What is your favorite movie of all time?

Infovore · October 11, 2011, 6:09am

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

drillrod · October 11, 2011, 7:29am

The Lord Of The Rings trilogy, which I consider to be a single film. Hmmm, it’s going on a year since I last watched. Time for a marathon.

panache45 · October 11, 2011, 7:35am

That would be Anton Karas.

My favorite is Inherit the Wind.

JessMagic · October 11, 2011, 7:39am

The Big Lebowski

Red_Barchetta · October 11, 2011, 8:22am

The Wrestler, for now. Probably will revert to 2001: A Space Odyssey, much as it usually does.

Robot_Arm · October 11, 2011, 8:37am

The Right Stuff

aruvqan · October 11, 2011, 8:48am

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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.

I love both Metropolis and Blade Runner, but my all time favorite is M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder. If you can get past the need to read subtitles, or can understand German it is great. It is also one of several movies based in the same movieverse [Dr Mabuse uses the same police cast, and same Alex/Berlin locations and started with a silent movie and ended up with movies running from the silent era to one filmed in 1990 as Dr M, which I have not managed to get a copy and see. ]

Grumman · October 11, 2011, 9:19am

It might be the second X-Men movie.

Case in point: the opening scene.

Baker · October 11, 2011, 10:18am

If I absolutely, positively can choose only one film it’s probably

A Man for All Seasons Paul Scofield, Nigel Davenport, Orson Welles, Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, a very young John Hurt, Susannah York, need I go on?

RikWriter · October 11, 2011, 10:24am

Jaws.

Maserschmidt · October 11, 2011, 10:35am

The Third Man. But I’ve only seen it about ten times, so maybe I need to watch one more time to be sure?

RealityChuck · October 11, 2011, 12:38pm

Singin’ in the Rain.

infinitii · October 11, 2011, 12:50pm

Probably still Natural Born Killers.

Ike_Witt · October 11, 2011, 12:51pm

Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Eve · October 11, 2011, 12:57pm

Can’t do it–I can’t even narrow a list down to my top *ten *favorite movies. I will say, though, that none of my top ten or twenty have made anyone else’s “favorites” so far.

pseudotriton_ruber_ruber · October 11, 2011, 12:59pm

Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.

Elendil_s_Heir · October 11, 2011, 1:21pm

Seconded.

And very close behind:

The Incredibles
Breaker Morant
Notorious
Dark City
Trading Places
Limitless
Star Wars
Memento
The Matrix
Pride & Prejudice
Blade Runner
The Big Lebowski
2001: A Space Odyssey
Groundhog Day
True Lies
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
The Hidden

OK, I’ll stop now.

PapSett · October 11, 2011, 1:30pm

Hmmm… probably A Knight’s Tale. It’s my go-to feel-good movie.

carnivorousplant · October 11, 2011, 1:30pm

What part of “only one” do you not understand, Elendil’s Heir?

Capitaine_Zombie · October 11, 2011, 1:45pm

He likes group sex.