What is your favorite movie of all time!

[Spiderman]

For me its The Warriors now can you dig it!

[Paul]

i got a few, but its hard to say.....one of the following three:

1. Braveheart
2. The Lion King
3. Armegeddon

[Harrys Boy]

its got to be one of 3 for me too

The Third Man
The Usual Suspects
Barton Fink

Ive wrote these quick otherwise i would think about it for too long

[flabbybody]

My top three:

Godfather I
Godfather II
The French Connection

[brickcitybrother]

Like AngelaDeren I never thought of that before - I would have to think of a movie that I never tire of watching from beginning to end... Hmmmmmm?

Ok after 32 seconds of thought Goodfellas

[ANIYAH]

Ummmmm

1 The fifth Element
2 Clueless
3 Legally Blond (reminds me of me and my chihuahua)

[AllanahStarrNYC]

1. All About Eve

2. Sunset Blvd.

3. All About My Mother (Todo Sobre Mi Madre)

4. What Ever Happened To Baby Jane

5. La Ley Del Deseo

[GroobySteven]

Kingpin...Wood Harrelson and Randy Quaid.

[Canucklehead]

top 3 for me

[chefmike]

hhmmm...having been a cinema fan since I was still knee-high to a grasshopper-

I would HAVE to break it down into genres and sub-genres...

but to begin...and the top 5 or so, in each category, in no particular order...and I also reserve the right to edit these choices...


Classics

A Face in the Crowd
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Apartment
Citizen Cain
Being There

Favorite movies 'bout the 'Nam

Platoon
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket


Crime Movies...this may be a long one...

Taxi Driver
Pulp Fiction
Godfather I and II
The Usual Suspects
Casino
Goodfellas
The Killing
The Long Good Friday
Mona Lisa
LA Confidential

and lots more in this category (and the others)...

and if you're not hip to the internet movie database...you should be...you can even look up "that song" you heard in "that flick"...


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[chefmike]

Horror/Suspense/Sci-fi

Psycho
Frankenstein
Alien
Freaks
Rear Window
Vertigo
Hellraiser
The Blob (both versions)

and a plethora(shitload) of others....


Foreign

Malena
Irreversible
Meditteraneo
The Dreamers


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[hondarobot]

Accion Mutante, aka Mutant Action. Craziest movie ever made. It's never been released in the U.S. as far as I know, but it's hard to beat in my book.

Other favorites:

Pather Panchali
Casablanca (that's kinda cheesy to say, but it's awesome)
Glengarry Glenross
Sweet Smell Of Success
Mad Max (Original version)
Aliens
Betty Blue
Ed Wood
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

Fuck, I could go on forever. . .

[chefmike]

right, honda...I would definitely add sweet smell of success, and casablanca to my classics list...I might have to start a favorite director thread...

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[Quinn]

The Dreamers


A really great movie to be sure.

-Quinn

[hondarobot]

A director thread would be cool too. And that just made me think of some more favorites:

The Hospital (The Lars Van Trier one, Riget, or something in Dutch, or whatever)

The Shining

The Thing (both old and new)

Stagecoach (Damn good, maybe not a favorite, but that first shot of John Wayne is a cool shot, establishes a movie icon)

Fuck, I'd just go on forever.

[chefmike]

I know what ya mean...so many good ones..

In the classics, I left out-

The Fugitive Kind (if you haven't seen this Elia Kazan flick, with Brando-DO!)

On the Waterfront

The Hustler

The Cincinnatti Kid

A Streetcar named Desire

and just about any movie with Montgomery Clift in it...


and of course, Cool Hand Luke

[Spiderman]

Kingpin...Wood Harrelson and Randy Quaid.

That is a pretty funny movie man, great choices people ive seen some of them and havent, since you are saying three im gonna say my two other choices are cooley high and rocky!

[JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel]

LMAO
you guys kill me
FAVORITE MOVIE.................................just one
you fuckin list makers, you wouldnt even stand in a line for ice cream and say vanilla, oh wait chocolate, but then strawberry, wait rocky road......................... you know damn well you'd be like "Vanilla"

ugh

anyway, [i hate some of you bastards for typing in multiple choices, i swear]

I'm gonna say "Man on Fire"
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gotdayum right Man On Fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Denzel went from being that muhfucka I couldn't stand my girl watching on HBO to that muhfucka that was the fucking man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

one of the best scenes EVER, he had the leader of that cop group strapped on the car with a package of plastic explosives buried deep in his ass, and he says to him "I wish you had more time" then walks away and that fat fuck blows up........................... fucking priceless

[Ecstatic]

Citizen Cain...is that the melding of Kwai Chang Caine (Kung Fu) and Citizen Kane? :) Seriously, as great as Citizen Kane is, it's never been one of my favorites. Some of my favorites, in no particular order:

Steppenwolf
2001
Juliet of the Spirits
All About Eve (great pick, Allanah)
My Gal Friday
Dr Strangelove
Annie Hall (great pick, Angela)
Casablanca
African Queen
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Whalerider
Lord of the Rings (all three, despite their flaws)

Many others....

[hondarobot]

We're just trying to impress the girls with our movie knowledge. Which of course doesn't actually impress them at all, most likely.

"You watch all these movies? When you could be fucking girls? My Hero. . ."

Although I will say that I have gotten laid while watching movies at the same time. But that was generally a porn video playing.

I know a lot of girls who like porn just as much as I do.

8)

[chefmike]

daayuum...what's up with the hate, dude...any true movie fan that can name JUST ONE...ain't one...man on fire was good ....not a classic...now I gotta get back to my LISTS... let's move on to cult classics...starting with

Repo Man

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[tsluver247]

Shawnshank Redemption
Good Will Hunting
Good Fellas
Hoosiers

[johnb]

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Big Lebowski

i'm a sucker for underdogs

[joyboy123]

Dr. Strangelove
Hellraiser
Alien
Dumb and Dumber
Debbie does Dallas (when sex was actually dirty).
Bladerunner
Pulp fiction
Barbarella
Blue Velvet
Ordinary People

Yeah, the list could keep growing.

[JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel]

daayuum...what's up with the hate, dude...any true movie fan that can name JUST ONE...ain't one...man on fire was good ....not a classic...now I gotta get back to my LISTS... let's move on to cult classics...starting with

Repo Man

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man you guys know I'm not really hating, just the Walker family alcohol making sense of humor..............................

besides, I was pissed one of you bastards said The Usual Suspects before I could

carry on

[LG]

Lots of agreements with previous posters, but a few new suggestions too. My favourites today are (in totally random order):

La Vita e Bella (Life is Beautiful)
Rear Window
Some Like it Hot
The Shawshank Redemption
Raging Bull
Cidade de Deus (City of God)
Diarios de Motocicleta (The Motorcycle Diaries)
Withnail and I
Twelve Angry Men (1957 version)
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Casablanca
Mr Smith Goes to Washington
The Truman Show
The man with no name trilogy (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)

Tomorrow my list might be different.

[Quinn]

In the end, for me, it comes down to one word: Snatch.

-Quinn

[chefmike]

cult favorites other than Repo Man...

Re-Animator
Basket Case
Warhol's Frankenstein and Dracula
I Spit on your Grave
The Last House on the Left
Blood Sucking Freaks
Bully

and I can't believe I forgot to include this in all-time classics...

One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

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[Deepdarkfucker]

Goodfellas

Scarface

Godfather

Boys N Da Hood

Sould Food

[Harrys Boy]

I want it to be known that im a massive Glengarry Glen Ross fan too.

[chefmike]

I want it to be known that im a massive Glengarry Glen Ross fan too.

I agree, David Mamet is the shit!! My favorite Mamet flicks are-

House of Games

Things Change


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[TominNYC]

1. Atlantic City
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. Boogie Nights
4. Putney Swoope
5. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

[tsfarrah]

1) Alien (I love Ms Weaver)
2) Beautiful thing
3)pitch black ( I have a thing for Vin Diesel)


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[silbersack]

Greetings from Hamburg !!

-Trainspotting
-Blade Runner
-Clockwork Orange
-City of God
-Snatch

and the best film ever from Germany.....-Bang Boom Bang !!

[NickTheQuick]

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[Harrys Boy]

I want it to be known that im a massive Glengarry Glen Ross fan too.

I agree, David Mamet is the shit!! My favorite Mamet flicks are-

House of Games

Things Change


Mike have you ever seen the underrated Mamet film Homicide? Great movie pure Mamet, its got one of my favorite movie lines in it by William H Macy, when his partner is spending too much time on one case he says " Bob, I'm gonna tell you what the old whore said, and this is the truest thing I know: "When you start cumming with the customers, it's time to quit."

[chefmike]

I want it to be known that im a massive Glengarry Glen Ross fan too.

I agree, David Mamet is the shit!! My favorite Mamet flicks are-

House of Games

Things Change


Mike have you ever seen the underrated Mamet film Homicide? Great movie pure Mamet, its got one of my favorite movie lines in it by William H Macy, when his partner is spending too much time on one case he says " Bob, I'm gonna tell you what the old whore said, and this is the truest thing I know: "When you start cumming with the customers, it's time to quit."

Yes, I've seen it, good flick. I also liked Heist...which some Mamet fans don't like...The Spanish Prisoner is another favorite.

One other genre I didn't go into...The femme fatale...

The Last Seduction, with Linda Fiorintino is a favorite

I agree with one review of this, that says she she have won an Oscar

[zerrrr]

Rollerball
Blade Runner
Big Fish

[Jhellis978]

1. ) Manhattan (Is there a better opening scene than the New York skyline, set to Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue?)

2.) SLC Punk (Possibly the great closing line in a movie, "Instead of selling out, I was buying in...")

3.) Sunset Boulevard (See Allanah, we can agree on something)

4.) Network (Very relevant to our times.)

5.) TIE Before Sunrise (Totally flawless script.....)

The Dreamers (Pretty interesting look at the Days of Rage, student protests in Paris in the 1960's)

[tsntx]

sweetest thing - romey & michelle - clueless - pretty woman - steel magnolias... oh and ANYTHING w/ peter north that guy is just amazing

[Legend]

1. Scarface
2.GodFather
3. Taxi Driver
4.Coming To America
5.Rocky

[switchnyc]

'The Usual Suspects

Just for the orginality of the plot line and the fact that there is no way of know till three minutes before the credits. "one gold lighter"



Also runs
Scarface
Resevior Dogs
Apocolipes Now
Lock stock and two smoking barrels


Check out 'Layer Cake' and 'Boondocks Saints'

[hwbs]

old school
blazing saddles
heat
swingers
office space

[BeardedOne]

The Wizard of Speed and Time by/starring Mike Jittlov

If you can find it (It's available on DVD now via "legal bootleg" - Authorized by Jittlov himslef - on the internet), it's worth a watch. It's the true story (Though comically embellished) of the trials and tribulations involved in making a three-minute short for Disney in the early 80's.

It was the last film for Stephen "Johnny" Stucker and Angelique Pettyjohn and one of the breakthroughs for Phillip Michael Thomas (Though it wasn't released until after his Miami Vice fame took hold).

The effects, all "hand made", are great and it's a fun watch for all ages. Film buffs/students will enjoy the hidden examples and how-to lessons that are blended into the film.

If anyone knows the whereabouts of the man that plays the evil producer in the film, let Jittlov know. He really WAS the evil producer of the film and there was not a little bit of theivery and scandal involved around the making of the film.

If you can score the DVD or the laser disc, they both contain frame-by-frame images that can be stopped to find sekrit messages. :D

[roy404]

1. All About Eve

2. Sunset Blvd.

3. All About My Mother (Todo Sobre Mi Madre)

4. What Ever Happened To Baby Jane

5. La Ley Del Deseo

What about movies in COLOR!!!!!! LOL

[romeo]

Accion Mutante, aka Mutant Action. Craziest movie ever made. It's never been released in the U.S. as far as I know, but it's hard to beat in my book.
I liked it too...if I remember well it's produced by Pedro Almodovar...a good sci-fi movie

oh and ANYTHING w/ peter north that guy is just amazing
HAHA!! :lol: I guess to know why....he's not properly a good actor but.... :roll:

Anyway this is my list

Nikita,Leon,Jean D'arc by Luc Besson<---one of my favourite director
Schindler's list by Steven Spielberg --->it's the only one that made me cry sigh :cry
Sleepy Hollow by Tim Burton --->I love this movie
Dressed to kill,Body Double and Femme Fatale by Brian De Palma--->the best erotic/thriller movies that I have ever seen
Terminator by James Cameron
Angel Heart with Mickey Rourke--->a melancholy movie (about a man that sells his own soul to the evil)
Twin Peaks by David Linch (both movie and telefilm)

[chefmike]

Irma le Douce
Paper Moon
Midnight Cowboy
Alice Dosen't Live Here Anymore
Being There
Liquid Sky
Fire Walk w/ Me
Pulp Fiction
Magnolia

Being There...what an incredible movie...Peter Sellers' masterpiece....anyone who hasn't seen this gem, should do themselves a favor and check it out...

[TomSelis]

Full Metal Jacket (anything done by Stanley Kubrick)

The Crow (The original)

The Godfather II

The Empire Strikes Back

The Exorcist

Office Space

[Ecstatic]

Arianna and Mike, you are both right: Being There is brilliant. Had to be an inspiration for Forrest Gump, which is a great movie but not as great as Being There.

I think Dr Strangelove rivals Being There as Sellers' best, though.

[chefmike]

Arianna and Mike, you are both right: Being There is brilliant. Had to be an inspiration for Forrest Gump, which is a great movie but not as great as Being There.

I think Dr Strangelove rivals Being There as Sellers' best, though.

I couldn't argue with that.... although I don't think Being There got the attention that it deserved, except among critics and film fanatics...yes, Gump was a great flick also...

[zerrrr]

The Exorcist



How could I forget this movie? IMO, this is one of the greatest movies in terms of how scenes are setup, use of cameras and focal points, how scenes shot in the beginning are setting you up for the end. William Friedkin's direction is a masterpiece and anyone who loves film or studies film should enjoy his work here.

[chloe8269]

i know i know laugh your ass of but my favs are legend, with tom cruise,moulin rouge , and the first amityville horror, 1970's version,.. i know im strange

[chloe8269]

i read the book in highschool and im a fanatic about unanswered phenomina like ghosts and stuff and plus a hot young james brolin shirtless dousnt hurt;-)

[McRen]

Hard to chose a few

2004 had some cool movies, Million $$$ Baby was great, Eternal Sunshine was good

Evil Dead 2 / Army of Darkness was great, especially if you were on acid!

[dreamer]

favorite is a HUGE word ---but I will not hesitate to say Kevin Costner's THE POSTMAN

[Hara_Juku Tgirl]

I thought Ive answered this one but..

TS Independent Films (Not Porn!):

Princesa, Soldier's Girl, Different for Girls, Farewell my Concubine, Catfish in Blackbean sauce

Regular Films:

Exorcist, Lord of the Rings, Tomb raider, The Matrix, Chicago, All of Margaret Cho's comedy/stand up films, Original Sin, The Bone Collector, Love Actually, X-men, Hero, Crouching Tiger hidden Dragon, Trainspotting, Down with Love, Notebook, Emma, Sliding Doors, Great Expectations to name a few.

Sorry I cant just name one..I love movies. ;)

~Kisses.

HTG

[Mustard_Plug]

Requiem for A dream

Boondock Saints

Memento

Night of the Living Dead

Magnolia, my favorite Paul Thomas Anderson flick

[cheribaum]

Jawbreaker

Hedwig and The Angry Inch

Girls Just Want To Have Fun

Irreconcilible Differences

The Karate Kid (all of them)

These are all movies I can watch over and over and never get tired of them

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[jt money]

Not much love here for Star Wars eh?

I'll go with:

Star Wars Trilogy (Using the force right now)
Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Seriously, how can you not love it?)
Office Space (I believe you have my stapler)
Big Lebowski (Who in the fuck are you, man?)
Big Trouble in little China (Son of a bitch must pay)
Shawshank Redemption (It's on TNT every fucking day!)
Old School (You're my boy Blue!)

and finally......
Wedding Crashers (Why don't you take off the white wig and stop judging me!)

If you haven't seen it, take a trip to the dollars show, it's there now!!!

[TSCURIOUS]

Godfather I, & II
A Bronx Tale
The Committments
The Last of the Mohican's with Daniel Day Lewis is amazing for scenery, sound, music and story line

Funniest? Only one - Blazing Saddles.
I know its not politically correct, but it IS funny

Thoughts?

[Harrys Boy]

Best films this year:

Million Dollar Baby

The Aviator

Downfall

Crash

[BeardedOne]

Godfather I, & II
A Bronx Tale
The Committments
The Last of the Mohican's with Daniel Day Lewis is amazing for scenery, sound, music and story line

Funniest? Only one - Blazing Saddles.
I know its not politically correct, but it IS funny

Thoughts?

Loved Blazing Saddles, when I finally saw it years after its release. I rented it just to catch two parts:

Slim Pickens' line: "Piss on you, I'm workin' fer Mel Brooks!" and my friend, the late Ralph Manza, as Hitler: "After the bunker scene, I'm outta here!". :)

Some off-the-wall trivia: That cell phone we all love to bitch about? Blame Heddy Lamar (That's Heddy, dammit!). She and another actor patented the concept of radio handoff technology that was used by Motorola during WWII and later morphed into cellular phone service.

[InHouston]

Contact
Excalibur
Glory
Platoon
Quills
Million Dollar Baby (Never would have guessed how that movie ended in a million years)
Blazing Saddles


And of course from when I was a kid, Charlotte'sWeb.
And The Wizard of Oz.

[TomSelis]

The GOONIES!!!

kidding....

A Clockwork Orange

Full Metal Jacket

The Crow

Cooley High

American Beauty

[TSCURIOUS]

Oh Bearded One - how could you forget:
"Badges - we don't need no stinking badges"

An later tonight on TCM is Animal House - another all time classic
"Fat, stupid, and drunk is know way to go through life"

[BeardedOne]

Oh Bearded One - how could you forget:
"Badges - we don't need no stinking badges"

An later tonight on TCM is Animal House - another all time classic
"Fat, stupid, and drunk is know way to go through life"

"Seven years of college, wasted!"

I think Animal House was also the first big role for actor Bruce McGill, the guy that played crazy biker D-Day.

And "badges" began with Treasure of the Sierra Madre and was used in so many films, teevee shows, and print media that someone put up a whole web site dedicated to the single line. :)

I know because I collect stinkin' badges. :)

[goldtop]

Bombon El Perro

Lilo and Stitch


and Princesa *cough*

[MoonAndStar]

in no particular order...

Serpico
Carlito's Way
The Panic In Needle Park
Raging Bull
Donne Brasco
Training Day
Enter The Dragon
Hero
City Of God
Fahrenheit 9/11
Trans Barebackin It #6 :wink:

[OoWnyFinest1oO]

1)American me
2)Good Fellas
3)The Godfather