Movies your *parents* love.

[Mad Maggot]

I don't know if this was done here before, so that's why I'm posting this topic.

You know the question. I gotta ask my mom myself now ;)

[travis]

My mom's favs are Overboard, What about Bob, and Captain Ron
My dad's favs include Easy Rider, Patton, The Shining, Christine, Sling Blade, and a bunch of others.

[Reigh Kaufman]

My mum's favourite movie of all-time is Beaches. I can't even begin to tell you why I hate this movie so much. On the plus side, she loves, and has instilled in me, a great love for the following:

Jesus Christ Superstar
West Side Story
Angels With Dirty Faces
Whistle Down The Wind

My dad is a different kettle of fish. His favourite movie of all time is The Lord Of The Rings (the first film he went to see at a theatre since Return Of the Jedi with me, aged 6). His other favourite movies, in no order, are:

Eraserhead
Blazing Saddles
Enter The Dragon
Monty Python (all of them)
Stop Making Sense
Tommy
The Ninth Configuration
Catch-22

[movies35]

MY MOM
Everybody's All American
Without Limits
Ice Age

MY DAD
Star Wars
Star Trek
Fast Times At Ridgemony High

[Mad Maggot]

So some movies my mom loves:

JFK (oh my, I have to see it)
Basic Instinct
Tears In The Rain
The Bodyguard
Some Like It Hot (wow)
Gone With The Wind (wow)
Blind Date
The Marrying Man
French Lieutenant's Woman

[paul calf]

my mum does'nt watch that many movies but i know she likes

anything with bette davis
beaches(don't all mothers)
harry potter and the philophisors stone
stuart little


dad though likes

the wild bunch
pulp fiction
the hills have eyes
butch cassidy and the sundance kid

[Indiana Sev]

Good topic:)

My mom likes basically anything with Cary Grant.

[ColinM]

My mom is neutral on most movies. The only one she really likes is Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind.

My dad loves Jurassic Park, Con Air, Real Genius, The Sting, and a few more...

[XCoRyX]

My Moms Favorite Movies: Grease,Terms Of Endearment

My Dads Favorite Movies: Saturday Night Fever

not sure about more,because i frankly dont talk with them much.

[screamer581]

My Dad's fave is The Godfather Part I (he has pretty solid taste in movies). My Mom's fave, hmm...I am thinking The Sound Of Music (she has alright taste most of the time).

[Horror whore]

My mom's favorite movie is What's Eating Gilbert Grape?... My dad doesn't really express his opinion about the movies he watches too often so I have no clue...

[Annie Hall]

Mum: Days of Wine and Roses, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Beauty and the Beast and others

Dad: Heat, The Godfather Parts I & II and others

[rupert pupkin]

My father and mother, unlike me, do not have a great passion for the movies, and i have to push them to the cinema every now and then

but if i put them in front of a good movie they can and do enjoy it

they both love shawshank redemption

and my father loves Brassed Off (loves brass bands)

having said that i went to the movies to see Confessions of a dangerous Mind with my dad and he thought it was very good

so theres hope for him yet

[Romero&Juliet]

My parents aren't into movies, but these seem to have gotten a big rise out of them

strawdogs
Easy Rider
Mask
Pulp Fiction

[VicVega]

My Mom:
Con Air
The Rock
Rain Man
Anything with Sean Connery

My Dad:
Dante's Peak
Tremors 1
Tremors 2
The Godfather 1 and 2
Casino
Goodfellas

[NeuGenX]

My Mom likes mostly romantic stuff:
Anything by Danielle Steele
Anything by Audrey Hepburn
Anything by Richard Chamberlain
Movie musicals
Miss Congeniality
The Sixth Sense
The 10th Kingdom
Pretty Woman
Working Girl

My Dad, who passed away in 1984 liked action and horror:
The Howling
Rosemary's Baby
Anything Stephen King
Creature Double Feature movies
Anything by the classic horror greats (Everyone of them)
All Stallone
All James Bond
All Michael Caine
All Brian DePalma
All Bill Murray
The original Star Wars Trilogy
All John Wayne
Hong Kong Action Cinema (Lee, Chiba, Chan)
All classic Mystery and Suspense

I pretty much match my dad's tastes 100% but my Mom's about 50% :D

[Mad Maggot]

Originally posted by NeuGenX
My Mom likes mostly romantic stuff:
Pretty Woman


oh yeah, where would my mom go without Pretty Woman!

[Michael_myers]

My dad likes Sound of Music, Star Wars, and The Exorcist.

My mom likes Sound of Music, Fried Green Tomatoes and Matilda.

There we go. Yeah.

[QUENTIN]

Not really top 10's or anything, just movies I know are their favorites or they really love and watch repeatedly.

Pops Tops:
The Godfather
The Shawshank Redemption
Jaws
GoodFellas
The Bridge on The River Kwai
The Godfather Part II
The Sting
Bowling for Columbine
Fiddler on The Roof
Heat


Moms Tops:
Funny Girl
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Shawshank Redemption
Terms of Endearment
Steel Magnolias
Say Anything
Testament
The Way We Were
Dead Poets Society
It's A Wonderful Life

[Cosimo]

The Old Man's favs

Like father like son,

The Seven Samurai
Unforgiven
Zulu
Apocalypse Now
Its A Wonderful Life
Jaws
Blade Runner
When Harry Met Sally
Deliverance
The French Connection
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Rambo:First Blood
Godfather 1,2
Manhatten
Dirty Harry
The Sting
2001: A Space Odysee
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Annie Hall
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Alien
Pretty Woman
The Matrix
Uncle Buck
Roxanne
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
The Terminator 1,2
Leaving Las Vegas
The Wild Bunch
Seven
The Last Of the Mohicans

Mum's

One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Casablanca
Gone With The Wind
An Officer and A Gentleman
Pretty Woman
Jerry Maguire

[zeppelin]

My mom's favorite movies are As Good As it Gets and Groundhog Day.

My dad's said "That's my favoirte movie" about a lot of movies, so I'm not quite sure what is really his favorite. But he's said it about The Godfather Part II, Taxi Driver, and Goodfellas, just to name a few.

[MikeyB]

My Dad likes mostly 70's movies:

Rear Window
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A Clockwork Orange
The Song Remains The Same
The French Connection
Bullitt
Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Last Waltz
Magnolia
Doctor Zhivago


My Mom likes mostly Foreign films:

Romeo and Juliet (Zeffirelli)
Pride & Prejudice
Window to Paris
Stranger Than Paradise
Down By Law
A Night on Earth
Raise the Red Lantern
Crime & Punishment
Take The Money and Run
Dreams
Z
Conformist
Live Flesh
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Amorres perros
Outrage (Spanish)
Olivier, Olivier
Tous les Matin du Monde
Usual Suspects
Suicide Kings

[Hucksta G]

Live with my aunty and uncle and their favourite movies are.

Aunty:
Preety Woman
Bridget Jones Diary
Notting Hill

Uncle:
Lord of the Rings 1 & 2
Saving Private Ryan
Shrek
Last Action Hero
Starship Troopers
Resident Evil

Dad:
Jesus Christ Superstar
Lord of the Ring 1 & 2
Anything with a car race or chase in.

[JasonLeeFan]

My dad loves 48 Hours. You don't know how many times I've heard the phrase, be cool, right on.

[dh1989]

My mom's favorite film is Out of Africa. My dad's favorite film is Unforgiven.

[Kastman]

my mum really like executive decision, i dont know why though...


they both liked frequency...

my dad likes any western...

[Tagia_Romero]

Dad:


Westerns
Monty Python
Mel Brooks's stuff
Stuff about the Cival War


Mum:

Period Movies
To Kill A Mockingbird
Mad Max
Monty Python

[Mad Maggot]

Originally posted by La Motta
The Old Man's favs

Like father like son,

The Seven Samurai
Unforgiven
Zulu
Apocalypse Now
Its A Wonderful Life
Jaws
Blade Runner
When Harry Met Sally
Deliverance
The French Connection
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Rambo:First Blood
Godfather 1,2
Manhatten
Dirty Harry
The Sting
2001: A Space Odysee
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Annie Hall
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Alien
Pretty Woman
The Matrix
Uncle Buck
Roxanne
Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
The Terminator 1,2
Leaving Las Vegas
The Wild Bunch
Seven
The Last Of the Mohicans

Mum's

One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Casablanca
Gone With The Wind
An Officer and A Gentleman
Pretty Woman
Jerry Maguire

Wow, your parents have a kickass taste!

[Hannibal21]

MOM:
Anything with Julia Roberts
Anything with Julie Andrews (The Sound of Music is her favorite movie)
Legally Blonde
Spellbound
Rebecca
The 39 Steps
Notting Hill

DAD:
Schindler's List (his favorite movie of all time)
Roman Holiday
Casablanca
Anything with Robert De Niro
The Godfather
The Fugitive

[Golden Ghost]

As I know of...

MAM
When Harry Met Sally
Saturday Night Fever
The Wedding Singer
The 6th Sense
Papillon

DAD
It's a Wonderful Life
Saving Private Ryan
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Midnight Cowboy
The Green Mile
Braveheart
Psycho (1960)
Life of Brain

They have pretty good taste in films actually....

[bondish]

Mum: Bridget Jone's Diary (she loves Hugh Grant)
Dad: Die Another Day (and hates lotr1, went to sleep and said it was the most boring thing he had seen in his life)

[Mr. Pou Pon]

Mom
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
St. Elmo's Fire


Dad
Three to Tango
A Knight's Tale
The Cutting Edge
Jungle 2 Jungle
Joe Somebody
The Matrix

[charliebobo]

Mum:
The Killing Fields
Jesus Christ Superstar
West Side Story
Gallipoli
The King And I
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Ben Hur
Cabaret
Loves old musicals, good family movies and old style Hollywood epics

Dad:
Braveheart
Waterworld
Lawrence Of Arabia
Seven Samurai
He likes war movies a lot

[Duder]

My mom loves Tom Hanks movies

Philadeephia
Forrest Gump
Apollo 13
Saving Private Ryan

My dad loves sci-fi pictures

Star Wars
Alien
Blade Runner
Aliens

... and they both like good movies, they don't watch ba movies, they know about movies to watch and not to watch.