# What is your favorite movie of all time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2011, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251 "2011-10-11T03:40:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/61 "2011-10-11T15:56:06Z")
Doctor Zhivago ---
**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/62 "2011-10-11T15:57:17Z")
**Catch Me If You Can**. It’s not the best movie, but it’s good. I like the acting, and the story resonates with me, partially because I like stories that follow thieves/con men and partially because I have some real life connections to Frank Abagnale. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/63 "2011-10-11T16:03:59Z")
**Out of the Past** - 1947 ---
**Author:** ![vislor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vislor/32/5933_2.png) [@vislor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vislor)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/64 "2011-10-11T16:06:37Z")
I really liked that one movie where there was action and really good dialog. And then a bit of romance with F/X that served to enhance the whole things, instead of detract from it. And the way the whole thing came together at the end? That just made the whole thing worth it. What? 😕:D:p ---
**Author:** ![BlinkingDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/65 "2011-10-11T16:08:32Z")
I’ll have to third Blade Runner. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/66 "2011-10-11T16:34:30Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > What part of “only one” do you not understand, Elendil’s Heir? > 🙂 But I DID pick only one! It just so happened that there were bunch of others I wanted to, nay, had to mention in the next breath. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/67 "2011-10-11T16:42:35Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#): > > **Out of the Past** - 1947 That is quite a good movie. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/68 "2011-10-11T16:47:51Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > But I DID pick only one! > > It just so happened that there were bunch of others I wanted to, nay, had to mention in the next breath. You make your money in the legal system, don’t you? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/69 "2011-10-11T16:50:17Z")
I’d sit down right now and happily watch most of those mentioned. But nobody is going to say mine, so I will: **Pulp Fiction**. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/70 "2011-10-11T16:51:11Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > You make your money in the legal system, don’t you? 🙂 Indeed I do! How did you know…? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/71 "2011-10-11T16:53:36Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Gasp! > > :rolleyes: No, Eve really is a professional movie reviewer. She had a column for Movieline magazine. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/72 "2011-10-11T17:05:00Z")
**The Blues Brothers.** I love the music, I love the stunts, and I still laugh out loud every time I see the Nazis’ Pinto fall from a 1500-foot high construction site. Note that you didn’t ask for the _best_ movie of all time (which I concede TBB is not), you asked for my favorite. I watch this film over and over and never get tired of it. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/73 "2011-10-11T17:45:09Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Raiders of the Lost Ark. You can’t take my movie from me, I’ll not let you. ---
**Author:** ![vislor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vislor/32/5933_2.png) [@vislor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vislor)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/74 "2011-10-11T18:15:17Z")
> [@Edward\_The\_Head](#): > > You can’t take my movie from me, I’ll not let you. You can have my movie when you pry it from my . . . Hey! I’m kidding! Take it! Take it! Put the gun away! ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/75 "2011-10-11T19:12:41Z")
‘The Big Sleep.’ ‘Casablanca’ is an all-time great, but ‘Sleep’ is the one i pop in the DVD player when I’ve had a bad day. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/76 "2011-10-11T19:26:58Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > **Blade Runner** > [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](#): > > I was contemplating the other day how many of my favorite movies have lost their luster. I watched “Local Hero” that day, and as much as I’ve always loved that movie, it didn’t do much for me. Maybe I was in a mood. > > Blade Runner has yet to lose that luster. Wonderful, immersive sets and effects, and no woman has ever looked more beautiful on-screen than Sean Young did in that movie. Great performances - Harrison Ford was well-cast as the world-weary blade runner, and what can you say about Rutger Hauer’s performance that hasn’t been said many times before? The rooftop scene was perfection on film. Even Sean Young turned in a great performance as she hides her fragile, broken self beneath a veneer of ice. The questions the movie asks- what does it mean to be human? How much time do I have? - resonate. > > I have a list of movies I usually talk about when this topic comes up, but Blade Runner, I think, floats to the top. I’ve been watching it for 29 years, and it’s still great. > [@Sea\_Creature\_Turner](#): > > There can be only one: > > **The Godfather** 😃 > [@BlinkingDuck](#): > > I’ll have to third Blade Runner. I’m going with _Blade Runner_ after thinking hard about it. _The Godfather_ is the main competitor in my thoughts. I think **Face Intentionally Left Blank** helped to persuade me, but if I have to pick one to watch again, most often it’s _Blade Runner_. Hauer makes that movie for me. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/77 "2011-10-11T21:15:00Z")
**On the Waterfront**. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/78 "2011-10-11T21:16:51Z")
I decided The Matrix supplanted Field of Dreams a few years back (which supplanted Back to the Future)… but Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind keeps closing on the outside. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/79 "2011-10-11T21:25:32Z")
**Stalag 17** _Ach, so…_ ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/80 "2011-10-11T21:29:20Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > **Stalag 17** > > _Ach, so…_ It’s not hard to forget how great this movie was. It doesn’t get enough replay for the younger crowd to realize how effective it was. Holden carries it, no doubt. But how would it have been without Graves? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251.md?page=5)