What is your favorite movie?

[luebster]

Since Ed twisted my arm... :wink:

My favorite movie has to be The Princess Bride. The movie has just about everything: action, adventure, romance, comedy, suspense. It is an excellent movie.

There are many memorable lines from this movie, including:
"Inconceiveable!"
"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
"As you wish."
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia.' But only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.'"

"True love saved her in the Fire Swamp, and she treated it like garbage. And that's what she is, the Queen of Refuse! So, bow down to her if you want. Bow to her. Bow to the Queen of Slime, the Queen of Filth, the Queen of Putrescence. Boo! Boo! Rubbish! Filth! Slime! Muck! Boo! Boo!"

OK, maybe this should be the "What is your favorite line from a movie?" post, but you get the idea. I love this movie!!! :rock on dude!:

Best of all, it is a family movie. FYI, Monsters, Inc. is a close 2nd.

So anyway, what's YOUR favorite movie? List a few memorable quote/scenes if you like.

[scrinch]

So as long as I'm sitting here unemployed in Greenland, with pleasure boats following me through eel-infested waters at night, I'll add my favorite movie. "The Man Who Would be King." It's got greed, gluttony, debauchery, villainy, comraudery, gore (two, count 'em, two severed heads)....all the makings of a classic.

[ux4484]

Obvious choices for me:

Golden Age
Lawrence of Arabia
Citizen Kane
The Thin Man, and the Thin Man Returns
Asenic and Old Lace
The Front Page

Silver Age:
Kelley's Hero's
M*A*S*H*
The Manchurian Canidate
Rio Bravo
The Cowboys

Since then:
BraveHeart
My Neighbor Totoro (Best Family movie I've ever seen)
Ghandi
Spirited Away
Field of Dreams
Spider Man (if only because it made me feel 9 years old again)

[Ed Hansberry]

Just one? Hmmm... I would have to say "The Matrix" simply because it has great music, an interesting story and the SFX were totally new at the time. You hardly see an action move anymore that doesn't have the Gaeta Effect.

If you have quicktime - you can see how the Gaeta Effect works at http://www.matrixfansite.com/making/bullet.htm

Other biggies for me:
Buckaroo Bonzai
Star Wars trilogy
Princess Bride
Escape from New York
Indiana Jones 1 & 3
True Lies
Tron

[Pat Logsdon]

Great topic!

"Greaser's Palace", although not the best movie, is one of the strangest I've ever watched. Made by Robert Downey Sr., it features Jesus coming back to Earth as a Puerto Rican cabaret singer in the Old West. The Holy Ghost wears a sheet, and the Holy Spirit is a rhinestone cowboy. Hilarity ensues.

One of my favorite movies of all time is Strange Brew. Canada, beer and two incredibly stupid guys plugged into the plot from Hamlet. Can't go wrong! The scene were Bob and Doug fight over who gets to get electroshock therapy is priceless.

Here's my general list:

Bladerunner
Gattaca
Wings of Desire
My Man Godfrey
Modern Times
The Life of Brian
Heathers
Braveheart
Lord of the Rings (both so far)
Philadelphia Story
Duck Soup
Hard Boiled
Reservoir Dogs
The Princess Bride
When Harry Met Sally
Clockwork Orange
The Quiet Earth
Amelie
Dune

[luebster]

True Lies
Let's see, beautiful images over the Florida Keys (with an obligatory bridge explosion) or Jamie Lee Curtis doing her best call girl impersonation 8O ?

Tough call...uh, Jamie Lee! :D

[Ed Hansberry]

True Lies
Let's see, beautiful images over the Florida Keys (with an obligatory bridge explosion) or Jamie Lee Curtis doing her best call girl impersonation 8O ?

Tough call...uh, Jamie Lee! :D
Actually I am generally a sucker for any move with a Harrier in it.

[Steven Cedrone]

Hmmm...

Blade Runner
Star Wars
Forbidden Planet
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Colossus, The Forbin Project
Blazing Saddles
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Scarface
The Godfather I & II


Wow, I could go on all day - after all, I am a couch potato :wink:

Steve

[ux4484]

Tron........hmmm......


I am amazed at the legion that now loves this boring early techno-fest........perfect example that effects can overshadow plot and people will fall for it.

I Had high expectations for Tron, saw it 70mm the weekend it came out, walked away with an "it was OK" feeling at best, but more of a feeling that Disney should have done much more with it story-wise.

[ironguy]

Well, mine would be

Fifth Element
Princess Bride
The Mask
Blade Runner
Men in Black
SPiderman
Matrix
Barbie Nutcracker

OK, one of those movies doesn't belong on my list. Guess which?

[Ed Hansberry]

Tron........hmmm......


I am amazed at the legion that now loves this boring early techno-fest........perfect example that effects can overshadow plot and people will fall for it.
Yup. We are just morons that "fell for it" and had the wool pulled over our eyes by Hollywood. Thank goodness for us doofuses that allow smart people that didn't fall for it to hold the high paying jobs. :roll:

Ohhh..... look, shiny lights blinking on my phone. Cooooooool.

[Pat Logsdon]

Tron........hmmm......


I am amazed at the legion that now loves this boring early techno-fest........perfect example that effects can overshadow plot and people will fall for it.
Yup. We are just morons that "fell for it" and had the wool pulled over our eyes by Hollywood. Thank goodness for us doofuses that allow smart people that didn't fall for it to hold the high paying jobs. :roll:

Ohhh..... look, shiny lights blinking on my phone. Cooooooool.
I detect a faint note of sarcasm. 8O

And just so this post stays on topic, I forgot to add two to my list:

It Happened One Night

To Be or Not To Be (Mel Brooks)

[ux4484]

Yup. We are just morons that "fell for it" and had the wool pulled over our eyes by Hollywood. Thank goodness for us doofuses that allow smart people that didn't fall for it to hold the high paying jobs. :roll:


Wow! sounds like something I might have said to you once Ed :D

Hey, everyone likes some movie that sucks (I share your like of Buckaroo Bonzai :oops:), but I was just a geeky teen when I saw Tron, it bombed for me then, and upon inadvertant repeat viewings since.

[Ed Hansberry]

Hey, everyone likes some movie that sucks (I share your like of Buckaroo Bonzai :oops:), but I was just a geeky teen when I saw Tron, it bombed for me then, and upon inadvertant repeat viewings since.
Tron has a 6.3 at IMDB, which is respectable. I was a pre-teen when I saw it and it was magic and things that were magic when you were a kid tend to stay magic.

BTW, TRON 2 may be coming out later this year. http://us.imdb.com/Details?0208650 It was supposed to come out in 2001 and keeps getting pushed back. I don't know if it is still on schedule or not.

[Busdriver]

The Great Escape (Steve McQueen)

Others that might make the cut for me:

2001 Space Odyssey
Blazing Saddles

[dean_shan]

In no order:


Star Wars (Episodes IV,V,VI)
Star Trek: First Contact
Stargate
Back to the Future I,II,III
The Matrix
Thumb Wars (Ok it's not realy a full movie but it's funny)
The Skulls
Tomorrow Never Dies
Willow
Indiana Jones (All of them)
Signs
Spiderman
X-Men
Fellowship of the Ring
Two Towers

I have a lot more but I'll keep this list to a minimum. I'll like just about any movie with "Star" in the title :wink:, or so my friends say.

[Brad Adrian]

The Life of Brian ("Blessed are the cheesemakers...?")
Silverado
My Blue Heaven
True Lies
This Is Spinal Tap ("This thing goes to eleven...")

And notice...not a scifi flick in the group!

[dean_shan]

And notice...not a scifi flick in the group!

What's wrong with sci-fi? :D I must admit more than half of my list is sci-fi :oops: Call me a nerd.

[Steven Cedrone]

Another: The Magnificent Seven...

Steve

[Ed Hansberry]

Another: The Magnificent Seven...

Steve
For some reason I can watch "The Gauntlet" over and over too.

[Rirath]

A few, semi-random order:

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Lion King 1 & 2
Toy Story 1 & 2
Aladdin
Terminator 1 & 2
Armageddon
Top Gun
Lair Lair...

(Aw heck, lets make this easier. All of these: http://us.imdb.com/Charts/usatopmovies :wink: )
On the Anime side of things we have:

Akira
Ah! My Goddess (movie)
Jin Roh
Vampire Hunter D
Armitage 3 Poly Matrix & Dual Matrix
Iria: Zeiram the animation
Blue Submarine No. 6

... Tons more.

[disconnected]

From quite a while ago --
Midnight Cowboy
Five Easy Pieces
Local Hero
Bull Durham
Nashville
McCabe and Mrs. Miller

[Steven Cedrone]

Pink Floyd: The Wall...

Steve

[Rirath]

Dang! I almost forgot Monty Python and the Holy Grail!
"We have the Holy Hand Grenade!"

The Holy Hand Grenade. You've got to love it.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~pparker/grenade.html

[luebster]

"One...Two.......Five!"

"Three, sir."

"Three!"

[Roosterman]

All time best for me is Braveheart. There are so many severed legs, arms, hands and heads it too hard to keep track. Other on the list would be Patton, French Connection, Matrix and to lighten it up a bit, Young Frankenstein. Marty Feldman had the best eyes :) .

[orangehat]

Not in any order but here are mine:
The Matrix
Stargate
Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Outlaw Josey Wales
All Clint Eastwood's Spaghetti Westerns
Firefox

[luebster]

Alright. I intended for everyone to give their favorite movie (singular). Oh well. I guess my PC isn't displaying the letter 's' properly... :wink:

Since I am a lemming, here are my favorite movies (in the order they came to my head):

The Princess Bride
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Die Hard (all 3, but Die Hard with a Vengance (Die Hard III) is fav)
The Whole Nine Yards
Austin Powers (all 3, but Goldmember is fav)
Monsters, Inc.
Toy Story (both)
True Lies
Terminator 2
Raising Arizona
The Big Lebowski
Saving Private Ryan
Major League
The Natural
Field of Dreams

I'm sure there's more, but I'll spare you from utter boredom. :D

[Kati Compton]

My list, in no particular order:

* I would say "Holy Grail", but I over-watched it in junior high / high school
* Princess Bride
* Hunt for Red October
* American President
* Dave
* This Is Spinal Tap
* Real Genius
* Breakfast Club
* Ferris Bueller's Day Off
* STII: Wrath of Khan
* Indiana Jones 3
* Tron
* Wargames
* Dune
* Labyrinth
* I think I'll be adding Amelie to this list...


2nd Tier
* Grosse Pointe Blank
* Dead Poets Society
* Weird Science
* Ever After
* Goonies
* Lost Boys
* Stand By Me
* Dragnet
* Legend
* Aliens
* Never Ending Story
* A Christmas Story
* 16 Candles
* Throw Momma From the Train
* Romancing the Stone

From this list, you should be able to tell when I was a kid... ;)

[Stik]

I like surrealism so I choose ....

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/9078/cindex.htm


After 1919 I like...

The Gladiator and Pee Wee's Big Adventure. :P

[Steven Cedrone]

Dr. Strangelove (Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb)

Steve

[Kati Compton]

What's Up Tiger Lily?

[luebster]

How did I forget Dave?

[Rirath]

Since no one has listed it yet, I'll add in Starship Troopers. I loved that movie. Sure, it was campy... but that was half the fun.
Kung Pow! as well... MST3K to a whole new level.

[ux4484]

Dr. Strangelove (Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb)

Steve


DOH!!

gotta add that to my list

I only drink vodka, Russian vodka.

[Buddha]

Just depends on my mood and on the genre

SF: Blade Runner/Alien
Thriller: Fallen
Crime: Pulp Fiction/Usual suspect
Comedy: Big Lebowski/Fear&Loathing in Las Vegas
Drama: Requiem for a Dream/American History X/One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Horror: in the Mouth of Madness
Fantasy: The Fellowship of the Ring/Willow
Weird: the Cell/Mulholland Drive
Supernatural: Bram Stoker's Dracula
Puppets: The Dark Crystal
Anime: Akira/Grave of the Fireflies
Film Anime: Avalon
Escapism: Y Tu Mama Tambien
War: The Killing Fields/Empire of The Sun
Mafia: Once Upon A Time in America
Life Stories: The Last Emperor/Lawrence of Arabia
Action: Indiana Jones 1&3/Never Say Never Again


As you can see I don't really have ONE favourite movie.

[Steven Cedrone]

Another great one on right now...

"The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming"

Emergency, emergency, everybody to get from streets... :wink:

Steve

[targetdrone]

I had a hard enough time deciding on the movies, so there is no way in heck that I could put them in any particular order, so.....

The Man Who Knew Too Little (Bill Murray)
Ice Station Zebra (Our German scientists are better than your German scientists)
Das Boot
The Game
Rocky (only the first one)
The Thomas Crowne Affair (Steve McQueen)
Simon Birch

[Weyoun6]

I have diverse tastes so here I go

Apollo 13
Joint Security Area (Korean)
Dr. Strangelove
The Truman Show
West Side Story
Gettysburg
This is Cinerama (the tech, not the actual content)
Tron (See above)
Vertigo
Charade
Signs
Dead Poets Society
Farenheit 451

Oh, forgot these
Casablanca
My Sassy Girl (Korean)
Rashamon
Spellbound

[johncj]

My favorite movie is Casablanca. The movie fascinates me for a variety of reasons, mostly because I'm intrigued by what makes it a great movie. By all rights, it should've been nothing more than a typical studio assembly line movie and easily could have been truly loathsome dreck (fundamentally it's wartime propaganda full of simplistic racial and ethnic stereotyping). Inspired casting, the movie's look (stark black and white), and the emotionally complex relationships were crucial, but I also think that the tension between private needs and public expectations, personal longings and social responsibilities, past commitments and present demands are really what make the movie great. The older I get, the more I appreciate the movie's ability to move beyond the propaganda and the love story to show us something about what it means to be human.

[trachy]

Did I miss something? Hasn't anyone listed The Godfather as one of their faves? Whoa...

Here's mind:

Godfather I, II
Goodfellas
Apocalypse Now
Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket
A Clockwork Orange
Wallstreet
The Game
2001: A Space Oddysey
Rounders
Memento
Real Men
The Jerk
Swingers
The Three Amigos
Erin Brokovich

- Drew

[trachy]

OK, maybe this should be the "What is your favorite line from a movie?" post, but you get the idea. I love this movie!!! :rock on dude!:

Humperdink: Surrender!

Westley: You mean you wish to surrender to me? Very well, I accept.

[luebster]

OK, maybe this should be the "What is your favorite line from a movie?" post, but you get the idea. I love this movie!!! :rock on dude!:

Humperdink: Surrender!

Westley: You mean you wish to surrender to me? Very well, I accept.

See what I mean?!?!?! This is the greatest movie!

[dh]

I've never considered myself a movie guy (even though I'm encoding U571 at this very moment).

Anyroad, here's what I would list as my top ones (at this moment):

Any Monty Python movie. Great to see that a lot of you guys like them too. Growing up in the UK at that time you had to like the Python guys just to piss of your parents.

Any Clint Eastwood western. Doesn't get any better than that.

Any movie made from a John LeCarre book. Bit dated now, with the end of the cold war but LeCarre summed up that period better than anyone. Tinker Tailor is still the best TV series of all time!

Lawrence of Arabia. Anyone read his Seven Pillers of Wisdom? Nothing has changed in that part of the world since 1916.

I didn't really like Fellowship of the Ring. I love the books and some books don't translate onto the screen too well.

[Steven Cedrone]

Did I miss something? Hasn't anyone listed The Godfather as one of their faves? Whoa...

My post on the first page of this thread... 8)
Steve

[CTSLICK]

Holy Grail
Life of Brian
Meaning of Life
Blazing Saddles (would any one in Hollywood dare to make this movie today?)
Young Frankenstein
Spaceballs
Patton
Kelly's Heroes
Army of Darkness
Terminator
Better off Dead
One Crazy Summer

and on and on blah blah blah
:D

[Jacob]

Many of mine have been mentioned before but in no particular order...

The Life of Brian
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Meaning of Life
Strange Brew (hey, I'm Canadian..).
This is SPinal Tap
GhostBusters
Braveheart
the princess bride
Back to the future (the series)
Heathers
Amelie
Run Lola Run
Fight Club
American Beauty
Canadian Bacon
Schindler's List
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
BladeRunner
There's Something about Mary
Slapshot
Scarface


That's all I can think of so far..

[karen]

Ok, if I have to say the film I most enjoy watching, that's easy - It's a Wonderful Life. Corny but heartwarming. Ask me any IAWL trivia question....

However, the best recent film for me is American Beauty.

There are also those films that I tend to stick with while channel surfing, even if I've seen them a billion times:

The Shawshank Redemption
Dave
Gone with the Wind
The American President (I'm not sure why on this one)
Any brat pack film: Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club, etc., but only if they aren't being censored.


Except for GWTW, the others seem to be showing on TBS every other weekend.

Karen