but my best of favourite film as opposed the greatest film ever is probably the magnifcent seven. That being said my other one KES is in the top 5 films made in the English language ever possibly in any language.

is quite simply my top film ever. Great story, dialogue, acting, and the icing on the cake is the brilliant soundtrack. And for a black comedy it was surprisingly moving.

I've never met somebody who has seen it who didn't love it. And those who haven't seen it and then watch it love it too.

It's not necessarily the greatest work of art ever, but I love it.

There, I said it.

I just love " Patton" with the wunnerful George C Scott

I am incapable of walking past a TV that is running any part of this film without sitting down, watching half an hour and laughing once again at jokes I was first exposed to years ago. And also it's the best Robert De Niro performance since "Good Fellas".

"Pub Companion"? Where can I get one of those?

Off the top of my head I really like the following films that don't seem to get anywhere on lists these days:

What's Up Doc?
Kentucky Fried Movie
Fandango
Spring and Port Wine
A Month In The Country
The Dirk Bogarde 'Doctor' films
Genevieve

I find it v.hard to resist any of the Carry On films in the 11-year period that spanned Spying (1964) to Behind (1975). Early 70s gems At Your Convenience and Abroad are particularly enjoyable.

Alex Cox directing Harry Dean Stanton & Emilio Estevez as repo men in rundown LA, bored endless suburbia.

Great dialogue -

HDS "Look at 'em, ordinary f-----g people, I hate 'em."

"You like music, listen to this. I was into these dudes before anyone. Wanted me to be their manager. I called bullshit on that. Managing a pop group is no job for a man."

Looks fab, too, all washed out sun.

Oh, and also Groundhog Day.

Groundhog Day.

...dis Groundhog Day because it was...wait for it...too repetitive.

I'll get me coat....

It's not big, it's not clever, it just makes me smile.

"That's a llama, dude"
"That's not a llama, that's an ostrich"

Epic.

Ocean's Eleven
The Sting
South Park Movie: I seem to recall doing an interview with Bill Oddie some years ago when he started singing the Shut Your F***ing Face song down the phone to me - surreal!

The British "Wall Street", sort of, is one of my absolute favorite films. It stars Paul McGann, Rebecca De Mornay as competing traders.

It is not named, but mentioned in The Ghost by Robert Harris as a stupid movie, because Paul McGann's character communtes to his city job by seaplane, landing on the Thames.

Probably my favourite film.

Also, As Good As It Gets.

Always enjoyed it.

Eddie Murphy puts in a great performance, I think. Dan Aykroyd over-acts to great effect and the ridiculous scenes on the train still make me chortle.

"I hoe-wupp there's enough spay-uss for me on the tray-unn"

"Beef jerky time! You want some? There's plenty you know..."

I can watch them over and over again:

Holmes listening to someone walking up the stairs and accurately predicing they are 5ft7, wear brown shoes and like suet.

Watson exclaiming: "You amaze me Holmes!" and also his harumphing and chuntering.

Holmes' stirring speeches at the end of the wartime films: "There's a wind of change coming Watson."

Two films belong in my memories of visits to my Norfolk grandparents, and make me want to see them again:

• Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
• Monte Carlo or Bust

Would I be disappointed to see them again now? Possibly not, if only because of the very spiffing Terry-Thomas. But I still don't dare.

My favourite film for an indulgent watch is Whisky Galore.

With Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah. A remake of Cyrano de Bergerac. Might even be a movie you could see with your lady... (I refuse to use the term 'date movie')

Not a moment wasted. The combined power of David Hasselhoff and Rock & Roll thwarts evil and saves the day.

I watch it at least once a year.

He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy...

Something always keeps me glued to the screen. That something is Goldie Hawn's face.

'Too Many Crooks' is the one of the most underated British comedies ever - T-T plus George Cole, Sid James, Bernard Bresslaw and Nicholas Parsons(!) Watch it now if you haven't already seen it and watch out for the house fire scene and the courtroom scene.

Probably any of the 'Godzilla' films, for me. Many of them are the most appalling rubbish, but there's something about them that I find hugely entertaining - usually the surprisingly well-crafted scenes of chaos as a man in an unconvincing rubber monster suit smashes through some very carefully and intricately built model city. 'Godzilla Vs. Megalon' is particularly fun, mainly because the lead (non-monster) villain looks the spitting image of Brian Murphy from 'George and Mildred'. : )

It was probably old fashioned even at the time it was made - which is why probably I love it.

The scene where Geordie is competing at the Olympics, struggling, but has a vision of his childhood sweetheart saying "Come away my wee Geordie, come away..." is a choker

I love both films both so witty in different ways and then there is that orgasm scene in HMS what more do you want

... seem designed for this category:

There's Something About Mary
Dumb and Dumber
Airplane
The Naked Gun
Wayne's World
Bill and Ted ...
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
National Lampoon's Vacation

Hey, what about Team America? (laughed so hard I nearly went to Ethiopia)

[Bob and David of Mr. Show's]Run Ronnie Run

High Fidelity

Grumpy Old Men (Jack Lemmon, Walter Matteau and Ann-Margret, 1993 I watch it every Christmas)

and three Kathleen Turner movies that are otherwise not that great but she is amazing in them;

The War of the Roses
Crimes of Passion
and Serial Mom

A Bridge Too Far. There's quite a lot wrong with it : the stellar cast soaked up much of the budget at the expense of the special effects, everyone's between 10 and 20 years too old & their hair's too long. But it's a rare beast - an intelligent & accurate war movie (see also Patton mentioned above - another one that bears continuous repeats chez Johns). And what a story. Tonight's viewing must be the 20th.

"Midnight Run"
a little surf and turf action.....

... early Robin Williams effort, great book, not a great film at all, but I just like it. Not really sure why.

The Sea Hawk And Adventures Of Robin Hood love em

I love John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns but Shane is my all time favourite. The saloon scene at the end with Alan Ladd and Jack Palance is one of the most beautifully filmed in the history of cinema.

is a delight and not quite a classic. American Graffiti - on similar themes and set in similar times is a better movie - but Diner is quietly affecting.

Breaking Away is wonderful too. Sort of like an American Gergory's Girl in feel - with cycling rather than Dee Hepburn - the love object.

Anyone with me for the pure dumb fun, and flying cows, of 'Twister'?

The Year of Living Dangerously
The Long Goodbye
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
Ghost World

If you enjoyed the dreamlike, fractured narrative and colour combinations of Zhang Yimou's Hero, the odds are you'll burst out laughing and lurch for the remote after three minutes of Tsui Hark's The Legend of Zu (AKA Zu Warriors, AKA Zu: The Legend of the Magic Mountain - Tsui's titling skills are up there with his plotting).

Denied a theatrical release everywhere in the world except Hong Kong, where there was a vested interest (and an invested one - the thing cost a fortune), and Spain, where there was no interest at all (I was alone in every sense when I saw it), it's perhaps the ultimate film that should and could have been fabulous but so manifestly isn't.

The plot and characters make no sense at all. (Are they gods, angels, superheroes, or what? Why does that geezer have eyebrows so long they're forever flying around the set like twin Indiana Jones bullwhips? Why does the armed host sweeping across Asia appear to consist of fourteen soldiers? Why does the face of the woman with the eggshell complexion suddenly crack like an eggshell?) The CGI - in this case, every single set in the film - is about as subtle as a belch at a burial. The fight scenes are as brilliantly choreographed as those in The Remains of the Day. The subtitles seem to have been translated by a beta version of Babelfish.

And yet.... I've lapped it up four times now. So boundless is my enthusiasm for this film that I recommend it to everyone I meet. (As it turns out, I meet a lot of people just the once.)

Even the trailer is a treat in itself - not least because it really, really does begin "In a world...".

Watch these three trailers. They are superb.

This is a classic. Of sorts. In another universe. Where the pre-historic and pre-pubescent meet at last!

Comicly bad special effects, but with a real intensity like "Walkabout". i.e. Focussing on insects, etc.

And I really like this version of the Time Machine from the early 1960s. It has blue people in a weird underground world!

Anyone fancy a Japanese version of Shane crossed with Floyd on Food, with added tramps? I don't know why I love it quite so much, but this is one of my favourite films ever

Anybody?

Evil Dead 2 - more Bruce Campbell antics
The Keep - forgotten Michael Mann film with Ian McKellen and Gabriel Byrne
Funeral in Berlin - follow-up to Ipcress File and better
The Professionals - Lee Marvin/Burt Lancaster western

Two minutes silence.

Watched this the other night and its so bad its wonderful. The perfect post-pub movie. The perfect eighties 'western' (big hair, playing around with gender roles, soft rock).

And, I just like it.

It's Bruce Willis's vanity project, the plot is pure tosh, Andie McDowell is far from believable as a nun, Richard E Grant and Sara whatserface couldn't overact more if they tried and there's probably a bit too much violence for it to sit comfortably as family viewing but I can't help liking it.

Rita, Sue and Bob Too always makes me giggle like a 14 year old.

East is East carries more meaning but is still good for a couple of belly laughs. Neither are Citizen Kane but neither pretends to be anything other than they are.

I can watch it anytime. Dont know why as its at times really cheesy...

And by that I mean the US remake that was marketed around the "talents" of Elizabeth Hurley being on display but actually has an extremely strong central performance from Brendan Fraser who is a man who seemed to have everything genetically required to be a major movie star and, Mummy franchise aside, it hasn't really worked for him.

It really sticks out on the DVD shelves against the likes of the Three Colours trilogy or complete West Wing boxset but I can't deny each of the times I've watched either from a halfway point or the whole way through I simply enjoy the fun parts and mute the parts when ol' red is on - since that's essentially how they suggested we watch it...

All those movies where Peter Cook has a bit part like "The Wrong Box" and "Monte Carlo Or Bust", just because there's always something brilliant about Cook, whatever he was doing.

And "The Rise Of Michael Rimmer" features him in fine form.

The Tunes household is I am sure the only one in the UK who can quote from Chris Rock's presidential satire 'Head of State'. We found it in a holiday cottage we rented and its funny! Anyway a lot better than its 30% rating on Rotten Tomatoes would suggest

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This line always got me for some reason..and the final scene from Billy Wilders Apartment..

No movie featuring the incomparable Cary Grant can be minor - by definition - but this is an overlooked gem. Slapstick funny. Clever Funny. Plain dead good.

Frank? Nah - it's Mr Grant's world - and we just live in it

My weakness - I see it's on and I can't avoid it: That thing you do.

Always leaves me with a goofy smile on my face

Really hammy but... Windscale... wooooo

Local Hero

Hot Fuzz

Animal House

Saving Grace

Young Frankenstein

It's A Gift (W.C. Fields)

Duck Soup (Marx Bros.)

Way Out West (Laurel & Hardy)

and a particular guilty pleasure - Singin' In The Rain

and one which algorithms designed to perform the "you liked x, so may also like y" stuff you see on retail sites tend to have severe problems dealing with.

Napoleon Dynamite.

I happen to love it. I just know others don't.