# What is your absolute favorite movie of all time?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** movies
**Created:** [January 12, 2022, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627 "2022-01-12T05:25:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2024, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/221 "2024-12-03T12:48:42Z")
> [@Shayna](#):
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> Lost Horizon. The cheesy musical version.
This movie was charmingly eviscerated by Mad magazine when it first came out.
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> The World is a Rhombus
> Without a Circumference
> And nobody knows what this simile means…
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### Author:  [@Cee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cee)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2024, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/222 "2024-12-06T16:57:43Z")
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is probably my favourite movie of all time.
It changes most of the time but currently this is it.
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### Author:  [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2024, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/223 "2024-12-06T17:27:51Z")
_Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me_
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### Author:  [@Dark\_Sponge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Sponge)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2024, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/224 "2024-12-06T18:11:46Z")
Kelly’s Heroes
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### Author:  [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2024, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/225 "2024-12-06T23:20:11Z")
Big Lebowski
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### Author:  [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2024, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/226 "2024-12-11T01:31:10Z")
Miller’s Crossing
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### Author:  [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2024, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/227 "2024-12-11T01:56:40Z")
Great movie. I was thinking about the scene where Leo (Finney) foils his assassins last night. Probably his best scene. Though, a Thompson doesn’t hold that many rounds, even with a drum magazine.
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### Author:  [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/228 "2024-12-17T18:09:22Z")
Dr Zhivago
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### Author:  [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2024, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/229 "2024-12-24T11:04:17Z")
My two favorites are films that I went into hoping only for a laugh or two but which deeply touched me:
Inside Out, and
City Slickers
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/230 "2024-12-25T02:47:57Z")
But you haven’t seen the end yet!
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2024, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/231 "2024-12-25T17:31:47Z")
Changed my mind.
_Cul de Sac_
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### Author:  [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2024, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/232 "2024-12-25T17:36:06Z")
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
A Single Man
The Constant Gardener
The Godfather
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2024, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/233 "2024-12-30T04:58:55Z")
Wow! A blast from the past! (Also the name of a pretty good movie! 👍 )
No, I’ve never seen an intact version of _ **Lost Horizon** _, but I sure would like to.
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### Author:  [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2025, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/234 "2025-01-29T23:55:52Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> The World is a Rhombus
> Without a Circumference
> And nobody knows what this simile means…
Bwaaahahaha! OMG, Cal, that’s hilarious! Now I wish I could read the whole review. 😂
Thanks for sharing that with me!
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2025, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/235 "2025-01-30T00:01:53Z")
The very last scene, when Walter Matthau leans back into the room, absolutely makes the movie. If I missed that scene there would be no point to the story.
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### Author:  [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/236 "2025-01-30T01:15:52Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> Wow! A blast from the past! (Also the name of a pretty good movie! 👍 )
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> No, I’ve never seen an intact version of _ **Lost Horizon** _, but I sure would like to.
Hi! I’d like to see that also, but it doesn’t appear to exist. Apparently, a section of the High Lama’s speech to Robert Conway was lost to some kind of damage. The audio remains, however, so they play it over a still shot from the film.
> [@terentii](#):
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> _ **Casablanca** _, which I’ve seen many times.
I missed this from the top of the thread. Wanna bragging point to share with your friends? You can tell them that you know the great great grand niece of the musical director of this film.
[Leo F. Forbstein](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006079/) was my great grandmother’s younger brother, making him my great great uncle. Go look through his credits. Your jaw will drop at many of the films for which he directed the music.
His younger brother, [Louis Forbes](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006078/) (last name changed so as not to confuse the brothers with one another) was also a Hollywood music director, but he bounced around between studios, unlike my Uncle Leo who spent his entire career with Warner Brothers. Despite the lack of a consistent studio, he still directed the music for some very famous films, including “Gone With the Wind,” and another all-time favorite of mine, “Rebecca.”
Both uncles were Oscar nominees, but only Leo won one. However, in subsequent years, he was disqualified under the category he won for ― Best Score ― and the awards went to the people who actually wrote the scores instead of the head of the music department.
🎻 🎼🎶
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### Author:  [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/237 "2025-01-30T02:28:21Z")
A couple years ago I mentioned **Harold and Maude** in this thread. I still think it’s a fantastic, perhaps even perfect, movie. But I see others have mentioned more than one favorite film, so I’ll do the same.
The next one that comes to mind, and hasn’t even been mentioned in this thread, is **Once Upon a Time in the West**. God I love that movie. Just fantastic cinematography and direction.
**Clerks** is another one. I remember seeing it in the theater when it came out. I became someone obsessed with it afterwards, and read up on everything I could find out about it. (The Internet was barely around at the time.) I still love it.
I haven’t been impressed with a lot of movies that have come out over the last few decades. Most of them are just so damn _loud_ with all the nondescript background music, and they’re hard to watch with the jerky camera movements. But a couple relatively recent films that stands out are [**Lion**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_(2016_film)) for its fantastic story and incredible scenes, and [**Monster**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_(2003_film)) solely for the incredible acting performance of Charlize Theron.
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### Author:  [@cieskokid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cieskokid)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2025, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/238 "2025-01-30T04:40:23Z")
I found a DVD edition of “Lost Horizon” @ my local public library, perhaps you could check w/yours? Also, always look for hard 2find stuff on y\*tube!
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiNVerU1hBA&t=11/)
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### Author:  [@sunacres](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunacres)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2025, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/239 "2025-01-30T13:03:44Z")
So many wonderful memories in this thread, of course I can’t really name a favorite but since it hasn’t already been mentioned I’ll submit the one that made me think “that may be the best movie I’ve ever seen” as I walked out of the theater back in 1993: **The Piano** with Holly Hunter and Harvey Keitel.
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### Author:  [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/240 "2025-01-30T15:38:33Z")
_Joe VS The Volcano_ You can say powerful things in a silly way and Joe makes a fantastic unreliable narrator in this ‘modern fairy tale’.
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