Favorite movie ever?
 

Favorite movie ever?
Perhaps this subject has been covered - sorry if it has.
My favorite is Tombstone with Val Kilmer and Kurt Russell (listened in order by the quality of performance :) - I'm amazed by Kilmer's skills still after the 30th time I've seen the movie).

Pulp Fiction, with Clerks and UHF close behind.

Farenheit 9/11. the creativity alone was breathtaking. and his skill with finding just the right clip...

ok, maybe not.

I have a hard time with this.

i want to say STAR WARS, but i have to say that for a one-time view - The Game drew me in more than any other.

honorable mention? Stir of Echoes, Gladiator, The Godfather.

Probably "Brazil". Pulp Fiction is close.

Contact ("small moves...."),
Tombstone ("oh, I wasn't as quite as sick as I made out..."),
The Crow ("Like a little bitty worm on a big fuckin hook!"),
Braveheart ("The Lord tells me he can get me out of this mess, but you're fucked!")
Highlander ("There can be only one!")

Inherit the Wind...no contest.

Recent memory: Monster
All time: Shogun
I hate any movie that follows the same basic plot structure as a 1970's sitcom. Meet The Fockers being the most recent example I sat thru.

THE HOLY FRIGGIN GRAIL

The Great Escape

Basquiat

also:

The Godfather (part 1 and 2 only)

Can't think of any others right now. :/

The Life of Brian

Amadeus and Dangerous Liaisons.

I love period pieces with great musical scores. :)

clodfobble - at first glance i thought you had said Armed and Dangerous . i was a little confused, because that show had a couple of chuckles, but... your post makes more sense when i actually stop and reread it.

Snatch is the one. As much as I want to pick a classic this is the belly laugh abdominizer.

If only Steve cleared the fence...

I always want James Garner and sad, blind Donald Pleasence to make it into Switzerland ...

i think this one is fairly obvious for me..

Lawrence Of Arabia.
Which should be required viewing for US presidents about to invade an Arab country.

The Usual Suspects.
The ending is brilliant.

Battle Of Britain. Patriotic stuff.

anything Monty Python

Red Dwarf If it ever gets made.

If she weighs the same as a duck........

Damn. Missed that of my list. "You lucky bastard".....

It's kind of tough for me. I don't watch many movies for any reason other than pure slack-jawed entertainment. Don't watch camera angles, colors, any technical stuff. Don't care to find hidden metaphors or foreshadowing or artsy stuff. When I *do* watch from one of those perspectives, the list of favorites is different from the list of popcorn favorites.

Popcorn favorite/childhood-feeling-resurrector: Empire Strikes Back
Popcorn favorite 2: Braveheart (the first and best of the 10000000-acres-of-carnage-in-one-shot movies), followed verrrrry closely by the LoTR trilogy. They'd win, but they're even more pompous and overly long than BH

For sound: Just became acquainted with a guy who records some of our GH shows, went to his house to see his home theater. It's utterly AMAZING. He lives in some suburban little house, but the basement has 200k in surround sound, weird speakers, players for every conceivable format of A/V goodness. It's just sick.

Anyway, he gave me a choice of what movie to experience the surround with, and I picked the digital tape (can't remember what that format is called, but it's apparently 14x clearer than DVD, or some sick number) of Master and Commander.

Holy cow. Just...holy cow. The score alone would bring tears to your eyes, and every footstep on the deck overhead can be heard in perfect relation to the cup that clattered off to the left. With the lights off, and none of the flicker or video noise that you're accustomed to on the big screen or on regular monitors, you truly believe you're there.

we also smoked one and watched a Yes video. Don't even start me on that one. If I win the lottery, I'm hiring this guy to make me one of those theaters.

Yeah. So for sound, Master and Commander.

was gonna do more, but i've used up my line count for one post.

The depressing thing, noodle? A LOT of movies have incredible sound like that, and 99.9% of the population will never hear it. :(

Especially incredible that people will hook up a DVD player to their TV and then listen to the little crappy built-in speakers.

You can spend a fortune to hook in surround sound, but a good first-pass approximation is to connect the stereo output on most modern TVs to your stereo. If the stereo has a subwoofer, you can get decent sound for the cost of some cables.

The Thin Man - Highest w/m ratio of any movie I know. (wisecracks per minute)

Blade Runner (The theatre version) - I love the voiceovers (shades of sam spade) and I'm a sucker for a happy ending.

Rio Bravo - a great piece of horse opera plus Walter Brennan as Stumpy (one of the best character parts ever)

Ghostbusters - one of the funniest and most quotable movies of all time. "Cats and dogs living together", anyone?

dar - I'm totally with you on Ghostbusters.

Movies I have on DVD and watch over and over and over:
Amelie (always puts me in a good mood)
Willy Wonka... (one of my childhood favorites)
LOTR trilogy (very entertaining)
The Jerk (hilarious "I just heard a song that reminded me of the way we were")
Moulin Rouge (mushy romance and great music)
Shawshank Redemption (great story - happy ending)
The Goonies (super fun and quotable)
etc.

and the movie I could quote 99% of... Pee Wee's Big Adventure :blush: "Look out Mr. Potato-Head!"

Are you looking forward to or dreading the remake due this summer?

Totally looking forward to it. From what I've read, it's not a remake. It will follow the book much closer. Very very different from the Gene Wilder version, which I love, but I can't wait to see what Tim Burton (and Johnny Depp) have done.

Did you see the TV preview yet? Was it just my VCR or is Willy Wonka in black and white? Just him, not his clothes or anything else. That could be an interesting effect.

Trailer here. He's just very pale.

I saw a much more extensive trailer in the theatre last weekend, but I can't find it online anywhere. Odd.

He looks vaguely familiar so pale... it's Edward Wonkahands! Or is it Willy Scissorwonka?

Best movie ever? I don't know if I could pick a favorite.... The first candidate that leaps to mind the Shawshank Redemption. Fight Club is up there, too. Saving Private Ryan is definitely in the top 10, as is Glory. The Incredibles also recently took a high spot on the list.

Some fucker spoiled the ending of The Usual Suspects for me before I ever saw it, so I think that took away from it... I think it's well made and well acted, but I didn't get to experience that great ending the first time around, so it doesn't have the special place in my heart that it seems to have with so many. I am a little bitter about that.

I don't have a favorite movie. There are hundreds - well, maybe a hundred that I thought were awesome but I can't watch a movie more than once. Maybe if its on TV several years later. I rent from Blockbuster all the time but I don't own a single movie on DVD or VHS. I tape football games now and then some of which turn out to be classics. Never go back and watch them.

Curiously, I can listen to a CD that I enjoyed 30 years ago (on vinyl at the time) and like it just as much now as then - even after thousands of listens.

I think that is a little odd but I have no explanation.

Nice threesome.

Saw a very good one over the weekend, though not a best. The Station Agent.

For me it goes

Brazil
Field of Dreams
Shawshank

loved fight club
the original Matrix was damn good too

FULL METAL (MOTHER FUCKING ) JACKET !!!!!! ( who would ah thunk it ???)
Pulp Fiction , Just TOO COOL !!!!!
Seven Samuri , The original black and white , subtitled version . ( got to love IFC !!!)

Oh yeah... the Matrix. One of several movies which might have made the list had their younger siblings not shat upon them, and soiled their good name.

I thought of a couple more on my top ten list... The Truman Show, and the Royal Tenenbaums. Good shit, there.

dude. we're like.......what's the word i'm thinking of?

it means really similar.......yet different. does it help if i keep pointing to my forehead and then yours and go, " Yo. We're HERE." a few times?

Yes. Yes it does. If you could find a large alpine horn and shout "Ricola" while wearing lederhosen, that might help as well. It helps me concentrate.

It's nice to see Shawshank on so many lists. It's at least in my top 5.
The first time I saw Shawshank, I had no expectations. I had heard it was a decent movie, but I had no idea. Morgan Freeman is the best actor alive today. He's never made a bad movie. I have fond memories of him as Easy Reader on Electric Company.

For me, it's Star Wars as number one. No contest.

This is Spinal Tap. #1 Solid. Classic.

Phantom of the Opera is up there

Breakfast at Tiffany's (LOVE Audrey Hepburn)!!!

I watch so many movies that this is hard (purposely do not have cable tv, so it forces me to choose things to watch instead of just accepting what's on):

The Big Lebowski. Gets better every time. Watched it last night, in fact.

Dead Poets Society. Haven't watched it in a while but I love it.

Maltese Falcon. The original detective ass kicking plot twist story. I love noir.

But, like I said, I have a thousand favorites. Waking life is great too. Anyone seen that one?

There is a movie i have been searching for for a while - i have seen it only once on SBS television late at night and i cant for the life of me remember much about it. I have searched the internet including yahoo, google, wordls biggest movie database etc but i cant seem to be able to locate the exact details i need to name the movie, and et myself a copy.

I am pretty sure the english name for it is "love story" - of course there are about 15 movies called love story.. But it was all subtitled and i dont know what the country of origin was. it wasnt a very old movie, perhaps 1990's ??

the basic plot is as follows - a nun is the main charachter.. she is "dumb" - cannot speak. She falls in love with a homeless man.. he is a professional pickpocket. He is deaf. The tale tells of thier confusing, yet triumphing love - its a beautiful story! and i wish i could find it!!

If anyone knows what i am talking about - please let me know any info you hav on the movie. ! thanks!!

Thankgod!! everyone i know hates that movie - but i loved it - so moving, so well done, brilliant acting, just awesome!!

i remember getting high with my buddies Dan and Mike and sitting on the hood of mike's camaro. we'd talk about all kinds of funky stuff. one of Dan's favorite fantasies was that his whole life was just a movie, and one day he'd find out that everyone else he knew was just an actor playing a role. it used to freak Mike out. I haven't talked to mike in 15+ years. i saw Dan a few times but it never came up. I wonder if they remembered those nights if/when they saw that flick.

I know some people who hate it as well, and I don't see what's to hate... it's an interesting concept, well executed, and well acted. Sure it's a little over the top, but it needed to be, otherwise it wouldn't work. I suspect that many people who hated it had trouble digesting a movie so different from what they're used to.

And what person doesn't, at some time in one's life, wonder if the world might be a fraud, and wonder if one's fellow "humans" are merely actors, who apply varying stimuli to study one's reactions? I think that's a healthy thing to ponder. And a movie appearing which depicts that very thing adds an interesting twist to such pondering. Was the movie created to throw me off track?

I also enjoyed another of Jim Carrey's recent, unusual movies: The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It's neat to see good sci-fi without aliens, spaceships, or humans vs. robots.

Yeah, Sunshine was great.

Brazil was another one without aliens, spaceships, or robots. OK, there was one robot, but it didn't provide much opposition.

This may be the movie you seek... Stille Leibe, a movie from Switzerland released in 2001. I think the title means "Silent Love."

Find Mike's e-mail address, and I'll send him a message out of the blue to inform him that his life IS just a movie, and "I'm blowing the top off of this conspiracy!" "Years ago, your friend Dan tried to warn you, but you wouldn't listen!"

I need a hobby.

I just read a plot synopsis for Brazil, and it soulds cool. I'll have to see if they have a copy at the rental place.

I cannot believe you've not already seen this.

Hey, I was just a kid when this came out in 1985, and my parents weren't into that sort of movie. I'm still playing catch-up on a lot of good stuff.

Oh shit. 1985? Can't be. (must avoid crushing sense of own mortality that would ensue from checking IMDB to confirm).

You must get the Criterion Collection version! There are multiple cuts of this film which make varying amounts of sense. The Criterion Collection DVD set comes with the best and the worst versions. Other editions are a crapshoot.