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I need some recommendations for summer movies for my sweetie and I.
31 May 2012 | US Navy Vet

Posted on 05/31/2012 10:21:51 AM PDT by US Navy Vet

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chat; misc; movies; vanity
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To: IYAS9YAS

My usual movie goal is to find some tradtional values or at least a hint in that direction.


61 posted on 05/31/2012 12:31:28 PM PDT by donna (The fruits of Feminism: Angry fathers, bitter mothers, fat kids and political correctness.)
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To: US Navy Vet

I find Michael Medved to be a good resource. He often picks sleepers that are excellent.

Go back several years into the archives and you’ll find a lot of them on netflix.

http://www.michaelmedved.com/moviereviews.aspx


62 posted on 05/31/2012 12:42:06 PM PDT by randita
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To: Mad Dawgg

“When I was a kid our local theater had Free Summer Matinee Movies for kids. (they got local merchants to pay for the movie in exchange for advertising.) Usually they would show old monster flicks or Disney pictures like old Yeller and such.
I remember watching one summer afternoon “The Parent Trap” and from that time on I’ve been deeply in Love with Hayley Mills!”

When I was about 10 years old, I saw “Summer Magic” while on vacation in Maine with my family.

I will confess that I, too, fell deeply in love with Hayley Mills that summer.


63 posted on 05/31/2012 12:54:34 PM PDT by paterfamilias
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To: Nea Wood

“Your wife and I would get along great!”

Well, then, sometime I will have to share with you the titles of her annual Christmas and Easter film festivals.


64 posted on 05/31/2012 12:56:47 PM PDT by paterfamilias
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To: RC2

That’s great. Can I pass it on?


65 posted on 05/31/2012 1:01:12 PM PDT by GreatRoad (O < 0)
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To: GreatRoad

Sure....I got it in an email.


66 posted on 05/31/2012 1:08:17 PM PDT by RC2 (Buy American and support the Wounded Warrior Project whenever possible.)
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To: fredhead

Haven’t seen RV, but I don’t think The Survivors has ever been topped as his funniest. (”What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees?!”)


67 posted on 05/31/2012 1:16:03 PM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: fwdude

I’ve hard For Greater Glory is a very good movie, although it doesn’t officially open until tomorrow(Friday).


68 posted on 05/31/2012 1:18:16 PM PDT by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: donna

I second Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, the last film I remember seeing that made me double over in wheezing laughter. A more subdued, but very funny in its own way, film is “Silver Bears,” which has Caine along with a great ensemble cast. It’s one that you kind of just chuckle your way through.


69 posted on 05/31/2012 1:20:25 PM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: MHGinTN

Fabulous movie! I’m not a Kevin Costner fan, but this was a really good movie. It got terrible reviews, but someone in this movie reminded me of someone I love very much (I don’t want to say who because it would be a spoiler), and no, it’s not the bird.


70 posted on 05/31/2012 1:23:26 PM PDT by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: P.O.E.

Whew...I thought you just linked to the actual movie. Anyone who would watch that movie “unaccompanied” is a masochist!


71 posted on 05/31/2012 1:23:52 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: US Navy Vet

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel? Haven’t seen it but someone called me just to tell me to see it. About old folks.


72 posted on 05/31/2012 1:28:47 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: donna

Here are some you might like:

Breaking Away
Antwon Fisher
Secretariat (I know, it’s been mentioned already)

Some good ones from this last year would be:
Hugo
War Horse
Adventures of Tin Tin
The Artist

Another comes to mind that’s very R-rated, but despite all the ways in which the characters explore personal excess, it ultimately reinforces the traditional family. The movie is Serial, starring Martin Mull heading up a great ensemble cast.


73 posted on 05/31/2012 1:32:10 PM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: bray; US Navy Vet
While your at it can you tell me where I can watch some really good midget basketball?

Do you want the version where the midgets toss the basketballs through the hoops, or the one where the players toss the midgets through the hoops?

74 posted on 05/31/2012 1:34:17 PM PDT by tarheelswamprat
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To: streetsmart

I highly second the Secretariat recommendation. It is fast becoming one of my favorites (no pun intended).


75 posted on 05/31/2012 1:34:47 PM PDT by LivingNet
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To: fwdude
No, not even The Avengers.

The Avengers was a great movie...

76 posted on 05/31/2012 1:41:19 PM PDT by trailhkr1 (All you need to know about Zimmerman, innocent = riots, manslaughter = riots, guilty = riots)
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To: donna; US Navy Vet
There are no new movies. Watch old ones instead:

The Ladykillers (the original movie with Alec Guinness and a very young Peter Sellers). Great, droll, British comedy from the 1950s.

77 posted on 05/31/2012 1:48:53 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: wyowolf

Were you laughing at how bad Battleship was?


78 posted on 05/31/2012 1:59:10 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound (.)
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To: trailhkr1
Great? Sorry. Action ≠ Great
79 posted on 05/31/2012 2:29:32 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: william clark

Oh, yes! Breaking Away. One of my favorites.

One of the most entertaining, light-hearted, feel-good movies you can see.

Especially if you’ve grown up in the era depicted in the film.


80 posted on 05/31/2012 2:32:22 PM PDT by fwdude
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