Greatest Movies Of All Time

[matrix]

I completely agree with you. Even though Reloaded and Revolutions pale in comparison to the original, you have to marvel in the sheer scope of the movies. However, the first still blows the sequels out of the water.

[S.E. Hardy]

I'd rather marvel at the sheer scope of LotR...

[matrix]

Well, if you must.

The LoTR trilogy in a whole is far better. But I'd still watch the original Matrix over any LoTR movie anyday.

[stupid password]

Bloodsport, hands down.

 

 

 

and if you twist the arm, my neighbor totoro.

[static]

I'd rather marvel at the sheer scope of LotR...

The LotR movies are what happens when people are willing to spend an abnormal amount of money to make a faithful adaptation. There are no new ideas or themes really being presented. In fact, if anything there are less then the novel.

The Matrix trilogy creates an entirly new world as opposed to trying to illustrate one already described in text.

[Scotty33]

Mystic River, and anything with Steven Seagul lol he is great

[squall17]

good will hunting

[borntohula]

props to those who weren't anglocentric in their scope.

[Morbii]

I second Michael Mann as being a great director. Here are some directors that I think are incredible and some of their films (and many of their films rank among some of the best films ever made):

 

Dario Argento - Deep Red, Suspiria, Tenebre

Andrei Tarkovsky - Stalker, The Mirror, Nostalghia, The Sacrifice, Andrei Rublev, Solaris (the original)

Ingmar Bergman - Through A Glass Darkly, Scenes From A Marriage, The Silence, Winter Light, Persona

Akira Kurosawa - Ran, Kagemusha, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Seven Samurai, Red Beard

Peter Greenaway - The Thief, The Cook, His Wife & Her Lover, The Belly of An Architect

Samuel Fuller - Shock Corridor

Peter Weir - The Last Wave, Picnic At Hanging Rock

Kihachi Okamoto - Sword of Doom

Jules Dassin - Night and the City, Rififi

Roman Polanski - Knife In the Water, Rosemary's Baby

Henry Georges Clouzot - Le Corbeu, Wages of Fear

Edited October 23, 2005 by Morbii

[Shiri]

Some of my all-time favorites are:

 

Requiem For A Dream

Fight Club

Memento

Being John Malkovich

Vanilla Sky

Blade Runner

12 Monkeys

Mulholland Drive

The Butterfly Effect

 

And my top movie - Se7en

[kvanlierop]

By far the greatest movie is

 

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

 

 

Common this movie was what made present day animation movies possible, as well it crossed a line that had never been crossed before. Animation with real life actors..

 

 

Great on So many levels

[shade]

I've been reading a lot of Negative feedback for the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. I think they are definatly up there though. Howard Shores music is really amazing. Can't say enough about these films.

 

Requiem for a Dream is a good one as well. I also dig M nights, movies eg. The Sixth Sense.

[kvanlierop]

HIs movies are well done except for Signs... Common, he could have sone something better than Green Men. It didnt have the same effect on me as his other movies did

[Drizzt]

The Village was fucking crap. Signs was awesome.

[kvanlierop]

beg to differ. The village was such a mind movie, what a concept it contained. As for signs, well thats been done and done before, I really expected more from him

[Shiri]

I agree with you. I liked The Village much more than Signs.

[static]

You guys are nuts. Unbreakable was easily his best movie.

[kvanlierop]

the sixth sense still does it for me. But when the village came out it made an impact too. Signs just does not have the same impact that the others do. The ending or surprise that does it all

[Dan #3]

You guys are nuts. Unbreakable was easily his best movie.

Agreed.

 

 

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[SuperVillain]

Signs is the scariest movie i have ever seen. that scene with the reflection in the tv still haunts me

[kvanlierop]

Scary movies... I dont know if many people have seen it but Event Horizion freaked me out when the one guy is walking down the hallway and the glove touched his shoulder. If you have seen the movie you know what I mean.

 

 

 

On another note, anyone see Ghost Ship.... what a rip off of Event Horizion, same storyline except that its on a ship and not on a spaceship in the future. What a waste of money to go see it, and they didnt even do a good job of stealing the idea.

[SuperVillain]

Garden State

Pirates of the Caribbean

Lord of the Rings *given*

[Morbii]

Most of the movies listed here are recent... I like a lot of the recent movies too, but some of you should try checking out some older stuff (not to mention foreign)!!!

[kvanlierop]

No mans land and Run Lola Run are my two favourite foriegn films

[S.E. Hardy]

There is no such thing as foreign films... there are films that are in other languages, but film is universal.

 

BTW: Run Lola Run and No Man's Land are both great, under-seen films...