The Best Movies... Ever!

okko1 · August 2007

the 2 best movies ever made are blazing saddles and THE BOONDOCK SAINTS :shades:

graphicguy · August 2007

Making me take a mental inventory of movies I've enjoyed, but have not seen in awhile. Ones that I'm going to break out and watch again.....

Reds (best thing Nicholson and Beatty ever did)
One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest (speaking of Nicholson)
Once Upon a Time in America
A Beautiful Mind
Good Will Hunting
Ragtime

Gotta have a John Wayne movie in there.....

Rio Bravo

Count me as one of the people who really don't care all that much about CK. I've seen it. Regardless of it's alleged artistic statement, I just don't care all that much about it.

madmanmoo · August 2007

Most people I have talked to that have seen the movie can tell me what Rosebud is.

Yes, someone posted that is was a sled. Apparently that saved me about 3 hours of my time. I guess it's a metaphor for his youth or rosebud could mean something about someone's anatomy. Whatever.

I appreciate you trying to explain why it is the "best" movie out there. However, my question to you is, is there no other movie now that is better? I just hate the title "best", especially when it's too boring for me to be able to make it through the whole movie.

I may be beating the dead horse now, but that's my take. I respect your opinion on it and appreciate you taking the time to banter on the subject.

C'mon, Sheepweasel.

Now that was a cheep shot

I thought I was being clever. :P

-Moo

madmanmoo · August 2007

Cuckoo's Nest is awesome. I loved the book as well. I haven't seen "Reds" before. I'll check that out.

How about some spaghetti westerns. Hang 'em High rules!

-Moo

snakeweasel · August 2007

Reds (best thing Nicholson and Beatty ever did)

Saying something that Beatty did isn't saying much.

Gotta have a John Wayne movie in there.....

If you want Wayne what about
The man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Shootest
The Angel and the Badman
and the John ford Cavalry trilogy of :
Fort Apache
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Rio Grande

snakeweasel · August 2007

I guess it's a metaphor for his youth

It was a metaphor for the happiness of his youth that was torn away from him, a happiness that he searched for his entire life as shown in the movie.

However, my question to you is, is there no other movie now that is better?

Actually I think that Hollywood has lost the art of making good movies. Very few made today would make my keeper list.

snakeweasel · August 2007

If we are talking about westerns how about?

The Terror of Tiny Town

Ducking and running

fezo · August 2007

"The Terror of Tiny Town."

Ding! There must be some prize for someone bringing that up in a best movies ever topic!

John Wayne....that gets tough. Good calls on The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (not only a good movie but a great song which never appears anywhere at all in the movie but pretty well launched Gene Pitney's career) and the Shootist.

Quiet Man, too.

snakeweasel · August 2007

Ding! There must be some prize for someone bringing that up in a best movies ever topic!

Not sure what it would be but maybe accepting it isn't a good ideal.

okko1 · August 2007

just picked up the guiet man on dvd last week for 5 bucks best 5 i spent on movie in a long time.

bolivar · August 2007

Shawn of the Dead
-It was about my third time watching that I realized, after waking up after the big drunk, in ALL the outsides shots, there is a car/house alarm sounding.

Tremors
-Fred Ward, you gotta love him. "I've got a plan".

Fargo. Raising Arizona. Great.

okko1 · August 2007

havr you seen hot fuzz yet pretty good

fezo · August 2007

Good to see a post taken in the same spirit is was given.....

I'm with the Coen brothers nuts. I've loved anything of theirs I've seen.

graphicguy · August 2007

moo...as always Cuckoos Nest, the movie, diverged quite a bit from the book...where the Indian was the central character. Great book (I love Kesey's work). Great movie.

I love John Irvings books, too. They've tried to translate them to film, but somehow can't quite pull it off.

Reds is a somewhat non-fictional account of the thwarted socialist movement in this country early last century. Long movie. You, being a literary scholar, will appreciate it. I'm not a big Beatty fan either. He did a great job with this filmm though...writing, directing and starring in it.

madmanmoo · August 2007

Comparing the book and movie (Cuckoo's Nest), it was cool that both had such great parts to them. The book was different and really pulled out the evil in the Nurse and the whole system. The movie did a good job of that as well, but the characters in the asylum really came alive too with great performances. What an all star cast!! Danny DeVito's role cracked me up. Jack Nicholson was phenomenal.

Both had great things to offer. That's unusual when a film takes on a book. LOTR did a great job of translating the book, but there is no reason people shouldn't read those books as well. The depth that Tolkkien took those to was incredible.

-Moo

graphicguy · August 2007

moo...I agree. As grand and sweeping as the LOTR movies were, they didn't remotely touch the depth of the books. But, then again, what movie ever did that?

PF_Flyer · August 2007

My main problem with the LOTR movies, which I thought were great, is that they weren't long enough. :P

If they had included everything they would have needed to approach the expeience of the books, they would have been about 12 hours long!

I think one of my biggest disappointments is that they cut out Tom Bombadil

madmanmoo · August 2007

I thought the exact same thing when I saw the movie. Where the heck is Tom???

Those were the first books that I read that made a HUGE impression on me. I remember sitting in my dad's LaZBoy and getting freaked out reading about the Black Riders. Very immersive and very imaginative. I love those books. :P

-Moo

kyfdx · August 2007

Anyone remember the SNL skit about Citizen Kane? It was an early episode with Buck Henry..

If you remember the skit, do you remember what Rosebud turned out to be?

jimmy2x · August 2007

Oh My.............. Pardon me if I interlope, but am a bit of a movie nut. In no particular order............

The Great Escape
Das Boot (agree in German with subtitles)
Goodfellas
Godfather 1 and 2
Casablanca
The Caine Mutiny (great book also as were most of Herman Wouk's)
Young Frankenstein .... "What Knockers!!"
Lawrence of Arabia

Certainly NOT a great movie, but still like to catch "The World of Suzie Wong" once in awhile. A very young Nancy Kwan. "Be still my foolish heart."

snakeweasel · August 2007

One I keep meaning to mention

Deliverance

okko1 · August 2007

so what did you think of the breakfast club. a perfect picture of a generations journey into puberty. without the nudity and artistic license that generally screw up a good movie. just simple innocent social interaction. to be followed by very believable characters.

jipster · August 2007

1) Star Wars
2) E.T
3) Gone with the Wind
4) Total Recall
5) The Wizzard of Oz
6) Fritz the Cat

okko1 · August 2007

that porn little kitty

madmanmoo · August 2007

!!!!!

okko1 · August 2007

ALI G INDAHOUSE now thats a rea mans movie

Kirstie_H · August 2007

I love Da Ali G show and have 2 seasons on DVD, but the movie? Nah... it got old after the first 20 minutes.

toomanyfumes · August 2007

I've seen all of the Ali G shows, they're hilarious. I have yet to see the movie. Waiting for it to be on HBO.

michaellno · August 2007

Backdraft - my dad was a career firefighter; the Robert DeNiro character was what my dad did for the last 10+ years on the job. I don't care how many times I watch it; I will always cry during the funeral procession scene.

Ronin - what can you say? Awesome car chases. If you get it on DVD, watch it with the narrative from John Frankenheimer - you'll learn so much about why they did what they did in the movie.

PF_Flyer · August 2007

That brought up a thought...

How about movies or scenes in movies that make you cry or choke you up?

I know it's silly, but Spock's death scene in The Wrath of Kahn always gets me.

Give me a minute to compose myself and I'll have some more

kyfdx · August 2007

Cast Away.. the scene at Helen Hunt's house, in the rain..

Always gets me..

PF_Flyer · August 2007

The surprise farewell assembly scene and tribute to Mr. Holland works for me.

Mr_Shiftright · August 2007

I think Cast Away was a mighty fine movie that got passed over. It doesn't fall into that sentimental slop that dribbles out of so many Hollywood films, and it leaves you open to different conclusions. True it did seem at times an advert for Fedex but given the context that was okay. There's a lot of metaphor in the film. Only someone like Hanks could have pulled this off--in someone else's hand the script might have been deadly.

Karen_S · August 2007

When Sam risks drowning after Frodo insists he must not come with him to Mordor.

Everyone should have a friend like Sam.

kyfdx · August 2007

I can't read or hear the word, "Mordor", without humming Led Zeppelin...

Mr_Shiftright · August 2007

movies with hobbits and gnomes and dwarves and magic crystals and rings drive me NUTS!!!

Phew...thanks for letting me vent..I feel better now...

Karen_S · August 2007

Awww, you're no fun. :P

I find fantasy worlds quite enjoyable and entertaining. Yeah, I've been accused of looking like I live in one frequently.

Mr_Shiftright · August 2007

What do you expect from someone who's been tortured for two hours? :P

jipster · August 2007

Armageddon. When Liv Tyler's character was talking to her dad (Bruce Willis) via radio. He was on the giant meteor getting ready to push the button to nuke it, so the meteor wouldn't hit the earth and destroy all life. She was at mission control... they were saying goodbye. Then the flashback scene after detonation. I have to admit I got a bit misty eyed on that one.

stever · August 2007

movies with hobbits and gnomes and dwarves and magic crystals and rings drive me NUTS!!!

I cried watching LOTR - The Two Towers. Cried over three hours of my life wasted (only went to fulfill a family obligation). Bored me to tears.

I'm not much of a movie fan but I like going to movies in other countries, especially Mexico. If it's a Hollywood flick subtitled in Spanish, even better.

One of the best movies I've seen was the Sixth Sense with Bruce Willis. We went to a multiplex in Mazatlan to see it and didn't realize that it was being screened in two theatres. We forgot that long intermissions between reels are common down there and we wondered what happened to the opening credits as we sat down and the movie started.

After 2 minutes we figured out the film and within 20 minutes it was over and I could get back to the beach. That was one of my most enjoyable times in a theater ever. :shades:

Mr_Shiftright · August 2007

Movies are getting so bad that I've decided to come late to the film....maybe 15 minutes to 30 minutes...this way I get a bit of a challenge figuring out the plot----otherwise, it's about as obvious as an elephant with a bell around his neck within the first 1/2 hour. And of course all Hollywood films must have happy endings to sell.

Of course, if I know it's just stupid fluff going in, I can enjoy the film for that. You don't need to "figure out" comedies usually, even if you do see the jokes coming.

On the other extreme, I don't care for movies where the plot is so confused that audience is entirely baffled, even after they leave the theater...like "The Good German" with George Clooney.

I'd love to play Whack a Hobbit....I should invent that. There are people who kidnap Lawn Gnomes for ransom (Gnome Liberation Front) after all.

snakeweasel · August 2007

How about movies or scenes in movies that make you cry or choke you up?

When old Yeller gets shot.

snakeweasel · August 2007

And of course all Hollywood films must have happy endings to sell.

If you can find it read the book "The Battle for Brazil", it is all about the movie "Brazil" and the fight between Terry Gillian (sp?) and the movie studio that wanted to make many changes including changing the ending to a "happy ending".

okko1 · August 2007

try this movie if you like happy endings DRACULA DEAD and LOVING IT

Mr_Shiftright · August 2007

Well Dracula CAN'T die in the end, right?

pat · August 2007

When old Yeller gets shot.

That exact thing makes me be certain to never, ever see a movie that involves a dog unless some trusted person assures me that the dog does not die.

I've never seen Turner and Hooch and never will.

madmanmoo · August 2007

How about "Of Mice and Men".

-Moo

Mr_Shiftright · August 2007

yes but that was a novel first that even Hollywood wouldn't DARE change.....although...Disney did have the GALL to change the Hunchback of Notre Dame!

And Mice and Men really isn't a tearjerket. It's not sentimental. it is a genuine tragedy on a very large moral scale. It's not just one person's misfortune.

Sentimentality is to emotion is like inflation is to money....the more you pump it up, the less it is worth.

madmanmoo · August 2007

And Mice and Men really isn't a tearjerker.

Not overall, no. I think the tragedy part is what really hits me. It is ONE person's misfortune, but it is very applicable to the loss and hopelessness of anyone. I think that's the mark of a great story, anyhow.

There have only been a few stories that hit me with tears. And honestly, I can't remember many of them. I recently watched that movie and it was fresh in my mind.

-Moo

snakeweasel · August 2007

Disney did have the GALL to change the Hunchback of Notre Dame!

Its been a while since I saw a "Hunchback" movie but don't they always change the ending?

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