what's your dad's favorite movie

me: 'casablanca'

not even sure what would be second? also a big perry mason fan

The National Lampoon's Vacation series.

I think it was Raoul Walsh's Gentleman Jim.

North by Northwest

The Great Escape

Lonesome Dove

that's a television miniseries but nevertheless otm

I don't actually know what his favorite is but I think the movie he's suggested I watch the most that I still haven't seen is Pandora's Box.

I should really watch it sometime! Movies he recommended I watch, or we watched as a family when I was an adolescent/teenager:

Yojimbo
Orpheus
Grand Illusion
The Seventh Seal
If...
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
McCabe and Mrs. Miller

He got really into Porco Rosso after I recommended he watch it and bought copies for several friends and relatives.

Couldn't tell you what his actual favourite was. He introduced me to a lot of Bogart, Leone, Bunuel, MGM musicals. Good stuff.

The Seventh Seal

Playtime

I was thinking, I actually don’t even think I know? Is it a Bond, is it Close Encounters, but then the answer dropped undeniably into my head: Predator.

Actually, it’s Morning of the Earth

Could also be Independence Day.

I have no idea. He didn't seem to watch movies very much - he was usually in the pub tbh. My mum was the movie fan. I remember him saying he went to see "A Clockwork Orange" when it came out and he hated it.

... actually he did seem to like Jacques Tati, now I think of it!

I remember my best friend and I got Texas Chainsaw Massacre out after it was unbanned and he came into the sitting room and saw us watching it. Him: “This is a great one! Saw it in America!” It’s funny the way he loves gory films despite being (literally) sickened by blood irl.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest got its first UK TV airing on 29.12.88 on BBC2. I was going out and set the VCR (which we'd had about a week, and the folks didn't yet know how to use) but my dad was curious as to what I was taping so he tuned in "live". He talked about that film for months!

Some of my dad's favourite movies have become mine - partic Young Frankenstein

It’s funny the way he loves gory films despite being (literally) sickened by blood irl.

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this is me, i can barely even look at an irl wound

my dad’s favorite movie is… paint your wagon

that's awesome

Some of my dad's favourite movies have become mine - partic Young Frankenstein

Oh yes! Another great shared (actually shared, not tape delay) TV experience: BBC2's brief Mel Brooks season (Radio Times genome tells me Sept '84). That was the best one.

Dad is gonna be so pissed i doxxed him like this

He's quite fond of Man's Favorite Sport?.

Don’t know if they are his favorites but my dad was teenage Anglophile/British Comedy fan in the ‘60s, and told me tales in the 80s of The Wrong Box with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, and Peter Sellers, and Bedazzled. Was excited when the Wrong Box was on late night TV and we set the video to record and I fell in love with it too. Also taped what turned out to be a heavily edited (no Lillian Lust) Bedazzled off of late night TV too so was finally chuffed when it got a proper DVD release in the US.

If we’re getting into TV my dad was a big fan of That Was The Week That Was, which he referred to as “TW3”

(which i guess aired on American TV?)

ah hang on there was an American version apparently

lol this is funny re the original version on BBC

TW3 was broadcast on Saturday night and attracted an audience of 12 million. It often under- or overran as cast and crew worked through material as they saw fit. At the beginning of the second season in the autumn of 1963, in an attempt to assert control over the programme, the BBC scheduled repeats of The Third Man television series after the end of TW3. Frost suggested a means of sabotaging this tactic to Sherrin, and he agreed. For three weeks, at the end of each episode Frost read out a brief summary of the plot of the episode of The Third Man that was due to follow the show, spoiling its twists, until the repeats were abandoned following the direct intervention of Greene.

I remember this! My dad was very excited!

ABC aired a That Was The Week That Was special on 21 April 1985, hosted by David Frost and Anne Bancroft and featuring future Saturday Night Live cast members Jan Hooks and A. Whitney Brown and puppetry from Spitting Image.

Lawrence of Arabia is one.

I don't think he had a definitive favorite. But after he died, I found among his possessions some clippings of movie reviews he wrote for a local newspaper in the 1970s, before I was born. And the most positive of these was his review of Days of Heaven, which he called "an extraordinary film."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9M43YfX4AATqc5?format=jpg&name=small

He also hated The Exorcist, it turns out.

Would have payed money to sit there and watch my dad watching The Seventh Seal.

When I was younger, it was definitely either The Great Escape or The Magnificent Seven but these days, he seems to stump harder for The Outlaw Josey Wales and Jeremiah Johnson.

Where Eagles Dare

My dad isn't big on movies but iirc the movie he has described to me the most times, as if I haven't heard the plot the previous 4 times, is Secondhand Lions with Robert Duvall and Michael Caine. Although looking at the plot summary, I do feel like he left out a lot of the key elements.

I feel like it's not irrelevant that his family once sent him, a small child alone on a train, from North Jersey to, like, Indiana to spend the summer with one of his dad's Navy buddies who had a farm there.

I asked my dad, he said

Recently, over the past few years, the most viewed is Blazing Saddles.

My dad wasn't into films but I watched a few on tv with him, usually westerns or the latest hit thriller/action movie like Lethal Weapon or Silence of the Lambs. He saw no point in ever watching a film twice, and thought it ridiculous that I spent money to see the rereleased Casablanca (ie. something old that's been on tv) at the cinema.

Growing up, watching movies was the main way that my family spent time together, we were always going to or from Blockbuster or the library. My dad eventually got a second VCR and before long we had cabinets spilling over with dubbed copies of everything we ever rented. It wasnt until I was many years into adulthood that I realized my dad didn't have any "taste" in a literal sense, he just loved watching any movie. One year I gifted him a subscription to Netflix DVD and he never ended up getting a disc mailed to him because he couldnt think of any specific movies to add to his queue. He just loved looking at a shelf full of tapes and picking out a box with a famous actor on it or a big pullquote that said "HILARIOUS" or "THRILLING". The worst he would ever say about a movie was that it was "pretty good" -- aside from the occasions when he'd accidentally rent something with subtitles. He thought it was criminal that they didn't put caution stickers on those tapes or warn people as they were checking out, to protect red-blooded USA movie renters from dangerous foreign languages. 

...all of which is to say he would be totally stumped by this question, but he particularly loved 80s dad comedies like The Burbs, The Great Outdoors, Summer Rental, Back to School, all of which he would quote often.

We watched Ulzana's Raid when it was shown on "Moviedrome" and he complained at having to sit through Alex Cox's introduction.

I rarely ever talked to the dickhead, but can recall him enthusing about shite Roy Rogers' westerns when he was pissed once. My grandma's trio of fave movies was The Plague Dogs, Ghandi and One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing. My mum's: Whistle Down the Wind.

All I can think of is that my parents went to see Altman's A Prairie Home Companion and loved it so much they stayed seated in the theater and watched it a second time.

Could also be Independence Day.

Ha, I don’t know if my dad has watched a movie of his own volition in my lifetime. He does enjoy WWII documentaries on the History Channel, so I took him to see Independence Day when it came out. He thought it was overblown and not good iirc.

The truest answer is prob “any old shite”

I think it might've been The Fastest Gun Alive or See No Evil, Hear No Evil. Maybe Dirty Harry.

He saw no point in ever watching a film twice, and thought it ridiculous that I spent money to see the rereleased Casablanca (ie. something old that's been on tv) at the cinema.

i respect this pov

Wasn’t that Pauline Kael’s stance as as well?

and she lied

The latest Criterion Closet video with Andrew Garfield (never cuter) is sweetly relevant to the current discussion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tH0irhiQVg

No idea what his actual fave is but he was v pleased that Roadhouse was on one time I was round there

Let's get Tim Walz in the Criterion Closet.

Let's get Garfield out of the closet.

Let's get Garfield out of the closet.

past tense but i think it was Shane?

He watched loads but just stuff that was shown in TV; he told me how he read about a lot about art house cinema but could never see it growing up in India and just couldn't stand the homegrown stuff.

By the time I got into films and lots of art house I showed him some and he was either nonplussed or actually repulsed by it. I remember him being angered by the ending of Dreyer's Ordet. He loved all the US crime films (Dirty Harry type bollocks) so I showed him Haneke's Funny Games and he was mad at me for the rest of the evening but it did lead to a conversation about the kind of films he was enjoying (basically the kind of thing that Haneke sorta wants to happen was happening in our living room that evening) (My brother bought whatever Haneke was up to a lot more).

Don’t think he has a real favorite, and he probably doesn’t remember previous favorites at this point, but here are some I remember him really liking:
Monterey Pop (he was there)
American Graffiti
Apocalypse Now
Dirty Dozen
Dr. Strangelove
Rio Bravo
All the Presidents Men

past tense but i think it was Shane?

Monterey Pop (he was there)
American Graffiti

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american graffiti is about my dads high school class, anyway i asked him and he said pulp fiction but i dont accept this answer i think he just watched it recently

The Lavender Hill Mob is the only film I recall him ever mentioning but he did mention it a lot.