I would have to go with “Goodfellas” when choosing a favorite movie. I think a lot of criteria are involved in determining which movie deserves favorite status, specifically the following:

1) I will watch it (almost) any time I see it’s on TV, regardless of when the movie started or whether it has been hacked to bits by censors. (The “almost” really only comes into play if there is something really specific that I set out to watch, but I’ll still flip to Goodfellas during commercials.)

2) The movie has aged incredibly well. This can most likely be attributed to the fact that it took place over 3 decades, and the events unfolded prior to the time in which the film was actually released, which adds a lassic American nostalgia factor – and the soundtrack is the best ever. (Apologies to “Dazed and Confused” and “Almost Famous”)

3) I always throw Goodfellas into the ring when people are contending that “The Godfather” is the best movie ever made. I don’t try to dissuade them of their opinions, because that is completely ignorant. However, I do get them to admit that Goodfellas holds up much better for repeat viewings, and that “the best movie” and “one’s favorite movie” can be (and often are) mutually exclusive terms.

4) Fuck “Dances with Wolves” and Kevin Costner. I rest my case.

Those are all good movies but, why would I hang a poster of Milk, Rachel getting married or Slumdog in a man cave? Do you understand that manly movies are posted in a man cave?

“Cool Hand Luke” because…

1. The famous quote, “what we have here is a failure to communicate…” is in intro to the G&R song “Civil War,” and G&N rocks… well… rocked until Axel lost his mind, but I digress.
2. The movie poster for “Cool Hand Luke” is one of the most visually stunning. When I saw it above Ed Norton’s couch in “25th Hour” I immediately rented “Cool Hand Luke”
3. It stares a young George Kennedy, better known as Ed Hocken from the Naked Gun movies… who doesn’t love “Naked Gun,” or better yet the TV show “Police Squad”?!
4. It stars Paul Newman… nuff said.
5. The carwash scene with “Lucille”.
6. A young Dennis Hopper… that’s 2 on the bad ass count.

I’d have to say a Clockwork Orange for a couple of reasons. one the movie is shocking enough to actually make you think while you’re watching it. Two Malcolm Mcdowells performance is phenomenal, one of the best performances of all time. Three the movie has a great theme and has a point its not like a random movie that waists your time. Four Kubrick has made a movie that is timeless as in its still watchable today unlike many other “classics”. And five you gotta respect the balls of any director to come out with a movie with subject matter so disturbing 40 years later it still has its bite.

A cool movie poster to have in the man cave would have to be The Big Lebowski.

Who cares what your favorite movie poster is cause…

“Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.” -The Dude.

One of my favorite Movie Posters and quite an enjoyable movie is Raquel Welch in Hannie Caulder.

Why?

Raquel in a serape and gun-belt. Smoldering hot and ready to kick ass.

My fav. movie is The Outsiders! Love it. I could watch it over and over again. Stay Gold! I want this poster in my cave!

Blade Runner is definitely one of my favorite films of all time. Ridley Scott’s depiction of futuristic Los Angelese is both beautiful and sad, but the story he weaves is even greater. A movie that ultimately questions what makes us human and urges us to be MORE human than we already are. Harrison Ford once again delivers an excellent performance, ultimately making us question his own humanity in the film. Again, Blade Runner is a beautiful, thought-provoking film that inspired an entire generation of science fiction.

I have several posters in my mancave, but I have to go with the 1981 movie “Heavy Metal”. That poster represents every metalhead in his late 30s or 40s. Its been in several movies, Stepbrothers, Tenacious D’s Pick of Destiny. Your not a metalhead if you dont have “Heavy Metal” up on your walls. Mine is at least framed.

The Shawshank Redemption is the greatest movie of all time. It is consistently ranked number 1 on IMDB. But who cares what the internet thinks. Tim Robbins as Andy Dufrense is wrongly convicted of killing his cheating wife and her lover, goes to jail where he is raped and beaten repeatedly. He sets up endless money making scams for the warden who later kills the man who gives him his only chance of getting a new trial. He ends up tunneling out of prison “Crawling through a river of shit, and coming out clean on the other side,” stealing all of the warden’s ill gotten money, exposing the warden who later kills himself, and retiring to Mexico to live his dream as small hotel owner and charter fisherman. Morgan Freeman turns in one of the best performances of all time as Andy’s best friend Red, and also the “man who knows how to get things.” Red gets out of prison after Andy has escaped and joins him in Mexico to live out their days. The movie is flawless but aside from the great plot, acting and directing, the themes of “Hope” in the face of despair were amazing.

“Get busy living or get busy dying…That’s goddamn right.”

Most awesome movie ever is without question “Rudy.”
The story of following your dreams and achieving what many say is impossible.
Overcoming obstacles and believing in yourself, what more can you ask for?
No guns, babes, or magic required.

The Matrix.

Not because it was a much better executed version of Inception.

Not because it is scene for scene the greatest action movie of all time.

Not because Morpheus only speaks in poetic gold.

But because I’m pretty sure that movie was the only reason Keanu Reeves was created by Jesus thousands of years ago. To serve this purpose.

Because Mark Wahlberg as Neo makes me want to hurt everything.

Fight Club
We’re an entire generation of gas pumpers, waiters, and slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we could buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history. We have no great war or great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war and our great depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised by television to believe we’ll all be millionaires and rockstars, but we won’t and we’re slowly learning that fact… and we’re very pissed off. Our answer to our dilemna lies in this movie.

Movie: Mean Girls
Reason: Lindsey’s Boobs

300. This is almost too easy, really. First off, Lena Headey topless. Next, Gerard Butler as the ultimate man’s man with a beard it looks like he could murder you with, spending much of the movie either slaughtering his enemies or screaming about how awesome he is, or banging his smoking hot wife.

There is no ambiguity in it either, which I find refreshing. How many movies have you seen where in the end, the good guy is supposed to be the bad guy and vice versa? None of that here. Persians are bad and horrible, Greeks and Spartans are good and manly.

And, it’s loosely based off of historical events, the Battle of Thermopylae in which a few thousand Greeks held off a few hundred thousand Persians. But really, who’s counting? 300 is quite possibly the most testosterone-drenched movie of all time, which makes it one of the most awesome movies of all time.