Our FAVORITE Movies

I have a FAVORITE movie. I'll bet that you have one too. Tell us about it.

What is it?
Why do you love it?

I’ve got several favorite bands; don’t ask me to narrow it down to one. I definitely don’t have a favorite song. If I had to name one, I’d probably reply that the last song I listened to was my favorite one. I do have a favorite movie though.

I prefer to watch most movies only once. If I like a movie, I may watch it a year or two later. When it comes to the Coen brothers movie, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, I could watch it several times per year. Why? Because it’s my favorite!

The Coen brothers have made some great movies; Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men, and more. I like them all. I like ‘O Brother’ the best because every frame is fascinating. From the opening scene, with the hypnotic rhythm of a chain gang breaking rocks to the last scene with the old man on the railroad pump car, this movie is pure joy. You just have to watch it, probably twice, for it to hook you.

O Brother has more memorable lines than any movie I know:
“Do…not…seek…the…treasure!”
“My hair!”
“Damn, we’re in a tight spot!”
“Gopher?”
“I seen ‘em first!”
“He’s a suiter.”
“Them sirens done loved him up and turned him into a…horny-toad!”
“I gotta get me the family farm back before I start thinkin’ about that.”
”Hand me that chopper!”
“I’m a Dapper Dan man!”

And that just scratches the surface.

Here’s Amazon’s summary of the movie:

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Amazon page)
Disenchanted with the daily drudge of crushing rocks on a prison farm in Mississippi, the dapper, silver-tongued Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney, THE PERFECT STORM) busts loose. Except he's still shackled to his own chain-mates from the chain gang -- bad-tempered Pete (John Turturro, SUMMER OF SAM), and sweet, dimwitted Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson, HAMLET). With nothing to lose and buried loot to regain -- before it's lost forever in a flood -- the three embark on the adventure of a lifetime in this hilarious offbeat road picture. Populated with strange characters, including a blind prophet, sexy sirens, and a one-eyed Bible salesman (John Goodman, COYOTE UGLY), it's an odyssey filled with chases, close calls, near misses, and betrayal that will leave you laughing at every outrageous and surprising twist and turn.

Here are some clips:

“In The Big Rock Candy Mountains” (opening credits, great song)


“Any of you boys smithies?” (blacksmiths)


Song of the Sirens


Chris Thomas King sings the blues (misc. clips)


"He's a suiter"


Sorry for the ultra-long post. Hope you enjoyed the clips.
Jay

There's no film like Matrix. It broke up with the previous films, and create a new generation. Its special effects are incredible, and the script makes me fall in love with that movie. PERFECT
http://www.youtube.com/v/-nc85tUrbb8&hl

Sorry, I don't know why I can't post the video correctly. It's the final battle between Neo and Smith.

i went to see the first LOTR movie and i was pissed off.it ended and i wanted to see what happened!!!!!great movie but long.

i just adore johnny depp and this was one of his best movies...my personal favorite..by the way, tim burton is a genius!

purple rain is also a favorite.becasue it is the direct opposite of hard ay's night.it shows the music business in all it's nasty reality. and of the bio relates to my own life.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly...masterpiece of Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood. Brilliant and sometimes very funny dialogues, interesting plot and good actors at all.

Dirty Harry - classic movie...Do you feel lucky, punk?:)

Sleuth (1972) - Lord Olivier & Michael Caine play the most dangerous game - the game with death!

i liked blade runner for it's retro 80's feel, but that was it? i didn't understand the movie? huh?

@jcjohnson63: "The final cut" (the newest version that you say) is the best, in my opinion. Appart from the ending (I prefer the new), there aren't any off-screen voice now and the special effects takes also have been retouched.

Elizabethtown, Mary Poppins (since I was a little girl and still love it) and Gone with the Wind.

here is a list of some of my altime favourites:

-the shining (a masterpiece by Kubrick and Nicholson)
-die Vögel (birds) (What should i say it´s a Hitchcock...)
-Braindead (The Party is over now!!!)
-Haze (just watch it!!)
-Battle royal 1 (it shows the decadence of humanity!)
-la grande vadrouille (R.I.P.Louis de Funes)
-dawn of the dead 1978 (maybe romero´s best movie)
-night of the living dead b/w 1968 (or is this one better?)
-texas chainsaw massacre 1974 (best horror film ever!)
-12 monkeys (brad pitt is great )
-oldboy (BEST FILM EVER)
-the audition (Takeshi Miike´s best)
-la jetée (iinspiration for 12 monkeys)

it's funny how here in america we take alot for granted. the rest of the world makes movies. and we may not be familiar with them. and i'm guilty of this as much as anyone.it's sad.

The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckhinpah);
Memento (Christopher Nolan);
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott - was on some heavy shit while he was directing this movie, he steel claims that Harrison Ford's character (Rick Deckard) was clearly portraited as an android (but it's debatable), and also the movie had very little references to the book, the book is much more perplexing)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
any movie by Stanley Kubrick
and so much more, this was just something that popped up at this moment.