Movies:
I'm just going to start listing and add on more as I think of them: so, in no particular order: Fifth Element,
Princess Bride,
O Brother Where Art Thou,
Whole Nine Yards,
Interview with the Vampire,
Superman 1-4,
Galaxy Quest,
Crocodile Dundee, The Incredibles,
Monsters Inc,
Labyrinth,
Indiana Jones Trilogy, most of the 007 movies but especially the old ones (Rodger Moore),
Matrix,
Spiderman 1-2, City of Lost Children (w/subtitles),
Secretary,
Witches of Eastwick, 12 Monkeys, Troy,
Lord of the Rings Trilogy,
Star Wars 4-6, Snatch, the black and white Pride and Predjudice from 1940 as well as the new one with Ms Knightly,
Rebecca,
anything with Gene Kelly (Singin in the Rain, American in Paris etc),
most Fred Astaire movies,
Secondhand Lions, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Drop Dead Fred, the Goonies (only once a decade), Beetlejuice, the whole line of Batman (except the one with Arnold), Jason and the Argonauts, Clash of the Titans, Die Hard, Aladdin, True Lies, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers, Pirates of the Carribean, Flight of the Navigator, Short Circuit, Miss Congeniality, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, original Robin Hood w/Errol Flynn, Nightmare Before Christmas, 16 Candles,
Rambo 1, Rocky 1, Breakfast Club, Strictly Ballroom, Sixth Sense, Star Trek: First Contact and 4, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day, Independence Day, Men in Black, Green Mile, Forrest Gump, Iron Giant, Matilda, Sleepless in Seattle, Gigi, Gaslight,
the Others, the Mask, the Truman Show, Wedding Singer, Happy Gilmore, the Godfather, the Harry Potters, Pulp Fiction, Bend it like Beckham, Four Rooms,
Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (and pretty much all the other Kevin Smith flicks), Shawshank Redemption, About a Boy, Edward Scissorhands, Office Space, Dead Poets Society (if I'm ready to cry like a faucet), Pay it Forward (see previous comment), Spaceballs, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of the World Part 1, White Nights,
Big, Freejack, Last Samurai, the Professional,
Rocky Horror Picture Show, the Mexican, Neverending Story,
Airplane, Lilo and Stitch, Finding Nemo, Finding Neverland, I Robot, Series of Unfortunate Events, Ever After, Chicago, 10 Things I Hate About You, Top Secret, Seven, Oceans Eleven, Bedazzled, Predator,
Terminator 1-2, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Trading Places, Mars Attacks, Xmen, Coming to America, K-pax, Trainspotting, Meet Joe Black, Guarding Tess, My Cousin Vinny,
Scent of a Woman, Shakespeare in Love, Shallow Hal, Trainspotting, Best in Show, Who am I This Time?,
old school Tarzan,
Bernice Bobs her Hair,
Weird Science,
City of Angels, V for Vendetta, Chronicles of Narnia, King Kong (latest version... except for the bug parts), Dark City,
Books:
Individual Books would take too long, I'll try listing authors adding more as they pop into my head: again, no particular order: Tad Williams, Jane Austin, Melanie Bonnefoux, CJ Cherryh, LM Montgomery, Anne Rice, Alexandre Dumas, MaryJanice Davidson, Christine Feehan, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Homer, classic Greek and Norse Mythology, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, JK Rowling, Lloyd Alexander, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Frank Herbert (but just original Dune), Nora Roberts has her moments as does Katie MacAlister, Carl Hiaasen
