Question Best Film Ever?

[Urwumpe]

The speech at least sounds very reminiscent of "the great dictator" :lol:

Exactly :thumbup:

 

[Izack]

2001: A Space Odyssey is my personnal favourite, closely followed by Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas). In my opinion, it's the best war movie. It relates the ceasefires on Christmas Eve during the First World War.

Heh, I had included Joyeux Noël in my post originally, and removed it to simplify. I agree, it is one of the best war movies I've ever seen.

 

[Scav]

I wonder if Dances with Wolves should get a mention.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Heh, I had included Joyeux Noël in my post originally, and removed it to simplify. I agree, it is one of the best war movies I've ever seen.

It sounds really interesting, I would love to see it sometime.

As for me... well, The Right Stuff, The Blues Brothers, The Kings Speech (one of the best movies ever done IMO).

The Right Stuff is great because its just soooo bad. Its one of the least accurate films imaginable on its topic, but it captures the mood perfectly, and its really quite funny.

As far as documentary type stuff goes, I really liked the Hubble IMAX film. Far and away the best space documentary Ive seen, although the ISS one was really good too.

 

[Bibi Uncle]

Heh, I had included Joyeux Noël in my post originally, and removed it to simplify. I agree, it is one of the best war movies I've ever seen.

Yes, Joyeux Noël is a fantastic movie. I don't have many war movies however. I have the classics such as Full Metal Jacket, Platoon and Apocalypse Now, but Joyeux Noël is still my favourite.

I find it sad that there is not much movies about the Canadian effort during both World Wars. There is Passchendaele which is great, but very violent. A bit too much Hollywood style in my opinion.

 

[Matias Saibene]

For me, the best movie I've seen is Wall-E.

 

[Cras]

For me, the best movie I've seen is Wall-E.

Excellent excellent excellent choice. That movie is just fantastic.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Well, there is a huge difference between a film and a movie. The best film I've seen in a while was Moon. I'd give kudos to The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.

The best movie I've seen in a while would be The Avengers, Superman Man of Steel was pretty OK, but I really looking forward to Monsters University this weekend.

My favorite thing I've seen in ages is Secondhand Lions. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.

 

[clive bradbury]

I wonder if Dances with Wolves should get a mention.

No.

 

[Urwumpe]

The best movie I've seen in a while would be The Avengers, Superman Man of Steel was pretty OK, but I really looking forward to Monsters University this weekend.

Same here.

The ending of Monsters Inc is epic.

 

[PennyBlack]

I have to say that "Angels with Dirty Faces" starring James Cagney is a most powerful film.
To me it shows many things about Cagneys charactor, a tough guy without remorse, hurting others and manipulating those easily impressed by a hard attitude in hard times to get his way. His charactor had a likeable side which was often washed away by his actions and even though he pretended to take those he could control, the street kids, under his wing he did play the father figure, all be it an unhealthy one. He didn't see the harm, the stolen future he is taking because of his selfish criminal ways. A possible future of perpetual crime and pain which his life long friend pionted out before he was set to be executed, a life that he spent the whole film impressing upon the young around him.
I was shocked when his persona, charactor changed while he was walking to his death. I really do think that the charactor would have bravely meet his death, but given the future he was going to create by doing so, chose to die with the appearance of a coward, which again showed a huge amount of courage by one with such an image that he was willing to kill to preserve it. A side of the charactor which was alot more powerful than that displayed throughout the entire film, I think.

I enjoy a film which provokes thought. There are so many films which I can say are my favourites but cannot say for sure which one holds the top placement. How can I when in every film, there is always something that could set it apart from the other. The word "Classic" to me, means that one cannot emulate the original in the same way and many remakes just don't cut it. So you'd be right to guess that I watch many classics, irrelevent of the black and white format and the scratchy sound.

 

[Kurt M. Weber]

La Double vie de Veronique

Lawrence of Arabia

Andrei Rublev

 

[Notebook]

Top of the world Maa!

Hollywood knocked out a lot good stuff betwen the wars, then sort of fell apart after WWII. Not inclduing the film noir stuff they did,

To wander of on a tangent, best comedies? For me anything by Laurel & Hardy.

N.

 

[Matias Saibene]

The ending of Monsters Inc is epic.

True, Monsters, Inc. has a very nice end.

 

[ex-orbinaut]

I'm no film expert, and wouldn't dare name the greatest film ever. I couldn't even name a personal favourite. Too many films..

Ditto, therefore here are some films that I have enjoyed and think deserve a mention only...

1979 was a good year for films; films that I enjoyed, at any rate. "Alien" of course, but the one that traumatized me for weeks after watching it was "The Prophecy". It had a hint of plausibility to it, and to me it seemed there would be a greater chance of being lost in the forest than on a spacecraft with a monster. The scene with the beast coming across the dark, mist covered lake gave me nightmares. Also from this same year and well rememebered; "Mad Max", "Star Trek the Motion Picture", and "Life of Brian", though the humor of this last one was only truly appreciated some years later. On another similar thread to this one, I already mentioned what is perhaps my all time favorite, also from 1979; "Apocalypse Now". It was moody and atmospheric, like the book it was based on.

Coppola hit on a method for developing a mysterious character through other characters in "Apocalypse Now", which he later repeated in the film "Rumble Fish". "Rumble Fish", in turn, contained a bit of a gimmick that was employed later in another memorable film, which I will also name here; "Schindler's List".

End of Evangelion continues to be deeply and personally distrubing...

Where animated films are concerned, I agree that "The End of Evangelion" was disturbing. However, I found "When the Wind Blows" rather unsettling, augmented by some brilliant tracks by Roger Waters. It was released at the time when the nuclear standoff was coming to a bit of a culminating head, and played on some tangible fears that people shared back then. It would seem that I rather like films about nuclear war, as I will also name "Dr. Strangelove" and "Fail Safe", but "The Day After" rather sucked, in my opinion, and a potentially excellent adaptation of Neville Shute's "On the Beach" was ruined by the overplaying of the song "Waltzing Matilda" and a blatant in-film advertisement for a car manufacturer in the very last scene.

A classic that had a theme somewhat ahead of its time was "A Matter of Life and Death", with David Niven. It brings me roundly to war films that I have enjoyed. "Midway", "Tora Tora Tora", "A Bridge Too Far", and "The Longest Day". I also repeat one someone else mentioned, "The Battle of the River Plate", even though the USS Salem looked nothing like the Graf Spee. Also already mentioned, but voted up here, "Lawrence of Arabia". This is looking like it could be the film of films, on this thread. And though the portrayal of Commodus is a little bit at odds with Edward Gibbon's impression and history of him, I also enjoyed "Gladiator" very much.

Also, I must re-mention "The Right Stuff". Great film.

Finally, because I am a husky fan and long time pack leader of a couple of the breed; "Eight Below". That is as close as you will ever get one of those beautiful but headstrong dogs to being "trick dogs".

Apologies for a bit of an essay here; I honestly cannot really single one out.

 

[Cras]

And though the portrayal of Commodus is a little bit at odds with Edward Gibbon's impression and history of him, I also enjoyed "Gladiator" very much.

Gladiator was a well made movie, very well produced, it had a rough shoot but it came together nicely. With that being said, if anyone wants to learn about Roman history, they are not gonna find any in Gladiator.

Nor will they find much in Edward Gibbon, I can think of my college professors they would throw a fit if they heard someone quoting that infernal work.

 

[Belisarius]

Will be (by the end of this year)...

Gravity by Alfonso Cuarón starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney

Sneak Peek Preview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufsrgE0BYf0

I think it's gonna be great!

I'm working on a fun Orbiter Scenario based on the trailer - a really cool one would break up the ISS A to Z by donamy and send it spinning to deorbit. But I don't have the processing power to do that so I'm doing it with just a few ISS elements.

 

[Mojave]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052618/

Ben-Hur has to be one of my favorite film's I've seen. Best chariot racing scene FTW

 

[Star Voyager]

Y'all have got it all wrong. Best movie ever is and always will be Top Gun!

 

[Noeyedeer]

I LOVE 2001: a space odyssey for being so scientific and realistic but I also love Indiana Jones: Raiders of the lost ark. Can't chose between those two, they are both great movies.