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Greatest film ever made....Go!
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Sheer, unadulterated, side-splitting, class. A brilliant movie, clever, original and very, very funny, as is Life Of Brian. One of those movies (and they are not many) that I can watch again and again.
I know I said "Blade Runner" earlier, but...
"Being There" is pretty good too.
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Yep, that would make my top 10.
"Being There" is pretty good too.
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Yep, that would make my top 10.
Oh I agree about anything Python really. Especially those two films and the old series.
In fact what you said is the best measure of a great (or favorite film) -which film would you pay to own and watch again and again (or go to the theater) rather than just see once.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Brave Sir Robin had minstrels following him around singing of his exploits and then he ran away. Some great scenes and gags in that movie.
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I would also have to say Star Trek: Insurrection. And anything by Mel Brooks, Blazing Saddles being my favorite...
I just love the 'Brave Sir Robin' sequence; especially the faithful rendition of the sort of chords and singing you would have heard in late medieval music - it is absolutely brilliant, supremely hilarious and wonderful comedy. Bravo, thanks for posting it.
Not sure anymore!
Was Shawshank
Then Zombieland, which just kills me....
Now I think it might be Life of Pi......but got Django down loaded, but haven't got round to watching it yet!?!?!
Was Shawshank
Then Zombieland, which just kills me....
Now I think it might be Life of Pi......but got Django down loaded, but haven't got round to watching it yet!?!?!
That's exactly why I love this movie!!
Mel Brooks is hit and miss for me. His number one hit was Young Frankenstein. It's unique, a stroke of genius.
Set a standard for adventure hard to replicate.
At one time I thought the "bring out your dead" sequence was fiction...
Shawshank is on my top 10 list. Zombieland, surprisingly good but no where near "greatest".
The scene that really gripped me was the scene in The Godfather part 2 where Vito (played by Robert de Niro), having come to the seminal fork, or cross-roads in his life, has made his choice, and then scrambles across the roof-tops on his way to kill Fanucci (and thus, 'make his bones'), while the religious procession takes place in the street below; stunning cinematography, impeccable timing and spine-tingling music.
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GodFather 1&2 IMO the best Movie ever to be filmed.
I have a copy of both movies put together in chronological order, Interesting
I have a copy of both movies put together in chronological order, Interesting
First, I realize that the choice of "The Greatest Movie Ever Made" is an issue purely of personal taste. (You know when some know-it-all says that, it really means my taste is better than yours))
I cannot understand how a current film (I'm old, so for me "current" goes back a good way) can be seen as "The Best Film Ever Made". The current films stand on the shoulders of the true innovators...the Lumière brothers, Welles, Carol Reed, De Mille, and others. Those early to mid-Century films created the techniques (directorial, cinemagraphic, lighting) that all the current films employ. Those early films created the language of film making, which the current films also employ. They were the innovators and experimentalists.
While I have no problem with the choices made above as excellent, even grand, films (well, "Forrest Gump" not so much), to call them the Greatest Films Ever Made gives me pause.
OK, I'm sure that there will be many who disagree with my opinion, and I welcome the disagreements and arguments.
The Annoying-Know-It-All-Movie-Pedant Strikes Again!
))I cannot understand how a current film (I'm old, so for me "current" goes back a good way) can be seen as "The Best Film Ever Made". The current films stand on the shoulders of the true innovators...the Lumière brothers, Welles, Carol Reed, De Mille, and others. Those early to mid-Century films created the techniques (directorial, cinemagraphic, lighting) that all the current films employ. Those early films created the language of film making, which the current films also employ. They were the innovators and experimentalists.
While I have no problem with the choices made above as excellent, even grand, films (well, "Forrest Gump" not so much
), to call them the Greatest Films Ever Made gives me pause.OK, I'm sure that there will be many who disagree with my opinion, and I welcome the disagreements and arguments.
The Annoying-Know-It-All-Movie-Pedant Strikes Again!
First, I realize that the choice of "The Greatest Movie Ever Made" is an issue purely of personal taste. (You know when some know-it-all says that, it really means my taste is better than yours
I cannot understand how a current film (I'm old, so for me "current" goes back a good way) can be seen as "The Best Film Ever Made". The current films stand on the shoulders of the true innovators...the Lumière brothers, Welles, Carol Reed, De Mille, and others. Those early to mid-Century films created the techniques (directorial, cinemagraphic, lighting) that all the current films employ. Those early films created the language of film making, which the current films also employ. They were the innovators and experimentalists.
While I have no problem with the choices made above as excellent, even grand, films (well, "Forrest Gump" not so much
OK, I'm sure that there will be many who disagree with my opinion, and I welcome the disagreements and arguments.
The Annoying-Know-It-All-Movie-Pedant Strikes Again!
I find myself pretty much in agreement with you, but we both discussed criteria by which I (we?) think a 'great' movie should be judged. From what I have read so far, most who have taken the time and trouble to answer have posted the movies they really liked when offering an example, rather than what they might have seen as a really 'great' movie; or maybe they assume that they are one and the same thing. I don't think they are (although there are some that overlap, the obvious, such as Citizen Kane, The Third Man and others which we have already discussed), and I can accept movies as thought-provoking, or clever, or witty, or splendid entertainment without conferring the adjective 'great' on them. That is an accolade I reserve for the truly sublime.
However, I suspect we are also dealing with a loss or erosion of cultural/historical memory and understanding of context here. Many who post here have no memory of the 1980s, let alone the 70s, 60s, 50s, 40s..........to them, I suspect that is a world that is as unfathomable, as unknowable and as incomprehensible as the dawn of time itself.
I agree completely with all you have said. But one need not be my age to explore the films of the 30s, 40s, 50s, and so on. The wonderful part of films is that learning a bit about the history, the foundation, of cinema is right there before one. No books with someone else interpreting historical events (you know about those historians!
)...you can see the material first hand...as it was seen when it was first made.Certainly there are some wonderful current, and recent past, films. But the accolade of a "great" film is reserved for a very few... and "the greatest" for even fewer.