Your 3 Favourite Films

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I think some films are great, but I won’t put them in my “favorite” category
because I have no desire to watch them again. “The Elephant Man” and “Dances With Wolves” are two examples. Great movies, but they put me in such a funk that I’d rather not revisit them.

So here are 3 movies I never tire of seeing:

Grease (1978) - It’s cheesy and I loathe the message it sends (the antithesis of “Be true to yourself.”) , but everytime it’s on, I have to stop and watch and sing along. “Go greased lightning…”

Almost Famous (1996) - Funny and poignant and romantic.

Gone With The Wind (1939) - Nearly flawless casting and a great adaptation of a great book. Nearly 70 years later, it STILL rocks.

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Ok, here goes mine. I haven’t seen mine at all yet on the list, except maybe one.

  1. Clue. If the test of a movie is to be able to re-watch it, well I do. I watch this movie constantly, and still laugh at all the jokes.

  2. Seven Samurai. Not, let me point out the Magnificent Seven. This is the original.

  3. I would be a toss-up between Monty Python: The Holy Grail, and Amitabh Bacchan’s Namak Halaal. I’m sorry to put a foreign film as my third choice, but really I started watching Hindi films first, and Namak Halaal is the first movie I ever saw.

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  1. The Godfather, Part II. In my opinion, this movie surpassed the first one. Great performances by both Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro in their prime. The parallel story lines, each interesting in its own right. And Michael Corleone’s great “you’re nothing to me now” speech to Fredo.

  2. The Matrix. It’s been copied so much that it’s lost its impact, but it seemed really novel what it was released. It would be hard to reproduce that moment in the first scene when Trinity jumped in the air and spun around, and everyone in the theater went, whoa…

  3. The Hunt for Red October. I never seem to get tired of watching this movie. It’s fundamentally just an action movie, but it’s very well made. There don’t seem to be any bad scenes or surplusage; it just goes from one good part to the next.

That must be one of the oddest sentences I’ve ever read. I mean that in a good way – I laughed out loud.

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Yeah, my reaction to the special effects at the time seems laughably quaint to me now that they’re used in every other commercial. Still waiting for bullet-time porn, though.

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My Favorites:

Ghostbusters - 1984 - IMO, the funniest movie of all time. I like how this movie entertains kids and makes adults laugh at the same time. And it works even better if you pretend Ghostbusters 2 never happened.

Back to the Future - 1985 - The second funniest movie of all time! I like this one kinda for the same reasons I like Ghostbusters; people of all ages can enjoy this movie for different things. I think it is hilarious and I also have a wierd enjoyment for all movies that deal with time travel. Hell, I even liked Timecop.

The Big Lebowski - 1998 - The characters in this movie are what does it for me. This movie deserves to be on here just because of the acting job done by John Goodman. It is also the most quoted movie I can think of.

And all these movies hold up well after several viewings…even ask me.