The best movie you ever saw...

Kirk482002

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Your favorite movie(s)

Okay, last week I asked the opposite and got quite a few far ranging answers. The one that seemed to win the worst also was tied for people liking it. 2001: A Space Odyssey. Not that they were saying it was thier favorite, just liked.

So now I ask for your favorite movie or movies (I find it hard to choose one).

By favorite, I mean it's a movie that even if you've seen it a hundred times, have the VHS and DVD, but will still stop to watch it when clicking though the channels with the remote and see it on.

I don't care if it's a kids movie or a horror slice and dice, if you love it, tell us and try to pop in a quote from it if you can.

My list includes (Be kind, some are kids movies and I've had my share and wathched them with them, popcorn and soft drinks and all):

2001: A Space Odyssey (Open the pod bay doors, Hal)

The Godfather (I made him an offer he couldn't refuse)

The Godfather 2 (It was an abortion, Michael)

Caddyshack (So what? So let's dance!)

National Lampoon's Vacation (My dad says I'm the best french kisser)

Animal House (Food Fight!) (They took the fucking bar!)

Apollo 13 (Houston, we have a problem)

The Missiles of October (A '74 TV play with William Devine and Martin Scheen)(It is
the policy of the United States, that any missile launched from Cuba toward any nation in the Wester Hemisphere, as an attack by the Soviet Union, requiring a full retailliatory response)

Rocky 1 & 2 (I'm from Philly, Yo Adrian!) (My Mother told me I didn't have much of a brain so I should develope my body) (I'll bust his freaking head!) (I had so many holes on my cheeks, spit was coming out of them)

Star Wars IV, V, VI (If that old man diddent take that trator beam out of commission, this is going to be a real short trip, now hit it!) (Obe Wan never told you what happened to your Father) (Let the hatred flow through you)

As Good as it Gets (Well, we're not open for no-sex oaths until morning)

Superman (Miss Teschmacher!)(Do you know what the number 200 has in
common between us? It's your weight and my IQ, now think people, think!)

The Wizard of OZ (I'll get you, my little pretty, and your little dog too!)

Toy Story (To infinty and beyond!)

Casablanca (This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship)

E.T. (Why doesn't he just 'beam up'? This is reality, that's why)

The Odd Couple (Do you want a brown sandwich or a green one?)

Gone With the Wind (You know what goes here)

Bridge Over the River Kwai (Can't think of a line so I'm whistling the tune)

It's a Woderful Life (Well, ah, ah, ah)

The Silence of the Lambs (A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti. )


Well, that all I have right now. I'm sure as soon as I post this, I'm going to think of more.

But it's your turn:

Kirk
 
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Today I saw THE INTERPRETOR, what a loser of a movie. You'd think with a triad of Lumet, Kidman and Penn, there would be a winner. First, lets talk obvious. You knew who did it in the first 20, so the suspense was lost. Shakespeares, 'though dost protest too much' comes in handy here. Second, the dialogue. OH MY GOD, if Sean Penn can't read a bad line, you know something is seriously WRONG! Sexual tension? ROFL, ohhh THEY tried. :rolleyes: Inconsistancies? Rampant, and the make up job on Kidmans lips? Well, I am picky, myself, but was also viewing with an make-up artist. :D

This movie gets a big moon!

Best movie? Hm. Cries and Whispers by Bergman, Fellini Satyricon by who else, All That Jazz and Cabaret by Fosee, The Graduate by Nichols, Salo by Passolini, Blade Runner and Alien by the Scotts, and this is my short list :D
 
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CharleyH said:
Today I saw THE INTERPRETOR, what a loser of a movie. You'd think with a triad of Lumet, Kidman and Penn, there would be a winner. First, lets talk obvious. You knew who did it in the first 20, so the suspense was lost. Shakespeares, 'though dost protest too much' comes in handy here. Second, the dialogue. OH MY GOD, if Sean Penn can't read a bad line, you know something is seriously WRONG! Sexual tension? ROFL, ohhh THEY tried. :rolleyes: Inconsistancies? Rampant, and the make up job on Kidmans lips? Well, I am picky, myself, but was also viewing with an make-up artist. :D

This movie gets a big moon!

Best movie? Hm. Cries and Whispers by Bergman, Fellini Satyricon by who else, All That Jazz and Cabaret by Fosee, The Graduate by Nichols, Salo by Passolini, and this is my short list :D
You forgot Barb Wire!
 
Too many to list the "best," but I can watch The Vertical Ray of the Sun over and over.

Edited to add: And Metade Fumaca. I can watch that one over and over, too.

Luck,

Yui
 
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kendo1 said:
Shawshank Redemption.

Excellent choice.

Favorite girly movie- An Affair to Rememeber. I know it's a cliche, but I swear I cry everytime.

SJ
 
"Seven Samurai"

"It's a Gift" (or anything with W.C. Fields)

"Robot Monster"
 
South Park
His Girl Friday
Arsenic and Old Lace
Thin Man movies
Alien and Aliens
Terminator and T2
 
LadyJeanne said:
South Park
His Girl Friday
Arsenic and Old Lace
Thin Man movies
Alien and Aliens
Terminator and T2


His Girl Friday is a fantastic movie. I love the way they play off each other- and such great dialogue!

SJ
 
American Beauty affected me more than any other movie. Whether that fits even my own definition of "the best," I don't know. I've watched it a dozen times and it's never failed to make laugh and cry and find peace at the end. That's enough to make it my favorite.

Is there a best of anything, when each of us brings so much of ourselves to what we see? I needed to see American Beauty when I did. I know people who found it deeply depressing. Others loved it as much as I did; the more depressed we were going in, the better we felt coming out.

To Kill A Mockingbird is a little treasure kept in an old cigar box. It makes me think of visiting my cousins who had Southern hometowns like Macomb with dusty streets and poor white trash and neighborhoods that my elderly aunts called "Colored Town" when they were being ladylike - decades after the story in the book. Atticus Finch is my American hero. It's not his fault he's fictitious.

"...and he would be there when Jem woke up in the morning."
 
Had to think about this for a bit.

The Mission. Lovely cinematography, a perfect soundtrack, and a story that reduces me to tears every time.

The original Rollerball. Again, wonderfully filmed, a great soundtrack (Bach and Shostakovich) with a message for people who think the corps running things is a great idea.

Paths of Glory. Another movie that reduces me to tears.

Clockwork Orange. It takes work to make a monster sympathetic.

Bladerunner. "All these moments lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
 
I'm the DickWeed

Favorite Movies

The Kid with the Golden Arm
Five Deadly Venoms
Master Killer

-- Non-KungFu

The Killer -- John Woo

Sincerely,
ElSol
 
yui said:
Too many to list the "best," but I can watch The Vertical Ray of the Sun over and over.

Edited to add: And Metade Fumaca. I can watch that one over and over, too.

Luck,

Yui

*sigh* I'm so in love with you and I've never heard of either of these films. Obviously, things are more complex than I imagined them to be.

I'm partial to just about anything with Peter O'Toole, but "The Lion in Winter" has so many good performances, such a great script, and wonderful cinematography. It's all I can do not to punch anyone who talks during that movie.

Godfather I and II, obviously.

Woody Allen's "Manhattan", even if just for the Rhapsody in Blue/NYC Scenes sequence. I tend to remember really sublime moments from Woody Allen films, rather than the whole movie. In "Broadway Danny Rose", the shoot-out in the warehouse where they keep the helium balloons for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is priceless! Also, Mira Sorvino in "Mighty Aphrodite" redefines the "hooker with a heart of gold" archetype.

"Singing in the Rain" is a great movie musical, but there are others I really enjoy
for the music or dancing, or a really standout performance.

For stupid comedies, "Caddyshack" wins for silliness and shameless inclusion of really gratuitous nudity. "Revenge of the Nerds" might be second place, although "Animal House" was funnier, with less gratuitous nudity. "Can we dance wif yo' dates?" and "Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son." almost make up for the inexplicable brevity of the sorority house peeping scene. :confused: "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" is good, and "Dazed and Confused" is scarey-good; but does anyone get naked? There's not even a girl's locker room shower scene! An unforgivable oversight!
 
Best movies . .By Dar~
-Duets (What's it called? Karate oh kee?)
-Practical Magic ( That's right girls Hold on to your husbands)
-Stigmata (I am all around you, not in mansions of wood and stone)
-Robin Hood Men in Tights- (I've got to be going Home Alone now.)
-Guys and Dolls- (Boy, if I were a salad, you know I'd be splashing my dressing)
-Gladiator-(husband to a dead wife, father to a dead son)
-Jurassic Park- (Nature will find a way)
-The Last Unicorn- (Be wary of wousing a wizard's . . rousing a rizard's . .be wary of making a wizard mad!)
-Star Wars Episode one-(What is it you spake)
-Space Balls-(just what we need . . a Druish Princess)
-Mulan (I'll get that arrow, pretty boy, and I'll do it with my shirt on!)
There are so many more!!!
Dramas are hard for me to remember titles and I LOVE so many. I also have a thing for apocolyptic type movies.
 
Pleasantville for the most successful combination of realism and allegory — but if TBS runs it one more time, I will have to pull it, for over-exposure.
 
Virtual_Burlesque said:
Pleasantville for the most successful combination of realism and allegory — but if TBS runs it one more time, I will have to pull it, for over-exposure.

But, again, no girl's locker room shower scene. And don't even try to argue that the "parking at make-out point" scene makes up for it! There are just some cinematic rules that you don't mess with, and wet, naked teenage girls is pretty near the top of that list. :p
 
Wanting to avoid mentioning things that have already been mentioned (including my all-time favorite) I still had no problem coming up with these;

Before Sunrise
&
Before Sunset

Chasing Amy

Field of Dreams

Blazing Saddles

Monty Python & the Holy Grail

Braveheart

Jerry Maquire
 
Belegon said:
Wanting to avoid mentioning things that have already been mentioned (including my all-time favorite) I still had no problem coming up with these;

Before Sunrise
&
Before Sunset

Chasing Amy

Field of Dreams

Blazing Saddles

Monty Python & the Holy Grail

Braveheart

Jerry Maquire

Sounds like we have very similar tastes in Movies, Bel
 
Dar~ said:
Sounds like we have very similar tastes in Movies, Bel


Most of what I mentioned have plenty of audience. The first three don't have the audience they deserve, and I try to play them up to people all the time.

I am also an unabashed fan of the script choices of John Cusack. I rarely come across a movie of his that I don't enjoy. Kevin Spacey also has a good eye for scripts, as does Jennifer Connely (as well as being absolutely gorgeous!).
 
Belegon said:
Most of what I mentioned have plenty of audience. The first three don't have the audience they deserve, and I try to play them up to people all the time.

I am also an unabashed fan of the script choices of John Cusack. I rarely come across a movie of his that I don't enjoy. Kevin Spacey also has a good eye for scripts, as does Jennifer Connely (as well as being absolutely gorgeous!).

I love John Cusack and Kevin Spacey. I also truly love giovanni ribisi and shit I can't remeber his name. He's in Duets and My best friend's wedding and Damn a new movie about wine . . shit its jsut on the tip of my tongue . . . well anyway, I like him!
 
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