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What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« on: July 02, 2010, 05:01:43 PM »
I started thinking about this and it is tough. You get to name one movie that's your favorite. Just one. Not your top 10, not your top 20--just your single most favorite movie of all time.

I think this can say a lot about a person's personality. I still haven't been able to make up my mind, honestly. I am being honest with myself and whittling it down to that group of movies I watch over and over and over and over and never get bored of--I'm not going to deliberately to for artsy-farsty to try to impress. I think I have it down to 3, but I'm not saying which 3 because, again, I get to name only one--same as the rest of you.



Ok. I've thought about it a bit and my mind just keeps circling back to one movie, the one movie I've probably seen more than any other:


John Carpenter's 1982 remake of The Thing.

I know. With all the amazing oldies and not-so-oldies out there, my favorite is in a niche genre. It'll never win a prize for most fascinating dialogue. But I've got to be honest with myself. I never get tired of the effects, which stand the test of time, the paranoia pouring off the screen, the tight scripting, the very smart decision by Carpenter not to have any women in the film and thus (in the normal world) have no love interest to detract from the main plot.

The dog scene and the vespiform version of the thing that comes out of one of the dogs; the tied-to-the-chair blood test scene...damn that's a great movie.

Now, my second favorite would probably impress more, but I can't honestly say it's my numero uno. See? This is tough.
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2010, 05:10:11 PM »
Blazing Saddles.  No matter how shitty a day I've had, I can still laugh my ass off by the end of it.
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2010, 05:20:08 PM »
Grease...




is the word.


 :-)

I don't know if it's my favorite...but it is the movie that popped into my mind.  It's the first movie I saw in the movie theaters.  I was obsessed with everything Grease as a child.  If I happen to come across it as I'm flipping through the channels...I'll watch it.  I know most of the lines by heart.

Another that I will always watch If I am flipping through the channel is Overboard with Goldie Hawn.
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2010, 05:20:41 PM »
I don't watch a huge amount of movies, but there are a few I have been able to watch more than once; of those if I had to choose one it would be Ringu (the original Japanese version of The Ring).
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #4 on: July 02, 2010, 05:43:07 PM »
The Wings of Eagles........ a story of Naval Aviation. It's been my favorite since I can remember. Star Wars is a very close 2nd, though.
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2010, 06:51:27 PM »
Quote from: Thor on July 02, 2010, 05:43:07 PM
The Wings of Eagles........ a story of Naval Aviation. It's been my favorite since I can remember. Star Wars is a very close 2nd, though.

You do realize that Wings of Eagles is on AMC this weekend, right?
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2010, 07:02:11 PM »
Godfather.   It is the only movie I can watch and over and over and never tire of it. 
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2010, 07:02:56 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on July 02, 2010, 05:10:11 PM
Blazing Saddles.  No matter how shitty a day I've had, I can still laugh my ass off by the end of it.

Mel Brooks is the best. 
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #8 on: July 02, 2010, 07:07:17 PM »
Kelly's Heroes.  If you've ever seen it, you know why.

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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #9 on: July 02, 2010, 07:07:49 PM »
Quote from: formerlurker on July 02, 2010, 07:02:11 PM
Godfather.   It is the only movie I can watch and over and over and never tire of it. 

First one or second one?  I prefer Godfather II.
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2010, 07:08:46 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on July 02, 2010, 07:07:17 PM
Kelly's Heroes.  If you've ever seen it, you know why.

 :-)

All you friggin tread-heads, all alike.  That's like saying my favorite movie is Hunt for Red October or Run Silent, Run Deep, or Das Boot.

Sheesh.
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #11 on: July 02, 2010, 07:12:43 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on July 02, 2010, 06:51:27 PM
You do realize that Wings of Eagles is on AMC this weekend, right?

right after The Horse Soldiers.
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #12 on: July 02, 2010, 07:13:57 PM »
Quote from: dutch508 on July 02, 2010, 07:12:43 PM
right after The Horse Soldiers.

I see someone else watched Hondo last night too.
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #13 on: July 02, 2010, 07:14:53 PM »
The Hangover.

It was Anchorman, but it was beat out when The Hangover was released.
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #14 on: July 02, 2010, 07:41:04 PM »
I would have to pick a Mel Brooks' movie myself, but my choice would be Young Frankenstein.
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #15 on: July 02, 2010, 07:48:09 PM »
The 1933 version of King Kong.
First saw it on TV in the early to mid 70s and have loved it ever since.

Btw...Fay Wray was built the way a lady should be,curves and hips. :drool:
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #16 on: July 02, 2010, 10:00:01 PM »
Quote from: Carl on July 02, 2010, 07:48:09 PM
The 1933 version of King Kong.
First saw it on TV in the early to mid 70s and have loved it ever since.

Btw...Fay Wray was built the way a lady should be,curves and hips. :drool:

I actually got to see King Kong or whats left of hin from that movie, Here is the link to the showing my friend Bruce had of it.

http://www.omahafilmevent.com/past/kong.htm

Its not in the pictures but all thats left s the armature they used to make of Kong and its not in that great of shape
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #17 on: July 02, 2010, 10:07:18 PM »
If I had to pick a favorite I guess it would be this one,

http://www.speedski.com/images/people/JohnWayne/TheGreenBerets2.jpg

I have an autographed picture of John Wayne and George Takei Signed by George from years ago, He had some good things to say about John Wayne and the movie. I told him I wished I could have had both names on the picture.
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #18 on: July 02, 2010, 10:21:58 PM »
Boy there a lot of good choices here. The Thing, the first time I saw it, when the guy's head grew legs and ran off like a spider. Like another guy said "You have got to be ****ing kidding me".

For me Blade Runner is in my top three along with Blazing Saddles. Lately though the latest Star Trek the Reboot is climbing to #1 real quick.
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #19 on: July 02, 2010, 10:27:57 PM »
Bringing Up Baby.  At the very least it is the movie I think about the most.  I was just thinking about it earlier today.  Everybody and everything is funny in that movie.
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #20 on: July 02, 2010, 10:34:22 PM »
"Westward the Women" is entertaining and has Robert Taylor in it.

Also like "Friendly Persuasion," though. 

Yeah, I know there are good newer ones, but I really like both of those. 
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #21 on: July 02, 2010, 10:40:13 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on July 02, 2010, 07:07:17 PM
Kelly's Heroes.  If you've ever seen it, you know why.

 :-)

Good grief, I've seen it more than I can count, thanks to it being DH's favorite movie of all time.  Burning Bridges IS one of my all time favorite songs.
My favorite movie is The Two Towers, the second movie in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.  But it was hard chosing just one, that's for certain.
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #22 on: July 03, 2010, 01:15:36 AM »
I'm going to say "The Dark Knight." Who doesn't like a movie about a hero? Ledger played his part to a tee. I'm also partial to the "Vigilante" Eckhart played. Very good actor. The whole movie just blew me away, and since that thing was made, I can't think of a better movie.

PS: Some of the things in it make me think of the current administration we're in. Not just one, but a few.

Example: "Some men...just want to watch the world burn."
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #23 on: July 03, 2010, 06:39:33 AM »
 Have to go by category's here.

Tear Jerky is --the world according to Garp.

Musical would be Jesus Christ Super Star.

Western, For a few dollars more.

Sci-Fi is Alien 1st' one.

Horror, Arsenic and old Lace.

Drama, "M"  the first movie Alfred Hitchcock made in Germany with Peter Lorie

Spy Movie, Goldfinger

Comedy, History of the world part one.--

Contemporary film   Natural Born Killers.

Historical, I Claudius--play boy version.

Most favorite of all--Cat Balloue
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Re: What is your SINGLE favorite movie?
« Reply #24 on: July 03, 2010, 07:09:09 AM »
COMPREHENSION FAIL.

Dear Vesta,

The question was SINGLE favorite movie.  As in ONE.  Overall.  Not categorically.  Not with caveats. 
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