I have a lot of films that i call my favorites (Shawshank, The Medusa Touch, Raiders 1, etc) but my favorite film of all time is The Empire Strikes Back.
It's the romance arc that does it for me every time! As a whole Star Wars IV, V, and VI, were films that I watched when i was 10, 13 and 16. I actually have TESB in paperback and it fell apart because i read it so often.
As to my favorite scene, that is a particular scene in The Return Of Jedi.
The scene is on YT and the bit that makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck starts around 4mins in – it's on YT here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1MnMA0TzGI
These words are the culmination of Star Wars IV, V and VI in the final battle between Vader and Luke.
It is the most passionate stirring scene in any film I have ever seen. It is the absolute certainty in Luke that he would rather die than turn to the dark side that makes the simple words he says so meaningful.
If they had made Jedi in 2019 it would have a complicated fight scene with stunts and flips and tons of explosions… but the almost simple (and I know I have used that word twice now!) way that the fight happens is redolent of sword fights in old black and white movies. It is intense. Added to which is the perfect William’s music building to a crescendo.
What's your favorite film?
“I actually have TESB in paperback and it fell apart because i read it so often.”
I had RotJ in paperback, the one with the eight pages of colour pics from the film. I took it everywhere, read it over and over, so much the pages started falling from the glue. Then one day in the summer holidays I left in the tent my parents had set up for us and that night it rained. There were all sorts of things my brother and I had squirreled out to the tent over the weeks it was up, but all I cared about was whether my book survived. It did, just. It spent two days in the hot water cupboard. The longest two days to that point in my life, lol. My beloved paperback went on to survive many more rereadings.
My favourite film is impossible to pin down, so here’s my top five:
The Love Letter (1998)
Return of the Jedi
Dirty Dancing
Star Trek Beyond
Sleeping Beauty
I have a strange collection of favourites, films I’ll watch time and time again. They start with The Abyss… Ed Harris does it for me every time. Any Bruce Willis film, but The Fifth Element is my favourite because “multipass”. Any of the new Star Trek series, a Marc Harmon film called The Presidio, it’s Mark Harmon.. who wouldn’t? Lol. Recently I’ve been watching Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down cos’ I like a good “shoot em up” . See a strange and eclectic choice.
I don’t really have a favorite film. I don’t think about things that way and my mind is like a sieve these days. If I saw a list, I’d remember a whole bunch that I’m forgetting right now. Here are a few of the ones that I’ll watch again: 80’s teen films like the Breakfast Club, LOTR, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Star Trek, The Way He Looks, Love Actually.