Your Fave & Least Fave Movies of All Time??

[Galatea]

I think its a combination of being classic Americana and just a special artifact of it's time.

You have the (what is now) politically incorrect messaging. More than one catchy and memorable number, expertly acted as well as sung. Beautiful cinematography. Long, intricate dance scenes with creative props. And union suits.

My grandma liked the movie. Incidentally, grandpa in his younger years looked like he could have been a brother from the film. She wouldn't tell anybody, but that mmmmmmay have had something to do with dating him.

He got fat pretty quick. Poor grandpa.

I watched the commentary, and the studio did not think it was going to be such a hit, and had predicted Brigadoon with Gene Kelly would make a packet. Brides wasn't a 'B' movie, but it did not have the production values of Brigadoon. The front office was surprised when Brides outperformed Brigadoon.

One difference is Brides does not get "artsy". I love dance, but the closing number of Kelly's An American in Paris bored me and went too long. I know if I felt this way, people who don't care for ballet type dancing or "artsy" type of dancing would think it a snooze.

I'm just surprised so many people know Brides in 2017.

Union suits are fun, but so are corsets.

Your grandpa probably got fat because your grandmother was a good cook.

 

[Galatea]

I have so many favorites I can't count them.

I hate to say, but I really liked "Steel Magnolias"...

We watched it many times when I was a kid. I love Dolly Parton in it, but I love Dolly Parton. I was puzzled about why Sally Field was so adept at playing southern women. Then, I read or heard an interview and her mother, grandmother, and aunts were southern. I think she said they were from Mississippi, but am not sure. If you haven't seen Places in the Heart, do yourself a favor and watch it. She is sublime in that one.

I want to add Places in the Heart (1985) to my favorite movies list.

 

[Desdichado]

Huh, I didn't know that. You learn something new everyday.

While this forum provides a more traditional sample-set, I agree. It's unexpected. Particularly how Seven Brides comes up more frequently than similar films like South Pacific.
I hate to compare a movie to Donald Trump, but his campaign does teach a good lesson in any endeavor akin to marketing- if you hit the right culture codes the right way, you defy expectations.


As for grandpa, that's something of a mystery. They didn't have much in those early days. Maybe he just loved cornmeal and didn't exercise. Maybe he lost the genetic lottery. Idk.

I watched the commentary, and the studio did not think it was going to be such a hit, and had predicted Brigadoon with Gene Kelly would make a packet. Brides wasn't a 'B' movie, but it did not have the production values of Brigadoon. The front office was surprised when Brides outperformed Brigadoon.

One difference is Brides does not get "artsy". I love dance, but the closing number of Kelly's An American in Paris bored me and went too long. I know if I felt this way, people who don't care for ballet type dancing or "artsy" type of dancing would think it a snooze.

I'm just surprised so many people know Brides in 2017.

Union suits are fun, but so are corsets.

Your grandpa probably got fat because your grandmother was a good cook.

 

[Sully]

There Will Be Blood.
That is all, nothing else, close the thread, greatest cinematic creation and lead performance ever constructed. If you don't get it, you won't get it. It explains everything. OK, maybe I embellish, but maybe not....

 

[JosephsDreams]

I recently watched Blow Up. From '66 or ^67. Found it fascinating, not to mention it is a bit of a time capsule.

 

[Desdichado]

I. Drink. Your. MILKSHAKE! PFFFFcchhhhc

There Will Be Blood.
That is all, nothing else, close the thread, greatest cinematic creation and lead performance ever constructed. If you don't get it, you won't get it. It explains everything. OK, maybe I embellish, but maybe not....

 

[Sully]

Watched Dr. Strangelove last nite, pretty amazing and timeless.

 

[Desdichado]

I. Drink. Your. MILKSHAKE! PFFFFcchhhhc

One of the few films better than the book.

Jurassic Park ​is also up there.

 

[Sully]

I. Drink. Your. MILKSHAKE! PFFFFcchhhhc

Notice how Eli represented a perverted "pentacostal" mega church leader? The only person who truly knew him was an atheist....fascinating

 

[Desdichado]

So much about that movie is fascinating. Particularly the bits with his son.

Notice how Eli represented a perverted "pentacostal" mega church leader? The only person who truly knew him was an atheist....fascinating

 

[Desdichado]

It was Daniel Day Lewis' finest hour.

 

[Sully]

So much about that movie is fascinating. Particularly the bits with his son.

Yes, he truly loved the boy but used him for his driven need to accomplish his compulsive need to achieve and dominate and ultimately carve out for himself a refuge away from humanity, which became his elaborate prison. The "betrayal" scene at the end shows him relinquishing all self control to the ego pride, which was completely based on a misconception. If he'd been aware, Daniel would've been proud of his son wanting to follow in his footsteps. Instead, he saw it as "competition" and that is what the devil attempts to do to us all.

It was Daniel Day Lewis' finest hour.

Without a doubt, and that is an impressive statement. His final film is coming out around Christmas, it's called Phantom Thread with the same director from TWB Paul Thomas Anderson.

 

[MollyConnor]

Loves
Good Will Hunting
The Prince of Egypt
Bicentennial Man
Napoleon Dynamite

Dislikes
The Nightmare Before Christmas (so overrated)
Superhero movies like The Avengers...boring
Kung Fu Panda
Django Unchained

 

[Nkirah]

Favourite Movies
I have so many favourite movies but I am gonna put the ones I remember fast

1. Faves
Brother Bear
Silver Linings Playbook
Little Boy
Facing the Giants
Kung Fu Panda
November Man
Lion
Eddie the Eagle
The Expandables (1st one)
How To Train Your Dragon
Mulan
Pocahontas
Annie
Big Hero 6
The List goes on......


Least Fave
Deadpool
Night at the museum
Standoff
Any other action movie that's full of blood scenes (if that makes sense)

 

[Jennie-Mae]

I have to report this post for being overly offensive.

You sound like my dad and my brother. "Ain't nobody catchin' me dead watchin' that film" my brother proclaimed. My dad was more correct, and since he was my super hero (still is), he agreed to watch it with me.

 

[Jennie-Mae]

Ain't Southern women required, by law, to like Steel Magnolias? Dey'd yank your membership card if'n you didn't jus' love that movie, right?

Yeah, your status goes from Southern belle to liberal, militant feminist if you don't love that movie.

 

[Jennie-Mae]

We watched it many times when I was a kid. I love Dolly Parton in it, but I love Dolly Parton. I was puzzled about why Sally Field was so adept at playing southern women. Then, I read or heard an interview and her mother, grandmother, and aunts were southern. I think she said they were from Mississippi, but am not sure. If you haven't seen Places in the Heart, do yourself a favor and watch it. She is sublime in that one.

I want to add Places in the Heart (1985) to my favorite movies list.

I love Dolly too. Oh my, whenever I'm listening to Smokey Mountain Memories I just wanna cry when she's singing "When the Northern nights are dreary and my Southern heart is weary"...

 

[Amber_Evans]

Favorites:
The Bourne series
The Hunger Games series
Terminator 2
Marion Bridge
My Girl
Batman Returns
Edward Scissorhands
The Parent Trap (The 1960's one)
3 Ninjas movies (the first 3 that were made)

 

[Zi]

Fav of all time

A few Good Men (top of all time)
The Usual Suspect
John Wick#1 (KR is usually a dud in movies and I thought this was an excellent film for him)
Braveheart
The Last of the Mohicans
The Painted Veil
anything that was a true account and made into a film production, anything with Gordon McRae, Judy Garland, Doris Day, I love old musicals but those are my top favs..

I don't watch a lot of movies so I don't really have any that I can't stand. If it were actors or actresses that's a different story.

 

[steelarmor]

My all time fav would "The Matrix Reloaded". Nothing beats that for a millenial.