Kari’s Picks

If you’re trying to decide what to rent or put on your Netflix Queue (or whatever movie streaming/mailing service you use) and need a few hints here are some (a lot) of Kari’s favorite films in no particular order.

Comedy:

• Date Night
• Uncle Buck
• Zoolander
• Talladega Nights
• Wayne’s World
• Wedding Crashers
• Dodgeball
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
• Cedar Rapids
• The Hangover
• Out Cold

Romantic Comedy:

• The Proposal
• Sweet Home Alabama
• The Wedding Date
• Two Weeks Notice
• Notting Hill
• Miss Congeniality
• Sixteen Candles
• Bridget Jones’s Diary
• Love Actually 
• Something New

Dance Movies:

• Step Up 2: The Streets
• Center Stage
• Dirty Dancing
• Footloose
• Footloose (2011)
• Hairspray (2007)

Drama:

• The Breakfast Club
• The Darjeeling Limited
• Almost Famous
• The Brothers Bloom
• Jerry Maguire
• Sweet Land
• The Departed
• Jane Eyre (2011)
• In Bruges
• The Goonies

Will Make You Cry:

• Moulin Rouge
• A Walk to Remember (My one concession to Nicholas Sparks)
• Life as a House
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Saving Private Ryan

Inspirational Sports Movies (a lot of these will also guarantee some tears):

• Remember the Titans
• Miracle
• The Cutting Edge (Okay, I agree, not exactly inspirational… but definitely awesome.)
• The Blind Side
• Friday Night Lights
• Warrior
• We Are Marshall
• Win Win
• Forever Strong
• The Express
• Invincible
• A League of Their Own
• Bend it Like Beckham

Animated:

• How to Train Your Dragon
• Beauty and the Beast
• Sleeping Beauty
• The Lion King
• Finding Nemo
• Tangled
• Mulan
• The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Action Packed:

• 300
• The Bourne Identity
• The Bourne Supremacy
• The Bourne Ultimatum
• Bad Boys II
• Inglorious Bastards
• Ninja Assassin

SciFi/Zombies/Vampires/Werewolves:

• 28 Days Later
• Super 8
• Shaun of the Dead
• Minority Report
• Avatar
• Pitch Black
• Zombieland
• The Twilight Saga

All Time Favorites:

• The Princess Bride
• E.T.
• Forrest Gump
• The Last of the Mohicans
• Jurassic Park
• The Last Samurai
• Galaxy Quest
• Clueless
• Pride & Prejudice (2005)
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2