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My all time favorite movies are a tie. Between Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Very strict tie, because of the fact that Evil Dead 2 was practically the first horror movie that I actually liked and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly kicked so much ass.

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Well, I see a lot of you guys made a list!! So I said "I'll make a list, too!!"(:xp:). Voila!

 

  • Star Wars Saga (I have to agree with Moeller. All of them are great!)
  • The Bucket List
  • Ocean's Eleven (the remake with Clooney)
  • 50 First Dates
  • Meet the Fockers
  • Bruce Almighty
  • Pirates of the Carribean
  • LotR saga
  • 21

 

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In terms of relatively recent movies->

Juno

 

All I can say is meh. lol

 

My favourites:

 

- The Matrix Trilogy

- Pulp Fiction

- V for Vendetta

- Advent Children

- Snatch

- Dark Knight

- Pirates of the Caribean

- Freddy Got Fingered

- Blade Runner

- Star Wars Trilogy

 

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Well, like many other things, I have no favorite movie. What I do have are movies I consider to be so good they never get old, like for example:

 

Forrest Gump

Fight Club

American History X

The Green Mile

Blood Diamond

Saving Private Ryan

Casino

Pulp Fiction

 

(Indiana Jones and Star Wars series are implied, of course)

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Lemme get this straight. There's a thread about awesome movies, and there's only one mention of A Beautiful Mind and none of any Jimmy Stewart movies? Not even his Hitchcock films?

 

Personally, I don't care for A Beautiful Mind, but you are right about Jimmy Stewart.

 

It's a Wonderful Life

The Philadelphia Story

The Man who shot Liberty Valance

 

And the list goes on....

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With this kind of question, I tend to say what I think is the most underrated movie ever, since I could never get my fave movies down to a list less than thirty.

 

Therefore : The Hudsucker Proxy.

 

Far too few have seen it.

 

I rather liked that one. "Not that way... through the door!"

 

It was a bit ridiculous to see Tim Robins acting like a moron far too often. The plot was interesting enough as it was, but the humor added and detracted from the film.

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Jimmy Stewart > Humphrey Bogart.

I'll give you equal too, but not greater than.

 

IMO Cary Grant > Humphrey Bogart = Jimmy Stewart = Henry Fonda = Kirk Douglas > John Wayne

The Man who shot Liberty Valance

Cannot believe I left this one off. Not only does it have Jimmy Stewart, but John Wayne and Lee Marvin.

It's a Wonderful Life
Watch it every Christmas eve after everyone else is asleep.

 

I have a difficult time discussing Jimmy Stewart without bringing up Henry Fonda and Kirk Douglas. One of my favorites that stars both men is There Was a Crooked Man (1970).

 

Another favorite of mine is Mio Nome e Nessuno, II” or My Name is Nobody (1973) staring Henry Fonda and Terence Hill. How can a movie that offers wisdom like “Folks that throw dirt on you aren't always trying to hurt you, and folks that pull you out of a jam aren't always trying to help you. But the main point is when you're up to your nose in sh*t, keep your mouth shut,” not me considered a classic.

 

The graphic novel was WAY better.
The book is always better, unless the reader has absolutely no imagination.
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Cannot believe I left this one off. Not only does it have Jimmy Stewart, but John Wayne and Lee Marvin.

 

Well, if we're going to mention The Duke:

 

Stagecoach

The Searchers (already mentioned)

Rio Bravo (also had Dean Martin he could do serious-ish roles)

True Grit - Duke's only Oscar? really?

The Shootist - His last film, and one I think to be one of his greatest, as it mirrored the end of his life.

 

And Westerns in General

 

High Noon

The Gunfighter

3.10 to Yuma (both versions - the remake is just as good as the first)

Wyatt Earp - Forget the overhyped 'Tombstone' - Costner's about as close to Earp as anyone has ever come.

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I could list 100 faves per genre, but if I really had to pick just one, it's TESB of course. I love Lynch, Kurosawa, Hitchcock, Kobayashi, Bunuel, Almedovar etc, but TESB just resonates, no matter how much time has passed. I'm generally not a fan of American cinema(if you can call it that), but that film represents a richness of visual storytelling that has a very timeless, classical quality.

 

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3.10 to Yuma (both versions - the remake is just as good as the first)[/Quote] Agreed, I was very surprised that the remake was so good. I may even lean towards it being the better version. Russell Crowe and Christian Bale were both excellent. Glenn Ford was an excellent actor, but I just could not believe Ford as an outlaw. Crowe on the other hand… :)
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Agreed, I was very surprised that the remake was so good. I may even lean towards it being the better version. Russell Crowe and Christian Bale were both excellent. Glenn Ford was an excellent actor, but I just could not believe Ford as an outlaw. Crowe on the other hand… :)

 

The guy who played Charlie Prince was pretty good too, but the first time I watched it I thought the Marshall was Gary Cole, as the actor who played the Marshall looked near identical. :lol:

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I don't know if I have a single favorite film.

Yeah, same here.

 

In no particular order:

 

  • Star Wars OT

  • Lord of the Rings

  • Jurassic Park

  • Back to the Future

  • Saving Private Ryan

  • Robocop

  • Ghostbusters

  • Alien

  • The Matrix

  • Die Hard

  • Forrest Gump

  • Pulp Fiction

  • 300

  • Armageddon (Yeah, seriously)

  • Independence Day

  • Gladiator

 

 

I've probably forgot a few, but yeah those are the ones I can think of now.

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