I am lighthearted so my question is what is your favorite film of all time?

THE STING
OUT OF AFRICA
ROMEO AND JULIET (1968)
PLATOON
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN
TITANIC
CHRISTMAS VACATION
CENTENNIAL ('78 miniseries (20 hrs))
LONESOME DOVE ('89(?) miniseries)
THE HAUNTING ('63)
JEREMIAH JOHNSON
PREDATOR ('87)
BULLITT

 

I guess there's lots of screwups in film..

GOODFELLAS (airport heist at JFK in early/mid 1960s... stock footage showing a 747 departing, except they weren't in service until 1968/69. I was given tour of first Jumbo Jet at LAX by Chief of Maintenance: Pan Am Airways)

APOCALYPTO (multiple human sacrifices cut short by total solar eclipse.. that very same night - while chasing the escaping prisoner - they show a FULL MOON!! (doesn't anyone look this shit up? oh yeah.. they hide that stuff in books when not teaching it in HS))

 

Back in the early to mid 60s,no one cared at all. Cars shown in the background were often a decade before the model.

Fred Zinnemann was paranoid. When we viewed the dailies following the steam train shot in Julia, which had involved closing part of a London station, bringing the train half way across the country and hiring round 500 extras, along with their period dress, he went ballistic when he spotted a crew member walking along a distant platform wearing his usual denims. It took me ages to convince him that to me. it was so small that it just looked like a signalman wearing a boilersuit.
At the press screening of the finished film, he came over and said, "If you were wrong, they will find you floating face down in the river tomorrow morning".

The press screening, followed by the opening night were a huge success, so I am still around to post on HF in my 75th year. I need to be careful, I have used up at least 8 of my 9 lives.

Take a look at this unique film that shows the reality and complexity or location shooting.
Something that few people would ever consider, is that they had to pre-record the sound track and play it through speakers on poles to keep the location shots in timebase.

The 70mm Todd AO camera was also a problem on it's own.
Do you think they could either film or record this today. I certainly don't.

 

Our smaller group of b&w dvds. Laura Possessed nowvoyager keeperoftheflame allabouteve bishopswife timeofyourlife . id hafta cheat & look @ collection for more. Casablanca ofcourse, & sevral more. & these r just the smaller productions. Therainscame which actually beat oz for specialeffects. There are more in our collection. Yes i too spot the funny faux pases. Similar to casablanca young girls are often used in background large office scenes. This was first pointed out to us in the aparartment in a side commentary. Laura has the closest up young secretary extras ive seen.

 

Real Genius is one of my favourites

 

Yes especially the dude comin in backdoor & goindown the escalator.

 

Don't be so sure. I'd include All Quiet on the Western Front, Frankenstein, It Happened One Night, and The Best Years of our Lives among my most favorite films.

But to answer the OP question, Jaws. Jaws is my favorite movie of all time.

 

I have stopped watching TV and Movies, and it's been years since I've tried to watch either. The last one was "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" and before that Marvel's "Dr. Strange".

Yesterday, I was thinking about a picture framing project for a piece of art in my bedroom and I remembered the painting of Ghostbusters villain 'Vigo the Carpathian' from the "Ghostbusters II" movie. If I wanted to say one thing about movies and the direction of their production, I would say I have a strong appreciation for many older movies like "Ghostbusters II".

 

Aint watched it. But noticed a film battle circus. Which was the original mash. This is big reason i like older ones.

 

If you want some real fun, you should work at Heathrow for a couple of years. You could see the panicking Japanese travelers running up the down escalators. The best one was the time when halfway up, a flight came in and hoards of passengers crowded on and met him in the middle.
Fortunately I managed to prevent a guy from hitting the emergency stop. If a down escalator packed with passengers and luggage stops, the brake applies to stop it. The escalator stops, but the passengers don't and all end up in a heap at the bottom.

Their is a saying among airport staff,that passengers pack their brain in their luggage.
Another very funny moment was the time when a smartly dressed business traveller asked me for directions to his gate. I pointed over to his pier and told him that gate 5 would be the third on his left. I could see his puzzled expression, "muttering third, five", but when I mentioned like houses in the street the penny seemed to drop..
His parting question was, "Which side is left".

I could not resist this one.
When an American woman used Virgin's new computerised boarding pass machines, when her pass dropped down, she discovered a set of car keys in the tray that the previous panicking passenger had left behind.
When she brought them over and asked me what to do with them, I managed to keep a straight face and say. "The pilot on your flight has called in sick, so you have been selected to drive". I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when she got to he boarding gate.

I spent more than 40 years in the theatre and 2 years at Heathrow (as a ground systems engineer) during the 90s recession.
I laughed more in those 2 years than in the other 40.

 

Well, it's not my favorite , but I really enjoyed watching The Breakfast Club yesterday . Haven't watched since the mid 80s when it came out. There are---of course--some scenes that some uptight people might now be offended about---fuck ém.

 

The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Pacific (2010) (technically a TV series)
Dr. Zhivago
Jeremiah Johnson
Man in the Wilderness
The Mutant Chronicles
Pork Chop Hill

 

The Blues Brothers - "We're on a mission from God!" LOL

 

2001: A Space Odyssey. Seen it several times at the cinema and loads of DVD/Blu-ray watches. I was introduced to the book by a friend at school and if I remember correctly read it one hit. 2010: Odyssey Two is also very good.

Steve.

 

Dr Strange love. Peter Seller's multiple roles stole the show. Having lived through the faceoff with the Soviet Union when the world held it's breath, thinking it was about to die, added to the macabre insanity of it all. But the Soviets blinked and we went on to the exuberance of the space race.

Runner-up has to be Rocky Horror. Saw that over 50 times, mostly at showings where everyone went dressed up. I went as Rocky several times, then switched to Dr Scott as I got older.

 

By number of times I watched it, Blues Brothers is the clear winner. Damn I love that movie to this day. By now I’m well into the triple digits for how many times I’ve watched it. It’s probably not coincidence that Chicago is my favorite highly urbanized area on the planet. Yes, more than my native and beloved SF Bay Area, and I despise the Northeast big cities. Chicago is a gem, and I would really have never thought about it but for this movie, even filmed when it was arguably at its worst.

By emotional impact, it’s kind of a toss-up between American Beauty and Requiem for a Dream - both left me gut-punched to the point where I actually don’t really do super hard hitting dramas anymore. But hella respect, these movies are dark and full of thinking. I envy people who can handle watching movies in this vein repeatedly.

By life lessons or movies with characters I can identify with, I’d go with The Big Lebowski and Our Idiot Brother. Both center some hapless, basically good folks who blunder through life without lampooning them the way, say, Pink Panther or Detective Gadget do. Unfortunately I’m in a headspace where this kind of thing hits far too close to home.

For just sheer watchability, I’m gonna go with The Fifth Element. It’s got something for everyone, and that weird French thing they can do in cinema (and cars) which makes it lovable. I could actually see Nicholas Cage in this movie - the quirks would make him thrive - but Bruce Willis was really good in this, at least as good as he was in the Die Hards. It’s not a movie I put on for myself, but in a group setting if nobody can decide what to watch, this is kinda my go-to, and I never regret watching it yet again.

 

Raiders of the Lost Ark