What is your favorite Movie? (Vanity)

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[rwfromkansas]

Wow....I forgot to put National Lampoon's Vacation(s) on my list...I can't believe I pulled such a stupid thing! Those movies are awesome!

[dogbyte12]

Amadeus.

Great performances by Tom Hulce and F. Murray Abraham, wonderful music, great set design, costuming, intriguing story. I never tire of this film. Must watch it at least a couple times a year.

[Bella_Bru]

In no particular order:

Pulp Fiction
Blazing Saddles
Training Day
Schindler's List
Braveheart
Ocean's 11(the original)
The Big Lebowski
Fargo
The Ring
Hoffa
History of the World Part I
Space Balls
Ben Hur
This is Spinal Tap
Monty Python's The Holy Grail
Star Wars 5: The Empire Strike's Back
The X-Files
Casa Blanca
The Wizard of Oz
Gone With the Wind
The Birdcage

That's all I can think of right now.....

[js1138]

I saw "Them" in its original release when I was eight years old. Saw a good bit of it from the lobby peeking through the door. One of the first, and probably the best giant bug movie. The script still sounds decent, almost intelligent.

One of the odd things about it, from a Hollywood standpoint, is that nearly all of the characters behave rationally.

[judgeandjury]

My Fair Lady
Once Upon A Time In America
Jerry and Tom
Deer Hunter
Pee Wee's Big Adventure

[Bella_Bru]

How could I forget ......

Godfather I & II

Put part III in the trashcan.

[Cboldt]

Second to your "Being There." Peter Sellers was an acting genius.

The Sand Pebbles.

[Hildy]

I know, but Hubbel is every Jewish Girl's fantasy!!!

[habs4ever]

Man For All Seasons
Chariots of Fire
Patton
French Connection
Godfather
Lawrence of Arabia
Blazing Saddles
Cal
Third Man
Rules of The Game
Where Eagles Dare
Long Good Friday
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Babette's Feast
The Search
Jean de Florette
The Vanishing
Soldier of Orange
Daddy Nostalgia
Mephisto

[irishtenor]

My favorites: Braveheart, Patriot, Monty Python's Holy Grail, Sense and Sensibility, Gettysburg... Odd, I notice that all of them are bloody except "S and S" and that is a "chick flick". Must be the French in me coming out with that one.

[irishtenor]

Oh, I forgot Little Big Man and Born Yesterday on my list. Loved them both.

[null and void]

One of the odd things about it, from a Hollywood standpoint, is that nearly all of the characters behave rationally.

And even more odd, the scientist quotes the Bible. Very scary!

[Burkeman1]

I love to pop in "Apollo 13" every once in a while. I also think "Heat" is an underated movie that is truly great. I like "The Usual Suspects" as well. For my favorite older movie and tear jerker I love "Angels with Dirty Faces" with James Cagney.

[arnoldc1]

Doctor Zhivago

[LowOiL]

Les Misebles(sp) the version with L. Neelson.

The Gods must be Crazy (comedy) This B movie won a lot of awards. I laughed till I cryed.

Gone with the Wind (classic).

[ffusco]

It was full of the subtext of hip. In Pulp Fiction, Tarantino, the ex-video store clerk crafted a magnum opus of post modernism * for a brief period was the coolest man alive.


*filmed out of sequence, many points of view, retro everywhere, drug culture, explicit commentary in dialoge....

[Jorge]

Natural Born Killers

The Sound of Music

[donozark]

The Tank

The Bridge

Any movie in which Richard Gere DIES!

[Stew Padasso]

Wild Bunch, Good Bad and the Ugly

[ricpic]

"Why do so many people recommend Pulp Fiction? I thought it was awful!"


What a relief that there's another sane person out there. I remember reading reviews at the time that praised it for being funny!?! It gave me the willies. Had daymares and nightmares after seeing it. Degradation. That's what it heaped on me.