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The best movie I have ever seen would have to be Ghost Dog. Jim Jarmusch is truly a cinematic genius.

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

Best Director: George Lucas.

*dives for cover*

Stanley Kubrick >>>>>>>>>> all

The best movie I have ever seen is PI directed by Darren Aronofsky, who also did an excellent job with Requiem for a Dream

its a close race between Stanley Kubricks A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket, and Francis Ford Coppala's The Godfater (1, 2 and 3, yes, I actually enjoyed part 3)

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Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

Best Director: George Lucas.

*dives for cover*


Bash. Mock. Insult.


The Enlightened One, Gir

Bash. Mock. Insult.


The Enlightened One, Gir

5 posts later! LOL!!!

That didn't take long but I still stand by it :D

Besy ones are by George Lucas and Steven Speilberg

I would definetely have to go with The Boondock Saints.

Look it up.

"Do not kill, do not rape, do not steal.."

learn it, live it, love it.

best movie: either The Hours or Fellowship of the Ring, but there have been so many brilliant ones. Casablanca springs to mind, Cabaret (if you like period musicals, this is an amazing it one, it won something like 5 oscars)...Pulp Fiction was brilliant, KillBill as one long movie is amazing. Princess Bride anyone? Return of the king-extended cut. The Cider House Rules. To Die For. The Incredibles was great. Adaptation made me look at the world in a new light. Full Metal jacket made me laugh and cry at once. The Graduate was amazing, you should see it just to understand all the cultural references that have been made to it over the last 40 years. Midnight Cowboy, wow.

best director: peter jackson, quentin tarintino, alfred hitchcock, stanley kubrick. i personally like baz lurhman but some people hate him.

a Really Interesting question would be, what's the worst film you've ever seen?

Movie: Blade Runner

Director: Can't pick just one, so I'll pick a few: Ridley Scott, Stanley Kubrick, Darren Aronofsky and David Lynch.

a Really Interesting question would be, what's the worst film you've ever seen?
Mosquito (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113858/)

The Last Emperor, Bernardo Bertolucci

Best Directors:
Stanley Kubrick
Roman Polanski
Federico Fallini (sp?)
Steven Spielberg

The Patriot (the one with Mel Gibson) is an amazing movie. One of my all time faves...

For funny, you can't get better than Wrongfully Accused with Leslie Neilson.

Directors: Steven Spielberg is good... so is the Lord of the Rings directer.. Peter Jackson? I forget his name... and of course... Mel Gibson...

Best Director - Alfred Hitchcock

Best Film - Depends on my mood, but "12 Angry Men" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/) is pretty consistently high up in my estimation.

I really don't have one best.

Others here have mentioned some but I will toss out

Casablanca

Billy Wilder - Met him once. ;)

Best Director: Have to go with top five.

1) Ingmar Bergman
2) Akira Kurosawa
3) Stanley Kubrick
4) Jean-Luc Godard
5) Krystof Kieslowski

That was really hard.

Greatest Film: Top Ten

1) Seven Samurai
2) Cries and Whispers
3) Alphaville
4) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
5) Sunrise
6) Barry Lyndon
7) Red
8) The Holy Grail
9) Dawn of the Dead
10) Come and See (subject to change, recently viewed)

Worst Films: Top? Ten

10) They Saved Hitler's Brain!
9) The Dead Hate the Living
8) Blood Surf
7) Ilsa - She Wolf of the SS: Part One
6) Terror Toons
5) Reptilicus
4) Nukie
3) Troll 2
2) Feeders 2: Slay Bells
1) The Star Wars Holiday Special

The Godfather Trilogy.
Maybe the first Matrix movie.
Reservior Dogs.

'Nuff said.

Sin City, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind or Airheads :D

I won't stick my neck out and name a favourite director of all time, but I've watched a couple of Luc Besson flicks in the last couple of years (Fifth Element, Jet Lag, The Professional), and never been disappointed.

Best movie: The Red Violin

Donnie Darko

Amelie.

Hey, the Star Wars Christmas special rocked. They should have brought Chewie's grandpa Itchy into the movies

Donnie Darko
Oh fuck yeah, how could I have missed that one? Oh well, time to edit it into my list. :D

Probably either 'Pi' or 'Koyaanisqatsi'. 'Fight Club' is up there somewhere too.

Sin City, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind or Airheads :D
Yeah! Definetly Donnie Darko and Eternal Sunshine... also Rabbit Proof Fence. It's an Australian movie (true story) that shows our appaling history and treatment of Aboriginal Australians. All Aussies should see this movie. Especially the racist ones.

The Princess Bride, too.

my favorite Movies (in no order):
Waynes World
Animal House
Dodgeball
Stripes
Patton
Star Wars movies
The Jerk
All of the National Lampoon Vacation Movies.

more to come as I think of them..

Best movies:
10 Strange Days
9 Dark City
8 Saving Private Ryan
7 The Fellowship of the Ring
6 Conan the Barbarian
5 Alien
4 The Matrix
3 The Empire Strikes Back
2 Bladerunner
1 The Fifth Element

The Movie The Aviator

The Director: Martin Scorsese

Nuff said.

bump.

Bladerunner, absolutely.

Best Director is easy...Stanley Kubrick

Best Film is trickier...I'm going to have to call it a tie between Dark City and Requiem for a Dream.

The best movie I have ever seen would have to be Ghost Dog. Jim Jarmusch is truly a cinematic genius.
o_O huh.
I did enjoy the film and think that Jarmusch=quality. But best? naaah.
Dreyer, Murnau and Lang (Kurosawa, Polanski, Kieslowski, Fellini) all have incredible films but I have to say that the best director ever is Stanley Kubrick. All others have brilliant films but also some not so good films, Kubrick is the only director who never made a bad or even a not-so-good film.
I really can't say what's the best film ever but only one is on the top 10 every single time. And that's Dreyer's Jean d'Arc. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019254/)

the worst? Probably this one
Hangman's curse (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342508/)

Best Director: Have to go with top five.

1) Ingmar Bergman
2) Akira Kurosawa
3) Stanley Kubrick
4) Jean-Luc Godard
5) Krystof Kieslowski

That was really hard.

Greatest Film: Top Ten

1) Seven Samurai
2) Cries and Whispers
3) Alphaville
4) The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
5) Sunrise
6) Barry Lyndon
7) Red
8) The Holy Grail
9) Dawn of the Dead
10) Come and See (subject to change, recently viewed)

Worst Films: Top? Ten

10) They Saved Hitler's Brain!
9) The Dead Hate the Living
8) Blood Surf
7) Ilsa - She Wolf of the SS: Part One
6) Terror Toons
5) Reptilicus
4) Nukie
3) Troll 2
2) Feeders 2: Slay Bells
1) The Star Wars Holiday Special

With Akira Kurosawa on your top director's list and "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" on your top movie list I'm surprised you didn't mention "Yojimbo"

10) Come and See (subject to change, recently viewed)


The Russian (Belarussian) WW2 movie? At least it's original title was come and see. (Idi i smotri or something like that)
It was impressive. But not top10 material. I'd give 8/10

edit:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091251/

I don't remember the names of Directors.. and for Directors, some are hit and miss when it comes to movies.

But BEst Movies come to mind...

Forrest Gump, Braveheart, Shawshank Redemption, Unbreakable, American History X, Patton, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List.

My favorite movies include Fight Club, 48 Hours (an old black and white movie about an American spy captured in Lisbon during WW2 and how the Germans attempt to trick him into thinking he has amnesia to gain the D-Day plans), Knocking on Heaven's Door (a German movie about two terminally ill men that want to see the ocean and manage to get in trouble with the police and the mafia on their way), Red Rivers 1 and 2 (I'm not sure if that's the title in English, since I've only seen it in French and German; two French action movies that impressed me, Christopher Lee actually plays in the second one), Fifth Element.

Originally Posted by Oye Oye
With Akira Kurosawa on your top director's list and "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" on your top movie list I'm surprised you didn't mention "Yojimbo" Actually, Yojimbo is one of my less-liked Kurosawa films (ie still kicks the crap out of most other films in existence), I'm still a little peturbed I couldn't find room for Ran on that list.

Originally Posted by Helioterra
The Russian (Belarussian) WW2 movie? At least it's original title was come and see. (Idi i smotri or something like that)
It was impressive. But not top10 material. I'd give 8/10 Well I only recently watched it and it was one of the greatest War movies I've ever seen. It doesn't try to be anti war and then have it's cake and eat it too by having "heroic" battle sequences.

I think it nicely circumvents Truffaut's argument that war films can never be truly anti-war, because war is naturally exciting. I was never excited by Come and See, horrified, yes, but not excited.

Best Movies - Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather, A Clockwork Orange, Reservoir Dogs.

Best Directors - Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick.

Well I only recently watched it and it was one of the greatest War movies I've ever seen. It doesn't try to be anti war and then have it's cake and eat it to by having "heroic" battle sequences.

I think it nicely circumvents Truffaut's argument that war films can never be truly anti-war, because war is naturally exciting. I was never excited by Come and See, horrified, yes, but not excited.
I'm not a big fan of war movies. Those almost mandatory heroic battles you mentioned annoy me. I like Come and see because it's not so much about battles but about surviving. The biggest problem in American war movies is that they don't seem to care about civilians. They don't have the knowledge of what's like to live in the battlefield. Recent wars have not affected them as they have affected Europeans.

Now don't get me wrong, Americans. I'm not saying that you can't make very good war movies. You were very much involved. But American WW2 movies are always about heroic battles, heroic soldiers and heroic generals. Come and see shows you a whole different view into war.

Nevertheless Apocalypse Now is the second best war movie ever made. Paths of glory being the number one. Come and see? Could be number 3.

I dont have an all time favorite because there are so many good ones. But I have a current favorite (that is, a movie I saw recently which has made it into my all time favorites list). This movie is:

Cidade de Deus (City of God)

Favorite director is also very tough. Im gonna give it to Pedro Almodovar but with a nod to Ingmar Bergman.

Oh my God, I am such a film obsessive. Best films I have ever seen are the usual ones. Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, American Beauty, The Usual Suspects. But I also love Battle Royale and I've actually been obsessed with it for a few years now. I love anything with Edward Norton or Kevin Spacey in.

Best director..Tim Burton? I like how you can automatically tell if something's a Tim Burton film.

The best movie ever made is Apocalypse Now, the greatest director is Jean-Pierre Melville. I passed film class! Bow down to my superior taste in everything!

I dont have an all time favorite because there are so many good ones. But I have a current favorite (that is, a movie I saw recently which has made it into my all time favorites list). This movie is:

Cidade de Deus (City of God)

Favorite director is also very tough. Im gonna give it to Pedro Almodovar but with a nod to Ingmar Bergman.
I was just thinking about some more recent films that could be on all time top10 (I've never done one)
Cidade de Deus is certainly a candidate
Some others: A todo sobre mi madre, Amores perros, Diarios de motocicleta (hmmm I loved it but mayby not) Spirited away, Amelie

Somehow "light" films never rank very high even if they are 10/10 films. Maybe it's right. Top10 movies should make you think.
edit: Actually it has more to do with whether you rank them as pieces of art or entertainment. It's like choosing between Beethoven and Beatles. 98% of it is Backstreet Boys anyway.

I forgot Amelie, that film is just so happy and cute and never fails to make me feel better if I'm down.

Oh! and Spirited Away, that film has got some of the most ugly creations in it, the animation is awesome.

I was just thinking about some more recent films that could be on all time top10 (I've never done one)
Cidade de Deus is certainly a candidate
Some others: A todo sobre mi madre, Amores perros, Diarios de motocicleta (hmmm I loved it but mayby not) Spirited away, Amelie

Somehow "light" films never rank very high even if they are 10/10 films. Maybe it's right. Top10 movies should make you think.

I agree except for SPirited Away. Anime sucks. This will be a controversial statement on an internet forum, but it's a fact. If you like anime, thats cool, I like plenty of forms of lowbrow entertainment. However, no anime movie comes close to being one of the best movies ever.

Originally Posted by Rummania
the greatest director is Jean-Pierre Melville Oh, nice choice. I've only seen three of his films; "Le Cercle Rouge", "Le Samouraï" and "Les Enfants Terribles", but they were all excellent.

I agree except for SPirited Away. Anime sucks. This will be a controversial statement on an internet forum, but it's a fact. If you like anime, thats cool, I like plenty of forms of lowbrow entertainment. However, no anime movie comes close to being one of the best movies ever. What about Princess Mononoke? Grave of the Fireflies? The End of Evangelion?

Oh, nice choice. I've only seen three of his films; "Le Cercle Rouge", "Le Samouraï" and "Les Enfants Terribles", but they were all excellent.

Le Cercle Rouge is a masterpiece. Any film that is that entrancing and is 65% silence is a real achievement. You should see Bob le Flambeur. It's the good movie that that shitty remake "The Good Thief" was based on.

I agree except for SPirited Away. Anime sucks. This will be a controversial statement on an internet forum, but it's a fact. If you like anime, thats cool, I like plenty of forms of lowbrow entertainment. However, no anime movie comes close to being one of the best movies ever.
I'd say it's more controversial to even "nominate" a cartoon. It's a whole different art form.

Originally Posted by Helioterra
I'd say it's more controversial to even "nominate" a cartoon. It's a whole different art form. That's interesting, if animation is another artform, what would we call films like "Sin City", "Revenge of the Sith" and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" Which category do they belong in?

That's interesting, if animation is another artform, what would we call films like "Sin City", "Revenge of the Sith" and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" Which category do they belong in?

They are movies. They use animation as a special effects tool, not as the medium its self.

That's interesting, if animation is another artform, what would we call films like "Sin City", "Revenge of the Sith" and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" Which category do they belong in?
I don't really know (that's not really my opinion either). What about Sky captain and the world of tomorrow?

And it's not a new thing, what about Len Lye and his experimental work. or Méliès.

I'm just saying that it's incredibly hard to judge between Sunrise (which has a lot of tricks) and Akira. I don't want to draw any artificial lines.

Originally Posted by Lazy Hippies
They are movies. They use animation as a special effects tool, not as the medium its self. So as soon as an animation uses a live action element, it is automatically considered to be more a movie than a cartoon? Is Spongebob Squarepants a live action movie? Is Space Jam?

The Kid, Modern Times and The Great Dictator, by Charles Chaplin. (Though all the Tramp films are good imo, as well as some of his later ones).

Modern Times is probably my favorite out of those.

Best Directors?

Chaplin,
Robert Rodriguez (sp?) is good for some mindless action.
Stanley Kubrick.

plus a few others. Brain. not. working. today :(

I think Mel Gibson did a superior job with "Braveheart", "The Patriot" and "The Passion of the Christ". All were huge, epic tales. They all have all the elements- costumes, effects, huge casts and musical scores.

Steven Speilburg- "Saving Private Ryan" was incredible. I have a friend that was on the beaches on D-Day and in several other battles-he said that is the most realistic portrayal of battle he has ever seen.

Martin Scorcese- The Godfather trilogy, Goodfellas and A Bronx Tale are all huge too. They are gritty and realistic.

Sergio Leone-"The Good,The Bad & The Ugly"- the story is fantastic, the cast is as well. And I love the soundtrack that goes with it.

Blade Runner, by Ridley Scott.
Kurosawa was a brilliant director too.

I think Mel Gibson did a superior job with "Braveheart", "The Patriot" and "The Passion of the Christ". All were huge, epic tales. They all have all the elements- costumes, effects, huge casts and musical scores.

Steven Speilburg- "Saving Private Ryan" was incredible. I have a friend that was on the beaches on D-Day and in several other battles-he said that is the most realistic portrayal of battle he has ever seen.

Martin Scorcese- The Godfather trilogy, Goodfellas and A Bronx Tale are all huge too. They are gritty and realistic.

Sergio Leone-"The Good,The Bad & The Ugly"- the story is fantastic, the cast is as well. And I love the soundtrack that goes with it.

Francis Copolla directed The Godfather movies.