What's your favorite movie/tv series? (And why)

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Among my favorite movies of all time is ‘The Fugitive’, starring Harrison Ford. I found it riveting from start to finish as Dr Kimball seeks justice for his murdered wife and goes about solving her murder and obtaining justice.

Other favorites include ‘Braveheart’, ‘Gladiator’, ‘Shawshank Redemption’, and ‘Thirteen going on Thirty’.
Why ‘Thirteen going on Thirty’? Not sure, I guess I just thought it was cute.

My favorite Christmas movie is ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ along with ‘A Christmas Carol’ – the lesser known version with Reginald Owen as Scrooge and Gene, Kathleen, and June Lockhart as members of the Cratchit family. I grew up watching that as a kid and I bought a DVD of it and watch it each Christmas Eve day.

My favorite movie as a child was ‘Wizard of Oz’. I still like it, which proves that I’m still a little boy at heart. I am partial to the Tin Man, to whom I can relate. When I hear him say near the end of the movie, "Now I know I’ve got a heart because it is breaking", it still makes me tear up a little.

Favorite TV series in recent years have included, ‘Hawaii Five-O’, ‘NCIS Los Angeles’, ‘Father Brown’’, along with ‘First 48’. I guess the reason why I like these programs is that I like a good whodunnit and to see how it gets resolved.

Older TV series I enjoyed include ‘Quantum Leap’ starring Scott Bakula, the original ‘Star Trek’ series, and ‘Gunsmoke’. I liked going back into history in ‘Quantum Leap’ and see Sam prevent bad things in the past from happening and wish I could do it in real life.

It was fun to ponder your question and answer it.
 
My favorite movie of all time is “Born Free”
It is a movie about a couple who raised “Elsa” a lioness to adulthood and released her into the wilderness of Kenya. The movie is based on a true story. It was a wonderful movie about love between a lion and her owners. It was so emotional that I cried at the end. To this day I only prefer movies that are based on true stories. I don’t like to waste my time on anything less… 😷
 
The West Wing. Aaron Sorkin writes in a way that assumes the viewer is smart. It is a series that reminds me how politics can be civil. It is like a civics lesson every episode!

Cannot pic a favorite film. Well, if I had to, The Lion in Winter.
 
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I liked Tour of Duty as a TV series. I don’t really have a favorite movie-my taste runs towards foreign films, films that make me think, and old musicals. I watched two different films of Eugene Onegin recently, both as a play produced in Russia and as Russian Opera and very much enjoyed them.
 
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Favorite movie: Casablanca.

TV Series: I do not think it can be disputed that Foyle’s War is the best TV series ever made.
 
Favorite movie – the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I know it diverges from the books, but the movies got me interested in the books. And the movies are a great achievement in film-making in their own right.

Favorite series – the original Star Trek. Up until recently I would have said The Next Generation, but after watching the original series in its entirety, I have come to appreciate how it concentrated on telling the story, without getting into all sorts of technobabble like TNG and the later series did. (That said, Picard is still my favorite Star Trek captain.)
 
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7_Sorrows said:
Gaslight
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Gaslight, it was on recently on Turner Classic Movies, I know someone else who likes that one a lot.
VonDerTann said:
Original Fugitive with David Janssen;
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Agreed, that’s excellent. And for me, much better than the movie which was still very good.
jeannetherese said:
I liked Tour of Duty as a TV series. I don’t really have a favorite movie-my taste runs towards foreign films, films that make me think, and old musicals. I watched two different films of Eugene Onegin recently, both as a play produced in Russia and as Russian Opera and very much enjoyed them.
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That’s a great choice, how coincidental per Tour of Duty, I just watched the series on DVD… Menard’s (a store) had it. Around 45 hours for 3 seasons. I still might have a few episodes I need to watch. Great surprise to see someone mention it.

I was able to get it for about $25 vs. the pricing here, Mill Creek Product:


As for other tv shows, ‘Kung Fu’ really spoke to me, good show. I’m sure there are a few others.

Everyone has some great choices. Different strokes for different folks.
 
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I’m with you with regard to TZ but tied with The Honeymooners. Seinfeld is runner-up though I rarely watch the reruns anymore. Also Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and I used to love Northern Exposure.

Movies? That’s much tougher because there are several I like. Two top favorites are “Inherit the Wind” (the original with Spencer Tracy and Fredric March) and “House of Games,” a battle of wits between a con man and a psychiatrist. But then there are so many others. Another one, which has the most beautiful cinematography imaginable as well as a compelling story, is “Barry Lyndon,” directed by Stanley Kubrick.
 
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Love that movie. Every time it’s on, I say to myself I’m only going to watch a little of it and wind up watching the whole film.
 
I also like “The Nun’s Story,” and have always interpreted the ending as hopeful rather than despairing, because the door is left open, meaning she might one day return and become a nun. Audrey Hepburn’s best, in my opinion.
 
I really enjoy the film Moonstruck, with Cher. Great film, very funny, very poignant.
I rarely watch TV, not having cable, but do enjoy oldies: Green Acres, Get Smart, Beverly Hillbillys, Twilight Zone.
 
1-Passion of the Christ
2- Ben Hur (the original)
3- Risen

Then all super hero movies…
 
steph03 said:
1-Passion of the Christ
2- Ben Hur (the original)
3- Risen

Then all super hero movies…
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When you say Ben Hur, the original are you talking about the 1925 silent version?


Or that one with I think Charlton Heston. Many of us know that one, very good movie. 1959


Yes, I think Gladiator, Private Ryan and Braveheart are all very good movies to me. Gladiator seems to bring back some of the Biblical type movies though, Gladiator itself is not, it seems to have some elements of those past movies.
 
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@Victoria33

I note from the links you shared that both the 1925 and 1959 versions of Ben-Hur are on the U.S. National Film Registry.

Is there any other case where two versions of the same story are on the registry? 🤔

(BTW, I have the 4-DVD set of the 1959 Ben-Hur, which also includes the 1925 silent version.)
 
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I may have to check it out again. I don’t do much television, but that was a worthwhile exception.
 
jeannetherese said:
I may have to check it out again. I don’t do much television, but that was a worthwhile exception.
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Some episodes might be on youtube but this website Vimeo has a whole lot, maybe all of the episodes. I don’t really watch Vimeo too much. I think I watched another tv show there once.

I could get them up myself here but I won’t because they are pretty easy to find. Search “Episodes Tour of Duty”…


For the new release that I have of the show, they replaced a lot of the pop music (say the intro with “Paint it black”) with instrumental music (probably royalty and copyright issues). It fits in as well, I might even like it better with this music.

A lot of good episodes, a band that gave a USO show in Vietnam, there helicopter crashed but the band mostly survive, well, the company rescues them, a lot of fairly good episodes.

I have kind of sped through watching it, there was an episode in the third season where they went into the famed “Hanoi Hilton” to try to rescue prisoners. No spoilers, one can see it for themselves.

I’m lucky, I got these DVDs within about 2 weeks of this whole shut down beginning, it’s a lot to watch.

I put off getting the DVDs for awhile, I wasn’t sure if I needed to get these (11 dvds) but now, I’m very glad that I did.
 
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Thanks for the heads up about vimeo.
Paint it Black set the mood pretty well and the series did a good job bringing music and image together, as well as exploring different ethical issues brought up within the context of the war.
The war itself was a formative event at the global, as well as local, scale and I think it continues to inform at so many levels, while not receiving much attention at present.
 
Tommy999 said:
Among my favorite movies of all time is ‘The Fugitive’, starring Harrison Ford.
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One of the interesting things about this movie is that it’s Good Versus Good rather then Good Versus Evil.
Both the Fugitive and the agent chasing him are a Good Guys.
 
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