Like my favorite movie ...ever discussion only that you may not see it much but you though it was so great, you'd post it here. Post what you think is the greatest movie...EVER!

There is an old thread like this one but on the second page of this section of thye water cooler. There is no need to ceatre a second one.

But who cares, my greates movies are: The Bourne Ultimatum, The Invasion, The Mist, Fracture and other couple of movies like classics those are great also.

I am shocked!, shocked I tell you! that Casablanca is not on everyone's list!

The last Hannibal lector movie.

Napoleon Dynamite

Huh, this looks familiar. Although I've already answered this along the road, there is this one classic movie that deserves to be posted twice.

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

I like the original Alanna. Yojimbo. The third attemmpt Last Maan Standing was the worst.

There is another Akira Kurosawa/ Toshiro Mifune film that was redone in the U.S, and that is The Seven Samurai which was remade as The Magnificent Seven.

I am way too tired, I am sorry it was the first man without a name movie that was a remake of Yojimbo, and that was A Fistful of Dollars. The Good the Bad and the Ugly was an orignal idea. Sergio Leone was the director. What ridiculous name was listed as the director when originally released in the U.S.?

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What ridiculous name was listed as the director when originally released in the U.S.?

I'm not sure if Sergio Leone used another name, I can't seem to find it.

"A Fistful of Dollars" and "For a Few Dollars More" didn't even compare to "The Good the Bad and the Ugly".

A Fistful of Dolllars was pretty good, but again it was a remake of Yojimbo. The first time I saw Yojimbo I was going a little nuts because I knew I had seen the movie before, but I also knew that was impossible. I have all three of the man without a name series on DVD and on one of them in the original trailer area they credit the movie to "Bob Robertson" for director. As this was very early in the era of the spaghetti western, in fact this genre was created by old "Bob" himnself, they did not want to alienate The U.S. audience thus the name change. If you have two or more dvd players and can get all three movies it is interesting to watch one scene of Yojimbo then switch to A fistful of Dollars and even then switch to Last Man Standing, you do not have to watch all three films in their entirety to follow the plot. Both remakes follow the original very closely.

I don't think it is fair or even reasonable to try to determine the "best movie ever", because the field is far too large...and diverse. Perhaps if you divided it into about a dozen categories you could come up with a "best in category", such as Classical Drama, Modern Drama, Comedy, Western, Science Fiction, Horror and Suspense, Fight Movies (Kung Fu and etc.), Documentary, etc.

I have a couple suggestions:

Classical Drama - The Godfather
Comedy - Animal House
Horror and Suspense - Silence of the Lambs
Western - The Cowboys

And I would gladly defend any of these choices. What would you choose - by category?

just-the-facts...

I agree with you on the first three - Western movies where never my genre.

MythMod

Thanks, MM!

And, it may be difficult to find, but I would HIGHLY recommend "The Cowboys" to you and everyone else. It's a story of boys coming of age, their adventures, how they face racism, how they handle the death of one of their own - and of their boss (John Wayne), revenge, honor, honesty, and so much more. It's worth watching twice - or even three times.

Oh yeah, "Blazing Saddles' ought to be up there among best comedies, too.

I really liked "Tombstone"

Val Kilmer OWNS Doc Holiday.

MythMod

Define "Greatest"....there are many definitions....

Greatest in terms of Budget...probably TITANIC...youll never see another movie like it for attention to detail on the set. Pity they had to "hollywoodize" the story....the original tales from the night of April 1912 are amazing enough of themselves without throwing "love interest" into the mix....

War Pictures....You would have to nominate filmes like "Private Ryan" for sheer realism...Sam Peckinpah's CROSS OF IRON was also as realistic as it's budget allowed....For storyline in a violent film you really can't go past GLADIATOR....even though it was watered down. The Roman arena was a far more depraved and cruel place than shown (there are limits for an M rating), and professional Gladiators did not die in quite the numbers shown. They were far too expensive to replace, but considering the limits of modern audiences, it's about as close as we will get for now.

For drama from a cast of unknowns I would have to select Mel Gibson's APOCALYPTO, with believable performances alround and costuming that was VERY evocative of the period represented. Mel Gibson's love of facial close-ups shone through, as the story-line led you from one draw-dropping moment to the next...

For cheekiness in combination with a great sountrack, George Cloony did a masterful job in BROTHER WHERE ART THOU? Charles Durning deserved far more credit than what he recieved as the Mississippi politician Pappy O'Daniel
"...shake a leg junior...thank God ya mammy died givin' birth...if she'd a' seen ya, she'd have died of shame!").....

This is a really subjective thing to comment on. One' man's wine is another's poison and all that!

Le Ballon Rouge (1956)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048980/

The Red Balloon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Balloon

Rotten Tomatoes - 100%
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/red_balloon/

YouTube :44 - La Ballon Rouge (The Red Balloon)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic8XzBJzsEE

1956

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"Cross Of Iron" as mentioned.It started the real blood-and-gore trend
"Private Ryan"..
"Fantasia"
"High Noon"
"Master & Commander"
"Around the World in 80 Days" (the original)
"Mad, Mad World".
'The 7 Samurai"
"Friendly Persuasion"
"Road Warrior"
"Gigi"
Too many, too far in the past.
Almost all today's movies aren't worth the trouble.

I agree completely about "Private Ryan", although the series "Band of Brothers" was very good, considering its budget.

Another low low budget movie that was pretty good was "The Gods Must be Crazy"

Oh, and for tongue-in-cheek comedy, let's not forget "Johnny Dangerously"! Joe Piscopo with his '88 magnum' was hilarious! "It shoots through schools, ...."

http://members.tripod.com/~JB5252/johnnydangerously/johnnydangerously.html

Just to remind you!