Monty Python and the Holy Grail![]()
...Life Of Brian. One of those movies (and they are not many) that I can watch again and again.
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.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail![]()
So many great movies, I'm having trouble pinning down one or two.
I'm sure there's one I missed and I rack my brains but here's what I have. Basically if I like to watch the movie over and over, then I consider it the category
Star Wars series (both old and new)
Star Trek Wrath of Kahn
Dr. No
Groundhog Day
I would also have to say Star Trek: Insurrection. And anything by Mel Brooks, Blazing Saddles being my favorite...
Raiders of the Lost Ark and it's not even close!
I can watch that movie endlessly.
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.
Was Shawshank
Then Zombieland, which just kills me....
The Godfather part 2 and The Dark Knight
I agree that the Godfather is epic. The baptismal scene gave me chills.
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 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.