Dinner for One
"The best films are the ones you used to play OVER & OVER & OVER again when you were a kiddo."

I would also add that the best films are those that you quote on a regular basis in everyday life too...

Okay, under this rule my favourite films would have to be:

1. Top Gun: This was the first proper film I ever owned - back in the olden days when we had VHS videos. For you kids, that's kind of a small box thing with a reel-to-reel tape... never mind.... I actually got the soundtrack CD before I got the movie. I had to get a CD player to play that too since it was my first CD too... For a teenager who loved aeroplanes, this was by far the best movie around - far better than Iron Eagle (which was one of the first films I saw in the cinema)

Maverick:"Because I was inverted"
Iceman:"*COUGHbullshit*"
How many times have I used that when disagreeing with a mate who was full of $h!t.

And really, who wouldn’t want Meg Ryan to say to them:
“Take me to bed or lose me forever.”

2. The Gods Must Be Crazy: The original, south african version - not the silly american dubbed version. It frustrates me that american distributors have to over-dub an ENGLISH film (ie spoken in english albeit with an accent) with american voice actors because they think that the bulk of american viewers can't understand other english accents.... and another thing - the second one (TGMBC 2) was absolutely sh!te but probably because I only ever saw an american over-dubbed version /rant.

We taped the original off the TV in south africa sometime back in the 80's & watched it MANY, MANY times as we grew up.

"coming to give you morrtal supporrt" (going to talk to his lady friend)
"what the hell you do thet for? huh??" (after he winched the anticrist up the tree)

3. The Hunt for Red October: I never saw this one until after I met Mrs GMRage. It was her favourite movie, and I quickly grew to love it too, because there is no gratuity in it - no drug use, no sex, and no unnecessary violence. The coarsest language in it is "God dam".

"Give me a ping Vasily. One ping only please" Useful quote whenever I ask someone to pass me something. As in: "give me a _____ Vasily. One _____ only please"

I also enjoyed “Unbreakable”, “the Usual Suspects”, and “the Interview” with Hugo Weaving. I love the twists at the end of these. They all left me breathless… wondering… how did I miss the signs? … just very well told stories.
(GMRage stood a little straighter, Wed 23 Jul 2008, 10:17, Reply)