Your favourite Movie

[Cloud]

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.

[steve.ledger]

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..

[Cloud]

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.

[steve.ledger]

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.

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

[angelize]

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

[gwpriester]

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.

[wizard509]

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.

[iamtheblues]

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.

[Cloud]

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.

[xtom]

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