The best film ever

El_Presidente

So how about it lads, whats your favorite film.

You can only pick one.

Mines The Shawshank Redemption.


El

mewso

Only one? Aw.

A New Hope.

El_Presidente

A new hope!

Empire Strikes Back is sooo much better.


(I feel an arguement coming


El

Hecate

hehe, hard choice

Have to say Dr. Strangelove tho.

WhiteWashMan

heat was drival
blade was also drival

id have to go for indiana jones and the raiders of the lost ark

a classic that has yet to be emulated!

gandalf

Dr. Strangelove is the No.1 by a long shot.

Gandalf.

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Draco

I don't really have an all time favourite - I've more of a short list.
Leon is definitly up there, Matrix, Shawshank, Empire Strikes Back.

Draco

TwoShedsJackson

Guys, El_presidente said pick ONE.

LoLth

nnnngggggg just one......

eeehhhhh, the Maltese Falcon. I think.

Matrix and all are visually stunning, but I still think the Maltese falcon is THE classic. (though Lawrence of Arabia, to the mountains of the Moon, Jungle Book, ****in' Bambi, etc would also be considered. Without putting a limit on the type of film - some sort of category system - it's just to difficult to tell).

mewso

Yeah ESB has been touted, wuite rightly, as the superior film but when discussing the greatest film one has ever seen I tend to go for the film that had the most impact on me.
A New Hope blew me away as a six year old in 1977 and started my dreaming. That's why I'm now a dosy ****er

M

TwoShedsJackson

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

El_Presidente

Oh! Dr Strangelove, intersting choice.

Such a clasic scene with the guy riding the atom bomb (Thats how I wanna go)


"Gentlemen!!, you cant fight in the war room"

Brilliant.

El

Excelsior

whatever about books I cant do this one. at the moment theres a special place in my heart for schindler's list. but i love spielberg, jp, et, private ryan.
i loved the thin red line, that was such an important film for me. (remeber the night we saw that andy?) go! was rocking. shawshank. maltese falcon has a vote to lolth. matrix, star wars, blade and heat.... i think not.
indy and the ark-hmmm. third one was my fav. 2001.
how i stopped worryin and learnt to love the bomb
heavenly creatures
something about mary
python & the holy grail?

It is Schindler's List. I think the scene with the girl in the red coat seals it. I love that movie.

Chaos

Umm HEAT!
or perhaps Blade
or the first Batman even
too many to choose from
o yes and Leon!
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El_Presidente

Blade?

John I outa shoot you like a dog in the street.

HEAT however is a clasic. The coffee shop scene alone is worth watching it for.


El


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Chaos

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Chaos

God damit blae 0wned ffs
saw it erm 5 times now aint bought it YET though

Toulouse

Dead Poets Society...and some freaky flick i saw over the w/e...The Warriors.

harVee

all right
it's on tv this week
watch it
david lynch

the elephant man

"i'm not an animal !"
"i'm not an animal !"

harVey

Canaboid

Sorry about this but.....
True Romance

The only criteria employed in this descision is enjoyment and I enjoyed this more than any other. Damn, now u all hate me.

Hobbes

I would of said Shawshank Redemption.

But for movie I've watched the most times, that would have to be without a doubt "True Romance". Absolutly excellent film.

Only recent movie I've been able to watch over and over is "Something about Mary". Now if you will excuse me I have to go clean the pipes :q

Trojan

Dune.


(Despite only being 3 hours long)

Canaboid

And Grease.

Hecate

Dune(!!!!)

sorry I have to cut in there, Dune has got to be the most dire adaptation of a classic novel EVER made.

The main reason for this is its makers missed out on the chance to produce a brilliant film because of terrible editing and screenlay.

Start a new thread "Worst movies ever"

Trojan

Yes, Dune.

Unfortunately 14 hour long films don't sell very well so they had to remove significant parts of the plot. They still managed to condense an absolute classic of a story into a great film with phenomenal effects when you consider what they had to work with.

Give it to me baby

Al.

Hecate

hehe

yes but that doesnt change the fact that the majority of ppl you talk to will tell you its pants

Trojan

You muppet

You're a majority of one.

Are you a Herbert fan?

Al.

Von

This Is Spinal Tap or ehhh Taxi Driver.

whitetrash

matrix or shawshank defo.

TwoShedsJackson

Dune!?!? DUNE!?!?!?!?!?!?! mwahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaahha

There's no accounting for taste I suppose

harVee

eh dune ?????
good novel but....
...sting...
movie?
no
harVey

SantaHoe

Well if I had to chose one....

* The Matrix
* Pulp Fiction
* The Rock
* Face Off
* True Romance
* Menace to Society
* Weekend at Bernies
* Trainspotting
* Point Break
* RedRock West
* Blue Velvet
* The Shining
* Flashback
* Forest Gump
* Dumb & Dumber
* Clueless
* Babe
* Die Hard
* Scream

...And any others I've missed...

WhiteWashMan

dune
hahahahahaha

the book was ****e as well

poor ol david lynch

Draco

Now I enjoyed Dune the first time I seen it but since then I've fallen asleep everything I've tried to watch it since...it's sooooo slow......

Draco

Trojan

oh dear I'm getting grief here

He did say "So how about it lads, whats your favorite film".

So thats it


AL.

Lemmy

It has to be Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

A classic, especially when wrecked

harVee

no offence santa but...
the rock, and dumb and dumber maybe if you' dnever seen a moving picture before, but clueless is just an insult to intelligent things everywhere

harVey

TwoShedsJackson

eh, Dead Santa, whilst there /is/ many a good film on your list, including Face/Off natch , i feel the inclusion of Weekend at Bernie's and Forrest Gump must surely be an attempt at taking the ****.

WAB was just $hite, not much more to be said there, but Forest Gump!?!?!?! FOREST FU<KING GUMP?!?!?!?!?! i can honestly say that that is the most objectionable movie I have ever sat through in my life. Oh yeah the All-American hero who goes off to fight in the Vietnam War has a great life while the communist hippie scum who stays at home and protests against the war dies of AIDS. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, wholesome message.

A more offensive load of capitalist, Amerocentric b0llocks I will never see as long as I live (I hope).

SantaHoe

ROFL!
Can't please all of the people all of the time...
'Weekend at Bernies' is a film that a lot of people just don't "get".
As for Clueless, I think it a great film to watch if you think all Americans are dopey ********s.

TwoShedsJackson

I liked Clueless but it wouldnt exactly rate with the all-time greats. Classic line: 'if anything happens to her, I have a 45 and a shovel - you won't be missed'

I didnt like Forest Gump btw I just feel like smashing something whenever I'm reminded of the two hours of my life I wasted watching that tripe. Best Picture Oscar in the same year Pulp Fiction comes out?!?!? eh, right. The Americans wouldnt know a decent film from a hole in the ground.

Excelsior

Yeah!! Americans are just scum! God I hate Americans, don't gt me started on the dopey Americans. All 235 million of them- nothing but dopey liberal ass fascist homosexual commies! In fact the real problem with OUR GREAT country is that Americans constantly come in and steal our wives and our homes and our shoes. I for one have had enough.
Fuc.kin Ars.eholes

the celtic tiger

the way i see it is that "The wizard of Oz" is up there in the top three along with "te lion king and maybe "the naked gun".
If you don't agree with this right now, don't fret......YOU WILL CONFORM!!!!!!!
that is all
tct

SantaHoe

Ere lads,
Don't get too upset about it!
I was kinda' taking the **** with a few of them

rat

forest gump is one of the best ever

El_Presidente

Not the best now, but what did you think of American History X??

pure 100% uncut class

the celtic tiger

yesyes....top five films of all time are.......the lion king, the wizard of oz(Boy did judy garlnd look hot!!!), The naked gun(The first one...original and best!!), Monty Python and the Holy Grail and of course....not forgetting Indiana Jones and the last crusade. ("only the penetant man shall cross")
now you will conform
i am so great
i am a god.
That is all

tct
Kneel before me
only the

Shinji

This is a tricky one...

The Life Of Brian has to be up there, simply because it's such a quotable film. Can I vote for all Monty Python movies at once please, given that they would have an aggregate budget of less than your average Spielberg?

Being an anime-head, I have to throw Perfect Blue (if you see this, whether you like anime or not, pick up a copy - the weirdest and best psycho-thriller of all time) and Princess Mononoke in there.

The Matrix has to be right up there as the epitome of cool.

But if I had to pick the best - very best - movie I've ever seen, I'd pitch for the Basketball Diaries, purely for the blood-runs-cold factor...

whitetrash

what about the new Romeo & Juliet v. stylish and still true to the original

Hecate

twas ok.

the shoot out at the start with the montagues and capulets was top class tho.

El_Presidente

Aye it was good, but hardly the best film ever now...

however , Claire Daines..... puurrrrrr.


El