[open] Your Favorite Movie

[B®ent]

Contact (based on the Carl Sagan novel) is probably my favorite movie -- as a devout follower of science fiction, and a believer in extraterrestrial life (created in the image of God).

Others worthy of mention -

Truman Show
Fargo
Napoleon Dynamite
The Village
Independence Day
Falling Down

What is your favorite?

 

[Moriah_Conquering_Wind]

HAH! I LOVE Falling Down, it's a classic.

Others I like (in no particular order):

Donny Darko
The Matrix (original one, not sequels)
Twelve Monkeys
The Messenger
Amelie
Dark City
Hackers
Shawshank Redemption


(and more....)

 

[Moriah_Conquering_Wind]

OLD movies I like:

Cool Hand Luke
A Streetcar Named Desire
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
The Manchurian Candidate (the original, not the remake)

 

[Athene]

Schindlers List - the books better but the films not half bad
Truman Show
Bruce Almighty
My Fair Lady
Tron
Labyrinth
Elf

(and I know it's not a flim but I love the BBC's Pride and Prejudice series, I watch it all the time)

 

[ImaginaryVoyager]

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

 

[glo1]

I'm with Moriah on
'Shawshank Redemption' and
'Amelie'

I also like
'The Colour Purple'
'The River'
'Babette's Feast'

glo

 

[Kaonashi]

Finding Nemo
Platoon
Planet of the Apes series
Blade Runner
Shawshank
Forest Gump
and many more

 

[No Swansong]

Murphy's Romance
The Exorcist
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Godfather
To Kill a Mockingbird
Going My Way
The Quiet Man

Oh wow I could go on forever.

 

[DailyBlessings]

I'm not good at picking favorites, so here's my top five list. Not really in order, it depends on what mood I am in.

1. Casablanca
The perfection of movie-making. The kind of movie I don't mind watching repeatedly, because there is so much in it to see. But Rick shoulda gotten on the plane.

2. Schindler's List
which I cannot watch without crying


3. Sunset Blvd
Loved this one when I was an up and coming actor- the tragic romance of this film is just right.


4. Dr Strangelove
Quirky kind of reality that is just bizarre enough to be unsettlingly accurate.


5. City Lights
My favorite Chaplin movie, and the soundtrack is one of my favorite songs, so two for two.

Others worthy of note:
Contact
The Body
Vertigo
Rear Window
Jesus Christ, Superstar
Maltese Falcon
Amelie
Pan's Labyrinth (which I just saw- may be the most important film of the decade, but I'm still deciding what to think of it.)

 

[chaz345]

I'm going to jump on the Shawshank bandwagon here. I don't think that I can call it, or any single movie my absolute favorite of all time because I like many vastly different kinds of movies for vastly different reasons.

The Green Mile I like too, almost as much as Shawshank and for very similar reasons.

My favorite movie that no one has ever heard of is Joshua, with Tony Goldwin.

In terms of movies from books, The Firm was one of my favorites in terms of being faithful to the book, until the LOTR series came out.Never has a movie from a book matched the pictures in my head that the book created as closely as with LOTR. Narnia is a darn close second though.

 

[DailyBlessings]

My favorite movie that no one has ever heard of is Joshua, with Tony Goldwin.

Not so fond of the movie, but the book it was adapted from is among my favorites.

 

[chaz345]

Not so fond of the movie, but the book it was adapted from is among my favorites.

It is often the case that when I read a book first and then see the movie, my impression of the movie is somewhat low, with exceptions as mentioned in my first post.


In perusing all of the little symbol thingies next to your character, I see that you are a Lutheran. Have you seen movie Luther the one made in 2003 with Joseph Fiennes?

There was much about him that I never knew that I found fascinating. I do recognize that the movie may not be entirely factual though.

 

[.chrys.]

Best movies of 2006:
Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest
X-Men: The Last Stand
The Pursuit of Happyness
The Departed
The Devil Wears Prada
The Inside Man
The Holiday
Little Miss Sunshine
The Prestige
Hoodwinked
The Last Holiday
Pan's Labyrinth
The Fountain


All time favorites:
Rear Window
Children of Men
The Shop Around the Corner
Notes on a Scandal

One's I'll watch over and over when I'm sick and want to feel better:
The Princess Bride
Moonstruck
Fried Green Tomatoes
Terms of Endearment
Dave
The Breakfast Club
Steel Magnolias

 

[UberLutheran]

This is a nice way for members of this board to get to know each other.

Favorite movies

*The Women
*Gone With the Wind
*The Wizard of Oz
Mildred Pierce ("[SIZE=-1]Personally, Veda's convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young![/SIZE]")
*All About Eve (One of the very greatest movies ever made)
*Cat on A Hot Tin Roof (ditto!)
*A Streetcar Named Desire
To Kill a Mockingbird
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte
*Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (probably my very favorite)
Ordinary People (one of two movies that can make me cry)
Being There ("I like to watch...")
Airplane!
Terms of Endearment
*A Christmas Story
Slacker (the quintessential Austin movie)
The Color Purple
Steel Magnolias (the other movie which can make me cry)
Driving Miss Daisy
Doing Time on Maple Drive
Schindler's List
Fargo ("Ya, you betcha...")
Office Space ("You are a very, very bad man!")
Brokeback Mountain


*Indicates movies where I can turn down the sound and recite all the lines, in character...

 

[No Swansong]

I forgot Rocky Horror Picture Show. (164 times no kidding) Not really a favorite movie as much as a fond memory of Childhood.

 

[UberLutheran]

It is often the case that when I read a book first and then see the movie, my impression of the movie is somewhat low, with exceptions as mentioned in my first post.


In perusing all of the little symbol thingies next to your character, I see that you are a Lutheran. Have you seen movie Luther the one made in 2003 with Joseph Fiennes?

There was much about him that I never knew that I found fascinating. I do recognize that the movie may not be entirely factual though.

LOVE that movie!

I really love the Lutheran church, and the movie helped me see Luther's accomplishments and contributions in context.

 

[No Swansong]

LOVE that movie!

I really love the Lutheran church, and the movie helped me see Luther's accomplishments and contributions in context.

Not to mention it is a very well acted and directed movie to boot.

 

[glo1]

I forgot Rocky Horror Picture Show. (164 times no kidding) Not really a favorite movie as much as a fond memory of Childhood.

It's just a jump to the left ... and then a step to the ri-hi-hi-hi-hight ...

glo

 

[No Swansong]

Put your hands on you hips!!!

 

[glo1]

LOVE that movie!

I really love the Lutheran church, and the movie helped me see Luther's accomplishments and contributions in context.

I have put 'Luther' on our dvd rental list ... thanks for the suggestion!
(There was also an older version from 1973. Does it compare to the 2003 one?)

glo