Best Movie Ever Made.

[Poetic Chaos]

It's one long story without any clear division between the parts, which is what leads people to say that it's like one long movie. Plus spending a day watching the extended editions back to back to back is just about the geekiest way to waste a day (though I took it a step further and planned a Dungeons and Dragons campaign while I watched).

I'd probably divide them at their ending credits.

 

[SuperFerret]

And that's fine that you don't like the character. But it's one thing to say you don't like a film then to flat out strip it of it's merit and deny that it was a critical success all across the board. Go read 10 reviews of the film and tell me how many negative ones you find.
The point I am trying to make, is this: I hated Titanic, it just wasn't for me. But I will never call it a bad film because I can identify it's many strong points and I can respect it's 11 Academy Awards and unanimous critical acclaim, so there is that.

Again, I am not questioning your reasoning for not liking the film, I was just wondering how you could justify calling it a bad movie.

Movies I like are good movies. Movies I don't like are bad movies. Good and bad are relative, subjective terms. Batman Begins was a well-made movie, I'll admit that, but in my opinion (which is a saying that should go without saying) it's not a good one.

 

[BloodyWolverine]

My felling is Lord Of The Rings is in fact 1 Book its just some publisher broke it up too 3 parts too make more money. Tolkien i believe wrote it as one book. I mean look at the Harry Potter last 4 novels it can be done large books.

Someone said do the same with Star Wars. No matter what Lucas says Episode 4 was not an episode it was a dream try at the time. I have empire of dreams the dvd and its a fib for Lucas only planned too make A New Hope as a film for nothing else came close then. He may have had them written down but at time one movie was planned. So Empire is a sequel. Rings was filmed all at once so it was designed as one film but like the books movie producers broke it into 3 sections.

 

[SuperFerret]

That's not exactly true for Star Wars, but the Star Wars films are seperate because (in the story) each part has a definitive ending. The only endings in the LotR trilogy (STORY, not the credits ) come at the end of Return of the King.

 

[BloodyWolverine]

Kinda too bad Indiana Jones weren't set up to have something in common with the other. Except just 1 and 4. Lucas should have done it like Star Wars so 4th would make better since. I mean Indy 3 had something in common but only the dad thing. The Temple of Doom made no since at all as a middle trilogy movie. Even as good as it was.

 

[SuperFerret]

The Indy movies were meant to be episodic, like the stories of the old pulp heroes the character was based on. There was no central storyline to the series.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

The Good The Bad and The Ugly gets my vote, obviously.

 

[LegendaryCaleb]

Watchmen DC for me

 

[Mister H.]

I know this is just for fun, but its just impossible to name the best movie, or even movies. I could go one of two ways. I could try to name the most influential and important movies, or I could name what I personally think are the best movies based on what I look for in a movie. I'll do that.

1. Unforgiven
2. Platoon
3. Vertigo
4. Apocalypse Now
5. Kill Bill, Vol.2

I'm sure the Kill Bill, Vol. 2 pick got some WTF?'s, but I can't help it. It just speaks to me. It hits all the right notes for me visually, from composition to lighting to color palette, landscapes, and interiors. Its just in my wheelhouse. And it draws a lot of emotion out of me, for reasons I can't explain, and I think its one of the finest films ever made, regardless of popular opinion.

 

[Hound55]

Good to see Vertigo there... When I saw Psycho and North By Northwest listed I thought "But Vertigo's the best film Hitchcock made... Where is it?"

 

[Evil Twin]

For some contrast, I'll pull out some of the significant polls. Which, if nothing else, may give people curious some rental ideas.

Sight and Sound 2002 Critics Poll
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/critics-long.html

Title Votes Rank
Citizen Kane (Welles) 46 1
Vertigo (Hitchcock) 41 2
La Régle du jeu (Renoir) 30 3
The Godfather and The Godfather Part II (Coppola) 23 4
Tokyo Story (Ozu) 22 5
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) 21 6
Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) 19 7
Sunrise (Murnau) 19 7
8 1/2 (Fellini) 18 9
Singin' in the Rain (Kelly, Donen) 17 10
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) 15 11
The Searchers (Ford) 15 11
Rashomon (Kurosawa) 14 13
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) 12 14
A bout de souffle (Godard) 11 15
L'Atalante (Vigo) 11 15
The General (Keaton) 11 15
Touch of Evil (Welles) 11 15
Au hasard Balthazar (Bresson) 10 19
Jules et Jim (Truffaut) 10 19
L'avventura (Antonioni) 10 19
Le Mépris (Godard) 9 22
Pather Panchali (Ray) 9 22
La dolce vita (Fellini) 8 24
M (Lang) 8 24
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi) 8 24
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick) 7 27
Les Enfants du paradis (Carné) 7 27
Ivan the Terrible (Eisenstein) 7 27
Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov) 7 27
Metropolis (Lang) 7 27
Some Like It Hot (Wilder) 7 27
Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi) 7 27
Wild Strawberries (Bergman) 7 27
Andrei Roublev (Tarkovsky) 6 35
The 400 Blows (Truffaut) 6 35
Fanny and Alexander (Bergman) 6 35
La Grande Illusion (Renoir) 6 35
The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles) 6 35
Modern Times (Chaplin) 6 35
Psycho (Hitchcock) 6 35
The Seventh Seal (Bergman) 6 35
Taxi Driver (Scorsese) 6 35
The Third Man (Reed) 6 35
Bicycle Thieves (De Sica) 5 45
Blade Runner (Scott) 5 45
City Lights (Chaplin) 5 45
Greed (von Stroheim) 5 45
Intolerance (Griffith) 5 45
Lawrence of Arabia (Lean) 5 45
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls) 5 45
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford) 5 45
Mirror (Tarkovsky) 5 45
Ordet (Dreyer) 5 45
Pierrot le fou (Godard) 5 45
Rio Bravo (Hawks) 5 45
Sansho Dayu (Mizoguchi) 5 45
Shoah (Lanzmann) 5 45
The Travelling Players (Angelopoulos) 5 45
Two or Three Things I Know about Her (Godard) 5 45

 

[Evil Twin]

Sight and Sound's 2002 Poll of Directors
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/poll/directors-long.html

Film Votes Rank
Citizen Kane (Welles) 42 1
The Godfather and The Godfather Part II (Coppola) 28 2
8 1/2 (Fellini) 19 3
Lawrence of Arabia (Lean) 16 4
Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick) 14 5
Bicycle Thieves (De Sica) 13 6
Raging Bull (Scorsese) 13 6
Vertigo (Hitchcock) 13 6
La Régle du jeu (Renoir) 12 9
Rashomon (Kurosawa) 12 9
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) 12 9
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) 11 12
Sunset Blvd. (Wilder) 11 12
The Apartment (Wilder) 10 14
La dolce vita (Fellini) 10 14
Mirror (Tarkovsky) 9 16
Psycho (Hitchcock) 9 16
Tokyo Story (Ozu) 9 16
Apocalypse Now (Coppola) 8 19
Casablanca (Curtiz) 8 19
City Lights (Chaplin) 8 19
Fanny and Alexander (Bergman) 8 19
Singin' in the Rain (Kelly, Donen) 8 19
Andrei Roublev (Tarkovsky) 7 24
L'avventura (Antonioni) 7 24
Chinatown (Polanski) 7 24
La Grande Illusion (Renoir) 7 24
Some Like It Hot (Wilder) 7 24
La strada (Fellini) 7 24
The Searchers (Ford) 7 24
Amarcord (Fellini) 6 31
Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) 6 31
A bout de souffle (Godard) 6 31
Jules et Jim (Truffaut) 6 31
Les Enfants du paradis (Carné) 6 31
On the Waterfront (Kazan) 6 31
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) 6 31
The Seventh Seal (Bergman) 6 31
Taxi Driver (Scorsese) 6 31
Touch of Evil (Welles) 6 31
The Conformist (Bertolucci) 5 41
Once upon a Time in the West (Leone) 5 41
Persona (Bergman) 5 41
Pickpocket (Bresson) 5 41
Ran (Kurosawa) 5 41
Sunrise (Murnau) 5 41
Sweet Smell of Success (Mackendrick) 5 41
The Third Man (Reed) 5 41
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston) 5 41
The Wizard of Oz (Fleming)5 41

 

[Evil Twin]

The Spectator list that Roger Ebert discussed at http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/07/the_greatest_movies_ever_made.html

1. The Night of the Hunter, Laughton
2. Apocalypse Now, Coppola
3. Sunrise, Murnau
4. Black Narcissus, Powell & Pressburger
5. L'avventura, Antonioni
6. The Searchers, Ford
7. The Magnificent Ambersons, Welles
8. The Seventh Seal , Bergman
9. L'atalante, Vigo
10. Rio Bravo, Hawks
11. The Godfather: Part I and Part II, Coppola
12. The Passion of Joan of Arc, Dreyer
13. La Grande Illusion, Renoir
14. Citizen Kane, Welles
15. The Scarlett Empress, von Sternberg
16. Tokyo Story, Ozu
17. Blade Runner, Ridley Scott
18. Rear Window, Hitchcock
19. Point Blank, Boorman
20. The Red Shoes, Powell & Pressburger
21. The Earrings of Madame de..., Ophuls
22. Shadows, Cassavetes
23. Pickpocket, Bresson
24. Viridiana, Bunuel
25. Barry Lyndon, Kubrick
26. City Lights, Chaplin
27. Pierrot le Fou, Godard
28. Sunset Boulevard, Wilder
29. Notorious, Hitchcock
30. M, Lang
31. The Roaring Twenties, Walsh
32. Singin' in the Rain, Donen and Kelly
33. The Long Day Closes, Davies
34. Killer of Sheep, Burnett
35. Gun Crazy, Lewis
36. Andrei Rublev, Tarkovsky
37. Taxi Driver, Scorsese
38. The 400 Blows, Truffaut
39. Pulp Fiction, Tarantino
40. Kind Hearts and Coronets, Hamer
41. In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-Wei
42. Sullivan's Travels, Sturges
43. 8 1/2, Fellini
44. Pinocchio, Disney
45. Great Expectations, Lean
46. Rome, Open City, Rossellini
47. Duck Soup, McCarey
48. Jaws, Spielberg
49. Manhattan, Allen
50. Out of the Past, Tourneur

 

[Laderlappen]

I know this is just for fun, but its just impossible to name the best movie, or even movies. I could go one of two ways. I could try to name the most influential and important movies, or I could name what I personally think are the best movies based on what I look for in a movie. I'll do that.

1. Unforgiven
2. Platoon
3. Vertigo
4. Apocalypse Now
5. Kill Bill, Vol.2

I'm sure the Kill Bill, Vol. 2 pick got some WTF?'s, but I can't help it. It just speaks to me. It hits all the right notes for me visually, from composition to lighting to color palette, landscapes, and interiors. Its just in my wheelhouse. And it draws a lot of emotion out of me, for reasons I can't explain, and I think its one of the finest films ever made, regardless of popular opinion.

Influence and things like that shouldnt be a factor of your opinion on the movie.

 

[Angeloz]

My felling is Lord Of The Rings is in fact 1 Book its just some publisher broke it up too 3 parts too make more money. Tolkien i believe wrote it as one book. I mean look at the Harry Potter last 4 novels it can be done large books.

Someone said do the same with Star Wars. No matter what Lucas says Episode 4 was not an episode it was a dream try at the time. I have empire of dreams the dvd and its a fib for Lucas only planned too make A New Hope as a film for nothing else came close then. He may have had them written down but at time one movie was planned. So Empire is a sequel. Rings was filmed all at once so it was designed as one film but like the books movie producers broke it into 3 sections.

If you get the films on DVD (LotR) they explain when they published the books in the fifties Britain had paper rationing still from WWII. So they had to split it up due to this. By the way you can now get them all together as I did so about ten years ago years before any film and before I'd heard about them (i.e. the films).

Angeloz

 

[Warhammer]

edit...

 

[Warhammer]

The Spectator list that Roger Ebert discussed at http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/07/the_greatest_movies_ever_made.html

1. The Night of the Hunter, Laughton
2. Apocalypse Now, Coppola
3. Sunrise, Murnau
4. Black Narcissus, Powell & Pressburger
5. L'avventura, Antonioni
6. The Searchers, Ford
7. The Magnificent Ambersons, Welles
8. The Seventh Seal , Bergman
9. L'atalante, Vigo
10. Rio Bravo, Hawks
11. The Godfather: Part I and Part II, Coppola
12. The Passion of Joan of Arc, Dreyer
13. La Grande Illusion, Renoir
14. Citizen Kane, Welles
15. The Scarlett Empress, von Sternberg
16. Tokyo Story, Ozu
17. Blade Runner, Ridley Scott
18. Rear Window, Hitchcock
19. Point Blank, Boorman
20. The Red Shoes, Powell & Pressburger
21. The Earrings of Madame de..., Ophuls
22. Shadows, Cassavetes
23. Pickpocket, Bresson
24. Viridiana, Bunuel
25. Barry Lyndon, Kubrick
26. City Lights, Chaplin
27. Pierrot le Fou, Godard
28. Sunset Boulevard, Wilder
29. Notorious, Hitchcock
30. M, Lang
31. The Roaring Twenties, Walsh
32. Singin' in the Rain, Donen and Kelly
33. The Long Day Closes, Davies
34. Killer of Sheep, Burnett
35. Gun Crazy, Lewis
36. Andrei Rublev, Tarkovsky
37. Taxi Driver, Scorsese
38. The 400 Blows, Truffaut
39. Pulp Fiction, Tarantino
40. Kind Hearts and Coronets, Hamer
41. In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-Wei
42. Sullivan's Travels, Sturges
43. 8 1/2, Fellini
44. Pinocchio, Disney
45. Great Expectations, Lean
46. Rome, Open City, Rossellini
47. Duck Soup, McCarey
48. Jaws, Spielberg
49. Manhattan, Allen
50. Out of the Past, Tourneur

I never knew he liked Blade Runner that much, let alone put it so high on his list. Pinocchio also surprised me.

 

[Evil Twin]

I never knew he liked Blade Runner that much, let alone put it so high on his list. Pinocchio also surprised me.

That's not Ebert's list. That's a list put together by Spectator magazine that Ebert is commenting on.

 

[french joker]

White Heat, the night of the hunter, Barry Lyndon or Grand Illusion, I'm not sure.
As for best comic book movie ever made that would be The Dark Knight.

Batman Returns laughs at TDK

 

[CBGB]

Influence and things like that shouldnt be a factor of your opinion on the movie.

Why not? The original King Kong inspired me to make movies, that's why it's my favorite film.

 

[Max J Power]

I voted for The Godfather.

 

[Mister H.]

The Dark Knight, as of me typing this, has twice as many votes as The Godfather. Wow. As cool a movie as it is, it may be the most overrated film in recent memory.

Its interesting to see Blade Runner in such high esteem. Its a film that is appreciated more and more all the time.

Thank you for posting those lists EvilTwin, especially the director's poll. Nobody's opinions on film matter more to me than the directors.

 

[bubbadoom]

for me, hands down, the original KING KONG!

 

[gwynplaine]

Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus.

 

[CBGB]

for me, hands down, the original KING KONG!

Amen!