What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Movie?
What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Movie?
#1What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Movie?
Posted: 7/6/09 at 8:37pm
I've asked people this for years ever since seeing it on an episode of FRIENDS, where they play the trivia game to see who gets the apartment and it's always funny to hear what people say.
So, I'm asking everyone here. What do you tell everyone your favorite movie is, and what is your ACTUAL favorite movie?
For me,
I Tell People: Rain Man
Real Favorite: Romy & Michele's High School Reunion
#2re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/6/09 at 8:40pmPlanet of the Apes
#2re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/6/09 at 9:03pm
I don't tell that people my favorite movie is something different than it is. I've never understood that kind of embarrassment. Are you afraid of your own opinion?
"The Wizard of Oz"
Is, was, and (most likely) always will be.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22
Updated On: 7/7/09 at 09:03 PM
blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22
#3re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/6/09 at 9:25pm
I can never really come up with a "top 10" list, but as to favorite movie - that would have to be THE THIRD MAN.
19 titles keep vying for a "top 10" slot, and I'm not embarassed to tell anybody what they are:
The Third Man, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Field Of Dreams, A Face In The Crowd, Seconds, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Vertigo, The Thing ('51), La Dolce Vita, Night of the Hunter, A Matter of Life and Death, The Swimmer, Greed, Nashville, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Day The Earth Stood Still ('51), The Killer (John Woo), Blow Up, Metropolis
2016 These Paper Bullets (1/02) Our Mother's Brief Affair (1/06), Dragon Boat Racing (1/08), Howard - reading (1/28), Shear Madness (2/10), Fun Home (2/17), Women Without Men (2/18), Trip Of Love (2/21), The First Gentleman -reading (2/22), Southern Comfort (2/23), The Robber Bridegroom (2/24), She Loves Me (3/11), Shuffle Along (4/12), Shear Madness (4/14), Dear Evan Hansen (4/16), American Psycho (4/23), Tuck Everlasting (5/10), Indian Summer (5/15), Peer Gynt (5/18), Broadway's Rising Stars (7/11), Trip of Love (7/27), CATS (7/31), The Layover (8/17), An Act Of God (8/31), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (8/24), Heisenberg (10/12), Fiddler On The Roof (11/02), Othello (11/23), Dear Evan Hansen (11/26), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (12/21) 2017 In Transit (2/01), Groundhog Day (4/04), Ring Twice For Miranda (4/07), Church And State (4/10), The Lucky One (4/19), Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (5/16), Building The Wall (5/19), Indecent (6/01), Six Degrees of Separation (6/09), Marvin's Room (6/28), A Doll's House Pt 2 (7/25) Curvy Widow (8/01)
#4re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/6/09 at 9:28pm
What I tell people: Back to the Future
What it really is: Back to the Future
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#5re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/6/09 at 9:36pm
I tell people "All About Eve"
"Manhattan"
"It's a Wonderful Life"
In reality, what I'd want on a desert island?
"Accidental Tourist"
"Waiting for Gufman"
"Oh, Brother..."
I still love the original three. But of the revised list: The first makes me laugh and cry, the 2nd, makes me laugh til I cry. The third, an underappreciated masterpiece, to my thinking.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
#6re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/6/09 at 9:37pmI forgot about Terminator and Jaws.
#7re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/6/09 at 10:40pm
My favorite movie is Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
But sometimes I tell people that my favorite musical is Les Miserables, when it's really a tie between Spamalot and The Scarlet Pimpernel.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#8re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/6/09 at 10:51pm
What I tell people: Boogie Nights.
My real favorite movie: Boogie Nights...or Showgirls (I'm serious. I could watch it a million times). Or maybe Valley of the Dolls.
Updated On: 7/7/09 at 10:51 PM
#9re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/6/09 at 10:55pmForrest Gump/Drop Dead Gorgeous
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
#10re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/6/09 at 11:00pmDepending on who I'm talking to, I'll either say Juno or A Streetcar Named Desire. Really, though, it's Streetcar.
I know you.
I know you.
I know you.
#11re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/7/09 at 12:26am
I tell people it's "Glengarry Glen Ross."
It's really "A Nightmare On Elm Street."
#12re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/7/09 at 12:28amGood man, JohnPopa.
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#13re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/7/09 at 12:51am
I agree with Besty.
And mine is ALL THAT JAZZ.
#14re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/7/09 at 12:57am
I tell people it's The Pianist.
It really is The Pianist.
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#15re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/7/09 at 1:40am
Yea, I second besty.
I've always been proud of my Oz love.
http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer
#16re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/7/09 at 2:24amI usually say Steel Magnolias but I think it's actually Mask.
Pretty pretty please don't you ever ever feel like you're less than f**ckin' perfect!
#17re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/7/09 at 5:30am
I tell people: Lord Of The Rings (I count all 3 as one)
It really is: Lord Of The Rings (I count all 3 as one)
Others in my top 5 are:
Philadelphia Story
Network
Night Of The Living Dead
Rashamon
....but the world goes 'round
#18re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/7/09 at 6:19am
My favorite movie of all time is: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Runner up is A Trip to Bountiful, North by Northwest and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.
"Love the Art in Yourself. Not Yourself in the Art." -- Stanislavski
nmartin
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/3/05
#19re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/7/09 at 7:15am
Touch of Evil and that's what I tell people. They very rarely ever know what I'm talking about.
Although they have nothing to do with the plot, the scenes with Welles and Dietrich elevate that movie to a place all its own.
#20re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/7/09 at 8:13amMy favorite movie is My Cousin Vinny, and that's what I answer if asked for 'favorite'. If someone asks what's the 'best' movie I've ever seen, I'd answer Schindler's List or Fargo.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#21re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/7/09 at 8:21am
bschneid- I absolutely LOVE "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"- absolutely love it! I wish they would show it more on tv! I'm also a sap and love "The Sound of Music"- yeah- I said it!
P.S. I also LOVE "The Turning Pointe" with Shirley McLaine, Anne Bancroft, and Baryshnikov! Love that movie!
Updated On: 7/7/09 at 08:21 AM
#22re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/7/09 at 8:22am
Touch of Evil is a brilliant piece of film making, nmartin.
The opening shot (roughly the first 10 minutes or so) remains one of the most innovative and suspenseful scenes in all of filmdom, IMO.
Welles has never been better, in fact it's his best performance. Again, IMO.
....but the world goes 'round
#23re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/7/09 at 8:31am
ALL ABOUT EVE.
Clichéd choice, but true.
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
#24re: What is Your Favorite Movie? And Then...What is Your REAL Favorite Mov
Posted: 7/7/09 at 8:45amAladdin/Aladdin... i've nothing to hide
Videos