Now that the weather is changing to have excuses to grab that ol’ Snuggie, comfort goodies and get cozy on the couch with good flicks, I wanted to incorporate my favorite top ten most favorite movies for my Top Ten Tuesday. Hopefully this will either remind you of a good flick or introduce you to one. I have a list that should appease most everyone from romantic comedy to action packed, including a couple must see movies during the holidays! I included the trailers to maximize the relive or introduction moment! Enjoy!
10.) Love Actually – Ok, so it is number 10, but it is a must see and one of the best love-happy movies I have ever seen. I watch this while decorating my Christmas Tree each year! Even the hubs likes this movie!
9.) Planes, Trains, and Automobiles – I can relate to this movie more than you know and I may be reenacting the “F—ing scene” this Turkey Day while I am at the Alamo car rental kiosk when visiting Colorado based family.
8.) Tommy Boy – I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this movie. There is not a scene that I don’t think is hilarious and is a movie that makes me miss Chris Farley very much.
7.) Pride and Prejudice/Juno (they have to share because they rate exactly the same and tied for this spot) – Let’s start with Pride and Prejudice– I know some of you would think it is a yawn, but I just love it. Elizabeth Bennett reminds me of how I think I would have been during that time period. I also love the family dynamic and the father, played by Donald Sutherland, is just a warm and hilarious character that I adore This is the ONLY Jane Austen movie I like.
Juno- Seriously, this movie rocks. I love the lines, the story of how this screenplay came about and most of all the family dynamic. I love how everyone handled this “garbage dump of a situation”. I hope that if I am ever faced with this type of problem with my girls I will use this movie as an inspiration.
6.) National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation – OK, this is my life to a T during the holidays. We must watch this at lest three times during the holidays. I have many of these lines memorized and actually use during the season!
5.) Fargo – I love a good “dark” movie. Yes, it is a bit disturbing because it is based on a true story, but it is an amazing flick!
4.) Christmas Story – If you don’t like this movie, something is very wrong with you and we can’t be in the same social circle. I look forward to the holidays for this specific movie. I have no idea how many times I see this every holiday season since we leave it on in the background starting Christmas Eve and all day Christmas Day via TBS’s 24- hours of a Christmas Story.
3.) Pulp Fiction – This made the top three. It is a bit on the raw violence side, but it is an amazing movie. The “bring out the gimp” scene s a bit distrubing to me, but that is what the FF button is for. The one thing I noticed, is that this movie does not have a specific score behind the scenes. You know that this is a movie that has legs when you don’t have to have a score for scenes!
2.) Steel Magnolias – I know, a total chick flick, but anytime I see this on, I stop what I am doing and watch it . . . and yes cry like a baby each and every time. Shirley Maclain and Olympia Dukakis are my favorite characters in this movie. I actually love the quote by Olympia Dukakis said to Dolly Parton, “You know what they say, If you don’t have anything nice to say about someone, come sit by me!” That is usually how I open each “gossip girl’s night out”.
1.) Shawshank Redemption – I can’t tell you how much I love this movie. This movie speaks for itself and that is why it is number 1!
A Piece of the Pie Hole 
4 of these would be on my list as well! And you are the first woman I have found that loved Fargo! I love that movie! Fargo, PT&A, A Christmas Story, and Shawshank are definetly in my top-10 with Shawshank probably in the top 3 or so. If you loved Pulp Fiction, what did you think of Inglorious Basterds? Another great movie!! Damn…now I gotta go crack open my DVD collection and start watching some movies! 🙂
Good, we can be friends and you can be invited to Christmas and Thanksgiving! Tell the wife and kids you are having a palm tree Christmas! Well, I am not your average woman! 🙂 I am a man trapped in a woman’s body… a true metro sexual! 🙂 I think that is what sealed the deal with the hubs! My love for Fargo, Pulp Fiction and Seinfeld…
“A man trapped in a woman’s body..” Gee whiz fella! I thought I was talking to Pie! You go away and bring Pie back out here!! 🙂
I’m with her – man trapped in a woman’s body. I love it.
Great movie list. 🙂
Thanks FL- Now bring your Snuggie over for a girls night in!
The fact that one of your favorite movies is a Christmas story makes me an even bigger fan of you. as for National Lampoon, just listening to my dad and I roaring as we watch that would have you doubled over laughing as well XD
What Normality- Good now I can add you and the Idiot to the invite list for Christmas! This also makes me a fan of you!
What an interesting top ten – totally unpredictable! I love Shawshank Redemption, Juno, Love, Actually, and Fargo too. I’d struggle to settle on my top ten, but my favourites include Scent of a Woman, The Green Mile, Across the Universe, In and Out, Sophie’s Choice …
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Gosh darn it I forgot all about Sent of a Woman! I think that should be my number 2! OHHH AHHH! 🙂
When I come for Christmas, everyone is going to sit down and watch “Battlefield Earth” with John Travolta. Now THERE was a movie!!!! 🙂
Thank You Misssssssssssss Viittoooooooooooooooo
Now I like MISSSSS VITTOOOOOOO! How apporprate since there was this whole bit with George and the real Ms. VITO (Marisa T. ) 🙂 Always points back to Seinfeld!
Good list but I am ashamed to say, in this company, that I have never seen Christmas Story Guess that leaves me out in the cold this Christmas then? 😦
Sweffling: You get a pass, but you have to see it this Holdiay! 🙂
Hey you busy in-law hostess – love this post! We are in total agreement on the following: Shawshank, Love Actually, Juno, Fargo, and Christmas Story. One of my most favorite movies is “Waiting for Guffman”. Christopher Guest is brilliant!
Thank you Izzie Darling! I have never seen you favorite, now I must go check it out. I promise I will give you a review!
Thanks for the dispensation. I’ll blame it all on you if the rest of the family aren’t keen!
Sweffling! Fair enough! 🙂
A Christmas Story is a holiday staple at out house. We can practically recite it by heart!
Just a quick note about Fargo. I live in North Dakota, and I can tell you first hand that the only good North Dakota/Minnesota accents in that movie come from the old people they used as extras! I spent most of the movie laughing at their horrible attempt at “speaking North Dakotan”. And, I never have looked at wood chippers quite the same way.
I have to also say that I’ve never seen Pulp Fiction…I’ll have to give that one a try!
Sparrow.. Pulp Fiction is a bit violent, but it is a good flick. I am with you on the woodchipper! The hubs and I used to work for a company that had a company based in MN and ND (Whapotan (sp)) and when we/he visit the area we loved the accents!