Your favorite movie of all time!

That's a really cool and insightful post, Drew. And that you have a personal relation connection makes it all the more interesting. It's so loosely based (despite any obvious similarities) on the short story that reading it should not take away at all from the film but just be of interest. The relations between the two are interesting, but they are so different. Philip K. Dick, who I love, had so many loose adaptations of his works (especially his short stories and the majority it seems were not faithful). We Can Remember It for You Wholesale for instance is so different from Total Recall. Minority Report has this different feel. I think my favourite film adaptation that I can think of off the too-of-my-head, is A Scanner Darkly.

And I know I was being almost blasphemous in saying that I prefer the VO version with the happy ending over the director's cut or final cut, or ultimate final cut or whatever, but that's sentimentality probably. That's the one that amazed me when I was young and it felt like something was missing --missing a bit of the fun in that old noirish pulp detective way -- but what was really missing could be said to be a piece of my childhood.

The Dark Crystal is another fave of mine which at least one time was envisioned to be quite different in terms of vocals. The Skeksis and Mystics and Podlings originally were not to use English but made up language or languages (based on European languages, and rather guttural I think). They should have employed Kobaian.

Edited by Logan - January 27 2021 at 16:52

A few gems missing from the list: Midnite Cowboy, Deliverance, Dog Day Afternoon, Rosemary' Baby, The Exercist, Breaker Morrant,and Scarface.

JD wrote: Argo2112 wrote: JD wrote: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE ! No, not the movie you goofball, the task ! I might, and I do mean might, be able to do 5 of my all time fav's or even 10 of, but my ALL TIME fav...light the fuse. Shining Apocalypse Now American Beauty Being John Malkovich Grosse Pointe Blank And Justice For All <span>Reservoir Dogs</span> <span>Tommy</span> <span>The Deer Hunter</span> <span>The Thing 1982</span> <span> </span> <span>See what I mean ! </span> Nice List! It's good to see And Justice For All on there , great move & the best court room scene ever! As great as Pacino was in it, Jeffery Tambor was my favourite character.

Jack Warden's suicidal Judge was pretty good too.

Argo2112 wrote: JD wrote: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE ! No, not the movie you goofball, the task ! I might, and I do mean might, be able to do 5 of my all time fav's or even 10 of, but my ALL TIME fav...light the fuse. Shining Apocalypse Now American Beauty Being John Malkovich Grosse Pointe Blank And Justice For All Reservoir Dogs Tommy The Deer Hunter The Thing 1982 See what I mean ! Nice List! It's good to see And Justice For All on there , great move & the best court room scene ever!

As great as Pacino was in it, Jeffery Tambor was my favourite character.

So hard to pick one. Spartacus, The Great Escape, The Godfather, Pulp Fiction, Silence of the Lambs....

Argo2112 wrote: JD wrote: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE ! No, not the movie you goofball, the task ! I might, and I do mean might, be able to do 5 of my all time fav's or even 10 of, but my ALL TIME fav...light the fuse. Shining Apocalypse Now American Beauty Being John Malkovich Grosse Pointe Blank And Justice For All <span>Reservoir Dogs</span> <span>Tommy</span> <span>The Deer Hunter</span> <span>The Thing 1982</span> <span> </span> <span>See what I mean ! </span> Nice List! It's good to see And Justice For All on there , great move & the best court room scene ever!

"you're out of order! You're out of order!"

Logan wrote: The Anders wrote: Logan wrote: The Wicker Man You mean the one with Nicolas Cage? God no! The original.

2001 a space odessey

^That one was in my top 5 until Grand Budapest Hotel came along and knocked it out.