What's your alltime favorite movie?

[Maria]

My alltime favourite movie is Todd Hayne's Velvet Goldmine (1998)... I love it so much!

 

[CharlieH.]

Without a question it's Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

 

[Jack Scorpion]

Either Altman's The Long Goodbye or Kusturica's Underground, but usually I just say Apocalypse Now.

 

[Sefton]

It's definately Casablanca...No,wait, I mean Play It Again,Sam...no,it's The Maltese Falcon...no..no..Manhattan...Good God...my circuits are melting..this thread has destroyed me...sorry it just can't be done! :eusa_doh:

 

[Kaleponi Craig]

If I had to pick just one, it would be Casablanca. It has great acting, has a beautiful love story, makes you feel good and patriotic...and has great hats...KC

 

[G. Fink-Nottle]

Double Indemnity, Baby.

 

[Craig Robertson]

"Drowning by Numbers" 1991 Peter Greenaway

 

[Absinthe_1900]

"You know,....the falcon."

The Maltese Falcon.

 

[Mojave Jack]

Certainly is tough. But I gotta go with Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Kidding! I'm kidding!

Really it's The Sand Pebbles.

 

[Doh!]

Actually, Pee Wee is wonderfully surreal...

But for sheer "watchability," I'd put The Godfather on the top of my list; I could look at it every month. It's one of the few movies out there that actually should be longer.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Alejandro Jorodowsky's El Topo (1970). His Santa Sangre (1989) was brilliant as well.

 

[Salv]

Certainly is tough. But I gotta go with Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Kidding! I'm kidding!

Really it's The Sand Pebbles.

Pee Wee's Big Adventure is a great film - some wonderful off-the-wall humour and some very good jokes.

Favourite quote time:

Simone: I know you're right Pee-Wee, but...
PW: Everyone I know has a big but. Let's talk about your big but Simone...

Pee-wee: Shhhhhhhh! I'm trying to use the phone!
Biker #1: Did anybody tell you that this is the private club of the Satan's Helpers?
Pee-wee: Nobody hipped me to that, dude.

Biker #2: I say we kill him!
Biker Gang: [shouts] Yeah!
Biker #3: I say we hang him, then we kill him!
Biker Gang: [shouts] Yeah!
Biker #4: I say we stomp him!
Biker Gang: [shouts] Yeah!
Biker #4: Then we tattoo him!
Biker Gang: [shouts] Yeah!
Biker #4: Then we hang him!
Biker Gang: [shouts] Yeah!
Biker #4: And then we kill him!
Biker Gang: [shouts] Yeah!
PW: [trying to throw voice without moving lips] I say we let him go.
Biker Gang: [shouts] No!
Biker Mama: [whistles] I say you let me have him first
Biker Gang: Yeah!

 

[matei]

I'd have to say that after much deliberation, my favourite film of all time is "Lost In Translation".

I'm a big Bill Murray fan, and my wife and I have often been in similar situations as the film's protagonists.

That being said, I'm not a faded action film star, and my wife isn't a recent philosphy graduate 20+ years younger than I.

 

[Mulceber]

Raiders of the Lost Ark. Its been my favorite since I was 8. Although Casablanca is one of my favorites as well. -Mulceber

 

[Marc Chevalier]

All right, here's my Raiders of the Lost Ark story.

I was about 13 when the movie came out. The day before its Hollywood opening at Grauman's Chinese Theater, I saw a poster and said, "I've got see this flick." (In my early teens, I wanted to become an archaeologist, so how could I resist a movie like "Raiders"?)

The following afternoon -- opening day -- I stood in line at the Chinese Theater with hundreds of others. I think the wait was over four hours. My parents and I got good seats for the 8:00 pm show. The lights dimmed, the curtain opened ...

I have never seen an audience so enthralled with a film. We cheered, jumped, booed and hissed like a crowd in an amusement park attraction. When the credits rolled, the entire audience gave a standing ovation.

It was, without a doubt, the greatest moviegoing experience of my life (thus far). Imagine seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark at the most famous movie theater in the world, Hollywood's "ground zero", on opening night. Wonderful!




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[Cousin Hepcat]

Swing Kids (1993)

(Former favorite, still 2nd: Round Midnight (1986))

Swing High,
- Cousin Hepcat

 

[Mr. Jason]

It Happened One Night. I have no idea why though. No Marilyn, no Liz Taylor, no Nick Charles. It's just something about that movie.

 

[otterhound]

 

[Mojave Jack]

Pee Wee's Big Adventure is a great film - some wonderful off-the-wall humour and some very good jokes.

Favourite quote time:

Simone: I know you're right Pee-Wee, but...
PW: Everyone I know has a big but. Let's talk about your big but Simone...

That's funny, Salv! I drive by the dinosaur they used for that scene at least once a week, and always think of that line! In fact, I quoted it to Hemingway Jones as I passed it last Saturday.

 

[Salv]

That's funny, Salv! I drive by the dinosaur they used for that scene at least once a week, and always think of that line! In fact, I quoted it to Hemingway Jones as I passed it last Saturday.

Nice! I'd love to see those dinosaurs. And of course, when Pee-Wee and Simone came down from the dinosaur:

Simone: "Andy!"
Pee-Wee: "ANDY!!!!
Andy: "Arrrgghhhhh."