Robben Ford Discussion

BlueRunner

In the midst of the great "What is tone?" thread that Daved started over in his section, FatTeleTom paid tribute to "Princess Bride." Maybe just for fun:

What is your favorite motion picture of all time?

If I may humbly suggest: List just one. (At a time that is.)

Oh yes. And Robben's teaching DVD's are not eligible. Not that they're not the most-watched, most-loved, most-raved-about productions among the folks on this BBS. It's just that if they were eligible, stuff like "Gone With The Wind," "Citizen Kane," "Revenge of the Nerds," etc. wouldn't have a fair shot.

I'll start with mine: "Casablanca"
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Red Suede · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:54 am Post subject:

"The Producers". Not the bogus new one, the one with Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shaun, etc. Top notch comedy.

JackD · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:49 pm Post subject:

Dr. Strangelove!! (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb)

Bluelobster · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:36 pm Post subject: yes

Don't know the exact title in english :
Night of the hunter
the one with Robert mitchum , fingers tatooed with love & hate.

JohnnyZ · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:19 am Post subject:

This is a tough one because I never thought about what my absolute favorite is, and I'm not sure I have one. But, the one that first pops into my mind as one I can watch anytime, over and over again is The Breakfast Club.

Ron S · Senior Member Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 116 Location: UK

I agree about the Princess Bride in it's 'perfectness'.

I also feel the same way about 'Tremors' with Kevin Bacon. That film just has so much charm, no hype or expectations, I sat down one night years back as it came on and always thought for it's genre it could simply not be beaten.

I'd like to see 'Snakes On a Plane' though! Wink

Ron

Leftbender · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:25 am Post subject:

David Lynch is my favorite film Director. His "Wild At Heart" is my all time favorite movie!
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frank0936 · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:57 pm Post subject: Favorite movie

"The Quiet Man". John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara had a special chemistry in everything they did together, but this one tops them all.
Frank

Daved · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:43 pm Post subject:

This question is like "name your favorite song of all time"... there are so many, for so many different reasons... where do you possibly begin?!?!

Besides music, I also love movies of all kinds, so my list (before I reread Blue's qualifier) was about 50 titles long and it was tuff to cut down to even THAT.

Repeatedly mentioned in this thread is Princess Bride... but, for me, though the movie was highly enjoyable and very well done (And how can one NOT love a Rob Reiner flick?), it is not necessarily one of my own "all time faves".

I absolutely loved the William Goldman novel, and still have my dogearred, well worn 1st edition copy of the paperback on my bookshelf, but the book is just too deep, too complex, too richly imaginative to easily translate succesfully into a simplified 2 hour movie.
(My same feeling as regards the Hitchiker's Guide To The Universe movie from last year... very well produced, but it SHOULD have been done at least as a trilogy).

I do agree with Jack: Dr. Strangelove - my mom would drop me and my kid brother off at the Saturday afternoon matinees when we were young tykes, while she cleaned house. We THOUGHT we were going to see a western, probably because of Slim Pickins... boy were we in for a surprise!

Also with Red: The Producers - the original version - classic!

More great flicks suggested by Blue: Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Gone With The Wind

So, off the top of my head, only one out of very, very many of my all time favorites:

Shoes Of The Fisherman
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fingerlakes · Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:35 am Post subject:

WOW...It's hard to pick just one........I guess for me it's THE SOUND OF MUSIC.....My Mom took me to see it in 1965 as a 12 year old and I've been mesmerized by Julie Andrews ever since. ( I'm not gay ). The songs,the scenery, the Mother Superior singing ' Climb Every Mountain " in that husky alto, and Capt Von Trapp singing " Edleweiss" , lots of reasons i love this movie.

Other flicks on the short list :

Fargo
Cool Hand Luke
Annie Hall

patocaster · Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 7:24 am Post subject:

Movies can be like recommending restaurants. I love that place and you tell someone, they go and hate it but politely say, "Uh, yea we went to Joe's and it was nice." Nice, that's the polite euphemism for "I could barely stomach the food and the service was terrrible." Well, that said some of my favorite movies are the Director's cuts of:

Tombstone
Almost Famous
Gladiator
The Last Waltz

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Red Suede · Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:54 am Post subject:

Ah, Cool Hand Luke. That woman in the car wash scene. Magnificent!

Daved · Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 1:51 pm Post subject:

Red,

Please don't hate me, but as I mentioned in the initial LIST I had first posted (and then removed):

"13) Cool Hand Luke (but perhaps I am being a little biased on this one as the "girl washing the car" was one of my first ever girlfriends... eat yer hearts out guys Wink

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Yes it's true. I don't remember the stage name she is listed under in the movie credits, but her real name was Lana Jo Temby, she lived on the corner of my block about 6 houses down and we knew each other since Kindergarten.

Her mother (a classic "stage Mom") liked me and trusted me and allowed me to date Lana briefly at one point. Gentleman that I'd like to think I am... I shall reveal no more of our relationship.

Much of the movie was filmed about a mile from my house on the north end of Stockton, out in the fields along "8 Mile Road", about halfway to Lodi (The town made famous in song by the Creedence Clearwater Revival). Many of us teenagers used to go out and watch them film. One day, a director noticed Lana in the crowd and offered her the part in the movie. Obviously she took it.

Last time I saw her was several years later, in 1970, on a Greyhound bus we both coincidently rode together to the San Francisco airport from Stockton. We hadn't seen each other in a few years as we sat next to each other and filled each other in on how the years had changed our lives. She was on her way to New York for a modeling gig, I was on my way to Viet Nam.
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diatonicdude · Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:21 pm Post subject:

There are many on my list, but afew favourites which come to mind are;

Stand by Me........reminds me of my youth and the summer adventures with my good friends.

Dead Poets Society

Good Will Hunting

Shawshank Redemption

Lord of The Rings

Star Wars!!!!

Cheers,

DD
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FatTeleTom · Senior Member Joined: 12 May 2004 Posts: 191

Hmm, lots of good movies mentioned.

In the category of "fun" movies, I do usually put Princess Bride right at the top. Close competitors include Star Wars, Joe vs. the Volcano, Bull Durham, and, oh, a few dozen others.

But my favorite movie--in the sense of a movie that I love that also exemplifies the best of what cinema can be.....I would probably say "Red"--the 3rd film in Kieslowski's "Three Colors" trilogy.

One of the all-time great filmakers at the peak of his powers, with brilliant performances, amazing music, and a wonderful story. There are moments in this film involving nothing more than two people talking quietly, that are as breathtaking and heart-stopping as any Hollywood thriller explosion-fest.

BTW, I like Goldman's Princess Bride novel too. But I came to it after having seen the movie version, so I'm probably forever partial to the film. There is definitely "more" to the book though--and its certainly worth the time for anyone who hasn't read it.