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I had a friend in a computer class, about typing faster and general navigation,...in college...and one of the questions ON THE FINAL was "Who is Lara Croft?" Not as cool as following Monty Python though, but still strange and weird. (tomb raider for those who didnt know)

Golly! And you people call yourselves swimmers? All right, I can see Finding Nemo. And Terms of Endearment does have a brief swimming pool scene (one of the boys even wears a competitive swimsuit). But there's sure not much swimming in most of the movies named. Here are a few titles that might be more relevant: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - This story is set in the past, and there's a beach scene in which *** Van *** and the boy (played by Adrian Hall) wear the swimwear of that era, revealing that body suits and leg suits really aren't new, as the swimsuit manufacturers of today would have us believe. Jaws - There are quite a few swimming scenes in this one. Seeing it did have some weird effects on me, though. I can remember swimming underwater at my local pool after seeing it, and looking up and seeing some kids' legs kicking and suddenly feeling an urge to soar up with my jaws wide open and have a feeding frenzy. But I resisted the urge! ;) The Black Stallion - There are a few swimming scenes in the first half of the movie. Chariots of Fire - All right, admittedly this one isn't about swimming. But it is about athletes training for the Olympics. Fortress - An Australian film about a one-room school whose teacher and kids are kidnapped and imprisoned in a cave. To escape, they at one point have to do some underwater swimming, and two of the boys, who are accomplished swimmers, help the others to make it. Clara's Heart - The boy (played by Neil Patrick Harris) tries out for a swim team early in the movie, but isn't good enough. So he works on his swimming as the movie progresses, and near the end challenges one of the swimmers on the team and beats him. Lord of the Flies - There are a few swimming scenes early in the movie (at least in the 1990 version). Besides, the story is a thought-provoking classic! Lord of the Rings - The connection between these movies and swimming might not be immediately obvious. But think about it: They're fighting nearly impossible odds trying to achieve a goal that requires all of the physical endurance and ingenuity they can muster. Bob

Wow, miss 10 hours and you are four pages behind! Geeze. Favorite movies. I could watch these over and over..... Remember the Titans Major League The Natural Bad News Bears .... noticing a pattern here? Also, anything with Adam Sandler or Jim Carey National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (it's a Thanksgiving Day tradition in my family - right after football) Ghost A Few Good Men Top Gun Pirates of the Carribean

Step into Liquid Field of Dreams Blazing Saddles Animal House Caddyshack: "Ty (to Carl): "Got a pond...got a pool and a pond. Pond would be good for you." AND Carl Spackler: So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one -- big hitter, the Lama -- long, into a ten-thousand foot crevice, right at the base of this glacier. And do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga...gunga -- gunga galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consiousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice. and anything with John Wayne

Speaking of periscopes : The Hunt for Red October (awesome) Patriot Games Air Force 1 those Clancy books turned movies are really good.

Originally posted by Seagurl51 I forgot Zoolander...love that movie. To make up for forgetting it I'll buy Orange Mocha Frappaccunio's for everyone! I'd rather have an Orange Whip. :)

Certainly agree with Red October! Crimson Tide is also a good one.

Wow, you guys are reminding me of others. I agree wholeheartedly with Hunt for Red October and My Cousin Vinnie

Originally posted by Bobber I'd rather have an Orange Whip. :) That reminds me Blues Brothers (1 &2) should be on the list too. (In case that's huge stretch for anyone, in the first movie during the big concert scene, John Candy orders and Orange Whip.)

Blues Brothers 2, really? Haven't it seen it, but as a Chicago girl I hold the first one near and dear to my heart ... also to be added ... Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Adventures in Babysitting, Sixteen Candles, props to John Hughes