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I once worked in a call centre and had a boss that hated me, he was such a b***h that he used to blank me and largely ignore me. Anyway, the reason why that was so all boiled down to when I first got the job and we had a team building exercise. By way of introducing ourselves we all had to name our favourite film and why. Everyone in there got involved with real gusto, with suggestions of Bad Boyz 2 ("cus it's got guns and chicks in it, innit?" so one said).
About half way through we were rewarded for our efforts by the manager stopping, getting his ghetto blaster (that's what it looked like) out and "playin' sum tunez!" I think it was something mixed by Dave Pierce.
When it got to my turn the general consensus was that Pretty Woman and Bad Boyz 2 were everyone's favourite, closely followed by New Jack City. Now, maybe because I'm weird, but I don't have a favourite film and so that's what I said. He just ignored my response, ignored me and moved on to the next person. So, I'd like to ask, for anyone who doesn't mind saying: What is your favourite film and why?:-)

Coming to America! --- Too funny, with an alright story

#2 Blues Brothers, for the music, characters, story, chase scenes, etc. (up)

Edward Scissorhands... pure genius!

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Well, I daren't make any jokes about Pretty Woman...




I don't have a favourite film: I love 'em all. But recently, I went to see The Fantastic Mr. Fox which blew me away - I recomend it highly. I love Powell and Pressburger, of course, and yes! That's it, I've just remebered, the film I have watched most often (aside from ones I study) is Moonstruck (1987) starring Cher, Olivia Dukakis and the gorgeous Nicolas Cage: 'My haaaannnd, my haaaannnnd' phhhwoooar. Lovely, lovely film too. I discovered it in about 1996 and have been addicted ever since. And Grease and Saturday Night Fever, both of which have featurerd heavily in my couch lounging life since my teenage years. Oh yeah, I love Disney's Beauty and the Beast too.


Do you think your boss was trying too suss people out? He sounds as if he could have been a bit David Brentish.

P.S. I didn't say why! So here goes: I like the fantastic mr fox because I saw it on my day off, eating sweets in the cinema, it was funky, funny and cool in the most cultured sense of the word; I love P&P movies for their otherwordly spiritual quality and for their beautiul colours; I love Grease because its just so much fun and is guaranteed to put me in a good mood, but quite real too; I love Sat Fever for the passion, dancing, music and reaity; Moonstruck because it is the most romantic film I have ever seen, about life, love, and everything (Cage is a fab bonus); and Beauty and the Beast because I'm a daft girly who likes singing along with the Maurice Chavalier candlestick.

I'm not going to try to choose just one. But some honest choices - i.e. films I love, watch and enjoy over and over again, rather than films I deem 'worthy':

Dawn of the Dead - you should get this Walminski, you were recommending the World War Z audiobook (I think?). A bona fide horror epic!

The Fly - another horror, but one which genuinely works at the level of drama too. Great stuff.

Across the Universe - why has nobody seen/heard of this film?! I have a theory that if it had come out a year *after* Mamma Mia, rather than a year before, and hence could have been marketed along the lines of 'does for the Beatles what Mamma Mia did for Abba', it would have been big news. Not everyone likes it - some people find the whole idea naff - but if you leave your cynicism at the door and go with the flow, it's a great movie with some great visuals and great versions of great songs. Heartily recommended!

Duck Soup - and most other Marx Brothers movies, really... to me, one of the great joys of life. (Harpo's my favourite!)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - I love the rambling, picaresque structure. And the music, obviously.

Jason and the Argonauts - and Harryhausen in general; give me stop-motion beasties over CGI any day!

Quatermass and the Pit

... and lots of others...

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It's really hard to choose one favourite movie, but to be terribly unoriginal, it would probably be Withnail and I. I've watched this more times than any other movie, and was a fan long before I discovered it was a student cult classic (and drinking game!). Richard E Grant and Richard Griffiths are legends in it (McGann is a little forgettable).

I also love Tim Burton's movies (a toss up between Beetle Juice and Edward Scissorhands being the best).

I'm also a huge fan of Meryl Streep (Silkwood, Falling in Love, and Sophie's Choice being my favs). I'm looking forward to Julie and Julia!

Sorry, couldn't pick just one! (I'd also be given the cold-shoulder by the call-centre manager, Walkminski!).


@Eska, I also loved Moonstruck (Cher should have done more movies rather than music!!).

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It's really hard to choose one favourite movie, but to be terribly unoriginal, it would probably be Withnail and I.

If you liked that film, I'd give Bad Boy Bubby a watch. It's a bit strange for the first 20 minutes but is very similar to the style of Withnail and I thereafter. I'd like to say I found Withnail and I funny too, and I did, until I met a real life Uncle Monty as a undergrad student, a former landlord. Oh the horror...

@Eska. Funny you should mention David Brent actually, because his second sentence on the introduction day for new recruits was a brag about how good the football looked on his 42" plasma screen TV.

American Beauty all the way...partly because I have an enormous and inappropriate crush on Kevin Spacey but mainly because it is the perfect combination of funny and meaningful. This is one of my favourite scenes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjNY4o_i5RY ..."something tells me you're going to remember me this time". I'd love to use that line on someone!

Hi Heiffer, American Beauty is my all time least favourite film! It brings me out in a terrible rash; I'm not trying to be controversial, I just luuurrrve to hate this film. War of the Roses, to me, did it much, much better and without the narcissism of Mendes and the yucky misogyny that ran through AB. I found it quite 2 dimensional.

Hopefully, I will be a doctor of film one day. If only I could stop procrastinating on this forum; then one day I may get there. Must sleep soon so I can work tomorrow, do some more dissaecting! the films I study would be on my favourites list too, but they're looking a bit messy from being on the dissecting table...

Walminski, I found Bad Boy Bubby a little too tormented and heavy compared to Withnail. I actually didn't finish watching it, but it's on youtube so will give it another go.

Another two favourites of mine (again quirky and a little dark) are Harold and Maude, and Being There.