Name your Favorite Movie

[derby1]

Dead mans Shoes, the greatest film Hollywood couldnt get their hands on.

 

[mjb3617]

Top Gun

 

[BeExcellent]

1. The Wind and the Lion
2. Braveheart
3. Darkest Hour
4. Goodfellas
5. The Big Short

 

[Scars]

Fight Club. It's the only movie I can watch over and over again. Most movies are a one-and-done for me.

Oh, and Batman Darknight with Heath Ledger.

 

[corrector]

1. The Wind and the Lion
2. Braveheart
3. Darkest Hour
4. Goodfellas
5. The Big Short

Guess I must have stolen Dunkirk from your list since I mentioned it first, lol! That's at least three movies that are based or inspired by True Stories. Molly's Game (2017) or Wolf of Wall Street (2013) didn't make your list?

 

[corrector]

The movie I've liked best from recent years is Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

I watched the first 20 minutes of it and planned to watch the rest but that was like a year or two ago. It's currently on netflix-Canada.

 

[BeExcellent]

Guess I must have stolen Dunkirk from your list since I mentioned it first, lol! That's at least three movies that are based or inspired by True Stories. Molly's Game (2017) or Wolf of Wall Street (2013) didn't make your list?

Lol. I actually loved Molly’s game…but didn’t want to make an extensive list…Of course the original Star Wars too…

Dunkirk was beautifully shot but I liked the way the story was told more through Darkest Hour. I’m a history buff though & have always revered Churchill from this side of the pond…

Merry Christmas Gang & Cheers

 

[zekko]

Dunkirk was beautifully shot but I liked the way the story was told more through Darkest Hour.

This is getting off topic (not that I care), but I liked the way 1917 was told (different war, I know). The way it follows the protagonists through the trench warfare landscape, the realism, etc.

 

[corrector]

@BeExcellent and @zekko, they are actually all good war movies. For example, there was this one time, I watched Darkest Hour, but paused it half-way in the movie where I felt the movie was beginning to overlap with the time-line of the Dunkirk movie, then watched Dunkirk, then resumed Darkest Hour and that was like a *wow* realistic war-time re-enactment from both sides in that story.

1917 deals with WW1, and one can argue, so does Fatima (2019) - the Portugal apparition of Mary during WW1 which provided hope to a population in despair because of the extent of the military losses and you had three children lifting the spirits of many small villages around with a story of hope. They really haven't made allot of nice movies re-creating the times and period of WW1 that captured my interest apart from those 2. There have been others, but they have been rather boring (Passchendaele 2008). It's like Hitler and Pearl Harbor makes WW2 have some sort of Hollywood status because of the crazy ideas, advanced time of warfare that was fully used, that is simply seems more sensationally portrayed compared to WW1.

Before 1917, what did we even get recently? WW1, is often portrayed as a backdrop in some romantic movies (ie Frantz (2016), etc... or Christopher Robin's inspiration of Winnie the Poo (Goodbye Christopher Robin 2017), so it was a badly needed movie to at least put WW1 in the cinematic map.

 

[zekko]

1917 deals with WW1, and one can argue, so does Fatima (2019) - the Portugal apparition of Mary during WW1 which provided hope to a population in despair

That was a good one too.

 

[corrector]

Lol. I actually loved Molly’s game…but didn’t want to make an extensive list…Of course the original Star Wars too…

Dunkirk was beautifully shot but I liked the way the story was told more through Darkest Hour. I’m a history buff though & have always revered Churchill from this side of the pond…

Merry Christmas Gang & Cheers

Molly's Game has made an impression with me because I'm not at the slightest level interested in poker. However, the choice of cast, the way Jessica Chastain brought Molly Bloom to life, made me re-watch this movie multiple times. Normally true-story movies are boring, and I might just only watch it once as a "checklist" (ie it was nominated or awarded for an Oscar/Golden Globe, or it made a watchmojo list or a prolific youtube movie reviewer highly recommended it, etc...) and never see it again since they are usually not fun at all to watch. But Molly's Game is amazing as a solid movie. Another nice movie I can think of based on a true story was Beautiful Mind (2001), that was re-watched on multiple occasions. They come far and few in between.

 

[BillyPilgrim]

The Money Masters is a classic documentary and vital for one's education

 

[eli77]

The crow

 

[andreihaha]

DJ-related: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, and the old Alfie with Michael Caine.

Anything else: Fight Club, Sin City, Young Frankenstein, Some Like it Hot, Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049 and Stalker(Russian version). I just don't want to pick one.

 

[FlexpertHamilton]

Also going to have to shout out Under the Skin and Annihilation.

 

[9-3enthusiast]

Alien.

Honourable mentions for Close Encounters, Blade Runner and Silent Running.

 

[Focal core]

To name a few Underworld, Resident Evil. Insidious, The nun.

 

[Bandolero]

The shawshank redemption
Mr.Brooks
Leon the Professional
8 mile
Warrior

 

[andreihaha]

The shawshank redemption
Mr.Brooks
Leon the Professional
8 mile
Warrior

Yeah, Leon is great...

 

[drane]

tie between "the magnificent seven (first version) and Terminator II