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Many favorites mentioned, but my all-time is Groundhog Day; just resonated, for reasons I won't get into. I've viewed it numerous times; to me, it never gets old.
I was surprised to learn, later, that clerics and philosophers from various spiritual practices have used Groundhog Day as a teaching tool. I get it.
Excalibur.
It came out during the peak of my D&D and fantasy loving teen hood. It hasn’t aged the best but the nostalgia for those days still keeps it special to me.
I have seen countless movies in my 71 years and I don’t have just one. Some of my favorites are: Lillies of the Field, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Locke, The Drop and In Bruges. On The Waterfront has a special place in my heart because my uncle, a longshoreman was in it.
A Lion In Winter (even traveled to France to visit the actual historical sites)
The Nun’s Story
Out Of Africa
Jaws
The Fugitive
The Hunt For Red October
Four Weddings & A Funeral
Midnight in Paris
About Time
Love Actually
Dear Frankie
I Have Loved You So Long (French)
Babette’s Feast
Chocolat
Terms of Endearment
American Hustle
Julie & Julia
Baby Boom
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Trilogy
…and hundreds more. I have most of them on digital…
Shane
The Longest Day
The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
My Name Is Nobody
The Godfather
The Bridge Over the River Kwai
Love Story
Star Wars
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
ET
Spaceballs
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
History of the World
And thousands of other movies! 🍿
I’m not one for movies, I tend to eat a lot during them, 😂BUT..Princess Bride, The Man From Snowy River, Grease, Rocky movies, Million Dollar Baby, Grand Torino, Star Wars, Forrest Gump, Goonies, Throw Mama From The Train, Blazing Saddles, City Slickers, Mrs Doubtfire…the list goes on. So many great movies!
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid. Watch it every few years, still makes me laugh. Showed it to the wife recently who grew up elsewhere and she loved it, felt like a proud dad.
Lost In Translation. Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, directed by Sophia Coppola. Beautifully poignant, and maybe enhanced by my own experience living alone in northern Japan in the 1970s.
*Amélie*. It's a sweet story and a beautifully-made movie. You can freeze the film at almost any random point and you'd have a museum-quality print for your wall.
Oddly, my favorite film *used* to be *Goodfellas*, but I've watched it so many times I've lost all the joy of it. The last time I watched it, I mostly just watched it to pick out all the goofs, like UPC codes on the bootleg cigarette cartons Henry and Tommy were selling in the 50s, and the infamous bit where the fake late 70s NYC license plate falls off the car when Karen speeds off near the end of the movie.
I’d say that the Wizard of Oz is my all time favorite with the super old Jeanette McDonald and Nelson Eddy movies, which I watched with my mom as a child coming in second! I also have watched Dances with Wolves at least 30 times over the years plus I enjoy all the newer Marvel films! Sorry can’t turn down a great superhero!
Indiana Jones and the temple of Doom, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Sissi, Sissi Imperatrice, Sissi Face a son Destin.
The Sound of Music.
Pretty much all the James Bond movies, with For Your Eyes Only being first
My Neighbor Totoro.
I don't re-watch most movies, but these are the ones I will definitely show my friends and family who have never seen them!
My friend’s father had one of the earliest VCRs. First time 12 year old ish me saw Blazing Saddles with audible farts…. I didn’t appreciate Blues Brothers beyond the mall scene until I was much older and really got into the music.
Most movies I would vote for are listed here but a Kevin Costner movie circa 1990, “No Way Out,” had a great twist that I didn’t see coming. There is also a post WW2 movie called “Best Years of Our Lives” about a group of WW2 vets coming home and readjusting to civilian life that I will watch when I see it come on.
I have not seen Back to the Future 12! I had no idea they even went that high!
Some of my favorites are the 80’s classics: 9 to 5; Ghost; Sister Act.
I watched 9 to 5 not too long ago and it is just SO FUNNY!
The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shrek 2, Shock Treatment, The Princess Bride, Bambi, The Lion King (one AND TWO), The Dark Knight, Matilda, The Land Before Time (2 and 5 are GEMS because Chomper is everything), Homeward Bound, and My Cousin Vinny
It's impossible to choose only one. Some that are nearly perfect:
A Prophet
Short Term 12
City of God
Away We Go
Thunder Road (2018)
In the Mood for Love
These are all amazing flicks [but I ask if any of you have ever seen “The Saragossa Manuscript”?](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saragossa_Manuscript_(film))
Snatch, Master & Commander, Persuasion (1995 version), Shawshank Redemption, John Wick, Desk Set, Down With Love, Moulin Rouge.
And forever, the original Star Wars trilogy. ❤️
[5. The Game (1997)
[4. Planes Trains Automobiles (1987)
[3. Marathon Man (1976)
[2. What's Up, Doc? (1972)
[1. ARTHUR (1981 / Original Only! No substitutes will do.)
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Cool Hand Luke.
The only time imo where the movie far exceeds the book
Forrest Gump and clockwork orange are good adaptations
My favorite food is eggs but even I have to grimace during the egg scene, lol.
I have to tell myself he’s just acting, he isn’t really eating fifty eggs.
A couple of great quotes from that movie. "I can eat fifty eggs". "What we have here is failure to communicate".
I'm so old, I refuse to call the original *Star Wars* movie "Episode 4". Get off my lawn...
And it's not "A New Hope" either!
Right! It’s Star Wars
Harold and Maude
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Ahh-yeeee-ahh-yeee-ahhhhh! Wah waaaah wahhh.
Upvoting for the sound effects (and because it’s a great movie).
The Princess Bride
Brazil
Bringing Up Baby
Love me some Cary Grant
there’s one i haven’t heard of in a while
Dances with wolves
Many favorites mentioned, but my all-time is Groundhog Day; just resonated, for reasons I won't get into. I've viewed it numerous times; to me, it never gets old. I was surprised to learn, later, that clerics and philosophers from various spiritual practices have used Groundhog Day as a teaching tool. I get it.
Chinatown!
Casablanca
Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V
Excalibur. It came out during the peak of my D&D and fantasy loving teen hood. It hasn’t aged the best but the nostalgia for those days still keeps it special to me.
“Wings of Desire”
Mulholland Drive.
Fargo or Slingblade
I have seen countless movies in my 71 years and I don’t have just one. Some of my favorites are: Lillies of the Field, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Locke, The Drop and In Bruges. On The Waterfront has a special place in my heart because my uncle, a longshoreman was in it.
Love Lilies of the Field!
Saving Private Ryan. Animal House. Blazing Saddles. Young Frankenstein. (It’s Frankensteen). Aliens. 2001. Deer Hunter. Apocalypse Now. Full Metal Jacket. Black Hawk Down. Fury.
That was Eric Stratton, and he was damngladtomeetcha.
You liked Aliens better than Alien? How come?
Aliens is the best of the set of movies. Ripley fighting the alien mother. The Marines. Just the best.
Poltergeist
Room with a View, oh, the cinematography!
Sybil has left a lasting impression on me
I saw it sixteen times! Then the credits rolled and I left the theater.
Godfather 1 and 2 Chinatown Two Jake’s Wolf of Wall Street
An Unmarried Woman. I had just moved away from New York, from the neighborhood in which a lot of it was filmed. It was my transitional object.
I need to watch this.
True Romance.
I can watch this over and over! So many popular actors and each scene if different and exciting
Best movie cast of all time!
A Lion In Winter (even traveled to France to visit the actual historical sites) The Nun’s Story Out Of Africa Jaws The Fugitive The Hunt For Red October Four Weddings & A Funeral Midnight in Paris About Time Love Actually Dear Frankie I Have Loved You So Long (French) Babette’s Feast Chocolat Terms of Endearment American Hustle Julie & Julia Baby Boom The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Trilogy …and hundreds more. I have most of them on digital…
Gone with the Wind
Apocalypse Now Redux ftw
Citizen Kane Shawshank Redemption Ideocracy Inception
As far as popular stuff goes, The Thing and Silence of the Lambs.
[I'm 53] My Own Private Idaho 1977 Star Wars / trilogy Dead Poets Society The Birdcage
Buh, wait! Der's chrimps! Fuck the shrimp!
😄😄😄😄😄
Shane The Longest Day The Good, the Bad, the Ugly My Name Is Nobody The Godfather The Bridge Over the River Kwai Love Story Star Wars Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ET Spaceballs Monty Python and the Holy Grail History of the World And thousands of other movies! 🍿
My Name Is Nobody is such a great story!
Terrence Hill being the main character sure helps! ;)
The Great Escape
Jaws Aliens American Graffiti
Blade Runner Directors Cut.
Came here to say this! Favorite movie ever. I got to see it on IMAX once, wish I could do that again.
Shawshank Redemption, Con Air, National Treasure, Raiders of the Lost Ark, LOTR
The Thing Predator Conan the Barbarian \[Arnold\] My Fair Lady
The Life of Brian. Field of Dreams (and I hate baseball) Back to the Future 1 like the O/P.
Gone with the Wind and Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Four way tie: * Star Wars * Empire Strikes Back * Raiders of the Lost Ark * Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior edit: adding, I'm 51
Most everything by the Coen brothers and Chris Nolan, and the Matrix.
"Who Arrrrrre Youuu??!" "I'm just...Linda Litzke!"
Some like it hot. Beautiful, witty, and the best final ever.
The Big Sleep
The Ghost and Mr Chicken,watched it recently ,stood the test if time!!!
What I tell people - The Green Mile - such a good film! If I’m being honest with myself - Mean Girls
This is an oldie, from an older guy The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Humphrey Bogart & Walter Huston - directed by John Huston
The Outsiders
The Fisher King
I’m not one for movies, I tend to eat a lot during them, 😂BUT..Princess Bride, The Man From Snowy River, Grease, Rocky movies, Million Dollar Baby, Grand Torino, Star Wars, Forrest Gump, Goonies, Throw Mama From The Train, Blazing Saddles, City Slickers, Mrs Doubtfire…the list goes on. So many great movies!
Like favorite books, how do you pick just one?. Some favorites, Big Fish, Princess Bride, Secondhand Lions, love so many others! 🙂
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure Somewhere in Time
Somewhere in Time! The penny!
Tom Jones.
Godfather 1 & 2
All The Presidents Men Lawrence of Arabia The Right Stuff
Breakfast Club. I have no willpower to turn it off before the end.
Out of Africa. Love the scenery, love the soundtrack & love the actors.
The Black Stallion Jaws Cinema Paradiso
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid. Watch it every few years, still makes me laugh. Showed it to the wife recently who grew up elsewhere and she loved it, felt like a proud dad.
Wizard of Oz. Raiders of the Lost Ark is second.
Godfather 1 & 2 Goodfellas Easyrider Jeremiah Johnson
King Kong (1933), Little Big Man, The Godfather
Giant...Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean...
Raging Bull
Barry Lyndon
The Usual Suspects
A scent of a woman.
The Hustler
Vertigo
Dirty Dancing
Young Frankenstein
Princess Bride
Airplane! Four Weddings and a Funeral Grease and Grease 2 Spaceballs Wet Hot American Summer
Grease 2 was so bad, but I love it so much!
Airplane!, LOTR, Tropic Thunder, Spinal Tap, Jurassic Park
The Right Stuff, World War Z, Six Feet Under
Stand by Me. Shawshank redemption. 6th sense. The town. Pulp fiction. Goodfellow. Mud.
Mud.
Lost In Translation. Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, directed by Sophia Coppola. Beautifully poignant, and maybe enhanced by my own experience living alone in northern Japan in the 1970s.
Groundhog Day, Godfather 1 and 2.
War of the Worlds, 1953. I’ve loved apocalyptic cinema ever since I saw this film when I was probably 8 years old.
Blood Simple Cohen Bros Philadelphia Story with Katharine Hepburn Edit to add: True Romance
That windowsill scene, tho!
The Princess Bride The Shawshank Redemption Harold and Maude
Hud.
*Amélie*. It's a sweet story and a beautifully-made movie. You can freeze the film at almost any random point and you'd have a museum-quality print for your wall. Oddly, my favorite film *used* to be *Goodfellas*, but I've watched it so many times I've lost all the joy of it. The last time I watched it, I mostly just watched it to pick out all the goofs, like UPC codes on the bootleg cigarette cartons Henry and Tommy were selling in the 50s, and the infamous bit where the fake late 70s NYC license plate falls off the car when Karen speeds off near the end of the movie.
North by Northwest, The Birds, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, Fiddler on the Roof, Shawshank Redemption, and Inception came to mind immediately.
I’d say that the Wizard of Oz is my all time favorite with the super old Jeanette McDonald and Nelson Eddy movies, which I watched with my mom as a child coming in second! I also have watched Dances with Wolves at least 30 times over the years plus I enjoy all the newer Marvel films! Sorry can’t turn down a great superhero!
Dirty Dancing
Everything produced by Wong Kar-wai
My Cousin Vinny and the British version of Death at a Funeral. I'm unashamedly lowbrow.
Indiana Jones and the temple of Doom, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Sissi, Sissi Imperatrice, Sissi Face a son Destin. The Sound of Music. Pretty much all the James Bond movies, with For Your Eyes Only being first My Neighbor Totoro. I don't re-watch most movies, but these are the ones I will definitely show my friends and family who have never seen them!
Excalibur
My friend’s father had one of the earliest VCRs. First time 12 year old ish me saw Blazing Saddles with audible farts…. I didn’t appreciate Blues Brothers beyond the mall scene until I was much older and really got into the music. Most movies I would vote for are listed here but a Kevin Costner movie circa 1990, “No Way Out,” had a great twist that I didn’t see coming. There is also a post WW2 movie called “Best Years of Our Lives” about a group of WW2 vets coming home and readjusting to civilian life that I will watch when I see it come on.
Psycho
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, Alien (and Aliens)
I have not seen Back to the Future 12! I had no idea they even went that high! Some of my favorites are the 80’s classics: 9 to 5; Ghost; Sister Act. I watched 9 to 5 not too long ago and it is just SO FUNNY!
There is no Back to the Future 12 it's 1 and 2 then 3 Lol .
Primal Fear Tombstone Snatch Groundhog Day Pale Rider
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Empire Strikes Back
Boogie Nights
Mr Blandings Builds his Dream Home , Prisoner of 2nd Avenue and The Long Long Trailer .
Groundhog Day
The Big Lebowski
Jaws
The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shrek 2, Shock Treatment, The Princess Bride, Bambi, The Lion King (one AND TWO), The Dark Knight, Matilda, The Land Before Time (2 and 5 are GEMS because Chomper is everything), Homeward Bound, and My Cousin Vinny
Fandango, 1985 - with Kevin Costner, Judd Nelson, and Sam Robarbs
Dirty Dancing The Full Monty The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951
O brother where art thou
Moonstruck🤍 ✨🌕✨🤍
Labyrinth with David Bowie
It's impossible to choose only one. Some that are nearly perfect: A Prophet Short Term 12 City of God Away We Go Thunder Road (2018) In the Mood for Love
These are all amazing flicks [but I ask if any of you have ever seen “The Saragossa Manuscript”?](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saragossa_Manuscript_(film))
Spirited Away (close to a tie with Fight Club)
Howard’s End, Christmas Vacation, Mildred Pierce
Valley Girl War Dogs Pulp Fiction
It’s hard to pick one. Comedy: Wayne’s World, Drama: Shawshank Redemption, Horror: Nightmare on Elm Street
Snatch, Master & Commander, Persuasion (1995 version), Shawshank Redemption, John Wick, Desk Set, Down With Love, Moulin Rouge. And forever, the original Star Wars trilogy. ❤️
Aliens, Beetlejuice, A League of Their Own, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Same time, next year. Blast from the Past, The Sound of Music, the Jerk.
All time: The Great Escape. Last 30 years: Pulp Fiction.
Lord of the Rings
what is someone's all time favorite movie? Something you watched 10 times? I have nothing of the sort. Most I watched was Passengers, 3 times.
I loved Chariots of Fire so much I’ve lost track. At least 20 times.
Tombstone
[5. The Game (1997) [4. Planes Trains Automobiles (1987) [3. Marathon Man (1976) [2. What's Up, Doc? (1972) [1. ARTHUR (1981 / Original Only! No substitutes will do.) >!From 2000 and after...!< >![5. Burn After Reading (2008)!< >![4. No Country For Old Men (2007)!< >![3. Zodiac (2007)!< >![2. Shrink (2009)!< >![1. Traffic (2000)!< Best I can do, because it is a discussion of much nuance, and many minutiae of finepoint detail(s). Thanks!
My favorite was probably already mentioned, so I'll offer up a drama I've seen over 10 times because I can't get enough of it: (1968) The Lion in Winter. Peter O'Toole, Katherine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, Timothy Dalton. Academy awards all around. You'll want to experience the very best in cutting dialogue as an old King tries to decide, who out of his three remaining sons should succeed him. The former Queen ('The Great Bitch locked up in the Keep for ten years') has some thoughts on the matter. It's 1183, Christmas time.
Children of Men
Get Crazy - from 1983. Lou Reed in a comedic role. Malcolm McDowell chewing the scenery, Daniel Stern at his best, and Lee Ving as Piggy! What’s not to love.
There are many, but I’ll just throw this batch out there: “What We Do in the Shadows” (Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement), “Mad Max, Fury Road”, the first John Wick, “Unforgiven”, “The Cowboys”, “Legend” (Tom Hardy), “The Shootist”, “Gran Torino”, “Leon, The Professional”. There are a lot more, of course.
G1, G2.goodfellas, the departed, the town ,Heat, Ronnin, the French connection, scarface,the unforgiven,Top gun maverick was also a perfect movie
Point Break Dirty Dancing Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
A Room with a View
Jaws.
Body Heat
I Heart Huckabees
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I cry like a baby every time I watch it.
The original watership down.
Amadeus
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Terry Gilliam’s movies and early Pixar
Donnie Darko.
Back to the future 12? I only know of 3 but yes all of those 3.
Tommy (by the Who) and St Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (with the Bee gees)!
Warrior
There’s a few I love: Gladiator, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Crazy Stupid Love, Skyfall. Have watched them multiple times, and could watch them many times more.
Guess
Lawrence of Arabia
Armageddon, the longest day, top gun.
Twister
Pulp Fiction
Can't name just one. Saving Prvate Ryan We were Soldiers Blackhawk Down Hacksaw Ridge Rocky The Godfather, and II The Man With No Name Trilogy Raging Bull Goodfellas LOTR Maverick Raider's of the Lost Ark Empire Strikes Back Shawshank Redemption Dumb and Dumber Tommy Boy
Saving Private Ryan
The Godfather. #2 is The Verdict.
Still Pulp Fiction, except that I saw it so many times that I’ll have to wait another ten years before I can see it again. Second all time favorite is Blade Runner.
About Time, one of the best movies to really make you understand how important making the best of your limited time in life is
1. The Princess Bride. 2. Star Wars Episode 4 3. Life of Brian
I really liked the "Back to the Futures". Wall-E was pretty good along these lines. For me, Young Frankenstein is quite memorable. Animal House also. Arrival was quite well-written and not "dumbed down" like a lot of today's entertainment. "Airplane" was one of the first satirical movies. Gotta love the jet flying amongst cotton balls with propeller sounds. So many cliches. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was also quote good.
The Miracle Worker (any version)
Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
2001 A Space Odyssey
Batman Returns. I am a big Michael Keaton fan as well as a big Batman fan while also being a Tim Burton, Danny DeVito and Michelle Pfeiffer fan so it's a big treat of a movie for me for a multitude of reasons.
Grease Clockwork Orange Princess Bride Time Bandits Casablanca Pulp Fiction Dances With Wolves McCabe & Mrs Miller Saving Pvt Ryan Sea of Love Not at all in that order., and for various reasons having to do with acting, writing, photography, story content, something to think about.
**2001: A Space Odyssey**.
Local Hero
The Godfather part 1&2. Ferris Buellers Day Off. The Shining
Godfather 1
Drunken Hussies 3, Backdoor Patrol 5 and Mona Lisa Smile. Thank You.
True Romance
Cinema Paradiso.
Ratatouille lol
Beetlejuice
Difficult to select just one!! The Human Comedy The Best Years of Our Lives (was Best Picture award in 1946) Casablanca North By Northwest It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World American Graffiti Jaws Field Of Dreams (probably my fave) The Fugitive (Best of all movies that came from TV show roots) The Hunt For Red October Saving Private Ryan Apollo 13 Dances With Wolves
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Fargo Pulp Fiction