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Best Movie Ever?

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Desert Rune

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To each their own, I think that the best movie ever is:

Pan's Labyrinth by Guillermo Del Toro. :)

Surprisingly haunting. Sad yet uplifting. A movie that makes you think.


What I also love about it from a filmmaking perspective is that such a movie could be made with Red on a limited budget, if one was not short on talent and vision.
 
Pan's is in my top 3 from last year. A really great movie.
 
Let me see...what's my favorite movie of all time? I know my favorite 3:

1)All The Mornings of The World (Tous Les Matins du Monde)
2)Groundhog Day
3)Betty Blue
 
2001

Kubrick

nuff said.
 
Too hard to call for me, there are those that I love such as Seven Samurai or psycho for being classics and so original in their art, but then there are films that are so very entertaining such as Back to the Future or Indiana Jones and of course films that mean so much growing up with such as Starwars and James Bond movies. I think my favourite movie would change depending on the time of day and my mood at that time.
 
Bro Anansi said:
2001

Kubrick

nuff said.
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Agree, but don't hate me when I say Robocop come close for me.

Haters, don't worry I own a crap load of DVDs: Rohmer, Fassbinder, Godard, Hitchcock, Sturges, Malick, Ashby, Ford, Sirk, Fellini, Cameron, etc. I just happen to also think Verhoeven is a genius.
 
I know when I was little, and I decided I wanted to go into film, I had favoritie movies, and it was probably a short list. I think I thought that if I STUDIED film, and watched a lot of films, the choice would be easier.

I think my list of favorite movies is inevitably long. Its like asking me what my favorite body part is.

I have such a weird list too...

Mr Ripley and Cold Mountain
Platoon...or maybe Jarhead
Magnolia
Children of Men
Yellow Submarine (animation counts?)
 
I would put a moratorium on any movie made in the last five years before it could be labelled "best of all time", just to have some perspective on it. A number of people polled in 1990 said that "Dances with Wolves" was one of the best movies of all time, and I suspect that it has dropped down the list for some people given time to think about it and judge its relative worth.

FYI, my favorite films of all time (I avoid using the label "the best") are:
2001, Lawrence of Arabia, 2001, Seven Samurai, and Doctor Strangelove... in no particular order.
 
My favorite movie was Back to the Future... I probably watch it at least twice a year. Favorite TV series was Macgyver - its what got me into engineering.
 
ah yes. Macgyver used to be one of only two programs my parents would let us watch.

Here are some of my favorite movies that I haven't seen mentioned yet.

101 Reykjavik
Show Me Love
My Life as a Dog
Manon of the Spring
Beyond the Couds
Sex and Lucia
Stealing Beauty
Under the Tuscan Sun
Vacas
Outside Providence
The Princess Bride
Entrapment
The Fifth Element
 
That's like asking me which of my children is my favorite...not that I have kids.

I would have to go with the following for favorites but with dozens just a hairs breadth behind:

Blade Runner
Apocalypse Now


Edit:
Honorable Mentions go to:
Ran, Seven Samurai, Cinema Paradiso, Alien
 
CVB said:
My favorite movie was Back to the Future... I probably watch it at least twice a year. Favorite TV series was Macgyver - its what got me into engineering.
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And where has it gotten you? Can you dismantle a bomb with a tooth pic? Build a rocket pack with nothing more than plastic wrap and super glue?

Im not sure motion control heads are quite up to Macgyver standards... back to the drawing boards Curt! :biggrin:
 
The Best Movie Ever can only be a trilogy. Yes thats right:

REVENGE OF THE NERDS I, II & III Now thats quality cinema!
 
Can you really have a "Favorite" movie? Anyway...For me, no matter what the film and how much I love it, I have to be in the right mood to watch it. That said, if all but 5 films were to be destroyed forever, I'd want the surviving ones to be:

Seven Samurai
The Empire Strikes Back
Amelie
Shawshank Redemption
Monty Python & The Holy Grail

This list would probably change every couple of minutes, however.


TV would be:
Northern Exposure
Farscape
The Office (BBC version)
Freaks and Geeks
Father Ted
 
Emery said:
And where has it gotten you? Can you dismantle a bomb with a tooth pic? Build a rocket pack with nothing more than plastic wrap and super glue?

Im not sure motion control heads are quite up to Macgyver standards... back to the drawing boards Curt! :biggrin:
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Not so fast! The first prototype of our moco head was made from printer parts... take that! hehe Plus there's this....RC CAR a full size 1984 Buick remote control car we made on a weekend with nothing more than some RC car parts and a bunch of duct tape. Ok so there was a little more than duct tape :)
 
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