All-Time Favorite Movies

[FireFeet]

Just because...let's all share our list of all-time favorite movies... !thumbsup!

MY LIST

~Cinderella (Disney, Rodgers and Hammerstein, The Slipper and The Rose, Ever After)
~Breakfast At Tiffany's
~Sabrina (1954)
~Mildred Pierce
~Wuthering Heights (1939)
~A Summer Story
~Shining Through
~Schindlers List
~Notorious
~The Final Countdown
~Phantom of the Opera (1925 and 2004)
~Amadeus
~Immortal Beloved
~Citizen Kane
~The Maltese Falcon
~The Big Sleep
~Braveheart
~Gladiator

ETA: I can't believe I forgot:
Point Of No Return
The Professional
The Red Violin

[BrotherDave]

1. "A Thief In the Night"
The Christian movie that scared to me salvation.

2. "The Passion of the Christ"
The movie that shook me back to His heart.

3. "Dennis The Menace"
When I saw it the second time, it was not that funny.
But the first time I saw it it fed my need to laugh so bad, I made a laughing specticle of myself in the theater.

4. "Jurassic Park I"
The movie's intensity kept me transported away to where I'd never been before, until Ihad to go home and tell my wife I'd just been fired.

5. "JC Superstar"
Now I see the movie as near blasphemy, but this unsaved 16 year old boy was spiritually shaken by the first image of Christ he'd have seen.

brotherdave

[MsSherry]

There are so many.

The Posiedon Adventure
The Outsiders
First Knight
Braveheart
Gladiator
Demetrius and the Gladiators
The Robe
The Ten Commandments
Ben-Hur
Most movies with Bette Davis
Vincent Price movies
Tons of old b/w's
Old Westerns (before the 60's-and NO Roy Rogers or any other "singing cowboys"-blech)
Dances with Wolves
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
Mobsters
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

There's just so many, but that's an idea... :eek:

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Not in order but Lord of the Rings is my favourite movie. Yes movie. One long movie in three parts.

Batman Begins
Spirited Away
Metroplolis
The Matrix
Minority Report
Lord of the Rings
The Incredibles
(original) Star Wars trilogy
Shrek 1 and 2
Monsters Inc
The Lion King
Jumanji

(That's some, I can't remember the rest. Its difficult to choose).

[AngelAzariah]

_____I'll probably be better off naming movies that I own, or still plan on collecting and have seen off the top of my head. Be warned, a good deal of these are rated "R", and one could be concidered a bad word but it was so dang funny!

Kill Bill I, Kill Bill II, Alian, Alians, Alians III, Alians Reserection, Alians VS Preditor, Preditor, Preditor II, Slayers, Slayers Next, Basterd!!!, Ghost in the Shell, Twilight of the Dark Master, Ghost in the Darkness, Saw, Blade I, Blade II, Blade III, Matrix I, Matrix II, Matrix III, Spirited Away, Tresure Island, Deep Blue Sea, Twister, Four Rooms, The Usual Suspects, Seven, Akira, Photon, All the Star Treks, most of the Star Wars, I think I own every last version of the Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings, Outlaw Star, The Maxx, Resident Evil, Resident Evil Apacolips, Excape from LA, Excape from New York, Die Hard, Die Hard: Die Harder, Die Hard: With a Vengiance, El Hazard, Tenchi Moyo, Polp Fiction, The Ultimit Silly Songs Collection, Mulaun, A Bugs Life, Monsters INC, Finding Nemo, Batman Begins, Batman, Batman Returns, Batman and Roben, and what was the other Batman Forever, Austin Powers (need to get all of those), Kiki's Delivery Service, Vampire Hunter D, The Last Sameri, All the Teenage Mutaint Ninja Turtals, The Born Identity, The Born Supremicy, Gladiator, Underworld, VanHellsing, Hellsing, Ligaly Blond, Legaly Blond 2, Miss Conginality, Miss Conginality 2, Anger Manigment, Pirats of the Caribian, Swat, Gone in 60 Seconds, Bio Dome, The Count Of Manicristo, Henry V, Dune, Fugitive, Murder By Numbders, The Rescuers, The Rescuers Downunder, the first and only good Land Before Time, The Secret Of NIM, Cats Can't Dance, The Last Starfighter, Condorman, GI Jane, all the Jurasic Parks, The Pinapple Story, Escaflona, Fith Element, Silance of the Lambs, Hannible, I'd like to get the compleat series of Futerama, I can't wait to see Doom (loved the old pixal games), Robin Hood (disny version), Robin Hood men in tights, MontiPithon The Holy Grail, Interview with a Vampire, Rain Of Fire, Constintain, Sound of Music, Dr. Dolitl the musical (in my openion the best version) but I do own all the others, My Fair Lady, The Mupits Christmas Charil, The Orginal Charly and the Choclet Factory, Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hallow, Ocians 11, Ocians 12, The Saint, Tron...

_____Ok, that's off the top of my head. :D Now imagian if I gave it a good long thought. I guess you could say I'm into every form of movie that is out there. I think I own over half of these movies.

[waterfallbooks]

Pirates of the Caribbean
The Italian Job
Ocean's 11
Ever After
Shrek
Rigaletto
The Sound of Music
Star Wars
The Princess Bride
Behind Enemy Lines
many more

Also can't wait for the upcoming Narnia film.

[DrRita]

Lord of the Rings
Pirates of the Carribean
Fried Green Tomatoes
A Beautifu Mind
Titanic
Joshua
Hildago
The Last Samuarai
Quigley Down Under
The Patriot
Gladiator
Crouching Tiger-Hidden Dragon
The Wizard of Oz
King Arthur
Tombstone
Young Frankenstein
Bettlejuice
Indepencence Day
Men In Black (first one only)
Star Wars (all six)
Star Trek (The first four or five)
Benny an Joon
Amistad
Anne of Green Gables (all of them)
Fiddler on the Roof
The Hiding Place
Kingdom Come
East of Eden
Rebel Without a Cause
Lost in Space
Missing
The Last of the Mohicians
Stargate (the first movie)
The Killing Fields
Hook
The Money Pit
The Man in the Iron Mask
almost all of the Disney animation
. . . and I know there are many more, I just can't think of them.

[Diannecp]

The Princess Bride
Finding Forrester
Catch Me If You Can
Bandits

to name a few!

[FireFeet]

Nifty lists! !thumbsup!

Golly Angel...do you like movies? :eek: :)

BroDave...I enjoyed reading your comments. Amazing the impacts movies can have on us, eh?

Dr Rita...you mentioned that you like animated films. Ever see "The Iron Giant"? Wow...that was good! And what about "Ice Age"...that was FUNNY!

Although I wouldn't include most of them in my all-time favorite lists...I love historical dramas.."Elizabeth," "Cleopatra," "Kingdom of Heaven," "The Patriot," "Troy," "Luther."

I also really like all the recent movies based on Classic Literature. And I very much enjoy Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare films!

This is fun! :cool:

[DrRita]

Firefeet,
I haven't seen Iron Giant . . . why, I don't know. But I loved Ice Age and Antz and A Bug's Life and Aladdin and . . . the list goes on. I loved Finding Nemo !thumbsup! I got hooked on them when my boys were small. You mentioned Elizabeth and The Kingdom of Heaven. I enjoyed those also. I love the Shakespeare productions. I think they're great. He was certainly a master, especially of comedy.

[Merry]

There's lot's of movies I like:Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and JUrassic Park...all of them and Beauty and the Beast and I dunno...stufff....

[ArizonaWriterBJ]

Hmm...interesting question. I'm more a TV series person than a movie person because I don't like one shot wonder characters plus movie theater movies rarely come out that meet my criteria in terms of acceptable content.

That said, my all time favorite movie theater movie is Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan. Outstanding script (with the bonus of having some of my favorite characters!).

Others (either film or tv movies) are:

Ride Lonesome (don't know why Randoph Scott was so popular but Pernell Roberts is to die for!)
All Roy Rogers movies
All Lassie movies
Wizard of Oz
City Slickers (the first one)
Star Trek IV

[MysticFire]

What's sad....I've either seen or heard most all the movies on there. Especially Angel's list. Some up there I don't think were mentioned....

Dune
Children of Dune
I Am Sam
Long Kiss Goodnight
Gone in 60 seconds
Liar Liar
Dragonheart
Dragonheart-A New Beginning
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
The Mummy
The Mummy Returns
Pitch Black
Chronicles of Riddick
Hitch
Hide and Seek
Taken (Mini series ^_^)
Alias (It's a series....but I've seen 1-3 seasons...it's an addiction)
The Musketeer
Spanglish
Terminator 1,2,3
Left Behind (First one was horrible, second one was a little better)
(I've seen movies based on Mary Higgins Clark books....I suggest you don't see them)



Trust me, if I was in a movie store, I could take you what I've seen and liked, what I want to see, and what I suggest you don't see. I love action, sci-fic, and some history movies. ^_^

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

How could I forget Luther? That was an awesome movie. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was very good. For tv series my favourites are:

Black Books
24 (all)
Alias
Lost
The Pretender
Spellbinder
The 4400

stuff like that

[BrotherDave]

I'm watching "Situation Comedy" on Bravo right now.
Avery insightful look in to how a situation comedy comes together.
As a writer who dreams of creating a sitcom (Mine was one of 10,000 scripts in the pile) it really brings the challenge to life.

brotherdave

[MysticFire]

4400! How could I forget that, I love that series! And Everwood, is pretty good. First season was funny. Sarcastic doctor, another purposely trying to get on his nerves, cynical teenager....Kind of makes you take a funny look on reality. ^_^ Ain't seen all of it though...>.> And I've seen only the end of one episode of Lost....

[wgjones3]

Movies:

A Beautiful Mind
A Night to Remember
American Graffiti
Blade Runner: The Director's Cut
Cassablanca
Citizen Kane
Collateral
Days of Thunder / Top Gun (they're basically the same movie)
Entrapment
Fast and the Furious
Gladiator
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
Gone with the Wind
Hitch
Indiana Jones and the Last Crucade
Joshua
King Kong (1933)
Migiddo: The Omega Code II
Molly
Napoleon Dynomite
Office Space
Psycho (1967)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rebel Without a Cause
S.W.A.T.
Saving Private Ryan
Seven
Spider Man
Spider Man 2
Stroker Ace
The Birds
The Cable Guy
The Green Mile
The Mask
The Notebook
The Patriot
The Ring (1999)
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shining (1979)
The Sixth Sense
The Truman Show
Titanic (1997)
Tucker: The Man and his Dream
Twelve Monkeys
U-571
Unbreakable (though I just saw it last night)
We Were Soldiers
Without a Paddle
WIzard of Oz
X-Men


TV Shows:

Boomtown
The Shield
Rescue Me
Night Court


Honorable Mention: The Passion of the Christ. Such a powerful experience, I find it hard to trivialize it by adding it to my favorites. It isn't a movie I'll put in when I'm bored. I watch it whenever I feel led, whenever I feel the need to. Cinimatically, though, I think this is the best film I've ever seen. I remember watching it for the first time and thinking, "This is what I need to be doing with my writing".

[DrRita]

Movies:


Honorable Mention: The Passion of the Christ. Such a powerful experience, I find it hard to trivialize it by adding it to my favorites. It isn't a movie I'll put in when I'm bored. I watch it whenever I feel led, whenever I feel the need to. Cinimatically, though, I think this is the best film I've ever seen. I remember watching it for the first time and thinking, "This is what I need to be doing with my writing".


I agree totally. It's in a class of its own. I have tried to watch it several times but it's not a casual movie. Like you said, WG, you have to be LED to watch it. !thumbsup!

[ProfessorAlan]

LOTR trilogy
First Star Wars trilogy
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Passion of the Christ
Memento
Say Anything
This is Spinal Tap
High Fidelity
About A Boy
Sixth Sense
The Hunt for Red October
Field of Dreams

And {I hope I can add this one in a few months . . . } The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

[ProfessorAlan]

I'm watching "Situation Comedy" on Bravo right now.
Avery insightful look in to how a situation comedy comes together.


REALLY interesting look at the role of writers in the process, and how the whole creative process that is TV works.

[kilohertz]

Singin' in the Rain- not including the Gene Kelly interlude
On the Town- FANTASTIC except for the Gene Kelly interlude
Wizard of Oz- no Gene Kelly at all
High Society- (Musical of Philadelphia Story with ever-charming crooner Bing Crosby-
BTW-includes only Gold Record Grace Kelly ever received, well worth seeing)
Fried Green Tomatoes
Steel Magnolias- I still cry every time I see Sally Field lose it at the end

Just thought I'd add my two cents...

kilohertz

[wgjones3]

I forgot all about Fight Club and .... um, I forgot the name the other movie I was gonna mention. Duh! Oh yeah. It was Alex & Emma.

[agentangel]

Jesus of Nazareth
The Burbs (HYSTERICAL!!!)
K-9 movies
Snow Dogs
Muppets movies
Scrooged
She-Devil
Michael
The Cutting Edge
The Christmas Path
Charlie Brown holiday movies
Moving
National Lampoon Vacation (Wally World)
White Fang
Problem Child 2
Independence Day
Forrest Gump
Beaches
Sister Act
Sister Act2
One Magic Christmas
Halloweentown
and about a million others!

[dhparker]

Gotta put in a vote for The Kid Brother (silent, 1927) with Harold Lloyd. I think Lloyd's the most amazing actor ever and this is his very best.

Also on my list:
The Muppets Treasure Island and Christmas Carol
Harvey with Jimmy Stewart
Arsenic and Old Lace
Miracle on 34th Street (original version)

as for modern films,
The Lord of the Rings was great as far as film-making was concerned, the story in the books is much, much better. I don't really watch many modern movies, though.

donna

[paulchernoch]

I've forgotten so many! Your lists helped me remember some.

Lord of the Rings
Ben-Hur
(original) Star Wars trilogy
Camelot
Doctor Zhivago
Lawrence of Arabia
Spirited Away
Princess Mononoke
Castle in the Sky
The Matrix
Passion of the Christ
Braveheart
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Patriot
Tron
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Frequency
Minority Report
Blade Runner
Sound of Music
Mary Poppins
Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang
Grease
Spiderman 1
X-men 1 & 2
Silent Running
Logan's Run
Back to the Future
Batman Begins
A Day at the Races
Master and Commander
Labyrinth
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
Behind Enemy Lines
Black Hawk Down
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (original)
The Sixth Sense
The Others
Rollerball (the original)
I am David
Edges of the Lord
Identity
Goldfinger
Andromeda Strain
Field of Dreams
Jason and the Argonauts
Winged Migration

- Paul

[xhalestarz]

I like movies too much
I can't vouch for the content of all of these movies, my husband and I enjoyed CleanFilms.com an online dvd rental (slower than Netflix tho) that edited films, so we got to enjoy a lot of funny movies we wouldn't have watched otherwise. That said...

I'm a suck for superhero filsm. My favorites are:
Batman Begins (I got to see it in the drive-in twice, so fun!)
Xmen (both movies)

Bourne Identity and Supremecy

I like Ocean's 11 a lot, though maybe I shouldn't like a movie about theives...

Pirates of the Carribbean
Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter (I admit it!)

Mulan

Funny movies:
Hitch
Mean Girls (both of these we watched from CleanFilms)
Sister Act ( I love it! Made my husband watch it the other day bc he'd never seen it...
he didn't want to, but he really liked it too!)

Importance of Being Earnest
Much Ado About Nothing
Nero Wolfe (TV show used to be on AE adapted from Rex Stouts' books)

More, I'm sure
ok... *sigh*... back to Nano...

[stjamesfan]

Let's see...favorite movies:

To Kill a Mockingbird
Born into Brothels (a documentary)
Millions
Ghostbusters I and II
The Emperor's New Groove
Shaun of the Dead

[Hazelrah]

I watch soo many movies... Here's a few that I liked:

The Ten Commandments, The Passion of Christ, Sparticus, Beyond Borders, Lora Croft: Tombraider (1+2), Gone in Sixty Seconds, I, Robot, Rush Hour(1+2), The Mask of Zorro, Legend of Zorro, The Rock (Sean Connery), Troy, Beauty and the Beast, Hercules, Mulan, Enemy of the State, Instinct, Ray, Finding Forrester, The Aviator, Around the World in 80 Days, Ever After (Drew Barrymore), Never Been Kissed, Hitch, Hero (Jet Li), Musa the Warrior, Legend of the Drunken Master (Jackie Chan), What Women Want, Supercop (Jackie Chan), Ben Hur, Spiderman (1+2), The Hunt for the Red October, Ice Age, Watership Down, The Incredibles, all the Pokemon movies, Princess Mononoke, Face/Off, The Great Escape, Citizen Kane, The Pink Panther, Batman Begins.... and more....

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Some of my favourites are: the original Star Wars trilogy, Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Luther, Spirited Away (anime), Nausicaa (anime) Laputa: Castle in the Sky (anime), Jumanji, Batman Begins (so good!), The Lion King, Mulan, Shrek 1 and 2, Pirates of the Carribean, The Incredibles, Napoleon Dynamite and The Rocketeer. But I have many others also (including various Jackie Chan's: Who Am I? is my favourite of those I've seen) and The Indiana Jones movies (minus the cult scene in The Temple of Doom).

I can't say I enjoyed Passion of the Christ but it was a very powerful and moving experience.
Shaun of the Dead was very very funny but there was too much language for me to add it to my (recommended) favourites. It is a classic though and very British!