Post your favorite movie - ONE PICK ONLY!

[huedell]

Pulp Fiction is probably my favorite right now...but I listed Star Wars...because it had far more impact and influence over me when I first saw it as a young teen.

I love PULP FICTION...its in my top 15 for sure...but SW is just SO iconic...
I watch it a lot even now.

Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Darth Vader,,.,.,.it just buries other
casts of characters for me...even Jules, Vincent, Mia, Butch, Marcelus...

tough one, but I'll go with Raiders of the Lost Ark

That's my second favorite.

But my favorite movie has to be "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", the 1971 classic starring Gene Wilder. Can't tell you how many times I have watched that. Always make me feel like a kid again.

I love it too...but not really until Wilder shows up.

[bondtoddbond]

Goldfinger - Nuff Said!

[huedell]

Goldfinger - Nuff Said!

Finger. GOLDfinger.

[cjefferys]

Damn, it's so hard to pick just one, I love so many films. I'll have to go with one that made the biggest impact on me perhaps? The one that as soon as I saw it, I couldn't stop thinking about it, wanted to see it again immediately, it just pushed all my right buttons. As a kid that film would be STAR WARS, hands down, as an adult it would be really close between PULP FICTION and KILL BILL Vol 1. If I have to pick one then, I'll go with......KILL BILL Vol 1...... Original and groundbreaking? No, but it was just so damn cool and Tarantino just knows how to take so many elements and influences and turn it into something extremely special and entertaining.

[Zemo]

Sorry buy I'd watch pulp fiction any day over SW. So Pulp Fiction it is.

[saildog]

I have been debating this question for a few days and I've gone back on forth on several choices because there are any number of movies I would love to say, "That's my favorite of all time!".

I'm going to say, "The Big Lebowski". Total flop at the box office and I wouldn't have "understood" it at the age of 30 anyway, but I get it now and it means a lot to me. I quote it and discuss it with others frequently and I have introduced somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty people to it (including my parents and sister) by suggesting it as a "must see" and not one of them has been disappointed.

I realize this is far from the worthiest choice on the list, but it's the most honest answer I can give to the question.

(Edited to add: Given that Zemo posted while I was composing my post.....I'm going to take it as a "sign" that I chose correctly.)

[Zemo]

I have been debating this question for a few days and I've gone back on forth on several choices because there are any number of movies I would love to say, "That's my favorite of all time!".

I'm going to say, "The Big Lebowski". Total flop at the box office and I wouldn't have "understood" it at the age of 30 anyway, but I get it now and it means a lot to me. I quote it and discuss it with others frequently and I have introduced somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty people to it (including my parents and sister) by suggesting it as a "must see" and not one of them has been disappointed.

I realize this is far from the worthiest choice on the list, but it's the most honest answer I can give to the question.

(Edited to add: Given that Zemo posted while I was composing my post.....I'm going to take it as a "sign" that I chose correctly.)

lol TBL is way up there for me. Great choice.

[huedell]

KILL BILL Vol 1...... Original and groundbreaking? No, but it was just so damn cool and Tarantino just knows how to take so many elements and influences and turn it into something extremely special and entertaining.

Nothing too great movie-wise is really ever all that groundbreaking...
except where visual effects are concerned...and even that will become passe
in a few decades when there's nothing left to...um..."break".

[huedell]

....and I wouldn't have "understood" it at the age of 30 anyway, but I get it now and it means a lot to me.

I'm so so curious as to what you mean by that.
I'm a big big Coen Bros. fan and don't really understand the special cult following TBL has....to me its one of their more average films.
It'd be cool to know what it was that you "understood" about it
due to you having seen it at a later age?

[Hector]

Sorry buy I'd watch pulp fiction any day over SW. So Pulp Fiction it is.

Now...I like Pulp Fiction more...but like I said...Star Wars had a much bigger impact on me...mainly because I watched it as young teen...and with my dad...fantastic memories that I will forever remember.

Pulp Fiction was totally a different experienced...I watched it as an adult.

But yes...Pulp Fiction is a lot cooler movie watching experience now...for sure...

[Hector]

BTW...I really don't get all the fuss on The Big Lebowski...I rather watch The Three Amigos...

[EMCE Hammer]

Blazing Saddles.....There are honestly ten or twenty more that are right up there. Once this thread runs its course, it would be fun to do a list by genre. Even that would be tough.

[huedell]

...I rather watch The Three Amigos...

That's one of my favorite movies period.

Do you like it a lot? Or is it a crappy movie to you?

Hector you should PM me your email addy----I don't usually push my music
on others around here, but there is a GARY84 song called
TEQUILA SHOWDOWN that quotes from that movie and just seems like a song
of mine you should have on mp3 and i could send an mp3 of it for you to d/l
if you're OK with that

[saildog]

BTW...I really don't get all the fuss on The Big Lebowski...I rather watch The Three Amigos...

Prime example: At Forty, I can say, "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."...and mean it.

At Thirty, I would have said, "STF up, Hector!".

[Hector]