OK, everybody...what's your *real* favorite movie?
Yeah, yeah, yeah...I tell everyone how much I love "Citizen Kane", and Fellini, and Bergman, and Truffaut...or when I'm feeling a bit more "populist", I'll throw in Hitchcock, or Fred Astaire, or Howard Hawks. Right. But come on...if I'm really telling the truth, I have to admit that my favorite film to actually watch over and over is "Where Eagles Dare". There...I've said it, I'm out of the closet, and it feels *good*. Yes, it's the silliest movie ever made, Richard Burton would have been arrested in Nazi Germany just for his hair style alone in 1944, and Mary Ure somehow found a hair salon while working undercover in Occupied Europe. I don't care. I love it all the same.
OK, everyone--come out of the closet. 'Fess up...what's yours?
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Arabia when it came out (and I was, lets face it, way too young to get interested in it). All I came away with was there was a lot of sand in that movie. 
I have never been able to get into watching it as an adult.
Have forgotten about that? 
"What? They can't print that!"
As someone once sagely put it-It's like taking a happy pill. I haven't watched it in about four years but seeing those four compelling talented men for two hours is time well spent. 
I never get tired of seeing the Blue Meanies getting zapped by... music 
They are so very, VERY good.
I wish I could step up to the flat screen and enter that world. I really dig this movie, even though i've never completely understood the plot. I love the style of that era and I have watched this film over and over. Also, the film is absolutely truffled with beautiful babes who tempt Bogie at every turn. This film to me is great fun and never gets old.
Joy Barlow, the female cab driver who hits on Bogie.
Sonia Darin who plays Agnes.
The gorgeous hatcheck girl who flirts with Bogart, Lorraine Miller.
Dorothy Malone who plays the book seller and who closes her shop and lets down her hair when Bogie comes in.
Peggy Knudsen who plays Mona Mars.
Martha Vickers who flirts with Bogie.
Deanie Best as the waitress who flirts with Bogie.
Lauren Bacall who flirts with and has a relationship with Bogie.
just one favorite of anything...so...
I have two.
And they're musical movies
"Woodstock"...I've seen it too many times to count and never get tired of it.
and then
"The Song Remains The Same" (Led Zeppelin concert in MSG). Again...have seen it countless times, never tire of it.
As far as a regular movie goes, one favorite is "Steel Magnolias"
you had better invite me over. Where Eagles Dare is one of my favorites too! Awesome theme, high Nazi death count, cable car fight, trip wire explosives, set in the winter at a castle, the worlds most implausible triple cross, and the lovely Ingrid Pitt... Hell yeah!
and others I'm forgetting about.
I feel the same way about BBC's "Pride & Prejudice" with Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.
Never found a version of "Emma" that began to measure up to the novel, though.
Some versions are better than others.
Probably the best one was the 2009 BBC version with Jonny Lee Miller.
Part of it is production values -- I think it's an artifact of available tech. That was in the early 90s, and I think they shot on video. It looks washed out and grainy. This may be the copies I've seen, but for me, it's been consistent, so it may have been a problem in the production line. The performances were great; the direction a little... eh. (Again, artifact of tech. They were cost-cutting on production and direction, and too often did proscenium instead of either multi-camera or single camera multi-take.) But that was the BBC house style at the time, so there's a lot from that era that makes me shrug. I'm not an enormous fan of the 2006 big screen version (It's not awful) but then again, I'm not big on P&P at all. (Yes, heretic. But a Janeite heretic -- I'll be waiting politely whilst the stake is prepared for my ritual burning.)
For Emma, my favorite so far is Clueless. Again with the not minding the others that have been made (if it's a choice between reality TV and any Austen adaptation, bring on the adaptations, even the Paltrow) but Emma's a tough one to adapt -- it's a proto-mystery with an unreliable narrator and the "Butler" is the major viewpoint character. There's so much going on just out of frame that Emma misses, but that the reader/audience needs to catch that any adaptation of Emma is going to require geniuses in direction and editing. (I'd actually like to see Vince Gilligan, Michelle McClaren and Kelley Dixon take it on -- yes, the Breaking Bad team -- because they can handle mysteries, unreliable narration and unsympathetic characters. But with fewer explosions and drug dealing.)
Of course, I'd watch Johnny Lee Miller read the phone book, so there's always that.
P & P is not my favorite Austen novel either.
If I had to rank them it'd go
1. Emma
2. Sense & Sensibility
3. Pride & Prejudice
4. Persuasion
5. Mansfield Park
6. Northanger Abbey
All are good and worth reading, but Emma is the masterpiece, IMHO. It is the book I carry with me on airplanes to read to calm myself (I hate flying - I channel Mr. Woodhouse when I'm on a plane. Can you imagine him on a plane?!).
But, I think your comments are all correct, it's an incredibly difficult story to film.
And, I'll be even more of a Janeite heretic than you and say that I enjoyed the movie "Mansfield Park" (again with Jonny Lee Miller!) more than the book!
the school in 10 Things I Hate About You. And yes, it really does look like a castle.
Each time I saw it with different friends/family. It's still one of my all time favorites. 
The sixth and last time I saw Star Wars it was with my mother, my aunt and my little cousin. It had been playing so long that the film broke, so I explained to my family exactly what they'd missed. There were only six of us in the theater... 
EDIT: Or maybe The Warriors. I dunno. I go back and forth. Definitely one of those, though.
.... from start to finish
Ok, the cheesy focus group ending was contrived, but I've watched it more times than any other movie.
Repo Man would be a close second.
... "what, you're fucking petites now?"
or
"NOW it's a tostada"
"Lollipop Guild, you asshole! Jesus I know two year olds who can flip shit better than you!"
..... spry?
Saw it four times in the theater (we're talking "art" theater here, not your average mainstream movie theater, either!)
Have the re-mastered soundtrack, and the director's cut DVD, too. I get it out every now and then because it's the most mesmerizing film ever made! 
A word of caution: don't listen to the cut "The Grid" while driving. You may end up with a speeding ticket 
when Robing Williams was trying to make him more "manly" with his pinkie finger standing up.....best routine in movies.
one of my favorites....
"This does not concern you metal man. You have no idea what you are dealing with."
"Um... Shakespeare in the park? Dost mother know you weareth her drapes?"
"Are you nuts?"
"Jury's out."
