Favorite Movie of All-Time
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Now that many people have listed several contenders I don't feel so bad violating the "only one" rule for the thread. I can list them in different categories.
Best (as distinct from favorite): Magnolia
It's impossible to succintly describe everything that's right about this movie, but the entire thing from the opening three-segment monologue about the nature of probability and coincidence to P.T. Anderson's crazy-long hallway passing shots to virtually every sentence uttered by Frank T.J. Mackey is simply sublime. Lots of people hate the frog thing; I love it. The movie is basically cinematic ecstasy and I truly believe it is the greatest film to ever have been committed to celluloid.
Overall Favorite: Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2
My living room is basically a Tarantino shrine. This is my favorite Tarantino film (I think of them as one movie). To paraphrase Rasheed Wallace, "thousands of dollars in memorabilia don't lie." And yes, I know that not listing Pulp Fiction as your favorite Tarantino is essentially blasphemy. I can only plead the favorite/best distinction as my defense.
Sentimental Favorite: It's a Wonderful Life
Predictable choice. Sappy. Almost unforgivably saccharin. Brings the house down at sirkicky manor every time.
Favorite Classic Comedy: Duck Soup
If you've seen it, you know.
Favorite Modern Comedy: Airplane
In terms of laugh-a-minute comedies it's unbeatable.
Favorite classic "romantic comedy:" Adam's Rib
The best of the Tracy and Hepburn films.
Favorite modern "romantic comedy:" Broadcast News
Hilarious (I love Albert Brooks) and manages the triangle better than any other film.
Favorite foreign film: Cinema Paradiso
Favorites that have to be mentioned: The Purple Rose of Cairo; The Thin Man
Best (as distinct from favorite): Magnolia
It's impossible to succintly describe everything that's right about this movie, but the entire thing from the opening three-segment monologue about the nature of probability and coincidence to P.T. Anderson's crazy-long hallway passing shots to virtually every sentence uttered by Frank T.J. Mackey is simply sublime. Lots of people hate the frog thing; I love it. The movie is basically cinematic ecstasy and I truly believe it is the greatest film to ever have been committed to celluloid.
Overall Favorite: Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2
My living room is basically a Tarantino shrine. This is my favorite Tarantino film (I think of them as one movie). To paraphrase Rasheed Wallace, "thousands of dollars in memorabilia don't lie." And yes, I know that not listing Pulp Fiction as your favorite Tarantino is essentially blasphemy. I can only plead the favorite/best distinction as my defense.
Sentimental Favorite: It's a Wonderful Life
Predictable choice. Sappy. Almost unforgivably saccharin. Brings the house down at sirkicky manor every time.
Favorite Classic Comedy: Duck Soup
If you've seen it, you know.
Favorite Modern Comedy: Airplane
In terms of laugh-a-minute comedies it's unbeatable.
Favorite classic "romantic comedy:" Adam's Rib
The best of the Tracy and Hepburn films.
Favorite modern "romantic comedy:" Broadcast News
Hilarious (I love Albert Brooks) and manages the triangle better than any other film.
Favorite foreign film: Cinema Paradiso
Favorites that have to be mentioned: The Purple Rose of Cairo; The Thin Man
Boondocksaint27
Active Member
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
Member
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
Banned
**** 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
Well-Known Member
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.
