What is your favorite movie and why?

[uss]

A Clockwork Orange or Fight Club were very cool. Pi and Requiem For a Dream were also very nice. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[scudgod31]

definitely bruce almighty it made me laugh and cry at the same time

[Black Baron]

I would have said "you can't change the place of the meeting" or "17 moments of spring", but since that these are russian serials (a very big movie cut into lots of pieces, actually. a serial is lots of little movies that the only thing that connects them are the characters), i will have to settle for "the good the bad and the ugly".

[Bozos of Bones]

Jusz FYI, what you described up there is an Omnibus.

[Black Baron]

What is FYI?

[Nerull]

Originally posted by Black Baron: What is FYI?

For Your Information

[booklord]

Star Wars, the Empire Strikes Back. I saw them and loved them at an early age and they became engrained into my psyche.

mine favorite move is grace !

a group of people resting in a old motel in the desert (somewhere in america)

there is a killer among them who disbales al the cars, and kill the people in the most,, sadistic ways !!

great movie !

[Mr_Krift]

Baseketball....ah yes

[Oblivion437]

This question is harder than my constipated attempts at egestion.

Seriously, I can't give one *best* answer, but I'll split it into genres...

My favorite political thriller is The Parallax View, Warren Beatty gives an excellent performance, and the whole film is grandly disturbing in more ways than one.

My favorite Shakespeare film...Akira Kurosawa's Ran, the best adaptation of King Lear, period.

My favorite character study films...

Taxi Driver (1976 - [D]Martin Scorsese)
Citizen Kane (1941 - [D/P/S/L]Orson Welles)

Kane can be credited with inventing auteur cinema as a concept. Never before had a single person taken over so many aspects of a production of that scale, and never before had such a combination of talent been assembled. The result is a grand film, at the top of the AFI heap.

My favorite spectacle is D.W. Griffith's Intolerance. A grand-old dad of the silent era, it utilizes cross-cutting and non-linear narrative structuring to deliver a high-minded, if more than a little preachy (this is D.W. Griffith, after all) message about tolerance towards others. The full-length, 215 (or 14 reels) print is absolutely marvelous.

My favorite bizarro films are a toss-up between two:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998 [D]Gilliam)
Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982 [D]Parker)

For Science Fiction I choose two Ridley Scott films and a Stanley Kubrick film:

Alien (1979 [D]Ridley Scott)
Blade Runner (1982 [D]Ridley Scott)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 [D]Stanley Kubrick)

For the Historical film, it's a toss between a couple:

Lawrence of Arabia (1962 [D]David Lean)
Gangs of New York (2002 [D]Martin Scorsese)

Finally, the gangster film genre...

I have two choices, both by the same director, and I consider the latter utterly flawless, one of the finest films ever made, and superior in every way to The Godfather trilogy...

Mean Streets (1973 [D]Martin Scorsese)
Goodfellas (1990 [D]Martin Scorsese)

Goodfellas is a brutally honest look at the rise and fall of Henry Hill, moving the whole scope of the film at the pace of one of Hill's working days as a wiseguy. Unlike the overtly romantic, fictitious, and essentially anti-realistic Godfather films, it goes down to the grit, and it shows how unsophisticated, amoral and depraved that whole world really is, and its authenticity is heavily weighted by the fact that Henry Hill's story is virtually unabridged from book to film.

Key for those crazy bracket codes:

[D]=Director
[P]=Producer
[S]=Screenwriter
[L]=Leading Performance