Favorite movie?

[Flaxbee]

Any genre. Or, just good movies you have enjoyed. I know I am blanking on some good ones, but I'll throw out a few I have really enjoyed:

Seabiscuit
North by Northwest
The Bourne series
Sneakers
The Shawshank Redemption
Sense & Sensibility


Please, give my memory a boost. Tell me yours!

[mitchum]

1. Aguirre: The Wrath of God

Psycho
The Godfather
The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Lady Eve
This Is Spinal Tap
Taxi Driver
Midnight Cowboy

[Orrex]

34. Aguirre: The Wrath of God?!? No one likes that movie!

Not even Herzog or Kinski!

:evilgrin:

[mitchum]

38. Herzog actually does remain disappointed by Cobra Verde...

he is dead wrong.
Kinski made lots and lots and lots of bad movies, but never mit Werner

[Posteritatis]

2. Shawshank Redemption. (nt)

[Forkboy]

3. Patton, Sorcerer, Snatch....

Dr. Strangelove
The Thing
Das Boot
Mister Lonely
Good Night and Good Luck
Tapeheads
Gojira (naturally)

[mix]

4. Badlands, Come and See, The Sacrifice, Le Petit Soldat, Andrei Rublev nt nt

Come and See

[Joe Fields]

42. Badlands kicked ass.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. The Shawshank Redemption!

Also: Dr. Strangelove

Young Frankenstein

Those are my top all-time favorites!

[Robeson]

6. Far too many to name...

...and then I'd regret if I left one out.

[jobycom]

25. I'm guessing you never married, either.

since you can't pick favorites. :rofl:

[Robeson]

39. Well, I did have trouble with commitment for a long time....

...but I've been with my wife for 19 years, so I guess I'm qualified as married.

[jobycom]

Well alright then.

You can make a choice when it's the right one, then. :thumbsup:

[one_voice]

7. I'm a movie addict...

My Cousin Vinny
Shawshank Redemption
Simon Birch
Remember the Titans
Godfather 1&2
Scarface
Goodfellas
The Bourne Series
The Lost Boys...yeah, I know cheesy but I like it.
Parenthood
Boys N the Hood
Private Parts
The Golden Child...don't know why but I laugh my ass off everytime I watch it

I could go on and on..but I won't :-)

[pokerfan]

8. Showgirls

(not really)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Chinatown (1974)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Fargo (1996)
The Godfather (1972)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
The Producers (1968)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

[kentauros]

9. A few knowns and unknowns

Der Himmel über Berlin (Wings of Desire)
Bis ans Ende der Welt (Until the End of the World)
2001: A Space Odyssey
Forbidden Planet
Koyaanisqatsi
Powaqqatsi
Vibes
Blast from the Past
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Used Cars
J-Men Forever
Galaxy Quest

:D

[Flaxbee]

10. Galaxy Quest! And I forgot to add Ronin to my original list

:hi:

Blast from the Past is really funny ... the dance scene is one of my favorites.

[kentauros]

12. And Dave Foley has some fo the best lines!

Troy: I love sushi.
Adam: I love Lucy.
Troy: Who doesn't? She's hilarious.

[rrneck]

11. Lion in Winter

Unforgiven
Shultze Gets the Blues
Bourne Series
The Big Lebowski
Lord of the Rings
October Sky
Dracula
The Fifth Element
The Score

[applegrove]

13. "My Brilliant Career".

[mix]

15. that's a great one

:thumbsup:

I LOVE Judy Davis.

[applegrove]

16. Yes. She is great. I haven't seen her in much lately.

[mix]

17. I was thinking the same thing.

The last I heard she had moved back to Australia to raise a family.

[applegrove]

19. That explains it. Thanks.

[panader0]

14. Oh Brother Where Art Thou

Almost anything by the Coen bros

[MajorChode]

44. Definitely one of my favorites

I'm a bit mixed on other Coen brothers movies. I either love them or intensely dislike them.

[Dr Morbius]

18. Look at my name.

My namesake on the left, here:


I love Forbidden Planet. A remake is in the works; if they (Mr. Cameron, et al) sully the name of my favorite flick I'll be forced to hurt them.

Gotta get a picture of the ship in here, too, Starcruiser C-57D:

[Flaxbee]

21. My husband watches that probably at least once a month

:D

His favorite (mine too) is The Day the Earth Stood Still (original). I hope they don't do to Forbidden Planet what they did to TDTESS...

[Dr Morbius]

23. That makes two of us.

We knew TDTESS was going to be awful once we heard Keanu Reeves was playing Klatuu, right?

Well, my favorite anime series is Cowboy Bebop. They're making a movie of that, too, and guess who's playing Spike Spiegel?

Keanu F. Reeves!

Grr...

Anyway, good choice for your favorite! I watch it perhaps once a year, myself. Gort - Klatuu barada nicto!

[kentauros]

22. JMS (J. Michael Straczynski) is writing it

so it should be great. My only possible gripe with it will be what they do for the soundtrack. Audiences of today would likely not react well to something on the order of the Barron's sound...

New Line Cinema had developed a remake with James Cameron, Nelson Gidding and Stirling Silliphant involved at different points. In 2007, DreamWorks set up the project with David Twohy set to direct. Warner Bros. reacquired the rights the following year and on October 31, 2008, J. Michael Straczynski was announced as writing a remake. Joel Silver will produce. Straczynski explained that the original had been his favorite science fiction film, and it gave Silver an idea for the new film that makes it "not a remake", "not a reimagining", and "not exactly a prequel". His vision for the film will not be retro, because when the original was made it was meant to be futuristic. Straczynski met with people working in astrophysics, planetary geology and artificial intelligence to reinterpret the Krell back-story.

[Ron Green]

20. Sunrise (A Song of Two Humans)

Les Enfants du Paradis
Notorious
Double Indemnity
The Searchers
Barry Lyndon (I know, I know, but shit... the photography)
Metropolis
Lone Star

[mix]

31. I love Les enfants des Paradis...

filmed in Nazi occupied France...breathtaking, brilliant

[Starbucks Anarchist]

24. The Bicycle Thief, 2001, Godfather I and II.

Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Fitzcarraldo
Network
Chinatown
Psycho
Raging Bull
City Lights
Modern Times
Goodfellas
Taxi Driver
The Shawshank Redemption
Baraka
The Apartment
Some Like It Hot

Lots more, but those come to mind.

[jobycom]

26. Amadeus, Unforgiven, The Princess Bride, The Big Lebowski.

That's some of them.

[pokerfan]

27. Couple of smaller Peter O'Toole films

that were a lot of fun...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084370/">My Favorite Year (1982)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088960/">Creator (1985)

[kentauros]

28. Stuntman was good, too

:)

Not as good as My Favorite Year, but still funny :D

[pokerfan]

29. Oh yeah, forgot about that one

[kentauros]

30. I was remembering a line last night where a cameraman says "cut"

because of a film runout. However, he still had 33' and O'Toole goes ballistic on him, explaining how that equated to 22 seconds, more than enough time to kill him in various and nefarious ways

[pokerfan]

32. In 22 seconds, I could break your fucking spine.

In 22 seconds, I could pinch your head off like a fucking insect and spin it all over the fucking pavement. In 22 seconds, I could put 22 bullets inside your ridiculous gut. What I seem unable to do in 22 seconds is to keep you from ruining my film!

[kentauros]

33. That's it!

:rofl:

[BillStein]

36. The Ruling Class

one of my favorite Peter O'Toole films

[sarge43]

46. Lord Jim. n/t

[femmocrat]

35. Dr. Zhivago,

and "Lady and the Tramp".

[Broken_Hero]

37. A few in my top 10-edit

Conan The Barbarian

Sin City

Superman The Movie

American Psycho

It would be extremely tough for me to choose a number one, but I know that Conan would be one of the contenders for the spot.

edited to add the movie Once Were Warriors.

[slay]

40. The Big Lebowski

no question

[deutsey]

48. The Big Lebowski abides

:-)

This is definitely among my top five favorites.

[Joe Fields]

41. Two complete opposites. To Kill a Mockingbird, and Blazing Saddles

[betharina]

43. it's a wonderful life. nt.

[Lucian]

45. "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"

A Christmas Story
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Bad Santa
Underworld series

[LeftinOH]

47. Nashville; Manchurian Candidate ('62); Annie Hall; Night of the Hunter; Giant ...to name a few.

[bigwillq]

49. Goodfellas

Pulp Fiction
Shawshank Redemption
(in that order!) :)

[bikebloke]

50. Casablanca

Jean de Florette/ Manon de Source
Deep Impact
The Magnificent Seven
The Great Escape
Joyeux Noel
Rififi
Run Lola Run

[HERVEPA]

51. McCabe and Mrs. Miller / White Men Can't Jump / Dersu Uzala