Your favourite Movie

True lovers of film do not care about reviews and do not care which actor is in it (not a john wayne fan but loved the searchers), they just love a certain film which others may hate. From an early age I have loved films, my dad owned cinemas and the love of film comes from that.

This is my personal list in no particular order

Citizen Kane - both the technical side and the story
Godfather, parts 1 and 2 only
Lawrence of Arabia - close to perfection
The Searchers - the only film John Wayne was any good in IMO
It's a Wonderful Life - I love this film
We're no Angels (1955 version), brilliant
Unforgiven - eastwoods masterpiece
The Sting
The Odd Couple
the philadelphia story
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
The Third Man
Animal Crackers
12 Angry Men
Jean de Florette
Breathless (jean paul belmondo, not the richard gere version)
Seven Samurai
Red Sorghum
Moghul E Azam
Raising Arizona

Actually the list could go on and on but it is something to get you guys started.

I don't have a favourite movie.
I either enjoyed watching what I just saw or I did not. I only remember movies I've enjoyed in the past if they come up in conversation, otherwise I don't commit such things to top-level memory.
I have never understood why some people have DVD/Blu-ray collections of movies they enjoyed when they first saw them. Part of the thrill and enjoyment of a good story is in being 'surprised' by plots/twists and the unexpected. I rarely watch anything for a second time.. Movies I've downloaded from the web (sssh, don't tell!) are deleted after I watch them.
I enjoy looking forward to something new, fresh and the unkown.
I know, probably a shallow boring old phart.. :o

I rarely watch movies a second time around, in fact from the list above I might watch one five to 6 years later. It is not a matter of twists and mysteries for me, it is the joy in watching great acting, or appreciating well written dialogue or the way a particular scene if shot or lit, just as you would appreciate a good painting. come on steve, surely there must be a movie you have enjoyed and thought the it is a great example of the art of moving making.

And by the way I don't have a movie collection either, though there is nothing wrong in that at all. And I look forward to watching something new and fresh, unfortunately the crap that is made these days is not worth watching. Back in the golden age every person who was involved in movies was an artist, they devoted their lives to a particular part of film making. These days actors become directors or producers, singers become actors, actors decide that they would like to write a screenplay, and this is why we have such mediocrity these days - the corporations decide the actor, the director the writers, the ending etc etc. That is why although it is a flawed film I quite enjoyed Hugo, because it showed the love of film Martin Scorsese has.

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Originally Posted by skech

come on steve, surely there must be a movie you have enjoyed and thought the it is a great example of the art of moving making.

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Sure, lots over the years. I just don't keep them in my memory in order to recall them at will.

I don't often watch movies over again because as Steve has said it's just not as much fun if you already know what's going to happen, but there are some that are worth it.

One movie I watch every Christmas season: A Christmas Carol, the 1936 (I think ) version with Alistair Sim as Scrooge.

Another favourite in our household is A Mad Mad World

Not sure if it my favorite(s) but a friend had a birthday party last weekend and his gift from his wife was a boxed set of Mel Brooks. We watched Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein (What big knockers!). Brooks and Woody Allen are right up there with my favorite directors.

3 of my most favorites are "Mans Favorite Sport", "The Great Race", and "The Day The Earth Stood Still". Maybe in that order. Although I rarely watch TV or go to a movie much any more.

Wish I new how to commit things to top-level memory, Steve. Guess I must have forgotten. ;)
In no particular order here are some films I could watch many times (no low-level memory either).
Cinema Paradiso
Duck Soup
Buena Vista Social Club
84 Charing Cross Road
Amarcord
Arlington Road
Inglourious Basterds
Blues Brothers
North By Northwest
Shaun Of The Dead
Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia
The Bucket List
Privates On Parade
Soylent Green
Il Postino
The Producers
Once Upon A Time In America
Life is Beautiful
The Big Lebowski
Three Amigos
Night On Earth
Sexy Beast
Withnail & I
Bob Roberts
The Wild Bunch

Bob.

Great selection Bob, I'm glad there is another person here who appreciates the genius of the marx brothers, in fact I have a list of groucho's quotes as my desktop. Some of my other favourites there, Three Amigos, Withnail & I and Shaun of the dead. And Larry good to know you liked The day the earth stood still, although I hope it's not the keanu reeves version. I also love to watch comedies and another to add to my list is The Ladykillers, not the god-awful remake, the ealing comedies are some of my favourites as well as silly but good movies like Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines, terry thomas was a legend, a true cad.

Here's my shortlist off the top of my head, most of these spring to mind when I think what are my favs but I'm probably forgetting more than a few.

The Matrix
Matrix Reloaded
Terminator 2
Aliens
Jurassic Park
Goodfellas
Gladiator
Die Hard
Star Trek
Taken

Agree with all of those, remember watching matrix and thinking what a great concept. The reboot of the star trek films is actually my favourite star trek movie and taken is again very good, the second one was a bit of a re-run though. Terminator two was actually better than the first for me, never been a fan of aliens though.

I collect DVDs/Blu-Rays as a hobby and enjoy seeing a movie over again - especially when a guest sees the list and wants to see a particular movie. I've currently have a little over 1600 arranged in alphabetical order on 30 shelves and it would be so hard to pick a favorite. the first one I bought to start this [expensive?] hobby was the matrix. xtom's list is a good one for me, (have all of those :) )but I run the gamut of horror, drama, comedy, 'chick flick', animations... pretty much every kind of movie although I must say, I don't have or care for the "old" movies that much.

Casino
Mad Max 1/2
Smokey and The Bandit

I can't believe that no one mentioned "Plan 9 From Outer Space". A true classic:cool:

I am sorry about the size but once I started I couldn't stop and this is the reduced version. They are in no particular order but Shawshank would be at the top with E.T. and others from Spielberg, Kubrick, Pixar and Coppola following.
Raging Bull
Pink Panther
The Elephant Man
Private Benjamin
Coal Miner’s Daughter
The Empire Strikes Back
The Shining
Godfather
Shrek
Chariots of Fire
Raiders of the Lost Ark
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
Space Odyssey
An Officer and a Gentleman
Jaws
Tootsie
Blade Runner
Psycho
Terms of Endearment
Silkwood
LA Confidential
Return of the Jedi
Scarface
Amadeus
The Killing Fields
A Passage to India
Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid
Ghostbusters
Once Upon a Time in America
This is Spinal Tap
Out of Africa
The Colour Purple
Brazil
Back to the Future
Dr. Strangelove
The Colour of Money
Top Gun
Good Morning, Vietnam
Hope and Glory
The Last Emperor
Full Metal Jacket
Shawshank Redemption
Mississippi Burning
Rain Man
Toy Story
A Fish Called Wanda
Die Hard
Born on the Fourth of July
Schindler's List
My Left Foot
Steel Magnolias

But which one is Your favourite Movie, Peter?

As I stated Steve, Shawshank Redemption - 2001: Space Odyssey - Schindler's List - Pink Panther (Peter Sellers)

Well, I'm not going to publish a list but my favourite would be the Matrix, closely followed by Lord of the Rings, both of these the complete trilogy. I do watch movies over again just because I enjoy what has been done in them. The surpise in some movies is all they really have but a great movie can be watched with enjoyment if it's been done right, well at least in my case anyway.

My daughter will watch a movie over and over again, don't know where she got that from.

Expendables 2, Full Metal Jacket, Fight Club.

hmm, so many movies.

bugsy malone,{ the kids version. }
the burbs
breakfast club
ferris bueller day off
stripes
real genius
real science
pretty in pink
war games

pink panther movies,{ >>>NOT<<< the new ones.}

ah so many movies in so many genres.

and yes, I am back, laptop at hand.
allthough xara xtreme 5 isn`t as fast on a laptop as
it was on my desktop, shame.

I cannot give a favorite movie because I like films for a wide variety of non-equatable reasons - bit like music... but some I bought and would watch again because they always inspire me one way or another [in no particular order]:

Some Like it Hot [Wilder 1959]
Le Roi et l'oiseau [Grimault 1980]
Life of Brian [Jones 1979]
The adventures of Baron Muchausen [Gilliam 1988]
Get Carter [Hodges 1971]
The Third Man [Reed 1949]

wow non there from the current century.. maybe I just stopped buying them ... oh wait Nick Park's Curse of the Were Rabbit [Box 2005] .... :D

[there's also a lot of good made for tv stuff, especially series - it's not all rubbish....]

I've hung back for a while mulling this one over. I could provide a long list because there are a fair number of films I really like, but whether I can remember them on demand or not is another matter.

So these are films I can watch over and over again. I have yet to decide what makes a film watchable multiple times, but there are some films I enjoy immensely but realise afterwards that they're probably not the kind of film I can see many times. It's a mystery to me what makes a film enjoyable time and time again, but some films are like that.

So my favourite films, at this very moment, that are watchable time after time are:

The Sound of Music. I can hear the groans now, but I love this film.

Very Annie Mary. Just a joy.

Twin Town. Rather earthy, very Welsh, lovely humour, bit naughty, very dark at the end.

Untouchable. French film - a delight.

Ice cold in Alex and Dunkirk. British grit and fair play in WWII.

I'll stop there.

[ After I stopped I remembered John Carpenters The Fog. I absolutely love that film because of the atmosphere and a trip back to 70's America. ]

twin town is an excellent film .. and a great example of UK film making at it's best

which for some reason reminds me that another French film Léon [Besson 1994] should have been on my list ....

the short list of the movie i used to watch
Die hard2,listen to me in french,and omen