Best movie

[Raisa]

Whats your favorite movies?

My favorite movies out of all the movies i have seen, is

American Histroy X
Frida
Johnny Q

[elijahcraig]

10 films

Kubrick:

Barry Lyndon
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dr. Strangelove

Fellini:

Eight and a Half

Chaplin:

City Lights

Korine:

Gummo

Scorsese:

Raging Bull

Tarantino:

Pulp Fiction

Lee:

Malcolm X

[pyrrhassorrow]

Top Ten Films:

Das Boot (only if it's subtitled not dubbed)
The Party (Peter Sellers)
American History X
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Welcome to Sarajevo
The Killing Fields
Meet the Parents
Halloween (the Original)
The Omen (the Original)
21 Grams (yum Benecio)

[The Worm is God]

my top ten

Pi
Fight Club
Apocalypse Now
Requiem for A Dream
Dr. Strangelove
The Shining
seven
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
American History X

[honest intellectual]

Oh, here we go suckaz. I'm ready for this thread.
After years of deliberation, I have decided that picking 'the best' is just not the right way to look at art, because it reduces all analysis to a solely critical level. The thing to do is compile a list like the following. Note the title. Also note how eclectic it is. The films are in no particular order, just whatever came to mind.

THE ALL-TIME GREAT FILMS
Thelma & Louise
Pulp Fiction
The Godfather
Scarface
Taxi Driver
The Deer Hunter
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
American Beauty
Citizen Kane
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
The Shining
On The Waterfront
Psycho
Vertigo
Once upon a Time in China
Some Like It Hot
The Magnificent Seven
The Matrix
Withnail & I
Game of Death
This Is Spinal Tap
Casablanca
The Wild One
The Graduate
Saturday Night Fever
Lawrence of Arabia
The Silence of the Lambs
The Exorcist

[pyrrhassorrow]

Originally posted by The Worm is [email protected] 13 2004, 03:48 PM
Dr. Strangelove

Peter Sellers is the greatest comedian to ever live!!!!!!!!!

[gawkygeek]

best movies are definitely

the orriginal three starwars
the indiana jones triology
the first matrix
donnie darko
fight club
enemy at the gates
the blues brothers

[truthaddict11]

we have several threads on your favorite movies already please use those

[Raisa]

I didnt quite see that.

[(*]

Best Comedy:
Coming to America

[Individual]

The Big Lebowski
The Grapes of Wrath
The Deer Hunter
2001 A Space Odyssey
Fear and Loathing

[refuse_resist]

Star Wars
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Big Trouble in Little China
They Live
Escape From N.Y./L.A.
Night of the Living Dead (original)
Dawn of the Dead (original)
Day of the Dead
A Nightmare on Elm Street movies

[Postteen]

Frida
the Hours
The lord of the Rings(all of them)

i can't think of any other nice films right now... :(

[mentalbunny]

I'd go with the Hours. Psycho was pretty good. I'm pretty limited on what films I've seen but Lola Rennt definitely goes on the list. As does Etre et Avoir, even though it's a documentary.

[Postteen]

I forgot my favourite one which is AMELIE
I also love 8 femmes(8 nwomen)

Generally i like very much french cinema.Actually i think nowadays the american films suck.(ok there are some exceptions)

[JonP]

If...
Apocalypse Now
Salvador
Vanilla Sky
Hard Eight

[Raisa]

Oh yes I must definately add the grapes of wrath to my list, it was excellent.

[truthaddict11]

no one mentioned The Godfather Part 2? :huh:

[Mr. White]

here's mine........No order :rolleyes:

Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Requiem for a Dream
Godfather 1 & 2
Almouse famous
Amores Perros
City of God
Fight Club
Dr. Strangelove
Shawshank redemption

[Motorcycle_diAries]

My All time Great Movies
********************
- Gone with the wind
- The Rock
- Terminator 2
- The Lord of the Rings triology
- Shindler's List
- The Godfather
- City of Angels
- Forrest Gump

[timbaly]

I skimmed through the responses rather quickly but I did not see Casablanca. I hope that was simply an oversight on everyone's part.

[andresG]

Originally posted by honest [email protected] 13 2004, 01:49 PM
...
This Is Spinal Tap
Casablanca
The Wild One
The Graduate..

[RABBIT - THE - CUBAN - MILITANT]

Tupac Resurrection
Ghost Dog (repin' the Hagakure)
City of God
Shogun Assassin
Battle Royal





and i suggest every one sees Hackers .. jokes movie and it involves destroying capitalist terrorist organization :D

[October Revolution]

Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Lion King :P
Jurrasic Park

Theres probaly more but im not a big film fan.

[Cal]

Big Trouble in Little China

Beverley Hills Cop 2

[Ramshaw is all]

Apocalypse Now is definetly up there. Along with all three of the Monty Pithon films. And of course, i better put Motorcycle Diaries in there, even though i haven't seen it yet.

[RABBIT - THE - CUBAN - MILITANT]

Originally posted by Ramshaw is [email protected] 5 2005, 03:43 PM
i better put Motorcycle Diaries in there, even though i haven't seen it yet.
umm ..

[Inti]

I´d say Motorcycle diaries and with the documentary that comes on the dvd
-Paloma de Papel
-Terminator
-Amarte Duele
-Amores Perros
-The lord of the rings triology
-Traffic
-The Perfect Weapon w Jeff Speakman (the uncut version)

[ComradeChris]

My favourite movies are:
1. Dune (by far)
1. Dune the mini-series (which is essentially a movie...it's fun watching the whole series in one sitting...or lying down...I was in bed)
2. LOTR trilogy
3. Pretty much anything Monty Python (Quest for the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, and The Meaning of Life are my top three)

[Lamanov]

"Braveheart" (Mel Gibson, 1995)

It may not seem leftist if you didnt quite see it, especially when you think about who filmed it. But when you do see it, you realise that the man made more revolutionary movie than he prolly intended to.
"freeedooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom....ahhh"

"Brooklyn Babylon" (Spike Lee, i think 1999)

FIND IT AND SEE IT

[Donnie]

Mine would have to be:
*Fight Club
*Menace 2 Society
*Indiana Jones collection
*Starwars( The LIGHT SABRES ARE AMAZING!!!!) frum frum
*Buffalo Soldiers
*Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back!!
*Bowling for Columbine

[October Revolution]

Originally posted by DJ-[email protected] 7 2005, 06:04 PM
"Braveheart" (Mel Gibson, 1995)

It may not seem leftist if you didnt quite see it, especially when you think about who filmed it. But when you do see it, you realise that the man made more revolutionary movie than he prolly intended to.
"freeedooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom....ahhh"

"Brooklyn Babylon" (Spike Lee, i think 1999)

FIND IT AND SEE IT
Braveheart is an awful film. It's very innacurate in the historial department, that whole freedom speach thing is utter bollocks and the worst thing about the whole cherade is that it makes it look like every King/Queen of England is decended from William Wallace which is shit. What was the point of adding that whole stupid love thing in neway.

[Lamanov]

Originally posted by October Revolution+Feb 7 2005, 09:44 PM--> (October Revolution @ Feb 7 2005, 09:44 PM)
DJ-[email protected] 7 2005, 06:04 PM
"Braveheart" (Mel Gibson, 1995)

It may not seem leftist if you didnt quite see it, especially when you think about who filmed it. But when you do see it, you realise that the man made more revolutionary movie than he prolly intended to.
"freeedooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom....ahhh"

"Brooklyn Babylon" (Spike Lee, i think 1999)

FIND IT AND SEE IT
Braveheart is an awful film. It's very innacurate in the historial department, that whole freedom speach thing is utter bollocks and the worst thing about the whole cherade is that it makes it look like every King/Queen of England is decended from William Wallace which is shit. What was the point of adding that whole stupid love thing in neway. [/b]
ofcourse it innacurate - its a movie !
comeon now ?! ur missing the point. The point of love is crucial. Its not like he's fighting for Scots - he doesnt give a shit - he's fighting because he has nothing else left for him. and it doest matter for the history that story says that queen is carying he's child, but it matters for the moment in the story.
"they can take our lives but they can never take our freedom"... its like "better to die on your feet than to live on your knees"

[ComradeChris]

Originally posted by DJ-TC+Feb 7 2005, 06:35 PM--> (DJ-TC @ Feb 7 2005, 06:35 PM)
Originally posted by October [email protected] 7 2005, 09:44 PM

DJ-[email protected] 7 2005, 06:04 PM
"Braveheart" (Mel Gibson, 1995)

It may not seem leftist if you didnt quite see it, especially when you think about who filmed it. But when you do see it, you realise that the man made more revolutionary movie than he prolly intended to.
"freeedooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom....ahhh"

"Brooklyn Babylon" (Spike Lee, i think 1999)

FIND IT AND SEE IT
Braveheart is an awful film. It's very innacurate in the historial department, that whole freedom speach thing is utter bollocks and the worst thing about the whole cherade is that it makes it look like every King/Queen of England is decended from William Wallace which is shit. What was the point of adding that whole stupid love thing in neway.
ofcourse it innacurate - its a movie !
comeon now ?! ur missing the point. The point of love is crucial. Its not like he's fighting for Scots - he doesnt give a shit - he's fighting because he has nothing else left for him. and it doest matter for the history that story says that queen is carying he's child, but it matters for the moment in the story.
"they can take our lives but they can never take our freedom"... its like "better to die on your feet than to live on your knees" [/b]
During high school, when I was studying the French Revolution, we watched this movie called, "The Affair of the Necklace," or something like that. Basically it made it seem that it was the King purchasing this lavish necklace that sparked major outrage that prompted the revolution. At the end of it I said to the teacher, "Now we know what really sparked the French Revolution." She laughed and was how so it was all good :lol: . ANywho I'm getting sidetracked.

Movies are horribly inaccurate a lot of the time when they come to depicting historical events. And Mel Gibson is probably one of the worst ones there. Like the scene in The Patriot where the British lock up the townspeople in a Church and burn it. No atrocity like that was committed until something similar in WWII when the Nazis did something like that. Whether he was trying to compare the Britains to the Nazis, I'm not sure. But his movies have some huge anachronistic tendancies.

[October Revolution]

Well yes ofcourse films are innacurate but it still doesn't mean that the idea of him and the queen is not absurd. Neway to make a better point it's a Mel Gibson film and he's really up his own arse, thinks he can act and everything :P

[Lamanov]

Neway to make a better point it's a Mel Gibson film and he's really up his own arse, thinks he can act and everything

;) You do have a point there.

[RiskyRhonda]

Brave Heart in my eyes in not a revolutionary film. and neither are the one im about to list but i like them.

Donnie Darko
Train Spotting (scotish herion attick film, its great)
the usual suspects
Seven
O Brother Where Art Thow?
Full Metal Jacket
Band of Brothers (all 9 of em)
Lock Stock and Two Smocking Berrals
&Snatch

and i saw phsyco two days agon in my film class at school and i know its old and its suposed to be kind of like the guide line for scary movies, but i wasent impressed. i guess thats why all the new scary movies get good reviews yet they blow (except fot saw witch was more of a suspence type thing anyway.)

[alex d kid]

I am a very big movie enthusiast and therefore I am very critical when I watch movies. It's pretty hard for me to state, which are the best movies I have seen since I have seen so many, but here are some of them in random order: Pulp Fiction, Dead Man, Panic In Needle Park, Leaving Las Vegas, Pi, Ichi The Killer, Wild At Heart, Clerks, Fight Club, Edward Scissorhands, Trainspotting, Se7en.

[Ele'ill]

I suppose i'll join in on this thread for a moment
Space Ghost coast to coast volume 1 (the entire adult swim series also), the thin red line, tigerland, fight club, snatch, ravenous, the hunted, strange days, blade runner, the mission, lost and delirious (based of the book 'the wives of bathe' which I suggest for reading, dog day afternoon, twelve monkeys.....the list goes on, those are the ones I have laying around right now.

[Non-Sectarian Bastard!]

I really wouldn't know. There so many films that I like, if I would compose a list, I would later think of films that I missed out.

Anyway Motorcycle Diaries is a bit overrated. The most important thing of the journey for Che: The suffering of the South American people (after which Che decided to become a revolutionary.) Wasn't depicted that good.

I would give it a 7.5 out of 10. I had to laugh though, when the two Communists that he met on the road, "blessed" him. :P

The latest memorable film that I saw was City of God. Truely tremendous.

[guerillablack]

What about Saving Private Ryan. Your going to say it isn't historically true because their weren't 3 brothers in the military named yada, yoda, and soda? Please it's a damn movie. It never claimed to be historically acurate. There are many books and movies that take place during wars,etc. That is just the setting. Please.