whats your favorite movie?

[Devra]

I have A few at the moment

My cousin Vinny
Good morning Vietnam
My Blue Heaven
Keeping the faith

What are yours

[Shell Beau]

1. Some of my faves:

Sling Blade
Million Dollar Baby
There's Something About Mary
Bad Santa
Dead Man Walking
The Notebook
When a Man Loves a Woman
Mystic River
The Shining
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Shawshank Redemption


Gosh, I have a bunch and I can't think of them on the spot.

[Shell Beau]

31. I forgot about Big Fish! Great great great movie.

[Shine]

2. Welcome to DU, Devra!

:hi:

I have many favorite movies...here are some of them:

Strictly Ballroom

It's A Wonderful Life

Quiet Earth

Wizard of Oz

Amelie

Run, Lola, Run

[Deep13]

3. Belverie Double Wood

Also, Glen Levitt 18 is pretty nice.

Don't have a favorite movie. Depends on how the mood strikes me.

NB: This thread was originally titled "Free Whiskey."

[Devra]

4. don't know what NB: means but

Actually the original title was favorite movie. When no one posted I changed it to free whiskey to see if it would get posts. when it didn't suddenly get lots of posts I changed it back.

[Deep13]

11. nota bene

n : a Latin phrase (or its abbreviation) used to indicate that special attention should be paid to something; "the margins of his book were generously supplied with pencilled NBs"



:hippie:

[Deja Q]

5. Star Trek II or VI, Superman II, Serenity, For Your Eyes Only

[grace0418]

6. I filled out a questionaire about this, here are my answers:

Fave Comedies:
Office Space
Some Like It Hot
Best in Show
A Mighty Wind
Waiting for Guffman
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Zoolander
Sixteen Candles
Better Off Dead
Four Weddings & a Funeral
Raising Arizona

Favorite Quirky Films:
Secretary
Punch Drunk Love
The Big Lebowski
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Mystery Train
Ghost World
American Splendour
Royal Tennebaums
Lost in Translation

Favorite Films about Love
(positive and negative, not just romantic):
Moonstruck
A Room with a View
Annie Hall
High Fidelity
Big Night
Roxanne
It's a Wonderful Life
American Beauty
LA Stories

Favorite Musicals:
Moulin Rouge
Mary Poppins
Sound of Music

Favorite Childrens Films:
both Babe movies
My Neighbor Totoro
All the Wallace and Grommit movies
The Snowman
The Muppet Movie
Monsters Inc.
Finding Nemo

Fave Foreign Films:
Whalerider
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Muriel's Wedding
Amelie (definitely one of my favorite ALL TIME movies)
Eat Drink Man Woman
Cinema Paradiso
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Princess Mononoke
The Triplets of Belleville

Favorite Thrillers:
Silence of the Lambs
Seven
Rear Window
North by Northwest
Fargo
The Usual Suspects

Favorite Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Empire Strikes Back
LOTR trilogy
Dark City
The Abyss
Bladerunner

Okay, sorry, I'll stop now. I really, REALLY love movies... That's why it took me so long to answer!

Which ones have put you to sleep or have you walked out on?
I don't usually walk out, but "Titanic," "Your Friends and Neighbors," "New York Stories" and "Boxing Helena" all got a big thumbs down from me. Oh, and I was forced to watch the beginning of "The Passion of the Christ" and found it insufferable.

Is there a relatively unknown gem that you always recommend to people?
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Big Night

What movie(s) did you absolutely bawl over?
So many... Rabbit-Proof Fence, Whalerider, Cinema Paradiso, Schindler's List, Joy-Luck Club, Babe, It's a Wonderful Life

If you really like an actor/actress, do you see everything they're in? Go more by if the story interests you?
I love Kevin Spacy, Ewan McGregor, Steve Buscemi, Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson and more. But mostly I go by what interests me.

Any other general movie watching facts about you?
Hmm... other than I'm a freak about movies, nothing that I can think of right now. I do cry VERY EASILY at movies, even movies I don't particularly like. Oh, and I always notice bad continuity or logical flaws (much to my husband's chagrin).

[Devra]

9. Okay I'll answer that

I fell asleep during Starwars(the first one), and Erin Brokovich (in my defence I was coming down with something five minets into it).

An unknown Gem?
well... there's wet hot american summer.

thats about it

[grace0418]

10. I recently saw Wet Hot American Summer.

What a trip! I sorta loved it though.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

23. my unknown gem

'Chuck & Buck' - (Mike White is a genius)

'Rabbit-Proof Fence' is excellent & I really want to read the book. (A complimentary read of sorts is Sally Morgan's "My Place".)

[BigMcLargehuge]

7. my all time top five

Godzilla: King of the Monsters
M
Casablanca
The Good the Bad and the Ugly
Yojimbo
The Seven Samurai

[underpants]

8. Little BigMan --#1 alltime okay joe movie

:thumbsup:

[11 Bravo]

12. "To Kill a Mockingbird" makes my short list.

"Stand up, Miss Scout. Your father's passing."

[MissMillie]

13. My faves:

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Silence of the Lambs
Raising Arizona
Airplane
Dr. Strangelove
Awakenings
American Beauty
Time Bandits
The Shawshank Redemption

[Divameow77]

14. I have too many

but the first few that come to mind

The Princess Bride
LOTR
Singin in the Rain
Thelma & Louise

[Richardo]

15. Godfather I and II;

2001: A Space Odyssey
O Brother Where Art Thou?
The Thin Man
The Big Sleep
Duck Soup
The French Connection
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

[redqueen]

16. Blade Runner

The Jerk
2001
Avalon
Shawshank Redemption
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

17. That's a tough one

in another thread which asked for favorite movies you watch repeatedly my answers were:

True Romance
Annie Hall
Muppets Take Manhattan
Hard Boiled
Braindead (aka Dead Alive)

to that I'd probably add:

Blue Velvet
Ran
All About Lily Chou-Chou
Dancer in the Dark
A Short Film About Killing
The Weekend

[trackfan]

18. Annie Hall

[WeRQ4U]

19. I've never met another person who gave "My Blue Heaven" props.

Nice!!!! I love that movie too.

I also like

NL Christmas Vacation
Boondock Saints
Heat
The Odd Couple
Barefoot in the Park
Hopscotch
Original Batman
American Psycho
All Star Wars movies....I could go on.

[bicentennial_baby]

20. Breakfast at Tiffany's

Gigi
Lolita (original B&W)
New Jack City
Night of the Living Dead
What About Bob?

[ghostsofgiants]

21. Fight Club takes #1 for me...

Followed by Mulholland Drive, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost Highway and The Shining rounding out the top 5.

[Tikki]

22. Prob, James Jarmusch's "Stranger Than Paradise".....

...I can watch that movie over and over and over again....
I also watch his "Mystery Train" often....and at least once a month I watch my DVD version of the television mini-series of Stephen King's..."IT".



Tikki

[XemaSab]

24. Shallow Grave

n/t

[bertha katzenengel]

25. Hi, Devra. Here's my list. Number One is "Shirley Valentine"

followed in no particular order by

The Accused
Rain Man
Norma Rae
Tootsie
Amadeus
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Matewan
The Silence of the Lambs
Music Box
Witness
Forrest Gump
Philadelphia
Return of the Jedi
Blue Sky

Oh, there are more . . . I'm sure I'll follow up with "I can't believe I forgot that!!"

[auburngrad82]

26. Wizard of Oz

Rear Window (the original with James Stewart)
The Last Waltz
Monterey Pop
Don't Look Back

[Floogeldy]

27. My Cousin Vinny is one of mine, too.

The Last Of The Mohicans - The 1992 version with Daniel Day Lewis and Madeleine Stowe

The Day The Earth Stood Still

Godfather II

Miracle Mile

The Fountainhead

Aliens

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

[Crazy Guggenheim]

28. The Wizard of OZ. Excalibur, Platoon.

[Flaxbee]

29. Sense & Sensibility (Emma Thompson's version)

Shawshank Redemption
Dirty Pretty Things
Amelie
Ronin
Heist
Galaxy Quest
A Room with a View
Princess Bride
North by Northwest
Notorious
Being There
Dr. Strangelove
Scent of Green Papaya
Shirley Valentine (thanks, Bertha, for reminding me! :hi: )
The Quiet American
Amadeus
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Now, Voyager
Vera Drake
Chocolat
Le Mari de la Coiffeuse (The Hairdresser's Husband)
Mrs. Brown
84 Charing Cross Road
Sneakers
Passion Fish

and many more I'm forgetting...

(edited to add to the list)

[taterguy]

30. Junebug

Not sure if it will stand up to the test of time but it's the best movie I've seen this year, and I'm not just saying that because I now have a big crush on Amy Adams.

Lots of other films are my favorite at any given moment. I like Heathers a lot due to quirks like naming the high school after the Replacements lead singer and a soundtrack that features Don Dixon, Sly Stone and Syd Straw.

North Dallas Forty gets my vote for being the most underrated movie of all time.

[nickinSTL]

32. hmm...off the top, without thinking too hard...

LOTR trilogy
Excalibur
Amadeus
Dracula (1931 version with Bela Lugosi)

[terrya]

33. "The Lion in Winter" is my favorite movie. n/t

[Zomby Woof]

34. I'll name 11

Lawrence of Arabia
Blazing Saddles
The Empire Strikes Back
The Godfather Part II
Vertigo
Duck Soup
Election
The Big Lebowski
This Is Spinal Tap
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Return of The King

I could name 11 more tomorrow. :-)

[maveric]

35. Goodfellas, Dogma, Blazing Saddles, Big Fish, to name a few.

[RedSpartan]

36. Raiders of the Lost Ark

[Initech]

37. The Big Lebowski = #1!

Rounding out my top 5:

2. Pulp Fiction
3. Clerks
4. Fight Club
5. Collateral