What is your favorite movie of all time?
Dune
Which version?
Gosh tha's hard because I have so many favorites! But among them are The Green Mile, Forest Gump, Mask, The Legend of Billie Jean, Beaches, and I also love horror films such as the A Nightmare on Elm Street and the Saw movies.
Hmm, more thoughts..
Forrest Gump
Green Mile
The Sting
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Gone With the Wind
My Fair Lady
10 Commandments
Sound of Music
Lion King
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Breakfast Club
LA Confidential
Christmas in Connecticut
Holiday Inn
Quiet Man
Bad Santa
Caddy Shack
Chatty Chitty Bang Bang
The Great Race
I read some stuff by a guy called Scarne. He was a gambling expert and card sharp. He did the switch on camera for the poker scene in "the Sting". Next time you watch it try and see where the switch was made.
Split. Rocky Horror Picture Show. Living in Oblivion. Star Wars. Superman.
Also Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me. But i like to go back to the series and burn through..then do movie.
@Dandewine Did you see "Twin Peaks: The Return" yet?
@greyeyed123 i was watching it...not sure where I left off..i should finish( or start over).
Kyle McLaughlin and Laura Dern are awesome.
@greyeyed123 when Laura Dern came on as Dianne I was screaming
@Dandewine There are slow parts, but I don't mind (they kept saying it was a single movie with 18 chapters--which isn't exactly right since several episodes here and there hang together more than others). Some of the best film making Lynch has done is in The Return, and it resonates with everything he has done before, not just Twin Peaks.
It is also quite sad that so many of the actors featured in it died soon after.
@greyeyed123 true on both counts. I couldn't get through eraserhead...but loved Wild at Heart and others that cannot come to my mind. Today was a rough day.
@Dandewine I always expected I would love Eraserhead, but the few opportunities I had to start watching it never saw me finishing the movie.
Ironically enough, it is Christmas Story.
And the whole country agrees with that! 24 hours of it on Christmas and we watching them all.
@Dandewine Yes IKR...every Christmas lol. ??
The Outsiders. i can't believe i'm the first person to say it
Stay golden, pony boy.
made for my papa
Slaughterhouse-Five, a 1972 movie based on Kurt Vonnegut's book of the same name. Vonnegut said of the movie:
"I love George Roy Hill and Universal Pictures, who made a flawless translation of my novel Slaughterhouse-Five to the silver screen ... I drool and cackle every time I watch that film, because it is so harmonious with what I felt when I wrote the book."
The recent classics (Gladiator, The Matrix, Alien/s, Master Commander) definitely.
For more recent films:
1: Ex Machina,
2: Contagion,
3: Spotlight (so good! It was all in the story telling, acting, cinematography, directorship, etc. The best thing is it had minimal use of music - which is used a lot of times to control/dictate your feelings.),
4: Interstellar (I like how this movie interprets our current understanding of space-time into a narrative.)
I'm a bit of a movie buff. There's quite a few others I can re-watch over and over.
Oh yes, Master and Commander is brilliant. I started reading the books, which are great, too.
Red, Red 2, any of the Bob Hope Road movies, A Christmas Story, The Princess Bride
I love the Red, Red 2 characters!!!!! Are you here to kill me?
Gotcha, The Villain, The Princess Bride, the Monty Python movies, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the uncut version of Caligula, and every Jimmy Stewart movie except "It's a Wonderful Life." Don't care for that one. I prefer The Man Who Knew Too Much, Rear Window, or Vertigo.
All the Star Wars....all the Harry Potter....all the Hunger Games
Also:
NottingHill
Edge of Tomorrow
Both Pacific Rim films
Saving Private Ryan
Forrest Gump
Castaway
anything with Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire
and pretty much every superhero movie ever