Tell me your favorite movie.

[Road Scholar]

Just wondering. "The Shawshank Redemption" was my all time fav.The "Sting" was next.:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

[bigwillq]

1. Goodfellas.

Shawshank is up there on my list too. :)

[Road Scholar]

2. I liked Good Fellows too.

[DS1]

3. Ronin

is a good bet, but I'd have to spend hours thinking about this

Blade Runner is another fav

[Jade Fox]

4. Two by Michael Mann...

THE INSIDER--a fascinating true story of a whistle-blower. set during the time (1994) when the last of the non-corporate media was being sold. You won't believe Russell Crowe's performance.

HEAT--a long, complicated, and many-peopled story about a sophisticated crime gang up against a relentless group of cops. Set in LA.

[Road Scholar]

5. Sounds like two good ones.

[fishwax]

6. godfather II, maybe?

I don't think I could pick just one, but that would be up there. Shawshank would too. Great movie.

[Road Scholar]

30. I'd have to put Godfather ll way up there on the list too.

[ghostsofgiants]

7. Fight Club, or maybe Mulholland Drive

[Aristus]

8. The Princess Bride.

"He didn't fall? Inconthievable!"

[slybacon9]

22. you gotta read the book if you haven't...

it's AMAZING. and hysterical.

[Aristus]

23. I own two copies of it.

I've loved it for years.

[slybacon9]

25. nice!

it actually made me want to have kids so i could read it to them. (yes, i would train my kids to understand such humor. my mom did it to me, thank god for her.)

[hyphenate]

9. My top two favorite films are so diametrically opposed

I have to mention them both.

My top favorite is Blazing Saddles. I saw it in the theatres 32 years ago when it first opened, and have never forgotten how funny it was then and continues to be.

My second favorite movie is The Man Who Would Be King. Again, I saw it when it first opened, and there is just something about the chemistry between Michael Caine and Sean Connery that still amazes me. The lore behind the film--the story itself by Rudyard Kipling, is a very powerful one, and seeing such perfect actors doing it makes it completely mesmerizing sometimes.

[giant_robot]

10. I'm fickle.

Right now, based on pure entertainment, I like Serenity. Shawshank was a damn near perfect film. I was apeshit over Gettysburg when it first came out. I think that film is seriously underrated.

[frankenforpres]

11. tie:godfather 2 or rushmore

lebowski and silence of the lambs are up there too

[Starbucks Anarchist]

12. Too many to list, but here's a few:

The Apartment
Some Like It Hot
Godfather
Godfather II
Goodfellas
Chinatown
A Clockwork Orange
Dr. Strangelove
Paths of Glory
Vertigo
Psycho
Network

[Random_Australian]

13. The End Of Evangelion. Don't watch unless you saw the series leading

up to it though!

[seemunkee]

14. McCabe and Mrs Miller or Captains Courageous

Blade Runner and Clockwork Orange follow close behind

[begin_within]

15. It's really too hard to just pick one. So here's 25...

These are in chronological order, not order of preference:

The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Casablanca (1942)
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Salt of the Earth (1954)
Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
East of Eden (1955)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1957)
Some Like it Hot (1959)
Psycho (1960)
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1966)
The Graduate (1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Harold and Maude (1970)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
The Godfather (1972)
Chinatown (1974)
E.T. The Extraterrestrial (1982)
El Norte (1983)
Contact (1997)
March of the Penguins (2005)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)

[frankenforpres]

16. how does contact make that list?

i heave that song from sesame st running through my head: "one of tehse things is not like the other, one of these things does not belong"

i do like your list

[begin_within]

18. That was a GREAT film.

[otherlander]

17. V for Vendetta or Dr. Strangelove.....hmm....can't decide.

[CPMaz]

19. Don't have just one

but Casablanca and The Godfather are always in my top five, no matter my mood.

[Skittles]

20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

best movie ever made

[slybacon9]

21. Shawshank Redemption and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

hands down the best ever... for me.

[veganred]

24. Usual Suspects all time favorite

[Autonomy]

26. My top 10

1. To Kill a Mockingbird (Hey, boo!)

2. Lord of the Rings trilogy (they cannot be separated)

3. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (the unmarked grave next to Arch Stanton)

4. Monty Python's Life of Brian (ten for that? ya must be mad!)

5. Easy Rider (Did you ever wanna be somebody else? I'd like to try Porky Pig.)

6. This is Spinal Tap (This one goes up to eleven.)

7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (You 'ave got a big nose!)

8. Jesus Christ Superstar (My time is almost through, little left to do...)

9. Forrest Gump (And 'cause I was godzillionaire and I liked doing it so much, I cut that grass for free.)

10. Ben-Hur (Prisoner number 42? Number 42? 42? Anyone?)

[laheina]

27. "Dangerous Beauty" nt

[pokerfan]

28. My top ten (through 2000)

It's hard to rank the more recent ones (LOTR, Vendetta) until I can see them from a greater perspective. So in chronological order, my top ten:


The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

The Wild Bunch (1969)

Alien (1979)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Unforgiven (1992)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Casino (1995)

Fargo (1996)

American Beauty (1999)


If I had to pick just one, I am very close to choosing the amazing Fargo. But I have to give the nod to Lawrence of Arabia. Great combination of cinematography and music combined with a great story and fantastic actors. It just grips you from the start, never lets go and plunges you into a foreign culture.


General Murray: I can't make out whether you're a bloody madman or just half-witted.
Lawrence: I have the same problem, sir.


Lawrence: Certainly it hurts.
Officer: What's the trick then?
Lawrence: The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.

[northofdenali]

29. Really peurile -

LadyHawk

[Orsino]

31. Branagh's Henry V. n/t

[nytemare]

32. "Amelie"

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