Who is your favorite movie of all time?

[seeker630]

A random assortment

 

"Jaws" and "Steel Magnolias" are 2 that almost always suck me in if I stumble across them while channel-surfing. (I don't think I'll ever go in the ocean at night again!)

 

The orginal "Star Wars" and '2001: A Space Odyssey" - I can still remember the goosebumps the opening sequences gave me! (I also remember that I didn't really understand what the monolith/neanderthal sequences were about the first time I saw 2001 - I remember coming out of the theater still awe-struck but wondering if I had somehow been scammed because I didn't understand half of it!)

 

One of my favorites that I don't think anyone has mentioned is 'The Lion In Winter', with Peter O'Toole, Katherine Hepburn, and Anthony Hopkins. Full of great lines:

" I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy. I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn... but the troops were dazzled."

And "What family doesn't have its ups and downs?" (Brilliiant, in context!)

 

And of course - 'A Christmas Story'. (The scene in the Chinese restaurant is hysterical!)

[+ purplekow]

Yes Lion in Winter is a definite winter night movie. Great acting and great dialog. And Anthony Hopkins looking pretty hot as Richard the Lionhearted especially when discussing his affair with the King of France.

[NYTomcat]

"Jaws" and "Steel Magnolias" are 2 that almost always suck me in if I stumble across them while channel-surfing. (I don't think I'll ever go in the ocean at night again!)

 

The orginal "Star Wars" and '2001: A Space Odyssey" - I can still remember the goosebumps the opening sequences gave me! (I also remember that I didn't really understand what the monolith/neanderthal sequences were about the first time I saw 2001 - I remember coming out of the theater still awe-struck but wondering if I had somehow been scammed because I didn't understand half of it!)

 

One of my favorites that I don't think anyone has mentioned is 'The Lion In Winter', with Peter O'Toole, Katherine Hepburn, and Anthony Hopkins. Full of great lines:

" I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy. I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn... but the troops were dazzled."

And "What family doesn't have its ups and downs?" (Brilliiant, in context!)

 

And of course - 'A Christmas Story'. (The scene in the Chinese restaurant is hysterical!)

 

TRuly A Lion in Winter is Katherine Hepburn at her best. Thank you I had forgotten that one. What a great play and film

[Guest zipperzone]

And then to completely discredit me and my taste in men and movies, there are the ones that just suck me in every time... the ones that if I am flipping channels, I just can't get past:

 

Bring it On

Sugar and Spice

Practical Magic

28 Days

Hope Floats

Sweet Home Alabama

Sex and the City (Gilles ass!!!!!!)

 

Okie

 

Funny you should mention Hope Floats. I thought it was great - as was Harry Connick Jr's basket in those jeans - huge, he must be well and truly hung.

 

Whatever happened to him - you don't see him around much anymore.

[justaguy]

Thanks for the many lines. I remember everyone of them and how they were said. Whoever cast the film did a brilliant job.

[justaguy]

Agreed. I always forget about "Lion" until it shows up at some obscure hour and then I have to watch it. In that same vein is "Becket," another period movie that I will still watch whenever it makes an appearnace.

[Guest Wetnwildbear]

Oh yes - But the book was better

 

I can think of no film where the remake is better than the original. (That being said, I haven't seen the 1932 version of Scarface, and perhaps some Shakespearean adaptations may be excepted.)

 

And if you like Manchurian Candidate, I'd also recommend Paralax View and Seven Days in May (Eva Gardner-- what a foxy role she had). Speaking of (#) Days in (Month), Four Days in September and One Day in September are both great as well.

 

I definitely enjoyed "Seven Days in May" - Great Cast - Kirk Douglas, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Martin Balsam, etc. But I enjoyed the book more than the film. Of course I was a pubescent youth when I read the book and imagined the hero - "Jiggs" played by Kirk Douglas in the film as more beefy, hairy and with a skin tight bulging uniform.

[Okliehomo]

Paul Mercurio

 

Being the ass man that I am, how could I forget about "Exit to Eden"? Maybe, it was the sight of Rosie O'Donnell in leather that made me block it out. But watching his ass get spanked..... worth it... even if it was by a woman.. He definitely had a "dancer's ass"... think Maksim from DWS... and he was very good in a better movie, "Strictly Ballroom".

 

Can't believe I forgot to mention about "Lion in Winter"... I actually thought about it last night and then got distracted by another email. Hepburn's finest hour since "The Philadelphia Story"...

 

I also want to add;

 

The Opposite of Sex

Heathers

 

Oh and yes, I love GWTW. Have a 1941 "movie edition" of the book. Vivien Leigh was prefect.... also really loved her in "Streetcar"...

 

And have to admit, that I still love "The Wizard of Oz"... not so much for Judy but for the Cowardly Lion and the WW of the West (ring around the rosie.... and a pocketful of spears.... and your little dog, too.... what a world... what a world...) but as a kid, those flying monkeys scared me to death... and of course, I love me some Munchkins... the Lullaby League, the Lollipop Guild, the Coroner.... classic...

 

Have read that those Munchkins were a pretty wild off the set... in fact, I was reading something just yesterday... that must have been one crazy shoot.

 

Okie

[Guest Wetnwildbear]

Thanks Seeker

 

One of my favorites that I don't think anyone has mentioned is 'The Lion In Winter', with Peter O'Toole, Katherine Hepburn, and Anthony Hopkins. Full of great lines:

" I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy. I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn... but the troops were dazzled."

And "What family doesn't have its ups and downs?" (Brilliiant, in context!)

 

Thanks Seeker for reminding me of this great film. This was the first "real film" to which my parents took me. I was 8 or 9 and they could not find a babysitter. So along I went on a snowy saturday night - They cautioned, cajoled and threatened me with the consequences of misbehavior.

 

As a result of the film, not the parental threats, was born a love of history, an enhanced awareness of my attraction to men (Yes I got the part about Phillip of France and Richard the Lionhearted - even at 8-9) and an appreciation of great performers such as Hepburn, O'Toole and the beautiful Timothy Dalton.

 

I have watched this film repeatedly as it appears on A&E at least once a year. The power of the performances never fails to enthrall.

[seeker630]

Another thing about the film...

 

Thanks Seeker for reminding me of this great film. This was the first "real film" to which my parents took me. I was 8 or 9 and they could not find a babysitter. So along I went on a snowy saturday night - They cautioned, cajoled and threatened me with the consequences of misbehavior.

 

As a result of the film, not the parental threats, was born a love of history, an enhanced awareness of my attraction to men (Yes I got the part about Phillip of France and Richard the Lionhearted - even at 8-9) and an appreciation of great performers such as Hepburn, O'Toole and the beautiful Timothy Dalton.

 

I have watched this film repeatedly as it appears on A&E at least once a year. The power of the performances never fails to enthrall.

 

that made big impression on me was the filth & squalor portrayed - quire the opposite of the Camelot-like representations. I remember vividly the scene of Henry striding throught the mud of a courtyard in his regal dress, with chickens scatgtering aorund him, and in a banquet scene, dogs are fighting over the table scraps around the guests' feet.

[Guest greatness]

Aww

 

I love those kids who behave so well in theaters. They are so adorable and cute. Some of the questions they ask to their parents are so cute and they laugh and giggle so adorably.

 

Thanks Seeker for reminding me of this great film. This was the first "real film" to which my parents took me. I was 8 or 9 and they could not find a babysitter. So along I went on a snowy saturday night - They cautioned, cajoled and threatened me with the consequences of misbehavior.

 

As a result of the film, not the parental threats, was born a love of history, an enhanced awareness of my attraction to men (Yes I got the part about Phillip of France and Richard the Lionhearted - even at 8-9) and an appreciation of great performers such as Hepburn, O'Toole and the beautiful Timothy Dalton.

[cmennow]

What's Love Got to Do With It

[justaguy]

Well fuck me gently with a chainsaw! How could I have forgetten Heathers? Great film.

[jackcali]

Thanks, and one more

 

Thanks, everyone, for reminders of all the joyous hours I've spent watching old movies. I can't say that everything named in this thread is a favorite of mine, but most all of them are wonderful movies and stand up well to watching again and again.

 

One of my favorites that I'd like to add is The Apartment, which won the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars for Billy Wilder (he also directed Sunset Boulevard, Some Like it Hot, Double Indemnity, all belonging on a favorites list). The movie stars Jack Lemmon, Shirley McLaine and Fred MacMurray, and revolves around affairs between executives and employees in an office -- think Mad Men without the beautiful sets and clothes. It's a small, knowing movie that is both hilarious and heartbreaking. It draws me in every time.

 

True story -- Fred MacMurray played such a heel in this movie and got so much hate mail from his fans for it that he decided never to act in dramas again, so he stuck to Disney movies and the TV show My Three Sons for the rest of his acting career.

[Okliehomo]

Thanks, Sean....

 

Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast? ala Miss Heather Chandler.

[Samai139]

So many of the films mentioned are wonderful and I have enjoyed them, and several I have watched numerous times. However, the ONE movie which I have watched over and over and over and still find not only engaging but mesmerizing is "Gandhi" with Ben Kingsley as the Mahatma. It is long and deals with many years of India''s history and the details--if you watch carefully are amazing. If you have never seen it, it is well worth a winter's afternoon or evening.

[Romann]

Right!

 

Well fuck me gently with a chainsaw! How could I have forgetten Heathers? Great film.

 

Oddly enough, I still have this movie on VHS, yes VHS! Oh the shame! I love this movie and have for a very long time. Great 80's fun!

[justaguy]

The last time I saw it, I think about a year ago, I remember being hit in the face with all those shoulder pads. I must have been repressing the memories of bad fashion. LOL

[justaguy]

antoanvegas--Thanks for this thread. It brought back a ton of films that I'd forgotten about. I just hit Netflix with a huge list.

[Romann]

Blast from the past!

 

I must have been repressing the memories of bad fashion. LOL

 

I very much remember my sister pulling her sucks all the way up to her knees and then rolling them all the way down to her ankle which was supposed to be some fashion thing.

[+ Oliver]

All these great ones!

 

So I'll add to the mix:

Dances With Wolves

Singin' In The Rain

To Catch A Thief

Goldfinger

Field Of Dreams

An American In Paris

Hmmmm - will we one day say Avatar?

[+ newatthis]

...Hmmmm - will we one day say Avatar?

I highly doubt it!

[+ Lucky]

Harold and Maude

 

Without going through the whole thread to see if it has already been mentioned, I add HAROLD AND MAUDE, which, Romann, I still have on beta.

[East2West]

Favorite Movie

 

Too many choices to have just one favorite:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGdbbVcKJlc

 

 

 

E2W

[+ Tom Isern]

I'll second:

 

Ruthless People and Now Voyager

 

And I'll add:

 

Little Shop of Horrors

The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)

Maurice (1987)

Dune (2000 mini-series)

Elizabeth I (w/Helen Mirren)

Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia and Triumph of the Will

The Family Stone

Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet

Notes on a Scandal

Up in the Air

Chronicles of Riddick

Separate Lies

The Matrix

Crying Game

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Shortbus

Pride and Prejudice (1995 BBC mini-series, NOT the horrible 2005)

Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

For a Lost Soldier (1992)

 

Sorry for going on...I've never been good at picking a single favorite anything!