What is your favorite movie of all time?

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Arsenic and Old Lace. There’s something about that movie that just tickles my (dark) funny bone. And it really is priceless to see Cary Grant just about mugging for the cameras. And Peter Lorre as the sidekick doctor… “No, Johnny, don’t brag…you’ve got 12…they’ve got 12.” That’s a reference to the murder victims each one has.
 
I can’t find where I posted in this before, but it’s on my list. Whatever my previous vote was, I want to change it to anything by Hayao Miyazaki. I maintain an ebert-ish list of what I consider great movies and three of the four of his I have seen are on there.
 
GWTW - ONLY on a movie screen. It, like Titanic, can only be appreciated in a dark theater with a large screen.
 
Tombstone
The Burbs
What About Bob
Ace Ventura
A Time to Kill
Napoleon Dynamite
Passion of the Christ
 
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Chronicles of Narnia
Frequency
The Passion of the Christ (but that’s more of an experience than a movie --)
and The Tenth Kingdom, which I’ve seen 6 or 7 times. People either love it or think it’s a total waste of time. It lasts 7 hours, and is for people who love fairy tales like Grimm’s. (Not for kids under 13)
 
One, well two, movies that I always stop to watch when channel surfing are The Godfather Parts I and II. Incredible. 'nuf said!

Debbie
 
I can’t say that this is my favorite movie, but it certainly gives me a good laugh: Tommy Boy!
 
Gone With the Wind or How to Marry A Millionaire or Life With Father. all three of my favorites I could watch a hundred times a day.
 
A Man For All Seasons. Paul Scofield’s performance of St. Thomas More makes me shiver and want to be like this guy!!!

Waking Ned Devine. My favorite light-hearted, all-around good comedy. I want to live in a village like this…it’s altogether too charming.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley. I saw this just this summer in Ireland and I wish that it were being shown in the US. It’s a well-done movie about the Irish civil war and although it’s extremely violent, it really makes a person ask the tough questions about loyalties.
 
My favorites:

The Day the Earth Stood Still
Still the best sci-fi movie ever made.

The Wizard of OZA classic, of course.

LabyrinthIn the mold of OZ, and with a younger Jennifer Connelly.

CarrieThe classic “mean girls” movie, and perhaps a little prophetic.

A Beautiful MindBecause I study mathematics, and this film is with an older Jennifer Connelly.

Two Mules for Sister SaraI really do not like Shirley MacLaine, but I did like this one. Did you know she got top billing OVER Clint Eastwood on this one?

PattonTwo reasons:
1) This great line: “The last great opportunity of a lifetime - an entire world, at war and I’m left out of it? God, will not permit this to happen - I will be allowed, to fulfil my destiny. His will be done.”
  1. Patton praying my favorite psalm - Psalm 63 ("… Those who seek my soul, to destroy it, they shall go into the lower parts of the Earth …")
I am sure there are more, but that sums up my favorites.

MT
 
The Best Years of Our Lives. Whenever it is on, I am compelled to watch it even if I have to stay up into the wee hours. The part that always gets me is when Homer asks Wilma to watch him get ready to go to bed. He takes off his “hooks” (he lost his lower arms in WWII) and tells her how helpless he is without them. He tells her to leave him like her family wants, but she is not fazed and tells him she loves him and he finally realizes that she still does. They kiss and he finally doesn’t draw away from her and puts one of his stumps around her and her face lights up with love. It makes me sob every time.
 
Oooooh. No way to just pick one, but if I had to it would be “It’s a Wonderful Life.” But I do have other favorites:

Star Wars: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back & Return of the Jedi
The Sting
West Side Story
Waking Ned Devine
Apollo 13
The Princess Bride
That Thing You Do
The King and I
The Hunt for Red October
A Man for All Seasons
Braveheart
Hoosiers
Babe
Ben Hur
 
In order: Jesus of Nazareth,then the Passion of the Christ,the trilogy of Lord of the Rings,and the exorcist.

Cheers,
Aleks.
 
OK, some of my top picks in no order (a more specific answer than before and likely changed since this was first posted):

Rashomon—finest film on the nature of truth ever made
Grave of the Fireflies—If you watch this and display no emotion, you have no heart
Citizen Kane—Possibly the most influential drama of all time
The Thin Man—Compare this film to to modern comedies. I rest my case.
Spirited Away—Together with Grave of the Fireflies, proof of the power of animation to do more than distract kids
Dances with Wolves—Lost count of my number of viewings of this
Chinatown—Noir at its peak
Tae Guk Gi—Korean film, about the Korean war, with nary an American in sight. First war movie I saw to top Saving Private Ryan
The Indiana Jones trilogy—is overcome by rampant fandom and cannot type comments
My Neighbor Totoro—Happiest film ever made. Hands down.
Dr. Strangelove—Funniest film ever made
 
ChemicalBean said:
Waking Ned Devine. My favorite light-hearted, all-around good comedy. I want to live in a village like this…it’s altogether too charming.
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I love that one, too 🙂

More favorites:

The Dish
Signs
Kolya
Amelie
Whale Rider
The Others
Dave
 
Wow, of those movies The Dish is Australian, Nicole Kidman (Aussie) is in The Others, Mel Gibson (semi-Aussie) is in Signs and Whale Rider is New Zealander.

Looks like you’ve got a thing for our part of the world 👍
 
LilyM said:
Wow, of those movies The Dish is Australian, Nicole Kidman (Aussie) is in The Others, Mel Gibson (semi-Aussie) is in Signs and Whale Rider is New Zealander.

Looks like you’ve got a thing for our part of the world 👍
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You’ve got me pegged, Lily 🙂

Although I’ve never visited (sure hope to someday, though!), I’ve always had a fascination with Australia.

I was actually considering emigrating there, until I found out that Aus is the spider capital of the world! Funnel web, huntsman, yikes! And I know the huntsman is a “good guy” spider, but still … if I saw that climbing around my walls … :bigyikes:

And New Zeland has the weta :bigyikes:

/sigh

(Yes, I am the world’s biggest insectophobe :o )
 
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