Movie Thread

[FoxxyBrown1111]

The best ever? Can´t be answered. I estm. watched 4.000 in my life (outside of xxx).
Sports movie: One of the best is "North Dallas Forty".
Drama: "The Day After".
Society: "The International".
Comedy: "Hangover".
SciFi: "Matrix".

I am sure there are better ones which i just can´t recall in this second.

 

[pmcg76]

Transformers 2: Revenge of the fallen

All time classic..........................................................................something!!

 

[ChrisE]

Transformers 2: Revenge of the fallen

All time classic..........................................................................something!!

Umm ok.

I finally watched The Godfather a few weeks ago. I don't get the hype. I thought it was average at best. I have some of the sequals but haven't watched them.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Sports: Breaking Away.
Drama: Too many to consider. I'll pick Shawshank Redemption.
Society: What category is Society?
Comedy: Blues Brothers (or is it a musical?!)
SciFi: Alien (Matrix is surprisingly dated, watched it again this year, but Alien isn't).
Horror: Halloween
Documentary: One Day In September

Agree with a lot of Dim's picks from before: Apocalypse Now comes to mind as one of the best films ever. It's better than the Godfather, it still has tremendous impact if you watch it today, and it changed the cinema some.

 

[mewmewmew13]

I agree...cool movie.

Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai

BINGO!
my personal fave

 

[biopass]

Once upon a time in America.

Best movie ever created by my humble opinion.

 

[woodenswan]

L'eclisse, La notte, or L'avventura by Antonioni, 8.5 by Fellini, the beginnings of modern cinema. my pesonal fav though is Werckmeister Harmonies by Béla Tarr, with a couple of early Scorsese and Lynch films and Apocalypse Now rounding out the top 10.

 

[elapid]

Sports: So many but I'll pick Rocky ahead of Seabiscuit, Cinderella Man, The Natural, Hoosiers, Field of Dreams, and Rudy
Drama: Shawshank Redemption
Society: Don't know what this means, but have to put Ferris Bueller's Day Off somewhere!
Comedy: Loved Hangover, enjoyed Wedding Crashers and others like Death at a Funeral (English version) and Little Miss Sunshine, but have to give this one to Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
SciFi: Not a huge fan, but my nod goes to Blade Runner ahead of District 9, The Matrix, Star Wars, Alien, and 2001: A Space Odyssey
Horror: Again, not a huge fan but The Ring scared the crap out of me. Not sure if you can call them horrors, but movies like an American Werewolf in London and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest and Rear Window were also good.
Documentary: One of my favourite categories, but difficult to pick from some superbs documentaries such as Touching the Void, Winged Migration, March of the Pengions, Born into Brothels, Hoop Dreams, Spellbound, One Day in September, Grizzly Man, and They Grew Tired of Us, but Man on Wire is still my favourite documentary.
War: I had to include this category because again there are so many good war movies with Das Boot, The Battle of Algiers, Thin Red Line, Saving Private Ryan, Platoon, Deer Hunter, Bridge over the River Kwai, and Apocalypse Now, but my all time favourite is Black Hawk Down.

 

[Amsterhammer]

Sports: Breaking Away.
Drama: Too many to consider. I'll pick Shawshank Redemption.
Society: What category is Society?
Comedy: Blues Brothers (or is it a musical?!)
SciFi: Alien (Matrix is surprisingly dated, watched it again this year, but Alien isn't).
Horror: Halloween
Documentary: One Day In September

Agree with a lot of Dim's picks from before: Apocalypse Now comes to mind as one of the best films ever. It's better than the Godfather, it still has tremendous impact if you watch it today, and it changed the cinema some.

It's a little spooky how much I agree with this.....I find it impossible to have an absolute #1 now...I have had three during the course of my life, the first was Citizen Kane, then Godfather 2, then Shawshank. So, my top movies in no particular order of merit are...

Citizen Kane
Godfather 2
Shawshank
Apocalypse
Alien
The Battle of Algiers
It's a Wonderful Life
Silence of the Lambs
Blues Brothers
Diva

 

[hatcher]

IMo the best film ever made is The Apartment. Perfect in every way.

Rounding out the top 10: Rear Window, Rebecca, Alien, A Matter of Life and Death, Seven, Pulp Fiction, Star Wars, Dr Strangelove, and The General.

It would no doubt be an entirely different top 10 if I did it again tomorrow.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

...rounding out the top 10.

Those are certainly powerhouse films. Like my mention of Apocalypse Now, Fellini and Kurosowa definitely changed cinema with their films - and I should be clear when I say this - Jaws, Star Wars, Halloween, all changed cinema too somewhat, and are great films, but those films above grew the depth of cinema in style and quality. John Cassavettes and Ingmar Bergman did the same, but I don't think they had as far reaching of influence. There are character based dramatic filmmakers today, but no one, and I mean no one, makes films like Cassavettes anymore. (Clip here.)

Interesting in that if I had to list my favorite SciFi films two of them at the top were directed by the same man, Ridley Scott (Alien and Blade Runner), two unique, and highly influential films, a pretty astounding achievement, really.

To somewhat answer the OP, historically speaking Citizen Kane and Casablanca had perhaps the most profound impact on quality in film history.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Society: What category is Society?

Something like who really rules the world. May i should have used the word "politics", but that may would have been misleading, since politicans have nothing to say, they are just the puppets (democrats, republicans, one party systems, dictatorships, you name it).
I know docus are more realistic, but i find as a movie "The International" pretty much showed how evil capitalism and banksters are. Real criminals who are responsible for everything that goes wrong in the world.

"Under Fire" was good in that caetgory, so is "Salvador".

"Killing Fields" is also great political/war movie.

 

[Boeing]

Deer Hunter

Pulp Fiction

 

[Boeing]

Sports: Breaking Away.
Drama: Too many to consider. I'll pick Shawshank Redemption.
Society: What category is Society?
Comedy: Blues Brothers (or is it a musical?!)
SciFi: Alien (Matrix is surprisingly dated, watched it again this year, but Alien isn't).
Horror: Halloween
Documentary: One Day In September

Agree with a lot of Dim's picks from before: Apocalypse Now comes to mind as one of the best films ever. It's better than the Godfather, it still has tremendous impact if you watch it today, and it changed the cinema some.

I have Slap Shot one up on breaking Away

 

[greenedge]

Star Wars has to be considered one of the best. Other than that movies like Schindlers' list stand out.

 

[woodenswan]

L'eclisse, La notte, or L'avventura by Antonioni, 8.5 by Fellini, the beginnings of modern cinema. my pesonal fav though is Welchmeister Harmonies by Béla Tarr, with a couple of early Scorsese and Lynch films and Apocalypse Now rounding out the top 10.

and i almost forgot: Kar Wai Wong's Fallen Angels
fav sci fi has to be 2001: A Space Odyssey. Blade Runner is right there though

 

[The Hitch]

That film where whats his face goes nuts and on rampage in LA after he cracks under the pressure of capitalism and sees the damage it causes, while Tom Hagen is the police who tries to stop him. Thats a social film I think.

 

[Notso Swift]

That film where whats his face goes nuts and on rampage in LA after he cracks under the pressure of capitalism and sees the damage it causes, while Tom Hagen is the police who tries to stop him. Thats a social film I think.

Falling Down?
Michael Douglas, and the Police is Robert Duvall

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Deer Hunter

Great, no doubt about it.

I have Slap Shot one up on breaking Away

I think "Miracle" was a better hockey movie.

Falling Down?

Good movie. But as often, the end of the film spoils everything.

 

[TexPat]

1.Blade Runner

2.Once Upon A Time In The West

 

[on3m@n@rmy]

Scarface anyone?
One of Al Pacino's great efforts I think.

 

[DenisMenchov]

Night on Earth by Jim Jarmusch

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Night on Earth is great. As was Down by Law.

"Under Fire" was good in that caetgory, so is "Salvador"."Killing Fields" is also great political/war movie.

Agree on all of those. Very underrated. Missing (Jack Lemon, Sissy Spacek) is in a similar vein. Return to Paradise another unheralded film. Savior, Year of Living Dangerously. Midnight Experss isn't really that political, but a superb achievement.

Scarface anyone? One of Al Pacino's great efforts I think.

Obviously a cult classic. A lot of people and critics hated it at the time, but it really does perfectly capture the feel and excess of the 80's. Glad to see years later it's gotten a lot of respect it deserved.

 

[FoxxyBrown1111]

Scarface anyone?
One of Al Pacino's great efforts I think.

Sure. Makes my Top 100 of 4.000, and "American Gangster", "Donnie Brasco" and "Traffic" of course.

Other theme: "Into the Wild". Did i mention "Killing Fields" or "Silkwood"?

 

[DenisMenchov]

I love movies by Tarantino, von Trier, Tarkovsky, Bergman, Copola, De Sica, Benigni, Kusturica, Aronofsky, Jarmusch, Burton, .... So you can't really tell which one is the best.