What are the greatest movies of all time?

Postby **PumpkinKoRn52** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 7:57 pm

Let me Know what ya'll think are the greatest movies of all time. Give reasons. Here's what I think.

Army of Darkness: This movie rocks! The Evil Dead movies which spawned this were originally meant to be scary, but then the creators realized it sucked and made it funny. That's awesome when you can roll with crap like that. The movie has the best one-liner of all time too.

Dawn of the Dead: Best Zombie Movie of all time! Period.

Metal Gear Solid I and II: :mutter:

Those were games. I almost forgot with all the cut scenes.

Full Metal Jacket: The greatest war movie of all time.

Saving Private Ryan: The second greatest war movie of all time.

Gimme yur opinions! Now!

Postby **Lynx** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 8:06 pm

a knight's tale: awesome movie! i loved how they put pop culture in the movie. i really liked the plot of the movie too!

lord of the rings: such an epic! it was BEAUTIFUL!!! everything about those movies are great.

pirates of the caribbean: johnny depp playing captain jack sparrow. enough said.

Postby **Tenshi no Ai** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 8:15 pm

Well, the only VERY good movie I can think of is Troy. Not only does it have bishies in it *cough* but it's an overall VERY good movie. It's probably the best battle movie I've seen, and unlike some, one of those movies that you would want to watch more than once! Yup, I'm so renting it when it comes out on DVD! Devastating ending though, with a bishie vs. bishie thing going on, but still great movie!

Postby **SManBeyond** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 8:19 pm

Casablanca has GOT to be on this list (considered perhaps the perfect film). So does It's a Wonderful Life (despite the fact that it's overplayed, it still tells an amazingly good story), Grave of the Fireflies (I watched the dubbed version and I STILL cried), and the greatest of the Alfred Hitchcock films (Strangers on a Train, Psycho, Rear Window, Vertigo, etc. He was an amazing director).

Also, film critic Roger Ebert (who I usually agree with) has a list of great movies at his website. He's still adding to them, but you can find them here. I'm sure he has the ones I listed...

Postby **Shinja** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 9:20 pm

the searchers is the best movie ever made

Postby **Ronin** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 9:59 pm

I would have to say O' Brother Where Art Thou and Black Hawk Down.

Postby **bigsleepj** » Sun Jul 04, 2004 10:58 pm

SManBeyond and I seem to have the same taste in movies. Here's mine.

• Vertigo
• High Noon
• Casablance
• Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• Rear Window
• The Searchers
• Fargo (the best movie the Coen brothers ever made)
• Apocalypse Now! (Short 2 1/2 hour version)
• Castle of Cagliostro (shouldn't be, but I like it)
• Ben Hur (one of the best movies ever made)
• Seven Samurai (by Akira Kurosawa)
• Throne of Blood (Kurosawa again)
• Dark City
• Star Wars (Original Trilogy)
• Goodfellas
• The Godfather
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1949 version)
• Fistful of Dollars
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Black Hawk Down
• The Princess Bride (Never get involved in a land war in ASIA!)
• Raising Arizona
• Bridge on the River Kwai

Yip, that's it for now.

Postby **Iona** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 6:16 am

The best movies of all time? Well, I suppose that depends on your taste...
My favs for best movies:

The Princess Bride- ok, it is a chic flick, but it's so unpredictable and hilarious
LOTR trilogy- it's definitely the best story of our time
Without A Clue- ever wonder what would happen if Sherlock Holmes and Watson were switched? Hilarious antics all leading up to the major climax with Moriarty, that's what!
A Walk to Remember- another chic flick but so sweet it made my younger brother cry
My Big Fat Greek Wedding- I had never seen this formula for a movie succeed before and in this one it did.
Chariots of Fire-classic, beautiful, and a movie you have to think through after seeing

Postby **PumpkinKoRn52** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 7:25 am

"I would have to say O' Brother Where Art Thou and Black Hawk Down." BigSleepJ.

"Well, the only VERY good movie I can think of is Troy. Not only does it have bishies in it *cough* but it's an overall VERY good movie. It's probably the best battle movie I've seen, and unlike some, one of those movies that you would want to watch more than once! Yup, I'm so renting it when it comes out on DVD! Devastating ending though, with a bishie vs. bishie thing going on, but still great movie!" Tenshi No Ai.

I agree with most of you. Black Hawk Down was awesome and O brother where art thou? was real good too. I forgot LOTR. And the Death Wish movies. They were awesome. But how could anyone think Troy was good? Troy was one of the worst movies of all time! It was all about Brad Pitt so that says enough. The Battle Sequences sucked and the plot did too. Not to mention historical inacuracies.

Postby **Iona** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 8:24 am

It depends on what you saw it for. If you wanted a historical film, then it was definitely not a choice at all. If you just wanted a couple action scenes and some romance, you probably were happy with what they delivered. I didn't go see it because of its historical deviations and the implied sex scenes were not tasteful to me. However, I did read up on it and had some of my friends tell me what they thought of it.

Postby **Tenshi no Ai** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 9:23 am

Iona wrote:It depends on what you saw it for. If you wanted a historical film, then it was definitely not a choice at all. If you just wanted a couple action scenes and some romance, you probably were happy with what they delivered. I didn't go see it because of its historical deviations and the implied sex scenes were not tasteful to me. However, I did read up on it and had some of my friends tell me what they thought of it.

For me, it kept me entertained to the end. A lot of other battle movies have so much dialogue and so little action that I'd might as well fall asleep. Even with a series like LotR, it goes slow and I get lost fast. I still haven't seen and fully paid attention to FotR.

Alright, here's another VERY good movie that I didn't add and I'm sure people will back me up on this: Forrest Gump! Somethign about it is just... really good. Going through history in a different sort of way. Everyone I know who's seen it, liked it. For me, it's another one of those long movies that I can watch over quite a bit.

Postby **Fsiphskilm** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 11:57 am

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Postby **Htom Sirveaux** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 4:40 pm

The French Connection
Night of the Living Dead
Freaks (an overlooked classic)
Jaws
The Italian Job (original UK film)
The Silence Of The Lambs
Jacob's Ladder
Pulp Fiction

Postby **AngelSakura** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 5:18 pm

Pirates of the Carribean, definately. But it got my brother Tidus20 on some kind of odd Johnny Depp kick.

Postby **Angel37** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 5:19 pm

The Passion of Jesus Christ
Spiderman
Pokemon the First Movie (hey, leave me alone...)
Lord of the Rings 1,2,3
Pirates of the Carribean
The Matrix
Shrek

Postby **bigsleepj** » Mon Jul 05, 2004 10:18 pm

I almost typed "The Passion of the Christ" but I decided to see how it stays on repeat-viewings.

I'll add Forrest Gump and Silence of the Lambs to that list.

Postby **Iona** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 6:21 am

I liked Pokemon the First Movie too. *glares at resident pokemon haters*
But I dunno if I'd go as far to put it on the greatest movies of all time...
What is Silence of the Lambs, I've heard the title so many times, but I've never heard the basic idea of it.

Postby **Tenshi no Ai** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 10:57 am

Iona wrote:I liked Pokemon the First Movie too. *glares at resident pokemon haters*
But I dunno if I'd go as far to put it on the greatest movies of all time...
What is Silence of the Lambs, I've heard the title so many times, but I've never heard the basic idea of it.

Silence of the Lambs is the second (but made first), in the series of Hannibal Lecter movies. Pretty much, they're all about a cannibal that's locked up and helps people out in crime investigations because of his creepy intellegence.

Postby **wilson1112000** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 11:15 am

Well, Here are my favorite movies

1. The Passion of the Christ
2. Star Wars 4(the very first one.)
3. Godzilla
4. The Robe
5. The Longest Day.
6. Raiders of the lost Ark

& last, but not least.....

7. Night in Cassablanca (Marx Bros., not Humphry Bogart!)

Oh, yes, and in the words of Jeff Foxworthy

"You might be a redneck if you think "The Silece of the lambs" is whenever Larry the cable guy gose out to the barn"

Sorry, could not help myself.

Postby **SManBeyond** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 1:36 pm

Iona wrote:I liked Pokemon the First Movie too. *glares at resident pokemon haters*

I liked it too, although now that I look back on it, it wasn't as great as I thought. I will say this: If you weren't into Pokemon, you wouldn't like it. I still disagree with some of the dubbing / editing on it...

But I dunno if I'd go as far to put it on the greatest movies of all time...What is Silence of the Lambs, I've heard the title so many times, but I've never heard the basic idea of it.

I see you've already been told the basic idea. There were three movies made with Lecter in them: Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal and Red Dragon (listed in order of production). I believe the actual "chronological" order was be Dragon, Lambs, Hannibal. I've never seen any of them except the last scene of Hannibal one day while flipping across TV.

Ebert has Silence of the Lambs listed as a great movie on his website, so if you want you can go there, read the review and learn more about it. I heard that Red Dragon was good, while Hannibal was awful and more like a gorefest...

Postby **Htom Sirveaux** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 4:07 pm

Technically the films were released in the right order; the first of Thomas Harris' Hannibal Lecter books to be made into a movie was Red Dragon. It was released on film as Manhunter sometime in the '80s. Not as good as the Red Dragon film, though. Lecter was played by a different guy and really wasn't in it much at all. But other than that, the two movies are very much alike.

Postby **Kite** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 8:59 pm

The Lord of The Rings Trilogy.

Braveheart.

Sprited Away.

Star Wars IV-VI.

Xenosaga.( It counts!)

Postby **PumpkinKoRn52** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 9:32 pm

I forgot about silence of the lambs. And the original Star Wars. Not those piece of crap things know as episode I and II. I might do a thread of the worst movies of all time but it'll probably be too long.

Postby **thalia** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 3:46 pm

Hmm...best movies ever...

The Lord of the Rings
the original Star Wars trilogy
the Indiana Jones trilogy (mainly Raiders and The Last Crusade)
A Knight's Tale
Pirates of the Carribean
The Matrix
Moulin Rouge
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Princess Mononoke

Postby **Yojimbo** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 7:37 pm

If we're talking of all time here then...

Citizen Kane
North by Northwest
Casablanca
Seven Samurai
Hamlet
Bonnie and Clyde
Psycho
DAnces with Wolves
The Sound of Music
The Wizard of Oz
On the Waterfront
Lawrence of Arabia
2001: A Space Odyssey
Godfather Trilogy
Star Wars Trilogy
Apocalypse Now
Singin' in the Rain
The Graduate
E.T.
Blade Runner
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Pulp Fiction
Jaws
Fargo
Schindler's List
Ben-Hur
Spartacus
Patton
Alien

*phew* :sweat:

That's all I can think of

My livejournal · Postby **Zedian** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 8:45 pm

Maybe this is based more on opinion then fact because everyone's choices are bound to differ. My list is as follows:

Donnie Darko
Clockwork Orange
Resovoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Braveheart
LOTR Triology
Star Wars Triology (Older movies of course)
Full Metal Jacket
City of God
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
High Fidelity
The Violin
The Exorcist
Godfather Triology
Scarface
Ben-Hur
Alien
Snatch
Blade Runner
E.T.

Postby **randomclassic** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 9:58 pm

I cannot stress this enough...

The Sandlot
Spiderman 2
The Sandlot
The Sandlot
The Sandlot
The Goonies
Star Wars Episode 2 (I know I am so bad... I love the pre-equals)
Pirates of the Carribian
Shrek
Moulin Rouge
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Pippy Longstalking
Holes
Finding Nemo
Toy Story/2
The Lion King
Lilo and Stich
The Santa Clause
The Muppets Christmas Carol
The Princess Bride
It's a Wonderful Life

and my list will go on and on if I don't stop now, and that list is in no particular order. LOL. Well two more that are worthy of being the best movies of all time, but I didn't know about putting them in my list: Schindlers List, and The Passion of the Christ.

Postby **Yojimbo** » Sat Jul 10, 2004 11:08 pm

What's wrong with putting those in your list?

Postby **randomclassic** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 1:18 pm

Yojimbo wrote:What's wrong with putting those in your list?

Well to me it would seem kind of disrespectful to them. I don't know, it's some weird thing I have. They are both very serious and very important movies, and it would seem weird to put them on the list.

I don't know... I'm weird when it comes to things like that.

Postby **noeleon** » Mon Jul 19, 2004 6:50 am

sing in the rain.it has dancing.
lord of the rings triligoy.based on a book
holes.was just like the book
king aruther.it was ok
spider man 1and2.

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