Judgment at Nuremberg. (1961)
What does the movie have that you could ever want?
lol… Exactly what the grandpa says in the beginning! Action, adventure, romance, sports, fighting, torture, miracles… I just think its a great story with fun characters! Granted I started loving it as a kid, guess it just stuck.
I’m still trying to compile my tops list, btw.
That’s my second choice.
Aliens.
I gotta add, Fight Club, I 
Huckabees, and a movie call Waking Life. All very highly regarded at my home. If you have never heard of Waking Life, and you like it here, you may be glad you checked it out… The first time I watched it Ifinished it at 10:30pm and didn’t get to sleep till near 3am because it got me thinking about so many ideas.
“Action, adventure, romance, sports, fighting, torture, miracles…”
What, what? Back up a second. You want to fight and be tortured?
What!? No! I don’t want to be tortured, and I’m a terrible fighter… LOL! It makes for an exciting flick! (And quite frankly, the torture is fantasy, not gruesome…)
LoL I know Billy 
The Princess Bride is one of my classic favorites. I think I listed it among my choices in my first post to this thread, actually.
I think for me it would be Ghost in the Shell Innocence by mamoru oshii for it’s artistic beauty and Ran by Kurasawa for it’s literary brilliance. As for the films I enjoy the most that would be In Ameica and The Seven Samurai.
I know that it isn’t the greatest movie of all time 
but I absolutely loved Memphis Belle - watched it 16 times. 
Sometimes I swear that I must have been a fighter pilot in some war in another life.O/K…maybe. When I was in grade school, I used to love to read fiction - novels about fighter pilots, with their spitfires and messerschmitts. Also loved novels about the high seas.
That movie made me cry too hard to watch more than a couple times… Same can be said for Forrest Gump. Great movies, just too moving at times.
Ah, so you did watch it a few times? I also did some cursing and screaming during that movie - somehow the repitition didn’t dull my emotions. 
And i balled my eyes out during the reading of some of the letters from the family members of the downed pilots. practically ripped out my heart. Forrest Gump was great too. So many wonderful movies…like art. You better stay away from the movies based on Nicholas Sparks’ books…like ‘The Notebook’, 
Message in a Bottle’, ‘Nights in Rodanth’…He doesn’t believe in happy endings but I think he’s a force against fairy tales…or something. Endings don’t have to be happy but the journey itself can be amazingly enriching. 
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance (Vengeance Is Mine/Revenge Is Mine). South Korean movie directed by Park-Chan Wook. The least stylised and pop-compromised of the Vengeance Trilogy. Favourite movie of all time, so I wanted to give it a little billing by itself. When watching this movie is one of the few times I believe in perfection.
Most of the Studio Ghibli films fill me with wonder, and sometimes melt my heart.
What are the opinions here of Good Will Hunting?
Good Will Hunting, typical American oscar-fare. Self-imposed over emphasised sense of importance about the films themes, intense acting and scenarios that borders on melodrama and ham-handedness. The Departed falls into this category, most of Scorcese’s recent stuff, as a matter of fact. I think he’s always been a bit like that, anyway, but the quality of actors available to him is declining, therefore making the flaws in his style stand out. Better director than most, don’t get me wrong, but certainly not the master that some claim him to be. I saw Leonardo Di Caprio(one of the actors mentioned) give a talk in Japan where he said Scorcese was America’s Kurasawa, which was, frankly, sacrilage, but that says how bad the American film industry is, if he’s the best they have. On the subject of Di Caprio, Scorcese thinks he’s his new De Niro, but he doesn’t come close to De Niro. I don’t blame Di Caprio, it’s just the way American acting is going, it’s becoming an anachronism. The style is similar to the post-war melodrama, without the appropriate matching style of film making, and the actors aren’t as good as those. We have no young Bogart or De Niro to re-naturalise and save the acting style of our generation from the baroque melodrama we’re slipping back into.
Sorry for the digression.
I loved Dances with Wolves
Star Wars and Lord of the Rings have an advantage in numbers. But I am always surprised when nobody brings up the movie A Bronx Tale. In my opinion that movie can turn a mans life around after watching it only once. The simplicity of the concepts combined with the realisticness of the characters opens your eyes to life and reminds you how easily it can be taken away. Not to mention the overall plot is brilliant.
An underrated film that.
The whole opening/not opening the door of the car scene with Taral Hicks was very good.
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…not the greatest movie but
Man Without a Face
That movie so moved me - such courage under fire, such transcendence, and the wonderful friendship/mentoring between a beautiful human being and a young boy. It had me crying at times, it had me in a rage, had me falling in love with Mel Gibson’s character, a being so beautiful and strong in his essence that appearances all but disappeared in the face of such depth of character and calm, inner strength. I was torn between compassion and love for this character, though truth be told, the last thing he would have wished for was compassion - but understanding, now that’s another thing. I’m getting carried away here.
And that such a friendship and bond and caring carried him ‘looking out’ for the boy throughout the boy’s life up and until his graduation from a university, now that is love and committment.
The ending made mush of me…mush. I think that all fathers ought to see this movie, especially those whose genes need paternal strengthening and awareness.
Perhaps also the little girl in me could have hoped for him as a father. Oh, well, perhaps in another life.