# What is your New Favorite Movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 26, 2004, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-new-favorite-movie/256990 "2004-07-26T22:12:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-new-favorite-movie/256990/1 "2004-07-26T22:12:15Z")
**Love, Actually.** My new favorite movie obsession this year. Replacing **Pirates of the Caribbean** after a year long run. ---
**Author:** ![JoeSki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JoeSki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeSki)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-new-favorite-movie/256990/2 "2004-07-26T22:23:21Z")
Casablanca, replacing The Good the Bad and the Ugly. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-new-favorite-movie/256990/3 "2004-07-26T22:28:56Z")
Oooooh, excellent movies. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-new-favorite-movie/256990/4 "2004-07-26T22:39:29Z")
Not my favorite movie of all time, but I saw [The Thin Blue Line](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0096257/) today and I’d say it could fit into my top 10 films. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-new-favorite-movie/256990/5 "2004-07-26T22:43:25Z")
Love Actually replacing High Fidelity ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-new-favorite-movie/256990/6 "2004-07-26T22:50:28Z")
The best I’ve seen so far this year are **Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind** (2004), **Before Sunset** (2004), **Ying xiong** [**Hero**] (2002), and **Jour de Fête** [**Playtime**] (1967). ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-new-favorite-movie/256990/7 "2004-07-26T22:51:29Z")
I don’t think I’ve updated my Alltime Favorites list, but I’d second the choice of Love Actually; and I’m also recommending **Dodgeball** to anybody I see. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-new-favorite-movie/256990/8 "2004-07-26T22:57:07Z")
I decided a few months ago that _The Big Lebowski_, which I’ve enjoyed watching for years, deserves a place among my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-new-favorite-movie/256990/9 "2004-07-26T22:57:30Z")
My favorites from this year have been “The Last Samurai” and “The Terminal” so far. Neither have clome to close to upending “Fight Club”, “Braveheart”, or “Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country” as my favorite though. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-new-favorite-movie/256990/10 "2004-07-26T22:58:58Z")
Crap, I forgot to mention “Fargo”. It’s actually more of a favorite even than the other two and could probably be listed alongside the three favorites mentioned in my above post. I \*\*\*love \*\* \* dark comedies. ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-new-favorite-movie/256990/11 "2004-07-26T23:04:34Z")
It’s going to be hard to knock off **Clerks** and **Raiders of the Lost Ark**. I’m not sure it can be done. I will say, however, that **Anchorman** has earned a slot in my Favorite Comedies list. Somewhere around #17 or so. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-new-favorite-movie/256990/12 "2004-07-27T01:18:30Z")
I can’t believe that I’m the first person to say that I’ve recently added **The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King** to my favorites list. **Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan** still holds the top spot, though. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-new-favorite-movie/256990/13 "2004-07-27T03:34:27Z")
I can’t say that I’ve got any one favourite movie. However, for some reason I’ve seen **Aliens** so many times it became funny, stopped being funny and became funny again and I’m still not sick of it. So far **Eternal Sunshine** is the movie I like most this year. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-new-favorite-movie/256990/14 "2004-07-27T04:52:56Z")
My favorite this year has been **Dodgeball** , with **Spider-man 2** coming up close behind. Neither are ever going to take the title of BEST MOVIE EVER (from _Miller’s Crossing_), but I really, really had a hell of a good time at both of them. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-new-favorite-movie/256990/15 "2004-07-27T04:55:02Z")
**Master and Commander: The Far Side of The World;** and **Big Fish** , both from last year. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-new-favorite-movie/256990/16 "2004-07-27T07:37:36Z")
I rectly came to the realisation that my favorite movies, not in the sense of them being objectively the best but in that I enjoy watching them more than any other films, from the past 4 years have been **Lord of the Rings** (considered as one long movie), **Moulin Rouge!** and **Gangs of New York**. What does that say about me? ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-new-favorite-movie/256990/17 "2004-07-27T07:39:15Z")
I _know_ my year-end favorite will be **The Incredibles,** 😃 but since it hasn’t come out yet, it’s a toss-up between **Spider-Man 2** and **Fahrenheit 9/11,** with **Shrek 2** pulling drag. The toss-up depends on how strong my stomach is at the time – I find the war footage in **F911** to be less disturbing than the hospital scene in **Spidey 2** … ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2004, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-new-favorite-movie/256990/18 "2004-07-27T08:07:29Z")
Right now, it’s _Spirited Away_. Ask me again tomorrow, I might tell you different.