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Do you mean what are your favorite movies right now, or in past tense. Because i grew up with a ton of films i absolutely adored, but i haven’t seen them in a long time. Favorite doesn’t equal best made, or technologically the most impressive. In fact most are probably based on a memory or nostalgia. Like Return of the Jedi for instance it was the first Star Wars i watched it theaters and i fell in love with the film. Early filmgoing experiences like that, Gremlins, Ghostbusters left indelible impressions on me. Going to see A View to a Kill, License to Kill, Star Trek VI, Indiana Jones Last Crusade, Ghostbusters II, Back to the Future II etc. So mostly stuff tied to a memory of going to the films with my dad, or when i started taking my younger brother to the movies or what i watched in high school. Were i to list everything the list would be long.
I like escapist cinema, cinema of the fantastic and science fiction.I like action movies. I like Westerns swashbucklers, Comedies, Japanese cinema. I like film noir and the classics. The only genre i like very little of is horror but i like a few. I used to study film and the way films were made and i was absolutely obsessed with movies.
I wonder what my list would be now ten or fifteen years ago i would have said Lord of the Rings by Peter Jackson was my favorite, before that it was the Star Wars trilogy, before that it was Steven Spielberg films. Before that it was Sean Connery 007 films, or the Star Trek movies.
A few years back it was Kurosawa films and Studio Ghibli movies. Or Sergio Leone Westerns. Long long ago, it was Errol Flynn Swashbucklers, Flash Gordon serials, Douglas Fairbanks movies. Bruce Lee movies, Godzilla movies, King Kong. The films of John Carpenter, Robert Zemeckis, James Cameron, Francis Coppola. Ridley Scott.