Favorite movie of all time?

Without a doubt...

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As I am formerly known as 'TylerD' here, I submit Fight Club.

Why? The main reason for me is, on first viewing, I did not see it coming, that is, Jack = Tyler. You can only experience it once, the movie twist, and watching the movie again, it is gone, yet that moment in time was priceless, something I can only strive toward in film making.
 
Hunt for Red October.

Without question. every time I see it, I appreciate it on yet another level, or catch some small nuance I'de yet not experienced.

The sound work alone is fantastic.

Go Randy!!!!
 
insanityfw said:
I'm with CMessineo with JAWS. It just shouldn't be that good, but it's one of the best studies in pacing and character development. I mean, come on, a cop that's afraid of the water that lives on an island. Brilliant.
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My favorite scene in the movie is when the three of them are on the boat comparing scars, talking about the Indianoplis, and singing that song "show me the way to go home". When you can have a 12 minute dialogue scene like that in the middle of what is essentially a monster movie, all I can do is bow down in praise.

Chris
 
Forrest Gump, Rain Man, The Graduate, Little Big Man, Falling Down, The Game, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

All a close tie, but I'd have to say The GAME.

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CMessineo said:
My favorite scene in the movie is when the three of them are on the boat comparing scars, talking about the Indianoplis, and singing that song "show me the way to go home". When you can have a 12 minute dialogue scene like that in the middle of what is essentially a monster movie, all I can do is bow down in praise.

Chris
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Exactly Chris. Happy thanksgiving.
 
at this moment, nothing has topped the poetic, lyrical Werckmeister Harmonies for me... quite possibly for this 10 minute, single take scene alone. it's just drunks in a bar role playing the events of a solar eclipse, but about 5 minutes in the music kicks in and culminates with the barkeep possibly seeing his patrons a little differently. the line "it's still not over" breaks my heart.

i'm sure it won't affect everyone in the same way, but for me, this is the type of filmmaking i am most sensitive to, and the most appreciative of.
 
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Pen Cap Chew said:
Leolo. A nice little masterpiece.

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It's just to bad Jean-Claude Lauzon died in a plane accident few years ago (1997). He was only 44 years old. He did not made a lot of movies, but he had a unique vision.

« Léolo won prestigious awards, including Genies for best original screenplay and best direction, and a Special Jury Citation for best Canadian feature at the Toronto Festival of Festivals in 1992. The critical response was overwhelming: Roger Ebert, in the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote that “Léolo is an enchanting, disgusting, romantic, depressing, hilarious, tragic movie, and it is quite original — one of the year's best. I have never seen one like it before.”»

http://www.filmreferencelibrary.ca/index.asp?layid=46&csid1=40&navid=46
 
MOVIE STUNTS said:
BATTLE ROYALE, An awesome movie containing the best of genres and melding them into the perfect mixture.
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I thought about BR before settling on Oldboy for my deserted island scenario. Great movie!
 
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