Favorite Film

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If you had to pick a favorite film in the whole world, what would it be?

I own 850 Blu-Ray films, 289 DVDs and my best will always be Tim Burton's Batman!!
It was my first film when I was a toddler!
I would watch it nonstop.
Since I have Netflix, I managed to see a lot of films from various genres.
I even keep a list of films.
I've seen over 1220 films and nearly 60 tv shows in my life.

850 on Blu-ray? Jesus. I've got about 800 total, roughly 300 on Blu-ray and 500 on DVD. I catalogue everything on Blu-ray.com here. It says I've got 301 on Blu-ray and 425 on DVD, but the DVD number should be higher since the site counts a lot of the multi-movie sets as one.

I can't ever choose between Chronicle (2012) or A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Best film ever: Schindler's List (1993)
Most satisfying film ever: Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

As of May of last year, Neighbors

It's been a while since an official count, but I own about 1200 DVDs, 300-ish VHS tapes, a couple dozen LaserDiscs, two UMDs (just for collecting sake), two VCDs (now I'm just getting needlessly obscure) and exactly one Blu-Ray (because it was a release only available as a BR/DVD combo).

Though I was a film student and am versed enough in classic, foreign and arthouse cinema, my collection (and indeed, my passion is life) is primarily B-movies, cult flicks and exploitation. Of course I have an appreciation for the likes of Kubrick, Bergman, Godard, Ozu, Tarkovsky, etc., and I could answer just as honestly by saying something 'respectable' like 'Blade Runner', 'Brazil' or 'Taxi Driver', but my favorite movie will always be 1985's 'The Return of the Living Dead'.

In a nutshell, it's got a clever, original story (introducing many components which are now an integral part of zombie fiction), it strikes a pitch-perfect balance between horror and comedy (I'll always prefer very dry black humor in horror over broad slapstick like 'Shaun of the Dead'), it's very well-paced and edited (never a dull moment even though the zombies don't even come in until halfway through the running time), the characters are all unique and likable (likeable characters is the number one (and most forgotten) rule of writing good horror movies) and the acting is far better than necessary, the production design is fantastic (an atmosphere vividly inspired by 1950s horror comics), the special effects are phenomenal (the "Torso" zombie puppet is a masterwork) and the soundtrack is incredible (primo '80s punk and deathrock). Overall, it's just a blast of a film and a definite highlight of what I consider to be the golden age of modern horror (it pretty much all went downhill in the '90s).