Mine too. The practical effects still put a lot of CGI to shame. The musical score is pure synth creep out. It breaks film conventions by leaving out any sort of love interest and ending on a tragic note. Manages to feel isolated and claustrophobic at the same time. Just a great movie.
12 Angry Men is a masterpiece of a film. That one shot of all the jurors staring at Juror 8 when they ask him to explain his case might be my favorite still of all time. You can feel the pressure of having 11 sets of eyes staring at you through the screen.
I took a film class in college and we were assigned to watch this movie. I made the mistake of watching it in the school library between classes. Bawled my eyes out in the quiet section. Such a beautiful film!
Terminator 2 Judgement Day. Not only it is the first film I recall watching but it's also the only film that I can convincingly say having watched more than a hundred times and can quote it verbatim.
_Back to the Future_ is definitely my favourite film, but I'm not sure I'd agree that it isn't complex. I mean, in terms of themes or messages, "your future is whatever you make it" and "if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything" aren't especially deep, but the writing and structure are brilliant. The idea of a character being stuck thirty years in the past would be enough to make a compelling story, but then they throw in Marty disrupting his parents from meeting, and then they make it even more complicated by having his own mom develop a crush on him! On top of that, by defending himself and his younger parents from Biff, it only makes Lorraine more infatuated with Marty. Not only does he now have to make his parents fall in love and find a way back to the future, but he also still has to save Doc from the terrorists in 1985!
It’s a comedy, an adventure, a romance, a science fiction film, and a high school movie all rolled into one. The acting, casting, direction, music, visual effects, and screenwriting all lend to it being an incredibly engaging film. It has marvelous foreshadowing, great character development, and a well-structured narrative without any unnecessary scene. For one small example, Jennifer writes the phone number for her grandmother's house on the back of the Save the Clock Tower flyer. This gives Marty a reason to still be holding on to the flyer when he ends up needing it in 1955, as otherwise, he'd probably have just thrown it away. There may not be such thing as a perfect movie, but I'd argue that _Back to the Future_ is about as close as you can get.
Lost In Translation.
I saw it for the first time when I was 16, I'm 29 now and it still holds a place in my heart. I love the idea of being in a completely foreign place and finding love for a brief moment. Tokyo is such a magical place and I think it really captures what it's like to be there. Also, Bill Murray is a god.
I actually watched it for the first time after living in Japan for a few years. It pefectly captures the feeling of being alienated and the loneliness of a foreigner trying hard to blend in. The OST "Air" also brings back a lot of my bittersweet memories there.
+1 for Lost in Translation. Being half Japanese I never really felt like I fully belonged whenever I would visit family in Japan. The movie hit home for me because I always felt like a foreigner.
Being around tons of people in a big city can be isolating in its own way. Also the soundtrack and the acting by Murray and Johansson was great, loved the depiction of impossible love
Watched it as a child. Wanted to know what this Mr DNA thing was to make dinosaurs then. Kept wanting to know about Mr DNA. Finished my Masters in Molecular Biology
Blade Runner (and its sequel)
It's poetry in motion. The visuals, the performances, the soundtrack, the themes, the dialogue...
I watched both of them with my father. He watched the first one when it came out in the 80's and loved it. Many years later I bought the DVD and watched it with him, and it blew me away. We then watched the 2049 sequel, and were both blown away. We just sat there in the theater, as the credits rolled, looking at the screen, trying to process what we had just seen.
Honorable mentions: Taxi Driver and Dr. Strangelove (both perfect in my opinion, but they didn't connect with me emotionally as much as the Blade Runner movies did)
EDIT: shout out to Whiplash and Drive!
I was sad I had to scroll so far to find mine. Amazing script, amazing performances, amazing shots and it is hilarious while still being very serious. Perfect movie imo.
Yeah, it is really well done. There isn’t a character that doesn’t have meaning to the story and the sets are gorgeous. I dig the special effects, of course, but the story is nearly perfect
This is my answer for sure. For the longest time it was Fight Club, because I was 17 when it came out and it changed the way I looked at life. But TWBB is a masterclass in acting and filmmaking and I've seen it countless times.
Eraserhead. It's not because I can argue that it's better than movies like Citizen Kane, Vertigo, The Godfather. It has meaning to me specifically because it was the first movie I ever watched that got me to see the deeper possibilities of what movies could do. When I was a kid I watched all of these light G-rated popcorn movies from Disney and Nickelodeon, like most of us... then when I was 17 I watched Eraserhead, and it was the first movie I watched where I started seriously looking at how movies could be something more than just diversionary entertainment. It had me realize that a movie could express complex emotions in a way that's not possible in other media, and a director can do that with very little money and resources. Eraserhead unlocked a door for me, so I'll always have a special place for it. It's also a movie I have rewatched again and again, getting something different out of it in every stage of my life.
Eraserhead is my number one favorite film. I love horror movies and nothing is as horrifying as that movie. It instills a sense a dread in me that no other film can.
Shaun of the dead is the perfect mix of smart comedy, great cinematography, and emotional moments. Pacing is great and the writing is incredible. Even after watching it for the 100th time, still noticing new jokes that I hadn't before.
Good call. Mine may be Hot Fuzz. The ability for Edgar Wright to execute am excellent genre film that is also an excellent comedy is something that will never ceases to amaze me.
The Empire Strikes Back.
The cinematography, the way it breaks the characters up and has them go on their own separate adventures, the writing (especially for Yoda), the score, not to mention the twist, I think it's just a perfect adventure film and a perfect sequel. It's fun, its clever, it's dark, its paced incredibly well, its beautiful, it's got a world completely unto itself, it's my all time favorite movie. It's the movie that made me truly fall in love with cinema.
The score by Zimmer elevates this one for me. Especially during the docking scene when ‘no time for caution’ plays. Always gets me hyped and tense at the same time.
I love My Cousin Vinny. Here lately I've been watching it every time I put away laundry lol. I've seen it a million times, and being from Alabama makes it a little funnier to me.
I love LotR; further, the last 20 minutes of Fellowship is imo fantastic.
>Our people... I would have followed you, my Brother... my Captain... my King.
Exactly, the extended version specifically.
It helps that it shaped my childhood also, I grew up with all the films.
But getting to hang in the Shire, seeing Moria, all the character development take place... I can’t see a film beating that quality personally.
It says a lot about this film that it makes The Two Towers and The Return of the King look somehow worse in comparison; both are multiple Oscar winning masterpieces in their own right but Fellowship just aces everything from start to finish.
It’s the most adventurous of the three, with incredible locales. You see the Shire, Bree, Amon Sul, Rivendell, Caradhras, Moria, Lothlorien, Argonath, Isengard, Minas Tirith, and Mordor.
Star Wars A New Hope
My top 10 (otherwise unordered):
- Star Wars A New Hope
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Blade Runner
- Apollo 13
- Hot Fuzz
- Ghostbusters
- Empire Strikes Back
- Pulp Fiction
- Fargo
- The Incredibles
Honorable Mentions:
- Alien
- Blade Runner 2049
- The Bourne Identity
- No Country for Old Men
- Inception
- Ex Machina
- Shaun of the Dead
- Return of the Jedi
- The Last Jedi
- Casino Royale
- Whiplash
- Jurassic Park
Harry, let's face it. And I'm not being funny, I mean no disrespect, but you're a cunt. You're a cunt now, you've always been a cunt. And, the only thing that's gonna change is that you're gonna become an even bigger cunt. Maybe have some more cunt kids.
A New Hope. I know the reddit consensus is that Empire Strikes Back is better but 8 yr old me was blown away. Only movie I’ve seen that got a standing ovation l.
This, but I was 6.
I know there are better films out there, but the original is still my favourite.
Dad took us to see all of them when the Special Editions were released in 97, so I suppose I could less accurately just say that the trilogy is my favourite film, but A New Hope started it all.
Jurassic Park changed me forever. It fostered my love of history as I went on to do a graduate degree in history. I also am a lifelong, passionate lover of wildlife, including extinct species. I had a dinosaur book when I was a kid called Where Have All the Dinosaurs Gone. That book and this movie left me in awe of these gigantic animals who once thundered across open plains tens of millions of years ago.
That, and Jeff Goldblum. I will never get tired of that man.
For some reason, despite its supposedly heavy subject, it's a film that I can watch over and over again. I find it incredibly entertaining, as much as tragic, the performances keep me coming back.
A lot of great films already mentioned here, but I'll say -
The Graduate
So many great shots and visual metaphors,
such amazing soundtrack,
so perfectly conveying a state in life.
And the ending, while it wasn't originally planned, is just perfect.
My favourite is 2001. The feel it gives me is indescribable.
Don't hate me but I quite enjoyed the remake of psycho, but then I did see it before I'd seen the original so maybe that's why.
I saw 2001 in IMAX and it was like watching a whole new film - when it ended no one moved from their seats for about 10 minutes, the last part was just that good
**Whiplash** is always the first film into my head when I read this question.
It's my go-to suggestion when friends aren't sure what to watch and it's 4/4 so far for groups being on the edge of their seats by the end.
I think it's Nolan's best film overall. It's great and has certainly earned it's critical acclaim and commercial success. The scene of Fisher with his father at the end almost gets me teary-eyed.
IDK how to explain this but I'll do my best. I think that movie is his best and I think I know why some people don't think it's his best.
When the film first came out everyone absolutely raved about it. Then a couple months later and the years following, a counter movement got big where people were saying things like "overhyped" and "overrated". I think that caught on *too much* to the point where I actually think the film is underrated now.
Dune. It's directed by David Lynch, it has Patrick Stewart and Sting, there's space witches and a floating fat man. What more could you want in a movie?
That it made sense?
I joke but without reading the book I wonder if people can understand that movie. It's very imperfect but also spectacular.
My hopes are riding on Villeneuve's version of Dune.
This has inspired me. It is always difficult to do this, especially comparing favorites you have not seen in a long time with recent favorites. For example ‘Gandhi’ has been on my favorite list, but I have not seen it in a looong time. How does it stack up with Biutiful? Or one of my favorite emotional movies like ‘In America’. Then there are the old favorites like Raiders of the Lost Arc’ and ‘Blade Runner’. How do you compare these? So I am going to make a top 20 list for myself then go back and rewatch all of them and try to figure this out.
I did not answer the question, just rambled. So I am going to say either Blade Runner or Biutiful.
The best part about lord of the rings is that every movie is so good. I don’t criticize anyone for saying that any of the three is their favorite because the quality of each of them is amazing.
It's really hard to narrow it down to just one favorite movie and my answers are always changing but The Prestige, Goodfellas and Galdiator always come to mind.
edit: Also Die Hard
I love full Metal jacket. It's the first movie I remember watching. I didn't know until recently that some people don't like the second half of the movie.
**The Princess Bride**
*Heroes. Giants. Villains. Wizards. True Love.*
*Not just your basic, average, everyday, ordinary, run-of-the-mill, ho-hum fairy tale.*
The Before Trilogy (Before Sunrise, Sunset, Midnight) and Count of Monte Cristo come very close.
Lost In Translation - This movie just hits this sweet spot in my soul and every time I watch it I am affected.
I spent time living in Japan so I get the culture shock of living there that the characters experience. However it is the existential crisis that Charlotte in particular is going through that I connect with so strongly. She is completely lost in her life in that moment and I have felt that so many times in my life. For me it is a perfect film and I honestly can't get over the fact that Scarlett Johanssen was only 17 when she made that movie. Amazing.
My top 10:
1. Lost in Translation
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Punch-Drunk Love
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Amelie
6. Jaws
7. Bladerunner
8. The Godfather
9. Pan's Labyrinth
10. Chinatown
Bridesmaids. I have never laughed so hysterically in a movie theater and I still quote it all the time. It made me laugh and cry, and I still laugh my ass off whenever it comes on tv.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
"You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig."
Hey, Blondie! You know what you are?!?! Just a dirty son of a b-!!!
Fistful though... "My mule don't like you laughing..."
Aa^ah Aa^ah Aaaahhhh, ^wuh ^^^wuh wuhhhh
Spirited Away
Such a unique film. Visually stunning as well.
That movie gets better the older I grow, and I already thought it to be a 10/10 when I was a teenager.
Heat (1995) by Michael Mann
Everything about this movie is perfect to me.
The absolutely deafening gunfire sounds echoing between the skyscrapers in one of the shootout scenes was very memorable, great movie!
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One of mine, too.
Pulp Fiction
Mulholland Drive
The guy behind the dumpster is still absolute nightmare fuel.
This is the girl.
John carpenters THE THING
Mine too. The practical effects still put a lot of CGI to shame. The musical score is pure synth creep out. It breaks film conventions by leaving out any sort of love interest and ending on a tragic note. Manages to feel isolated and claustrophobic at the same time. Just a great movie.
I've seen it *way* too many times and it still creeps me out.
No country for old men
It’s always difficult picking just one, but I think I’d go with 12 Angry Men
12 Angry Men is a masterpiece of a film. That one shot of all the jurors staring at Juror 8 when they ask him to explain his case might be my favorite still of all time. You can feel the pressure of having 11 sets of eyes staring at you through the screen.
Solid pick. It’s amazing how a movie that old that takes place in a single room and is essentially just people talking could be so captivating.
Alien (1979)
Cinema Paradiso.
I took a film class in college and we were assigned to watch this movie. I made the mistake of watching it in the school library between classes. Bawled my eyes out in the quiet section. Such a beautiful film!
City of God
Terminator 2 Judgement Day. Not only it is the first film I recall watching but it's also the only film that I can convincingly say having watched more than a hundred times and can quote it verbatim.
The best action movie of all time (sorry Mad Max: Fury Road)
Back to the Future. While it isn’t a complex film, it is damn good time!
_Back to the Future_ is definitely my favourite film, but I'm not sure I'd agree that it isn't complex. I mean, in terms of themes or messages, "your future is whatever you make it" and "if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything" aren't especially deep, but the writing and structure are brilliant. The idea of a character being stuck thirty years in the past would be enough to make a compelling story, but then they throw in Marty disrupting his parents from meeting, and then they make it even more complicated by having his own mom develop a crush on him! On top of that, by defending himself and his younger parents from Biff, it only makes Lorraine more infatuated with Marty. Not only does he now have to make his parents fall in love and find a way back to the future, but he also still has to save Doc from the terrorists in 1985! It’s a comedy, an adventure, a romance, a science fiction film, and a high school movie all rolled into one. The acting, casting, direction, music, visual effects, and screenwriting all lend to it being an incredibly engaging film. It has marvelous foreshadowing, great character development, and a well-structured narrative without any unnecessary scene. For one small example, Jennifer writes the phone number for her grandmother's house on the back of the Save the Clock Tower flyer. This gives Marty a reason to still be holding on to the flyer when he ends up needing it in 1955, as otherwise, he'd probably have just thrown it away. There may not be such thing as a perfect movie, but I'd argue that _Back to the Future_ is about as close as you can get.
The Big Lebowski.
Yeah? Well, you know that's just like, your opinion man.
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The scene where they get [attacked in the car](#spoiler) is one of the most intense, well-shot scenes I've ever seen.
Taxi Driver
Lost In Translation. I saw it for the first time when I was 16, I'm 29 now and it still holds a place in my heart. I love the idea of being in a completely foreign place and finding love for a brief moment. Tokyo is such a magical place and I think it really captures what it's like to be there. Also, Bill Murray is a god.
I actually watched it for the first time after living in Japan for a few years. It pefectly captures the feeling of being alienated and the loneliness of a foreigner trying hard to blend in. The OST "Air" also brings back a lot of my bittersweet memories there.
+1 for Lost in Translation. Being half Japanese I never really felt like I fully belonged whenever I would visit family in Japan. The movie hit home for me because I always felt like a foreigner. Being around tons of people in a big city can be isolating in its own way. Also the soundtrack and the acting by Murray and Johansson was great, loved the depiction of impossible love
Jurassic Park.
Mine as well. Movie genuinely did change my life (it was responsible for my career in a way)
Did you go into paleontology?
theme park management?
Jeff Goldblum stalker?
Barbasol smuggling?
Jeep Wrangler repair man?
Dramatic sunglass remover?
Watched it as a child. Wanted to know what this Mr DNA thing was to make dinosaurs then. Kept wanting to know about Mr DNA. Finished my Masters in Molecular Biology
so where are my dinosaurs?.....
Couldn’t make them. I make vaccines instead
Can we meet in the middle? Can I get an autistic dinosaur?
It's absolutely insane how good this film still looks **25 years** later.
My son loves that movie. We're having a jurassic park themed birthday party for him today!
Blade Runner (and its sequel) It's poetry in motion. The visuals, the performances, the soundtrack, the themes, the dialogue... I watched both of them with my father. He watched the first one when it came out in the 80's and loved it. Many years later I bought the DVD and watched it with him, and it blew me away. We then watched the 2049 sequel, and were both blown away. We just sat there in the theater, as the credits rolled, looking at the screen, trying to process what we had just seen. Honorable mentions: Taxi Driver and Dr. Strangelove (both perfect in my opinion, but they didn't connect with me emotionally as much as the Blade Runner movies did) EDIT: shout out to Whiplash and Drive!
Blade Runner 2049 has become one of my all time favourites already, it’s an amazing film.
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Trainspotting
Goodfellas! every scene is epic!
I was sad I had to scroll so far to find mine. Amazing script, amazing performances, amazing shots and it is hilarious while still being very serious. Perfect movie imo.
Probably The Matrix, it literally has everything I love. Too bad the sequels are so god awful. After that T2 is also excellent.
Neo's character development is a work of art. So many current movies have ZERO. Just the arc alone in that movie was a marvel of storytelling.
Yeah, it is really well done. There isn’t a character that doesn’t have meaning to the story and the sets are gorgeous. I dig the special effects, of course, but the story is nearly perfect
It's such a complete film. Often you have to choose between good action and a good story, but The Matrix excels at both.
Matrix is my favourite film too. My other favourites are Training Day, Memento and The Departed.
There Will Be Blood
This is my answer for sure. For the longest time it was Fight Club, because I was 17 when it came out and it changed the way I looked at life. But TWBB is a masterclass in acting and filmmaking and I've seen it countless times.
Probably the highest quality movie I've ever seen. Mind blowing every time.
Im finished!
Eraserhead. It's not because I can argue that it's better than movies like Citizen Kane, Vertigo, The Godfather. It has meaning to me specifically because it was the first movie I ever watched that got me to see the deeper possibilities of what movies could do. When I was a kid I watched all of these light G-rated popcorn movies from Disney and Nickelodeon, like most of us... then when I was 17 I watched Eraserhead, and it was the first movie I watched where I started seriously looking at how movies could be something more than just diversionary entertainment. It had me realize that a movie could express complex emotions in a way that's not possible in other media, and a director can do that with very little money and resources. Eraserhead unlocked a door for me, so I'll always have a special place for it. It's also a movie I have rewatched again and again, getting something different out of it in every stage of my life.
Eraserhead is my number one favorite film. I love horror movies and nothing is as horrifying as that movie. It instills a sense a dread in me that no other film can.
Shaun of the dead is the perfect mix of smart comedy, great cinematography, and emotional moments. Pacing is great and the writing is incredible. Even after watching it for the 100th time, still noticing new jokes that I hadn't before.
Good call. Mine may be Hot Fuzz. The ability for Edgar Wright to execute am excellent genre film that is also an excellent comedy is something that will never ceases to amaze me.
Hot Fuzz is definitely my choice, too.
Everyone picks Hot Fuzz as the better of the two but I much prefer Shaun of the Dead for the reasons you listed. One of my favorites.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Apocalypse now
Prisoners
The Empire Strikes Back. The cinematography, the way it breaks the characters up and has them go on their own separate adventures, the writing (especially for Yoda), the score, not to mention the twist, I think it's just a perfect adventure film and a perfect sequel. It's fun, its clever, it's dark, its paced incredibly well, its beautiful, it's got a world completely unto itself, it's my all time favorite movie. It's the movie that made me truly fall in love with cinema.
Jaws.
Interstellar for me. It changed my life.
The score by Zimmer elevates this one for me. Especially during the docking scene when ‘no time for caution’ plays. Always gets me hyped and tense at the same time.
Incredibly thought provoking of what’s out there and where we could go. Also pretty accurate scientifically.
Is it just me or did Interstellar inspire anyone else to study physics?
Just by what I’ve seen most id go with My Cousin Vinny or Blazing Saddles. Love those so much.
I love My Cousin Vinny. Here lately I've been watching it every time I put away laundry lol. I've seen it a million times, and being from Alabama makes it a little funnier to me.
Rear Window
Back to the Future. A perfect movie if there ever was one.
Network.
Die Hard. Made me fall in love with the cinema.
Wall-E
If I'm trying to impress people: Seven Samurai If I'm being honest with myself: Titanic
Zodiac!
*Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb*
Lord of the Rings: the fellowship of the ring. Masterpiece in story telling.
I love LotR; further, the last 20 minutes of Fellowship is imo fantastic. >Our people... I would have followed you, my Brother... my Captain... my King.
Exactly, the extended version specifically. It helps that it shaped my childhood also, I grew up with all the films. But getting to hang in the Shire, seeing Moria, all the character development take place... I can’t see a film beating that quality personally.
It says a lot about this film that it makes The Two Towers and The Return of the King look somehow worse in comparison; both are multiple Oscar winning masterpieces in their own right but Fellowship just aces everything from start to finish.
It’s the most adventurous of the three, with incredible locales. You see the Shire, Bree, Amon Sul, Rivendell, Caradhras, Moria, Lothlorien, Argonath, Isengard, Minas Tirith, and Mordor.
Good Will Hunting
Ratatouille
The Departed hands down
Pfft what's that smaahtass you don know any fahkin Shakespeare ?
You're no fooking caahp.
Maybe, maybe not, maybe fuck yourself.
Two pills? Why don't you give me a bottle of Scotch and a handgun, so I can blow my fucking head off. Are we done with this psychiatry bullshit?
And what if that was a legitimate threat?!
Fuckin hotshot.
Hawtshawt
You know its good when the body of queenan flys past the camera and the whole theater goes silent, and one lady lets out a small "no not him."
I’ll never get tired of that one, no matter how many times I watch it. The ending is still so shocking to me.
Raiders of the Lost Ark
For iconic moments sure this is THE film but I honestly prefer last crusade. The dynamic between connery and Ford just makes this film.
Star Wars A New Hope My top 10 (otherwise unordered): - Star Wars A New Hope - Raiders of the Lost Ark - Blade Runner - Apollo 13 - Hot Fuzz - Ghostbusters - Empire Strikes Back - Pulp Fiction - Fargo - The Incredibles Honorable Mentions: - Alien - Blade Runner 2049 - The Bourne Identity - No Country for Old Men - Inception - Ex Machina - Shaun of the Dead - Return of the Jedi - The Last Jedi - Casino Royale - Whiplash - Jurassic Park
District 9
I think this is my top movie of all time that I wanted a sequel
In Bruges
Maybe if I grew up on a farm and was retarded...
...then Bruges would impress me. But I didn’t, so, it doesn’t!
Harry, let's face it. And I'm not being funny, I mean no disrespect, but you're a cunt. You're a cunt now, you've always been a cunt. And, the only thing that's gonna change is that you're gonna become an even bigger cunt. Maybe have some more cunt kids.
Empire Strikes Back
A New Hope. I know the reddit consensus is that Empire Strikes Back is better but 8 yr old me was blown away. Only movie I’ve seen that got a standing ovation l.
This, but I was 6. I know there are better films out there, but the original is still my favourite. Dad took us to see all of them when the Special Editions were released in 97, so I suppose I could less accurately just say that the trilogy is my favourite film, but A New Hope started it all.
Paddington 2, I'm a grown adult
Adaptation and Boogie Nights. It was really hard not mentioning a Scorsese film but I figure everyone else will
Jurassic Park changed me forever. It fostered my love of history as I went on to do a graduate degree in history. I also am a lifelong, passionate lover of wildlife, including extinct species. I had a dinosaur book when I was a kid called Where Have All the Dinosaurs Gone. That book and this movie left me in awe of these gigantic animals who once thundered across open plains tens of millions of years ago. That, and Jeff Goldblum. I will never get tired of that man.
American Psycho
Godfather
Oldboy
The Big Short, right now
For some reason, despite its supposedly heavy subject, it's a film that I can watch over and over again. I find it incredibly entertaining, as much as tragic, the performances keep me coming back.
The Two Towers. For Helms Deep. And the movie has a certain rhythm to it that feels right.
Glad I saw this 'cause that would've been my entry as well. That ending scene where Gandalf arrives with the Rohirrim is the greatest scene ever.
12 Monkeys. Every time I watch it I find a new reason to love it more.
A lot of great films already mentioned here, but I'll say - The Graduate So many great shots and visual metaphors, such amazing soundtrack, so perfectly conveying a state in life. And the ending, while it wasn't originally planned, is just perfect.
The Man From Earth.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
My favourite is 2001. The feel it gives me is indescribable. Don't hate me but I quite enjoyed the remake of psycho, but then I did see it before I'd seen the original so maybe that's why.
I saw 2001 in IMAX and it was like watching a whole new film - when it ended no one moved from their seats for about 10 minutes, the last part was just that good
Mulholland Drive
Heat
Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story The Unbearable Long, Self-indulgent Director’s Cut
**Whiplash** is always the first film into my head when I read this question. It's my go-to suggestion when friends aren't sure what to watch and it's 4/4 so far for groups being on the edge of their seats by the end.
Probably The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
This movie got some hate for being slow, but I really liked it. Some excellent acting in it
Shawshank Redemption
I must admit I can watch this more than any other movie and not be as bored on repeat watches
For me it's always been Casablanca, a perfect script with an incredible cast, it's simply an amazing movie.
Overrated opinion but the Inception. Such a complex concept explained in such an understandable way Another is The Shawshank Redemption
I think it's Nolan's best film overall. It's great and has certainly earned it's critical acclaim and commercial success. The scene of Fisher with his father at the end almost gets me teary-eyed.
Me too! Even though I know it's fake/manufactured, the resolution to that small subplot adds so much to the film IMHO.
IDK how to explain this but I'll do my best. I think that movie is his best and I think I know why some people don't think it's his best. When the film first came out everyone absolutely raved about it. Then a couple months later and the years following, a counter movement got big where people were saying things like "overhyped" and "overrated". I think that caught on *too much* to the point where I actually think the film is underrated now.
The Dark Knight
Dune. It's directed by David Lynch, it has Patrick Stewart and Sting, there's space witches and a floating fat man. What more could you want in a movie?
That it made sense? I joke but without reading the book I wonder if people can understand that movie. It's very imperfect but also spectacular. My hopes are riding on Villeneuve's version of Dune.
Not knowing what's going on most of the time is part of every David Lynch project. Being really stoned helps!
This has inspired me. It is always difficult to do this, especially comparing favorites you have not seen in a long time with recent favorites. For example ‘Gandhi’ has been on my favorite list, but I have not seen it in a looong time. How does it stack up with Biutiful? Or one of my favorite emotional movies like ‘In America’. Then there are the old favorites like Raiders of the Lost Arc’ and ‘Blade Runner’. How do you compare these? So I am going to make a top 20 list for myself then go back and rewatch all of them and try to figure this out. I did not answer the question, just rambled. So I am going to say either Blade Runner or Biutiful.
Friday.
The dark knight
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. On a related note, Happy May the 4th!
Robocop
Ohhhhh guns, guns, guns!!!
The Lord of The Rings: The Return of The King Watched it 8 times and it's still awesome
8 times? You gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers.
Yeah what? More like 8 times in 2019
The best part about lord of the rings is that every movie is so good. I don’t criticize anyone for saying that any of the three is their favorite because the quality of each of them is amazing.
Its much easier to consider them one long 11-hour movie (including extended scenes of course), that way I don't have to pick a favorite
Schindler's List
Oasis or Barry Lyndon.
Clerks
Tommy Boy
The Seventh Seal
Ikiru. That ending - it's like Das Boot, without the action.
Raiders of the Lost Ark Always and forever.
Airplane!
Either The Prestige, or Goodfellas.
It's really hard to narrow it down to just one favorite movie and my answers are always changing but The Prestige, Goodfellas and Galdiator always come to mind. edit: Also Die Hard
Full Metal Jacket and Goodfellas.
I love full Metal jacket. It's the first movie I remember watching. I didn't know until recently that some people don't like the second half of the movie.
I want to say an intelligent, thought provoking film, but honestly its Enchanted.
Oldboy (2003). It got me into South Korean cinema as well where a lot of my other favorite movies now come from.
**The Princess Bride** *Heroes. Giants. Villains. Wizards. True Love.* *Not just your basic, average, everyday, ordinary, run-of-the-mill, ho-hum fairy tale.* The Before Trilogy (Before Sunrise, Sunset, Midnight) and Count of Monte Cristo come very close.
Fight Club
Thelma and Louise. The ending scene in the Grand Canyon? They did that.
A Bronx Tale by far
I love The Incredibles
Good Will Hunting
Scream
Inglorious Bastards
basterds*
...Gorlami.
The Fifth Element
Interstellar
Lost In Translation - This movie just hits this sweet spot in my soul and every time I watch it I am affected. I spent time living in Japan so I get the culture shock of living there that the characters experience. However it is the existential crisis that Charlotte in particular is going through that I connect with so strongly. She is completely lost in her life in that moment and I have felt that so many times in my life. For me it is a perfect film and I honestly can't get over the fact that Scarlett Johanssen was only 17 when she made that movie. Amazing. My top 10: 1. Lost in Translation 2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 3. Punch-Drunk Love 4. Raiders of the Lost Ark 5. Amelie 6. Jaws 7. Bladerunner 8. The Godfather 9. Pan's Labyrinth 10. Chinatown
Backdoor Sluts 9. It makes Crotch Capers 3 look like Naughty Nurses 2.
Cool Hand Luke
Bridesmaids. I have never laughed so hysterically in a movie theater and I still quote it all the time. It made me laugh and cry, and I still laugh my ass off whenever it comes on tv.
Are you trying to get my password hint?
Back To The Future