What's your favorite movie ever?

[KimW]

I have to ask, how many of you that list Lord Of The Rings (any of the three,or all three) have also read the books?

While they may be decent movies, they did the books an injustice left and right.

Peter Jackson had a great opportunity in his grasp and he let it slip through his fingers, as far as being faithful to the story.

Other than that, they are an enjoyable watch.

[jmsbusinesssolutions]

My favorite movie is Twilight! I thought it was totally overrated until I watched it and fell in love with it! I can't wait for New Moon to come out in November - I'm reading the book now! So, I'm spoiling it a bit, but there are always differences between the book and the movie!

[Karen Blundell]

Yes, I agree with KimW. Although I do love The Lord of the Rings movies and I have the collection (extended versions), the movies are not as good as the books. I must have read the books a least a dozen times each. I have almost every Tolkien book.

Other movies I love:
Titanic, Gone With The Wind, The Rose, Ben-Hur, Star Wars (Episode IV), Raiders of the Lost Ark, Chronicles of Narnia, The Way We Were, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Braveheart, Mad Max, and many more...

[TruriSt]

I got several favourite movies.

I like movies where you at first dont know what is happening, and at the end you get a wow effect .

Example Lucky Number Slevin with Bruce Willis
I recommend this movie to everyone who didnt watch it yet.

Else I like The Departed (I like such movies) and I like al pacino movies. I watched all of his movies and liked 90 %

So my favourite movies are (if you didn't watch them, do it, I don't watch boring movies):

Lucky Number Slevin, The Departed, Carlito's Way, The Godfather, ...

[Rudolph McDonald]

Titanic, I've watched it almost 50 times.

[joefazz9]

Originally Posted by ecoverartist

The Time Machine (the 2002 version) and the Butterfly Effect. I love time travel stuff!

I also enjoy movies on time travel. A GREAT movie to have in mind is Donnie Darko. Definitely give it a watch! It's one of my top 5 all time.

[ubman]

Matrix
Lord of The Rings trilogy, I read the books long before the films were made. Silmarillion is such a melancholic book ...

[shatner]

Star Wars no doubt.

[Calvin]

Like most, I can't pick just one, or 10, or 100. So many movies are great in their own way.

Gotta give kudos to Cinema Paradiso. Also have to mention Brazil. Saw that at a midnight showing on the night I graduated from High School, and it blew my mind. It was the first movie I saw that made me think motion pictures could in fact, be an art form.

Of course I have watched Captain Ron about a thousand times, and will probably see it another thousand before I'm through.

[LynnM]

Another vote for LOTR(yes I've read the books), specially the Two Towers, with Viggo Mortensen as an added bonus.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, two love stories, beautiful.
Moulin Rouge! Gloriously over the top.
Last of the Mohicans, brilliant scenery and music.
Calamity Jane, good wholesome fun plus Howard Keels' voice.
The Empire Strikes Back, Lucas before it all went horribly wrong.
West Side Story, superb music and choreography.

[LynnM]

Originally Posted by Calvin

Also have to mention Brazil. Saw that at a midnight showing on the night I graduated from High School, and it blew my mind. It was the first movie I saw that made me think motion pictures could in fact, be an art form.

Have to agree, it's a work of immense creative imagination.

[jereal88]

Shawshank Redemption and maybe cool runnings!

[Doug English]

1. The Aviator
2. Cinderella Man
3. Forrest Gump
4. Titanic
5. National Lampoon's Vacation

[TyBrown]

Rounders, The Bourne Trilogy, The Fugitive, Wedding Crashers

[soundstream21]

I just seen the movie taken and think thats one of my top 10.

[JWB]

I gotta like The Big Chill

and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

[pcuserz]

Shawshank Redemption
Great movie!

[betesh]

Old flicks like:
- The Breakfast Club
- Young Guns 1&2
- TMNT - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- All of Adam Sandler's movies
- All of Will Smith's movies

[sandsbeck]

Rambo First Blood

[I.M.Retired]

Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas!

[Mandy Allen]

Well I'd have to weigh up between Jumaji and Sister Act. (Still a child at heart!)

Enjoy the journey.

Mandy

[NicheCowboy]

Tombstone and Gran Torino!

[Neautograph]

I would say Transformers & Harry Potter =)

[noescape]

My favorite movies are
Twilight - I guess ive watched it for almost 20 times.....and i still keep on watching it over and over...
50 1st dates - One of the best romantic movies.. you should have to agree with me on this...

and other korean movies....

[nanidin]

Roman holiday
forever and ever

[Arted4Life]

For me it's a hard decision between Star Wars (I'm a nerd) The 300(That movie was so amazing) Gran Torino (Just a great story) Their are a couple of others too, but I can't think of them right now.

EDIT- Hancock was great. Many many more.

EDIT 2 - Watchmen is one of the greatest movies ever made. Period.

[NettaFranetta]

My fave are ....
Scar face.. my all time favorite
Mad Max
Tomb Raider
Indiana Jones- (all of them)
Zoolander
Shallow Hal
Resident Evil
Hostel 1 and 2
Wolf Creek
Pulp Fiction
Sin City
Xmen
The Punisher
Punisher War zone
The Grinch ( yes def. one of my fave)
and too many of Will Feral's movies to mention but love just about anything he is in.

and many more....

[TiborSzalay]

Harry Potter and The Order of Phenix

[haikuangel]

I'm a total sucker for happy endings and fairy tale romances. My absolute favorite movie of all time would be Ever After, which is that whimsical take on the Cinderella story where Drew Barrymore Starred in, saw it like 40 times i think. Next would have to be My Best Friends Wedding, I loved Julia Roberts in that movie!

[teleam]

It's hard for to pick a single favorite as there so many I like.
Oldies but goodie:
Ben Hur
The Robe
The Odd couple
Fahrenheit 451
The original The day the earth stood still
Grumpy Old Men
Fail Safe
ET

And for recent ones
Titanic
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Hopscotch
Independence Day
Breach
Changeling
The Dark Knight
Simone
And many more to numerous to list here.

Lets just say all of Late Steve McQueen's Movies
Clint Eastwood and he is a hell of a director, producer too
Movies like flags of our fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima and my favorite
Million Dollar Baby that movie actually made me cry and i don't
cry easy

Well that all I can think of now.

Tom

[dotcompals]

Sorry .I don't watch that many English movies ....

[andymurray]

It's a Wonderful Life and Bladerunner.

[Aiyana_costello]

My favorite movie is Titanic, i saw it almost 10 times.

[snazzie]

Dirty Dancing, no doubt about it

[Lawrh]

Hard to believe no ones mentioned any of Akira Kurasawa's films.

Two of his best -

Seven Samurai
I can sit down at any point in this movie and be totally absorbed.

Ran
Medieval Japanese take on King Lear. Unbelievable cinematography.


Michael Oksa, Johnny Twennies was a character in Man of the Century.

[chatterbox]

All the StarTrek movies. Classics!

The new one was a fantastic renewal of the franchise!

[TheRookie]

Im gonna go with one of the batman movies by Christopher Nolan. Still waiting on a new batman movie and hoping to see the same actors and directors. I think it would be a shame if Nolan didn't do the next one. Or the rest of them from here on out.

[Jeff Casmer]

Hi,

I was an old trekkie and loved the origianl 60's series and "Next Generation" and thought the new cast wouldnt work but wow!!!

That movie was fantastic...

Take care
Jeff Casmer

[kenshin]

Tom Hanks' movies, Mel Gibsons movies, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and tons of others....

[aussieroo1]

My favorite movies of all time:
-My Best Friend's Wedding (watched it 8 times)
-Before Sunset
-Harry Potter movies

[john_kennedy]

"What we have here is a failure to communicate"

I agree with a lot of the others mentioned (now I want to go watch them again) but "Cool Hand Luke" for me is right up at the top of my list.

John

[venu]

Twilight, Sixth sense, Vantage Point, Matrix, Mission Impossible, and the list continues...


Venu.

[Rick B]

This is such an easy question for me! My all-time favorite movie by far is Apollo 13.

I was 6-years-old when the first satellite was put into orbit and had just graduated from High School a month or so before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the Moon. In other words, I literally grew up with the space program.

Apollo 13 was especially of interest to me because I remember when it was actually happening and everyone said that the astronauts were sure to die. They didn't have enough oxygen to make it back. Their air cleaning system was broken and poisoning their air. The spacecraft had no power for heat so they nearly froze to death! The engine that they would need to return them to Earth had not been designed to do that!

Then the amazing guys at NASA put their skills to work and brought them back alive anyway. That story and movie were both simply unbelievable, yet true!

[ewomack]

Tampopo or Crimes and Misdemeanors. It's a draw.

[printrobin]

My favorite movies are V For Vendetta, Titanic and City of Angels. Have you seen V? If not than it is a must see. The plot is great and the work done on the plot is superb.

[Meren]

Forrest Gump.

[DotComBum]

My favourite is E.T

[brascothom]

Hi,
I have 5 favourite movies in my list, that are,
1. Godfather.
2. Gone with the wind
3. Casablanca
4. Titanic.
5. Lord of the Rings.

[MurphSmurf]

I absolutely adore Paul Thomas Anderson's films. Three of my favorite movies of all time are Magnolia, Punch Drunk Love, and There Will Be Blood.

I love his style.

Some of my other favorites are Lost in Translation, American Beauty, and Requiem for a Dream.

[scarcius121]

Hands down, my favorite movie is Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It's 11 years older than I am and it never gets old imo.