What's Your Favorite Movie

[Irishdude]

Movies I own on dvd that I've watched more than once..

Casablanca
The Maltese Falcon
Its A Wonderful Life
Pride and Prefudice (1940s version with Olivier)
Sleepless in Seattle
When Harry Met Sally
You've Got Mail
Midnight In Paris
Annie Hall
Hannah and her Two Sisters

That's a pretty darn good list!

 

[Irishdude]

I'll give you five:

Shane
Robin Hood (1937)
Gunga Din (1939)
Animal House (sorry, a guilty pleasure) and
Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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[Pepper]

Yes, @Marquest West Side Story. I know every line of every song and the spoken dialogue. So excellent. Leonard Bernstein

Had big crush on George Chakiris!
AND
Rita Moreno a frequent customer of my dad!

 

[TeePee]

The Shawshank Redemption
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Star Wars - ALL of them

Loved (and still do) The Shawshank Redemption. Great acting in it!

 

[BJintheUK]

Monty Python

I've always been a Python fan, and for me the best one they did was Life of Brian, followed by Holy Grail.

I personally think that Life of Brian should be part of the school curriculum for all English speaking teenagers, as it brilliantly satires all the woke stuff we see today, even though it was made back in the 70's.

Other films.

Sci fi

Chronicles of Riddick (the longer version) epic sci fi on a really grand scale
2001 (it was made here in Elstree/Borehamwood and Kubrick lived just up the hill in a big house that overlooked the studios)
Star Wars (all of them. Nos, 4, 5, and 6 were made here in Elstree/Borehamwood, where I live)
Star Trek (all the movies)
Close Encounters of the 3rd kind (enhanced edition)
Alien, and the long version of Aliens (it was totally different from the cinema version)
Predator and a couple of the sequals (good effects, and some humour in the sequals)
Day of the Triffids (beware of shooting stars and plants that can walk !)
Brazil (it's what 1984 should have been)
Stargate (the movie that the series came from)
Starship Troopers (1, 2, and 3)
Babylon 5 (the 3 movies that grew from the series)
Dark Star (how many of you have heard of that one?)
There are loads more, but as usual I can't think of them right now

Comedy

Anything by Mel Brooks, but particularly;
Blazing Saddles (definitely the best he's ever done!!)
Silent Movie
Spaceballs

Other comedy

4 Weddings and a Funeral
Bridget Jones (all of the movies)
Grease


Adventure

The Indiana Jones trilogy
Bullit (best car chase ever!)


Fantasy

Lord of the Rings (all 3 of the extended editions)
House of the Flying Daggers


War films

The Battle of Britain (real planes, not cgi)
Sink the Bismark (real ships and planes)
Tora Tora Tora (again real planes, not cgi)
Murphy's War (sad war film, but excellent flying sequences)


As usual, there are many different films for different times in one's life. For instance, I remember Bambi when I was a child, Pinnochio, when I was a bit older, and Fantasia when I was an adult, were all stunning cartoons, as well as Snow White, and much newer, the Shrek series of movies

 

[Aunt Bea]

Too many to choose just one.

Gregory Peck made a few that are worth watching again.

 

[BJintheUK]

Sorry, I forgot

Terminator (certainly the first two, and one or more of the other sequals)

 

[Ruthanne]

I have loved lots of movies in my life but my very favorite stars Helen Hunt and Jack Nicholson. It's As Good As It Gets.

 

[MaidMarian]

Farewell My Concubine
Apocalypse Now
taxi Driver
The Scent of Green Papaya
The Last Emperor
Veer-Zaara
Now Voyager
Chicago
Amelie
Il Postino
so many more……
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[KSav]

The least accurate Titanic film but my favorite by far. It has so much heart. Clifton Webb is fantastic.

 

[Jackie23]

African Queen ...there are so many

 

[ChiroDoc]

Oh Lordy, there are so many great ones. But a few that I've watched multiple times are:

Vertigo (1958)
The Conversation (1974)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Third Man (1949)
The Hustler (1961)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Chinatown (1974)

 

[Lara]

37 great responses but no one mentioned The Sound of Music? The 3rd largest grossing movie back in the day. I love true stories and the beautiful scenes of Salzburg and the mountains were breathtaking. I'm a romantic and melted when Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer danced the Austrian Laendler waltz. Songs by Rogers and Hammerstein. All this contrasted against the war in Europe.

My children all watched the first half with all the children singing and listening to beautiful and fun music and closing with the wedding as a happy ending. They never knew about the intense Nazis war until the second half when they were older and then it was educational and showed a beloved family struggling together with a happy ending.

 

[Della]

Howards End
Remains of the Day
Now Voyager
The Conversation
The Shop Around the Corner
Remember the Night
Double Indemnity
Stella Dallas
Rebecca
The Heiress
Mildred Pierce

 

[Lilac]

30's/40's Classics
Arsenic & Old Lace
Maltese Falcon
Casablanca
The Thin Man Movies

SciFi
Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) - favorite
War of the Worlds (1954)
Millennium
Time Cop

Westerns
Tombstone (1993) - favorite
McClintock
Open Range

War Films
Heartbreak Ridge
Dirty Dozen
13 Hours

Historical Dramas, Etc.
Last of the Mohicans (1980s) - favorite
The Patriot
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Gosford Park

Comedies
Red
Red 2

 

[MarkD]

The Trip to Bountiful, Geraldine Page, 1985
An elderly woman's only wish is to go back to the town where she lived as a young woman. She finally gets there, and nothing is the same - all the people she knew are long gone; her home was abandoned years ago and has grown up with weeds.

I liked both versions and both has their charm. Something about Cisely Tyson that appeals more to me in the lead but both were great.

Great pick!

 

[Paladin1950]

It has changed so many times in my life. If I had to pick one that I loved and haven't seen too many times or haven't seen in awhile it would be I guess:

 

[Jazzy1]

I never heard of this movie. Can you say something about it?

This is a wonderful film. I can't even really put it into words. It just tackles so many existential fears and anxieties, so many tiny humane moments, and does it in such a funny, warm, creative, sometimes terrifying way, all channelled through a simple stickman.

You can read the review here.

 

[Meanderer]

If TV holiday movies count, there are two classics we love to watch. "Thanksgiving Treasure (retitled "The Holiday Treasure" below) and "The House without a Christmas Tree". Both star Jason Robards · Jamie Mills ; Mildred Natwick · Grandma Mills ; Lisa Lucas · Addie Mills. I highly recommend both at this time of year!

 

[MACKTEXAS]

I liked both versions and both has their charm. Something about Cisely Tyson that appeals more to me in the lead but both were great.

Thanks for your feedback on the movie(s). I'm glad you watched them, and I can understand what you're saying. I've seen both versions, but I had seen the Geraldine Page version several times before Cicely Tyson's made for TV version came out, over 20 years later. Both are fine quality actresses. [The Tyson version was a stage production first.]

 

[officerripley]

I can't believe I forgot this movie, it's one of my newer favorites:

 

[MarkD]

Thanks for your feedback on the movie(s). I'm glad you watched them, and I can understand what you're saying. I've seen both versions, but I had seen the Geraldine Page version several times before Cicely Tyson's made for TV version came out, over 20 years later. Both are fine quality actresses. [The Tyson version was a stage production first.]

Seems fitting at our ages.

Guess it means we can’t ever go home except in the sense of going wherever our ancestors have gone.

 

[Sunny]

I'm watching Lincoln for the second time. Long film, so it's taking a few evenings, but worth it. It's one of the very few films I actually bought.

 

[MoBeans]

If I have to choose one, I liked Forrest Gump. Thought it was well written and acted. A lot of quotes have sprung from that movie.

 

[Marquest]

Not in my top 3 list, but My Cousin Vinny never fails to crack me up. Once while watching (around my 3d or 4th viewing) I was drinking a soda and worried I'd choke on it when I laughed, but reasoned I wouldn't laugh since I'd already seen it so many times--but of course, when it got to the "yout" part I cracked up, sending the soda up and down my nostrils.