How old does a movie need to be before it's one of your "All Time Favorites"?

[MJN SEIFER]

I watched a movie that was released in 2010 - it was a children's movie, I will admit, and I absolutly loved it. The emotions it gave me made me think of the movies I used to watch as a child, it had the same heart and emotion that movies had back then, rather than being overly childish. Already this movie is very special to me, and I feel warm inside when ever I watch the Blue Ray, and I am constantly "awwing" all the romantic scenes in the movie - I even want the soundtrack, which is official and not covers of real songs like most kid's movies are these days - I found the way they used animal sounds for the songs to be very creative, and it works - one of the "songs" is really beutiful.

However, is it too early to view this as one of my "All Time Favorites"? It's still a new movie, but it feels like I've been a fan all my life...

[Del Murder]

If you love a movie that much then it's one of your all time favorites. Doesn't matter when you watched it or when it came out.

That being said, I like to give movies at least a year before make my true assessment of them. I typically get 'theatre hype' where I come out of a movie pretty psyched about what I just saw. I'm a person who tends to like everything while he's watching it because I'm easily entertained. Only months later do I realize how crappy the movie was. That's how I felt about The Lost World, Daredevil, The Phantom Menace and many others. But for movies like Iron Man and The Dark Knight, even a year later I still wanted to see them again and when I did I liked them just as much. So that's how I knew they were great movies, and up there with my favorites.

[Laddy]

What film are you referring to, MJN?

[Pike]

The Lion King was my favorite movie as soon as I left the theater back in 1994 and it's still one of my favorites.

Same deal with a lot of more recent movies like Iron Man, Sherlock Holmes, the new Star Trek, etc.

So yeah, it doesn't matter to me~

[Shoeberto]

The general standard that I think most everyone goes by is that a film has to be at least 5 years old, unless it won an Oscar, and then it can only be 3 years old. I mean, you don't have to go by what everyone else does, I guess... just don't let anyone hear you talk about it.

[Jessweeee♪]

There's no waiting period! If you can add new films to "the list" then I see no reason why you can't take them off as well.

That being said, I like to give movies at least a year before make my true assessment of them. I typically get 'theatre hype' where I come out of a movie pretty psyched about what I just saw. I'm a person who tends to like everything while he's watching it because I'm easily entertained. Only months later do I realize how crappy the movie was. That's how I felt about The Lost World, Daredevil, The Phantom Menace and many others. But for movies like Iron Man and The Dark Knight, even a year later I still wanted to see them again and when I did I liked them just as much. So that's how I knew they were great movies, and up there with my favorites.

Yeah, the first time we got Rent from the video store I loved it. Then yesterday it came on TV and I watched it with my boyfriend since he had never seen it before and had expressed interest in seeing it once. The problem is, we kept getting interrupted, and we only caught the worst "I'm an ARTIST" parts. I hate that scene where Maureen is doing her...whatever that is on stage. Normally when I enjoy a film, I can ignore everything about it that I think is kind of sucky if I like the rest of it enough, but now only the parts I don't like are fresh in my memory. And those are also the only parts my boyfriend saw, so he won't want to watch it again xD

But uh yeah, time or reshowings can certainly dampen your opinion as well as improve it.

[blackmage_nuke]

When I saw inception it imediately became one of my top 5 favourite movies, which hadnt changed in about 5 years

[Chris]

I absolutely agree with all of the previous posts. It doesn't matter when a movie came out, if a movie just clicks for you, then its release date is irrelevant.

I have always been crazy about dinosaurs, and when my mother took me to see Jurassic Park when I was six, I knew that nothing could ever top it. Come to think about it, I can't believe that I was only six when I first saw it.

[Polnareff]

I'm not really a movie goer (I'm cheap and like to watch them at home, for free ) so most of my favorite movies are pretty old. The Friday trilogy, the first two Toy Story films (the third one is one of my favorites too but not "old" yet), the Karate Kid movies, etc.

[Skyblade]

There is no time requirement at all. For proof:

Lord of the Rings

It earned that status with the first teensy bit of it I saw. Before I even finished watching the movies in theatres, I knew that all three would rate that high.

[Wolf Kanno]

I don't like watching movies, so for me, a film reaches that status if I want to watch it again after I finished it. I don't mean:

Friend: Hey, want to go watch ****** again?
Me: Sure

I mean:

Friend: What the hell are you doing?
Me: Getting in line to buy tickets so we can watch it again.
Friend: Okay...
Me: I mean come on! It was justsowowIcan'tbeleivethatonepartwheretheydidthethingandthecharacterizationofthecastisjustwonderfula ndIlovehowthesoundtrackjusthiteverysinglemomentwithemotionalecstacyimeanwhyarentyouoverherestandingi nlinesowecanwatchthistestamentofmovieawsomeness!!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?

That's the kind of thing that happens. I think The Dark Knight was the last film that has done that for me.