My Favorite Movies - What about you? - Tim Ryerson's Blog

I'm sure this has already been done but here we go anyway...
If I had my pick of any job, it would be a movie critic...what a way to make a living THAT would be! (My second pick would be a restaurant critic but that has absolutely nothing nothing to do with this blog)
So, any movie buffs out there?...I know my friends Carrie Richards and Andrea Dietrich are,
how about you?...No need for a long list like mine unless you feel so inclined...
Thanks!...Have fun!

Drama: The Deer Hunter
Comedy: Duck Soup (Marx Brothers)
Romantic Comedy: Breakfast at Tiffany's
Crime: In Cold Blood - Original 1967 version (still rated R)
Suspense: Deliverance
War: Patton
Sci-Fi: 2001: A Space Odyssey
Fantasy: Lord of the Rings (I read the books first!)
Horror: The Exorcist
Documentary: Woodstock 1969
Social Satire: The Graduate
Western: The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Holiday: It’s a Wonderful Life
All-time favorite movie: The Godfather, Pt. I

This list could go on and on but the blog would be too long...
Many thanks to Cyndi MacMillan for showing this computer dummy how to post a blog correctly!

Tanya Harrington Date: 10/23/2012 3:22:00 PM A few of my favs are: Always, The Fifth Element, Hildago, Bicentennial Man, The Green Mile, The Sixth Sense, Tuskegee Airmen, etc. I love movies! We no longer have cable or satellite, we just watch movies. Login to Reply

Sara Kendrick Date: 10/13/2012 11:16:00 AM Movies that I like: Serendipity, Something Has Got To Give(I do like Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson), Fried Green Tomatoes, There is one that was written by Nicholas Sparks_The Notebook, Something To Talk About, and so many more that I watch more than once..Sara Login to Reply

Carrie Richards Date: 10/11/2012 6:58:00 PM Cyndi's list was closest to my picks, with "To Kill A Mockingbird" at the top of my list. "The Searchers" and "The Big Country" favorite westerns....Romance..."Pride & Prejudice/"Sense and Sensibility" "Philadelphia" has my favorite scene (apartment scene with Denzel Washington watching Tom Hanks listening to Maria Calas sing opera)...comedy/romance..."When Harry Met Sally"...a thought provoker movie ...whew...was "Melancholia"....couldn't sleep after that one....Halloween movie....."Young Frankenstein"......!! (just for fun)...."Princess Bride".....ahhhkkk there are too many I could be here all night telling you my favorites!!! Login to Reply

James Marshall Goff Date: 10/11/2012 12:36:00 PM Canary Row....Jaws/Rocky/Plains, Trains & Automobiles/Tommy Boy...anything with Clint Eastwood....John Candy....Gene Hackman.....Fargo (cuz I recognize the places and thinking!) Login to Reply

Debbie Guzzi Date: 10/10/2012 6:52:00 PM LOL well..like I said I'd sit through almost anything and 2 at a time when I was a wee one..scariest horror movie The Tingler!!! they set a windup lobster-like thing to crawl on the theater floor and almost KILLED us kids with FRIGHT! Login to Reply

Nette Onclaud Date: 10/10/2012 3:33:00 PM gosh, this will take me 3 pages, tim..lol.. offhand-- shawshank redemption, amadeus, indie films like chasing amy, classics like citizen kane and casablanca, also matrix, don't look now,misty .. gotta stop!.. i teach film dynamics :) huggs Login to Reply Tim Ryerson Date: 10/10/2012 5:12:00 PM Yikes!...how could I forget Casablanca? Tim Ryerson Date: 10/10/2012 5:06:00 PM This is weird, Nette...every movie you and almost everyone else listed could have gone on my favorites list!... It's clear to me now that it's IMPOSSIBLE to come up with a top list...there are just too many good ones out there...but it sure is fun to try!... Cyndi Macmillan Date: 10/10/2012 3:57:00 PM Casablanca I ALMOST picked as my fave romantic movie, but I prefer a happy ending, sucker <---that's me! :) Cyndi Macmillan Date: 10/10/2012 3:57:00 PM CHasing Amy? LOVED that! Truly unique and funny AND touching. Hard to get that combo

Debbie Guzzi Date: 10/10/2012 3:14:00 PM Yike you are actracted to violence/blood & guts [wince] They are GOOD movies!!Only 2001 would have come near my List hmm Login to Reply Tim Ryerson Date: 10/10/2012 5:11:00 PM Hey!...what's going on down there Deb?...All those movies you listed are my favorites too! No, wait!...I've already got a list don't I?...Darn!...Can I make another one? (I'm thoroughly confused now) Tim Ryerson Date: 10/10/2012 4:56:00 PM Yes Cher!...2001 rocked did it not?...Many people found it tedious and boring but I read the book too (after the movie) so I understood the plot...I freely admit I'm a horror/blood & guts freak but I'm also VERY picky when it comes to what kind I like... Cyndi Macmillan Date: 10/10/2012 4:02:00 PM LOVED ALWAYS! Cyndi Macmillan Date: 10/10/2012 3:54:00 PM The commitments AWESOME But AWK, Interview with a Vampire was a disappointment to me (loved the books!) Another fave book, Clan of the Cave Bear was HORRIBLE as a movie, too. Encounters made me smile. Great movie. Debbie Guzzi Date: 10/10/2012 3:17:00 PM Dances with Wolves/ Risky Business/ Star Wars/ The Terminator/ Field of Dreams/ Alien/ Interview with a Vampire/ The Commitments [Oh watch this one Tim!] Always/ Strange Encounters of the Third Kind

Debbie Guzzi Date: 10/10/2012 3:11:00 PM Hey DON'T go see LOOPERS..gah! those writers should be SHOT, it had more unsupported plot twists than an Escher painting!! Acting was good BUT sheeeeeeeessssh the plot was beyond STUPID!! [Hey and I'll watch almost anything..oh except Pulp Fiction..hated that director still do & YES there WAS gratuitious violence in this film too!] Login to Reply Francine Roberts Date: 10/10/2012 4:42:00 PM Thanks for the heads up we were trying to decide between it and Taken 2.... Liam Neeson was winning over Bruce anyway. Friday night is girls night at the show Debbie Guzzi Date: 10/10/2012 3:12:00 PM PS Bruce Willis is NO longer attractive and the lead was a James Dean'Keanu Reeves knock-off

Mandy Tams The Golden Girl Date: 10/10/2012 1:55:00 PM Pans labyrinth a brilliant film, blue lagoon. thats all i can think of at the moment satin the bar chatting about films xx Login to Reply Andrea Dietrich Date: 10/10/2012 2:23:00 PM YES, the PAN movie rocks. But blue lagoon, mandy? are you kidding?

Date: 10/10/2012 1:51:00 PM Well...I have a long list of wonderful movies... Cinema Paradiso, La Strada (The Road), Babel, Crash, The English Patient, Baaria, Malena, Irreversible, The Baader Meinhof Complex, The Village, Sixth Sense, Three Colors: Blue, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The girl with the Dragon Tattoo (yep, I love it!...the Swedish version), La Ciociaria (Two Women), El Hijo de la Novia (Son of the Bride), Thesis, Open your eyes, The Sea Inside, Funny Games (The Haneke's version), Pulp Fiction, Memento, The Schindler's List, The Silence of the Lambs, The Clockwork Orange, Finding Nemo, The Shawshank Redemption, Atonement, Evita, The Lion King...I can go on... : ) Login to Reply Tim Ryerson Date: 10/10/2012 5:00:00 PM You have listed a bunch of my favs here...The English Patient caught my eye first...what a heart breaker that was... Cyndi Macmillan Date: 10/10/2012 3:56:00 PM shawshank Redemption, I could watch that a hundred times. What a flick... thumbs up! Andrea Dietrich Date: 10/10/2012 2:24:00 PM I"ve seen more than half of them, and I agree, Ruben. You have good taste in movies.

Joann Grisetti Date: 10/10/2012 12:26:00 PM No real favorites. My taste seems to change every decade or so. Philadelphia Story and any other Kathryn Hepburn film. Login to Reply

Gordon Mcconnell Date: 10/10/2012 11:56:00 AM So hard to keep to one, but here goes. chocolat, kate & leopold, sleepless in seattle, in my country, steel magnolias, mary poppins, australia, any beethoven films,dan in real life, forrest gump,monster in law, princess diaries,roman holiday,the terminal,up close and personal, to sir with love,you've got mail,walk the line, the way. I better stop. Login to Reply Tim Ryerson Date: 10/10/2012 12:35:00 PM Ah yes...'To sir with love' is one of my all time favorites Joann Grisetti Date: 10/10/2012 12:24:00 PM i like many of these, as well.

Cyndi Macmillan Date: 10/10/2012 10:37:00 AM Awww, you are welcome, chum! No probs! Great blog, took me some time to compile my list: Here goes....Fave all time movies- a tie: Raiders of the Lost Arc (1981) / Chocolat (2000) Fave Chick Flick: Steel Magnolias (1989) Fave Drama: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Fave Romance: The Enchanted Cottage (1945) Fave Mystery: Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Fave Suspense/paranormal: The Innocents (1961) Fave Comedy: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Fave Horror Saw (2004) Fave War: Saving Private Ryan (1998) Fave Western: Unforgiven (1992) Fave Fantasy Labyrinth (1986) Fave Foreign Flick: Life is Beautiful (1997) Fave Kids Movie: The Black Stallion (1979) Fave Christian Flick: Fireproof I have also enjoyed the trend of Austen movies... LOVED Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightly! A recommendation to everyone: Before Sunrise/Before Sunset, The Big Night (1996) EVERYONE SHOULD SEE AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH and FOOD INC. Life changing documentaries. Love this. Looking forward to reading all the choices! Login to Reply Francine Roberts Date: 10/10/2012 4:40:00 PM love Labyrinth, my daughter teases the hell out of me that I have no idea what its about , I just stare at David Bowies... umm... tights Cyndi Macmillan Date: 10/10/2012 4:15:00 PM Ruben, I made the mistake of seeing saw II! what began as smart turned just gruesome. Ew-ish. Andrea Dietrich Date: 10/10/2012 2:25:00 PM Pretty good ones!! Tim Ryerson Date: 10/10/2012 10:56:00 AM We DEFINITELY have similar tastes!...'Steel Magnolias'...ANY Monty movie...'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Unforgiven' to be sure!...and thanks again my friend!

Poet Destroyer A Date: 10/10/2012 10:17:00 AM LOL... all the bottom, are hints,,, of my All-time favorite movie: which I'd seen for the first time in the year of ,,,,(1993)~ Login to Reply Poet Destroyer A Date: 10/10/2012 11:43:00 AM I'm a chick flick kind of gal.... If memory serves me right , many poets from the soup.. Recommended a movie called "All the kings Men" and i watched it, and it to became one of my favorite movies... xox~pd Poet Destroyer A Date: 10/10/2012 11:38:00 AM Tim, i was describing one movie, with all the topics you describe as one, I pointed out a few descriptions throughout the movie, BUT AT THE END YOU GUESSED IT RIGHT.. My All-time favorite movie: IS THE MOVIE ~~ALIVE~~ there is something about that snow, that can mesmerize inspiration into me. Tim Ryerson Date: 10/10/2012 10:45:00 AM I'll take a shot at a few...Drama - 'Fearless' (if so you have VERY good taste!) Crime - 'Silence of the Lambs'...Fantasy - 'Lord of the Rings'...Documentary - 'Alive'...Suspense could easily be 'Deliverence' (my favorite)...'Alive' was made in 1993...Is that your fav?... How far off am I PD? Cyndi Macmillan Date: 10/10/2012 10:43:00 AM ? no clue!

Poet Destroyer A Date: 10/10/2012 10:15:00 AM Drama: characters suffer emotional trauma after the crash.... Comedy: one actor, is willing to pay for the pizza if the other actor agrees to walk through the icy mountains to get it~LOL.... Romantic Comedy: many sit and, admiring the sun-rays with smiles.... Crime: cannibalism ~defying God, in these moments of fear.... Suspense:will they live or survive.... War: with one another, on the reason they should not.... Fantasy: the illusion some might survive..... Horror: A plane crash results in various unpleasant scenes of gore and cannibalism....... Documentary: amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains....... Login to Reply Joann Grisetti Date: 10/10/2012 12:22:00 PM Documentary - Alive - I read the book, never saw tie film. Comedy sounds like the beginning of Sneakers. Poet Destroyer A Date: 10/10/2012 11:39:00 AM I'm a Lord of the rings fanatic.... I love SIelnce of the Lamb... Poet Destroyer A Date: 10/10/2012 11:39:00 AM silence ..< ---typo Poet Destroyer A Date: 10/10/2012 10:18:00 AM can you guess this movie with all the hints above,,, My All-time favorite movie:

Francine Roberts Date: 10/10/2012 9:03:00 AM McLintock , The Searchers, and Big Jake with John Wayne... I love John Wayne : Billy Jack.... I could watch it a million times : Pretty much anything with Vin Diesel, that man has the most awesome voice Login to Reply Francine Roberts Date: 10/10/2012 4:37:00 PM Of course Cyndi, I think I've seen them all, more than once Cyndi Macmillan Date: 10/10/2012 10:42:00 AM OH LOOOOOVE McLintock the spanking scene! LOL! So NOT politically correct. Have you seen the Quiet Man...sigh... very romantic. Tim Ryerson Date: 10/10/2012 9:39:00 AM Yep!...ANY John Wayne movie!...My favorite of his was 'The Cowboys' and 'The Shootist'

Michael Smith Date: 10/10/2012 8:38:00 AM First let me say our family made a pact not towatch rated R movies. This has made an improvement for our lives. My favorite movie of all time Holiday featuring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. Login to Reply Cyndi Macmillan Date: 10/10/2012 10:42:00 AM Michael, have you seen Fireproof? Awesome movie!

Andrea Dietrich Date: 10/10/2012 8:06:00 AM I am so glad Cyndi taught you how to blog, Tim. Yes, you got ME pegged!! I do movie reviews at Facebook every week. The only one of yours on this list that I did not enjoy was Space Odyssey. It was just over my head and boring to me. Love all the others on your list. I would have to search thru all my old reviews to recall my faves in each of these categories, but one movie that would definitely be on my list is "american beauty" For me, that was a simply outstanding drama. Login to Reply Tim Ryerson Date: 10/10/2012 9:47:00 AM Ah yes, 'American Beauty'...didn't know you were a movie critic!...I am in awe!...Like you a could probably make 20 of these lists...

Carol Eastman Date: 10/10/2012 7:57:00 AM Western- The Searchers SciFi- Forbidden Planet Animatoin comedy-How to Train your dragon All time favorites-Tremors and My Science Project Crime-Castle(TV) War-Saving Private Ryan. Fantasy-Mummy(Brandon Fraser) Holiday-It's a Wonderful life + Hocus Pocus Horror-none Romantic Comedy- While you were Sleeping Crime- None Comedy-Galaxy Quest It's True---I'm officially wierd now.... Login to Reply Joann Grisetti Date: 10/10/2012 12:17:00 PM i love Galaxy Quest. Tim Ryerson Date: 10/10/2012 9:43:00 AM We agree on a lot, Carol...'Saving Private Ryan' always chokes me up when I watch it and of course 'It's a Wonderful Life' is a holiday tradition...

Tim Ryerson Date: 10/10/2012 7:47:00 AM Thanks Frank!...I see we have similar taste...Oh yes, 'The Hurt Locker' was a stunner...Godfather II comes in a close to the first...'Sleeper' still makes my belly ache... Login to Reply