what`s your favourite movie?

samueljones · 13-10-2004 8:56pm #1

we, some friends get a movie and come together, and really enjoy a lot… I wonder what is your favourite movie? What is your suggestion? To start, mine is THE MAN WITH THE IRON MASK, has anyone seen it?

Matthewthebig · 13-10-2004 8:59pm

I'm a big fan of Meet The Parents or Life Of Brian. Both classics

ShiverinEskimo · 13-10-2004 9:05pm

surely this should be moved to the arts > film thread...

gimmick · 13-10-2004 9:08pm

^^^^^^^^^ Get over it

Boyz In The Hood

Fight Club

Papillon.

ShiverinEskimo · 13-10-2004 9:16pm

^^^^^^^^^^ Done

Monty - the one and only · 13-10-2004 9:24pm

wrong board, moved

fragile · 13-10-2004 9:34pm

Apocalypse Now

ishnid · 14-10-2004 11:45am

Mine's got to be Memento, followed by Trainspotting.

gazzer · 14-10-2004 2:34pm

Fargo...... i love that movie..... 'He was a kind of funny looking guy'

IVor · 14-10-2004 3:09pm

Lockstock and Snatch and the goonies...

Cant beat em with a big stick

ShiverinEskimo · 14-10-2004 3:13pm

Fav Classic: Leon
Fav Recent: LOTR 3 or Lost in Translation.

RE*AC*TOR · 15-10-2004 11:03am

This question always gives me problems. As someone who watches an inoordinate amount of films, its a bit of a quandry. Fletch Lives is the movie I've probably seen more than any. Shawshank Redemption is a movie I can re-watch ad infinatum without feeling like I've seen it all before, its like everytime I watch it, its only the 2nd time i've seen it. When Harry Met Sally is a beautiful, sweet movie, very funny, great performances. Then there's the movie's that moved you the most the first time you saw them, but their charm wore off with subsequent viewing - chief among these would be Life Is Beautiful - I definetly claimed it was my favourite movie at the time, but would no longer consider it so. So its all very complicated, I'd imagine i've seen several hundred films in my time, I've enjoyed, aprreciated or loathed them all to different extents, to attach a golden ribbon to one would be like picking a hair out of my head and calling it my favourite....

mayordenis · 15-10-2004 5:38pm

like reactor said its a question that is basically a bitch to answer id go with for the sake of being endlessly rewatchable raging bull and it may not be the best film but it makes be cry with laughter every time happy gilmore

Hellboy's Cat · 15-10-2004 6:00pm

This is a difficult question, I've been asked this by people in the pub and then just seized up in comtemplation for a few hours. Anyways, mine would probably have been The Matrix but they went and totally ruined the whole thing for me with the sequels, so I have no clear favourite. But a film I saw recently which I would recommend is Kung Pow, funny as hell.

smoke.me.a.kipper · 15-10-2004 6:36pm

at the moment, because i got them on dvd, its the starwars trilogy.

rabbitinlights · 15-10-2004 6:57pm

Sober - Shawshank
Drunk - Happy gilmore.

Phil_321 · 15-10-2004 7:06pm

In no particular order:
Aliens
Predator
Con Air
Dumb and Dumber

newgrange · 16-10-2004 7:16pm

"Harold and Maude"

Pigman II · 16-10-2004 7:25pm

Asking someone to pick their favorite film is like asking them to pick their favorite child i.e. it's the one that left your house and never came back.

byte · 17-10-2004 5:38pm

Hmm, probably Trainspotting and all three Lord of the Rings movies. And The Matrix (first one) was good too.

D!ve^Bomb! · 17-10-2004 7:50pm

Hellboy's Cat wrote:

This is a difficult question, I've been asked this by people in the pub and then just seized up in comtemplation for a few hours. Anyways, mine would probably have been The Matrix but they went and totally ruined the whole thing for me with the sequels, so I have no clear favourite. But a film I saw recently which I would recommend is Kung Pow, funny as hell.

i almost pissed myself watching that.. it is probably THE funniest film of all of the time!!

daveg · 20-10-2004 10:41am

I agree with many replies to this thread already (esp Fletch - classic). I'd like to add Jaws, Heat, Thin red line and matrix to the list.

MidnightQueen · 20-10-2004 10:54am

I have a few:

Pearl Harbour - This is my top favourite

The Green Mile

American Pie: The Wedding

Man About Dog

Kwizatz Anorak · 20-10-2004 8:42pm

DUNE, The Hunt for Red October, Aliens, Jaws, The Game (only works once though), Pitch Black, Oceans 11, Dangerous Liasons to name but a few in no particular order....

Rossonero · 21-10-2004 3:05pm

1. The Deer Hunter
2. The Thin Red Line
3. Taxi Driver
4. Motorcycle Diaries
5. Goodfellas
6. Mean Streets
7. Black Hawk Down
8. Saving Private Ryan
9. Behind Enemy Lines
10. American History X

Sleipnir · 21-10-2004 3:08pm

I cannot *believe* someone has Pearl Harbour as their No. 1.
Shaking my head here.

pingoo · 21-10-2004 3:13pm

Platoon is one of the best war movie for me, The Big Boss for fighting movie, A bullet in the Head and Battle Royale as well have to be in the list.

Vamp IRL · 22-10-2004 3:34pm

Boondock Saints ('cos it's so funny)
Con Air
The Goonies

fragile · 22-10-2004 4:01pm

Vamp IRL wrote:

Boondock Saints ('cos it's so funny)
Con Air
The Goonies

sweet mother of god :eek:

begbie · 23-10-2004 12:47am

Trainspotting.

ShiverinEskimo · 23-10-2004 10:29am

Sleipnir wrote:

I cannot *believe* someone has Pearl Harbour as their No. 1.
Shaking my head here.

Agreed, what a terrible waste to a decent prospect. Tried to do a saving private ryan and ended up not doing as well as shaving ryan's privates.

Twyford · 23-10-2004 9:08pm

1. The Battleship Potemkin
2. Sunset Boulevard
3. Blue Velvet
4. Quiz Show
5. Edward Penisfingers.

All the above are seminal works in their respective genres and are must-sees for anyone with the remotest of interests in film. I would recommend them each as highly and as respectfully as i do Jesus.

what`s your favourite movie?

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