The Personal Recommendation Hall of Fame II

Ha Those ain't eyebrows, those be grease paint!

I know what you mean about the eyebrows. That was the fashion in the 1930s, just be glad women today aren't shaving off their eyebrows and drawing them on with a magic marker!

I love It Happened One Night, this is a 5/5 movie for me. It's one of the first classic films I seen and it got me hooked on old films and Claudette and her eyebrows too!

I only vaguely remember It Happened One Night and the main thing I remember is that I didn’t like it.

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100% agree! I love Heathers and Ghost wouldn't work with them at all. Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze wouldn't be my first choice but they were HOT at the time.

It Happened One Night is a top 3 rom-com, easy

Damn CR, I haven't seen Ghost in a while but I thought you'd like it.

It Happened One Night is indeed my nomination.
I love the movie. The dialogue is great and The chemistry is evident between Gable and Colbert.
One of my favorite lines is :
father: do you love her?!
Peter: yes! But don’t hold it against me, I’m a little screwy myself!

That was a one of the many good lines in the movie. Gable is one of them actors whose expressions enhance the dialogue and I have to admit, I love the 30's slang: "if you call that piggybacking your old man don't know beans!" Just cracks me up. So I'm 2 fer 2 on guessing my noms.

Really glad you enjoyed it. I was 50-50 with you, as I hadn’t really gotten a great idea of your taste quite yet.

I think Ghost might be the only movie that I've seen Demi Moore in, and I didn't think she was very likable in this movie, but I love the movie anyway. I think her role could have easily been recast with another actress, and this movie still would have been a great movie, but Patrick Swayze was great in this movie, and he was perfectly cast.

Having said that, I'm not surprised that you didn't like this movie. I'm not sure why, but when I saw it in your list, I didn't think it was your type of movie.

And as much as I loved Winona Ryder and Christian Slater in the movie Heathers, I don't think either of them would have been right for this movie.

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I don't much care for Ghost, but It Happened One Night is great.

Winona Ryder and Christian Slater of course would've been too young for the roles at the time, that was just a off the top of my head thought. In 1990 I'm not sure who would be my choice for those roles? But I know I didn't care for either actor as they couldn't act.

I might have liked Patrick Swayze better if he wasn't done up as a pretty boy beefcake in the movie. I mean he's presented as being more sexy in the movie than Demi. That's one big reason why it didn't work for me as the emphasis is on hot guys and the director films them like most directors film beautiful women. So I could see women loving this movie, but not me. And I find Demi as charming & cute as a doorknob, so I wasn't into her character.

Also I didn't like the odd mix of glitzy, soap opera romance scenes, plus a homicidal stalking bad guy and also comedy with a zany Whoopi Goldberg.

Ghost (1990) is a producers movie where they included all the popular elements and hottest stars to create prep-programed' box office demand. And it worked, Ghost was a big, money making movie...but I was bored by it. I probably should've said when I joined this Personal Rec II that I'm a guy not a girl!

I DO however thank whoever chose Ghost for me as I was always curious about watching it, so I'm glad I did

Not a surprise but I enjoyed it as well. Have not had the opportunity to rewatch it but hopefully will

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It Happened One Night one the second 30's HoF. Fun little romp. Loved the banter throughout. A Capra classic!

Sorry to hear Ghost was another that didn't work for you CR. Haven't seen that since it first came out so can't really remark on it. I do remember enjoying Whoppi though

I think there's definitely a Patrick Swayze factor, CR. A lot of people I know in real life love Ghost and Dirty Dancing and I don't really 'get' either...I think it's because they all fancied Patrick Swayze in the early 90s. I think the first film I saw him in was Donnie Darko which is definitely a different sort of role

It's been quite some time since I last watched Ghost, but I always liked it. I like Patrick Swayze but I think he's a bit too pretty in it. I prefer him in Point Break. I think Demi Moore looks gorgeous in it, but what do I know? I mostly liked it for the romance but also for the humor, particularly with Whoopi Goldberg and Vincent Schiavelli. The only thing I remember disliking from the last time I saw it was the very dated and poorly animated demons/whatever the hell they are that drag the dead bad guys away.

I remember not watching this some time in the 90s when my family rented the vhs but I was out somewhere. I also recall not having much desire to watch it because I thought I would find the whole false accusation thing a bit frustrating to watch. I think that is still something I have in the back of my mind somewhere, because I’ve never quite got round to watching The Hunt, even though it’s discussed positively on here quite a lot.

Anyway, I’m sort of glad I hadn’t watched it before because it was quite nice now to watch a good solid mainstream movie like this for the first time. It was entertaining, it was thrilling, it had just enough twists and near misses to keep you watching but it never got silly and you were never in any doubt of Harrison Ford’s innocence and general good-guy-ness, so you good root for him in an uncomplicated way which was quite fun.


No idea who nominated it for me.

Swayze was in Donnie Darko? I don't remember which character he was. I've only seen DD once and so long ago I can't really remember it. Good movie though.

Yes Vincent Schiavelli was awesome! I forgot to mention that but I really liked that subway train part and his character. I wish he even had more time. You know Ghost is weird in that it feels like several different movie ideas stitched together. I'd like to have seen the entire movie from Swayze's viewpoint as he navigates the world of 'ghost' and learns what his new reality is an finally learns to accept it.

It's been a while but I do remember really enjoying both Jones and Ford as the hunter and hunted in this.

I haven’t seen The Fugitive in ages, but I vaguely remember liking it.

DD was a Miss Vicky consideration for me.

I tried watching Donnie Darko once, but shut it off pretty quickly. I've never had much desire to try again.