Favorite Movie of All-Time
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Boondocksaint27
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Boondock Saints. I have yet to see (and probably will not see) the sequel out of fear it will **** all over it. Anything else would depend on the mood that I am in.
dantheman
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Favorite movie of all time is pretty tough to say, and I agree with what has been said about favorite vs. best movie, totally different. Anyway, here are a few of my favorites:
Dumb and Dumber- It is what it is, maybe the funniest movie ever made, but declining in re-watch-ability as the years pass.
Finding Forrester - I've just always loved this movie since I was in high school, I watched it again recently and was pleasantly surprised by how much I still like it.
Good Will Hunting - Didn't see it until recently, but I loved it, incredible movie.
Catch Me If You Can - True or mostly true stories always pull me in, just loved this one.
What a girl Wants - Yes, you read that right, yes it is the one with Amanda Bynes. No, I don't know why I like it.
Recent Favorites:
Step Brothers I laughed for almost an hour straight, awful movie, awful awesome.
Dumb and Dumber- It is what it is, maybe the funniest movie ever made, but declining in re-watch-ability as the years pass.
Finding Forrester - I've just always loved this movie since I was in high school, I watched it again recently and was pleasantly surprised by how much I still like it.
Good Will Hunting - Didn't see it until recently, but I loved it, incredible movie.
Catch Me If You Can - True or mostly true stories always pull me in, just loved this one.
What a girl Wants - Yes, you read that right, yes it is the one with Amanda Bynes. No, I don't know why I like it.
Recent Favorites:
Step Brothers I laughed for almost an hour straight, awful movie, awful awesome.
Gyp Rosetti
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**** you guys...I'm ordering shots nonstop when I come out for games next year. EVERY ROUND'S ON ME!
This is an instance where favorite and best converge. Hoop Dreams is the gold standard.
AtheistPreacher
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Well, I can fix my original cheating by cheating more.
Texhnolyze is my favorite thing that I've ever seen on a television set, period. Technically it's a TV series, but it's so short (twenty-two 20-minute episodes, totaling around 7.5 to 8 hours), that I tend to consider it a long film, or maybe a mini-series.
Almost no one has heard of it, and of those few, only a fraction understand the half of what's going on. It's a weird genre mix between science fiction and noir and philosophical treatise, with emphasis on distopian, apocalyptic, religious (particularly Buddhist), and self-identity themes. It's been criticized for being too slow, overly violent, and deliberately obtuse. But I love it. It beats any other movie or TV series that I've ever seen, and always leaves me with the feeling of "whoa," and just being totally drained.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dEQ6Senktw
Didn't mean to bring TV series into the discussion, but this seems short enough and possessive of a continuous enough story to be considered a film in my book. And it's the only thing that I can get behind 100% as a favorite.
squareinthecircle
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Hopper
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candrew
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I was in a test audience for Pulp Fiction - I got to see it a few months before it premiered. So obviously I had a lot to do with the finished product.
You're welcome....
Did you have any idea what you were about to see? I knew, or thought I knew, what I was seeing on opening night 1994 and it shocked me in a good way. My wife had a completely opposite shock. To this day, she refuses to give it a second chance. I can't imagine seeing it "cold".
TheMulletMutilator
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sirkickyass said:
A number of reasons. I think it basically invented the genre of holocaust pornography. I think the ending scene where everyone walks past the grave of Oskar Schindler feels cheap and contrived. I read an interview with Terry Gilliam a few years ago where he had a pretty searing critique of the "happy ending" nature of a film about the holocaust where we focus on all the people that were saved that rings sort of true with me. Imre Kertesz (Nobel prize winner in Literature and concentration camp survivor) wrote a pretty searing critique of the movie and its treatment of inhumanity as an aberration that I thought had particular legitimacy given his particular standpoint; he dismissed the entire film as "kitsch."
Every time I see the movie or clips of the film these perspectives become more apparent to me. At some point in time I will probably believe it's one of the most overrated films of all time.
Gyp Rosetti
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Anti-Semite!
****...I gotta hide
I watched it at my friend's house a couple years ago and had no idea what it was about. I remember at first thinking "why the hell is this weird *** movie so popular", but after I got into it and the story got going I didn't even think twice about what I was watching...I simply enjoyed the ride. I think having no expectations for a movie is the best way to go about watching films. If a movie is hyped up or you have preconceived notions of it you are bound to be disappoint in some way. S of my favorite movies I had no idea what I was about to watch when I saw them...Requiem for a Dream and Dumb and Dumber.
candrew
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My girlfriend at the time and I were chosen at random while walking through a mall so I really did not know anything until 15 minutes before they showed us the film.
As you can imagine they forewarned us about the non-stop cursing, violence and the rape scene (although they didn't say it would be all male rape). We could walk out at any time; but if we stayed through the whole movie we had to agree to fill out a questionaire..
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Gyp Rosetti
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Gordon Hayward's dumb and plays like he's on heroin.
You're ****ing clueless bro.
Gyp Rosetti
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Do tell.