".

And I was pleasantly surprised by "Miss Congeniality" which was actually a pretty good film.

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 05:35 AM

That one by the makers of 'The Full Monty', about a gang of electricity-pylon painters - but I can't remember what it was called.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 06:21 AM

O Brother Where Art Thou
I second "Chocolat" and "Roan Inish"

My daughter goes to movies almost weekly. Usual comment: "It was great, mom. You'd have hated it."

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: John Hardly
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 06:54 AM

"Little Miss Sunshine"

???????

That is one VERY dark, disturbing movie.

How about...

My Best Friend's Wedding (hilarious, campy restaurant scene where the whole place breaks into "I Say A Little Prayer For You"

Or, one of the best low budget movies ever made "Breaking Away".

Or, James Garner in "Support Your Local Sherrif".

Or, "Bruce Almighty"

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: mouldy
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 07:20 AM

I'd go with Saving Grace too - watched it when I couldn't sleep the night after I heard Ian was killed. Thankfully I shan't be reduced to doing what Grace did...I haven't got room for the greenhouse!

Also, L'Atalante by Jean Vigo (1931). Watched it for film studies at college in 1971. Simple plot line, lots of imagery and an early subtitled talkie. It's one for cuddling up with a mug of something hot on a rainy afternoon. I managed to get it on video a few years ago.

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: jacqui.c
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 09:27 AM

Brassed Off and The Full Monty.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Love Actually, Bridget Jones's Diary.

I usually go for the action and sci-fi stuff but, once in a while, it's good to watch a movie that has that feel good factor. Today it is very wet out and I've just come in from walking the dog on the beach. I've had a hot shower and breakfast and plan to spend part of the day doing the ironing whilst watching something in this category. Absolute heaven!

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Stu
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 09:42 AM

Dead Poet's Society

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: mack/misophist
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 10:40 AM

In the public domain and available as a free download: "The Time of Your Life" with Jimmy Cagney and William Bendix. Wonderful!

I second SRS on "My Man Godfrey". Carole Lombard is beautiful, luminous, and hilarious. And William Powell looks like a real person when you muss his hair and put a beard on him.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Midchuck
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 10:47 AM

Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
The Great Race
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Serenity
the original Star Wars trilogy - NOT the recent prequels

Just my personal favorites

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 10:56 AM

Three ones with music at the heart of them:

Still Crazy
Oh Brother Where Art Thou
The Good Companions - 1933 version

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 11:18 AM

Arsenic and Old Lace
Godzilla (can't get enough of the old guy)

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 11:44 AM

The Goodbye Girl
Princess Bride
Mr. Holland's Opus
American Graffiti

Lin

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: JennyO
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 11:45 AM

Some of those mentioned, plus a few others off the top of my head:

Mon Oncle - Jacques Tati
The Party - Peter Sellers
Phenomenon - John Travolta
The Van - Colm Meaney
As Good as it Gets - Jack Nicholson
The Eighth Day - Daniel Auteuil (beautiful, touching French movie)
I Love You Alice B Toklas - Peter Sellers
Mrs Doubtfire - Robin Williams


I'm sure I'll think of a lot more.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: John Hardly
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 11:50 AM

Odd as it sounds..."Phenomenon" began a new perspective on theology for me. No, not toward Scientology *LOL*.

Good movie. Nice closing with the Clapton song.

I really liked "The Goodbye Girl" as well. I haven't seen it in ages, and I suppose it's as dated as the equally good "Barefoot In The Park".

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 12:06 PM

"Being There"

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: SINSULL
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 12:10 PM

Cinema Paradiso

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Mickey191
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 12:24 PM

A Christmas Carol-The best Version IMO with Alastair Sim

As Good As It Gets-Definitely

Ned Devine

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: RangerSteve
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 12:25 PM

Thanks for the above mentioned movies. Some of them I've seen, but there are a few I'll have to check out.

Let me add:
Scoop (I think that was the name, it was a Woody Allen movie.
Curse of the Jade Scorpion
Cat Ballou
The Thin Man
The Masque of Demetrius (or maybe it was "A Coffin for Demetrius", the book had one title, the movie another, and I get them confused. The movie had Peter Lorre as the good guy, Sydney Greenstreet as the good/bad guy and Zachary Scott as the really bad guy. The book, by Eric Ambler was also one of the best intrigue novels ever written).

Casablanca
The Santa Clause (I never saw the sequels. I thought they were unnecessary).
Bad Santa (don't bother if you're easily offended).

And o9ne with a title I can never remember: Bette Midler was married to Danny Devito and she gets kidnapped by two inept people and Devito doesn't want to pay the ransome and there are about five different plot lines that would take too much time to explain.

Rain Man
Tootsie
Hero (another one that I'm not sure if that's the name, but Dustin Hoffman plays a down and out guy who saves someones life but someone else takes credit for it).

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 02:07 PM

The French versions of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe and La Cage Aux Folles - hysterically funny rather than soul-fulfilling, but a good laugh is good for the soul, right?

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Wesley S
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 02:10 PM

Love Actually

Must Love Dogs

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Mickey191
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 02:14 PM

Ruthless People=Danny DeVito & Bette Midler 1986

Hero=Dustin Hoffman-he was top Drawer!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Wesley S
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 02:19 PM

Out of Africa
Ghandi

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 03:56 PM

Aargh! Gandhi

Mind, you're not alone, Mickey. Google gives 2,660,000 for Ghandi. As against about 17,500,000 with the right spelling.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 04:07 PM

oh..and "The Gods Must Be Crazy"...one of the funniest, cleverest films ever,

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: kendall
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 04:19 PM

Little big man with Dustin Hoffman
Harold & Maude Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort
Those magnificent men in their flying machines.
Those jolly gents in their jaunty jalopies
It's a mad mad mad mad world.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: GUEST,Phot, Just off Chile.
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 06:52 PM

Four weddings and a funeral.

Notting Hill.

Love actually.

Star Trek, First Contact.

The Titfield Thunderbolt.

Bill Bailey, Part Troll. (I know it's not a film, but it's so refreshing to find a comic who can entertain for two hours and not swear! And the Kraftwerk version of the Hokey Kokey is priceless!)

Wassail!! Chris.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 07:11 PM

The General (Buster Keaton)

Way Out West (Laurel and Hardy)

Sullivan's Travels. (Preston Sturgess)

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Grab
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 07:36 PM

"No suspense" - well I guess "Star Trek: First Contact" fits that one fairly well. There's been precisely one good Star Trek film, and that was "Wrath of Khan". Since then, the Star Trek films have just been an excuse for a reunion party from the TV show cast of whichever series.

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 08:20 PM

That's what makes them pleasant and satisfying, Grab.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: frogprince
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 08:24 PM

"The General (Buster Keaton)" Uh huh... we picked it up on a bargain DVD a few months ago. Remember the moment when he realizes his sweetheart has been throwing some of their firewood off the train?
He grabs her by the throat, starts to strangle her, then hugs and kisses her. Who has ever been in a love relationship for any length of time without knowing that feeling? : )

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: mack/misophist
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 09:13 PM

"The General (Buster Keaton)" is also in the public domain and available for free download. I kinda like "Young Sherlock".

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 09:19 PM

The Quiet Man

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 09:20 PM

And I forgot Frisco Kid, Willy Wonka and the Choc Factory, Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Joe_F
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 09:50 PM

A Taste of Honey
Yidl with his Fiddle (just forget what was going to happen to those people in a few years)

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: kendall
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 10:01 PM

The meaning of life
The Holy Grail
The Odd couple

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: GUEST,Scoville
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 10:13 PM

Best In Show, The Matchmaker (the one with Jeanine Garofalo), Cars (not really a kids' movie even though it's animated), The General, The Iron Giant (again, animated but not entirely a kids' movie), Into the West (the one about the tinker kids on the horse).

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Alba
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 10:20 PM

Babette's Feast
Now Voyager
The Butcher's Wife
Planet Earth (Documentary)

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 10:37 PM

Great memories coming back!!!!! Jacqui - I knew we were soul mates -- LOVED Brassed Off, Full Monty and Love Actually (jsut saw the theatre version of Full Monty -- didn't hold a candle to the movie). I think I watched Love Actually straight through twice at one sitting.

Loved Roan Inish, God Must be Crazy and Taste of Honey

Gabriel Byrne did a wonderful movie call either Into the West or Out of the West about a gypsy whose wife had died and he was trying to move into main stream socieity with his two sons -- they move into a high rise - along with their horse. Gorgeous film.

Tough movie but Train Spotting was pretty wonderful.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 10:49 PM

Bill D--yes! How could I forget Being There. Wonderful film!

John, I haven't laughed so hard in years as I laughed at Little Miss Sunshine. Maybe it's partly because I had a volkswagen beetle that I had to push start a fair number of times. It's also because of the Neitzsche. :)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: JennyO
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 11:44 PM

Oh yes - I'd forgotten about Harold and Maude - one of my favourites!

More that have come to mind:

Shine - Geoffrey Rush
Beaches - Bette Midler
The Silver Streak - Gene Wilder
The Seven Faces of Dr Lao - Tony Randall
A Hard Days Night - this movie holds the record for me of the number of times watched. I went and saw it 7 times - just about knew the script word for word by the end of all that. I've seen it since as well. You'd never guess I was a Beatles fan :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Skivee
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 12:14 AM

Hmmm, This far down the list and no-one has mentioned "Local Hero"????!!!???!!!
I must have missed it.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 02:58 AM

Mad Hot Ballroom is a wonderful documentary about teaching ballroom dancing to elementary school kids in New York. The kids are a real kick.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 03:27 AM

"Murielle's Wedding", with the wonderful Toni Collette. Btw, is this film well known in the States?

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 04:59 AM

Shirley Valentine
Castaway - Tom Hanks
Big - Tom Hanks
King of Hearts - Alan Bates

And a bunch of those already listed. Captain Kendall, I'd let you pick the movie anytime...good choices.

Lin

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 05:13 AM

No-one's mentioned 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'.

I also enjoyed a film I saw on television some years ago with Alec Guiness playing a man who arrives in a French village where, it turns out, he has a double who is the local squire and owns the chateau.
I have searched for this in film listings but can't find it or anything resembling it. Has anyone else heard of it?

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 05:57 AM

I've been googling - the Alec Guinness film was 'Scapegoat', based on a novel by Daphne DuMaurier, the film about painting electricity pylons was called 'Among Giants', and another film I couldn't remember the name of was 'Explorers', about some school boys who make a space bubble and contact friendly aliens.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: HuwG
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 07:33 AM

Rebecca's Daughters
Chicken Run
Kind Hearts and Coronets

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: kendall
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 07:42 AM

The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming.

King of hearts is a film that everyone should see. Especially in this day and age of madness in politics.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Alba
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 10:21 AM

Muriel's Wedding

I think it is pretty well known in the States, Tunesmith.
I agree with you, it too is a great Movie.
Nearly all the Movies mentioned, so far, I have seen and enjoyed very much.
Strictly Ballroom is good for a laugh and how could I forget Local Hero!

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: kendall
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 10:39 AM

I thought Babbetts Feast was one of the most boring films I ever sat through.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: kendall
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 10:46 AM

Lobsteroids. The worst film ever made. So bad, it's comical.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 11:44 AM

hmmm..and we have not mentioned "The Mouse That Roared" or "Brewster McCloud" or "The Wrong Box"

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: RangerSteve
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 11:48 AM

Someone mentioned "Willy Wonka", sorry, but I couldn't stand it. I thaought the remake with Johnny Depp was great, if you ignore that he reminds you of Michael Jackson.

Also remembered:
James and the Giant Peach
Big Fish
Corpse Bride
The Nightmare Before Christmas

(Yes, I like Tim Burton)

and this goes against one of the rules I listed in the original post, but I'm going to include "Edward Scissorhands", even if Edward doesn't get what he deserves.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: JennyO
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 01:45 PM

People keep mentioning movies I meant to list but had forgotten. Edward Scissorhands was definitely one of them. A delightful movie!

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: kendall
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 01:58 PM

Groan

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: kendall
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 01:58 PM

Father Goose

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Scoville
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 03:04 PM

I used to love Beetlejuice, and my dad votes for Babe and the Wallace & Gromit movie, and seconds Chicken Run.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Don Firth
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 04:09 PM

Lin in Kansas beat me to Mr. Holland's Opus.
Zorba the Greek
What's Up, Doc? I sat there and howled with laughter through the whole thing!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 05:12 PM

and..."A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum " Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton..etc..

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: kendall
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 05:25 PM

I thought Zorba the Greek was heavy going.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Mickey191
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 05:40 PM

How To Irritate People-John Cleese-A Howl!
Local Hero-Grand & The Scenery!!
Little Big Man
Tootsie
Lavender Hill Mob
The Graduate
The Fortune Cookie
Whats Up Doc?

AND


Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein---4 Stars

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Don Firth
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 07:21 PM

Yeah, Kendall, now that you mention it, Zorba did have a couple of pretty heavy spots. The fate of the young widow. . . .

I was thinking of how, after one damned disaster after another, they wind up laughing and dancing on the beach like a couple of wild men. But without the disasters, that wouldn't have meant much.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Rog Peek
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 07:32 PM

Haven't read the whole thread, so apologies if it's already been mentioned, but I can think of no film more pleasant and satisfying than 'The Ladykillers'.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048281/

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 08:44 PM

Trip to Bountiful wasn't funny but it was very satisfying.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: JennyO
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 09:55 PM

I would put Zorba the Greek on my list too.

Then there's "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" - in fact, any Pink Panther movie, although that one is my favourite.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 10:45 PM

Sorry Knedall - I loved Babetter's Feast. And whomever mentioned Muriel's Wedding - another great movie......there are just so many. Gregory's Girl and I actually liked Bend it lke Beckham

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: clueless don
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 09:22 AM

RangerSteve mentioned "Princess Caraboo". Two more from about the same time period that definitely struck me as pleasant and satisfying were "Widow's Peak" and "The Englishman who went up a hill but came down a mountain".

I'll cast another vote for "Local Hero", a long-time favorite. And I have to confess a soft spot for "Chariots of Fire".

Don

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 11:23 AM

Bill D, definitely "Funny Thing on the Way to the Forum." And somebody up there already named my two all-time favorites, "The Gods Must Be Crazy" and "Casablanca."

JennyO, the original Pink Panther with David Niven is the best of that bunch.

"Silent Movie" of the Mel Brooks genre...

Lin

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: JennyO
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 12:04 PM

Lin, I've seen the original Pink Panther - in fact, I've seen all of them - several times, and my personal favourite is still "The Pink Panther Strikes Again". However, as I said before, they are all good.

It would be a boring old world if we all agreed on everything....

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Dickey
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 12:05 PM

Eight Below

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: HouseCat
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 01:11 PM

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. And I loved Babette's Feast too.
A Room With A View. I was a starry-eyed twenty-something when this movie came out and and I would have given my eyeteeth for a George Emerson to come along - swooooon!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: RangerSteve
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 03:14 PM

Don Firth's argument for "Zorba" makes sense, and since I started this thread, I'm going to allow it, even though the scene where Irene Pappas' characther gets murdered is still vivid in my mind after all these years.

I'm getting bad at rmembering titles, but the one with Tim Allen as the star of a "Star Trek" type TV show who gets unwillingly recruited to help in a real outer-space war should be on this list.

And "Enemy Mine", not much humor, but a good escapist story anyway.

"The Incredibles"
"Finding Nemo"

Not much in the way of musicals posted here, but 'The Music Man" and "My Fair Lady" are two of my favorites.

Just remembered, The musical version of "Little Shop of Horrors".

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 03:22 PM

The Graduate [my favourite film]
The Goodbye Girl [my second favourite film]
Some Like it Hot [ film with the best closing line ever.]
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: kendall
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 05:12 PM

Captains Courageous. (The original with Lionel Barrymore)

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Kim C
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 05:29 PM

Cars
The Incredibles
Monsters Inc.
The Great Race
Love Actually
O Brother Where Art Thou
Raising Arizona
Amelie
Tootsie
A Christmas Story
Princess Bride
Willow
Revenge of the Musketeers
All the Harry Potters
Shrek I & II
Chocolat

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 06:05 PM

Lots of good movies in here, and a good number I've never come across that I'll look out for.

It's a list that could go on for ever. But I wonder, does anyone feel like elaborating about what they see as making for a "pleasant satisfying" movie.

RangerSteve started us of with: "No car chases, no edge-of-your-seat suspense, no one got killed, the villains and good guys all got what they deserved. There was no deep message, and I was left feeling happy." But that was in respect of a particular movie, quite a lot of the movies in this thread that quite properly fall into "pleasant satisfying" wouldn't have all those characteristics.

Quite a few where there's a modicum of suspense, and quite a few killings. Otherwise there wouldn't be any Westerns in the list, for example. And deep messages (love your neighbour, for example) aren't uncommon.

...the villains and good guys all got what they deserved... and I was left feeling happy. Those are the ones that seem to be the central requirements. And I'm inclined to think that one ingredient that I tend to look for is that there's some kind of ethical journey involved - for example in a film such as The Apartment or Uncle Buck. A flawed hero who sorts himself out in teh course of the film.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Don Firth
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 06:38 PM

Hmm. Okay, if we're thinking musicals, then I nominate "An American in Paris." All the music by George Gershwin (much underrated in the United States, at least until fairly recently, much more appreciated in Europe, so I've heard). The long dance sequence was choreographed by Gene Kelly himself, and I've recently heard it said that, in terms of quality of choreography and performance, even though it's more akin to modern dance than classic ballet, it's right up there with the finest of classic ballet sequences). Kelly is at his peak, the very young Leslie Caron (18 at the time, I think) is thoroughly charming, and the love story is both poignant and engaging. In addition to a bravura job of playing "Rhapsody in Blue," Oscar Levant's schticks are a riot!

Good movie!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: pdq
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 07:28 PM

Another vote for Cat Ballou and American Graffiti.

Charlton Heston did a nice little western called Will Penny. Good cast and good acting.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 07:46 PM

That Thing You Do
Life is Sweet
Harry in Your Pocket
Intermezzo
The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Odd Couple
The Man who would be King
Deathtrap

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: RangerSteve
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 08:15 PM

McGrath - There really are no rules for what makes a pleasant and satisfuying movie, except that you find it pleasant and satisfying.

Thanks, everyone who contributed, there are a lot of films I have to check out.

I'll add another, one that a lot of people hated, but I liked enough to buy it and see it about once a year - "The Fifth Element". It remeinds me of "The Outlaw Josie Wales", which someone already listed, in that every character is interesting and probably worthy of their own movie.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: kendall
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 09:16 PM

The four seasons with Alan Alda, Carol Burnett and Jack Weston.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Alba
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 09:38 PM

Lady and the Tramp ~ The Triplets of Belleville

Oh and this makes 100 posts..smile
Jude

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 06 Jun 07 - 10:13 PM

Ranger Steve -- the movie with Tim Allen was Galaxy Quest -- it was wonderful-- Alan Rickman was (as ever - excuse me - I am a huge fan) wonderful...... Sigourney Weaver was superb too. Totally funny - loved it.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Mickey191
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 01:22 AM

How could I forget "Simon Birch?"

This movie is fantastic!! I do not think anyone would be disappointed with this fine film. Ian Michael Smith plays Simon, Joe Mazzello his best friend.
The kid is witty, unafraid & does not suffer fools.

RENT IT! Your whole family will enjoy it.
___________
Following para. is from the IMDb site:
It is a story of a 12 year old extremely undersized boy who is a freak to many, a best friend to another and ends up being a hero. All through the movie he talks of God having a plan for him and that his small stature is a part of that plan.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: RangerSteve
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 11:50 AM

Trubrit, thanks, I'm getting bad at remembering titles.

"My Cousin Vinnie". Fred Gwynn is one of the great underrated characther actors. (I guess that should be "Was one of the great....")

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: kendall
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 12:26 PM

Mary Poppins, except for Dick Van Dyke's awful Cockney accent.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Don Firth
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 12:51 PM

HAH! Ranger Steve beat me by ——>||<—— that much!

My wife and I saw it a few years back and thought it was hilarious. We just got the DVD in yesterday's mail from NetFlix and we're planning on watching it this evening.

"My Cousin Vinnie."

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 03:08 PM

"Ernest Hemingway's Adventures Of A Young Man"

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: RangerSteve
Date: 07 Jun 07 - 05:45 PM

Don, you're going to love the movie.

Kendall - Dick Van Dyke's accent may have been terrible - I wouldn't know a good one from a bad one, but I can't imagine that role being played by anyone else. That was a perfect cast all around.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: JennyO
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 06:54 AM

There's another one I'd forgotten, that Kim C mentioned - Raising Arizona. I find I like a lot of Nicholas Cage movies. Birdy was another one I liked, with NC and Matthew Modine as Birdy. Won't give anything away, but I liked the twist at the end.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: kendall
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 07:16 AM

I agree that Dick Van Dyke was perfect for that role, but that accent....It's almost as bad as Tom Bosley in "Murder she wrote".

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 08:22 AM

But wasn't the dodginess of Dick Van Dyke's accent supposed to be funny? A kind of in-joke, testing Julie Andrews' ability not to crack up every time she heard it.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: JennyO
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 08:36 AM

Has anyone mentioned Dr Strangelove yet? If not, I will. Now there's an ending!

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Don Firth
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 01:59 PM

Barbara and I were going to watch "My Cousin Vinnie" last night, but wound up watching a movie I had never heard of instead. Barbara found it on the NetFlix list and, being a bit of a Joan Plowright fan, she ordered it and we got it in the mail yesterday afternoon.

If you're looking for "pleasant, satisfying movies," this one should fill the bill. Now, there are undoubtedly some who would find it a bit sentimental, perhaps overly so, but those are the sad folks who need their minimum daily requirement of shoot-outs and car-chases. Barbara and I thought it was a thoroughly charming movie, and, indeed, pleasant and satisfying.

Low budget, but a cast of superb British actors. Joan Plowright as the dignified, lonely widow, Rupert Friend as the young aspiring writer who more-or-less supports himself by busking and comes to Mrs. Palrey's aid when she has an accident in front of his basement flat. There are veteran actors playing some real "characters" who inhabit the Claremont Hotel. Lorcan O'Toole, Peter O'Toole's son, plays Mrs. Palfrey's real grandson (and a real dork!) who finally shows up at a most inopportune time. And Anna Massey is an absolute snort!.

Check it out. "Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont."

Try it. You'll like it.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: RangerSteve
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 05:06 PM

Another title I've forgotten, (I hope this isn't getting to be a serious problem), but the Shakespeare one, with Kenneth Branaugh, Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington, and, unfortunately, Keanu Reeves.

Which also brings to mind, "Shakespeare in Love".

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Don Firth
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 06:57 PM

That was "Much Ado About Nothing." Michael Keaton ("Beetlejuice," "Mr. Mom," "Batman") was also in that. Small comic role.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 08 Jun 07 - 09:40 PM

I don't remember Michael Keaton in it but Ben Elton was, and was very good...loved your comment, Ranger Steve, about unfortunately Keeau Reeves was in it......the first rule in our house is for a movie to be any good it must NOT contain Richard Gere or Keneau Reeves. (Actually now I remember Michael Keaton was Ben Elton's side kick in it.......)

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: RangerSteve
Date: 09 Jun 07 - 12:10 PM

Everyone in that movie was excellent, with, of course, K.Reeves, although I noticed he didn't get to say much. They probably omitted most of his lines, and I'm sure he was included in the cast because he looks villainous and they needed someone to attract the young girls to the theaters.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: GUEST,Seiri Omaar
Date: 09 Jun 07 - 02:17 PM

Robin Hood: Men in Tights
.... "Leave us alone, Mel Brooks!!!"
And, like many, The Princess Bride

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Micca
Date: 09 Jun 07 - 02:26 PM

I have always had a soft spot for Rob Reiners "The Sure thing" with John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga, it is full of wonderful one liners... like
They are hitching, and stuck in the middle of NOwhere and it is pouring with rain, Cusack is trying (unsucessfully) to break into a place for them to get shelter, Zuniga searches her stuff and says, " I have a credit card" he says " wrong kind of lock to open with a credit card"
She says "Yu dont understand, I have a credit card, but I promised my dad I would only use it in an emergency" (this next line convinced me Irony may not be dead in the USA) He says "Maybe one will come up"

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 10 Jun 07 - 02:10 AM

I'm very fond of an English film from the 1950s or so called The Happiest Days of our Lives. Sadly, it doesn't seem to be on DVD.

Alistair Sim plays the headmaster of a small English boarding school for boys, and Margaret Rutherford the headmistress of a boarding school for girls.

Through some glitch at the ministry, the two schools have been moved into the same building. For various complicated reasons, they have to live with this - then a set of parents come to inspect one school on the Parents' Day of the other, and both schools have to try to conceal the other from their own set of parents.

It's very funny, with Joyce Grenfell playing a sportive sports mistress, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Bert
Date: 10 Jun 07 - 02:24 AM

...The Happiest Days of our Lives...

Parts of that were filmd at the school I went to, Churcher's College.
Margaret Rutherford came and opened our sports day one time.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 10 Jun 07 - 03:24 AM

One of the great moments is when she's leading her girls up the stairs and they see the motto, something like "My honour above all" and she sniffs and says "One would have thought *that* would go without saying", or words to that effect, and sweeps on.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Llanfair
Date: 10 Jun 07 - 04:20 AM

No-one seems to have mentioned "it's a wonderful life" the ultimate feelgood movie, always makes me cry.

Also "Truly madly deeply" and "Ghost"

Cheers, Bron.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 10 Jun 07 - 11:53 AM

Oh yeah! Galaxy Quest. Wonderfully funny!

And simply because it has Alan Rickman being his special, almost over the top self, the much-maligned "Robin Hood" with Kevin Costner (who couldn't do a Cockney accent if you taped his mouth shut and recorded one for him). Alan was the only justification for that particular movie.

And since I have mentioned Costner, I have to add "Dances With Wolves," "Bull Durham," "The Postman" and "Waterworld" to this list. My favorite line in "Waterworld"? "Here come the Smokers!" Evil, evil, evil--Dennis Hopper had a ball with that role.

Lin

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Jun 07 - 12:04 PM

The Entertainers
G

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 10 Jun 07 - 11:20 PM

Totally agree that Alan Rickman being over the top was the best thing in the Kevin Costner Robin Hood (I can't quite remember the lines but am sure 'Cancel Christmas ...' was one and 'take his insides out ....... with a spoon...' was another.....

And no one has mentioned Spinal Tap or Kentucky Fried Movie---- both great films...

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: RangerSteve
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 10:27 AM

"The Mark of Zorro", with Tyrone Flynn, or was it Errol Power? It doesn't matter, as they were the same person. And the newer one with Anthony Hopkins and that Spanish guy who is really ugly or really handsome, I can't figure out which.

And "Barbarosa", a Zorro-like movie with Willie Nelson that didn't get a lot of exposure in the theaters.

I'm glad someone else liked "Waterworld". And the Costner version of "Robin Hood". It would have been a great movie if and English actor had starred in it. Otherwise, it was a perfect movie.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Gulliver
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 02:59 PM

Blue Angel
Cinema Paradiso
Commitments
Cabaret
O Brother Where Are Thou
Twinky (think that's the name, with a leggy Susan George)
Topkapi
The Producers (original version)
The Graduate
Casablanca

Others include most early Woody Allen, also films by a Neapolitan called Totó. Probably lots more, if I thought about it...

Don

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: RangerSteve
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 03:56 PM

I thought Cabaret was a complete downer. Otherwise, that's a good list.

Cabaret led me to think of Chicago, which reminded me of "Roxie Hart", the original, non-musical that "Chicago" was based on. It had a better ending than the remake, too.

Which reminds me that I saw "Roxie" on a double bill with "Mr. and Mrs. North", which spawned a TV series in the '50's, but the movie has Gracie Allen (but not George Burns), doing what Gracie did best, with her perfectly illogical logic.

"To Be or Not To Be', I never saw the Mel Brooks remake, but the original with Jack Benny and Carole Lombarde (I think), and a real yuung Robert Stack.

Tugboat Annie
Duck Soup
A Night at the Opera
My Little Chickadee
A number of short films that W.C. Fields did.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Don Firth
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 05:17 PM

"The Mark of Zorro", with Tyrone Flynn, or was it Errol Power? It doesn't matter, as they were the same person.

The 1940 "The Mark of Zorro," starring Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, and Basil Rathbone.

The saber duel between Diego Vega (Zorro in mufti), played by Tyrone Power, and Captain Esteban Pasquale (Basil Rathbone at his villainous best), in the alcalde's study is the best duel scene in any movie—ever.   [Possible exception:   the rapier-and-dagger fencing match cum duel in the final act of the 1948 production of "Hamlet," fought between Hamlet (Lawrence Olivier) and Laertes (Terence Morgan)]   

The "Mark of Zorro" movie gets no marks for authenticity because Power and Rathbone fought using the modern Hungarian-Italian style of saber-play that depends on light-weight fencing sabers rather than the heavier cavalry-type weapon, and the technique wasn't developed until the early twentieth century (by Italo Santelli, who was the Italian coach of the Hungarian Olympic fencing team at the time), when the period portrayed in the movie was early nineteenth century California. And the sabers the two actors used were straight out of a fencing equipment catalog (from the looks of the saber Rathbone was using, I think it had an aluminum guard, and I don't believe they had aluminum back in early 1800s California;   it was quite probably Rathbone's personal weapon).

But—both actors were practicing fencers. Power had learned to fence from his mother, who had been Ohio Ladies' Champion at one time. And Rathbone (considered to be the best fencer in the movies at the time) had participated actively in fencing competitions in England and later in Southern California. Neither actor was championship level, but they were both very good fencers and knew what they were doing. Also, in relation to most movie duels, in this duel there was no running up and down stairs and no swinging from chandeliers, and a minimum of slipping on carpets and tripping over the furniture. It was two good fencers going at it hammer-and-tongs.

Tyrone Flynn, or was it Errol Power? It doesn't matter, as they were the same person.

Well, actually, it does matter. As noted, Tyrone Power was a pretty good fencer. Errol Flynn, on the other hand, was very athletic and put on a good show, but other than from a Hollywood fight coach, he had never taken any fencing lessons, and in his fencing scenes, he slashed a lot of thin air and looked very dashing and spectacular. But as he was doing all of this, any halfway decent fencer could shish-kabob him a dozen times over. He would prepare for one of his spectacular slashes (sound of blade whipping through the air) by withdrawing his arm, and left himself open to a quick straight-thrust. By the way, in both "Captain Blood" and "The Adventures of Robin Hood," Rathbone played the villain, and since he was the far better swordsman, it was his job to make Errol Flynn look good.

He was flashy, though!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Gulliver
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 08:21 PM

Oh, I forgot WC Fields. Also enjoyed early Humphrey Bogart movies. Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa I liked 'cos I worked in Soho. And another great German film (IMHO) was Das Falsche Gewicht (dunno the English title, if it was ever translated), based on the book by Joseph Roth. Two funny Brazilian movies: Bye, Bye Brasil and Dona Flor and her Two Husbands. Truffaut's Les Quatre Cents Coups. Better stop now!

Don

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 09:07 PM

Ranger Steve -- the Spanish guy who is either ugly or handsome. Antonio Banderas and trust me, he is handsome!

I actually liked Waterworld too -- not as a serious flick, but as a spoof I thought it was great -- Dennis Hopper is so incredibly EVIL.......and so over the top while he is at it.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: RangerSteve
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 09:40 PM

Don - thanks for the history lesson. I always get Flower and Pynn confused.

The mention of Basil Rathbone reminds me of A Comedy of Terrors - probably a Roger Corman film. Corman did some clunkers, but this one is probably his best. Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, Joe E. Brown, and an assortment of full-figured women.
It's a dream cast for old-time horror buffs.

Which reminds me of "Theater of Blood". OK, this one violates my rule of no innocent people dying, but gratuitous death was never more fun in this film. And it has Diana RIgg, fresh from "The Avengers" and still considered a babe here in the U.S. at the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Don Firth
Date: 11 Jun 07 - 10:57 PM

Diana Rigg. A babe?

Oh, yeah!

Indeed!

Oh, My Gawd!!

Still!!

'Scuse me. Gotta go take a cold shower!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 02:51 AM

Tender Mercies, although it always makes me cry. Actually, anything Robert Duvall plays in, he's wonderful. In this one, he even has the "my cowboy boots are done wore out" walk down pat. And speaking of accents, his Texas drawl is perfect, although to my knowledge he's not a Texan. Rambling Rose was another good one for Duvall. Lonesome Dove, too.

Key Largo--love Bogie in that onee. Also in To Have and Have Not. Yep, I know how to whistle!

RangerSteve, you and I must be the only two people in the world who saw Barbarosa, with Willie in the title role and an interesting Gary Busey as his protege--good stuff, much underrated IMHO.

And The Lion in Winter, with Peter O'Toole, Kathryn Hepburn, and Anthony Hopkins as Richard Lion Heart. "There'll be pork in the treetops by morning!" Some great lines in that one!

Gotta quit reading this thread. Makes me want to run out to Blockbuster's...

Lin

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: RangerSteve
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 12:45 PM

well, the mention of Robert Duvall brings to mind "To Kill a Mockingbird", his first appearance on film.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 11:52 PM

Tender Mercies was just wonderful, and yes, it does make me cry too. I agree that anything with Robert Duvall is usually worth the time....I particularly liked The Apostle (I think that is what it was called -- he played an evangelical Christian minister........) -- a truly wonderful film that I thought would garner all kinds of awards etc but didn't really have much impact......

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Lin in Kansas
Date: 16 Jun 07 - 05:27 AM

AGGGGHHHHH. How could I forget To Kill a Mockingbird?? Another of my all-time favorites.

Trubrit, I haven't seen The Apostle; will have to keep an eye out for it.

Tin Cup is pretty good, and seems to fit the subject. Yes, I confess it, I like Kevin Costner--since his first movie, Silverado (at least I think it was his first one).

Lin

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: RangerSteve
Date: 16 Jun 07 - 11:49 AM

No, Costner's first was a piece of soft-core porn that he'd rather forget, and I don't know the name. I found this out from a book called "Opening Shots", a book about famous actors and their debuts, the common thread being that the debuts, or the movies, should have destroyed the careers of the actors, but didn't.

Subject: RE: BS: Pleasant, satisfying movies
From: Becca72
Date: 18 Jun 07 - 04:59 PM

Galaxy Quest
The Dark Crystal
Anything by Pixar
Music & Lyrics or anthing else with Hugh Grant in
The original 3 Star Wars
Van Helsing
The Jerk
Clockwise
Time Bandits

I'm sure I could come up with many more...