What is your favorite movie?

[Chyron8472]

I'm not sure. I like several movies equally well. Movies that I may have, in the past, said were my favorite, I have seen so many times that I don't feel the need to watch them much.



umm... okay, I guess it would have to be a tie between:
Star Trek (2009);
Star Wars: Revisited (fan edit by Adywan);
Return of the Jedi DeSpecialized (fan preservation by Harmy);
Batman Begins

I love Star Trek 4 and 6, and want to put them on that list, but maybe I'm just thinking about good Trek movies and want to see those again since it's been a while.

[Alcoremortis]

I have watched Star Trek: The Voyage Home so many times that references from the movie regularly make it into every day speech for me.

"I think he did a little too much LDS in the sixties" is probably the one that comes up the most.

[Chyron8472]

I thought you'd say "well, double dumbass on you!"


edit: great. now you got my mind filling up with Star Trek IV quotes.

[Alcoremortis]

Nah, if I've got to insult someone, my default is: "Oh yeah? Well you fight like a cow!"

[Chyron8472]

I actually have used "you make me think someone already did" against a classmate who said "you make me want to puke." The whole class laughed.

[Shadowknight1]

Originally Posted by Chyron8472

I thought you'd say "well, double dumbass on you!"


edit: great. now you got my mind filling up with Star Trek IV quotes.

"Damage control is easy. Reading Klingon? That's hard."

"I just wish we could cloak the stench."

[Chyron8472]

About those colorful metaphores we discussed... I don't think you should try using them anymore. [...] For one thing you haven't quite got the knack of it.

[Alcoremortis]

Scotty: "Computer!... Computer?"
*Dr. McCoy hands him the mouse*
Scotty: *picks up mouse* "Hello, Computer."
Manager: "Just use the keyboard."

[coolsome]

Star Wars the original trilogy.

[watertommyz]

I've got a lot of favorite movies, and I'd never be able to sit down and simply choose just one film as my absolute favorite as I'm bit of a cinemaphile. Like comics, I'll take as much of the medium as I can get. It also depends on what kind of mood I'm in, and I tend to obsess over a film that I really enjoyed after seeing it for the first time. Like I'll watch all of the deleted/alternate scenes, commentaries, documentaries, and all of that other good stuff and still not feel satisfied.

I watch stuff from all the way back to the thirties, man. You know, the silent film era.

Instead, I'll say my favorite genres are probably horror, science fiction, and drama but really, I like it best when there's a perfect mix. Romance and action blockbusters tend to disappoint me the most but not always. I also really like hyper violent films, so Asian horror and Quentin Tarantino are always welcome in my dvd and blu ray collection.

I just saw Django Unchained today, and I'd probably consider that one of the best put together films I've ever seen. It was three hours long, but I wanted it to go on for just one more, and I don't ever say that about a movie.

The Evil Dead trilogy, Dawn of the Dead, Reservoir Dogs, Halloween, The Thing, Memento, Scarface, Battle Royale, District 9, and I could list so so very many....

Favorite Directors Include: Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, and John Carpenter.

[Alcoremortis]

Originally Posted by watertommyz

I just saw Django Unchained today, and I'd probably consider that one of the best put together films I've ever seen. It was three hours long, but I wanted it to go on for just one more, and I don't ever say that about a movie.

I feel the same, man. It pains me when I recommend it to people and they won't go see it because they "don't like Tarantino".

[Johro]

Probably doesn't help that "one of the best movies of the year" got unseated at #1 in week two by a generic Texas Chainsaw sequel nobody cares about(and I have most of the series). That's got to hurt.

[Alcoremortis]

People just don't appreciate good movies like they used to. Wait, they never did. Nevermind.

[Johro]

I just don't think people are going to the movies. I'm well into the horror community and even the general consensus there was disinterest in Texas Chainsaw. It definitely isnt mainstream either. I was honestly shocked to see it unseat Django. I really was. Those 3D ticket prices really help this time of year I suppose.

[Alcoremortis]

I think people who go see Texas Chainsaw aren't what I'd classify as horror fans. I'd put them in the "soft snuff" category of viewer.

[Pony Bone]

Originally Posted by Alcoremortis

It pains me when I recommend it to people and they won't go see it because they "don't like Tarantino".

[Noname215]

I thought Django was pretty damn stupid. First of all, the violence was dumb and unnecessary, the plot was somewhat like Tarantino’s last movie, the jokes were dumb (with the exception of the Baghead scene), the dialogue made me face-palm, and no one needed to see Jamie Foxx upside-down nutsack! I’ll give it this, though: DiCaprio, Waltz, and Jackson made it worth watching.

[watertommyz]

Originally Posted by Noname215

I thought Django was pretty damn stupid. First of all, the violence was dumb and unnecessary, the plot was somewhat like Tarantino’s last movie, the jokes were dumb (with the exception of the Baghead scene), the dialogue made me face-palm, and no one needed to see Jamie Foxx upside-down nutsack! I’ll give it this, though: DiCaprio, Waltz, and Jackson made it worth watching.

How is it anything like Inglorious Basterds plot wise? The only callback to any other movie I caught was a nod to Blazing Saddles and then back to Tarantino's own Reservoir Dogs with the play acting within a movie, which by the way is a genius way to remind you that it's a movie, so yes...have all the fun you can watching it.

Also, the violence dumb and unnecessary? Hello, this is Quentin Tarantino and a Western (err Southern) so it was always going to have that. This is what he does. It felt more rewarding for the bad guys to actually be shown to get horrible deaths, because that's what makes it great. It's visual flair...icing on the cake. Cathartic.

[Alcoremortis]

The movie did what it was meant to do, and that was emulate the spaghetti western type of genre, particularly the original Django movies, which were so bloody and violent that they were banned in England. Hence, having a non-bloody movie would have betrayed one of the main draws of the original.

[watertommyz]

Originally Posted by Alcoremortis

The movie did what it was meant to do, and that was emulate the spaghetti western type of genre, particularly the original Django movies, which were so bloody and violent that they were banned in England. Hence, having a non-bloody movie would have betrayed one of the main draws of the original.

That cameo by the original Django was brilliant!