05-21-2005, 03:26 AM | #1 |
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best film of all time
this is a tread to see whitch film is in your opinion the best film of all time
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05-22-2005, 08:12 AM | #2 |
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Action: Die Hard I Lethal Weapon I - III Under Siege I True Lies Blade I The Bourne Identity The Fugitive The Hunt For Red October The Last Boyscout Spiderman I Goldeneye (James Bond) Adventure Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon The Day After Tomorrow Excalibur (The without a doubt absolute best King Arthur movie ever) Flying Daggers Highlander I I-J & the Last Crusade The Jungle Book The Last of the Mohicans The LOTR trilogy The Mark of Zorro The Mummy & The Mummy Returns Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl Raiders of the Lost Arc Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves The Three Musketeers Van Helsing ...just to mention a few. Comedy, Dance & Music and Thrillers will be added when time allows. |
05-22-2005, 11:11 AM | #3 |
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Oh, that's too hard to choose...um...well, MY favorite movie is The Princess Bride (with Cary Elwes) but...
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05-22-2005, 05:15 PM | #4 |
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"Ran", by Akira Kurosawa
Gone With the Wind other ones, too, but can't think right now
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05-22-2005, 05:25 PM | #5 |
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now I remember a couple more:
The Godfather, by Francis Ford Coppola Apocalypse Now - Oliver Stone The Leopard - Luchino Visconti Pupl Fiction & Reservoir Dogs - Quentin Tarantino Taxi Driver - Martin Scorsese E.T. - Steven Spielburg Chinatown - Robert Towne 8 Mile - Eminem/Marshall Mathers Papillon - Franklin J. Schaffner, st. Steve McQueen & Dustin Hoffman almost anything by Akira Kurosawa
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05-24-2005, 08:38 PM | #6 |
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i am not sure on best film of all time, but if i had to compile a list, definites would be:
Gohatto Akira LotR The Devil's Advocate Monty Python and the Holy Grail Monty Python's The Life of Brian Star Trek VIII: First Contact Star Trek IX: Insurrection Star Trek X: Nemesis StarGate |
05-24-2005, 08:38 PM | #7 |
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Grey Wolf, did you say "Excalibur"? I'd really, really love to know some reasons why you think this movie merits a "best" distinction. I seriously believe Excalibur is one of the laughingly WORST films ever made, EVER. If there were a college course on How To Create an Absolute Piece of Celluloid Garbage, they'd use this film as the study guide. I couldn't keep a straight face at any point during watching it, and at quite a few times my annoyance would swell up into outright rage at its insistent insipidity; plus most of the cast seemed at all times to be either stoned, twacked on 70's coke, or just plain mentally retarded.
Excalibur??!? The only thing at all good about it was Liam Neeson. Disclaimer: BTW, no offense is intended. Just wanna know what you think.
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This, like the 'best band ever' thread, is really a 'top movies' thread. For a 'best film of all time' would be one film, and everyone seems to name many. They all can't be the 'the best film of all time'. I myself would probably name a different one every day. Today, right now... I think Johnny Depp's best movie... the highly underrated one, is it... Dead Man directed by Jim Jarmusch is outright wierd, but it has a deeper sensibility in its layers. A side note... This was Robert Mitchum's last movie role as John Dickinson before he died. "No one can survive becoming a legend."
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05-25-2005, 11:12 AM | #10 |
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I don't think there's such a thing as a 'best movie of all time'. I've got my own faves, though:
Gladiator Pirates of the Caribbean; the Curse of the Black Pearl Signs Holes Shall We Dance Always Oscar I've got more... I love movies. Oh, Kingdom of Heaven is climbing the charts.
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05-25-2005, 11:58 AM | #12 |
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*shakes head at some of the crap on that list*
Today, a film that I always thought would be a good candidate for a remake, though I love the original even in its low budgetness, is The Illustrated Man. Another one of those wierd, underrrated movies I like. All you young folk who are into tattoos & body art should give it a watch.
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05-25-2005, 12:53 PM | #13 |
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Rod Steiger rocked. In the Heat of the Night etc etc.
A highly personal choice which probably has as much to do with whether you yourself were whacked out of your head on 70s coke at the time you saw it, in which case Excalibur may well have seemed like an epic. My top film, Tampopo. Last edited by The Gaffer : 05-25-2005 at 12:54 PM. Reason: edited so you can all go see this great film |
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Hey by the way, as far as your declaration that any college would consider this trash check out this link http://clioseye.sfasu.edu/chronicles/excaliburchron.htm from a university web site that says “it is considered one of the better Arthurian presentations of the more than 30 films in existence internationally, not because of great historical accuracy, but rather because of its mythic presentation.” And “In the end, Boorman's Excalibur is not historical, nor was it meant to be, nor has any work in Arthurian legend managed to be. The film is, however, a work of art -plain and simple.”
Oh and I found this review which was interesting: Quote:
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1. That's fine if some people out there consider Excalibur a "classic film". Good for them. I, however, am not one of those people. 2. Any college or university that would sing the praises of this silly flick would not be a college or university that I could ever take seriously, or respect. I certainly wouldn't deign to attend such an institution. 3. Why are we arguing about this? Everyone's in ownership of the right to their own opinion.
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Best movie of all time? 2001.
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Remember to some its a pretty special movie. We were joking around about it in the Python thread (another off topic rant against it by the way...) and that was fine but this clueless diatribe had to be countered in my opinion. It was just piling on unnecessarily. And you should learn about me that when people attack things I value of course Im gonna open my mouth and disgree. I would hope everyone would. Im a little disturbed you would question why I wouldnt. Quote:
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