What's your all-time favorite movie, and why?

[Toro]

What was the ending?

 

[Jon]

Burgess's final chapter was a bit hard to swallow. All of a sudden we're expected to believe that Alex sees the error of his ways and becomes a good guy? Don't buy it.

 

[Paulie]

I remember seeing this on late night basic cable when I was a kid.

It might have been the first exposure I had to something relating to porn, albeit softcore.

The titties. Man, I'll always remember the titties.

 

[indago]

The titties. Man, I'll always remember the titties.

Mmmm... Yummo!

 

[Cecilie1200]

My favorite movie of all time is "Cyrano de Bergerac", 1950 version, starring Jose Ferrer. Jose was an amazing actor who conveyed much more with his expressions and body language and tone of voice than was even remotely contained in the mere words, and provided a very textured, nuanced performance in what would otherwise be a rather simple and perhaps even silly story.

New Year's Eve, 1995, my future husband and I decided to stay home and show each other our favorite movies. I showed him "Cyrano". When we got to the balcony scene, I jokingly poked him and said, "How come you never say romantic stuff like that to me?" He smiled and said, "Well, why don't YOU ever say romantic stuff like that to ME?" I accepted the challenge, paused the movie, and went in the other room with my notebook and pen and wrote him a long letter, telling him how much I loved him and why. He read it, looked up at me with tears in his eyes, then got down on one knee and asked me to marry him. We were married a month later. Every New Year's Eve since then, we've watched that movie together.

Two years ago, I wasn't able to be home for New Year's because I was working as an OTR truck driver. I was really depressed about missing our tradition for the first time. Joe stayed up all night, copying the movie from the DVD to his computer, then transferring the huge resulting file over the Internet to my laptop. New Year's Day, he called me and we started the movie at the same time, and watched it together over the phone. It remains one of the most wonderful, romantic gestures I've ever heard of.

Yeah, I think "Cyrano" will be my favorite movie for a long, long time.

 

[indago]

That was a beautiful story...

 

[tigerbob]

This may be unpopular, but since so many of my favorites have already been mentioned...

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The subject matter will be abhorrent to some, disturbing to most. But seen purely in cinematographic terms, Triumph of the Will is a work of genius that was decades, or arguably even half a century, ahead of its time.

 

[pegwinn]

I actually have a hands down favorite and two others that tie for second. Then the very honorable mentions.

Winner by a landslide is John Wayne in The Quiet Man. Greatest fight scene in hollywierd history. Best quotes in a movie. And I can sit thru it with my granddaughter.

Tied for number two are "Sands of Iwo Jima" and "Heartbreak Ridge".

Sports flick that I watch over and over is "Remember the Titans" and "The Replacements".

Series Flicks are the Godfather, Rocky, and Star Trek. There may be no accounting for taste on my part but I like em.

I am not going to see Marly and Me since Old Yeller gets my quota of tears everytime and I've lived thru two wonderful dogs passing on.

 

[tigerbob]

I actually have a hands down favorite and two others that tie for second. Then the very honorable mentions.

Winner by a landslide is John Wayne in The Quiet Man. Greatest fight scene in hollywierd history. Best quotes in a movie. And I can sit thru it with my granddaughter.

Tied for number two are "Sands of Iwo Jima" and "Heartbreak Ridge".

Sports flick that I watch over and over is "Remember the Titans" and "The Replacements".

Series Flicks are the Godfather, Rocky, and Star Trek. There may be no accounting for taste on my part but I like em.

I am not going to see Marly and Me since Old Yeller gets my quota of tears everytime and I've lived thru two wonderful dogs passing on.

I love Heartbreak Ridge.

"I eat concertina wire and piss napalm, and I can put a round through a fly's ass at 500 yards. So why don't you go hump somebody else's leg mutt face, before I push yours in?"

 

[Gem]

The Quiet Man is a staple in my Irish household!

For me, "The Shawshank Redemption" is a modern classic that people will be watching for years to come. Stunning performances and one of the best King "short story to screen" adaptations.

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

Burgess's final chapter was a bit hard to swallow. All of a sudden we're expected to believe that Alex sees the error of his ways and becomes a good guy? Don't buy it.

I personally thought it was good. Alex doesn't just suddenly see the error of his ways, he's growing up and maturing. It also emphasizes the point that one cannot be forced to be moral or be a good person, it has to be natural or it's still wrong.

 

[Paulie]

I personally thought it was good. Alex doesn't just suddenly see the error of his ways, he's growing up and maturing. It also emphasizes the point that one cannot be forced to be moral or be a good person, it has to be natural or it's still wrong.

What are you talking about? We can bomb the hate right out of the terrorists and MAKE them love!

 

[Svante]

i am cybernetic organism liiving tissue over metall endoskelton

 

[Truthmatters]

Everything is Illuminated

Its a great movie about a young American Jew who goes back to his grandfathers country (the Urikrane) to find out about the Woman who saved his GFs life when the Nazi came.

I think it is a great lesson in why history is important and why TRUTH is what will save this world. Its also a very Funny movie.

 

[Truthmatters]

MTV MUSIC - Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple

 

[mightypeon]

Monty Phython and the Holy Grail (frankly, monty Phython is the holy grail)
Life of Brian
Spaceballs
Solaris (the old Soviet version)

 

[sitarro]

Monty Phython and the Holy Grail (frankly, monty Phython is the holy grail)
Life of Brian
Spaceballs
Solaris (the old Soviet version)

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[Jon]

The Quiet Man is a staple in my Irish household!

For me, "The Shawshank Redemption" is a modern classic that people will be watching for years to come. Stunning performances and one of the best King "short story to screen" adaptations.

Great choice. I would say Shawshank is my second favorite movie. When Red and Andy are reunited in the end, I get pretty teary-eyed. I always thought only love stories could do that to me.

And yes, it's one of the better adaptations of King's stories. "The Green Mile" and "Storm of the Century" are also great.

 

[WillowTree]

Mine would have to be Schindler's List, for several reasons.

First and foremost, this movie is about human compassion. It tells the true story of a man who went against his party and saved the lives of thousands of people. The raw human emotion portrayed through the character of Oskar Schindler is captivating, and I still can't watch this movie without tearing up at the end. When Schindler breaks down and starts crying over the many other lives he could have saved, I can't help myself. Liam Neeson is perfection in this role, as are Sir Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes. Fiennes as Amon Goeth is, in my opinion, the best villain in movie history (yes, even better than Heath Ledger as The Joker). Goeth's complete disregard for human life is in direct constrast with Schindler's, and yet we still find a kink in Goeth's armor. He is attracted to a Jewish woman, in spite of his disgust for the Jewish race. Schindler and Goeth are able to coincide, in spite of their differences, and yet, Goeth is still a disgusting, vile monster.

This is by far Stephen Spielberg's crowning achievement. Forget E.T., Schindler's List is directoral perfection.

And, to top it all off, the montage at the end where the remaining Schindler Jews and the descendants of those who have passed is awe-inspiring. Even though there are no words spoken through the entire 10 minute sequence, I still watch it through until the end. I feel as if I owe it to those people to watch it through to the very end.

I went to the holocaust museum in Jerusalem, dedicated to all the millions of Jewish children killed. There is a beautiful tree planted there called Schindler's tree.

 

[Missourian]

I've seen so many movies it's nearly impossible to come up with an "all-time favorite" because invariably as soon as I name one 10 others come to mind.

So tonight I'll list some westerns that comes to mind.

One is the made-for-television mini-series "Lonesome Dove" with Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall.

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Jeremiah Johnson

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Tombstone

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Man...I can't even do this.

Every time I list one I think of three more.

The outlaw Josey Wales, Red River, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Serenity (it may be sci-fi but it's a western), Support Your Local Sheriff, Unforgiven, Last of the Mohicans, Stagecoach, Maverick, They Die With Their Boots On, Rio Grande, Rio Bravo, Winchester '73, The Magnificent Seven, Shane, How the West Was Won, High Plains Drifter, The War Wagon, The Cowboys, A Fist Full of Dollars, Pale Rider, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid...and that's just off the top of my head.


Hard to pick one out of that short list of the western genre, much less out of all the movies I've seen.