What do you think is the best movie of all time?

Are you being ironic?
I like El Topo a lot but I don’t think there’s a ‘best.’

Hey a tough guy can cry too :(....anyway do you have any thoughts on the topic or not?

it’s your opinion.

I’m guessing you’ll dislike my response as much as I dislike yours…I thought Titanic was the most overrated piece of drivel ever put to celuloid. It did so well because it was a mindless action movie (which gets 90% of the guys into the theater) combined with a chick flick (which gets 90% of the women into the theater). But you’re right, that’s my opinion.

My favorite was Magnolia. Honestly, I can’t picture living in a world where anyone loves both those films, so I won’t be surprised if you squirt milk out your nose when you read that. But it was the most dense, deeply symbolic work of art I’ve ever seen. It was sprawling and ambitious and left me with more questions than answers. I couldn’t get it out of my mind for 2 months. I was moved beyond words.

“The Gospel Of John”.

it’s okay your opinion, but then again Titanic was real and was the most real tragic event of its time. think of it like this. It’s like a Romeo and Juliet version at sea.

I can buy the R&J at sea, unfortunately James Cameron is no Shakespeare. If they had made a great movie about the disaster, that would have been better than setting it against the backdrop of a romance. The effects were fantastic, don’t get me wrong…the story was just lacking in anything that wasn’t been there/done that for me. Some scenese seemed lifted directly from other far superior movies in my book. I just thought for all the hype it didn’t even come close to living up to what it promised.

true, but the final scene was touching and you remember nothing beats fantasy then truth, not saying everything in the movie was true but you get the point.

Dogma

Okaay

It’s an awesome movie…have you seen it?

Are we actually supposed to answer the question?

The Godfather II.

good good, just remember respect, don’t go against the family;)

Yes i saw dogma i loved it.

Carlito’s Way, too.

What’s Carlito’s way?

A great Al Pacino movie

okay then he put heart in his role my respects to him.

The Matrix.

I just watched it again recently, and was blown away by the special effects. Remember, it came out in 1999.

And the story… top-notch, all the way around. Maybe not the best ever, but it’s my favorite.

My top three are (in no particular order): Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, and Crash. All had a little violence, humor, great dialouge, but most importantly a meaningful central theme. I like movies that contain value and not just airy or weak scripts that are meant to just get people into theatres. It hard to find movies with purpose and heart due to the number of “blockbuster” films that are made for profit and not art.

Loved Crash!

it’s hard to choose just one, but I think Adaptation and Magnolia are both incredible films.

For me personally, I like movies that are great stories, but I love movies that are great stories that can only be told through the medium of film by sitting and watching in a theater.

In order for it to be great (to me) no other form of communication or media would work as well to tell the story.

@Augustlan: What did you love about it? I personally fell in love with its exellent plot and interconnectedness (I just made that up). It also revealed the strong prejugdices still existing to this day, which most people naively deny.

Blazing Saddles

@Indy: Exactly as you said. It really made me think, and was the cause of much discussion after viewing.

@augustlan, the first time I watched it was in my Human Nature class and it was love at first sight. I watched it few more times at various locations but it has never diluted the way it moves you and questions the very fabric of American society (the belief in equal oppritunity for all without any prediposed hatred to your fellow citizens).

Harvey

I loved gladiator and black hawk down good action and plot.

@wrestlemaniac, combine those two brillant movies and what do you get?—300, which did not disappoint me either.

It’s a Wonderful Life
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Quiet Man
12 Angry Men (original)

Ah-oo!! Ah-oo!! Ah-oo!! “Spartans, tonight we dine in HELL” (big fan of the movie)

I loved Gone with the Wind it was passionate, inspiring and sad with a touch of romance.

it was a bit to long. ZZZZZZ

@ Dalepetrie-loved it till the end. Did not get the end. INCREDIBLE sound track. amazing.

only one movie has to be It’s a wonderful life. I think you can find about everything in there.

Bri L…I’m guessing you’re saying you didn’t quite understand the raining frogs?

Yeah, I am sure there is a reason behind it but the rest of the movie was going along so powerfully at a certain level of reference that when that happened, having to guess and be uncertain about it was like hitting a brick wall.

I’m not sure if you noticed the number 82, it was key. In the opening sequence the apartment # where the kid got shot was 82, the blackjack player asked for a 2 and got an 8, the coil of rope on the roof was shaped like the # 82, all the weather updates were 82 degrees and…., all the phone numbers contained the # 82, and in the audience of the quiz kids program, someone was holding up an Exodus 8:2 sign. I’m not a religious guy, but I looked it up and Exodus 8:2 says, ‘and if you don’t give up I shall smite your borders with frogs.’ 82 was used as a literal foreshadowing of this event.

But PT Anderson, the Writer/Director didn’t put that in because of the religious significance, he wants people to draw their own conclusions, and this is what I drew. First off, the whole movie was based on the premise set up in the beginning…all these things that happened by chance that were unlikely, yet they happened. Prior to the frogs scene, we see a picture in the library which says ”....but it did happen.” In that way the frogs were something meant to be accepted and not question it. But why was it there?

Essentially, the real clue comes in the verbiage of Exodus 8:2 “if you don’t give up’, and the previous scene where the movie became a musical, and all the characters were singing the Aimee Mann song, “Wise Up”. The point of the movie was driven home by this critical scene…each of these characters was trapped in a hell mostly of his or her own design, and “it’s not going to stop…until you wise up.” This frogs faling was essentially the turning point, the wake up call…it was the time for them to make changes. It was something that just happened…..it was unlikely that they could escape from their self imposed prisons, but in some cases, it did happen, for the most mundane of reasons. The frogs were a device, symbolic of the mental leap they had to make to move on.

Like I said, it was deep.

It was deep, and I can’t believe I missed the 82 references. I was not that great a movie goer at the time. BUT, I followed exactly what you said and did so because I followed it in the movie. Now, with the the help you gave me, I can’t wait to see it again. I just kept feeling like I was missing something. I am very charged about this. Maybe it was that symbolic device being at the end of the movie that through me to. Not a typical hollywood ending. I have learned not to need those.

Thanks dalepetrie!

I really hope you enjoy it on your rewatching. I’ve met maybe 3 or 4 people who really appreciated that movie, the rest just complained that it was too long and that it got “stupid”. I’ve rewatched the whole 3:15 epic about 5 or 6 times, and every time I find something new.

that is my favorite kind of movie then!

I too am no fan of the hollywood ending. That’s what turned me off about Titanic.

well everyone has their own opinion.

wrestlemaniac – I totally agree. Personally anything I see as unoriginal doesn’t do it for me. But because I don’t see something new and exciting about it doesn’t mean no one does. It’s all a matter of why we go to movies and what we’re looking for.

BTW, I’m betting Dark Knight breaks the unbreakable Titanic box office record…it should, that was a hell of a movie!

I never saw the movie yet, but I’m hearing pretty good things about it, hey did you see Hellboy II?

Haven’t gotten to HBII, but I’m a big fan of the writer/director. I don’t get to a lot of new movies nowadays…got a kid at home (turning 7 in a month), whenever we can get a friend to sit for us or my parents to visit and make sure someone’s at home we’ll hit a movie, but that happens maybe 1x/mo on average now. Back in the day I used to go to a movie every Friday…no more. I’m up for a job though where they don’t work Friday afternoons, my wife is a substitute librarian so she has a lot of Fridays off, and my son is in school till 4, so I might be able to resurrect the tradition of weekly movies if I get the job.

Dark Knight is unbelievably good, Ledger’s Joker is everything you’re heard and then some. Have you heard about the pencil trick? The joker walks into a room of mobsters, puts a pencil on the table and says, he’s going to show them a magic trick. He grabs a guy by the head and slams the guys head into the table so the pencil goes right into the eyesocket…they guy falls dead to the floor as the Joker explains he made the pencil disappear…ta da.

If you’re into comedy, Step Brothers is the last movie I got out to see, laughed so hard I hurt myself.

Early happy birthday!, oh You remind me of my best friend, he to told me about the pencil trick, i heard it like about 8 times, and never gets old i have to see that , and boo-yah i saw step brothers i laughed so hard i accidentally spit soda on the guy in front of me. :D

I’m trying to decide what my favorite line was…

“I teabagged your drumset”, or
“I’m going to fill a pillowcase with bars of soap and beat you to death with it.”

Or maybe, “I’m going to kiss you on the lips, Kenny Rogers.”

i love the ” I Teabagged your drumset ”, or
“My son was yelling rape” (or did i get that line wrong)
but i remember the actions not the words which is surprising to me. what’s your favorite scene

Gotta say when they were fighting in the front yard…in fact the whole drumset scene start to finish from the time Ferrell picked up the drums until the parents were ragging them out about trying to beat each other to death with a bicycle. Nearly wet myself.

LOL, i love the ending the very end.

OH yeah, beating up the kids…classic!

Yup :)

i hope the two actors continue to make more movies together.

Oh yeah. So you get to Pineapple Express yet…that’s the next on my wishlist.

same, i’m going to go see it.

Let me know what you think, I’ve heard good things.

i will thanks