Your favourite movie.

I searched this and I really hope it hasn't been done before or I'm going to seem like some dope!


I watched the Green Mile on TG4 tonight with my sister and I have to say it's one of my favourite movies and I always get a lump in my throat every time I watch it.

My other favourite movies are Beauty and the Beast, The Notebook, Beaches, Greenstreet, Michael Collins, Trainspotting, The Commitments and the Shawshank Redemption. Anyone able to come up with a stranger list than that?

Godfather 1, The Sting, Coming to America, or for the lump in the throat, see "Lorenzo's Oil"...

Skulling, Rogues, Comedy and crying in that order.....Trust me...

In no particular order:

American Beauty
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Goodfellas
Once Upon a Time in America
The Usual Suspects
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Green Mile
The Shawshank Redemption
The Big Lebowski
Almost Famous
Cinema Paradiso
O Brother Where Art Thou
Dirty Harry
Taxi Driver
The Departed
Seven Samurai
Gladiator
Saving Private Ryan
Apocalypse Now
Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Miller's Crossing
Full Metal Jacket

depends on the humour anything from below

Goodfellas
Scarface
Godfather 1
Godfather 11
Deerhunter
Usual Suspects
A Day at races or any Marx Bros
Twelve Angry men
Fish called Wanda
Dumb and Dumber
Pulp Fiction
High noon
Good the bad and the Ugly
Citizen Kane
On the Waterfront
Traffic
Cool Hand Luke

You cannot beat the classics!

Ben Hur
...in fact anything with Charlton Heston in it

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
The Sound of Music
etc.

My favourites are the action and horror films

Lethal Weapon series
Con Air
Mission Impossible
Bourne Trilogy
Terminator


And of course, Irish history movies:

Michael Collins
The Wind that shakes the Barley

Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Trainspotting
The Truman Show
Braveheart
The Great Escape
Airplane!
Chariots of Fire

The Wind That Shakes The Barley remains the only film to have genuinely made me cry since I was a small child.

SamiPremier08 wrote:Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Trainspotting
The Truman Show
Braveheart
The Great Escape
Airplane!
Chariots of Fire

The Wind That Shakes The Barley remains the only film to have genuinely made me cry since I was a small child.

I never though Toy Story 2 was as good as the first one.. the story line just isn't as strong but I love Jessie and all the wild west character thingys... Especially the horse

The Snapper Tonight on tv3 classic film about a Gaa Mentor in Dublin... Happy Paddys Day to ALLLLLLLL

mullins wrote:The Snapper Tonight on tv3 classic film about a Gaa Mentor in Dublin... Happy Paddys Day to ALLLLLLLL

The Snapper! Wooooooo!

RoyalGirl wrote:

SamiPremier08 wrote:Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Trainspotting
The Truman Show
Braveheart
The Great Escape
Airplane!
Chariots of Fire

The Wind That Shakes The Barley remains the only film to have genuinely made me cry since I was a small child.

I never though Toy Story 2 was as good as the first one.. the story line just isn't as strong but I love Jessie and all the wild west character thingys... Especially the horse

Love all Toy Story myself...I will break my usual 16-year-old's macho image by admitting that I have a large poster of all the Toy Story characters on my bedroom wall.

SamiPremier08 wrote:

RoyalGirl wrote:

SamiPremier08 wrote:Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Trainspotting
The Truman Show
Braveheart
The Great Escape
Airplane!
Chariots of Fire

The Wind That Shakes The Barley remains the only film to have genuinely made me cry since I was a small child.

I never though Toy Story 2 was as good as the first one.. the story line just isn't as strong but I love Jessie and all the wild west character thingys... Especially the horse

Love all Toy Story myself...I will break my usual 16-year-old's macho image by admitting that I have a large poster of all the Toy Story characters on my bedroom wall.

My cousin is a big hard man footballer, and when he was 16 we showed him the Notebook and he cried. We then got it for him for his birthday and him and all his mates (his football team) watched before they went out and there wasn't a dry eye in the house!

RoyalGirl wrote:

SamiPremier08 wrote:

RoyalGirl wrote:

SamiPremier08 wrote:Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Trainspotting
The Truman Show
Braveheart
The Great Escape
Airplane!
Chariots of Fire

The Wind That Shakes The Barley remains the only film to have genuinely made me cry since I was a small child.

I never though Toy Story 2 was as good as the first one.. the story line just isn't as strong but I love Jessie and all the wild west character thingys... Especially the horse

Love all Toy Story myself...I will break my usual 16-year-old's macho image by admitting that I have a large poster of all the Toy Story characters on my bedroom wall.

My cousin is a big hard man footballer, and when he was 16 we showed him the Notebook and he cried. We then got it for him for his birthday and him and all his mates (his football team) watched before they went out and there wasn't a dry eye in the house!

i still havent seen the notebook.heard it gives women very high expectations for men though.

all girls seem to go on about The Notebook like it's the greatest film ever and the ending "SOOOO SAD!" I have yet to see it, but I bet it's not very good.

RoyalGirl wrote:

mullins wrote:The Snapper Tonight on tv3 classic film about a Gaa Mentor in Dublin... Happy Paddys Day to ALLLLLLLL

The Snapper! Wooooooo!

Nice one M - just read this and flicked it on - just starting! Love it! Ahhh you're a good girdle Shardin...

Seabiscuit is good.

The Notebook is epic.

SamiPremier08 wrote:all girls seem to go on about The Notebook like it's the greatest film ever and the ending "SOOOO SAD!" I have yet to see it, but I bet it's not very good.

Ah sure ya get these 'emotional' girls and they cry the house down if one of the actresses breaks so much as a nail!

EstherMayo1951 wrote:

SamiPremier08 wrote:all girls seem to go on about The Notebook like it's the greatest film ever and the ending "SOOOO SAD!" I have yet to see it, but I bet it's not very good.

Ah sure ya get these 'emotional' girls and they cry the house down if one of the actresses breaks so much as a nail!

Well I love the Notebook. I'm don't cry often but that movie just kind of shows this vision of a perfect love story which most people would love to have.

The finest film I have seen in recent years is the Korean classic Old Boy. The acting, plot and cinematography are all incredible. I won't give anything away, Its only 5 quid off Amazon and suggest ye purchase it right now!!

Infernal Affairs is another brilliant film from the far east too (really crap name though). It is almost the exact same as The Departed except with Chinamen (I initially thought The Departed was based on Whitey Bulger, not the case). Both versions are great films.

I like Notting Hill as well.
Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy(Adam Sandler is gas!)

One of the all time classics has to Ronin, the class car chase and a good story line to boot.

EstherMayo1951 wrote:I like Notting Hill as well.
Happy Gilmore, The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy(Adam Sandler is gas!)

Notting Hill?! The Waterboy isn't funny to be fair!

The original Italian Job is class

SamiPremier08 wrote:
Notting Hill?! The Waterboy isn't funny to be fair!

The original Italian Job is class

Yeah you're right! The second one doesn't even compare. I've always wanted an old mini because of that movie.

"You were only meant to blow the bloody doors off!"

Brassed Off and Dead Poet's society are now my favourites.

However I still love ALL the Godfather's, Cuckoo's Nest, and old time greats like High Noon, On The Waterfront and Casablanca.

The late 60s and early 70s produced some brilliant films, before cinema died in 1978 with the release of star Wars.

RoyalGirl wrote:

SamiPremier08 wrote:
Notting Hill?! The Waterboy isn't funny to be fair!

The original Italian Job is class

Yeah you're right! The second one doesn't even compare. I've always wanted an old mini because of that movie.

"You were only meant to blow the bloody doors off!"

Love it.

"Right, for this operation to work we all need to work as a team. That means you do exactly what I say."

"One last thing, remember in this country they drive on THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD"

"You've been away quite a while Mr Croker."
"I was in India shooting tigers" [produces huge wad of cash]
"You must have shot an awful lot of tigers!"
"Yes. I used a machine gun."

Got the film poster on my wall. Great movie.