Favorite Films?

[jambo101]

The "Lord Of the Rings" trilogy just kept getting better.
"Star Wars"-all of them.

 

[Payin-the-Toll]

Here's an odd-ball one I like: "Two-Lane Blacktop", a 1971 film starring James Taylor and Dennis Wilson (Beach Boys) in their only movie apperances. It's a Monte Hellman film (directed "The Shooting" & "Cockfighter", and was executive producer on "Reservoir Dogs". It's a take off of "Easy Rider". I also love "Tora,Tora,Tora", and "Saving Private Ryan", which no one has mentioned.

 

[HFWR]

Never Again, with Jeffrey Tambor and Jill Clayburgh

The Bourne series

Patton

Up in Smoke

The Family Man

Casablanca

Dr. Zhivago

New Wave Hookers

 

[kaudrey]

You guys have already named some of my favorites (Casablanca, Shawshank, the Bourne movies).

Add'l ones - Singing in the Rain, Vertigo and Rear Window (and Hitchcock in general), and The Princess Bride.

 

[grumpy]

The Shawhank Redemption
The Princess Bride
Sliding Doors
The Wizard of Oz
Forrest Gump
Easy Rider

 

[CuppaJoe]

So many great movies: Amadeus, Godfather 1, 2 and 3, Maltese Falcon, Dark Passage. It's fun to spot references to Casablanca in later movies, even Jaws.

"The Hills of Home" wherein Lassie overcomes her fear of the water to save the day. I'm tempted to equate Lassie's heroism to the person who calls 911 to direct emergency personnel to go where their help is needed.

"Once Upon a Time in America," the long version, DiNiro at his best, "I have a yen for the sea."

 

[Sarah in SC]

Here's an odd-ball one I like: "Two-Lane Blacktop", a 1971 film starring James Taylor and Dennis Wilson (Beach Boys) in their only movie apperances.

I'm in love with that movie, but it is not for the average viewer--DH hated it! I thought it was freaking awesome! The cars, oh, the cars! Interesting that JT is the only one still alive from that movie...for the conspiracy junkie! Existentialist masterpiece!

And Fireup, did you really put down Flashdance? Really? That is like saying you liked Dirty Dancing! Not that my mom didn't watch it like 80 times and drag me to Arthur Murray afterwards. A searing mortifying pain from my long ago adolescence is coming back to me now! I wouldn't admit to liking either one, under punishment of, well, dancing lessons at Arthur Murray!

 

[StJohnsWood]

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Anything by Alfred Hitchcock

 

[ProspectiveBum]

Man, it really took 29 posts to get 'The Princess Bride' listed? Easily my all-time favorite. A few other favorites not previously mentioned are:

The Natural
Braveheart
Top Gun

 

[flipstress]

Too Many Favorite Movies

Some of my faves were already mentioned:
- Bladerunner
- The Princess Bride
- The Rear Window
- It's A Wonderful Life

But here are some more:
- Being John Malkovich
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- Pulp Fiction

And more older ones:
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- All About Eve
- Breakfast at Tiffany's
- The Philadelphia Story

 

[tulipsnyc]

favorite films

Clint Eastwood western movies ( the good,the bad and the ugly is the best)
Braveheart
epic movies (Troy, gladiator, zulu)
Jane Austen chick flicks ( sense and sensibility, pride and prejudice)
Meg Ryan chick flicks( when Harry met Sally,you've got mail, sleepless in seattle)
John Grisham movies ( the firm, pelican brief, a time to kill)
Tom Hanks movies ( philadelphia,forest gump, cast away)
Harrison Fod movies( Indiana Jones trilogy, the fugitive, airforce one, regarding henry)
The matrix
A few good men
Die hard 1,2
Pretty woman
The English patient
James Bonds movies
Roman holiday
The ten commendments ( I watch it every year on TV)
and disney classic cartoons ( the little mermaid, the lion king, sleeping beauty, cinderella, aladin, snow white, beauty and the beast)

 

[Shawn]

Mary Poppins
Cinderella
The Aristocats
The Wizard of Oz
The Sound of Music
ET
Star Wars
Jaws
Poltergeist

 

[Marquette]

Favorite documentary recently watched: God Grew Tired of Us.

Favorite Gene Kelly movies: An American in Paris, Singing in the Rain

Favorite UK films recently watched... Waking Ned Devine,The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain, Dear Frankie

Obligatory "I'm a computer nerd and so am required to like these": Office Space, The Matrix.

Movie series I most wanted to like but found it just couldn't compare to the book: Lord of the Rings.

 

[calmloki]

The 1955 Alec Guiness/Peter Sellers film: The Ladykillers. Mrs. Wilberforce/Lopsided. Far superior to the later version.

The Duke and Maureen O'hara in The Quiet Man. Totally sexist. totally fine.

Vanishing Point. When you haven't been in a car in 6 months it's great. The music works too! Also a fine film to see in a drive-in. Leaving same as all the cars spin their tires in the gravel is ... fun.

 

[toofrugalformycat]

How could I have forgotten Brazil, directed by Terry Gilliam, 1985. Seriously.

 

[Salaryman]

some of my all time faves:

mr smith goes to washington
rudy
rocky (da-dada-da-dada-DA-dadada)
my sassy girlfiend (reminds me of an old flame that I let go)
wuthering heights with Laurence Olivier & Merle Oberon
cinema paradiso
gladiator - huge russell crowe fan
lawrence of arabia (saw it at the zeigfeld in NYC, totally blew me away)
the english patient

loved Tampopo too....some great movies posted earlier.

 

[jambo101]

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Vanishing Point. When you haven't been in a car in 6 months it's great. The music works too! Also a fine film to see in a drive-in. Leaving same as all the cars spin their tires in the gravel is ... fun.

Oh yeah great movie,Add The original 'Gone in 60 Seconds" a few beers and you got the makings of a great movie watching evening.

 

[megacorp-firee]

Casablanca and other bogie films

 

[Fireup2020]

And Fireup, did you really put down Flashdance? Really?

Yup I'm ok with the fact I was an 80's teeny bopper! (Hey, I did become a welder in the Navy...maybe the two are related??) She symbolizes all the people who do something that brings $$$ in - despite passion for something else. Sound familiar? And the 80's music in the flick - always gets me movin'!! Cheezy, absolutely!

 

[Sarah in SC]

You know, Fireup, I remember swearing that I would not, not, not become nostalgic for the music of the 80s when I got older. But, damn, they play some Violent Femmes and I'm right there, dancing like an idiot. And I'm liking not just the passably cool stuff from the 80s, like Love Shack by the B-52s, but stuff like Poison's Nothing But a Good Time and the other Hair band faves!

 

[BOBOT]

Can't believe no one has listed Apollo 13. Totally formulaic, but it's a great story well told, & I always get sucked in even though I know the ending!

I am partial to small, slightly quirky movies. Two faves:

Local Hero, with Peter Riegert & Burt Lancaster & a bunch of eccentrics in a small Scottish village (also a great sound track by Mark Knopfler). Many fine moments.

Fitzcarraldo, with Klaus Kinski & Claudia Cardinale, about a fanatic visionary who wants to bring opera to a remote mining town in the jungle of Peru. This is totally great.

 

[Khan]

Local Hero

One of my favorites.

My Favorite Year
-"D*** you! I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!"

The Lion in Winter

Jaws

American Graffiti

Road Warrior

Escape from New York

Vanishing Point

The Shootist

 

[bssc]

What I find interesting is that some of these movies are also in the Awful Movie thread.

 

[Marquette]

Oh, I forgot one. Cannibal! The Musical is one of my favorite movies of all time.

 

[podey]

Braveheart
Elizabeth
Schindler's List
Magnolia
The Usual Suspects
Rudy