(From a discussion in the off-topic “Last Movie Seen” thread)
Is your favorite movie one from the Star Wars franchise?
For me, yes, the original and Empire are nearly tied as my favorite, with the original barely beating out Empire.
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I don’t have favorite movies anymore.
With that said, I don’t spend time on a Ghostbusters forum.
And with that said, I don’t know if there’s a Ghostbusters forum with an off-topic section as entertaining as this one.
Nope. But i don’t know how i would even quantify a ‘favorite’, there are just too many movies that i really like.
Yes. For a long time I considered all three unbeatable but it’s hard to say now that ROTJ is better than some of my other favorite films… Which disappoints me as of now and my younger self who once thought otherwise.
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I don’t have favorite movies anymore.
With that said, I don’t spend time on a Ghostbusters forum.
And with that said, I don’t know if there’s a Ghostbusters forum with an off-topic section as entertaining as this one.
The dudebros in charge of a Ghostbusters forum would ban you for liking the remake anyway.
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For me, yes, the original and Empire are nearly tied as my favorite, with the original barely beating out Empire.
This is how I feel.
They’re up there, but that may only be because I’m a philistine who doesn’t watch a lot of movies to begin with.
I do like the Aesthetic of Star Wars, though.
ESB is my favorite film and that probably won’t be changing any time soon. I hope Episode VIII will change my mind on that though 😉
Sometimes. Favourite movies are like best friends. Why have one?
TFA is my favorite movie.
TFA is my favorite movie.
You are my favorite poster.
Sometimes. Favourite movies are like best friends. Why have one?
I can agree with this sentiment.
For a long time ESB was my favorite movie, but I’d be hard pressed to say one specific movie these days that is my favorite.
That being said, I can certainly say Star Wars movies and Godzilla movies are easily my favorite movies. And within those two groups Star Wars and ESB are my favorite Star Wars movies. And Ghidrah the Three Headed Monster and Godzilla (1984) are two of my favorite Godzilla movies.
And I could easily make a nice list of some of my favorite films or film series. But I’d have great difficulty if you asked me to rank them.
But to sit down and definitively say ______ is my all time favorite film? Nah, couldn’t do it. There are just too many awesome films that I really really like.
Nah. I have a list of the top ten movies I consider the best, and Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back are on the lower half of that list. The original trilogy are some of my favourite movies, but none are number one.
Not enough people read the EU.
Sometimes. Favourite movies are like best friends. Why have one?
Well, it depends. I have a lot of best friends and a lot of favorite movies. And I get that, hard to pick just one from either category, I very much enjoy spending time with all of them equally.
But then I have to admit that there’s exceptions. Star Wars I just love so much, I can spend so much more time with it that I have to admit it’s my number one. And sometimes you have a friend that you can just talk to whenever and you just want to spend all your time with them and can never get enough of them and there’s no doubt they’re your number one, but then sometimes that friend decides they don’t want to spend any more time with you and they want to move on but you don’t and you’re stuck still wanting to talk to them all the time but you know you can’t because they don’t want to anymore and then you’re all alone and you start to become a bit depressed and hate everything in your life…
Except movies don’t do that! So I’ll always have Star Wars.
My personal top ten shifts all the time, but no Star Wars film is ever in it. Top 50, sure.
Nah. I have a list of the top ten movies I consider the best, and Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back are on the lower half of that list. The original trilogy are some of my favourite movies, but none are number one.
This brings up an interesting point.
For me, there is a clear distinction between “best” movies and “favorite” movies. As an example, I consider Seven Samurai and Lawrence of Arabia some of the best movies, and I really like both of them a lot. But at the same time, I still personally like my favorite Godzilla movies more and would rank them higher on a list of “favorite films” even though I can easily recognize they are obviously not superior to the aforementioned “best” movies in any kind of reasonable or objective critique.
Nah. I have a list of the top ten movies I consider the best, and Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back are on the lower half of that list. The original trilogy are some of my favourite movies, but none are number one.
This brings up an interesting point.
For me, there is a clear distinction between “best” movies and “favorite” movies. As an example, I consider Seven Samurai and Lawrence of Arabia some of the best movies, and I really like both of them a lot. But at the same time, I still personally like my favorite Godzilla movies more and would rank them higher on a list of “favorite films” even though I can easily recognize they are obviously not superior to the aforementioned “best” movies in any kind of reasonable or objective critique.
IMO that’s just guilt needlessly pruning your perfectly acceptable “best” list. The world would be a boring place if we all agreed on what’s best. I can say I love Buckaroo Banzai and the critics may sneer at me, but I get a good reception around here. I can say I love Cabin Boy and make no friends at all. But they’re not shuffled off to some second-tier list due to lack of overlap with the BFI 100 list. Let that freak flag fly!
The thing about Star Wars is that I can sit down and watch it whenever. It never gets old to me. It’s like a comfort food or a bad day cure.
I can just sit down with it when I need cheering up and it does that. I can throw it on on a cloudy day off in bed and have a great day off. I can just toss it on any time and it’s never old and never too much.
Have I seen movies that have made me think more, or had amazing camera work, or incredible writing and deep characters and twisty plots, movies that are probably objectively better? Yes, of course, but with pretty much every movie I’m one and done. Not so with Star Wars.
That’s why it’s my favorite.
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Nah. I have a list of the top ten movies I consider the best, and Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back are on the lower half of that list. The original trilogy are some of my favourite movies, but none are number one.
This brings up an interesting point.
For me, there is a clear distinction between “best” movies and “favorite” movies. As an example, I consider Seven Samurai and Lawrence of Arabia some of the best movies, and I really like both of them a lot. But at the same time, I still personally like my favorite Godzilla movies more and would rank them higher on a list of “favorite films” even though I can easily recognize they are obviously not superior to the aforementioned “best” movies in any kind of reasonable or objective critique.
IMO that’s just guilt needlessly pruning your perfectly acceptable “best” list. The world would be a boring place if we all agreed on what’s best. I can say I love Buckaroo Banzai and the critics may sneer at me, but I get a good reception around here. I can say I love Cabin Boy and make no friends at all. But they’re not shuffled off to some second-tier list due to lack of overlap with the BFI 100 list. Let that freak flag fly!
I don’t see it that way at all. I feel no guilt over liking Ghidrah the Three Headed Monster more than Seven Samurai. But I can readily recognize and agree that Seven Samurai is clearly a better film. I mean, just looking objectively, Ghidrah easily has more faults. As an example, look at the editing. Ghidrah (at last the original Japanese cut) jumps back and forth between day and night almost nonsensically. A direct result of the super rushed production (it was one of three big SFX films from Toho all made in one year by the same crew in 1964). Objectively, its actually a rather sloppily made film. It certainly doesn’t hold a candle to the technical prowess, superb writing, or phenomenal acting in Seven Samurai.
But even so, while I definately love both films, I personally enjoy Ghidrah more and certainly watch it FAR more often than Seven Samurai.
So one is obviously “better” but that doesn’t mean I can’t personally like the other more.
OT are my top three favourite films, followed by Alien and Blade Runner. I doubt this will ever change.
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The thing about Star Wars is that I can sit down and watch it whenever. It never gets old to me. It’s like a comfort food or a bad day cure.
I can just sit down with it when I need cheering up and it does that. I can throw it on on a cloudy day off in bed and have a great day off. I can just toss it on any time and it’s never old and never too much.
Have I seen movies that have made me think more, or had amazing camera work, or incredible writing and deep characters and twisty plots, movies that are probably objectively better, but with pretty much every movie I’m one and done. Not so with Star Wars.
That’s why it’s my favorite.
Exactly.
You are supposed to be my forum bride!
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ESB is my favorite film and that probably won’t be changing any time soon. I hope Episode VIII will change my mind on that though 😉
This.
No.
Star Wars was for a while but by the time Alien and Blade Runner came out I was already disappointed with the franchise. Those two films spoke more to me as I was becoming older and more introspective.
I had a laserdisc of Star Wars for a long time and watched it with some regularity throughout the 80s. I lost everything in a flood in 1992 and never replaced it.
The 1977 theatrical version holds a special place in my world, but the contamination of the franchise has ruined my enjoyment of it. I last watched it ten years ago.