If only Steve cleared the fence...

I always want James Garner and sad, blind Donald Pleasence to make it into Switzerland ...

i think this one is fairly obvious for me..

Lawrence Of Arabia.
Which should be required viewing for US presidents about to invade an Arab country.

The Usual Suspects.
The ending is brilliant.

Battle Of Britain. Patriotic stuff.

anything Monty Python

Red Dwarf If it ever gets made.

If she weighs the same as a duck........

Damn. Missed that of my list. "You lucky bastard".....

It's kind of tough for me. I don't watch many movies for any reason other than pure slack-jawed entertainment. Don't watch camera angles, colors, any technical stuff. Don't care to find hidden metaphors or foreshadowing or artsy stuff. When I *do* watch from one of those perspectives, the list of favorites is different from the list of popcorn favorites.

Popcorn favorite/childhood-feeling-resurrector: Empire Strikes Back
Popcorn favorite 2: Braveheart (the first and best of the 10000000-acres-of-carnage-in-one-shot movies), followed verrrrry closely by the LoTR trilogy. They'd win, but they're even more pompous and overly long than BH

For sound: Just became acquainted with a guy who records some of our GH shows, went to his house to see his home theater. It's utterly AMAZING. He lives in some suburban little house, but the basement has 200k in surround sound, weird speakers, players for every conceivable format of A/V goodness. It's just sick.

Anyway, he gave me a choice of what movie to experience the surround with, and I picked the digital tape (can't remember what that format is called, but it's apparently 14x clearer than DVD, or some sick number) of Master and Commander.

Holy cow. Just...holy cow. The score alone would bring tears to your eyes, and every footstep on the deck overhead can be heard in perfect relation to the cup that clattered off to the left. With the lights off, and none of the flicker or video noise that you're accustomed to on the big screen or on regular monitors, you truly believe you're there.

we also smoked one and watched a Yes video. Don't even start me on that one. If I win the lottery, I'm hiring this guy to make me one of those theaters.

Yeah. So for sound, Master and Commander.

was gonna do more, but i've used up my line count for one post.

The depressing thing, noodle? A LOT of movies have incredible sound like that, and 99.9% of the population will never hear it. :(

Especially incredible that people will hook up a DVD player to their TV and then listen to the little crappy built-in speakers.

You can spend a fortune to hook in surround sound, but a good first-pass approximation is to connect the stereo output on most modern TVs to your stereo. If the stereo has a subwoofer, you can get decent sound for the cost of some cables.

The Thin Man - Highest w/m ratio of any movie I know. (wisecracks per minute)

Blade Runner (The theatre version) - I love the voiceovers (shades of sam spade) and I'm a sucker for a happy ending.

Rio Bravo - a great piece of horse opera plus Walter Brennan as Stumpy (one of the best character parts ever)

Ghostbusters - one of the funniest and most quotable movies of all time. "Cats and dogs living together", anyone?

dar - I'm totally with you on Ghostbusters.

Movies I have on DVD and watch over and over and over:
Amelie (always puts me in a good mood)
Willy Wonka... (one of my childhood favorites)
LOTR trilogy (very entertaining)
The Jerk (hilarious "I just heard a song that reminded me of the way we were")
Moulin Rouge (mushy romance and great music)
Shawshank Redemption (great story - happy ending)
The Goonies (super fun and quotable)
etc.

and the movie I could quote 99% of... Pee Wee's Big Adventure :blush: "Look out Mr. Potato-Head!"

Are you looking forward to or dreading the remake due this summer?

Totally looking forward to it. From what I've read, it's not a remake. It will follow the book much closer. Very very different from the Gene Wilder version, which I love, but I can't wait to see what Tim Burton (and Johnny Depp) have done.

Did you see the TV preview yet? Was it just my VCR or is Willy Wonka in black and white? Just him, not his clothes or anything else. That could be an interesting effect.

Trailer here. He's just very pale.