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Do you have an alltime favorite movie?

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Can't believe no-one has nominated it so far - gonna go with Heat. The acting, cast, story, script, photography, soundtrack are all superb and gel together to make a crime thriller which has no equal in my eyes. And as for the shootout - simply awesome.


"What am I doing? I'm talking into an empty telephone... cos there is a dead man at the end of this fuckin' line"

Pure class...
 
This is tough, especially since I'm the type of person who can't really pick a favorite of anything, it all moistly depends on my mood atm
But I could give you like my top 5 or so that will most likely always be some of my favorite movies

Forrest Gump
The Shawshank Redemption
Stand By Me
The Godfather Part I & II
The Good The Bad and The Ugly
There Will Be Blood
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

and a few honorable mentions

City of God
Millers Crossing
No Country for Old Men

Lol, got a little carried away
 
without a doubt hands down Wonder Boys. I saw it for the first time on VHS when I was 10 or 11 during an all night moviewatch, and swore right then and there that I was going to be a writer, so I could have such fucked up wonderful, bizarre, cathartic adventures. The same night I watched it, I also saw The Virgin Suicides and Bottle Rocket, which I think is saying something. In the three days that Blockbuster allowed me to have that VHS I must have watched Wonder Boys four times. When I see it on TV I'll watch it. Sometimes I rent it. It's on my computer, and on netflix. I just... yeah, it's my favourite movie of all time.

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freddy47 said:
I've seen Aliens so many times it is not even funny. I could quote it line for line without even missing a step lol
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I have to say, that film is right up there too, by far the best of the Alien films, non stop action and tension, fabulous score, absolute classic
 
Kenickie said:
The same night I watched it, I also saw The Virgin Suicides and Bottle Rocket, which I think is saying something.
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there's a day full of beautiful movies! though i am just assuming about Wonder Boys, given your fine taste. i'll have to see it soon.

also. China Rider, while Fargo only makes my top 5, maybe top 3--could never make me cry, so not a possibility for my number one--i think it is the most well made film i have ever seen.
 
hydroazuanacaine said:
there's a day full of beautiful movies! though i am just assuming about Wonder Boys, given your fine taste. i'll have to see it soon.
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<3

the soundtrack is also damn near perfect.

Bob Dylan - "Things Have Changed" 5:10
Buffalo Springfield - "A Child's Claim to Fame" 2:12
Tom Rush - "No Regrets" 3:52
Neil Young - "Old Man" 3:23
Bob Dylan - "Shooting Star" 3:09
Tim Hardin - "Reason to Believe" 2:00
Little Willie John - "Need Your Love So Bad" 2:17
Bob Dylan - "Not Dark Yet" 6:30
Clarence Carter - "Slip Away" 2:32
Leonard Cohen - "Waiting for the Miracle" 7:43
Bob Dylan - "Buckets of Rain" 3:23
John Lennon - "Watching the Wheels" 3:32
Van Morrison - "Philosophers Stone" 6:03
 
Easy Rider, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Trainspotting, Spun, Blow. Yeah, that's some typical movies for a junkie, but i like them.

And Requiem for a Dream is a crap IMO.
 
i know this is asking for all time but i seriously can't choose between fight club and pulp fiction. i can watch them a million times and never get bored.
 
AmorRoark said:
Oh man, Wonder Boys *is* a great movie. It's often overlooked IMO.
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yeah!! i think they call it 'sleeper' movies or something. it's great! and it's got so many great actors in it! Frances McDormand, Rip Torn, Michael Douglas, etc. I love love love love it.
 
hmm, i don't have a single one but a few that come to mind are:

lost highway
ex drummer
the wild bunch
the good, the bad & the ugly
payback (only the directors cut though. the theatrical version was decent, but nowhere near as good)
in bruges
in the loop
the big lebowski
 
the salton sea is awesome. completely forgot about that movie, one of the only two movies (the other being wonderland, which i'd rate even higher than the salton sea) val kilmer did in the last 10 years that prove he is actually an actor and not just fat.
 
No fucking way! The Salton Sea HAH! I can't believe that was mentioned! Not because I think it's shit but because I thought it was quite good too just surprised people have seen it. It's All Gone Pete Tong was excellent, I guess I could call it a favorite because the rewatch value is incredibly high for me even though I know each point and it's not deeply engaging but just feels very... well, human. Love it.

HEAT is a serious contender for my favorite movie ever. I don't want to spoil the ending but the last thing Neil (DeNiro) says to Vince (Pacino) is so fucking poignant and the setting was perfect and the special edit of God Moving Over The Face Of The Water (hell of a long name) that starts playing right then just put a big beautiful bowtie on the package that the movie delivered. Every fucking minute of that film is sheer poetry in motion and the cast delivers in spades.

Ronin also has major replay value for me. Another gritty story told with such panache and eloquence.

The Indiana Jones Trilogy; another favorite. Sometimes I just feel like a well-rounded adventure with Nazis and fedoras and the goofy faces of Harrison Ford.

5 centimeters per second: I've gushed about this one before and still find it beautiful. It's slow-moving on the dialogue but the visuals help express so much of it that the whole message gets across very clearly and it's a hell of a message. Very human a film.

There are a lot of other films I'm aching to mention but the four above are the ones that really stick out above the rest for me. There's some noir, some adventure, and some humanism and that pretty much exemplifies what makes a movie gold for me (as part of a well-written script, of course).
 
i seriously recommend seeing wonderland. it's based on a series of murders john holmes (first male porn 'star' to ever have existed) was allegedly involved in. i don't know how accurate the movie actually is, but it's wonderfully written and directed, seriously underrated and nowhere near seen enough. kilmer plays the coke-addicted has been porn star to perfection.

here's the imdb link

edit: i should mention i was sold on the movie once they use roxy music's in every dream home a heartache as an opening score. that the stooges' search & destroy was also used was very cool.
 
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Ooh thought of another one (not that I would watch it again, but it is a movie that I can't forget - if you know what I am trying to say).

Harsh Times.
 
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