Last night when I was driving home from work, I heard a discussion on military/war movies, Military history is one of David’s favourite topics so I stopped the car to ring him so he could listen to it. However, David and technology are not a good mix so he didn’t find the station. I will admit that our radios aren’t as easy to operate as pushing buttons on a car radio. Now... why aren’t they? Why hasn’t someone made a radio which will save our favourite places?
Web search
This led me to a search today to see if I could find the list. I couldn’t! However, there are many, many military movie lists on the web. Although this is not my favourite genre, I found many interesting lists. For me, the best was Frank’s Reel Review which arranged the movies into campaigns. The top of each category of his list included: The Patriot, Glory, Sergeant York, The War: A Ken Burns Film, M*A*S*H, Platoon and Braveheart.
Another good military movie list was the Internet Movie Database (imdb). This list included many movies from around the world. Schindler's List was the top of that list and there was also a worst war movie list for those you might want to avoid.
Romance
OK. Well that leads me to romance. Because if I go to a military movie with David, he then sees one which appeals to me; often a romantic comedy! So, are there romantic comedy lists on the web? Of course there are.
The imdb list included: Casablanca (1942), Rear Window (1954), North by Northwest (1959), The Big Parade (1925), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Dzhentlmeny udachi (1972), Léon (1994). This list included one movie not yet released here (500 Days of Summer), but most were quite old films. Does this mean people were more romantic in the past? Perhaps... I just read some of the old letters that my father wrote to my mother in the 1940’s and although I never saw my father as a romantic, his letters were beautiful!
The couples company list actually looks more like my list. It includes: Gone with the Wind, Breakfast at Tiffany's (my daughter-in-law’s favourite), Doctor Zhivago, An Officer and a Gentleman, Romeo & Juliet, Casablanca, Love Story, Beauty & The Beast, An Affair to Remember, and When Harry Met Sally. Of course, I would like to include Sleepless in Seattle, and perhaps Camile , Westside Story, Roman Holiday, the African Queen, An Affair to Remember, The Philadelphia Story, Pretty Woman and many more. Many more films are listed on the celebrate love link below.
Children not forgotten
I found a couple list of children’s and family movies, but none I was really happy with. Why doesn’t a primary teacher construct a good list for parents; or perhaps one has already done so. The best list I found were movies the whole family might enjoy: Finding Nemo, Babe, Shrek, Up, Ratatouille, The Muppet Movie, Toy Story, and The Princess Bride.
One liners
The last area I looked at was movie quotes and the following are my most remembered:
“Play it again, Sam” (Casablanca)
“Bond. James Bond” (Bond films)
"E.T. phone home."
"You want answers?" - "I want the truth!" - "You can't handle the truth!" (Few Good men)
“We'll always have Paris." (Casablanca)
"Here's looking at you, kid." (Casablanca)
"Then close your eyes and tap your heels together three times. And think to yourself, 'There's no place like home'."(Wizard of OZ)
Casablance it is!
A romantic military movie—guess that’s the answer for us tonight.
Useful Websites
Best Military movie list
http://www.franksreelreviews.com/shorttakes/reelrant/rantwar.htm http://www.imdb.com/chart/war
Best Romance movie listshttp://www.couplescompany.com/Features/CT/Movies/Love.htmhttp://www.filmsite.org/romancefilms.htmlhttp://www.celebratelove.com/romanticmovies.htmQuoteshttp://www.filmsite.org/moments00.html many with sound files
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