Memorable Movie Meme

Joyce recently snatched this little movie meme from a Facebook friend–and I decided to snatch it from her!

The idea is to list fifteen memorable movies you’ve seen. You shouldn’t take too long–list the first fifteen you can remember in no more than fifteen minutes.

Grabbing my timer…

And Go!

1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
   Saw TTT and ROTK at midnight showing opening night. Watched all three extended editions through straight multiple times. Am true nerd.
2. The End of the Spear
   Seen in theatre. Understood nuances of plot better than others. Never happens. Figured out why–subtitles, of course!
3. Amazing Grace
   Remember crying when I realized who the old blind man was.
4. Ben Hur
   Endless rewatching of the chariot races, watching for ketchup squirting. That great little hug thing and “hunting jackals and lions. But now we have become too dignified!” [Chortle, chortle]
5. The Taming of the Shrew
   The tongue and tail dialogue. The angry exchanges. Liz Taylor’s flashing eyes, Richard Burton’s mischievous smiles.
6. Pride and Prejudice
   I can never decide who I like better: Elizabeth, Darcy, or the dad?
7. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
   “That is a movie of sex and violence!” my Grandma says. Yes, but I so badly wanted to be Dorcas, with her flowing long black hair and beautiful white undergarments.
8. That one Shackleton documentary whose name I can’t remember
   Chills up and down my spine as I hear the survivors’ children speak of the fourth man on the mountain. Set me off on a binge of Shackleton reading (particularly two great books, both named The Endurance, although with different subtitles. One by Caroline Alexander and another by Captain F.A. Worsley himself.)
9. Beauty and the Beast
   Disappointed me so much when the beast turned ugly at the end. But Belle was beautiful–and a bookworm too!
10. My Fair Lady
    I could have danced all night, I could have danced all night… And how could I NOT love this musical?
11. Fiddler on the Roof
    For some reason, I never managed to take Tzeitel’s caution about the matchmaker–and still sing “Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match, find me a find, catch me a catch….For papa, make him a scholar; for mama, make him rich as a king; for me, well, I wouldn’t holler if he were as handsome as anything…”
12. Les Miserables
    Do I even need to explain? Most compelling story of redemption ever put to screen. Or something like that.
13. Stalag 17
    I can’t pinpoint what exactly makes this as great as it is. But it is.
14. Some Like It Hot
    Our video-taped copy ended abruptly after the cross-dressing lead tells her (his) admirer that she’s a man–to which the admirer responds, “That’s okay, nobody’s perfect.” After many years and several rewatchings, we rented it so we could see the ending–only to discover that that WAS the ending.
15. The Court Jester
    Who can resist a purple-pimpernelled baby’s bottom, a wily fox in jester’s garb, and a beautiful maiden with unexpected skill in seduction (despite the horrible disease she may or may not have… the disease named after her father, who died in excruciating pain… the disease that can be transmitted by, well, just about anything–the brush of a hand…)?

Whew–that was hard. I feared that I might run out of time–and ended up answering with some, yes, rather frivolous family favorites. In this case, memorable might just mean “movies I’ve watched so many times over I can probably retell them in my sleep.”

May I reiterate that I am NOT a movie person?

What about you, are YOU a movie person? What are your most memorable movies?