Favourite Film

[Frances144]

What is your most favourite film, ever?

Mine?  Logan's Run.

[sandyman]

No contest!!!

Casablanca  

I really can't remember how many times I've watched it

Sandy

[Jack W]

I have several:

Dances With Wolves - lush photography, beautiful scenery, excellent musuc, tremendously done!

To kill a Mockingbird - excellent acting!

Slumdog Millionaire - a real eye opener with excellent child acting and outstanding sound track

Once Upon a Time in the West - also excellent sound track and story

Pirates of the Carribean - swashbucling fun and beautiful women and blockbuster sound tracks

Lord of the Rings - more excellent sound tracks with great cinematography

But a few of my favorites - you probably noticed that I like to turn up the volume!

[sandyman]

QUOTE(Jack W @ Dec 13 2013, 02:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I have several:

Dances With Wolves - lush photography, beautiful scenery, excellent musuc, tremendously done!

To kill a Mockingbird - excellent acting!

Slumdog Millionaire - a real eye opener with excellent child acting and outstanding sound track

Once Upon a Time in the West - also excellent sound track and story

Pirates of the Carribean - swashbucling fun and beautiful women and blockbuster sound tracks

Lord of the Rings - more excellent sound tracks with great cinematography

But a few of my favorites - you probably noticed that I like to turn up the volume!

If you like to turn up the volume try Spinal Tap. You can go all the way to 11 with it  

Sandy

[jwboyd]

Places in the Heart

[jchuzi]

By category:

COMEDY:

Young Frankenstein
Airplane
Some Like It Hot
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
The Great Race

DRAMA:

The Hustler
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (Charles Laughton)
Jane Eyre (Orson Welles)
A Tale Of Two Cities (Ronald Colman)
Oliver Twist (Alec Guinness)

SCI-FI:

The Day The Earth Stood Still
Terminator (all three films in the series)
Star Wars (the first three)

SHAKESPEARE:

The Merchant Of Venice (Al Pacino)
Julius Caesar (Marlon Brando)
The Taming Of The Shrew (Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor)
Much Ado About Nothing (Kevin Branagh, with Michael Keaton upstaging everyone)

FANTASY:

Superman I and II (Christopher Reeve)
Batman series (Michael Keaton)

GUILTY PLEASURES:

Sheena (Tanya Roberts; not the world's worst actress but close!)
Thor
Green Lantern

[krissel]

"It's a Wonderful Life"

One other that pops up... "Groundhog Day"

Of course there are the grandiose visual and historical films but I tend to gravitate to those simple ones with an uplifting moral compass.

[dboh]

If you like to turn up the volume try Spinal Tap. You can go all the way to 11 with it  


Is that with or without the tiny Stonehenge?

[dboh]

[quote name='jchuzi' date='Dec 13 2013, 01:26 PM' post='198255']

I loved Branagh's Hamlet and also Titus with Anthony Hopkins.

I hated reading Shakespeare in high school. I could not figure out what they were saying. But when I see it performed, Shakespeare's amazing! I remember in the early days of Fox, they ran a 2-part production of King Lear with Olivier. Pity they didn't stick to that kind of programming.

[jchuzi]

dboh,

I had the same experience with Shakespeare. Reading the dialog is NOT the same as hearing the words spoken by skilled actors. And, I was much too young in Junior High and High School to understand the thoughts being expressed, not to mention the language. In Julius Caesar (mentioned in my post above), Brando plays Marc Antony. The "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" speech is a total tour-de-force and an absolute revelation. Brando's Antony drips with sarcasm, wit, and calculated self-deprecation. It's brilliant.

[RobW]

Well, off the top of my head--and I'm sure I'll think of a few others later--Shawshank Redpemption, Godfather I and II; and many more--but given that we've seen about 2 movies in the last couple of years, I'm not really "current." Oh--guilty pleasure might be My Cousin Vinny.

[Thomas S. England]

Gotta put in a vote for "O Brother, Where Art Thou"