Favourite Film

BigN01

Hey Everyone

I'm new to this so thought I'd ask what is your favourite film? I not too sure what mine would be but one of mine is Peaceful Warrior

Liam McPoyle

Ernest Goes To Camp.

FourFourRED

Whiplash.

Archeron

Stigmata

MilesMorales1

The Avengers or Mary Poppins.

dark crystal

I'm afraid this thread won't last long; list threads are frowned upon around these parts...unless you write an essay about each choice.

For what it's worth, mine is 'Gone With the Wind'.

Sad Professor

You know, I don't think I've ever seen Gone with the Wind straight through in its entirety. Only in fragments over the years. Yet I still feel like I've seen it a million times too many and never want to see it again. Over-televising films can really ruin them, especially for younger generations who didn't get to see them in the cinema.

daywatcher

Three of mine would be The Matrix, The Thing From Another World (1953) and The Day The Earth Stood Still (1953). I find most of today's effects laden movies to be triumphs of style over substance. There's far too much reliance on green screen (a lot of which is easily spotted, instantly taking you out of the movie) and little thought given to providing a decent story.

_Kaiser_

There's a few I really like abnd have watched numerous times, but I couldn't pick a favourite

- Die Hard... C'mon, it's DIE HARD The film that redefined a genre and spawned numerous knock-offs, as well as one of the best movie villains ever in Hans Gruber

- Wall Street.. Love Michael Douglas in this and it's another I can quote almost line for line

- Goodfellas... Best gangster film ever IMO. Joe Pesci steals the show but DeNiro and Liotta are great as well

- Lord of War... Nicholas Cage does a great job in this with some great dark humour

- Gandhi... again the lead is the highlight with Ben Kingsley being excellent throughout

sb19

Blade runner

LCD

There are films I love but to pick my favourite film would be very difficult. I think there is different categories of favourite films. Your favourite movie when you want absolutely no mental challenge what so ever, your fav when you want your subconscious to analyse the movie over & over etc.

Sometimes I find you are sitting in some evening & while flicking through the channels end up watching a movie you know absolutely nothing about, none of the hype & zero preconceived notions about it & end up being blown away by it. Two in this category that stand out to me are The Butterfly Effect & Dredd (2012 version).

Sad Professor

LCD wrote: »

There are films I love but to pick my favourite film would be very difficult. I think there is different categories of favourite films. Your favourite movie when you want absolutely no mental challenge what so ever, your fav when you want your subconscious to analyse the movie over & over etc.

I don't think there necessarily has to be a distinction. You enjoy a film for a reason. Once you know what that reason is you can explain and justify your love for it without having to use the guilty pleasure defence.

I think favourite and best should be the same thing. If a film critic drew a distinction between them nobody would read them and rightly so.

DvB

Citizen Kane for me, fell in love with that film when I was about 16/17... still havent seen a film to surpass it.

BigN01

dark crystal wrote: »

I'm afraid this thread won't last long; list threads are frowned upon around these parts...unless you write an essay about each choice.

For what it's worth, mine is 'Gone With the Wind'.

Oh right. Yeah I'm not too sure what threads are good to start up. What would be good ideas for threads just so I know in future Thanks

BigN01

Some good films there. Another 2 I can think of are Jakob The Liar and Jack (1996)

Hans Bricks

Heat by Michael Mann.

Any film which really captures the city of L.A always sticks with me.

Tipsy McSwagger

Dude Where's My Car? - It's about 2 dudes, one of whom has lost his car.

Skerries

Sweet! what does mine say?

Tipsy McSwagger

Skerries wrote: »

Sweet! what does mine say?

Dude! what does mine say?

Dirty Dingus McGee

Jaws.

It's the perfect film, great direction,great music,great dialogue and great acting and the scene with Richard Dreyfuss below the boat is one of the great jump out of seat moments in all of film.

I love the scenes where it shows the truthfulness of the sly mayor only concerned with the towns economy at the expense of the safety of the people hes serving.

The scene where Quint recalls his experience with the sharks while in the serving in the war in the pacific is special.

It proves that a film doesn't have to be complex in order to be great and iit's a film that anyone can enjoy.

holy guacamole

When I meet new people and they ask me this question I say 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest', but the reality is that that's only my second favourite. My favourite is 'The Texas chainsaw massacre', but telling someone that's your favourite film is a bit like saying you can only gain sexual satisfaction from fevered bouts of BDSM.

I'm not even that much of a horror fan but there's something about TTCM which has stuck with me ever since I first saw it. It genuinely shocked and appalled me, left me gobsmacked, speechless, and any film that does that, regardless of its genre or content, is one worth cherishing.

And oh yeah, Cuckoo's Nest is a work of art too, specially Danny DeVito's turn.

SILVAMAN

Howard's End

pumpkin4life

Die Hard
Indiana Jones Trilogy (none of that fridge freezer bollocks though!)
Original George Romero zombie trilogy.
Any late 70s to late 80s John Carpenter movie.
Apocalypse Now
Spinal Tap
There Will Be Blood
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Any Kubrick move between Dr Strangelove and Full Metal Jacket
Any Lynch Movie with the exception of Dune and Wild at Heart.
Stalker
Fight Club
Any Coen Brothers movie with the exception of Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty
First two Alien films

So many thinks to pick though, spoilt for choice!

IamMetaldave

Silence of the Lambs,
Seven,
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

They are 3 films that I couldn't count how many times I've watch them and never get bored

Arghus

Sad Professor wrote: »

I don't think there necessarily has to be a distinction. You enjoy a film for a reason. Once you know what that reason is you can explain and justify your love for it without having to use the guilty pleasure defence.

I think favourite and best should be the same thing. If a film critic drew a distinction between them nobody would read them and rightly so.

I think there is a distinction between deeming something a favourite and deeming it best.

For instance, my favourite band is Ween, but I think the best ever band was The Beatles.

My favourite goal from The Euros was Robbie Brady v Italy, but it clearly wasn't the objectively best goal.

I think a person can credibly claim a film is their favourite, because it appeals to their particular sensibilities or gave them the most enjoyment, all the while knowing that another movie is objectively "better". Usually, though favourite and best do overlap.

I agree with you on the guilty pleasure thing: You've admitted to enjoying something, you may as well claim it.

My favourite film is 2001: A Space Odyssey. I also think it's the best.

Relikk

I don't have an outright favourite but, there are a few that I'd consider to be perfect in most regards and have yet to be surpassed.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2001: A Space Odyssey
Ran
Citizen Kane
Seven Samurai

Ol' Donie

Citizen Kane
The Bridge On The River Kwai
The Shawshank Redemption
Dr Strangelove
Clockwork Orange








Ha, I'm joking of course. It's Die Hard.

TICKLE_ME_ELMO

A Very Brady Sequel.

FrKurtFahrt

Fargo
One Flew Overs The Cuckoo's Nest
Psycho
Field Of Dreams
The Godfather (i & ii)

After these, just about everything Tarantino has been involved with.

Tigger

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

There's a few I really like abnd have watched numerous times, but I couldn't pick a favourite

- Die Hard... C'mon, it's DIE HARD The film that redefined a genre and spawned numerous knock-offs, as well as one of the best movie villains ever in Hans Gruber

- Wall Street.. Love Michael Douglas in this and it's another I can quote almost line for line

- Goodfellas... Best gangster film ever IMO. Joe Pesci steals the show but DeNiro and Liotta are great as well

- Lord of War... Nicholas Cage does a great job in this with some great dark humour

- Gandhi... again the lead is the highlight with Ben Kingsley being excellent throughout

i'm gonna give you the benifit of the doubt and watch lord of war again

Skerries

pumpkin4life wrote: »

Any Lynch Movie with the exception of Dune and Wild at Heart.

What! get out!