What are your Favorite, Best, Worst movies...

[Brad Webb]

Here are the rules and I'll post my answers at the bottom.

Pick ONE (ok maybe two or three in parenthesis) movie for each category, explanations allowed. I know it's hard to pick one favorite movie, but try.
Here are the questions:

1) What is your favorite movie of all time?

2) What do you consider to be the best movie ever made?

3) What is the worst movie you have ever seen?

4) What is your guilty pleasure movie?

5) What is the best movie you've seen in the past year?

6) What was the first movie you ever saw in a theater?

7) What movie just blew your mind when you saw it?


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My answers:

1) Favorite movie - Shaun of the Dead

2) Best movie - Citizen Kane

3) Worst movie - Wild Wild West (giant steam engine spider?? wtf??)

4) Guilty Pleasure - Dirty Work w/ Norm Macdonald (That movie just cracks me up)

5) Best Movie In the Past Year - Gran Torino (can't believe it was an Oscar snub, I thought it was amazing, and I'm not that big a fan of Clint Eastwood)

6) First Movie - Ghostbusters

7) Movie that blew my mind - Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon

[Tom Lowe]

1) What is your favorite movie of all time? - Star Wars or Nausicaa

2) What do you consider to be the best movie ever made? - The Thin Red Line

3) What is the worst movie you have ever seen? - The Specialist (Stallone)

4) What is your guilty pleasure movie? - Casablanca or Clash of the Titans

5) What is the best movie you've seen in the past year? - The Wrestler

6) What was the first movie you ever saw in a theater? - Bambi

7) What movie just blew your mind when you saw it? - The New World and Baraka

[Jim Exton]

1) What is your favorite movie of all time? Blade Runner

2) What do you consider to be the best movie ever made? I haven't made it yet.

3) What is the worst movie you have ever seen? Boarding House, Nailgun Massacre, really too many to mention

4) What is your guilty pleasure movie? Tommy Boy

5) What is the best movie you've seen in the past year? August Evening

6) What was the first movie you ever saw in a theater? Benji

7) What movie just blew your mind when you saw it? Deep Throat

[Baltazar Balta]

1) What is your favorite movie of all time? City of God

2) What do you consider to be the best movie ever made? Tatar Ramazan
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0447484/

3) What is the worst movie you have ever seen? E.T

4) What is your guilty pleasure movie? The Man Who Saves the World
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0182060/

5) What is the best movie you've seen in the past year? The Dark Knight

6) What was the first movie you ever saw in a theater? Eşkıya(The Bandit)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116231/

7) What movie just blew your mind when you saw it? Fight Club

[Nils J. Nesse]

1) What is your favorite movie of all time?
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

2) What do you consider to be the best movie ever made?
North By Northwest

3) What is the worst movie you have ever seen?
National Lampoon's Scuba School

4) What is your guilty pleasure movie?
UHF

5) What is the best movie you've seen in the past year?
Låt den rätte komma inn

6) What was the first movie you ever saw in a theater?
Rasmus på luffen

7) What movie just blew your mind when you saw it?
The New World

[Liam Hall]

1) What is your favorite movie of all time? Zulu (also, Withnail and I, The Magnificent Seven)

2) What do you consider to be the best movie ever made? Lawrence of Arabia, (also, Dr Zhivago, Blade Runner, Goodfellas, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Cinema Paradiso...)

3) What is the worst movie you have ever seen? Zulu Dawn (and Star Wars Part 1 and every movie with Ikea Knightly, sorry Kiera Knightly in it)

4) What is your guilty pleasure movie? Mama Mia (could have been my worst!)

5) What is the best movie you've seen in the past year? Dark Knight (Also, Cloverfield, Cactus and No Country For Old Men)

6) What was the first movie you ever saw in a theater? Snow White

7) What movie just blew your mind when you saw it? Close Encounters (Also, Jaws)

[Joel Chu]

1) What is your favorite movie of all time?

Cinema Paradiso

2) What do you consider to be the best movie ever made?

Too many, anything from Kurosawa , Orson Welles, many from Hitchcock

3) What is the worst movie you have ever seen?

Tactical (2009) - I am pretty good with sitting through bad movies because I want to know why they are bad (and I regularly watch over 600 movies a year from around the world). But this one really got to me.

Bad acting, bad camera work (really really bad - they couldn't even frame the frame and have to constantly chase the actor) really really really dumb arse story. Fake special effects (those from FXhome! beginners). Really bad editing and did I mention bad acting?

4) What is your guilty pleasure movie?

Anything from Troma :) Hell actually no, they are way better than any average so-called indie films this day.

5) What is the best movie you've seen in the past year?

Slumdog millionaire (before I saw that was Cloverfield, before that was No Country for Old Man)

6) What was the first movie you ever saw in a theater?

Starwars - by myself.
With my family was a Jackie Chan movie (which I couldn't remember the English title) back then (I mean in the 70s :) ) watching a movie really is an event.

7) What movie just blew your mind when you (First) saw it?

The first one was "Ran" by Kurosawa - I watched it when I was 15.

The second one: The lord of the ring first one - I saw that in Leicester Square Odeon (London) this is the biggest cinema in Europe. And it's a 36 pair speakers surround sound (install and test by George Lucas himself!) and the first digital projector. Anything epic looks good on this screen. But what blew my mind was the details every where.

The last one was a bit strange - Uzak (A Turkish movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346094/) I was doing a film theory study at that time. The tutor show us that movie during the lecture. It was just mind numbingly beautiful. Consider how little money they have (they couldn't hire a DP so the director shot the film himself) the sound editing to tell you the distance (Uzak means distance in Turkish) and the use of cinematographer to tell that meaning over and over again. Instance classic.

[Marcus Olsen]

1) What is your favorite movie of all time?
A fish called Wanda - I've seem that over 20 times and keep ROFL at all of them

2) What do you consider to be the best movie ever made?
The Usual Suspects - Kevin Spacey

3) What is the worst movie you have ever seen?
Little Shop Of Horrors (I was just a kid but couldn't stand to the end!)

4) What is your guilty pleasure movie?
Hot Spot - Jennifer Connely, 1990

5) What is the best movie you've seen in the past year?
Lakeview Terrace - Sam L. Jackson

6) What was the first movie you ever saw in a theater?
Peter Pan

7) What movie just blew your mind when you saw it?
Mad Max - the 1st one

[Joe G.]

Whims change, but...

1) What is your favorite movie of all time?

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

2) What do you consider to be the best movie ever made?
Don't know. Not Citizen Kane (snore).

3) What is the worst movie you have ever seen?
Gerry. (Matt Damon owes me for my time.)


4) What is your guilty pleasure movie?
Caligula


5) What is the best movie you've seen in the past year?
Watchmen


6) What was the first movie you ever saw in a theater?
Could be Return of the Pink Panther

7) What movie just blew your mind when you saw it?
ExistenZ, The Sheltering Sky, The Wall, Brazil, Robocop, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Naked Lunch, Run Lola Run, The Warrior and the Princess, Lord of the Rings, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, The Doors, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Donald Sutherland), Apocalypse Now, The Road Warrior, A Scanner Darkly, Twelve Monkeys, Night of the Living Dead, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange...

[Jaime Vallés]

1) What is your favorite movie of all time?
Lord of the Rings (2001-2003) (I consider the trilogy one film)

2) What do you consider to be the best movie ever made?
Psycho (1960)

3) What is the worst movie you have ever seen?
Volcano (1998) and Spider-Man 3 (2007)

4) What is your guilty pleasure movie?
Galaxy Quest (1999)

5) What is the best movie you've seen in the past year?
Toss-up between Tropic Thunder (2008) and Let the Right One In (2008)

6) What was the first movie you ever saw in a theater?
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

7) What movie just blew your mind when you saw it?
The Matrix (1999) (only the first one) and Dark City (1998)