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I just had to answer a security question on some website. I got the answer wrong. I don't know what the right answer is, actually. The question was "what's your favorite movie?" Evidently I put something in there that I couldn't come up with. Anyway, it raised the issue for me. Might as well put some here.

What I answered to the question was what I thought I'd have said:

1. On The Waterfront.

After that, I get muddy on order, but it would include:

The Manchurian Candidate (the original, obviously)
Crimes and Misdemeanors
It's a Wonderful Life
Beauty and the Beast
Mary Poppins
The Wizard of Oz
Brideshead Revisited (the original BBC show, which is sort of a cheat, but I think of it as a very long movie instead of a TV series)
Bleak House (2005 BBC series--same point as above)
Star Wars
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Rio Bravo
True Grit (the original, and also the remake)
Maybe Vertigo?

I'm sure I'm missing some obvious ones. I can't think which one I'd have put at #1 for the security question, though.

The Princess Bride.
Toy Story 1 & 2.

Bringing Up Baby

Kelly's Heroes

A few John Wayne movies:
Hatari!
Donovan's Reef
The Quiet Man

Disney Movie:
Parent Trap (either one)

Christmas movies:
White Christmas
It's A Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th. St.

You didn't include The Princess Bride? That surprises me given how often you quote it.

Doom wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 6:27 pm You didn't include The Princess Bride? That surprises me given how often you quote it.

Inconceivable!

I might have forgotten it. On the other hand, I'm not sure it's really one of my very favorite movies. It's got some great lines in it. But is it a great movie? Probably. Maybe it goes on the list.

zeno wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:15 pmBringing Up Baby

I don't know if I've even heard of that one.

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:58 pm Toy Story 1 & 2.

I remember seeing the first one, but don't remember really loving it. Always nice to hear Cliffy, though.

anawim wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 5:37 pmWhite Christmas

I haven't seen that. My kids are big Bing Crosby fans, and Holiday Inn is one of their favorite movies, but they hate White Christmas.

Difficult for me to come up with a list, I will likely come back to edit it.

• The 10 Commandments
  The King And I
  Sound Of Music
  Blazing Saddles
  Godfather
  Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead
  Drop Dead Fred
  Purple Rain
  Rosemary's Baby (the best adaptation of a novel to screen)
  African Queen
  That other one with John Wayne and Katherine Hepburn
  The Others
  Recent: Society Of The Snow

The Devil's Advocate
The Steve Martin version of Father Of The Bride
Elf
And I know it is girly and shallow, but, I will watch "The Devil Wears Prada" when I need an escape

Kage_ar wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 10:58 am The 10 Commandments

Wasn't this also on the list of worst movies?

gherkin wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:10 am

zeno wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:15 pmBringing Up Baby

I don't know if I've even heard of that one.

Most hilarious! Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Highly recommended.

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:58 pm The Princess Bride.
Toy Story 1 & 2.

Toy Story 3 is better than either of them. From
Lotso Love (probably as far as I know Ned Beatty’s final performance) being one of the creepiest and scariest villains in the history of cinema, to the genuinely terrifying scene where the toys are headed to apparent oblivion in the fire and they all hold hands, one of the scariest scenes in the history of cinema, a scene that had the entire theater crying including kids who were screaming in terror. Toy Story 3 is not only the best Toy Story movie but the best animated movie and one of the best movies of any genre ever made. That is wasn’t nominated for Best Picture, being relegated to the ghetto of “Best Animated Movie” is a tragedy.

zeno wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:35 pm

gherkin wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 9:10 am

zeno wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 4:15 pmBringing Up Baby

I don't know if I've even heard of that one.

Most hilarious! Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Highly recommended.

It is good if you like screwball comedy, but for whatever reason, moral depravity most likely, screwball comedies aren’t very popular with modern people.

I'm generally not a screwball comedy kind of person (not a fan of the 3 stooges for example) but I love that movie.

I wouldn’t consider The Three Stooges screwball. That’s just slapstick. Screwball is a kind of comedy which is a parody of a romance where the female character dominates the male character and usually engages in some wild scheme who is seen as effeminate or weak until he learns to assert himself by discovering her scheme and trying to expose it.

Examples include It Happened One Night, You Can't Take It With You, My Man Godfrey and His Girl Friday

Also screwball is known for rapid-fire dialogue often overlapping, scenes can be difficult to follow because everyone is talking very fast at the same time. It became a kind of competition to make the actors speak as quickly as possible. The Micro Machines guy would have fit in perfectly.

I learned something new here! And I like all those movies you mentioned.

Doom wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:36 pm Toy Story 3 is not only the best Toy Story movie but the best animated movie

Wrong The Incredibles is better

peregrinator wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:59 pm

Doom wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:36 pm Toy Story 3 is not only the best Toy Story movie but the best animated movie

Wrong The Incredibles is better

Oh, yeah, I liked the Incredibles. Surprisingly good movie. Still not in my faves. Best animated movie is obviously Beauty and the Beast.