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I've always wondered what people considered to be the greatest movie of all time. I don't want anything that's just a current fad. Please be enriched if you want to reply.

I've always wondered what people considered to be the greatest movie of all time. I don't want anything that's just a current fad. Please be enriched if you want to reply.
I would have to say Doctor Zhivago. There are many, many great movies, including The Longest Day, which was virtually an historical renactment of incidents which actually happened during the D-Day invasion of Normandy during WWII, but Dr. Zhivago is my pick for very best.

Well...there's no one best movie, but I'd say that the Star Wars movies as a whole are the best.

I vote towards Lion King or Totoro. Lion King is very well done and I like the way Simba had to overcome his past. Totoro is a Japanese animae movie that has a good story line for a short movie and unusual topics. :)

Well...there's no one best movie, but I'd say that the Star Wars movies as a whole are the best.
Good call! And out of those hours and hours of film, Episode V is the best!

Well...there's no one best movie, but I'd say that the Star Wars movies as a whole are the best.
Please, no. The first one (IV, not the Phantom Menace), and Empire Strikes Back, are pretty good films, Empire would probably make my list of top 100 of all time. The rest are, IMHO, crap.
Personally, I'd have to nominate Bridge Over The River Kwai. Generally don't like war films, but this is Alec Guinness at his best. Others, that people probably won't agree with - Gattaca, Dr Strangelove (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb), and Monty Python's Life of Brian (it is just the funniest film ever).

I think Al Pacino's 'Serpico' is an excellent film. It got kind of lost in the whole Godfather saga, but it doesn't stop it from being an amazing and enlightening (I think that's a word - If not, I'm coining it) film.

Plan 9 From Outer Space

You didn't honestly believe that someone wouldn't put that.

I'd say 'Metropolis', released in 1927.

2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick is the man!

Bloodsucking Killerclowns from Outer Space. Oh yeah. Or Kondom des Grauens (Killer Condom)!!! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116791/

American Beauty, Requiem For A Dream, Fight Club, Rocky Horror (if you see the midnight showings), One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest...


there are more I can't think of now

Please, no. The first one (IV, not the Phantom Menace), and Empire Strikes Back, are pretty good films, Empire would probably make my list of top 100 of all time. The rest are, IMHO, crap.
Personally, I'd have to nominate Bridge Over The River Kwai. Generally don't like war films, but this is Alec Guinness at his best. Others, that people probably won't agree with - Gattaca, Dr Strangelove (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb), and Monty Python's Life of Brian (it is just the funniest film ever).

I haven't heard of Dr. Stranglelove, but those other ones are really good, especially Gattica. But I'd have to disagree with your funniest film ever. I think that The Marx Brothers' "Duck Soup" (1933) was the funniest ever.

Der Untergang ( The Downfall )

2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick is the man!

That's what I was going to say. :)

Good call! And out of those hours and hours of film, Episode V is the best!

I agree. For me its V, followed closely by VI. IV and III are tied. II is a bit lower and I is way, way below that.

Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Solaris'.

High Noon, The Searchers, and Wings.

Hmm tough one - here's my top three

All about my mother - amazing film by Pedro Almodovar - the dialogue and characters just whisk you away into this wonderfully scripted melodrama immediately. Suddenly an hour and a half later you're back from Barcelona, a bit disorientated, watching the credits.

Shirley Valentine - a film made from a play about a middle aged housewife who's fed up with the utter mundanity and pointlessness of her life and then gets the chance to go to greece - amazing sparkling comedy with killer lines!

Heavenly Creatures - A deeply disturbing film based on a true story about the relationship of two New Zealand girls. It explores the line between reality and fantasy, and friendship and obsession. One of Peter Jackson's earlier films - the climax is incredibly harrowing and the story is not out to capitalise on the sensationalism of the girls' relationship, nor their actions but is a respectful and faithful telling of a relationship that went too far.