{"id":113976,"date":"2025-09-04T12:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T12:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/113976\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T12:44:13","slug":"jack-black-names-his-favourite-movie-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/113976\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Black names his “favourite movie of all time”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jack<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ YouTube Still)<\/p>\n

Wed 3 September 2025 18:45, UK <\/p>\n

Even though he\u2019s spent most of the last 25 years playing himself more than any other character, Jack Black<\/a> has a surprisingly wide-ranging and eclectic taste in films, at least relative to his status as one of Hollywood\u2019s most typecast stars.<\/p>\n

Of course, having carved out a successful secondary career as a musician, he\u2019s fond of some films that revolve around screeching guitars and thundering drums, with Spinal Tap at the top of the pile<\/a> as far as comedy is concerned, but he\u2019s also got a soft spot for some of the classics.<\/p>\n

Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, and Peter Sellers are three of his favourites, and the last one is pretty ironic, considering Sellers was the man of a thousand faces and voices, whereas Black playing someone who isn\u2019t suspiciously Jack Black-like is something of a rarity, especially in recent years, where adhering rigidly to type has become his default setting.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s got a soft spot for sci-fi and dystopia, too, and it\u2019s fair to say his favourite flicks in that arena<\/a>, Blade Runner, The Road Warrior, and A Clockwork Orange, are a damn sight better than his own contributions to the genre in Sylvester Stallone\u2019s Demolition Man and Kevin Costner\u2019s Waterworld.<\/p>\n

Horror isn\u2019t something Black has dabbled in too often, with an uncredited role in the slasher sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, the two family-friendly Goosebumps films, and Eli Roth\u2019s similarly PG-rated The House with a Clock in Its Walls as far as he\u2019s gone, but it turns out that one of the finest spine-tingling pictures ever made happens to be the greatest thing he\u2019s ever seen.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy favourite movie of all time is The Shining,\u201d he declared. \u201cThere\u2019s just something great about being scared. I don\u2019t know the scientific reasons for it, but there\u2019s an exhilaration, an exploration of what it is to be alive. It\u2019s very heavy, it\u2019s very deep, being scared, and I see it in my kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

When AV Club<\/a> asked him the exact same question, he didn\u2019t budge: \u201cI\u2019m going to go with The Shining,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause I really love The Shining.\u201d As far as explanations for someone\u2019s favourite movie goes, it\u2019s not the most illuminating, but he did at least answer the question and put Stanley Kubrick\u2019s masterpiece at the head of the pack.<\/p>\n

Not everyone really loves The Shining, with Stephen King far and away its most vocal opponent, but most people would agree that Kubrick\u2019s slow-burning descent into madness, despair, and existential dread is among the best horrors ever committed to film. Knowing that One Flew Over the Cuckoo\u2019s Nest is another one of Black\u2019s favourites, he\u2019s clearly a fan of his namesake, Jack Nicholson, as well.<\/p>\n

Having named John Malkovich and Christopher Walken among the actors<\/a> he idolised growing up, throwing Nicholson into the mix makes it clear that the Tenacious D frontman prefers his actors to possess a wild-eyed mania, simmering intensity, and the unshakeable feeling that they can fly off the handle at any moment, sensibilities he\u2019s brought to precisely zero of the characters he\u2019s played onscreen, which is nothing if not weird.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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