As the title says; what it your favorite movie of all time.
If you have a favorite line, a quote, a scene, an actor/actress, whatever! then we want to hear about it.
I have two favorite movies.
One is The Matrix
I love this movie because it really gets you thinking for a minute, and the special effects are out of this world. In all, I thought it was a great trilogy.
My number two is Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
I watch this movie time and time again. I guess I grew up with it. It's an all time classic.
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My favorite actors are Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep, John Malkovich, Johnny Depp, and Emma Thompson. And for comedy, Jack Black.
lol, I was hungry to begin with though!
Ray Kurzweil suggests that we will untimately merge with our technology -- that it has already begun, in fact. Technology, he states, is evolution by other means. If he's right, we'll all be living in what amounts to a "matrix" of our own making by the end of the century. The only differences are that it will be (a) voluntary (b) We won't actually have bodies (other than virtual bodies) -- except those we choose to manifest at will (c) Humans and machines will not be at odds, but will merge and become something greater than either is today.
#2 -- Total Recall
The ideas of being able to experience things that we didn't actually do, change our personalities, etc. are very intriguing -- though also a little scary. Also, it involves a colony on Mars -- and, well, that's one of my major interests. And, well, I love Arnold, what can I say? Love his movies, and his alternative energy leadership.
3 way tie :)
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop & look around once in a while, you could miss it".
"You can't respect someone who kisses your ass - it just doesn't work".
I always wanted to be Ferris Bueller...lol
Camron: 'What did I do, what did I do?'
Ferris: 'You killed the car'.
LMAO
Chunk does the Truffle Shuffle
Too funny!!!
Trainspotting, Commitments, Blinkende lygter (A Danish one).. There's too many... I can't choose.
BTW - I would suggest seeing SiCKO! I really didn't like Michael Moore's previous two flicks because they were pretty half-truthed and didn't really make a point about what needs to be done, but this one really hits a nail on the head!
Georgie - I'm definitely gonna check out The Fountain!!
Georgie - I'm definitely gonna check out The Fountain!!
Twelve Angry Men, The Sixth Sense, The Third Man, American Beauty
Other favorites from the past are of course The Matrix but also TRON, Hackers and Star Wars (all of them).
Most recently we just went and saw The Transformers Movie which I thought was very good and really enjoyed it. Parts of it were not what I expected and not as great as all the hype, but overall a good movie. Evan Almighty is another that I thought was very funny and a good movie to go see. Not really something you would want to take small children to see though due to some of the language in it but overall not bad. I would give it 3.5 stars out of 5 if I had to rate it.
It kind of makes it feel more like Christmas when it's on!
Top 2 movies:
Fight Club, Donnie Darko, okay I too have to add another: Requiem for a Dream.
Not sure if thats the EXACT quote but you get the idea. Close enough. ;)
Too many great movies, great actors. Steve McQueen. Sean Connery in "The Hill"? Two Lane Blacktop. EasyRiders. Barfly, Mickey Rourke. James Dean in the short time he had him.........my mind wanders off into memory lane.
harmonica......as he converses with the 3 gunslingers who are in front of him instead of frank
Harmonica: And Frank?
Snaky: Frank sent us.
Harmonica: Did you bring a horse for me?
Snaky: Well... looks like we're... [snickers]
Snaky: ...looks like we're shy one horse.
Harmonica: You brought two too many.
The Ninth Configuration
Col. Vincent Kane: In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the ninth configuration. But given the size of the planet Earth, do you know how long it would have taken for just one of these protein molecules to appear entirely by chance? Roughly ten to the two hundred and forty-third power billions of years. And I find that far, far more fantastic than simply believing in God.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/T...mu-Yamazaki/dp/6305154880
Favourite line: " I wonder what all the poor people are doing tonight" .
Wonderful satire on USA attempt at world dominance - set in Scotland. Local
native cunning triumphs over American mega oil companies' corporate arrogance. Stunning scenery, wonderful sunsets, dialogue encompassing both humour and compassion with slightly surrealist moments. Loads of lovely familiar Scottish actors of all ages are just perfect in their character roles, plus Burt Lancaster playing both arrogant oil company boss and literally starstruck amateur astronomer.
As a Scottish/English family we can mouth the lines as soon as we hear the musical soundtrack by Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits. Even now, the noise of a badly tuned moped roaring by any country road can evoke happy memories of this wonderful film. Beg, borrow or hire a DVD and you will love it.
2. "The Quiet American" - film of Graham Greene's 1955 novel set in Saigon. Starring Michael Caine (He is THE man: "The Italian Job" etc). Background of western (mainly USA) military response to the perceived communist threat in Indo-China played out as a love story triangle between a dissolute English journalist and his young rival, the CIA activist, for a beautiful Vietnamise girl who longs for marriage as an escape from her war-torn country. For me this is so well filmed - and the sounds and views are so evocative of my more recent memories of S.E.Asia. (Though I was never there in the period, but as a child of the military, nearby soon after.)
im going to have to look those up! they sound like my kind of movies :)
grazie!
To all - I have belatedy realised that both these films appear to be anti- American, but they're not really - that's just the dramatic background. The stories are concerned with the universal themes of greed, jealousy, and power. Both films show the frailty and pettiness of human desires - in one case when compared to the beauty and awe of nature; and the other when set against a campaign of terror and suffering.
why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be. You need people like me.
You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers, and say "that's
the bad guy." So, what'll that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know
how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the
truth... even when I lie. So say goodnight to the bad guy. Come on. The last
time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you.
Scarface
It's just pure violent, but a modern day classic, in my opinion!
Just for starters!!
Best quote, If you're gonna shoot, shoot! dont talk!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5sJ5kwGY0g
Also- Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) 1964 - another strange film, in which all the dialogue is sung. But it's not the usual sort of musical or opera with staged set pieces. It runs in the usual narrative sequence. Starring a young and very beautiful Catherine Deneuve. The title is the name of the shop which Catherine Deneuve's character's mother owns. The story is slight, a bittersweet lovestory. But with the pervading social/moral background typical of the period ( late 1950s/early sixties). In fact the story reminds me slightly of A Summer Place ( 1959) starring Sandra Dee, who had a passing fresh-faced resemblance to Deneuve.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyNMcrXqe4g
I am going to sit at home for the next few months and watch them all...
*L
2. Serenity (to be seen after the Firefly series)
3. er.... that's it
Wonderful theme music too. I have only ever seen this film on TV. And did not understand it for years. Curiously it's terrible theme has a resonance in modern day with the big drug companies and Africa.
Possibly the most famous scene is the one on the ferris wheel with the villain, played by Orson Welles, talking about the Swiss:
" In 500 yrs of democracy and peace and what have they produced: the cuckoo clock".