What is your favorite movie of all time???

[liberaliraqvet26]

I am tied between the godfather trilogy and gone with the wind, just curious to see everyone elses...

[mandyky]

1. American President

closely followed by Dave and Enemy of the State.

[Obamarama]

18. Isn't this a more appropriate topic for the LOUNGE?

Not trying to rock the boat. It's just that light, non-political topics customarily belong in the lounge so one doesn't have to weed through the fluff.

[hippiechick]

2. Amelie

Sigh. :hi:

[DemoTex]

7. Oh, yes! Exquisite.

Big sigh!

[nytemare]

34. Another movie by the same director just got released to DVD.

It is called "Delicatessen". I need to order it online because the stores don't have it.

[hippiechick]

39. I'll take that recommendation!

Love your sigline, too !! :hi:

[nytemare]

40. Thanks!

I am thinking it will be good. Amelie is such a charming film, The same actress, Audrey Tautou was in "A Very Long Engagement", also by the same director. Good film.

She will be in "DaVinci Code" coming up, too.

[rucky]

3. His Girl Friday

funny & smart

[Poppyseedman]

4. The original "Flight of the Phoenix"

staring Jimmy Stewart.

The first movie that really gripped me as a child.

[JuniperLea]

5. Only one? I can't! Please don't make me!

Almost anything noir; Rebecca; Spellbound; Notorious; High Sierra; Black Angel; Kiss of Death; The Bad Seed; The Haunting (1963 version ONLY!) Scarface (1932), Little Caesar, Key Largo, The Maltese Falcon, White Heat, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Scarlet Street, The Postman Always Rings Twice, They Drive By Night...far too many to list here. Ghost stories! Yes... Gone With the Wind!

I remembered likeing Butterfield 8 when I was a kid... watched it last week... eh.


I could go on like this for days...

[Kutjara]

6. Terry Gilliam's Brazil

[lumberjack_jeff]

16. Gilliam's awesome.

Twelve Monkeys is great too.

[muntrv]

8. The Godfather.

[flyingfysh]

9. Bergman's "Seventh Seal"

Another I would rank up there is Kurosawa's "Ikiru".

[Spazito]

10. All the President's Men and

It's a Wonderful Life.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

11. Tombstone

It's got lessons about COURAGE.

It's got lessons about HONOR.

It's got lessons about FAMILY.

It features CAREER-DEFINING performances from Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer.

My second choice would be "High Noon," because the lessons are basically the same..."Tombstone" just expresses them in modern terms.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

35. Great movie that I own and we watch all the time, but one part

always bothers me. The part where Wyatt's brother is killed and Wyatt's hands are drenched in blood, and he rubs his hands all over his body and white shirt, but there is not one mark on his shirt after the entire scene. I always wonder when that part comes on, how they could have missed such an obvious blooper.

[marmar]

12. Hmmm...

Blues Brothers, 48 Hours, Star Wars, Las Mujeres al borde de un Ataque de Nervios (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown), and Tootsie.

[Buck Laser]

13. Cool Hand Luke

"What we have here...is a failure to communicate."

[DemoTex]

20. Strother Martin .. great line, great flick.

BTW Buck, welcome to DU! Like the neon sign on the Tap-A-Keg Lounge on the west side of Central Park says: IT'S A HELL OF A PLACE!. Stick around. Glad to have you here.

Mac

[Individualist]

14. To Kill A Mockingbird

[moc]

19. Me too!

:hi:

[DemoTex]

24. Another great.

I used to date Harper Lee's niece. That was a love that was killed by Viet Nam. I did get to know Miss Harper, and we did go to a Truman party.

[Jean Louise Finch]

54. Hoorah!!

I agree in the most complete and full way possible.

[rusty_parts2001]

15. Sunset Blvd., Godfather II, Mad. Mad, Mad, Mad World

sorry, I like all about the same.

[Synnical]

17. The Deer Hunter

But, this should be in the lounge . . . :shrug:

[Peggy Day]

21. Back to the Future

But then I've always liked time travel films

[AtomicKitten]

22. today? A Very Long Engagement.

yesterday? Il Postino.
tomorrow? watch this space.

[hippiechick]

38. LOVE 'A Very Long Engagement'

... the scenery ... the colors ... the costumes ... GORGEOUS !!!

And I so didn't even recognize Jodie Foster !! :wow:

[manic expression]

23. A few favorites

Hotel Rwanda, Motorcycle Diaries, V for Vendetta. Some other ones would be Casablanca, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels...there are a few others.

I really want to see Reds, I've heard great things about it.

[julialnyc]

25. Ordinary People, Network, Inherit the Wind

Breakfast at Tiffany's, Empire of the Sun, You Can Count on Me............. wow, I could go on and on

[benddem]

26. Nashville n/t

[lpbk2713]

27. Inherit the Wind

Is the first one that came to mind. I could think of others.



I don't think I've ever seen a Spencer Tracy film I didn't like. The Old man and the Sea is another of my all-time favorites.

[julialnyc]

29. I adore him

Guess Whose Coming to Dinner, judgment at Nuremberg, ect... he's fantastic

[no_hypocrisy]

28. The Graduate

I see new things in it even though I know it by heart.

[Bad Penny]

30. no contest

[Pryderi]

31. Network, Galaxy Quest, 3 Days of the Condor

I can watch them over and over again...and have done so.

[Dr Fate]

32. The Wizard of Oz and The Road Warrior.

How is that for spectrum?

And no, I'm not gay- not there is anything wrong with that.

[Robbie Michaels]

33. Gladiator

Nothing like a good revenge flick :evilgrin:

[arwalden]

36. You'd Have To Break It Down Into Genres...

... there are too many favorites to just pick one.

[CPMaz]

37. Casablanca

with The Adventures of Robin Hood (Errol Flynn version), 12 Angry Men, Bull Durham, Star Wars (before George Lucas thought perfection wasn't good enough), The Godfather and some others following right behind.

[Guava Jelly]

41. Excalibur

My favorite scene I believe is Arthur speaking to Guinevere (she is basically a nun in this scene).

"I have often thought that in the hereafter of our lives, when I owe no more to the future and can be just a man, that we may meet, and you will come to me and claim me as yours, and know that I am your husband. It is a dream I have..."
something so deep and beautiful about that has always touched me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Excalibur_movie_poster_art.jpg

[saltpoint]

42. Zefferelli's ROMEO AND JULIET, John Greyson's LILIES, and

Horton Foote's A TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL.

And maybe 3 or 4 hundred others.

FIVE EASY PIECES

COME BACK TO THE 5 & DIME JIMMY DEAN JIMMY DEAN

A WEDDING

THE LAST PICTURE SHOW

THE LION IN WINTER

Etc.

[beyurslf]

43. Crash

[liberaliraqvet26]

45. crash is great too!!!

[RadiDem]

44. Apocalypse Now and Citizen Kane

[GalleryGod]

46. Casablanca.

Everybody goes to Rick's

[barb162]

47. All About Eve, A Man for All Seasons, about a hundred more

[rasputin1952]

48. Casablanca...the quintessential love story cum war story/intrigue.

It has all of the elements, even though it is dated.

Bogart is fantastic, Ingrid Bergman steals the show...she would never have had to speak a line, her facial expressions spoke volumes.

An outstanding supporting cast rounded out the flick; Dooley Wilson, Sam, the ever faithful friend who had been w/Bogart/Rick for years; Claude Raine/Capt. Renault; Sacha, Carl, Berger...and the ever greedy Sydney Greenstreet/Signor Ferari.

Many of the parts of the script were written/presented only an hour before the shoot...There were two endings as well, as no one could make up their minds on how Ilsa & Rick should end up...they chose the one we see rather than Bogart flying off w/Bergman....(an excellent choice IMO).

Many facets of Casablanca move me; Rick helping the young couple...The singing of Le Marseilles to quell out the Nazi's; and of course..."Play it Sam; if she could stand it, so can I"

"We'll always have Paris".

:)

[Oeditpus Rex]

49. 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'

And I'm backed by some stellar reviews:


"Certainly cheered me up a lot after losing two elections and the leadership of the Conservative party." ~ E. (K.) Heath

"We smirked a lot." ~ The Queen

"Made my hair grow again at last." ~ F.K. Sinatra

"Sad me in hitches." ~ Speverend Rooner

"Made me want to eat my own vomit." ~ Guy the Gorilla

"All my idea." ~ R. Nixon

"Not entirely his idea." ~ J. Magruder

"As far as I know, Chuck (Colson) cooked it up, cleared it with Mitchell, Stans and Virginia (Wade). I was only called in after Kleindienst and Chapin had thought it up." ~ J. Dean III

[Lady Effingbroke]

50. Airplane!

yup.

[Va Lefty]

51. Goodfellas

[borlis]

55. I'm with you Va Lefty. You have very good taste!

Like me!!

[Proud_Democratt]

52. The Shawshank Redemption!!!!!

[skyblue]

53. Big Fish, Napoleon Dynamite, Dogville, the Birds, Manchurian Candidate

City of Lost Children, Pink Floyd's The Wall, Buffalo 66, anything with Elizabeth Taylor in it, Batman Begins, Party Girl, Yellow Submarine, Brazil, Jaws, Pink Flamingos....................

[XemaSab]

56. Shallow Grave