Your Favorite Movies of All Time

Originally posted by Rank outsider
I imagine your favourite must be 'Misery'?

Now where's that lump hammer....?

Originally posted by divegeester
I would go one further and ask her to recite some of the key scenes; if she doesn't include at least one from: "The 'People's Front of Judea' at the arena", "What did the Romans ever do for us?" or "Incontinentia Buttocks" I would dump her.

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
People called Romanes, they go the house!?

(Edit: yes, I myself am a pedant, and yes, that's part of why I love that scene.)

Richard

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
Nah... never could be impressed by Stephen King. He tries to hard to scare you, and ipso facto fails. My favourite, as mentioned above, is probably Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Richard

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
People called Romanes, they go the house!?

(Edit: yes, I myself am a pedant, and yes, that's part of why I love that scene.)

Richard

In no particular order:

Tombstone
Falling Down
Office Space
The Matrix
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

I like the Bourne-films - I can watch them over and over again, good acting:

The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Ultimatum

Bob,
I've resisted this thread as long as I can. You are a devil, for posting it!
So many great films, so little space. Even a top 10 list would fall short.
When I was young, very young, I must have watched High Noon over 10 times, and this was in the days before VCR/Betamax. Long before. Then, the 60's came, and I saw Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. For many years, I'd answer the question of my favorite film with that one. It still may be. However, in '78 Animal House appeared. Has to be my all-time favorite comedy. Easy Rider has to be my all-time favorite road movie, as well. Horror: The Exorcist. I threw my ouija board out of my apartment the night I came home from seeing that one. Mystery: the original Sleuth, with Olivier, ties with Deathtrap and The Usual Suspects. Adventure: So many. The Man Who Would be King may be tops. Musical drama: Flashdance! War films: My favorite is A Bridge Too Far, even over Saving Private Ryan, (which I saw 3 times in the theater), and Glory. All 3 had amazing battle scenes, w/o CGI!
Perhaps Excalibur should be #1 there, but it is more of a fantasy. Until LOTR came out, it was my favorite in that category. SciFi: Here I have to say, CGI must be discounted in judging scifi films! Lucas ruined the genre! But any films now have to be placed either pre-Star Wars, or post-Star Wars, My personal favorite pre-SW is George Pal's The Time Machine. Although Logan's Run and Zardoz are close. Post-SW is easy: Blade Runner. Sunshine and The Man from Earth are close.
However, I did see one great film last year, that may work its way to the top of all the genre lists: Warrior. Best film of 2011. Best of 2010 was Winters Bone, BTW.
Did I mention I despise CGI?
Zeffirelli's film is still the most beautiful film I've ever seen, even after seeing Days of Heaven, Badlands, and all the Terrence Malick films. So I'm still putting it #1. "Truth is beauty, beauty truth" Movies are art, above all the other functions they perform, after all.

Blake Edwards "A Shot in the Dark" 1964

Jacques Tati "Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot" 1953

Hitchcock: "Rear Window" 1955

Hitchcock "Vertigo" 1954

Sam Peckinpah "Wild Bunch" 1969

René Clair "I Married a Witch" 1942

Carol Reed "Third Man" 1949

Welles "Magnificent Ambersons"

Originally posted by DanTriola
Bob,
I've resisted this thread as long as I can. You are a devil, for posting it!
So many great films, so little space. Even a top 10 list would fall short.
When I was young, very young, I must have watched High Noon over 10 times, and this was in the days before VCR/Betamax. Long before. Then, the 60's came, and I saw Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. F ...[text shortened]... beauty truth" Movies are art, above all the other functions they perform, after all.

Thank you Bob.
I do tend to talk! (Type!) If only my old keyboard was still working. The 'n' on this one is sometimes in absentia.
Vandervelde's list was interesting. I did not include westerns, other than the mention of High Noon, but to me, The Wild Bunch would also top that list. I drove from central Pa to NYC in 1969 just to see that film. As some may recall, in the old days movies opened in either LA or NYC and then "toured" the country, sometimes taking 6 months to reach the Heartland. I read about it in Time, and drove 4 hours in order to negate the wait. Well, I was in college then and had nothing else to do!
As to Peter Sellers' movies: Being There is my favorite of his, and The Wrong Box was the earlier favorite, (a truly inspired comedy!) along with Dr Strangelove. I liked A Shot in the Dark, but Clouseau ran his bag of tricks in that one. The Pink Panther was the first film I actually fell asleep at, in the theater!
I could never get into The Third Man though, except the zither music. And as for Hitchcock, Strangers on a Train was my favorite. Jimmy Stewart never worked for me in Vertigo or Rear Window. Guess I saw him in too many Westerns.

Originally posted by DanTriola
Thank you Bob.
I do tend to talk! (Type!) If only my old keyboard was still working. The 'n' on this one is sometimes in absentia.
Vandervelde's list was interesting. I did not include westerns, other than the mention of High Noon, but to me, The Wild Bunch would also top that list. I drove from central Pa to NYC in 1969 just to see that film. As some ...[text shortened]... ewart never worked for me in Vertigo or Rear Window. Guess I saw him in too many Westerns.

Originally posted by DanTriola
Thank you Bob.
I do tend to talk! (Type!) If only my old keyboard was still working. The 'n' on this one is sometimes in absentia.
Vandervelde's list was interesting. I did not include westerns, other than the mention of High Noon, but to me, The Wild Bunch would also top that list. I drove from central Pa to NYC in 1969 just to see that film. As some ewart never worked for me in Vertigo or Rear Window. Guess I saw him in too many Westerns.

***** "The Bodyguard" (1992 romantic thriller film starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston. Costner stars as a former Secret Service Agent-turned-bodyguard

is hired to protect Houston's character, a music star... " Watching it as we speak. Outstanding plot of intrige, character development, mood music and romance.

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Originally posted by Shallow Blue
And I do fart in your general direction.