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Top 27 best movies - ever

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Roger Ebert's website has a terrific retrospective review of The Fugitive.

It's as finely crafted an example of its specific subgenre—“wronged man tries to clear his name”—as you’re going to find. It’s as much sheer fun as “Casablanca,” “All About Eve,” “The Sting,” “Annie Hall” and “Rocky,” all of which won Best Picture over more superficially “serious” competition by embodying excellence without seeming to flaunt it. It glides across the screen like a falcon waiting for the right moment to dive.
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Watched Margaret last night. Too long, but some really fine acting and camera work. Worth the time.
 
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True Lies is on (why again didn't tom arnold win an academy award here?? :mad:)
 
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Mookie's original list omitted an important genre: "best 'fish out of water' movie."

My nominee in that category probably would be The Gods Must be Crazy. The scene in which he drives his Land Rover into a gas 'station' and the attendant goes to clean the window is one of the funniest moments I've ever seen in any movie ever.
 
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Several years ago they ran that movie at one of the last mom & pop theaters in the Twin Cities for about one month, and I went to see it twice. My kids loved it as much as I had although I was several years older than they were during my first viewing.
 
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FreshFish said:
Mookie's original list omitted an important genre: "best 'fish out of water' movie."

My nominee in that category probably would be The Gods Must be Crazy. The scene in which he drives his Land Rover into a gas 'station' and the attendant goes to clean the window is one of the funniest moments I've ever seen in any movie ever.
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Even the sequel was rather funny.
 
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FreshFish said:
"best 'fish out of water' movie."
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Ball of Fire. The incomparable Barbara Stanwyck as a gangster's girl laying low by living with a bunch of elderly Encyclopedist professors and Gary Cooper. One of the funniest movies ever made.

Speaking I, I just rewatched Spinal Tap for the first time in about 15 years. It is much funnier than I remembered. It has really held up well, and all the main characters are gems.
 
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My fav sci fi will always be Brazil.
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Hmm. Maybe the best in the Dystopia subgenre but if I was going for a best I'd want a hard SF movie to represent the genre.

And the winner is:

2001

Some other very good choices:

Metropolis
Blade Runner
Five Million Years to Earth (TV serial is better)
Forbidden Planet
The Martian (best pure hard SF movie ever made)
Gravity (the best before that)
The Andromeda Strain (the best before that)
Twelve Monkeys and La Jetee
This Island Earth
Alien
The Thing from Another World
Dark City
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Stalker
Solaris (1972)
The Fifth Element
Buckaroo Banzai


Some brilliant movies but I'd avoid because not quite SF-y enough:

Brazil
Star Wars, Close Encounters, Akira (fantasy)
Terminator (action movie with SF elements)
Inception (caper movie with SF elements)
Dark Star (farce in space)
 
Kepler said:
Hmm. Maybe the best in the Dystopia subgenre but if I was going for a best I'd want a hard SF movie to represent the genre.

And the winner is:

2001
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Some other very good choices:

Forbidden Planet - The Robot and when the thing hit the force field

This Island Earth - The Interocitor and the MST3K send up
Alien - scared the poop out of me
The Day the Earth Stood Still - the original, not the remake
The Fifth Element - weird, just weird
Buckaroo Banzai - weirder

I'd add Earth vs. the Flying Saucers and how did you forget Things to Come??

The 1950s radiation causes monsters and aliens attacking earth movies are campy but good.

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
The Giant Behemoth (UK)
The Cape Canaveral Monsters
And the campy monster movie of all time:
Attack of the Crab Monsters.
 
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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
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I should have included this. Not only it this a very good movie, it has the ridiculously sexual Paula Raymond, the poor man's Margaret Sheridan.


Attack of the Crab Monsters.
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I love this movie!!!! One of best stupid movies of all time. God bless Roger Corman. I'm sure he shot it in like 4 days.
 
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