What Is Your Favorite Film of All Time and Why?

[netlee]

All Bruce Lee's movies.Because he makes his fighting scenes look very realistic even know he really did had lighting speed punches.I also love all the films of Jesus Christ,The Ten Commandments with chalrton Heston because they have a lot of wonderful things that brings into life the things and miracles of God.I also like and enjoy watching terror movies like Omen,Predator,Aliens,Exorcist and others because many of these movies show realistic happenings.And,I also love and greatly enjoy myself watching ALL kinds of true documantories,wild life in general and Law Enforcement documentaries.

[NJ7070]

Romero-Raul Julia gave a most passionate performance as Bishop Arnulfo Romero, a man who dared to defy the establishment and who would pay with his own life. This movie made a Raul Julia fan out of me.

Becket-This movie had Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton. One of the greatest movies ever made. What can you say about Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole?

Stand and Deliver-Edward James Olmos plays Jaime Escalante, a man who left the corporate world to teach calculus in East Los Angeles

South Central-Gary Plummer plays a gang banger who while serving time, finds out that his son is shot while commiting a crime. This forces him to come to grips with his lifestyle and the consequences of such. The ending kicks butt.

Saving Private Ryan

Platoon

American Me

Scent Of A Woman

Enemy At The Gates

Dead Man Walking

The Green Mile

The Other Sister

Good Will Hunting

The Rain Maker

Under Pressure

A Time To Kill

Braveheart

Friday

Liar Liar

Carlito's Way

I Am Sam-Sean Penn should have won the Oscar

Kiss of the Dragon

The Hunt For Red October

The Crimson Tide

The People Vs Larry Flynt

The Best Of The Best

Coming To America

Primal Fear-Edward Norton should have won the Best Supporting Actor. He lost to Cuba Gooding Jr.

Scarface starring Al Pacino
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I can't think of any more at this juncture.

NJ7070

[bambina]

Most of all I like films about mafia, gangsters, robberies, drama and of course tragic love stories. Strange enough, but I don't like comedies and films with happy finals.

God Father ….the greatest movie I have ever seen.

James Bond……the greatest spy of all times and dramatic new video effects and stunts with every new film.

Carlito's Way…..”A favor kills you faster than a bullet” – Carlito Brigante says it to his lawyer, his friend and….. god damn it!…… this turns to be right! It’s so bad, so bad. To tell the truth I was crying in the end when he was taken away from the train that could have brought him and Gail to their paradise.

The Story of Us…everything is like in a real family life. Love fades with time, but something appears that doesn’t let the two people, who had lived together for 20 years, part.

One Night Stand…..have you seen this movie? Oh, it’s so, so, sooooo unpredictable. I always envy the people who are watching this movie for the first time.

Devil's Advocate………Al Pacino is the Greatest Devil ever invented in the history of cinematography. In the end his monologue about God is just fantastic. And Vanity is definitely one of the most interesting sins in the world.

Frankie and Johnny………may be the most serious of the chosen here movies about loneliness and how difficult it could be to get closer to a man after being alone for a long time.

The City of Angels………a beautiful sentimental story about how an angel fell in love with a woman and gave up the heavens for love. And the heavens, the God, who “gives us a chance to choose” being an angel or being a human……punishes that angel for choosing the second.

Mars Attacks………one of the few comedies that I like. Its really very cruel movie in spite of the old lady conquering the violent (but so cute) Martians.

MIB……….another comedy that I like. Just funny with funny little and not very little creatures.

And I also like The Shawshank Redemption and I don’t wanna repeat what Ecuajey have already said about this movie…but I think the same.

[Lorelei]

I just spent over an hour writing and explaining my list and the website ATE it up. LOST in cyberspace. All my painstaking words. AAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGHH!!!!

[El_Jibaro]

[i]However, the LORD OF THE RING series has proven to be multidimensional, not just shallow imagery like the rest of the movies.

I love movies with a real HEART:

• LORD OF THE RINGS 1,2,3
  
• GLADIATOR

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[Lorelei]

Here's a quick, less wordy version of my lost post.

Favorites that come to mind, in chronological order:

1. Donavan's Reef (first movie that I ever saw that explored--in a small way--what it meant to be biracial years ago).
2. Bruce Lee films (cuz everybody including me was into Kung Fu fighting)
3. the first Star Wars and ET (because like others, I look up to the stars and wonder what's out there)
5. Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea (because it reminds me of good times with my kids when they were small)
6. Once Were Warriors (explores what happens to people who are oppressed and stripped of their culture.)
7. Sense and Sensibilities (because people do the right thing, even when their hearts tell them to do otherwise)
8. Shawshank Redemption (for reasons others have expressed)
9. The Color of Paradise (a beautiful Iranian film with a meaningful story)
10. Frida (she was a woman who did not let her own physical limitations keep her from going after what she wanted)

[yautiawoman2]

My favorites are oldies (most of them):


Favorites:

1. Missing. It is about Chile. I remember Salvador Allende and I met his lovely wive at The First International Women's Conference in Mexico City; so great was the impression she made on me that I am honored to have lived during their same lifetime, shared the same continent and many of their sorrows about "Nuestra Patria Grande, America Latina"

Missing is a political thriller and is actually about a yong US journalist who disapeard and his father, played by Jack Lemon, a prominent New York City Businessman goes to Chile looking for his son. He is desperate searching for his son and one wonders how come no Chilean father is allowed into the stadium to look for his son or daughter dead or alive. The U.S. embassy and the CIA leads him in circles, up blind alleys and the father is told "If this was not your son, you would not care where your profits came from" (or something to that effect). You do not see what happened when George Bush Sr. and Henry Kissinger had Allende and 5,000 citizens killed during the years Nixon was President. We do know that the father sued Henry Kissinger and President Nixon. It does not give you a lot of information on Chile and Allende, you gotta have that to really enjoy the painful, shattering conclusion of this sad story which was true.

Mission. It is a political thriller of a different sort, the history of the Catholic Church, The Order of the "Jesuitas"
and the Indian Slave Trade. What I loved about this film besides the reality that not much has changed when it comes to the condition of the Indian Populations in the New World is the breathtaking beauty of the landscape. Rivers flowing through a dense rain forest, incredible rapids, haunting music, the colors. It begins with a river flowing and in its turbulence a martyred Jesuit priest bound to a rogh-hewn cross. The crucifix tumbles through rock-strewn rapids until, it plunges 200 feet down the roaring swirl of an incredible waterfall.

It is the powerful story of the Catholic Church and about the struggle of The Guarani Tribe in South America to survive slavering during the Spanish and Portuguese conquest. It is "Sweeping, lyrical, visually resplendent, The Mission triumphs on two levels: intellectually as a clash between fatith and greed, and emotionally as an action-filled clash of wills and cultures... It is epic, unforgettable storytelling at its finest." (Staring Rober DeNiro)
Foreign Films:
The Official Story. What can I say, I loved this film and las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo are in the news quite often because they have identified some of the children that were taken from them, and even if they could not get their children back because they had been killed, they have traced the DNA and found the Generals and Businessmen who had their grandchildren. I would like to see a book writen by one of these grandchildren and how they felt when they found out who their real parent were and what had happened to them. Great Drama.

Men With Guns. Not that old, compared to the other films. Again a great story of a Dr. who was a professor at a medical school somewhere in Central America or Southern Mexico, was not quite sure. He wanted to do good by training some students and sending them to take care of Indian Populations. They suffered the same fate as the Indians. Great Stuff.

As I think about others I will post.

Yautia