Would be a much easier question to ask if it was broken down in categories but over all Whats your favorite movie. Really hard to choose but at or near the top of mine would be Reservoir Dogs. The tipping scene is worth the price of admission alone.

Also near the top of my list would be

Shawshank Redemption
The Green mile
Cool hand Luke
The unforgiven ( just for the final fight scene )

Could rattle off several of my Honorable mentions but at the top of that list would be

The Outlaw Josey Wales

Damn i gotta stop or the list will be a mile long..

So whats yours

Second vote for Shawshank Redemption. Usual Suspects, Fracture, Arthur, and Cannonball Run for mindless escape, that or Wedding Crashers.

Goodfellas

High Fidelity

Leaving Las Vegas

Full Metal Jacket

The Color of Money

American Beauty

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil


And a whole lot more I just can't think of right now...

Field of dreams
Tombstone ( the scene at the train station gives me goosebumps)
Dumb and dumber ( i laugh my a** off )

+1 Shawshank redemption
Tombstone (Val Kilmer as Doc should have gotten an Academy Award) I`ll be your Huckelberry!
Green Mile
Dances with Wolves
Cool Hand Luke
Butch and Sundance
The day the Earth stood still
Fantastic Voyage (just for Rachel)
Saving Private Ryan
Star Wars
Sgt.York (the Original)
Casablanca
Shootist
McClintock
The List goes on and on.

Goodfellas
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Boondock Saints
Hot Fuzz
Downfall
Crash
The Departed
The Godfather
The Deer Hunter
Die Hard
Back to the Future
2001: A Space Odyssey
Collateral
Schindlers List
Gran Torino
Sling Blade
Slumdog Millionaire
The Shining
A Clockwork Orange
Silence of the Lambs

In no particular order:

Gross Pointe Blank
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Unfaithful
Blazing Saddles
Three Colors Red
Three Colors Blue
North By Northwest
Marnie
The Odessa File

The list could go on...

Here are a few..

The Professional
Shoot'em Up
WANTED
Goodfellas
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Boondock Saints
Falling Down
Crash (1st One)
The Departed
The Godfather
The Hidden
Blade Runner
The Deer Hunter
Die Hard
Talk Radio
2001: A Space Odyssey
Collateral Damage
Star Wars
WALL-E
Sling Blade
The Shining
A Clockwork Orange
Terminator

That's a few..
Thanks,
John.:music:

Some of my Favorites.....

"Bridge On The River Kwai"
"The Right Stuff"
"Lawerence Of Arabia"
"Saving Prvt. Ryan"
"2001: A Space Odessey"
"The French Connection"
"Nosferatu" (1922 silent)
"Nosferatu" (1978 remake)


Russ

Here are a few..

The Professional
Shoot'em Up
WANTED
Goodfellas
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Boondock Saints
Falling Down
Crash (1st One)
The Departed
The Godfather
The Hidden
Blade Runner
The Deer Hunter
Die Hard
Talk Radio
2001: A Space Odyssey
Collateral Damage
Star Wars
WALL-E
Sling Blade
The Shining
A Clockwork Orange
Terminator

That's a few..
Thanks,
John.:music:

I like your list!

Oh man I completely forgot about the shootist. IMO the best JW movie ever made !

Of the 'tough-guy' movies, I like Casino a whole lot. DeNiro and Pesci at their finest IMO. :yes::thmbsp:

I'm a sucker for comedy too-- and enjoy a lot of idiotic movies. A couple come to mind: Dumb & Dumber, Weekend At Bernie's :D

Clockwork orange
Big lebowski
day the earth stood still

Those are my top 3

U-571
The Undefeated
Meet Joe Black
Patton
Pearl Harbor
Titanic
Grumpy Old Men
Master and Commander
The Lost battalion

Casablanca
Dial M for Murder
Psycho
To Catch a Thief
High Noon
The Bridges at Toko Ri
The Guns of Navarone
Holiday

Classic movies on and on....

I'll try to be concise but I have "favorites" for various reasons: best story/plot, best casting/characterization, best looking (cinematography), best score/use of music etc...soooo, in no particular order:

The entire Back to the Future series
2001 and 2012
The ORIGINAL Star Wars trilogy (not that hideous prequel trilogy abortion)
Star Trek II Wrath of Khan
Star Trek IV
The Abyss
The Day The Earth Stood Still (original)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (original)
Galaxy Quest
American History X
The Illusionist
The Time Machine (original)
A Touch of Evil
Run Silent, Run Deep
South Pacific
The Apartment
Sneakers
The Andromeda Strain (ORIGINAL!!)
Colossus: The Forbin Project

I've never seen a John Wayne film I didn't like

There are many more, but that's a partial list of films I can watch any time and always get lost in them.

This is as bad as favorite band/music/lp threads but I'll kick in a few.

+1 on Shawshank, The Usual Suspects, Casablanca, Goodfellas, The Godfather, Blazing Saddles and I'm sure some others I may have missed.

I also like the following quite a bit:

The entire LOTR trilogy
The Blues Brothers
Airplane
Caddyshack
Casino Royale (the Daniel Craig version)
Goldfinger
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Forbidden Planet
The Wild Bunch
Winchester '73
North By Northwest
Chinatown
Annie Hall
Pirates of the Caribbean
It's a Wonderful Life
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Man Who Would Be King

And I'm sure there's lots more I just can't think of right now...:yes:


I'm sure more will come to me later

Yeah, I know what you mean. Leaving out the Indy Jones trilogy, or anything directed by Peter Jackson, or any Clint Eastwood film (dir or acting)...all the Roger Corman/Vincent Price Poe adaptations...pretty much the entire Hammer Studios catalog or the entire Sean Connery Bond films wasn't an oversight; it was a space saving move.

A few of my many favourites are

Rudy
Scent of a Woman
Cool Hand Luke
Flight of the Navigator
Shawshank Redemption
Rocky 1 and 4
Godfather 1 and 2
Back to the Future I, II and III
Top Gun
Iron Eagle
In Search of Bobby Fisher
Big Lobowski
Pulp Fiction
Rambo First Blood

Theres many others I love film almost as much as music and vintage audio .... Almost

Cinema Paradiso

The Magnificent Seven.

Of course.

How about "Bullitt" and "The Great Escape"???? :D

In no particular order:

Blade Runner
Daredevil
Batman Returns
Thelma & Louise
Tomorrow Never Dies
Memoirs of a Geisha
Fifth Element
Run Lola Run
Cars
X-Men III

The Hunt for Red October (all time favorite)

No particular order:
Paprika
Godfather
The original star wars triolgy
Apocolypse Now
Slumdog Millionaire
Independance Day
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Dr. No
Goldfinger
Goldmember
Cool Hand Luke
The Sting
The Great Escape
Pearl Harbor
High Fidelity
Forrest Gump
Planet of the Apes (original)
Force Ten From Navarone
Back To the Future
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
The French Connection
From Russia With Love
American Pie
Accepted
2001: A Space Odyssey
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
South park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
Full metal Jacket
U571
Platoon
JFK
Driving Miss Daisy
Ghostbusters!
The Last Crusade
Lawrence of Arabia
Amadeus
Kingdom of Heaven


...and that's all that I can think of at this point. There will be more.

absence of malice
the verdict
maltese falcon
to have and have not
fallen
goldfinger ( gotta love a movie in 1963 that snuck "Pussy Galore" past the censors)
the thin man
capt blood
as good as it gets
elmer gantry
double indemnity
casablanca

theres more i just can't think

Full Metal Jacket
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

I would put these two on the list:

FMJ - Just watch the 1st 30 min of the flic. This is the most accurate portrayal I've seen of 'boot camp', not to mention it's funny.

Midnight - It's chocked full of 'entertaining characters'. One line says it all for me. Kelso is on the phone with his boss in NYC, and he says 'These people down here are walking an imaginary pet on a leash. They are heavily armed and heavily drugged. New York City is boring. Talk to you later.'

Half the films Eastwood & Newman were involved in.

More to follow.......................

Think I'm going to add

Apocalypse now
M.A.S.H
The quiet man
Blazing Saddles
Star Wars the ( the original )
The hurricane Rubin carter

To my list.

Since someone reminded me of The Thin Man, all of which would be on my list. Let me add another movie with William Powell:

How To Marry A Millionaire.

Lauren Bacall takes a dig at her husband Humprey Bogart. "Look at Roosevelt, look at Churchill, look at old fella what's his name in The African Queen." :D

Captain Blood!!
Damn, add "Dawn Patrol", and "Robin Hood" to my list. Plus all those Cagney ensemble movies were pretty good, and Bogies' film noir' "Dead Reckoning " is sweet too. I love TCM :D

I love the part in Dawn Patrol when the aviators get caught in the basement and Reagan says something like "C'mon you Krauts, give us a break" :lmao:

"Some Like it Hot" makes my list too.

Yep, I agree "the Shootist" was one of Wayne's best, I loved True Grit too though I only watched it to see Glen Campbell die.

Hitchcock's the 39 steps
Manhunter
Shaun of the Dead
Blazing Saddles
High Anxiety
Das Boot
The Enemy Below
Fate is the Hunter
Corvette K-225

One film that I can watch many times and not get tired of the "The Dish", it's a slow moving flick and is kinda lost on anyone who isn't old enough to have watched the Apollo 11 landing in 69. Full of good acting.....
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/

As of last night i have to add shoot em up to my list. Its an awesome movie with a good surround setup :yes:

The Godfather, parts 1 and 2
Goodfellas
Casablanca
2001: A Space Odyssey
Awakenings
Rambo: First Blood
Rocky
Alien
The Thing From Outer Space
Run Silent, Run Deep
A Beautiful Mind
Open Water, 1 and 2
Dr. No
Blazing Saddles
Twelve Angry Men
From Beyond
Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country
Casino
The Shootist
Bad Lieutenant
Pulp Fiction ("Who's Zed? Zed's dead, baby. Zeds's dead")
The Shining
Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein
The Great Escape
Bullit
I, Robot
On the Beach
My Cousin Vinny
A Bronx Tale
Ravenous
Predator
Raging Bull

For starters...

The Godfather Part I and II
Tombstone
Open Range
Good Fellas
Silent Running
The Cowboys
Star Wars
Silence of The Lambs
The Day The Earth Stood Still (original)
War Of The Worlds (original)
Young Frankenstein and
Dirty Harry
to name a few.

Crap, my favorite movies change as much as the wind.

However, a few that stay on my list:
The Longest Day
The Quiet Man
True Grit
The Messenger
Saving Private Ryan
Full Metal Jacket
Titan A.E.
All Quiet on the Western Front

and my newest favorite:
Stratosphere Girl

Ones I'll watch repeatedly without hesitation:
Action/Adventure:
First 3 Indy Jones
Pretty much all Bonds
The Guns Of Navarone
The Great Escape
Von Ryan's Express
A Bridge Too Far
The Dirty Dozen

Comedy:
Young Frankenstein
Blazing Saddles
Animal House
Knocked Up
40 Year Old Virgin
The Thin Man
The Egg & I (first appearance of a future franchise...Ma & Pa Kettle!)
Three Stooges (Only those w/Curly..nyuk,nyuk)

Drama:
Casablanca
Key Largo
To Have & Have Not
The Maltese Falcon
Lost Horizon (wish someone would unearth a nice print of the original cut...version I have is missing a section...stills w/audio are substituted)
The Green Mile

Westerns:
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
The Searchers
Winchester '73
Tombstone
A Fistful of Dollars
Gunfight at the OK Corral
High Noon

Crime:
The Godfather 1 & 2
Goodfellas
Casino
Little Caesar
Chinatown
Scarface (original)

SF:
Silent Running
The Fifth Element
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
2001
Star Wars
Zardoz
Blade Runner
Starship Troopers

WOW GREAT STUFF

The Day the Earth Stood Still (ORIGINAL)
WallE
Finding Nemo
Oleana
V for Vendetta
Twelve Angry Men
Nightwatch/Daywatch (not perfect but the ending !!)
The Matrix
The Oxbow Incident
Once Were Warriors
Star Wars (Luke) and The Empire Strikes Back
The Seventh Seal
8 1/2
The Hudsucker Proxie
The Incredibles
Kung Fu Hustle
Heaven Can Wait (original)
The Wages of Fear
Young Frankenstein
Little Miss Sunshine
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Stranger than Fiction
The Princess Bride
Way of the Gun
Coraline
and a bunch I know I forgot...

Patton
A Clockwork Orange
Goodfellas
The Seven Ups
Bullitt
Night of the Living Dead 1968 version
Sisters
Dr. Strangelove
Being There
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad,Mad,Mad World
...And others I can't think of right now

Tombstone (Val Kilmer as Doc should have gotten an Academy Award) I`ll be your Huckelberry!

I could not agree more!

:thmbsp:

They Should Have Won An Oscar (http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=74166)

Kung Fu Hustle

This one is such a treat it is hard to know where to begin.......actually I do -

http://graphics.ink19.com/magazine/screenReviews/kungFuHustle1.jpeg

Crap, my favorite movies change as much as the wind.

Here as well. My other main hobby other than music is movies; I was a DVD reviewer for a pretty large website for awhile, but it was too time consuming for a guy who was working 6 days a week at the time. I can't ever see me giving up either music or movies as my two main hobbies....I've easily got over 1500 titles sitting around here, and likely more than that. I'll throw a list out of some of my favorites -

Kill Bill Vol. 1
The Godfather
Serenity
Escape From New York
The Omega Man
Rocky
Chisum
McClintock!
Gettysburg
Saving Private Ryan
Raging Bull
Cop Land
Tombstone
Black Rain
The Shootist
Goodfellas
Patton
Diamonds Are Forever
Casino Royale (and any other Bond movie in the canon)

It is almost impossible for me to make this list and all the preceding capture most of the ones I'd name. So, I'll stick to a (bigger than Top 5), great performances list -

Classics -

The Man Who Would Be King (Connery & Caine)
Zulu (Michael Caine)
The Sand Pebbles (Steve McQueen)
Sunset Boulevard (William Holden)
Heaven Knows Mr. Allison (Robert Mitchum)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Robert Mitchum)
The Sting (Robert Shaw, Paul Newman)
The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3 (Robert Shaw, Walter Matthau)
Charlie Varrick (Walther Matthau)
Liam Neeson (Rob Roy)
Jaws (Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss)
American Grafitti (Richard Dreyfuss)
The Graduate (Dustin Hoffman)
Midnight Cowboy (Dustin Hoffman, John Voight)
Three & Four Musketeers (Oliver Reed, Michael York)

Newer -

Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr., Jeff Bridges)
Fargo (Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Bill Macy)
Silence of the Lambs (Anthony Hopkins & Jody Foster)
American Psycho (Christian Bale)
Gladiator (Russell Crowe, Oliver Reed)
Election (Matthew Broderick)
Sid & Nancy (Gary Oldman)
The Fifth Element (Gary Oldman, Bruce Willis)
The 12 Monkeys (Bruce Willis)
Brazil (Jonathan Pryce)
Fisher King (Jeff Bridges)
Alien (Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm)

Whew!

High fidelity
Sideways
Metropolis (F. Lang)
Reservoir dogs
Night of the living dead
Lost in Translation
The Tao of Steve
Nosferatu (1922, Murnau)
Bloodsport (JC van Damme 1988)
The Shining
American Splendor

I have too many, as well. One not mentioned already:

Strange Brew

Horror - John Carpenter's Halloween

Comedy - Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail

Drama - There Will Be Blood(Fantastic movie)

Action - Equilibrium

Sci-Fi - Donnie Darko

I thought you missed it, but somebody chose The Searchers. Great Wayne/Ford western.

Also:
Quigley Down Under
High Plains Drifter
Hang 'Em High
Pale Rider
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Alien
Terminator (all)
All the Lord of the Ring flicks
Blade Runner
Total Recall

Trains, Planes, and Automobiles
Captain Jack (Kurt Russell)

One that has not been mentioned but I always get suckered in when its on

The Good,the Bad, and the Ugly

Eli Wallach ,Lee Van Cleef and Clint what a great western.

Network -- all time favorite. William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch. Brilliant!

Others, no particular order:

An Officer and a Gentleman
Bonnie and Clyde
Dirty Dancing
Grease
Silence of the Lambs
Primal Fear
The Big Chill

While I could "+1" all down this thread (especially the Eastwood stuff..) I'll try to add those that haven't been mentioned...

8 1/2
Romeo is Bleeding
Smoke
Under the Sheltering Sky
Last Tango in Paris
After Hours (one of Scorsese's best IMHO. unique, less familliar.)
Time Bandits
Blue Velvet (ok everything by David Lynch)
Ran (and everything by Akira Kurosawa)
Once upon a time in the West (Sergio Leone/Bertolucci/Charles Bronson instead of Eastwood )

Demolition Man.. (soo bad yet..painfully prophetic)
Idiocracy (soo bad yet..painfully prophetic)
Billy Madison (you either love it or hate it.. Passionately,. both viable responses)

Soo many not coming to mind with all those already listed...

Oh..

Conan the Barbarian!!!! Yeah I said it.. "Conan,.. What is Best in Life?"

Several of my favorites already listed but I would like to add:

Lonesome Dove
Raising Arizona
The Road Warrior
Duel
Battle of the Bulge
Easy Rider
The White Buffalo
Jerimiah Johnson
Death Hunt
One Eyed Jacks
Southern Comfort
Treasure of the Sierra Madre?
Also any western with Clint Eastwood,Jimmy Stewart,Gary Cooper,William
Elliot or Randolph Scott.

Several of my favorites already listed but I would like to add:

Lonesome Dove
Raising Arizona
The Road Warrior
Duel
Battle of the Bulge
Easy Rider
The White Buffalo
Jerimiah Johnson
Death Hunt
One Eyed Jacks
Southern Comfort
Treasure of the Sierra Madre?
Also any western with Clint Eastwood,Jimmy Stewart,Gary Cooper,William
Elliot or Randolph Scott.

Everyone named some really great flicks.

Bogart once said that Treasure of the Sierra Madre was his favorite.

For those who mentioned "The day the Earth Stood Still" are you talking the original (1950's) or the recent remake. I have not seen the remake yet, but the original is one of my favorite classic Sci-Fi movies.

Others:
The Godfather (just watched it again the other night)
Dog Day Afternoon (ditto)
Dear Hunter
Casino
True Lies
Marathon Man
Three Days of the Condor
Most 007 movies

Heat

The Outlaw Josey Wales



The Outlaw Josey Wales is near the top of my favorite films list. Also riding high are Night Of The Hunter, Some Like It Hot, Once Upon A Time In The West, La Dolce Vita, Pauline At The Beach, Aguirre, The Wrath of God, The Marriage Of Maria Braun, Alexander Nevsky, among others. Am quite fond of Animal House, too.

Forrest cump
witness for the prosecution
a bridge too far
ronin
Jeremiah Johnson
fresh(great movie)