What is the best movie of all time

[MacNut]

Just wondering what people think is the best movie ever made, and of all the best picture Oscars, what one is the all time best picture. My personal favorite movie is Almost Famous.

[topicolo]

I would have to say that it's toss up between Braveheart, Spartacus, Gladiator, Saving Private Ryan. I'm a sucker for epics

[trebblekicked]

i'm going to say "the general" by buster keaton is the best movie of all time. my favorite best-picture winner might be gandhi.

[Oirectine]

Just wondering what people think is the best movie ever made, and of all the best picture Oscars, what one is the all time best picture. My personal favorite movie is Almost Famous.

Hmm my personal favourite movie at the moment is probably Platoon. Great movie, powerful, moving, has something to teach. Not a very happy 2 hours though.

[Squire]

One of my favorites is "The Shawshank Redemption."

Squire

[MacNut]

One of the dumbest movies would be "Tremors"
Favorite horror "Texas Chainsaw Massacre"
Drama "American Beauty"
Action "The Rock"
Comedy "Airplane"

[Opteron]

One of my favorites is "The Shawshank Redemption."

But of course.
Also:
The Rock
Red Dragon/Silence of the Lambs
The Burbs
Labyrinth
Gangs of New York
LOTR I/II/III
Face Off
The Matrix
The Terminator/T2 Judgement Day
The Abyss (Special Edition)

Best Bond Film
Man with the Golden Gun

So many good films Can't pic one :(
And how could I forget American Beauty, and Toy Story.

[Daveman Deluxe]

1. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. The Princess Bride
3. Monsters, Inc.
4. The Pianist
5. A Beautiful Mind

[altair]

1. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
2. The Princess Bride
3. Monsters, Inc.
4. The Pianist
5. A Beautiful Mind

No one has mentioned:

The Godfather series which is considered #1 by some rating service, internet movie database or something.

My personal favorite, The Usual Suspects.

Anyone seen Once Upon a Time in the West? Awsome movie.

And yeah, someone mentioned Shawshank Redemption.

Umm no offense to whoever posted em, but I dont know if any Nick Cage movie should be considered "great" hehe.

[MacNut]

No one has mentioned:

The Godfather series which is considered #1 by some rating service, internet movie database or something.

My personal favorite, The Usual Suspects.

Anyone seen Once Upon a Time in the West? Awsome movie.

And yeah, someone mentioned Shawshank Redemption.

Umm no offense to whoever posted em, but I dont know if any Nick Cage movie should be considered "great" hehe.

The Rock is a good Nick Cage movie or is that more because of Sean Connery

[Savage Henry]

Sorry, but mine are a mix of the cliché and the groundbreaking:

-Citizan Kane
-Third Man
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
-Brazil
-Pulp Fiction
-2001: A Space Odyssey


Formula films annoy me beyond belief. But even then, that annoyance pales into insignificance by those movies that pretend to be based on true major historical events, but are so wildly inaccurate that they should have just admitted they are only in it for the money and the accolades. I'm not going to name particular films, but Braveheart and Titanic knows who I’m talking about! :mad:

[MacNut]

Ah yes good ole Stanely Kubreck dont forget Eyes Wide Shut

[MacNut]

One of the greatest has got to be The Shinning, Jack is the best in that movie

[Thanatoast]

I'm not sure it's even possible to pick "the greatest movie of all time". There's just too many factors to take into account.

You could pic one based on epic grandiosity, or spectacle, or story, or the connection it makes with an audience, or the truth it may speak about the human condition, or some combination of some or all. Or none. And everyone would disagree.

I can only give you a few favorites:

Requiem for a Dream - watching this is like getting hit by a truck. i wanna say more, but i think it would be better if you just watched it

Princess Bride - every line in this movie is quotable. :) pure fun

Trainspotting - dunno, just cuz

Quills - a fictional account of the Marqui de Sade's time in a sanatorium

Empire Records - breakfast club for the 90's

The Breakfast Club - best teen movie ever, period

Amadeus - salieri is such a great character. so full of questions, beliefs, prejudices, dreams. i think everybody feels like salieri sometimes.

Seven Samurai - another just cuz

Van Wilder - :D

Macross Plus - a story about three friends who have a violent falling out, then come together seven years later and are forced to confront what happened. but it's anime, so it's set against a backround of giant robots and an ai-controlled pop singer. first anime i watched, still the best

[kiwi_the_iwik]

I'm with the few who mentioned "Shawshank Redemption", and "A Beautiful Mind".

I'd like to add to the fray:

American Beauty
The Usual Suspects
LA Confidential
The Untouchables
The Right Stuff
Strictly Ballroom
Jerry Maguire
The Sting
Alien
Blade Runner
Trading Places
Highlander

ALL-TIME WORST FILMS:

Darkman (and it's spawn of crap sequels)
Battlefield Earth
ANY sequel to Highlander
The majority of pretentious Robert Altman films.

[iGav]

Vertigo
Dirty Harry
Pi
2001

are all pretty good... ;)

[gerror]

I would say The Big Lebowski is my all time favorite.
"you wanna toe? I can het you a toe"

[Squire]

Princess Bride - every line in this movie is quotable. :) pure fun

A couple of people have mentioned that. Funny, I used to belong to a different Internet community (a sort of free help site) where the guy who wrote that was a contributor. I've never seen it but have only heard good things about it.

A couple others:

Ocean's Eleven- (the remake) I just found it really entertaining.
Life is Beautiful- Didn't think a comedy about the holocaust was possible.
Presumed Innocent- Great book, great movie.
Rob Roy- Braveheart seems to grab all the attention. This one was a classic, too.

I'm trying to think of a great sci-fi movie. One that I thought was great was Gattaca. Anyone else see that?

Squire

[kiwi_the_iwik]

"INCONCEIVABLE!!!"


"You keepa using that word - I donna think it means what you THINK it means..."


:D

[iAmAzN]

no one has chosen any jackie chan movies :eek: but im gonna have to choose LOTR since im a fantasy fanatic... even tho some fight scenes go by a little too fast for me heheh

[MongoTheGeek]

So many good ones...
Beauty and the Beast(watch it with Tie Me Up Tie Me Down and look for parallels)
Highlander
The Seven Samurai
Metropolis
New Jack City
Wag the Dog
Princess Bride
Ghost Dog
Labyrinth (Gave me a crush on Jennifer Connelly for a long time)
Batman (Jack Nicholson at his Jack-est)
Hudson Hawk (Its a love it or hate it flick.)

[fleaworld]

In no particullar order:

Final Fantasy
Apocalypse Now
Bladerunner
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ben Hur
K Pax
One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest

[Thomas Veil]

"2001: A Space Odyssey". Movies don't get much deeper than that.

[DavidFDM]

1. To Kill A Mockingbird
2. Philadelphia
3. Empire of the Sun
4. Brazil

I think this is a very hard question as we are all products of our times. It is very hard to divorce yourself from your time to objectively rate movies.

- David

[toaster_oven]

My all-time favorites:

1 - Wings of Desire (i absolutely love this movie... i think everyone should see it... but it could possibly be classified as an "intellectual" movie, so if you aren't into that sort of thing....)

and in no particular order:

Le Trou (french film about a prison break, probably one of the best suspense films i've ever seen)

The Seven Samurai, Yojimbo (Kurosawa, classic epics)

Rear Window, Vertigo (Hitchcock)

Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick)

The Seventh Seal (has the classic scene of the knight playing chess with death)

Alphaville (wierd existential film noir set in the future)

A Shot in the Dark

Delicatessen

-the toaster

[WinterMute]

Wim Wender's "Wings of Desire", Solveig Dommartin is sex on legs...

Shawshank is so good because it used most of King's dialog, King writes great dialog even if his plotting is patchy.

LOTR, all of em.... OK, I'm a Tolkienite :D

[Mac til death]

Sgt. York

Back to the Future

[Hemingray]

The Sting (1971), with Robert Redford and Paul Newman. If you haven't seen it before, you'll be very surprised at the ending. :)

[Vector]

Pi
Spy Game
Ronin
Heist
Spanish Prisoner
Blade Runner
Brazil (good version edited by gilliam, not love conquers all version)
Leon: The Professional
The Fifth Element
All Stanley Kubrick movies (all of th ewidely known ones and Barry Lyndon)
Requiem For a Dream

i think thats enough for now.

[P-Worm]

All of you are wrong! :D

The best movie ever is Fight Club.

P-Worm

[scem0]

Most Definitely Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon :)

scem0

[vollspacken]

- Bullit
- 2001: Space Odysee
- T2
- The Seven Samurai
- James Bond: Thunderball

vSpacken

[Squire]

I just thought of another that, at first, seemed quite cheesy, but "wowed" me as it progressed.

Pleasantville

Squire

[Vector]

i thought of some more...

North By Northwest
To Catch A Thief
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf

Casino Royal (peter sellers is great)
In Like Flint
Our Man Flint

Cool Hand Luke
Bridge Over The River Kwai
Stalig 17
The Great Escape
Thomas Crown Affair (both versions)
The Magnificent Seven

[janey]

i think everyone's named my favorite movies already...but...my favorites, off the top of my head right now, ignoring movies that are computer related, are LOTR: ROTK, The Matrix, Pulp Fiction, American Beauty, The Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club, Dr. Strangelove (yayyy!!! :D ), Memento, Mulholland Drive, The Pianist, Y tu mama tambien and Full Metal Jacket. I know there are a whole bunch more that I like, but I cant think of any of them right now.

[evoluzione]

ok, in no particular order, these are some of my favourites...


gattaca
shawshank redemption
the great escape
citizen kane
the italian job (original)
requiem for a dream
demolition man
full meal jacket
alien
ferris bueller's day off
cool hand luke
thomas crown affair (only seen the brosnan one)
life is beautiful
amelie
buster
indiana jones and the temple of doom
the untouchables

[janey]

requiem for a dream
amelie

woah forgot those two, and Pi too, as well as 21 grams. :p

amelie was great :D

[parrothead]

Hmm, the old best movie question is always a hard one.

I can never name just one so I will name a few.

Where Eagles Dare
The Bounty
Schindler's List
Shakespeare in Love
Whale Rider
Princess Bride
Braveheart
The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Living Sea
The Right Stuff

[MacNut]

Don't forget Casino or Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.

[Vector]

Don't forget Casino or Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.

I forgot about Fear and Loathing. That is a very good movie...very strange, but very good.

[Savage Henry]

I forgot about Fear and Loathing. That is a very good movie...very strange, but very good.

F&L is where I get my handle.

Cool film that does the book justice, but not what I'd call the 'best movie of all time'. Reading back through the posts i think we are starting to drift into 'films I quite like' territory.

I mean, The Matrix .!!?? PUURRLEASE????

[janey]

I mean, The Matrix .!!?? PUURRLEASE????
the matrix isnt that bad :)
some people do consider it one of the best movies of all time.

[AngryLawnGnome]

Back to the future (two is the best, three is the worst), definitely. Michael J. Fox is a god.

*disregarding oscars, best oscar winner....LOTR

[Thanatoast]

I'll second Thomas Crown Affair (Brosnan, haven't seen original) - it had a great soundtrack

And Pleasantville was awesome too. :)

[edit] and I'll give Ronin props for best car chase scenes in a film.

[themadchemist]

aah, so many good ones.

I would put Gandhi on top hands down.

What else ranks high up there?
Comedy: Monty Python and the Holy Grail is probably #1
Lord of the Rings is probably the best fantasy sort of movie. It's only real competition is Star Wars, so it's not surpising. Notwithstanding, LoTR is a very good series.

Kurosawa made some excellent films. I saw Yojimbo and liked it a great deal. It's hard to really pin down a list of great movies because I think it would be very long...But yeah, Gandhi's number one in my books.

[MacNut]

The Matrix might not be the best movie ever but it did change the way movies are made much like Star Wars did back in the late 70's, so for that reason it is one of the best movies.

[womencantsail]

The Exorcist
The Shining
Black Hawk Down
Platoon
Apocolypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Stir Crazy
The Big Lebowski
Kill Bill
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Cannibal: The Musical
Wet Hot American Summer
LOTR Series
Death To Smoochy
Poltergeist
Caddyshack

...But the best movie of all time is the Brave Little Toaster

[evoluzione]

The Exorcist
The Shining
Black Hawk Down
Platoon
Apocolypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Stir Crazy
The Big Lebowski
Kill Bill
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Cannibal: The Musical
Wet Hot American Summer
LOTR Series
Death To Smoochy
Poltergeist
Caddyshack

...But the best movie of all time is the Brave Little Toaster


heh, like violent films then? ;)

[MongoTheGeek]

Casablanca
The Shop Around the Corner (better than either remake really)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

[Fezwick]

Here are some of my favorites:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Snatch
Scarface
Pirates of the Carribean
LOTR Trilogy
Underworld
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Boondock Saints

Probably a bunch of other I can't remember at the moment.

[womencantsail]

heh, like violent films then? ;)

Hell yes.

But some of them that sound violent are actually comedies. Like Death To Smoochy (with Robin Williams so it has to be good :D) and Cannibal: The Musical (by Trey Parker & Matt Stone -> as in South Park). Stir Crazy is great, another one of the Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder films.

[cubist]

"The Maltese Falcon".
2nd place, "The Wizard of Oz".

You guys are all too young. The late 30s were the golden age of cinema.

Fifty years from now, what movies of the late 20th century will anyone want to see? "2001", probably so, altho they'll laugh at the special effects and the ending. I enjoyed "Glory", and the Russian "War and Peace", and "The Right Stuff", but I don't know how they'll age.

[ezkimo]

How bout Being John Malkovich?

Thats my favorite movie to date... :D

[Nanda Devi]

I saw lots of Kubrick out there but don't think anyone mentioned his ultimate masterpiece, A Clockwork Orange... definitely very high on my list of best films. The book by Burgess is absolute genius as well.

Here's my top 5, no particular order... at least these are the ones I'm thinking of right now, the list is always subject to change....

-Aguirre, Wrath of God (starring the notorious Klaus Kinski; he and the director of the film almost murdered each other during the filming, which took place in the South American jungle.)

-Clockwork Orange (the only flick I know of that starts out with a beating, a braul, an attempted gang rape, a high-speed car scene and a another rape, all within the first 10 minutes of the film.)

-Midnight Cowboy. Can anyone else vouch for this? I don't know too many people who've seen it... Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight at their absolute best. Also one of the saddest movies I've ever seen.

-Taxi Driver. This is a tie with Mean Streets. You can't lose with the Scorsese/DeNiro combo. Well, at least you couldn't lose back in the '70s...

-Annie Hall. Had to include one Woody Allen film because he's one of my favorite director. Love all his films but this one is the classic.

So many good films being listed out there, I'm impressed and relieved that there aren't too many mentions of The Matrix and The Rock and other mainstream bockbuster trash.... (Sorry... I'm a shameless film snob, I admit it freely.)

[whocares]

Absolute best movie ever made:
"2001: A Space Odessey".
Great "story" and the special effect still beat the crap out of any Lucas movie.

And then (no real order, just good films IMHO):
*Clockwork Orange
*Dr Stangelove
*Barry Lindon
*Full Metal Jacket
*Lock, Stock & 2 Smocking Barrels
*Snatch
*Trainspotting
*The Deer Hunter
*The Godfather Trilogy
*Delicatessen
*Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain (aka "Amelie")
*Alien (the original, by R. Scott)
*Bladerunner
*Monty Python's The Life of Brian


Boy are these list boring :p

[Vector]

To whoever said that they liked Ronin because of the chase seen, I agree. That is my favorite part about the whole movie. I also like that it has jean reno in it which is one of the reasons that i like Leon. He is also in Le Femme Nikita and Subway which are both very good films although subway is a bit odd.

i have thought of a few more worthwhile movies:

A Fish Called Wanda (Kevin Kline is great in this) "K-k-k-ken is trying to k-k-k-kill me"

Snatch is also a very good one that i forgot to mention earlier
!2 Monkeys
A River Runs Through It

Malcolm X
The Fog of War (new errol morris docmentary on McNamara, it one the oscar for best documentary i think)

I also second Amelie and Being John Malkovich.

[Sayhey]

Impossible to choose one. I would have to pick at least Casablanca, Seven Samurai, To Kill A Mockingbird, and African Queen. But then I would leave out The Great Dictator and The Life of Brian - couldn't do that! How about Sleuth or Henry V (Brannagh version)? I loved Schindler's List and Gunga Din. To many to name.

[judith]

All of you are wrong! :D

The best movie ever is Fight Club.

P-Worm

I second that motion!
also among my fav's:

Full Metal Jacket (I've watched this 100 times, and will prob. 100X more..)
Predator!
Dark City
All the old Eastwood westerns

[Squire]

I forgot about Fear and Loathing. That is a very good movie...very strange, but very good.

Strange. Hmmm...that reminds me of another: Being John Malkovich. I loved that movie.

Squire

[johnnyjibbs]

Difficult.

Some of my favourite films though:

Once Upon A Time In The West
Jurassic Park
The 'Burbs
Duel (Speilburg's first - a car and a lorry - fantastic)
It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Terminator 2 (not best of all time though)
Toy Story
Oh, and got to like the Back To The Future tilogy (espc. Part II)

I do like most action movies for a bit of fun. But for every good film, there are 10 that are crap, crapity crap crap crap.

[D*I*S_Frontman]

Citizen Kane--The best movie ever made. Decades ahead of its time, brilliantly written, directed, acted, shot, and edited. Required study for any college film program in the world.

2001: A Space Oddessy--The most accurately-depicted space/sci-fi movie ever done, also decades ahead of its time. Eerie and gorgeous. Full of delightly unanswered questions.

Apocalype Now--Wildly surreal fantasy that somehow conveys the Viet Nam vibe better than its far more "grounded" competition.

Ben Hur--Incredible film. Very moving, very rich. Great chariot scene, powerful ending.

The Empire Strikes Back--The only Star Wars movie that really stands the test of time. The special effects may be dated, but great acting and directing coupled with a fine script make this the gem of the bunch. Confident enough not to have a happy ending.

ET--Brilliant achievement. Powerfully moving.

[Nik_Doof]

Comedy: Monty Python and the Holy Grail is probably #1


<mad scottish accent>A GRRAAAAIIILLL? :p

[blackfox]

Top 5 movies (for me)
5.abre los ojos (remade into Vanilla Sky, which I won't see on principle)
4.400 blows (classic...)
3.lost in translation (great aesthetic-through cinematography, sound and dialog/character performance)
2. Babe II-pig in the city (thought I would hate it, best bloody movie ever...except)
1. F is for fakers-(orson welles movie about lies, fakers, well less said...)
I think the general mass consensus for best movie ever has been Citizen Kane (also by welles)...that would be # 6 or #7 in my list...so many to choose from.

[ejb190]

Wow. You guys have already mentioned most of my list.

Le Femme Nikita (the origional)
Bat 21 (Gene Hackman - Disturbing, to say the least)


The Top 10 on http://www.imdb.com/ as of today...
1 Godfather, The (1972) 9.0/10 (89535 votes)
2 Shawshank Redemption, The (1994) 8.9/10 (111555 votes)
3 Godfather: Part II, The (1974) 8.8/10 (52536 votes)
4 Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The (2003) 8.8/10 (52407 votes)
5 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The (2002) 8.8/10 (76798 votes)
6 Casablanca (1942) 8.7/10 (51842 votes)
7 Schindler's List (1993) 8.7/10 (75938 votes)
8 Shichinin no samurai (1954) 8.7/10 (21993 votes)
9 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001) 8.7/10 (120308 votes)
10 Star Wars (1977) 8.7/10 (108140 votes)

What is really funny is the fact that I have seen more of the films on the BOTTOM 100 than I have on the Top 250!!!!

[TEG]

Dogma

Followed By (In no Peticular Order):

The Hunt For Red October
Patriot Games
Clear and Present Danger
The Matrix
The Matrix: Revolutions
The Matrix: Reloaded
Ben Hur
The Ten Commandments
Clerks
Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope
Star Wars Episode 6: Return of the Jedi
Shrek
Toy Story
Bicentennial Man
Jurassic Park
Independence Day
Men In Black
The Natural
Field of Dreams
Dances With Wolves
Rob Roy
Braveheart
The Bay Boy
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Kahn
Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home
Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country
The Godfather
Back to the Future
First Blood
Rocky
Hackers
UHF
The 6th Sense
Austin Powers
Mr. Baseball
The Shawshank Redemption
Schindler's List
It's a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street (All 3 Versions)
A Muppet Christmas Carol
The Babe (Babe Ruth)
Babe (The Pig)
Monty Python's Holy Grail
Life of Brian
Charlotte's Web
Old Yeller
Shane
Jeremiah Johnson
El Dorado
The Quiet Man

TEG

[TEG]

Wow. You guys have already mentioned most of my list.

The Top 10 on www.imbd.com as of today...



Thats IMDB.com (http://www.imdb.com) , your linking to DigiMoney.com.

TEG

[Vector]

TEG listed another really good movie that I forget about, The Natural. As long as I am l should also mention some other good robert redford movies that i haven't already.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Great Gatsby
All the President's Men
Sneakers

[oldschool]

Here are some of my favorites:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Snatch
Scarface
Pirates of the Carribean
LOTR Trilogy
Underworld
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Boondock Saints

Probably a bunch of other I can't remember at the moment.

I was watching scarface while reading this post. "Say hello to my little friend"

[JesseJames]

Oh man.
"The Right Stuff" is such a masterpiece. One of THE great cinematic works.

As far as action, the brutally violent and supercharged "The Road Warrior".
"Amadeus" is pure delight. "Ran" by Kurosawa, words cannot express.
As for comedy, nothing can be funnier than "Airplane!". The movie that spawned the spoof genre.

[bennetsaysargh]

4-rocky horror picture show.;)
3-breakfast club
2-finding nemo
1-airplane!:D:D:D

[2jaded2care]

I think Citizen Kane is pretty much the acknowledged "best movie of all time". However, personally, I have to agree that Apocalypse Now! is a classic.

I enjoyed The Rock, it was mostly clever and had Sean Connery, but come on, what was the deal with the underground roller-coaster? I thought I was watching The Goonies. And why was the furnace-thing still running? And why did Mason (Connery) have to memorize the flame sequence to escape if he was coming from the other side, and all he had to do was open the metal door? And why did he have to roll under the furnace to open the door, instead of just pointing to the door and telling the SEALs "hey, cut a hole in that, will you?"...

Enjoyable, but don't think about it too much. The best of the Die Hard genre is still the original.

[budpam]

The Passion of the Christ

[MongoTheGeek]

The Passion of the Christ
I was surprised at just how well Mel Gibson can direct.

[Bartholomew]

I'll second The Seventh Seal. I love Ingmar Bergman (though I usually keep that a secret so that people won't think me pretentious), and it's not only probably his most approachable movie, but very well-rounded and enjoyable. Wild Strawberries, currently, is a close second.

I also really like The City of Lost Children.

[Digidesign]

It's a toss-up between Manos: Hands of Fate and Gigli...

Oh wait... best movie?

[AngryLawnGnome]

It's a toss-up between Manos: Hands of Fate and Gigli...

Oh wait... best movie?
YES! Torgo!

[richland]

Just wondering what people think is the best movie ever made


Super Troopers

[applemacdude]

Scary Movie!!!.....Or maybe not...

Crouthing Tiger Hidden Dragon is pretty good, Forest Gump is ok, LOTR all of them, The Naked Gun 2 1/2. I gotta think of more...

[wdlove]

"Ben Hur"
"Lord Of The Rings" Trilogy
"Passions Of Christ"

Are going to be well known for years.

[Jovian9]

Just wondering what people think is the best movie ever made, and of all the best picture Oscars, what one is the all time best picture. My personal favorite movie is Almost Famous.

2001 A Space Odyssey
Barry Lyndon
Metropolis
The Birth of a Nation
The Seventh Seal
The Virgin Suicides
The Last Temptation of Christ
One Hour Photo

These are on my list, regardless of what the Oscars say. I lost all respect for the Oscars after this go round....don't get me wrong, I love the LOTR Trilogy....but all of the sudden the LOTR is good enough to win everything that it could not the last 2 years (on the last of the films). I'm sorry, but that is just too obvious.

[Jovian9]

Oh yeah...and:

The Ladies Man and Billy Madison

[gwuMACaddict]

Favorite all time: Amadaus

and then...

1. Patton
2. Lion King
3. The Last Waltz
4. The Sandlot
5. Big Fish

sorry for all the edits... i keep remembering more...

[Gyroscope]

My favourites

Far Away So Close (german)
City of Lost Childern (french)
Seventh Samurai (japan)
Himalaya
Early Woody Alan's comedies.
Silence of Lambs
Taxi Driver
Out of Africa

+there's many more but can't remember

and definitley those English "Hammer Studios" cult dracula movies with Peter Cushing and Cristopher Lee ;P

[themadchemist]

<mad scottish accent>A GRRAAAAIIILLL? :p

[outrageous accent]We already got one?

What? (They said they already have one) Well, can we come up and have a look?

I don't think so.

Why not?

You're English types.

What are you?

We're French. Why do you think we have these outraaaageous accents you silly King?

What are you doing in England.

Mind your business!

[whocares]

[outrageous accent]We already got one?

What? (They said they already have one) Well, can we come up and have a look?

I don't think so.

Why not?

You're English types.

What are you?

We're French. Why do you think we have these outraaaageous accents you silly King?

What are you doing in England.

Mind your business!

<caricatural French accent>
"Fetchez la vache!*" :p :p :p
</accent>



*Get the cow!

[Stelliform]

Wow. You guys have already mentioned most of my list.
10 Star Wars (1977) 8.7/10 (108140 votes)


I can't believe "Star Wars" wasn't mentioned until it was attached to a list from a website! I think you guys are shying away from movies that the general public supported.

I think all of the Clint Eastwood westerns where he doesn't sing rock.

Also for some reason I like "Das Boot" (in German with subtitles...) That movie rocked.

[themadchemist]

Some more:
Office Space
The Great Dictator
Do Bigha Zamein
Road to Perdition

Most of the other ones I remember being mentioned...

[themadchemist]

<caricatural French accent>
"Fetchez la vache!*" :p :p :p
</accent>



*Get the cow!

It is SO tempting to continue this...But I shall resist.

[whocares]

It is SO tempting to continue this...But I shall resist.

I quite understand your temptation. I indulged in a Holy Grail viewing last night after reading this thread :D . Damn is it a good movie. Many more recent comedies are at least in part inspired by the style of the Grail...

But I must admit that "The Life of Brian" is a better film. It's at least as funny but also has more depth to it.

Brian: Excuse me. Are you the Judean People's Front?
Reg: ****** off! We're the People's Front of Judea!

:eek: :p :p

[Vector]

But I must admit that "The Life of Brian" is a better film. It's at least as funny but also has more depth to it.


I agree. That is one of my favorite films, mainly for the Rome and Latin jokes. We used to watch it all the time in one of my latin classes.

"...OK, OK, besides the roads, system of government, sanitation, personal safety, language, culture, and the rule of law, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

CENTURION:What's this, then? 'Romanes Eunt Domus'? 'People called Romanes they go the house'?
BRIAN:It-- it says, 'Romans, go home'.
CENTURION:No, it doesn't. What's Latin for 'Roman'? Come on!
...
CENTURION:Conjugate the verb 'to go'.
BRIAN:Uh. 'Ire'. Uh, 'eo'. 'Is'. 'It'. 'Imus'. 'Itis'. 'Eunt'.
CENTURION:So 'eunt' is...?
BRIAN:Ah, huh, third person plural, uh, present indicative. Uh, 'they go'.
CENTURION:But 'Romans, go home' is an order, so you must use the...?
BRIAN:The... imperative!
CENTURION:Which is...?
BRIAN:Umm! Oh. Oh. Um, 'i'. 'I'!
CENTURION:How many Romans?
BRIAN:Ah! 'I'-- Plural. Plural. 'Ite'. 'Ite'.

It goes on like this for a while. (http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/python/Scripts/LifeOfBrian/brian-08.html)

[MongoTheGeek]

But I must admit that "The Life of Brian" is a better film. It's at least as funny but also has more depth to it.

Brian: Excuse me. Are you the Judean People's Front?
Reg: ****** off! We're the People's Front of Judea!

:eek: :p :p

I make it a point to watch it on Easter. :D

Alright, everyone who wants to be moved raise your hands. Okay, no more complaints then.

He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!

[edge9in]

I was surprised at just how well Mel Gibson can direct.

Ever seen Braveheart? He directed that too and even won an Oscar for it. Not too shabby... :D

[ToddW]

In no particular order:

Cool Hand Luke
The Dirty Dozen
Kelly's Heros
Godfather I
Godfather II
Empire Strike Back
LOTR
The Right Stuff
Chriots of Fire
Office Space
Urban Cowboy
Saturday Night Fever
Rocky

and many many others

[Awimoway]

On the Waterfront
Saving Private Ryan
The Sound of Music

[Vector]

I think that the Jerk has already been mentioned, but i think we should also mention L.A. Story. Steve Martin did a wonderful job both acting in and writing this movie. The scenes are just so great and indicative of L.A. in that time. I love the scene when they are on the highway having a shootout while driving, and the beginning of the movie with all of the cars going at once and everyone in the burbs coming out of their houses in sync. The scene where they are at the museum and steve martin is standing there interpreting a piece of art, and then the camera pans to the painting and it is just an abstract mess of paint without any discernable objects.

[iChan]

Seven Samurai

which, btw, is spelt "samourai" in the bfi PAL release. stupid.

[codycartoon]

1. Rushmore
2. Y tu Mama tambien
3. Lost in Translation
4. Clerks

[Nermal]

UHF

We don't need no stinking badgers! :D