# 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:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2022, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/141 "2022-03-01T22:33:14Z")
This is the first movie I saw in a non-drive in movie theater.
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### Author:  [@Drsunflower1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drsunflower1)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2022, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/142 "2022-03-05T17:38:03Z")
I’ll stick to my first choice even in the light of current events:Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky. With runner up Blade runner and of course the Princess Bride and Pulp Fiction.
So pretty please with sugar on top…
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### Author:  [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/143 "2022-03-05T18:00:06Z")
The Godfather - the story, the characters, the cinematography, the music are all just perfect.
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### Author:  [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/144 "2022-03-18T22:34:31Z")
> [@lissener](#):
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> The movie I can watch over and over again and enjoy it just as much every time? “Meet Me in St. Louis.”
It is a gem. Tootie character is a hoot, something wrong with that child. Lol
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2022, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/145 "2022-03-19T01:05:50Z")
Yes, the first time I ever saw “Meet Me in St. Louis” I couldn’t stand Tootie. But each time I’ve seen it I like her more. Now, she’s one of my favorite movie characters.
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### Author:  [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2022, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/146 "2022-03-19T06:49:07Z")
Godzilla 1954, a movie blending science and horror to create a wondrous, magical experience.
Or Rocketship X-M, a low-budget rocketship movie with loads of fascinating subtext.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2022, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/147 "2022-03-19T17:55:46Z")
I wish you could come to our annual _Godzilla and Friends_ film festival. It’s coming up the first weekend in May.
When you listed the G-1954 film, you did mean the uncut Japanese version, without Perry Mason, didn’t you?
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### Author:  [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2022, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/148 "2022-03-19T20:55:15Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#):
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> My all-time favorite is a tossup between _Rear Window_ and _Stalag 17_ .
I love _Stalag 17_. For one thing, this is how you introduce comedic touches in a prisoner of war camp movie. Peter Graves is not a great actor, but completely convincing here.
I’d never heard of _Nuts in May_, but I’ve loved all the Mike Leigh movies I’ve ever seen. I’d have to rank _Secrets and Lies_ as my fav, but, even though I know a lot of professionals quibble about the quality of the singing, I also love _Topsy Turvey_.
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### Author:  [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2022, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/149 "2022-03-20T09:06:44Z")
The Muppet Movie
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### Author:  [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2022, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/150 "2022-03-20T10:29:17Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#):
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> Godzilla 1954, a movie blending science and horror to create a wondrous, magical experience.
I always preferred Gorgo (1961) to the _Big G_. In fact, Gorgo was my childhood hero. I had my little friends convinced that I could summon him at will to eat them if they got out of line.
And Gorgo had more attractive ears than Godzilla.
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### Author:  [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2022, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/151 "2022-03-20T10:43:24Z")
> [@lissener](#):
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> The movie I can watch over and over again and enjoy it just as much every time? “Meet Me in St. Louis.”
_Meet Me In St. Louis_ is a fine movie. Judy Garland always packed a lot of talent into her 4’11” frame!
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2022, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/152 "2022-03-21T12:58:17Z")
> [@Tibby](#):
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> I always preferred Gorgo (1961) to the _Big G_ . In fact, Gorgo was my childhood hero. I had my little friends convinced that I could summon him at will to eat them if they got out of line.
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> And Gorgo had more attractive ears than Godzilla.
Gorgo was one of three 1950s _Monsters on the Loose_ movies directed by Eugene Lourie, the other two being **The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms** and **The Giant Behemoth**. It’s interesting because The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms was the \*UR-\*1950s monster flick – the first of its kind, which created all the cliches associated with the form. It was the direct influence on the creation of Godzilla, as director Inoshiro Honda has admitted (he wanted to make a high-quality animated monster, too, but lacked the budget and time).
**Gorgo** , of all three, resembles Godzilla most, because it didn’t use stop-motion effects by a master of the craft (Beast was animated by Ray Harryhausen – his first big-budget solo feature; Behemoth was animated by his mentor, Willis O’Brien, who had animated King Kong), but a Man in a Suit, just like Godzilla.
(Gorgo technically came out in 1961, so chronologically it’s not a “1950s monster film”, but cultural phenomena rarely fit within the procrustean bed of chronological endpoints. For all intents and purposes, Gorgo is a 1950s monster film)
I have to agree that Gorgo has the most protuberant ears of any of the monsters I’ve just mentioned.
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2022, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/153 "2022-03-21T14:33:05Z")
I loved **Gorgo** too. Wish I could see it on a big screen.
And **Gorgo** was not a monster as such, going around and destroying things for no reason. She was a pissed off mother whose baby had been kidnapped. As soon as the baby was freed they left to go back home, with no more rampaging.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2022, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/154 "2022-03-21T14:58:02Z")
> [@Baker](#):
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> And **Gorgo** was not a monster as such, going around and destroying things for no reason. She was a pissed off mother whose baby had been kidnapped. As soon as the baby was freed they left to go back home, with no more rampaging.
This film was the first time that I’m aware of that this trope was used. It’s an intriguing notion, because it gives you an opportunity to make a big deal of Gorgo, Jr’s big size and his rampage. And then, when he goes on exhibition, you bring in his mother, who’s even BIGGER, with an even bigger rampage.
The notion was used in **Jaws 3-D** and in **Jurassic Park: The Lost World**.
The flaw in all this is that sharks don’t have those maternal feelings. It’s not known if T rex did (The Walking with Dinosaurs series suggested they did, but I have my doubts. Who knows if a whatever-the-hell-a-Gorgo-is-supposed-to-be did. (There was a dinosaur called “Gorgosaurus”, but it was a very different theropod, much lie a T. Rex. In the Charlton comics, some drawn by comic legend Steve Ditko, Mommy Gorgo was shown as a loving and caring mother, swimming around with baby). Again, I’d kinda doubt it. It would be like a mommy alligator caring about her young after the nestling stage.
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### Author:  [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2022, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/155 "2022-03-21T16:12:23Z")
I suppose it depends on whether Gorgo’s species was more birdlike. If so, I would expect mama Gorgo to have maternal instincts and care for little Gorgo until he left the nest. And unlike most reptiles, crocodilians do care for their young to a certain extent, while they are very young. The question is, was Gorgo still a chick?
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### Author:  [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2022, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/156 "2022-03-21T16:34:02Z")
**Gorgo** was the first monster movie I saw (when I was 7). Damn near ran out of the theater.
As for my choice(s):
\*Movie I will watch anytime it is on, no matter where they are in the plot, just because I love it so much: _ **The Martian** _
\*Movie that I enjoyed the most in the theater: _ **Avengers: Infinity Wars** _
\*Movie that I don’t have to see again, but will always be a bright spot in my heart: **Chocolat**
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### Author:  [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/157 "2022-03-22T00:13:14Z")
Yep. The Raymond Burr version, although respectfully done IMHO, is missing the atmosphere of the Japanese version.
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/158 "2022-03-22T00:18:36Z")
If you asked me this question twenty times, you’d probably get twenty different answers.
But I did enjoy _Local Hero_, which showed up on TV a few days ago. That is as close to a perfect movie as I could imagine. Small scale, great character development, kind of sneaks up on you.
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### Author:  [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2022, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/159 "2022-03-22T00:49:31Z")
**The Blues Brothers**
Not only was the movie really funny, but everybody who performed was a solid musician. Super cool watching Donald “Duck” Dunn playing his bass lines.
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### Author:  [@Rockthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rockthief)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-absolute-favorite-movie-of-all-time/957627/160 "2022-03-28T19:12:07Z")
My house was seen for a second or two in that movie. 🙂
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