# 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:  [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/21 "2022-01-12T11:56:37Z")
The Hustler. Paul Newman, George C. Scott, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, gritty pool halls, excessive drinking and chain smoking. What’s not to love?
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### Author:  [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/22 "2022-01-12T12:15:20Z")
True Romance. (Cool script. Tons of great actors at the peak of their games. And a down dirty love story.)
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### Author:  [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/23 "2022-01-12T12:19:36Z")
> [@Eclipse\_Chaser](#):
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> Groundhog Day. Because it’s about redemption.
Same here.
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### Author:  [@And\_his\_buzzer\_goes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/And_his_buzzer_goes)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/24 "2022-01-12T12:22:18Z")
Groundhog day was also my first choice.
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### Author:  [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/25 "2022-01-12T12:23:01Z")
_Bambi Meets Gozilla_. Action with minimal time-wasting plot
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/26 "2022-01-12T13:00:41Z")
Tough question. The answer keeps changing, and depends on my mood when you ask it.
At present, my favorite is probably **2001: A Space Odyssey**
This jockeys for first place with
**Forbidden Planet
A Man for All Seasons
The Seven Samurai
Fantasia
King Kong (2005)**
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/27 "2022-01-12T13:00:50Z")
I can not choose in any decisive way, but my immediate answer would be:
**Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade**
It’s frame for frame absolutely perfect. There is not one moment in it I would change. Great script, great editing, great acting, great music, great everything.
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/28 "2022-01-12T13:07:40Z")
In my view, a really good movie should be both innovative in terms of ideas and spectacular in terms of presentation. Despite many flaws, I think _Jurassic Park_ scores high on those criteria.
A close runner-up would be _2001: A Space Odyssey_.
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### Author:  [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/29 "2022-01-12T13:08:36Z")
I must be pretty flighty because I have a new “favorite movie” about every two or three months. LOL
If I had to pick one, however, it would probably be “Red” with the star studded cast of Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Karl Urban, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman, Mary-Louise Parker, Brian Cox, Ernest Borgnine, and Richard Dreyfuss. I love, love, LOVE that movie! ❤
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### Author:  [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/30 "2022-01-12T13:10:01Z")
Favorite and Greatest are different categories.
My favorite is _The Reivers_
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/31 "2022-01-12T13:14:34Z")
Three way tie _Pulp Fiction_, _Jackie Brown_, _Usual Suspects_.
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### Author:  [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/32 "2022-01-12T13:45:45Z")
_Some Like It Hot_
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### Author:  [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/33 "2022-01-12T13:47:10Z")
_Jaws_ (obviously)
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### Author:  [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/34 "2022-01-12T13:50:14Z")
Fluff-ya Story
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/35 "2022-01-12T13:58:52Z")
The Blues Brothers
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### Author:  [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/36 "2022-01-12T14:08:13Z")
I’m not sure I have _a_ favorite, but if I had to choose, probably _The Princess Bride_. It’s just astoundingly well crafted, and manages to both be a pitch-perfect parody of swashbuckling romances _and_ a pitch-perfect swashbuckling romance itself.
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### Author:  [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/37 "2022-01-12T14:14:55Z")
If I thought TV Miniseries could count, I can re-watch _Lonesome Dove_ (and most of the related sequels/prequels) and would count that as one of my favorite books and faithful movie adaption. For true movies, I’d have to go with _Trainspotting_ though now I’m not as able to watch any of the baby scenes.
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### Author:  [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/38 "2022-01-12T14:31:04Z")
The Princess Bride 😃
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/39 "2022-01-12T14:38:35Z")
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Tied with:
Ordinary People
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### Author:  [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/40 "2022-01-12T15:06:30Z")
I’ll name one - but I reserve the right to name a different one if asked again.
Blade Runner (The Final Cut)
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