I'd pick The Big Lebowski for me. I'm a simple guy, I like movies and games where absurd things happens in everyday life—because my life feels monotonous, iykyk.

Sci-fi and high fantasy stuff is entertaining, but I don't dig them as much as media with contemporary setting.

Heavy Metal. It's so excited to show you all its cool stuff!

I have three that all vie for the top-spot at different times:

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou is usually my top. I love all the performances, the practical sets, the goofy CGI, and the soundtrack (especially the ending scene with the expert use of "Staralfur" by Sigur Ros). I also grew up with an absentee father and while I never really developed typical "daddy issues" over that, something about this aspect of the plot hits me (same with why I have a fondness for Tron Legacy).

The Beach is also up there. Not a great film, but a favorite. I caught it right around the time I started surfing and developing an itch to see the world. I've also read the novel several times (which is quite different from the film). It's whole commentary on tourism-as-colonialism is brilliant.

Office Space might be the one movie I've seen more than any other. While it's a great comedy, the performances are perfect as is the themes (though the ending is kinda lame and feels like the movie loses steam). I grew up hanging out among cubicles with my mom and every character is someone that I have met.

Toss up between Star Trek First Contact and Snatch!

Gran Torino

It's gotta be Goncharov for me, it's Scorsese's best work

Back to the Future. It's both an amazing time capsule of the era and somehow also timeless. All the actors absolutely nail it and it's just super fun to watch. I never get tired of it.

Gotta be The Matrix (1999). It blew my mind with the action when I saw it as a teenager, it continued blowing my mind with the philosophical and existential ideas when I started understanding those as an adult, and now it's the ultimate comfort watch for me.

The two sequels have a special place in my heart too.

Come & See or possibly Nights of Cabiria

I have never heard of this movie. Am watching now. This is quite interesting !!

The Lord of the Rings (pick any one)

Pride (2014), maybe? So hard to pick one. But I do love this one. Two very different communities comming together and supporting each other in the worst of times. Filled with love and laughs.

Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners!

My favorite film is Strange Days. When I was about 11 or 12 years old I saw the trailer on TV. The imagery and music in the trailer hooked me. I was too young to watch an R-rated film at that time, but about a year later I watched it on the cable box at home. I loved the film. The opening scene set the grittiness of the rest of the film. It was also the first time I watched scenes from a film shot in first person, and they did all that before small cameras like GoPros existed.

The soundtrack is terrific. I think I bought the CD at Tower Records, I still have that in storage somewhere. Since the DVD release back in the early 2000s I've made it a thing to watch the film every December.

Eurotrip. My friends watched it like 8 times. It's not rated as great movie, but the jokes are really good, makes fun of stereotypes, every scene is a meme. Maybe I'm biased, but its a fun movie

Lord of the Rings. It has all my heart desires. Great shots of nature, camaraderie, action, feels, swords, a message, charge of the Rohirrim.... I could go on. It's a masterpiece.

You may say it's cheating, that's three movies - well to that I say the books are also actually one book split into three. They shot all the movies together as well. Besides, I only ever watch them all or not at all so... one big movie as far as I'm concerned.

I can't decide, but what immediately comes to mind that hasn't been said is "Everything everywhere all at once" and "Interstellar".

My favorite movie is The Favorite. The humour is just right for me.

My Neighbor Totoro

"Rubber" - It's a (french?) movie about a car wheel that suddenly becomes aware of its own existence. It then starts rolling around, and somehow it has the ability to KILL telepathically. It starts small with squirrles or rats exploding, but at some point even the military needs to intervene.

I like trash :)

Gut reaction?

"Big Trouble In Little China."

I know there are better movies, but this is my favorite. Magic and gangsters, a dimwit hero, cheesy dialog, really good fight scenes, and a really hot actress.

Every time I watch it I feel like I'm 14 again.

君の名は。 (your name.). There’s so much to it. The one that comes to mind now is how humbled the writer (Shinkai) was by the west’s reception of his previous film that he insisted upon the soundtrack being done by a band with a bilingual singer, so if you watch the English dub, the music is also in English. I don’t, but I love that detail. (I prefer the Japanese dub with no subtitles, followed closely by the Japanese dub with some really excellent fan subs.) I’ve seen it enough that I no longer need the dialogue translated to fully appreciate it. I know what they’re talking about.

I also love how the trailer doesn’t tell you shit about what it’s about. The trailer is happy letting you think it’s a romantic comedy about teens body swapping. There’s a hard right turn about halfway through that changes the whole thing. And while the whole thing is beautiful and there are some great scenes before that point, that’s where the movie really begins. There’s a line in one of the songs that says “everything before now is prologue.” And that’s true. There’s the story and there’s a bunch of stuff that just sets it up, and the trailer only covers the latter.

Then there’s the multiple timelines…

can't really go to one because the lotr trilogy is still top for me.

Alien and Blade Runner, both by Ridley Scott. Arguably set in the same universe.

Absolute stunning set and costume designs and genre defining in there own way.

It's hard to name my favorite with certainty, but one of my favorites is The Incredibles. The world building, the score, the action, the comedy, the relationships. It's all great.

The stakes are very real too. Syndrome is willing to murder not just superheroes, but kids. When he orders Elasti-Girl's plane shot down knowing it has her and Bob's kids on board, you feel every bit of tension as Helen tries to stay calm while doing everything she can to save her kids. The scene is even more believable because the way she uses pilot jargon while speaking through the radio.

And the themes! Each main character's power is tied to their role. Super strong Bob being weighed down with the crushing burden of mediocrity. Over functioning Helen has to stretch herself to take care of everyone. Super fast Dash has too much energy and resents being contained. Insecure Violet just wants to be invisible to the world. Even baby Jack Jack is just full of possibilities.

Honestly I could go on and on. It's a movie that's suitable for kids but has some very grownup themes and relationships. It hits different after you have kids, feeling what the parents are going through on a new level. To me it's not just a great superhero movie, it's just a great movie that most people can find something to relate to in.

I have never had a single favorite film. I don’t think I could list my top five favorite films of many different genres.

Boondock Saints for me. Watched it obsessively for a solid semester in college, and it helped shape my views on capital punishment, especially with the "person on the street" interviews at the end

Gut reaction. Fear and Loathing. Just a perfect movie. It is pretty faithful to the book, Depp gives an amazing performance so close to the real Hunter it is spooky and the whole thing is just perfect in every way.

Sunshine. It's one of the only non fiction cosmic horror films I know of. That experience of awe and insignificance at the sovereignty of the sun moved me. And recently I got to experience it first hand just like in the film, and for the half second I comprehended the size of sun it was.. terrifying.

The movie has it's faults, but it's one of only a few films that put us in our place.

The Living End by Gregg Araki

the movie touches on many of the problems/insecurities that young americans had to deal with back in the late-80's/early-90's and stands in stark contrast to the world of today's millenials & genz adults, but it's still familiar in deeply touching and troubling ways.

every time i watch it, it never fails to remind me of an aspect of life that i lived, but had completely forgotten about in the decades since then and Araki has a way of making each one feel like an old wound that you forgot you had like it's some sort emotional battle scar from living life.

a VERY young ethan hawke is in it and i've never disliked anything he's ever done. lol

Interstate 60. Gary Oldman at his best. Highly recommend.

Damn. I have a hard time pinning that down. Way easier by genre, but even there I wouldn't come to a permanent conclusion since the process is highly dependent on what I remember.

Most of the time, I end up on Fight Club. It's my most rewatched movie for sure. It hits the right buttons between tight acting, phenomenal camera work, a structure that works, and a concept that can be challenging when first encountered. I hate that it got turned into a symbol for morons that only look at the surface of it, but that's people for ya; they'll take the exact opposite message from something and run with it like a pair of scissors.

That being said, I've watched spaceballs damn near as many times, along with young Frankenstein. Most of the Brookes ouvre rank pretty damn high for me, and dominate my comedy folders.

But there's also Princess Bride that's such a simple and comfortable movie, and Rocky Horror that thrills, chills, and fulfills me. All of those, I've seen so many times I've lost count, but reach triple digits (and probably exceed that considering I've been known to put any of those on to help me sleep when insomnia is kicking my ass, and some nights I'll go through multiple via playlist now that digital exists).