Favorite movie of all time: You have only one pick

[nut11]

Repo Man

87 blk coupe

[bt1211]

miller's crossing

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by GO DAWG GO

For good war movies....IMHO

Saving Private Ryan
Band of Brothers
Patton
Battle of Britain
Tora Tora Tora
Bridge Too Far
"Special effects" in Flags of our Fathers was great.
Longest Day
Black Hawk Down


Honorable Mention..

30 Seconds over Tokyo
Guns of Navarone
Battle of the Bulge
Memphis Belle
Glory
Sargent York
U571

Bob

What about midway? I like that one. I absolutely hated black hawk down, all it did was piss me off.

[pwd72s]

Somebody mentioned "band of brothers"...one of the real life characters in that flick is still alive, hangs out @ the cue ball, Salem, OR. Speaking with him, the vibes of true inner toughness are felt.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Only here on PPOT could you have "Berlin Alexanderplatz" and "Spaceballs" be the answer to the same question! Hilarious.

Only one, huh? EXTREMELY tough as just the films mentioned on this thread attests.

I'll pick The Godfather too but there are SO many great films.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Originally Posted by CJFusco

...what it really represented was a conscious re-imagining of the tropes and motifs of post-victorian Gothic literature.

Oh, uh huh.....gotcha See and I thought it was just a good movie

(Sorry, CJ. I'm just raggin' your a$$ of course. Gotta give props to the smart baseball fans though!)

[RickM]

I'll probably have 20 new favorites in five minutes but one that always stands out is Forbidden Planet. (Can you tell I like old Sci Fi?)

Love "Three Days of the Condor" and "Day of the Jackal" too....damn this is hard.

[GO DAWG GO]

Sammy,

Yes Midway... I forgot it. Are you old enough to remember "Sensurround". "Midway" and "Earthquake" IIRC had Charleton Heston in both. The Sensurround was 4 huge subwoofers in the theater that shook the place. I understood it shook some drywall or plaster off some ceilings and cause a few lawsuits. I didnt see it again after, it sounded and felt pretty cool. Lets say 1975ish.. I was 14.

I remember sitting in the Alex theater in Glendale, Ca. and watching Midway 3 times in one day with my buddy in Sensurround.

[jorian]

Stripes

OK that two picks - shoot me.

[rcooled]

So many great films....but the one that comes to mind today is "The Green Mile". Incredibly powerful...

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by GO DAWG GO

Sammy,

Yes Midway... I forgot it. Are you old enough to remember "Sensurround". "Midway" and "Earthquake" IIRC had Charleton Heston in both. The Sensurround was 4 huge subwoofers in the theater that shook the place. I understood it shook some drywall or plaster off some ceilings and cause a few lawsuits. I didnt see it again after, it sounded and felt pretty cool. Lets say 1975ish.. I was 14.

I remember sitting in the Alex theater in Glendale, Ca. and watching Midway 3 times in one day with my buddy in Sensurround.

Oh yeah, I remember earthquake in sensorround. Remember that girl who worked for the circus with the big, ... uh... chest? She shook alot during the earthquake EDIT I just looked it up, I think that girl was Victoria Pirincipal when she was young.

I never saw midway with that system, wish I would have.

When I was a freshman in college I had a job doing maintenance at the cinedome theatres in Orange. Appocolypse now was just coming out and they installed these massive altec lansing voice of the threatre cabinets all over the place. 5 large ones behind the screen, 6 smaller cabinets with huge tweeters behind the audience and to the sides.
They were testing it out one day prior to the first showing and cranked it almost all the way up when the helicopters were coming in over the waves. I nearly went deaf.

[tabs]

Apocalypse Now was trash against the greatest Vietnam epic of them all, Body Bag.

[rcooled]

If film-noir is your style, you can't go wrong with this insight into the glory and decay of Hollywood. Witness Norma Desmond's slow decline into insanity in Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard".

[silverc4s]

Old film noir classics are too easy a pick. I could name a thousand of them.

A much more modern flick that has it all: The Scent of a Woman

[Jim Garfield]

Impossible to pick just one I think, but I would like to see Blood Simple again. Worth seeing the movie just to see that drop of water in the end.

[tabs]

Originally Posted by rcooled

If film-noir is your style, you can't go wrong with this insight into the glory and decay of Hollywood. Witness Norma Desmond's slow decline into insanity in Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard".

So U only now have discovered Billy Wilder? Sunset Blvd wasn't really a noir film. Wilders Double Indemnity was. Wilders range was phenomenal from those allready mentioned to Five Graves to Cairo, The Major and Minor, Ace in the Hole, Stalag 17, Sabrina, Some Like it Hot, The Apartment, Irma la Douce, The Fortune Cookie, Front Page and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. All exceptional movies.

The 1st movie I can remember laughing my head off at was Some Like It Hot when it was in the theaters back in 1959. I was all of 6 years old. Since then Billy Wilder was a must see.

[Tim Hancock]

To date, probably Saving Private Ryan.

But as a youth I simply could not see "Smoky and the Bandit" enough times and in college I watched "Top Gun", "Animal House", "Caddyshack" and "About Last Night" over and over again.

Of course any Clint Eastwood movie that has him spitting on something is always fun to watch.

[berettafan]

Back to the Future.

Nice to see 3 Days of the Condor mentioned! For that era I really enjoy watching All the Presidents Men.

[GO DAWG GO]

Sammy,

Great equipment.. Altec Lancing was James B Lancing (JBL) all American...Do you remember Bob Carver who designed the Phase Linear 700B? I had one, 1 Horse power amp. pushing my JBLs Voice of the theater speakers. I still have my equipment and some old JBL bullet tweeters (707's)..(remember?) Do you remember the El cassette (sp) and some good old Marrantz equipment..I should hook it up..I bet it is much better than the new stuff. Love to go back and listen to the Doobies again on it...Bands like Rush and Earth wind and Fire...Frampton.. Oh! the good ol days?

Bob

[PatrickB]

Nah...
I had a Sansui Receiver, Advent Speakers and a Teac Cassette recorder...