Top 27 best movies - ever

[Old Pio]

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Neither have I, and I've seen pretty much everything.

Brent and I should see it together.

I tend to like Younger Wayne more ("Stagecoach" has my vote for best western) but I like him in almost everything with a horse.

You'll enjoy it. As I say, Duke is darker here, with a past that's hinted at but not fully explored (why was he away for those years? Where did he get that money? Is he in love with her? Is he her father?).

 

[JF_Gophers]

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Also best Cooter that Kills.

What about "Teeth"?

 

[state of hockey]

What about "Teeth"?

Dentata!!!

 

[mookie1995]

Jesus, that would have been amazing. Why didn't he do it? Was he too sick?

He thought it was too dirty. Said he would be there to see it, but could never be in it.
Seems silly in the current times, but it was out there.

 

[Kepler]

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He thought it was too dirty. Said he would be there to see it, but could never be in it.
Seems silly in the current times, but it was out there.

I can see that. Blazing Saddles was pretty dirty for when it came out; I'll bet it offended a lot of the usual suspects in Wayne's demographic. "I'm Tired" is actually one of the dirtiest (and funniest) songs I've ever heard.

 

[SteveP]

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Tombstone for westerns. Or the original True Grit. Wayne was classic.

McLintock

Swell party, where's the whisky?

 

[Old Pio]

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And Elmer Bernstein's rousing theme from "The Magnificent Seven" was a huge, honking, popular hit. And all these years later is still one of the handful of great movie themes. It is part of our musical DNA, we all know and recognize the tune, even though many (most?) of us don't know where it came from.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoG8Xpk7DaE

A happy coincidence: "The Magnificent Seven" starts on TCM in a few minutes.

 

[The Rube]

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Unforgiven was good, but also overrated. I love Appaloosa (Viggo, Ed Harris) despite Rene Zellwegger's 150% effort to make it horrible.

"Kill The Irishman"
--best movie about a mick taking on the wop Mafia

(seriously, I LOVE this movie; reallllllllly doesn't vary from the true story of Danny Greene)

 

[Cat lover]

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Most of this list should be called "BEST GUILTY PLEASURE MOVIES"

Any movie list without Forest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption or Braveheart is missing alot

 

[unofan]

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Most of this list should be called "BEST GUILTY PLEASURE MOVIES"

Any movie list without Forest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption or Braveheart is missing alot

Forrest Gump is overrated. I'll still watch it, but in hindsight there's no way it should've won the Oscar over Shawshank, Pulp Fiction, or even Quiz Show.

 

[FreshFish]

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Most of this list should be called "BEST GUILTY PLEASURE MOVIES"

Any movie list without For[r]est Gump, The Shawshank Redemption or Braveheart is missing alot

Totally agree, it's more campy fun than serious assessment. You can't omit Singing in the Rain, Casablanca, or the remastered Metropolis (with the newly-restored 20-minute section that had previously been missing) from any serious list.

 

[Old Pio]

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"Dead N-word Storage" is one of the great bits of dialogue, ever. Oscar occasionally (frequently?) gets it wrong. Like naming "How Green Was My Valley" best picture instead of "Citizen Kane" because they were jealous of Welles. "How Green Was My Valley" is a wonderful, lovely fim, which usually causes me to choke up, but it's no "Citizen Kane."

 

[mookie1995]

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Forrest Gump is overrated. I'll still watch it, but in hindsight there's no way it should've won the Oscar over Shawshank, Pulp Fiction, or even Quiz Show.

yup.
there was a reason Being There won 'best retard' movie and FG wasn't on the short list.

 

[mookie1995]

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Totally agree, it's more campy fun than serious assessment. You can't omit Singing in the Rain, Casablanca, or the remastered Metropolis (with the newly-restored 20-minute section that had previously been missing) from any serious list.

casablanca is 'kinda' in my list

 

[The Rube]

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"Dead N-word Storage" is one of the great bits of dialogue, ever. Oscar occasionally (frequently?) gets it wrong. Like naming "How Green Was My Valley" best picture instead of "Citizen Kane" because they were jealous of Welles. "How Green Was My Valley" is a wonderful, lovely fim, which usually causes me to choke up, but it's no "Citizen Kane."

Goodfellas was robbed, too.

 

[duper]

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Most of this list should be called "BEST GUILTY PLEASURE MOVIES"

Any movie list without Forest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption or Braveheart is missing alot

Erroneous. I like Shawshank a lot. I enjoyed Forrest Gump, but it's hard to imagine ever watching it again. I doubt that I will ever watch Braveheart.

Goodfellas was robbed, too.

Also erroneous. Well, actually, because I feel the same way about westerns and mob movies, I usually just don't weigh in at all when people gush over either genre.

 

[Slap Shot]

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Forrest Gump perhaps should not have won but it's not the travesty that was Out of Africa, although in its defense the other nominees would have all probably lost most other years as well. Hell English Patient was a travesty as well.

 

[Old Pio]

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Goodfellas was robbed, too.

Yup. One of the greats. As was Casino.

I think part of this inability to recognize the historically great from the merely excellent is perspective. In '41 voters had a marvellous John Ford movie to consider. Great cast, that world class main set, that singing, the photography. In Kane, if they got past how much they hated Welles, they had a film they just didn't understand. Didn't comprehend. Couldn't comprehend that it's reputation would grow over the decades into a consensus that it's the best film ever made. I'd imagine if they were still around, some of 'em would like to take back their votes. The antagonism for Welles seems so insignificant now. What's not insignificant is that movie.


Years ago (before cable, blu ray, internet et al, when local TV stations really mattered) a Chicago TV station took out a full page ad in the Tribune announcing that they were going to show Kane. Paraphrasing, it read: "88 of the 100 top film critics say Citizen Kane is the greatest film ever made. The other 12 were wrong. Citizen Kane, tonight at 10:30 on WLS-TV."

 

[Kepler]

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In Kane, if they got past how much they hated Welles, they had a film they just didn't understand. Didn't comprehend.

Incredible as it seems now, audiences didn't either. Citizen Kane actually lost money.

Of course, Citizen Kane could only be made as an Indy art house movie today. It has no explosions and only one very tepid fuck scene. I mean, geez, where's the margin in that?

 

[The Rube]

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Best movie about the internet:

Social Network.

This is my third time watching it, and I have to admit, it really is good. Considering how big Facebook is now, and how "valuable" it is.....yeah.

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