# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 9
**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 16, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/161 "2011-10-16T02:39:00Z")
> [@Jaledin](#): > > Fine. I’ll be the lone person who actually thinks _Citizen Kane_ is the perfect movie, and my favorite… A good movie, and all the more impressive given Orson Welles’s youth and inexperience, but it’s not even in my Top Twenty. Just never understood the adoration of it. ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/162 "2011-10-16T02:53:04Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > A good movie, and all the more impressive given Orson Welles’s youth and inexperience, but it’s not even in my Top Twenty. Just never understood the adoration of it. Cast. Characterization. Technical innovation, not only in photography. Writing. Score. Editing. See again and again 100 times – still something new to discover – that’s a good benchmark for me. I like “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” and “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure,” but after a few times the lights went dim for me on those modern-day classics. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/163 "2011-10-16T03:02:23Z")
Greatest movie of all time: **Raiders of the Lost Ark** Tripler No time to argue! Throw me the idol, I throw you the movie title. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/164 "2011-10-16T03:07:56Z")
> [@Jaledin](#): > > Cast. Characterization. Technical innovation, not only in photography. Writing. Score. Editing. Indeed. It introduced so many innovations that are so standard today that no one even thinks about them anymore. For one small example, IIRC it was the first film ever to jump back and forth in time rather than tell its story in a linear format, something considered completely radical for the day. ---
**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 16, 2011, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/165 "2011-10-16T03:08:21Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > A good movie, and all the more impressive given Orson Welles’s youth and inexperience, but it’s not even in my Top Twenty. Just never understood the adoration of it. I think it is the art of film making. The breakfast scenes where the marriage falls apart and the pan from stage to the guys way up in the ceiling with the opera singer come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/166 "2011-10-16T03:10:43Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > The breakfast scenes where the marriage falls apart … Yes! They grow farther and farther apart in distance and at the end of the scene are even reading different newspapers (the one she is holding being a rival to her husband’s) and not speaking anymore shows more eloquently a couple growing apart than any dialogue ever could. ---
**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 16, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/167 "2011-10-16T03:10:52Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Indeed. It introduced so many innovations that are so standard today that no one even thinks about them anymore. For one small example, IIRC it was the first film ever to jump back and forth in time rather than tell its story in a linear format, something considered completely radical for the day. Showing corners of rooms and ceilings was another, was it not? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/168 "2011-10-16T03:14:10Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Showing corners of rooms and ceilings was another, was it not? Yes, I believe so. Again IIRC, showing the ceiling was another radical innovation. You never saw them in plays, so no one thought to include them in movies. Welles used them to define space. ---
**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 16, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/169 "2011-10-16T03:20:48Z")
I believe the film even has elephants during the Xanadu news report. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/170 "2011-10-16T03:26:16Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I believe the film even has elephants during the Xanadu news report. 🙂 See? It has something for everyone! 😃 ---
**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 16, 2011, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/171 "2011-10-16T03:35:07Z")
Would’ve been better if the elephant shoved the grapefruit in her face, though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2011, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/172 "2011-10-16T07:35:51Z")
This is why modern movies will never stand up to the classics. No one puts dames in their place anymore. ☹ ---
**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 16, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/173 "2011-10-16T17:42:41Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > This is why modern movies will never stand up to the classics. No one puts dames in their place anymore. ☹ You haven’t seen _The Brown Bunny_, I take it. D&R ---
**Author:** ![jordanr2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@jordanr2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jordanr2)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/174 "2011-10-17T00:38:49Z")
_Inland Empire._ ---
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/175 "2011-10-17T01:22:16Z")
WTF people, four pages and no **hard days night**? Chuh. ---
**Author:** ![kjckjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@kjckjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjckjc)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/176 "2011-10-17T01:24:59Z")
Say Anything. Or Princess Bride. One of those two. ---
**Author:** ![bahia\_hombre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@bahia\_hombre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bahia_hombre)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/177 "2011-10-17T01:42:42Z")
The Wizard of Oz: sentimental, scary, funny, suspenseful, endearing characters, great actors, nice music, creative, timeless… ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/178 "2011-10-17T01:54:35Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > Since **Mockingbird** was already mentioned, I’ll go with **Last of the Mohicans** > > I am just swept away by this movie, everytime I watch it, I have the soundtrack in the car… Both good choices. Almost went with _Last of the Mohicans_ myself. A nearly-perfect movie. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2011, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251/179 "2011-10-17T02:53:48Z")
Since **To Kill A Mockingbird** has already been mentioned, I’m giving it a seconded! (can’t believe it went 3 pages first!) After that, I think, **Forever Voyager**. But that could just be the mood I’m in! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-movie-of-all-time/599251.md?page=8)