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Best Movie Ever?

Ok, if it transforms from "best movie ever" to "all favorite movies" I´ll name a few more:

Amelie
Princess Mononoke
Se7en
Fight Club
Terminator2
Aliens
The Abyss
The Game
Doctor Strangelove
Full Metal Jacket
Evolution
Shawshank Redemption
Green Mile
Brubaker
O Brother, where art thou?
Chihiro
Laputa
City of God
The man who copied
The Wing and the Thigh
Gandhi
Saving Private Ryan
The Goonies
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
12 Monkeys
Howl´s moving castle
Clockwork Orange
Sleepy Hollow
Batman 1&2
Nightmare before Christmas
The Fifth Element
Soupe aux choux
My Name is Nobody
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Nobody's the Greatest

So, that´s my prelim. list.

Priyesh
 
Just re: the original post: I thought Pan's Labyrinth was supremely overrated, competently made but pointless and unsatisfying. Same for 2001, since it also came up. I know I'm in the minority on that but there it is.

I don't know what the Best Movie Ever is, but some of my favorite films of all time include:

Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
The Matrix (the original)
Kill Bill Vol. 1
The Fifth Element
Pulp Fiction
Ghostbusters
Jurassic Park
Terminator 2
Nightmare before Christmas
Children of Men

Though if I have to name one, the answer is clearly Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

I'd have a longer list if I could remember them all; they're on my MySpace favorites list but MySpace is blocked here at work!
 
CVB said:
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Printer parts? RC Buick huh? Alright, your off the hook this time Badinski! :sarcasm:
 
PaulClements said:
I think my favourite movie would change depending on the time of day and my mood at that time.
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I agree with you on that one.

At this moment in time I think Mulholland Drive is my favorite movie.

I did love Fifth Element as well.
 
1. Citizen Kane - Welles
2. Battleship Potemkin - Eisenstein
3. 8 1/2 (Eight and a Half) - Fellini
4. The Rules of the Game - Renoir
6. L'Avventura - Antonioni
7. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Kubrick
8. Vertigo - Hitchcock
9. Persona - Bergman
10. Seven Samurai - Kurosawa
11. Tokyo Story - Ozu
12. The Godfather - Coppola, F.F.
13. Amarcord - Fellini
14. Ivan's Childhood - Tarkovsky
15. The Conformist - Bertolucci
 
Finner said:
The Best Movie Ever can only be a trilogy. Yes thats right:

REVENGE OF THE NERDS I, II & III Now thats quality cinema!
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Do you know how often when I read this message board that I want to just bust into the room and yell NERDS!!!
 
Like most here, I couldn't pick a favorite film and had to short list the ones that have effected me the most.

In no particular order:

Seven Samurai
Princess Bride
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Blade Runner
Roman Holiday
Alien
The Original Star Wars Trilogy
Jaws
Sin City
Monty Python's Life of Brian

But the bit of media that has effected me more than any of them? I'd have to put the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series at the top of the list and I don't care how many people laugh at me.
 
I could live with Sanjin's list.
Aloha
-A
 
Jaime Vallés said:
Two words:

SHOW

GIRLS

:tongue:
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Even Show Girls had its greatness. The weird comic book quality of the characters functions as an ideological critique of Las Vegas itself. Vegas is like the total capitalist super machine. You have to keep in mind that Verhoeven is a closet Marxist and impossibly ironic.

Besides, Starship Troopers, Total Recall and Basic Instinct don't have a boring frame in them. It's like visual crack.
 
kalone said:
Laputa
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I think you meant Castle in the Sky, right? Great movie - I just watched that a couple days ago. Miyazaki's imagination and storytelling constantly amazes me.
 
Old faves: (I'm a SF geek, so biased that way)

The Matrix
Blade Runner
Alien
Star Wars (IV)
Wizard of Oz
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Apocalypse Now
Chinatown
Collateral
Most Hitchcock Films
LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring
The Shining
Jaws
Pulp Fiction
Brazil
Hard Boiled
Face/Off
Die Hard
Silence of the Lambs
The Edge
The Usual Suspects
A Christmas Story

Lower budget faves:
Napoleon Dynamite
28 Days Later
Memento
Bottle Rocket
Reservoir Dogs
Glengarry Glenross
The Machinist
Pi
The Station Agent

Faves in 2006:
Children of Men
Pan's Labyrinth
Little Miss Sunshine
V for Vendetta

Goofy but fun/weird SF classics:
Zardoz
The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai in the 8th Dimension
Flash Gordon
Time Bandits

Okay, I probably went too far, but it's hard to pick just one or two when you like so many, and I undoubtedly left off a few dozen great ones.
 
lordnumberzero said:
Agree, but don't hate me when I say Robocop come close for me.
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No hate here. Robocop rocked! I actually loved Starship Troopers, though it seemed to get a bad rap. I had read the book, which was obviously less tongue-in-cheek, but still felt the movie was hilarious and fun entertainment.
 
Top 10 in no particular order:

Playtime (1967, Jacques Tati)
Greatest 70mm film ever made, and probably the most ambitious comedy ever made as well. Hilarious, sad and uplifting all at the same time. If you ever hear that this is playing in 70mm anywhere near you, do whatever you can to see it on the big screen.

Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi)
It doesn't get much better than this adaptation of a Japanese folktale. Has some of the most beautiful black and white cinematography I have ever seen.

L'Eclisse (1962, Michelangelo Antonioni)
Antonioni's best film. It has one of the greatest and most haunting endings of all time. 'Red Desert,' his immediate followup, is one of the truly great color films, too.

Ordet (1955, Carl Dreyer)
Au Hasard Balthazar (1967, Robert Bresson)
Two great movies centered around religion by two of the greatest religious filmmakers of all time. Seriously, pretty much anything by Dreyer or Bresson is amazing.

Good Men, Good Women (1995, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
It may initially be confusing, but it is absolutely awe-inspiring once you realize how skillfully Hou manages to deal with over 60 years of Taiwanese history and politics through the story of an emotionally damaged actress. I've seen it 4 times in theatres, and it remains one of the most moving films I have ever seen. A great end to Hou's amazing 'Sadness Trilogy.'

Stalker (1979, Andrei Tarkovsky)
May be my favorite science fiction film (of course, depending on the day, '2001', 'Blade Runner' and 'La Jetee' give it a run for its money), and it may be my favorite Tarkovsky film, too (though 'Nostalghia' and 'Mirror' could easily lay claim to that title as well). Like all Tarkovsky, it's deliberately paced, but well worth the watch.

The God of Day Had Gone Down Upon Him (2000, Stan Brakhage)
Brakhage is probably the greatest experimental filmmaker of all time, and this film, which was the last major photographic work (Brakhage made many hand-painted films in his later career) before his death, is his greatest achievement. It's a silent meditation on approaching death, shot entirely on a 16mm Bolex on the coast of the Pacific Northwest in Kodachrome reversal. There's no plot to speak of, but when a film is this beautiful, who needs it?

Late Spring (1949, Yasujiro Ozu)
My favorite Ozu film; everything about it, the framing, cutting, and gestures are just pitch perfect and razor sharp. Seems like kind of a weird thing to say about Ozu, but it's true nonetheless.

Can't think of a 10th one without excluding some other favorites, so let's just say there should also be Malick's Thin Red Line, Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, Wong's In the Mood for Love, Welles' Citizen Kane, Sokurov's Mother and Son, Denis' L'Intrus, Tourneur's Out of the Past, Scorsese's Raging Bull, anything by Murnau, Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr, Resnais, Rossellini, Kurosawa, etc. etc. etc.
 
I have grown up, but I have to stay true to the movie that got me to start in this business...

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

I am looking forward to when my sons are old enough so I can show it to them...
 
Sean said:
Just re-watched it. It had been a while since I'd last seen it and I was even more blown away by the movie than the first time. Dude was a genius. Shockingly brilliant. Love it.
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Gotta give Arthur C Clarke some love here. I would also like to see "Childhoods End" and "Fountains of Paradise" made into films.

As a visionary Clarke introduced the idea of the communications Satellite and in the Fountains of Paradise he brings forth the idea of the space elevator.

On the subjects of novels, what novels would you like to see made into "films" (maybe we should rename them reds:clown2:)
 
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