General / Off-Topic What is your favorite movie and why?

Twex

T
Fifth Element - there is no why, its just 100% awesomeness!
Coming in second would be Dune (directors cut), followed closely by Aliens (also directors cut), and next would be Army Of Darkness!.
I can really watch any of those over and over.
 

Hexen

Hexen
Just one? That would be hard...

Well, let's say this one. Moebius. It's a 1996 film about missing train. It's simple yet complicated film that raise many questions about how we percieve world around us.


[video=youtube_share;NwNWe-GNzxs]http://youtu.be/NwNWe-GNzxs[/video]
 
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Andy Kappa

Andy Kappa
Just one? Good grief; I can't do just one! There's been so many great movies this year alone! IMHO we are in a Golden Age of cinema right now, and it's a great time to be a movie fan.

The closest I could ever get would be 'Oh Brother Where Art Thou?' (which I seem to keep coming back to and never tire of):

'(I am a) Man of Constant Sorrow'

Another one that seems destined to follow this into my canon would be 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'

You're under arrest'

Or what about this one?

'Could machines ever think as humans do?'


I could go on like this all day as it happens...
 

Patrick_68000

Patrick_68000
Impossible for me to answer this question. There are several films which could be my favorite movie. In addition there are, surely, excellent films, that I saw 20 years ago and that I do not have in mind at this moment
 

Count Iblis

Count Iblis
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Inspired , thought provoking, deep, tragic, great sound track.

Don't let the cast put you off- this isn't typical Hollywood and its not really a love story. It's a story of possibilities and alternative realities.

The sequels were pathetic- and Hollywoods attempt to try to cash in on a film they never really sanctioned in the beginning until it became successful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cz2Wn2-Aeo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGmVezpzO0I
 

Surfinjo

Surfinjo
Count Iblis said:
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Inspired , thought provoking, deep, tragic, great sound track.

Don't let the cast put you off- this isn't typical Hollywood and its not really a love story. It's a story of possibilities and alternative realities.

The sequels were pathetic- and Hollywoods attempt to try to cash in on a film they never really sanctioned in the beginning until it became successful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cz2Wn2-Aeo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGmVezpzO0I
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I'd heard of that movie but couldn't place it until I found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butterfly_Effect

At the time, I didn't fancy the movie much at the time because I don't have a lot of regard for the so called butterfly effect, (it's hooey) and even less for the populist interpretation of it.

But after reading that resume and seeing a few clips, it looks interesting. I might keep an eye out for it.
 

Count Iblis

Count Iblis
Surfinjo said:
I'd heard of that movie but couldn't place it until I found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butterfly_Effect

At the time, I didn't fancy the movie much at the time because I don't have a lot of regard for the so called butterfly effect, (it's hooey) and even less for the populist interpretation of it.

But after reading that resume and seeing a few clips, it looks interesting. I might keep an eye out for it.
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I agree in that the actual idea of the butterfly effect I dont agree with, I don't think the concept of human relationships is catastrophic and so hyper sensitive like that but I still thought the film was very thought provoking and deep. That in itself is very rare these days
 

pakratna

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Three idiot
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Monarch Black

Monarch Black
There are many up around my top spot based on how often I've watched them: Star Wars, LOTR, Braveheart, Spaceballs, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, etc. I have to say, probably my favorite is V for Vendetta. It is smartly written with a large vocabulary and great monologues, complex political / religious themes to consider, a grey-area hero / anti-hero that you have to think about are his motives good or bad, and some nice action scenes. Hugo Weaving is always great and I think this is one of Natalie Portman's best rolls (not counting artsy fartsy rolls like Black Swan). She certainly threw herself at it. I'm not in Anonymous or any anarchist movements or anything, but I can always sit down and watch this movie.

Fantastic use of the letter V (and yes, I've seen it enough I know the whole thing):
[video=youtube_share;IQyqx1K495U]http://youtu.be/IQyqx1K495U[/video]
 

Doggie

Doggie
Tricky. I've seen hundreds of films and a clear favourite is really hard. My favourite SF film is most likely Star Trek II : The Wrath of Khan (because it was the opposite of what a Star Trek film was conceived to be at the time - most likely because the Writer/Director Nick Meyer hadn't seen any Trek before so didn't have Any preconceptions about what a Trek film should be like). My favourite non-SF film would probably be Hudson Hawk, which hardly anyone has ever seen (it has everything you could want in a film - over acting from Richard E Grant, a clever and slightly mad plot, and Bruce Willis having a good time in a film for a change). Ooh, and Sneakers was good as well (the Robert Redford film).
 
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