Your number one all-time favorite movie is...

[Roxanne Appleby]

I absitivly, posilutely refuse to pick only one movie. Mnya!

Whew - thanks for that. Too hard! Plus, it changes.

I'm a sucker for sappy romantic comedies - While you were sleeping, When Harry met Sally, etc. When they are on tv I get sucked in every time. That doesn't mean any are my "favorite movie" though. Apocalypse has that effect. Stalag 17 (can't take my eyes off of William Holden.) Cary Grant movies, including the one Ami mentioned in another thread, especially ones with Grace Kelly. True Grit. Casablanca. The Producers with Zero and Gene. I'm all over the map.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil. Staring John Kusack and Kevin Spacy. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Love that movie.

 

[BlackShanglan]

If I picked a Comedy, it would have to be Stripes. Blazing Saddles was incredibly funny and biting social satire, but the ending was so brutally bad that it ruined the movie for me (I usually turn it off right when he tells the people they'd do it for Randolph Scott ).

Noooo! Not and miss Dom De Louise directing "The French Mistake"!

I actually love the ending of this movie. It's high up on favorite comedies. But then I do love a story that plays around amusingly with the act of creating its own narrative.

 

[BlackShanglan]

I'd have thought My Friend Flicka

*laugh* Have not seen it, actually. But if only they could be persuaded to do with The Horse and His Boy what they've done with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe ...

But while we're on animals, I will always have a special soft spot for Harvey. I'm an Oscar Wilde fan and a Jimmy Stewart admirer; it's impossible that I not adore this movie.

Shanglan

 

[raphy]

knights tale

He's drunk! He's pissed!
He'll see you in the lists!
Lichtenstein, Lichetenstein!

Hehe, both whisp and I love that movie.

My top spot usually gets fought over by The Princess Bride, The Last Boy Scout and Hudson Hawk. But The Princess Bride usually wins

That said, the thing that hits my TV more than either of those movies is Babylon 5.

 

[raphy]

Whew - thanks for that. Too hard! Plus, it changes.

I'm a sucker for sappy romantic comedies - While you were sleeping, When Harry met Sally, etc. When they are on tv I get sucked in every time. That doesn't mean any are my "favorite movie" though. Apocalypse has that effect. Stalag 17 (can't take my eyes off of William Holden.) Cary Grant movies, including the one Ami mentioned in another thread, especially ones with Grace Kelly. True Grit. Casablanca. The Producers with Zero and Gene. I'm all over the map.

Seen the British ones like Sliding Doors or Jack & Sarah? If not, check them out. Jack & Sarah beats any Tom Hanks rom-com hands down.

 

[Pure]

a vote for apocalypse now as well blade runner.

but some of the Ingrid Bergman films are tops

 

[trysail]

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb



Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb

There is no second; there's nothing that's even close.

I could watch "Strangelove" nearly every day for the rest of my life and I'd still be rolling on the floor laughing. "Slim" Pickins, Peter Sellers, and George C. Scott achieve near-perfection in delivering what have to be the most droll lines ever written for the big screen.

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President Merkin Muffley: Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
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Major T. J. "King" Kong: Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
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General "Buck" Turgidson: Mr. President, about, uh, 35 minutes ago, General Jack Ripper, the commanding general of, uh, Burpelson Air Force Base, issued an order to the 34 B-52's of his Wing, which were airborne at the time as part of a special exercise we were holding called Operation Drop-Kick. Now, it appears that the order called for the planes to, uh, attack their targets inside Russia. The, uh, planes are fully armed with nuclear weapons with an average load of, um, 40 megatons each. Now, the central display of Russia will indicate the position of the planes. The triangles are their primary targets; the squares are their secondary targets. The aircraft will begin penetrating Russian radar cover within, uh, 25 minutes.
President Merkin Muffley: General Turgidson, I find this very difficult to understand. I was under the impression that I was the only one in authority to order the use of nuclear weapons.
General "Buck" Turgidson: That's right, sir, you are the only person authorized to do so. And although I, uh, hate to judge before all the facts are in, it's beginning to look like, uh, General Ripper exceeded his authority.
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Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Colonel... that Coca-Cola machine. I want you to shoot the lock off it. There may be some change in there.
Colonel "Bat" Guano: That's private property.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Colonel! Can you possibly imagine what is going to happen to you, your frame, outlook, way of life, and everything, when they learn that you have obstructed a telephone call to the President of the United States? Can you imagine? Shoot it off! Shoot! With a gun! That's what the bullets are for, you twit!
Colonel "Bat" Guano: Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: What?
Colonel "Bat" Guano: You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.
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[cloudy]

trysail: I know you spend a lot of time "prettying up" your posts, but please stop.

It's annoying as fuck, and hard as hell to read. I skip every single post you make. I guarantee I'm not the only one.

 

[sereneone4u]

The Color Purple.

 

[BlackShanglan]

He's drunk! He's pissed!
He'll see you in the lists!
Lichtenstein, Lichetenstein!
.

He's blonde! He's tanned!
He comes from Gelderland!

Brilliant scene. I loved that movie, and strongly against my own expctations.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

He's blonde! He's tanned!
He comes from Gelderland!

Brilliant scene. I loved that movie, and strongly against my own expctations.

Yes, same here. It was good fun. I thought the rock soundtrack was going to kill it, yet oddly enough, it worked in enough places to not be a worry. I also liked how it didn't fall into a couple of traps that could have been, and were semi-set up early in the film, but it staled away from a couple of cliches and was a better film for it.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Yes, same here. It was good fun. I thought the rock soundtrack was going to kill it, yet oddly enough, it worked in enough places to not be a worry. I also liked how it didn't fall into a couple of traps that could have been, and were semi-set up early in the film, but it staled away from a couple of cliches and was a better film for it.

Yes, I entirely agree. That, and they had a really good whole-cast chemistry going. They really made those secondary characters work and become real, friendly, emotional people rather than just window-dressing. They did it well enough that by the time I hit the admittedly reasonably predictable ending, I really didn't care.

(They had me at Chaucer.)

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Yes, I entirely agree. That, and they had a really good whole-cast chemistry going. They really made those secondary characters work and become real, friendly, emotional people rather than just window-dressing. They did it well enough that by the time I hit the admittedly reasonably predictable ending, I really didn't care.

(They had me at Chaucer.)

They had me when they proved that Chaucer was a well scripted character, along with Steve the Pirate (can't think of the character's name in Knight's Tale). The way the two of them and the other guy interacted with each other and the blacksmith (yeah, the whole secondary cast) was just brilliantly scripted. I liked when... oh crap names... the knight lost to Corbel (corbal? corval?) and Steve the Pirate... went to attack him, but Chaucer knocked him over and told him to see to URICK! that was his name... That scene made the whole thing real to ,me. So many other things could have been done there, but they stopped the nonsense before it beganem, and made the monment real.

And now I will go take a nap (after a few more posts )

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Ulrich!

 

[flavortang]

The Matrix.

Any movie that makes Keanu Reeves look cool is a classic for me.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

So many to choose from....

Heartbreak Ridge
Quigley Down Under
Ground Hog Day
Phenomenon
The Princes Bride
Days of Thunder

but I guess my all time fav would have to be...

The Bourne Series (The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy)

 

[Trombonus]

Transformers the Movie!!! The 80's one.

I'm going to see the new one tonight.

 

[NoJo]

By a long nose, The Marx Bros "Monkey Business", (MGM MCMXXIX).

But I rewatch almost as many times, "Bringing Up Baby" and "It Happened One Night"

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

that was good .but I think I liked good will hunting better.

Good Will Hunting better than Dead Poets Society?
well, how do you like them apples?

 

[TE999]

I also have a soft spot in my head for the National Lampoon movies.

Animal House

NL's Vacation

NL's Christmas Vacation

Etc.

also: Caddyshack (Caddyshack 2 sucked)

Easy Money

Young Frankenstein

History of the World Part 1

The Producers

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Hot Shots: Part Deux

and

Airplane!

Pass the popcorn, willya?

 

[bluebell]

trysail: I know you spend a lot of time "prettying up" your posts, but please stop.

It's annoying as fuck, and hard as hell to read. I skip every single post you make. I guarantee I'm not the only one.

Oh dearest Cloudy.
Long has a contingent of people begged for this very thing from Trysail.
Alas, it will not be done.

It's just that way.
(But you were awfully diplomatic about it! )

 

[Belegon]

Although it's not in my top ten, I have to say that I also greatly enjoyed A Knight's Tale and I completely expected to hate it.

"Pain... lots of pain."

great casting, a good sense of humor, good action. A very enjoyable film.