# Your Favorite Movie. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2009, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie/481719 "2009-01-17T06:26:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie/481719/21 "2009-01-17T18:19:21Z")
Old: The Little Foxes Modern: No Country for Old Men ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie/481719/22 "2009-01-17T18:26:38Z")
Blade Runner ---
**Author:** ![Dosipede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dosipede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dosipede)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie/481719/23 "2009-01-17T18:41:03Z")
_The Big Lebowski._ Second place is not close. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie/481719/24 "2009-01-17T18:56:20Z")
\*Local Hero \*. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie/481719/25 "2009-01-17T20:31:58Z")
Dead Poets Society. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie/481719/26 "2009-01-17T20:44:53Z")
I’m sticking with _The Warriors_. It’s been my favorite movie since I was 14. I’m nothing if not faithful. ---
**Author:** ![haymarketmartyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/35a633/32.png) [@haymarketmartyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/haymarketmartyr)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie/481719/27 "2009-01-17T20:48:19Z")
The Lord of the Rings - its all one big 11 hour film to me Godfather I & II Deerhunter Mr. Smith Goes To Washington Best Years of our Lives My Blue Heaven Citizen Kane Wizard of Oz Graduate ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie/481719/28 "2009-01-17T22:33:19Z")
Hey, \*\*haymarketmartyr \*\*, you’re cheating! I’d say _Valmont_. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie/481719/29 "2009-01-17T22:39:33Z")
Garden State. ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie/481719/30 "2009-01-17T22:41:15Z")
> [@Gordon\_Urquhart](#): > > \*Local Hero \*. “Did you cook my rabbit?” A kindred soul Gordon, I just read your name and knew, even before I read your answer. There are a lot of movies I’ll watch whenever they come on, or someone here has playing but, this is the only one I ever go fetch just to watch by myself. Possibly the perfect movie. ---
**Author:** ![3acresandatruck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e79b87/32.png) [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie/481719/31 "2009-01-17T23:30:58Z")
I think I’ll go with _Young Einstein_. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen it and it always makes me laugh. It was the first movie I watched on my big new TV when I got it. You gotta love it when they do “A Fistful of Scientists”. ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie/481719/32 "2009-01-18T00:12:04Z")
#1: **Animal House** There is hardly a situation to be found for which an Animal House quote is not appropriate. Runners up: **Singing In the Rain, The Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid**. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie/481719/33 "2009-01-18T01:05:04Z")
I’ll go with The Lord of the Rings, too. All three movies. When LoTR isn’t on, I will watch The Matrix for the 500th time. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie/481719/34 "2009-01-18T01:07:32Z")
If I had to pick the movie that had the most impact on me when I viewed, and the most lasting impact ever since, it would be Carl Dreyer’s _The Passion of Joan of Arc_. But Tarkovsky’s \*Solyaris \*always occurs to me when I contemplate this question, as does Mizoguchi’s \*Ugetsu, \* Murnau’s _Sunrise_, Vidor’s _The Crowd_, and Rossellini’s _Europa 51_. If I’m gonna pick a movie that I can watch over and over again without getting tired of it, it would probably be The Searchers. But again, other titles that come to mind are\* Out of Sight, In Bruges, Pulp Fiction, The Awful Truth, The Thin Man, Judge Priest, Gilda\* . . . man, so many. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie/481719/35 "2009-01-18T01:12:14Z")
I’ll go with the “watch it over and over and never get tired” definition: **Clue** The entire cast is wonderful, but Tim Curry and Madeline Kahn (rest her soul) are perfect at ensemble cast zingers. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie/481719/36 "2009-01-18T01:20:33Z")
As difficult as a task this is, **The Ninth Configuration** will always be up there for me. ---
**Author:** ![IdahoMauleMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71c47a/32.png) [@IdahoMauleMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IdahoMauleMan)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie/481719/37 "2009-01-18T01:25:02Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > It’s a dead heat between _The Postman Always Rings Twice_ (the Lana Turner and John Garfield version) and **Out Of The Past**. Outstanding! I had never heard of anybody else who loved Out of the Past as much as I do, until today! PAR2 is also one of my faves. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie/481719/38 "2009-01-18T01:28:03Z")
I think **Saving Private Ryan** will always be my favorite. Close behind it are **Casablanca** and **The Lord of The Rings**. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie/481719/39 "2009-01-18T01:43:16Z")
Best: **12 Angry Men** , followed closely by **Casablanca** Favorite: **Clue** , followed closely by **Noises Off** (and many others). ---
**Author:** ![MentalGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MentalGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MentalGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-movie/481719/40 "2009-01-18T02:14:53Z")
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