TD3 said:

Genesia said:

Let me help you. The best Jane Eyre is Orson Welles/Joan Fontaine, and the best A Star is Born is Fredric March/Janet Gaynor.

A Star I Born... I'm gonna have to go with the James Mason/Judy Garland.

Genesia said:

TD3 said:

A Star I Born... I'm gonna have to go with the James Mason/Judy Garland.

No?

I like both versions but I thought you would go for Mason/Garland verision... I guess I was wrong.

No, I can't

TD3 said:

Genesia said:

No?

I like both versions but I thought you would go for Mason/Garland verision... I guess I was wrong.

I am a huge Fredric March fan. He was an amazing actor - and very underrated, I think.

I also just like the look of the 1937 version. Love that early Technicolor.

iloveannie said:

Jaws. Great direction, wonderful characters. Never tire of watching it.

that's a good choice

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I can't, but I have a few contenders

16 Candles

Star Wars

Goodfellas

The Big Lebowski

Annie Hall

For the longest time, I would automatically say the 1998 version of Elizabeth, but I've seen many other extremely cool movies in the last few years so now I'm not so sure. (Godard's Breathless comes to mind as a possible contender.) Whatever it will be, the film has to end with someone dying or having their heart broken. Just like real life.

Genesia said:

TD3 said:

No?

I like both versions but I thought you would go for Mason/Garland verision... I guess I was wrong.

I am a huge Fredric March fan. He was an amazing actor - and very underrated, I think.

I also just like the look of the 1937 version. Love that early Technicolor.

I understand your love of the look of that film.

I would agree with your opinion about Mr. March's acting and movie career.I've not seen him in a bad film. March never signed a movie contract so he was able to choose the films he wanted do. His choices were very eclectic, my favorite March movie is Les Misérables.

TD3 said:

Genesia said:

I am a huge Fredric March fan. He was an amazing actor - and very underrated, I think.

I also just like the look of the 1937 version. Love that early Technicolor.

I understand your love of the look of that film.

I would agree with your opinion about Mr. March's acting and movie career.I've not seen him in a bad film. March never signed a movie contract so he was able to choose the films he wanted do. His choices were very eclectic, my favorite March movie is Les Misérables.

That explains a lot, really. In that way, March was able to choose his own films, but he didn't have the "starmaker machinery" (to borrow a Joni Mitchell lyric) of the studios behind him. He never wanted to be a movie star, though - so it worked for him.

He had lots of amazing performances (like The Best Years of Our Lives), but I think my favorite is probably Death Takes a Holiday.

iloveannie said:

Jaws. Great direction, wonderful characters. Never tire of watching it.

Yes, yes and yes again!! I'll never tire of this film.

As well as being damn scary, there's so much humour in there. "Excuse me, do you know any good restaurants"..."Yeah, walk straight ahead" Love it!

Ace said:

DaveT said:

Love the bit when Bluto smashes the dudes guitar.

Trivia: Apparently the dude is Stephen Bishop and he kept the guitar.

And Alice, what a good call!

No way! Wonder if he put it back together or left it in bits? Be worth a mint these days either way...

vainandy said:

I saw this back in the 90's when I was a teen, that pimp was mean as hell LOL!!!

DaveT said:

Ace said:

No way! Wonder if he put it back together or left it in bits? Be worth a mint these days either way...

Saw it on his Wikipedia page:

In addition to singing the theme song off-screen, Bishop had a cameo role in National Lampoon's Animal House as the aspiring folk singer whose guitar John Belushi smashes. Bishop still keeps the smashed guitar as a memento.

Nope can't narrow it down. Everything is based on how I'm feeling at the moment, and where my head is at

I must name 2 because they are both my favorites and they are so completely different.

I've seen the other versions also but I am a Timothy Dalton fan. Still makes me bawl and I can watch it over and over.

And this is the ultimate mind-game movie. The ONLY movie I ever waited in line to see. It was well worth it! I LOVE it!!! Watching it now.

Abdul said:

vainandy said:

I saw this back in the 90's when I was a teen, that pimp was mean as hell LOL!!!

Yeah, that damn Duke was an absolute bastard. He beat and killed that hooker at the beginning of the movie and then he ended up killing every one of those other pimps. That's alright though, those whores finally got his ass at the end of the movie. I was loving it when Julie Newmar's big tall ass was all throughout the movie in that damn teddy looking like Wonder Woman and she was driving that old car chasing Duke's ass while the little boy kept hitting him with the pole. Then she ran over his ass and would back the car up to run over his damn ass again.

My favorite character in the movie was the black hooker named Star. Every other word coming out of her mouth was "bitch" and "whore" and the hookers called each other those words as if they were just simply saying "hey girl" and being best of friends. Star could talk plenty shit too. That bitch reminded me so much of myself. I liked it when she was whipping that old pervert with the whip.

vainandy said:

Abdul said:

I saw this back in the 90's when I was a teen, that pimp was mean as hell LOL!!!

Yeah, that damn Duke was an absolute bastard. He beat and killed that hooker at the beginning of the movie and then he ended up killing every one of those other pimps. That's alright though, those whores finally got his ass at the end of the movie. I was loving it when Julie Newmar's big tall ass was all throughout the movie in that damn teddy looking like Wonder Woman and she was driving that old car chasing Duke's ass while the little boy kept hitting him with the pole. Then she ran over his ass and would back the car up to run over his damn ass again.

My favorite character in the movie was the black hooker named Star. Every other word coming out of her mouth was "bitch" and "whore" and the hookers called each other those words as if they were just simply saying "hey girl" and being best of friends. Star could talk plenty shit too. That bitch reminded me so much of myself. I liked it when she was whipping that old pervert with the whip.

They don't make Pimp and Hoes movies like this anymore, LMAO!!

Abdul said:

vainandy said:

Yeah, that damn Duke was an absolute bastard. He beat and killed that hooker at the beginning of the movie and then he ended up killing every one of those other pimps. That's alright though, those whores finally got his ass at the end of the movie. I was loving it when Julie Newmar's big tall ass was all throughout the movie in that damn teddy looking like Wonder Woman and she was driving that old car chasing Duke's ass while the little boy kept hitting him with the pole. Then she ran over his ass and would back the car up to run over his damn ass again.

My favorite character in the movie was the black hooker named Star. Every other word coming out of her mouth was "bitch" and "whore" and the hookers called each other those words as if they were just simply saying "hey girl" and being best of friends. Star could talk plenty shit too. That bitch reminded me so much of myself. I liked it when she was whipping that old pervert with the whip.

They don't make Pimp and Hoes movies like this anymore, LMAO!!

The thing that I loved about it, is that it was the first pimp and hooker movie I had seen where the focus of the movie was set on the pimps and the hookers and the lives they were living. All the others I had seen before it were focused mainly on the police's lives and the process of them catching the pimps and hookers. This entire movie was focused on the pimps and whore's lives completely.

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Without a doubt, my all time favorite.

DaveT said:

iloveannie said:

Jaws. Great direction, wonderful characters. Never tire of watching it.

Yes, yes and yes again!! I'll never tire of this film.

As well as being damn scary, there's so much humour in there. "Excuse me, do you know any good restaurants"..."Yeah, walk straight ahead" Love it!

My favourite piece of camera work of any movie is the scene where the camera, out of focus, captures the boy on the inflatable as Jaws takes him and rolls over. The whole scene is not even bothered with the attack which is why it is so good.

I can't commit to naming a SINGLE FAVORITE movie.

Can we separate it into categories?

iloveannie said:

DaveT said:

Yes, yes and yes again!! I'll never tire of this film.

As well as being damn scary, there's so much humour in there. "Excuse me, do you know any good restaurants"..."Yeah, walk straight ahead" Love it!

My favourite piece of camera work of any movie is the scene where the camera, out of focus, captures the boy on the inflatable as Jaws takes him and rolls over. The whole scene is not even bothered with the attack which is why it is so good.

Its the juxtaposition isn't it....child eaten alive just a few metres away from families playing and swimming without a care in the world. So many great moments like that in the film. Spielberg was a genius even back then!

missfee said:

The Godfather

This. But I can't choose between Part I or Part II. But then, there's also 'Dog Day Afternoon', which stars both Al Pacino and John Cazale. Or Shawshank Redemption.

But seeing as I can only chose one; The Godfather.

"The Terminator" - the FIRST one, not any of the sequels.