What about Raising Arizona? No epic, but one of my all time favorites!
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Best movie ever?
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I am guilty of enjoying the directors cut of 1941. I love Slim Pickens. Watching Dr. Strangelove and Blazing Saddles back to back is one of my favorite double features. I love the line where Slim yells anybody got any dimes?
You are correct of course. Any discussion of best movie for me always detours into favorites.
Indeed, surprisingly no one else has seen Mel Brooks' High Anxiety which I really dig! Funny parody of Hitch.
What no one else has seen High Anxiety? I watched that film dozens of times when I was a projectionist in my home town theater. Don't forget Silent Movie also for the one word "NO" from Marcel Marceau. But I digress again.
It is just too hard to choose one movie to be the best movie. I keep seeing movies that I havent watched in awhile and I absolutely love them.
Just an update I ran across regarding princealfie's beloved Saló from the Criterion blog (an old entry from Nov 21, 2006 that I ran across looking for something else).
A number of good movies mention here (and some not-so-good ones too ). But I'll add my voice to the chorus for 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Beautifully shot, superb special effects and music, and brilliantly written and directed. Many people get more out of it each time they watch it. Plus, no film is ever likely to come up with a greater theme than man, evolution and God.
I really hate to put a pure entertainment film as a runner-up, but Casablanca is just so perfect, so thoroughly entertaining, patriotic and emotionally involving, that I have to. I always thrill to the scene where Victor Lazlo and an entire cafe full of people sing La Marseillaise to drown out the Nazis.
). But I'll add my voice to the chorus for 2001: A Space Odyssey. Beautifully shot, superb special effects and music, and brilliantly written and directed. Many people get more out of it each time they watch it. Plus, no film is ever likely to come up with a greater theme than man, evolution and God.
I really hate to put a pure entertainment film as a runner-up, but Casablanca is just so perfect, so thoroughly entertaining, patriotic and emotionally involving, that I have to. I always thrill to the scene where Victor Lazlo and an entire cafe full of people sing La Marseillaise to drown out the Nazis.
A number of good movies mention here (and some not-so-good ones too
Beautifully shot, superb special effects and music, and brilliantly written and directed. Many people get more out of it each time they watch it. Plus, no film is ever likely to come up with a greater theme than man, evolution and God.
I really hate to put a pure entertainment film as a runner-up, but Casablanca is just so perfect, so thoroughly entertaining, patriotic and emotionally involving, that I have to. I always thrill to the scene where Victor Lazlo and an entire cafe full of people sing La Marseillaise to drown out the Nazis.
I used to love 2001 and still appreciate it for technical innovation but usually don't put it on my list of greatest films. Now for Casablanca I always feel Key Largo is a superior film. Casablanca would have been a good B film but timing was in it's favor. The story is contrived and the McGuffin is just too far fetched. Key Largo touches on the same themes and pulls it all together nicer without the far fetched plot device of letters of transit.
Some of mine:
Dead Poet's Society
American History X
Glory
Leon - The Professional
Shawshank Redemption
The Princess Bride
Schindler's List
Pay It Forward
Aliens
Se7en
Silverado
Strange Days
Young Frankenstein
2001: A Space Odyessy
Dead Poet's Society
American History X
Glory
Leon - The Professional
Shawshank Redemption
The Princess Bride
Schindler's List
Pay It Forward
Aliens
Se7en
Silverado
Strange Days
Young Frankenstein
2001: A Space Odyessy
These are my favorite classic films. Sometimes it's not cinematic genius, but compelling cinematic storytelling that really give you a sense of socio-political time.
Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
The Little Foxes (1941)
The Bad Seed (1956)
All About Eve (1950)
The Seventh Seal (1958)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Frankenstein (1931)
M (1931)
Dr. Mabuse (1922)
The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Carnival of Lost Souls (1962)
Un chien andalou (1929)
La Grande Illusion (1937)
Les enfants du paradis (1945)
Nosferatu (1922)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Betty Boop Cartoons (1932 - 1936)
The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Black Orpheus (1959)
Black Narcissus (1947)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
North by Northwest (1959)
A Man and a Woman (1966)
Belle et la b^ete (1946)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Amarcord (1973)
The Great Dicatator (1940)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Duck Soup (1933)
Metropolis (1927)
Singing in the Rain (1952)
Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
The Little Foxes (1941)
The Bad Seed (1956)
All About Eve (1950)
The Seventh Seal (1958)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Frankenstein (1931)
M (1931)
Dr. Mabuse (1922)
The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Carnival of Lost Souls (1962)
Un chien andalou (1929)
La Grande Illusion (1937)
Les enfants du paradis (1945)
Nosferatu (1922)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Betty Boop Cartoons (1932 - 1936)
The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Black Orpheus (1959)
Black Narcissus (1947)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
North by Northwest (1959)
A Man and a Woman (1966)
Belle et la b^ete (1946)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Amarcord (1973)
The Great Dicatator (1940)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Duck Soup (1933)
Metropolis (1927)
Singing in the Rain (1952)
Best overall Lord of the Rings....
Runner up for the biggest emotional impact The Horse Whisperer
And of course one which I cannot get out of my head Go tell the spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie...
Dal
Runner up for the biggest emotional impact The Horse Whisperer
And of course one which I cannot get out of my head Go tell the spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie...
Dal
Sounds cool...but how to we determine "best"? Do you want to go with "best" as in best done/artistically superior or "best" as in most enjoyable. Or we could always do both (two lists of ten). I love the idea, but we need some way to keep "2001" from competing against "Blades of Glory".
"Best" is so subjective and dependent on current frame of mind, along with all the other necessary ingredients for a good/great film. So, I won't list any "all time or ever" ones, but one of the best I've seen in a while was, believe it or not, was "The Illusionist". Well done, and I had one of those, mindset-converges-with-screenplay, moments.