Your Favorite Movie (general movie thread)

I know it's cliche, but I think this is a fun topic and usually sparks some interesting debate. I also know it's next to impossible to only list just one movie, since there's dozens of genres and we all tend to feel differently about different movies depending on our mood and whatnot, so I just want everyone to list what comes off the top of their head.

I'll start:

STAR WARS

Who can deny that they don't love the original trilogy? No one above the age of 20 I'd imagine. My favorite is The Empire Strikes Back, personally, but really, the trilogy should be seen as one movie in my opinion. Great, great filmmaking. I hardly ever just watch one of them at a time... just doesn't seem right!

Donnie Darko's always held a special place in my heart. From the same creator, I actually enjoyed Southland Tales quite a bit as well. I haven't seen this writer/director's latest work, The Box, but I intend to at some time soon.

Also, I have to throw some respect toward Sin City. Being a huge comic book nerd, this movie just hit the mark for me. To this day I wonder why more filmmakers don't follow in it's steps. I mean, a comic book is basically a storyboard for a movie! I've even heard comic book artists comment that they often play out their stories in their heads as if they were movies, then draw them using those "camera angles". It blows my mind that more filmmakers don't seem to understand that. Anyway....

As for comedy, I can't help but say Grandma's Boy. A few years back when I lived with two other nerdy guys who, just like me, loved to party and play video games this movie was basically the default background noise. I still laugh out loud to most of it to this day... 3000 views later.



I figure I should probably mention some anime, even though I'm not really a subscriber anymore. I absolutely love the 8-Man After movie, as old as it is. I also enjoy Macross: Do You Remember Love?, Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Vampire Hunter D (the original), and Nausicaa: Of the Valley of the Wind.

#1 Predator
#2 Citizen Kane

Terminator 1... Terminator 2...
If i had to pick just one, I'd propably go with the second.

Number one movie for me? Mother fucking Aliens. Everything an action movie should have. Aliens, bad ass space marines, sigorny weaver, and BAD POWER LOADER FIGHT SCENE!

In The Mouth of Madness

There are too many movies I love to just pick one, so in no particular order, here are some of my favorites:

Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Blade Runner, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Matrix, Gladiator, Ghost in the Shell, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Dark Knight, Inglourious Basterds, No Country For Old Men, Akira and Avatar.

Not in any particular order

Dark City
The Big Lebowski
3:10 To Yuma
Gran Torino
Total Recall
Angel Heart
Jacob's Ladder
The Hurt Locker

Walter said:

James Cameron's
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LOL I loved Avatar, Every generation has its own "Star Wars."

NightCrawler said:

In The Mouth of Madness

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I wonder when H.P. Lovecraft is going to get a blockbuster. Check out the XBOX game "Call of Cthulhu" game its pretty cool story wise.

Amadeus is my all time favorite movie.

This thread is to bland for fun topic like this, let me bring some life to it.

For me it would be a tie between a few of my favorite films. This pretty much covers all the ground for me.


Seven

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Recently fell in love with this film.

Star Wars (duh)

Pulp Fiction

Once Upon A Time in America (maybe my all time favorite)

Clockwork Orange (another obvious one)

Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind ( not sure why, but I really love this film)

And Boogie Nights, which I can say is my personal favorite.

I don't have pics but Apocalypse Now and Easy Rider are also up there.

You have good taste in movies Oburi, besides Eternal Sunshine.. Seven Samurai definitely ranks among my favorite films, and Once Upon a Time in America may be my overall favorite as well. Deer Hunter is another masterpiece starring DeNiro. Here's some others that hold a very dear place in my heart:

The Seventh Seal, The Dead Zone, Dead Man, Dancer in the Dark, Lost Highway, Full Metal Jacket, The Tenant, Bound for Glory

Forrest Gump,planet of the apes(original),Young Guns,Grave of the Fireflies,Fargo,First Blood,Dark Knight.

Yea Aufond Dead Man all the way, I can't believe I forgot that, I watch it all the time. And my favorite Lynch film would have to be Blue Velvet or Mulholland Drive, though I did like Lost Highway a lot.

Rhombaad said:

There are too many movies I love to just pick one, so in no particular order, here are some of my favorites:

Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Blade Runner, Raiders of the Lost Ark

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It was most probably an accident, but just so you realize three out of your top four feature a young Harrison Ford.

Obviously a coincidence!

[quote author=Vampire_Hunter_Bob]Dark City [/quote]

Love this movie as well. I feel it's underrated.

Deci said:

It was most probably an accident, but just so you realize three out of your top four feature a young Harrison Ford.

Obviously a coincidence!

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It's just no coincidence that Harrison Ford, a widely acclaimed actor, played in 3 excellent movies that are arguably classics of the late 70s/early 80s, each in its own genre.

Fight Club
2001: Space Odissey
The Game
The Great Escape

Seriously some of you guys, the topic says "your favourite movie". Movie, not movies!
It's so easy to list a bunch of movies that we like, so why does these topics always go that route? Make a freaking effort!

Death May Die said:

I wonder when H.P. Lovecraft is going to get a blockbuster. Check out the XBOX game "Call of Cthulhu" game its pretty cool story wise.

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Lovecrafts writing doesn't translate well to cinema (most of the adaptations so far have little to do with the stories they take their titles from, and are poorly acted b-movies). Specially in this era of CGI "show it all". In The Mouth of Madness is the closest to a Lovecraftian movie, but it's flawed, low-budget and has some crappy cheap effects here and there. But the script is ingenious and Sam Neil plays it brilliantly. It's criminally underrated, specially because it came out in the 90s, where good, intelligent horror movies were scarce. I guess this one stole my heart since i was young, that's why it's my favourite.
The game was good, but it had alot of bugs, i accompanied it since the first stages of development, back in 2002 i think, in the CoC forums.

Btw, http://chipsdriver.ytmnd.com/

Here's a confession (since some of you love this movie): i only saw the complete Star Wars trilogy late into my teens. Never really cared about it, found it a bit too silly and juvenile.
Was mostly a fan of sci-fi horror. Got hooked when i was introduced to Alien by my dad (was 8 or 9y old). Then later discovered Predator. And became a man.

NightCrawler said:

Seriously some of you guys, the topic says "your favourite movie". Movie, not movies!
It's so easy to list a bunch of movies that we like, so why does these topics always go that route? Make a freaking effort!

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How about you read the OP.

Deci said:

I know it's cliche, but I think this is a fun topic and usually sparks some interesting debate. I also know it's next to impossible to only list just one movie, since there's dozens of genres and we all tend to feel differently about different movies depending on our mood and whatnot, so I just want everyone to list what comes off the top of their head.

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Ok.

From the top of my head: In the Mouth of Madness, The Wall, Goodbye Dragon Inn, Before Sunrise/Before Sunset, The Ninth Gate, Rashômon, Memories of Murder, Sonatine, Irreversible, Mulholland Drive, The Good The Bad And The Ugly, Ringu, Audition, El Machinista, Eraserhead, Quills, Kikujiro, The Shining, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Twilight Samurai, The Hours, Koroshiya 1, 21 Grams, Eyes Wide Shut, American History X, Lost Highway, Bin-jip, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Underground, Pi, Oldboy, Cure, Kairo, The Shawshank Redemption, Hero, Millenium Actress, Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, The Blair Witch Project, Unforgiven, The Fountain, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Seventh Seal, Memento, All About Lily Chou Chou, Pikunikku, The Thing, Predator, Conan The Barbarian, The Proposition, Maboroshi No Hikari, Tokyo Fist, Zatoichi, Hana-bi, American Psycho, Blade Runner, Bullet Ballet, Fallen Angels, Dangerous Liaisons, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring.

Deci said:

It was most probably an accident, but just so you realize three out of your top four feature a young Harrison Ford.

Obviously a coincidence!

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Oh I'm well aware Ford was in all of 'em. He's one of my favorite actors.

P.S. - I showed my girlfriend Blade Runner the other day and now it's one of her favorite movies, as well. Another successful conversion!

From Dusk Till Dawn, Aliens, Back To The Future.

Taxi Driver, if..., The King of Comedy, Mean Streets, The Hurt Locker, True Confessions and The Conversation.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

A partial list:

A Christmas Story, A Fistful of Dollars, Alien, Aliens, Alladin, Almost Famous, American Beauty, Animal House, Apocalypse Now, Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III, Batman, Batman Begins, Beauty and the Beast, Beetlejuice, The Big Lebowski, Big Trouble in Little China, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Blade Runner, Blazing Saddles, The Blues Brothers, Casablanca, Casino Royale, Citizen Kane, Cannibal! The Musical, Chasing Amy, Chinatown, Clerks, The Color of Money, Commando, Conan the Barbarian, The Dark Knight, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, The Devils, Diamonds are Forever, Die Hard, Dr. No, El Mariachi, The Empire Strikes Back, Escape from New York, E.T., Field Of Dreams, The Fifth Element, Fight Club, First Blood, Fletch, For a Few Dollars More, From Russia With Love, Ghost In The Shell, Ghostbusters, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Goldeneye, Goldfinger, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, Goodfellas, The Great Muppet Caper, Gremlins, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Groundhog Day, Halloween, He Got Game, Highlander, Hoop Dreams, Hot Shots! Part Deux, The Hustler, In the Mouth of Madness, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Interview with the Vampire, Jackie Brown, Jaws, Killer Clowns from Outer Space, King Kong, L.A. Confidential, Lady and the Tramp, The Land Before Time, Lawrence of Arabia, Léon, The Little Mermaid, Mad Max, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, The Maltese Falcon, The Matrix, Memento, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Muppet Movie, The Naked Gun, The Natural, Never Say Never Again, Nice Dreams, Night of the Living Dead, Office Space, Once Upon a Time in the West, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Passion of the Christ, Predator, Princess Mononoke, The Princess Bride, Pulp Fiction, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Reservoir Dogs, Return of the Jedi, Return of the Killer Tomatoes, Revenge of the Nerds 1-2, Road House, The Road Warrior, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Robocop, Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rushmore, The Samurai Trilogy, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, Scrooged, Se7en, Seven Samurai (and anything by Kurosawa), The Shawshank Redemption, The Silence of the Lambs, Son of Godzilla, Spaceballs, Spider-Man, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek VIII: First Contact, Star Wars, Super Troopers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teen Wolf, The Terminator, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Thing, This Is Spinal Tap, Thunderball, Troll 2, True Lies, UHF, Unforgiven, Up in Smoke, Vampire Hunter D, Wayne's World, Wayne's World 2, The Wizard of Oz, X2: X-Men United, You Only Live Twice

Many omissions, especially among movies I've seen more recently, though it would probably be best to go the other way and prune, ironically the shorter list might have some that aren't on here...

Field Of Dreams? really?