What's your favorite movie?🍿

[Cruciferi]

My favorite movie certainly isn’t Last Jedi. Maybe it’s The Postman…

 

[tawny]

Great movie with great screen writing & perfect cast.

 

[7_Sorrows]

With Kevin Costner? That was a little strange to me.

 

[Cruciferi]

Critics say that the beginning was good then it lost its way. Pretty much likely Last Jedi!

 

[Milt]

The Last Jedi is not on my “to watch” list, as I am totally burnt out on the Star Wars genre.

 

[ConstantLearner]

The Philadelphia Story
Sunset Boulevard
Laura
(I am a classic movie fan)

 

[lilypadrees]

Anything Biblical and Catholic.

 

[Entwhistler]

Off the top of my head, one would be “Twelve Angry Men” with Henry Fonda.

 

[Cruciferi]

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[Autumn-Smoke]

At this time of year I love watching ‘A Christmas Carol’ or just about any if its derivatives. One of my favorites is “The Stingiest Man In Town” which is an animated version with the voice of Tom Bosley as “The Humbug”.

There’s quite a few songs in the feature, and my favorite, which makes me cry every time, is called
“The Birthday Party of the King.” It’s about the Nativity and how the Wise Men brought priceless gifts to the Baby Jesus. It goes on to say that the gift that Jesus would treasure the most would be to "Bring a Heart that really loves Him to the Birthday Party of The King.’’

 

[BartholomewB]

We’re past 50 replies and nobody has mentioned
Ferris Buhler’s Day Off …

 

[Milt]

Ferris Buhler’s Day Off …

I did not mention it because I do not like that movie.

 

[BartholomewB]

I did not mention it because I do not like that movie.

I find it pretty amazing that anyone could fail to like Ferris Buhler’s Day Off.
However, there’s no accounting for taste. I have good friends who regard 2001 A Space Odyssey as one of the greatest movies ever made, or even the greatest. For me, it was the dullest picture I ever sat through in a theater.

 

[Milt]

For me, it was the dullest picture I ever sat through in a theater.

I agree with you there, and went and got my money back. I did like the movie’s soundtrack.

Now as to FBDO I first saw that on HBO and just changed the channel.

 

[ConstantLearner]

At this time of year I love watching ‘A Christmas Carol’ or just about any if its derivatives. One of my favorites is “The Stingiest Man In Town” which is an animated version with the voice of Tom Bosley as “The Humbug”.

Oh, A Christmas Carol is terrific! I’m partial to the George C. Scott version. I like The Shop Around the Corner, too.

If we’re talking religious movies, I like The Passion of the Christ, which I watch during Lent.

 

[ConstantLearner]

However, there’s no accounting for taste. I have good friends who regard 2001 A Space Odyssey as one of the greatest movies ever made, or even the greatest. For me, it was the dullest picture I ever sat through in a theater.

It wasn’t the dullest movie I’ve ever seen, but I found it pretty boring. It is a friend’s (female cardiologist) favorite! I do like FBDO.

 

[BartholomewB]

It wasn’t the dullest movie I’ve ever seen, but I found it pretty boring. It is a friend’s (female cardiologist) favorite! I do like FBDO.

My wife and I went to watch it on first release, almost fifty years ago now. From time to time I turned to her and whispered, “It must start getting better soon. Kubrick’s a good director. Let’s give it another ten minutes.” It never did get any better, but at least we watched it all the way through. It’ll be 50 years old this coming year (2018) and I suppose it’ll be on television from time to time. I read the novel just a few weeks ago, and now I wouldn’t mind giving the movie a second chance, even if only to see how closely it follows the novel―or how closely the novel follows the movie. Arthur C. Clarke was writing them both at the same time, though separately.

 

[ConstantLearner]

My wife and I went to watch it on first release, almost fifty years ago now. From time to time I turned to her and whispered, “It must start getting better soon. Kubrick’s a good director. Let’s give it another ten minutes.” It never did get any better, but at least we watched it all the way through. It’ll be 50 years old this coming year (2018) and I suppose it’ll be on television from time to time. I read the novel just a few weeks ago, and now I wouldn’t mind giving the movie a second chance, even if only to see how closely it follows the novel―or how closely the novel follows the movie. Arthur C. Clarke was writing them both at the same time, though separately.

I’ve only seen it on TV. I did not know Clarke was writing both novel and screenplay at the same time. That’s interesting. Also interesting that Close Encounters of the Third Kind celebrated 40 years in 2017. It seems more than ten years later than 2001. Another “space” film I did not like is Contact. All that time, and we never see the alien! And the physics were off, but then, it’s entertainment, not education, so I won’t complain (anymore).

 

[Nelka]

Escape from Sobibor.

A great ending.

 

[BartholomewB]

Nobody has mentioned Indiana Jones!!!
All four are great movies, but the Temple of Doom has the best opening sequence, with Kate Capshaw singing Anything Goes in the Obi Wan nightclub in Shanghai, followed by the car chase with Short Round …