What are your favorite movies?

[Giampy]

+1! Awesome flick.

-40hz (December 19, 2014, 07:54 PM)

Among several unforgettable episodes, the following episode is the one that mainly touched me.
Music from 1:50 to 3:50, and especially the explosion of music at 2:43, always give me gooseflesh:

[Giampy]

Music from 1:50 to 3:50

-Giampy (December 20, 2014, 06:05 AM)

And then the famous phrase: "Are you able to play only... or are you able to shoot too?"

[superboyac]

+1! Awesome flick.

-40hz (December 19, 2014, 07:54 PM)

Among several unforgettable episodes, the following episode is the one that mainly touched me.
Music from 1:50 to 3:50, and especially the explosion of music at 2:43, always give me gooseflesh:

-Giampy (December 20, 2014, 06:05 AM)

This is close to one of my favorite movies of all time, along with it's companion OUTI America.  I went into both of these movies stone cold, and both times, as I was approaching the end of the movie, it hit me how crazy good everything was.  It just pounced upon me like that after 2+ hours.  What an experience.  I've tried so hard to try to understand what sergio leone is doing in these movies, but it's quite hard to explain.  Of the last 15 years, these two first-time watchings were probably my favorite movie experiences.  It usually takes me a lot of retrospect and analysis for me to call someone a genius, but by the end of these two movies, I was already thinking "This mutherf----r is goddamn genius."

[40hz]

For the Holidays I'll toss in two of my favs. Both with Kate Hepburn. One of my favorite ladies of the silver screen.

What are your favorite movies?

One film most definitely Christ-missy and (unusually) computer geeky is Desk Set. Hepburn as a company reference librarian (Anybody besides me remember those?) and Spencer Tracy, the computer whiz "methods engineer" who is overseeing the installation of several hulking room-sized IBM mainframes (then referred to as "electronic brains") in the NYC TV Network headquarters where Hepburn is working. Great back & forth dialogue, including a few rather risqué (for the times) moments.

One classic exchange here

(Both characters are sitting on floor between the book stacks, half in the bag, and killing a bottle of Christmas Party champagne.)

Hepburn: Tell me, skipper,
why have you never married?
Don't you like women?


Tracy: Oh, yeah. Sure, sure. I like women,
specifically as a sex and specifically.


Hepburn: But not "pacifically"
enough to get married.


Tracy: Oh, no, no. That's not it at all.
I just never found anyone willing to put
up with me. Except Caroline, of course.
- Would you like more champagne?


Hepburn: No. What about "Caroline, of course?"


Tracy: Caroline?... Caroline was a model.


Hepburn: Mm-hmm.


Tracy:  5'9" in her stockinged feet.


Hepburn: You had occasion to measure her?


Tracy: Among other things.

Especially good is the dinner scene in Hepburn's apartment. IMO it's one of the best comedic moments to come out of that era of movie making.

Next up is the 1938 film Bringing Up Baby featuring Hepburn and Cary Grant this time out.



The then 30-year old Hepburn plays a drop-dead gorgeous society heiress and full-time screwball. Grant plays a stuffy and overly serious palaeontologist chasing high-society money for his brontosaurus research project. The bulk of the picture takes place in a fictitious Connecticut "country home." Although a commercial miss when it was first released (as was The Wizard of Oz), it has since gone on to be considered a classic piece of comedy. Silly, stupid, and surprisingly enjoyable.

Recommended.

[superboyac]

OK I should update...based on the recommendations here, i've watched Gosford park.  Awesome!  It had a similar feel to that older epic that 40hz mentioned a while back.  That british class system always fascinates, and it really makes me angry to watch, I can't help it!
 I've rewatched Clockwork Orange, Strangelove, Jacob's Ladder...all great.

I'll be seeing the Hobbit this week.  I don't expect much other than great special effects, at this point I've already been numbed by several unnecessary hours of Peter Jackson.

I want to go back and rewatch Chinatown.

I'm a sucker for twist endings, even though they've been overabused the last 20 years, maybe longer.  The Usual Suspects was the one that got me hooked in my teenage years, never seen one quite that good...but part of that is nostalgia.

[40hz]

i've watched Gosford park.

-superboyac (December 23, 2014, 03:15 PM)

I did too. Terrific movie!

I want to go back and rewatch Chinatown.

-superboyac (December 23, 2014, 03:15 PM)

An absolute classic - and without a happy ending. That took guts. And also made it the film it is.

[mouser]

One of my favorite movies of recent years:

The Cry of the Owl (2009) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034302/

Featuring the great Paddy Considine.

[bit]

Seven Samurai (inspiration for The Magnificent Seven)

[mouser]

Seven Samurai (inspiration for The Magnificent Seven)

-bit (October 03, 2015, 03:48 AM)

One of my favorite movies of all time.  I saw this as a young kid with my father and was blown away.

[bit]

The Hidden Fortress

[tomos]

Seven Samurai (inspiration for The Magnificent Seven)

-bit (October 03, 2015, 03:48 AM)

One of my favorite movies of all time.  I saw this as a young kid with my father and was blown away.

-mouser (October 03, 2015, 09:19 AM)

a very different film, but that sparked a memory for me of The Inn of the Sixth Happiness that I saw as a kid.
I just accidentally came across it today, and am watching it at the moment -- surprised to see it's in colour (we were late to get colour TV, but still showing my age...)

[40hz]

Amélie  - or Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain to give it it's full French release title.



Probably one of the most unusual and charming "coming of age" films ever done. Audrey Tautou is flat out brilliant in the role.



    (Mme. Wallace) -  Do you believe in miracles?

    ( Amélie) - Not today.

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(Bit of trivia: This is the movie that inspired Travelocity's series of visiting gnome adverts.)

What are your favorite movies?

[arvin23]

I think movies  has a great roll in human life.It gives us entertainment, joy and sympathy i like movies very much. But am only like action movie most like mission impossible,ave-rangers etc.

[kyrathaba]

I watched Ex Machina over the weekend. Good sci-fi flick.

[holt]

The Doberman Gang (1972) wiki.
Trailer for The Doberman Gang.

[IainB]

A Man Called Horse (1970) - IMDb
I thought this was a great film. A sort of Wild West equivalent of the African Tarzan.

I watched the sequel last night - The Return of A Man Called Horse. Not so good. Predictable.

(There was a sequel book to Tarzan - The Return of Tarzan - which was a very good story IMHO - at least, i thought it was when I read all the Tarzan tales at age 12 or so.)   

[holt]

Next - a precognition film starring Nicolas Cage, Jessica Biel, and Julianne Moore.
It seems to me that I have heard one of the soundtracks in Next, in particular, #6 A Few Minutes of Your Time, as a full stand-alone classical music piece. Can anyone possibly help me to ID it; that is, the full classical musical piece #6 is based on?

[tomos]

The Connection -- a French film, originally La French. Showing what was happening in Marseille during The French Connection (must try to watch that again, I can barely remember it).
I saw the film dubbed (in German)

What are your favorite movies?

It's not original; towards the end, especially, it lets you know what's going to happen.
But I found it a really great movie: beautifully crafted, but more importantly for me, the characters were gripping.
Reviews aren't that positive, I'd give it at least an eight:

https://www.imdb.com...4/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_3
https://www.rottento...com/m/the_connection