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Best Movie Ever?

I still haven't met anyone who loves The Green Mile as much as I do.

Way too many movies to list. Just depends on what you've been through in life :)
 
Probably best to chop the list into Genres...

Probably best to chop the list into Genres...

I figure that based on mood - for me anyway - there will be a favorite movie bonanza instead of singling out a single film that is the epitome of great art. Why not go by genre and list those out here?

Western: Unforgiven (close second: The Proposition)
SciFi: Blade Runner (close second: Alien)
Romantic Comedy/Romantic drama: Amelie (no close seconds - can't stand rom coms.)
War: Saving Private Ryan (close second: Thin Red Line)
Drama: In The Bedroom
purely beautiful: Most of Wong Kar Wai's collection of films
Espionage/Spy: Eye of The Needle/ The Black Book
Horror/ Scariest Movie Ever: Jaws
Super Indiewood badass pic: The Following
Epic: Lawrence Of Arabia
Weirdest movie that doesn't suck: Mulholland Drive
Most watchable lip flapping flick (ie: "Action minimalism": Clerks.)


And OMG do I want to see Snow Crash done as a film - William Gibson's Neuromancer is also supposedly starting production this year - I'm all giddy with fanboy anticipation over that one!
 
I'm sure we could all come up with a list of at least 50, and it would still feel very much incomplete and require constant revision...

But I'll go with these five:

Barry Lyndon (my favorite cinematography work...this week)
The Godfather
Fargo
The Wizard of Oz
If I could only pick just one, I'd probably go with The Shawshank Redemption
 
No Frankenhooker?

Robocop (1 and 2) is great, and I did a write up of it on the blog.

I like these lists because I get recommendations from others. I hate these lists because I don't want to narrow down my preferences into a title or three.

There are the "best" films, and the "favorite" films and the cult classics you watch repeatedly (Army of Darkness? Road Warrior? Dawn of the Dead?).

Animation, I'd have a toss up between A Bug's Life and Wall-E, perhaps a few others not on the top of my head now.

Western, go with Good the Bad and the Ugly. That's a cult status hit, and I wasn't as impressed with several of Leone's other offerings.

So, basically I'm not saying much and don't stand behind any of these as the "Best Movie Ever."

Best Christmas movie: Scrooged or Bad Santa.

Best coming of age movie: Say Anything.

Best monster movie: Alien.
 
Best movie is the one which has not yet been shot. :iamwithstupid:
 
Vanilla Sky
Being John Malkovich
Paris Texas
Mister Lonely
Cinema Paradiso
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Fargo
Barton Fink
Big Lebowski
Punch Drunk Love
Blue Velvet
Wild at Heart
Oldboy
Brazil
Diving Bell
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Titanic (yes, I said it)
Magnolia
The Sea Inside
My Life as a Dog
Blow
............ sooo many great films to choose from, there is no clear "best."
 
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Craig W. Bickerstaff said:
People who bad mouth Titanic are just guys who are afraid of looking like a sissy, insecure with their masculinity as it were.....
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I could easily badmouth titanic for its storytelling, but that would be a subjective view. I cannot bad mouth it on production value or technical achievement (except for the size of the budget).

stating best movie ever is an impossible task. Not even worth trying...but of course I have to now...

A few would be: Stalker/Mirror/Solaris, Bladerunner/Alien, last tango in paris, Rififi, Casablanca, a man escaped, breathless, Pandora's box, three colours, the big combo, touch of evil, breakfast at tiffany's, the killer, Lost Highway, sherlock jr, les enfant des paradis, M, 12 Angry men, Dr Strangelove, the phantom of liberty...I just can't...it is impossible.
 
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