Best Movie Ever? Suggestions...

Galvasean

Galvasean wrote: »

I have yet to see a better film about killer fish (that can walk on land).

Shot by a house!

So, so many great scenes in it. It offers one of the greatest joys a film can, it surprises you with its inventiveness and use of age old cliches. Speaking of surprises, I'm in the midst of watching Thrill Seekers a rather decent Casper Van Dien sci fi epic which goes against conventions int a number of scenes and remains far more watchable than it ever should be.

Lamper.sffc

rochie16 wrote: »

Agreed on the whole Shawshank issue. Terribly over-rated.

My top 10

True Romance
The Departed
Miller's Crossing
Raging Bull
Lord of the Rings
No Country For Old Men
Fargo
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Memento

A lot of descent movies there but for me, The Departed wouldnt get any where near the top movies. A very disjointed and at times badly acted movie. Now the original asian movie (infernal affairs) would make my all time favorite list. Sequels are class aswell.

JCos

Loads of people seem to still not have copped on that Scarface is actually a bit ****.

Running Bing

So is this thread about peoples favourite movies or the greatest movie ever? Because to me one of those is a very boring pointless thread (the former) and one is an interesting debate that could throw up a lot of good discussion.


Personally I think when you talk about the greatest film ever it needs to hit all the bases. It needs to be historically significant (i.e. it represented something new or fresh that helped with the development of cinema), it needs to be technically impeccable, well acted, written and directed, entertaining enough to watch multiple times and deep enough that something meaningful can be taken from it and you can continue to find new things on multiple viewings. I also feel that it should be a film that has had a large enough impact in that its popularity has (or will) endure for decades and that is why I think a discussion of the greatest movie ever will be rationally biased towards older films.

For me the one that ticks all of them boxes is Citizen Kane, absolute masterpiece. Vertigo, The Rules of the Game, Tokyo Story, The Bicycle Thieves and the Godfather would all be up there as well for me.

Perrin

The Matrix surely! just my preference though

Bandit883

flanree wrote: »

fight club

i agree

deadhead13

Favourite film would be Kes.

dumby

aint no such thing as best movie ever sorry buds

ZiMZuM

For me the best movie ever would be The Lord of the Rings.i know this is a trilogy but one can also watch it back to back as one movie!This movie has everything in it that makes it great.Firstly the actors and actress in the movie are extremely talanted and there wasnt one moment in the movie where i saw bad acting or wasnt convinced by a charactor!

The scenery/sets and filming was first class from the mines of moria,the shire,edoras...etc all made me believe i wasnt watching a movie and actors but real places and people.

The music score was fantastic,every tune fitted perfectly with every scene from the danger of the mines of moria,the tranquility of the shire or the battle at helms deep.

Overall the films had the right amount of action,fantasy,comedy,romance and thrills to keep me glued to the screen the whole time and i can watch again and again and this is why to me the Lord of the Rings is the best movie ever.

paulieeye

12 Monkeys...love everything about it!

paulieeye

dumby wrote: »

aint no such thing as best movie ever sorry buds

absolutly..there are only favourite movies

BlitzKrieg

Captain Mords Spiced Bum wrote: »

a matter of life and death, or The life and death of colonel blimp

i can't decide between the two.. blimp is longer so there's more awesome to go around but a matter of life and death is just so ****ing special.

oh wow we got us a serious Powell and Pressburger fan.

I like those two films aswell. So I salute you good sir!


My current personal favourite though (and has been for a while now) is All That Jazz by Bob Fosse

dumby

paulieeye wrote: »

absolutly..there are only favourite movies

exactly

it's a mini internet gripe of mine

pwd

no idea. The following were v good though:

stardust
fight club
american beauty
old boy
x men films
once upon a time in america
the proposition
the dark knight
watchmen
taxi driver
step brothers

Running Bing

pwd wrote: »

no idea. The following were v good though:

stardust
fight club
american beauty
old boy
x men films
once upon a time in america
the proposition
the dark knight
watchmen
taxi driver
step brothers

I second one of xmen, watchmen or step brothers for the greatest movie ever made.












Eh no not really:p

dumby

watchmen was good

BlitzKrieg

watchmen was ****e

dumby

I guess we disagree!

Running Bing

dumby wrote: »

watchmen was good

So was xmen and step brothers but do we really need another thread were people just list random films they thought was good?


To be honest such threads have gotten out of hand on here recently....every second thread seems to boil down to people listing 8 or 9 films they thought were decent with absolutely no discussion. Call it what you will "recommend me a film", "greatest film ever", "what have you watched recently", "films you didnt get", "overrated films"....it all just boils down to the same pointless ****e and add's needless clutter to the board.


All imvho of course;)

foxyboxer

Certainly to suggest that this is the "greatest" movie ever made is a bit much, but my favorite movie is A L I E N
The reasons I would put forward for this are as follows

The marriage of design between the worldly (big spaceship, spacesuits, switches, shuttles etc) versus the otherworldy (alien ship, the alien itself, the planetoid etc)
Jerry Goldsmith's lyrical and menacing score.
The excellent ensemble cast and screenplay (Truckers in Space)
The fact that the special effects do not overwhelm the plot.
Ridley Scott's direction is immaculate (the sets, the cuts, the atmosphere)
That it was one of (if not the first) 1st films to introduce a 4th Act.
I'm too young to have seen it in cinema's but I imagine how terrifying it would have been to watch at the time.

BlitzKrieg

dumby wrote: »

I guess we disagree!

yes


yes we do.

Greyfox

dumby wrote: »

aint no such thing as best movie ever sorry buds

Yes their is as the question essentially is "what do you think the best film ever is" and what the question is really is what film have you enjoyed most or what film had the most impact on you and for me the best film ever made is the Shawshank Redemption by an absolute mile! Sit down with any large group of people and it's the one film that's guarenteed to get mentioned, it's so moving and so inspiratonal and theirs absolutely no other film like it!

My top 20

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Braveheart
4. Terminator 2
5. The Terminator
6. The Usual suspects
7. Star Wars (original trillogy)
8. Kill Bill (Vol 1)
9. Shindlers list
10. Gladiator
11. Heat
12 Face/Off
13. Memento
14. American History X
15. Aliens
16. The Matrix
17. Casablanca
18. Goodfellas
19. Scarface
20. Dumb and Dumber

pwd

Babybing wrote: »

I second one of xmen, watchmen or step brothers for the greatest movie ever made.












Eh no not really:p

Just for a split second, I was delighted someone had agreed with, not just one or two, but ALL of less popular selections

I agree with basing selections on which films entertained me the most

Watchmen was really very good. If it was based on any other graphic novel people would be far more positive about it. I was surprised how effective a translation from the graphic novel, dispite the changed ending.
Everyone knows Alan Moore takes great exception to his comics being made into films, and I respect that he has the courage of his convictions. I disagree with him though. Sure you can do things in comics that you can't do in other media. But can you do sh!t cool special effects in comics? No. The 3d bit at the end of The Black Dossier doesn't count. (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was a remarkably bad film incidentally. I was surprised how good the comics were when I read them after seeing it).

BlitzKrieg

I was surprised how effective a translation from the graphic novel, dispite the changed ending.

Personnally I think its a really poor adaptation of Watchmen, but if you want a great rollercoaster ride through the old testament there is nothing better out there at the moment.

Dublin_Andy

why hasnt anybody mentioned Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade?

what an epic movie... it never gets old. an awesome piece of filmmaking and directing from the past 20 years. some impressive action scenes, great acting, story, locations. the banther between Connery and Ford was great.

Raiders of the Lost Ark would be well up there as well.

tech77

muletide wrote: »

Either, Life of Brian or Shawshank - It depends what mood I am in.

/smack, smack.

irish_bob

pulp fiction
die hard
once upon a time in america
godfather 2
the exorcist
the remains of the day ( an underated classic i believe )
star wars
raiders of the lost ark
the terminator
true romance
lord of the rings
midnight run
predator
back to the future

mrgaa1

GodFather Trilogy
Bourne Films (Trilogy)
Gladiator
Ben Hur
ShawShank
Rocky I
The Passion of Christ - Mel Gibsons film
All Matrix films

Nolanger

All of the above must be Empire magazine readers .

Dublin_Andy

Robocop. great movie too. would be in my top 20 anyway