Best movies in the World, ever

Happy CTYI guy · 17-10-2002 8:05pm #1

me thinks this place could do with a good poll. Movies i think are in order now

qwidgybo · 17-10-2002 8:18pm

is spiderman the new atari jaguar??cos otherwise i don't see why it's in the "best movies" thread...

shep the malevolent pixie · 17-10-2002 8:19pm

and where's the godfather movies? star wars is *NOT* the best movie in the world, in fact it's pretty crappy really, they all are, but they became a big cult thing and are now revered etc. i mean, don't get me wrong, i enjoy them very much, they're incredibly entertaining, but they are in no way the best movies ever. i'm sorry, i'm cranky today. tired and sick, arg and so on. grr.
sHep :cool:

incidentally, i'm voting for lord of the rings as 'tis the most worthy of the title of best movie ever of the ones you've written. (dear god i'm cranky tonight, i apologise sincerely)

Happy CTYI guy · 17-10-2002 8:24pm

I didn't put in the Godfather movies because they bored me, and i included Star Wars because I'm one of the cultists, and i put in spiderman because it bloody well entertained me

shep the malevolent pixie · 17-10-2002 8:28pm

fair enough. as i said, i'm cranky tonight.

sHep :cool:

'snot that they're bad movies as such anyway, it's that they're not the *BEST*. i dunno, i'm tired and bored.

Crash · 17-10-2002 8:33pm

So theses are really the best movies in the world ever, rather they're a few movies that amused you? funny how these threads such as "most influential song ever" and this all seem to fall apart soooo well.

Happy CTYI guy · 17-10-2002 8:35pm

yeah, because i dont think there can be a definitive list of the best movies in the world so i plumped for the list of my favourite movies

claire h · 17-10-2002 8:53pm

None of them...

shep the malevolent pixie · 17-10-2002 8:54pm

i'll fall YOU apart......
in his defence, it would be difficult to come up with a definitive list of the best movies ever. my god almighty with a chainsaw, my brain hurts. wow....
sHepph :cool:

Mystic Fibrosis · 17-10-2002 9:19pm

Originally posted by evil scary claire
None of them...

I agree. (But i'm voting on Spiderman purely on the novel way osbourne dies. Oh, that was hard to watch.)

claire h · 17-10-2002 9:24pm

Why am I evil and scary all of a sudden?

Miss-Misery · 17-10-2002 9:41pm

Hmm, i don't even particularly like any of those films. I don't think these polls can be broad enough,but i am appaled at the lack of kevin smith films in there

Mystic Fibrosis · 17-10-2002 9:56pm

Originally posted by good-natured non-intimidating Claire
Why am I evil and scary all of a sudden?

Evil in a good way, honeybunch.:)

oq4v3ht0u76kf2 · 17-10-2002 10:38pm

I voted Snatch because it entertained me the most. Simple really.

ll=llannah · 18-10-2002 12:46pm

its just a poll really. not pondering the meaning of the world or anything. just click on one or don't. not a big deal people.

Cabaal · 18-10-2002 1:10pm

Don't make me laugh, these are all new movies!!!

Also you forgot such classics as Shawshank Redemption and Aliens

what a list, blaaa

:rolleyes:

Happy CTYI guy · 18-10-2002 4:42pm

1. I've never seen Shawshank Redemption
2. When i saw aliens, the reception on my TV was really bad and whenever i saw any of the sequels i was appalled by the lack of fright
3. I dont even know who Kevin Smith is
4. If this was the list of best movies in the world it'd be a broader list, and i can only remember movies i've seen recently

Plasticman · 18-10-2002 5:24pm

the best director EVER was, imho, stanley kubrick. the wierdness, the depth, the Ultra-Violence:D, the carnage, the hilarious quotes ("gentlemen, stop fighting!! this is a war room!!"), hinted, nay, blatantly envisioned pedofilia, nudity, and bright lights and pretty colours to cater for those stoned. his movies have EVERYTHING. pity he's dead.

claire h · 18-10-2002 5:24pm

Originally posted by Happy CTYI guy

3. I dont even know who Kevin Smith is

This is very upsetting. Very upsetting indeed. Silent Bob!

Cabaal · 18-10-2002 5:53pm

Originally posted by Happy CTYI guy
1. I've never seen Shawshank Redemption
2. When i saw aliens, the reception on my TV was really bad and whenever i saw any of the sequels i was appalled by the lack of fright
3. I dont even know who Kevin Smith is
4. If this was the list of best movies in the world it'd be a broader list, and i can only remember movies i've seen recently

You've must soooo many good films,.

Shawshank is a excellent film

Aliens is a sequal itself, Alien was the first film

as for Kevin Smith, uhh
Have you even seen a decent film at all?
sigh...

:rolleyes:

Mystic Fibrosis · 18-10-2002 6:04pm

Do you mean to imply Dogma is NOT good? I smite thee. (and s. redemption rocks.)

has anyone read the bluntman & chronic comics? Muchos......good....

lordsippa · 18-10-2002 6:40pm

PULP FICTION ROCKS DAMMIT!

Makaveli · 18-10-2002 7:01pm

From that list Pulp Fiction.
But come on, how can you call the thread "Best movies in the World, ever" and then stick in Unbreakable/Blade II/American Psycho...

TheAlmightyArse · 18-10-2002 7:36pm

Chasing Amy's on the Beeb this Satruday! Huuuuuuuuuz-zah!

nosmo · 18-10-2002 8:56pm

Blade 2?
Unbreakable?
Spi...Spid...SPIDERMAN???

shep the malevolent pixie · 19-10-2002 8:27pm

KEVIN SMITH!!!!!! JAY AND SILENT BOB!! DOGMAAAAAA!! i love that movie. why do i keep typing movei? stoopid meee.
sHep :cool:

purplepolkadot · 19-10-2002 11:31pm

someone take 'the one' and 'spiderman' and 'unbreakable' and 'star wars' and 'blade 2' off that goddamn poll. i mean, 'unbreakable', really.
and then put on
'l.a. condfidential',
'dogma',
maybe 'the untouchables',
'clockwork orange',
shawshank,
possibly 'high fidelity'
and 'stand by me' on it.
ooh and 'pushing tin'.
and old films? like 'breakfast at tiffanys' and 'the great escape' and 'north by northwest' and 'the thomas crown affair'.
'aliens' blows 'alien' was far better.
plus i love 'the goonies' and 'some like it hot'.
'pulp fiction' is the most entertaining of that few; the comedic value and fantastically wonderasmic script just plain rule. all forever.

TheAlmightyArse · 19-10-2002 11:35pm

Dogma? Too much solliliquising about stuff I'd already given far too much thought, coming to conclusions I'd already come to. *sigh* And what the hell was up with Chris Rock? Black disciples, fine, American disciples, no. And Serindipity? More annoying than that Donkey thing in Shrek. [/pretentious arse]

Still, the **** demon was nice.

Oh, and Mallrats is far superior, purely because of its immense re-watchability, dontchernoo.

oq4v3ht0u76kf2 · 20-10-2002 12:21am

Good films:

Office Space
Wayne's World
Billy Madison
Next Friday
Porridge
American Pie I
Loser!
High Fidelity
Amerian Pie II
Road Trip
Freddie Got Fingered
Waking Ned
The Replacements
Meet the Parents
Bad Company
Ocean's Eleven
Happy Gilmore
The Waterboy
Big Daddy
Little Nicky
Grumpy Old Men
Gone Fishin'
The Out of Towners
Richie Rich
The Van
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Clueless
Anti:Trust
Hackers
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
Say It Ain't So
Agnes Browne
Die Hard with a Vengance
Under Siege II
Don't Be A Menace to South Central While Drinkin' Your Juice in the Hood
The Green Mile
The Rock

Each of those movies either made me laugh, or meant something to me... many of them did both. I may have missed out a few "classic" films (The Matrix, Shawshank Redemption et al) but those films just didn't entertain me... so, there's my list of every single movie that is worth my time on this earth.

Cabaal · 20-10-2002 10:48am

Originally posted by OrangeRhino
Good films:

Anti:Trust

Each of those movies either made me laugh

Yeah I gota say Antitrust was some comedy....

All that html code at the beginning was so cool

I'll give it good points for that fact that it was for Open Source, but they did really beat the whole "your a 1 or a 0, alive or dead" thing into the ground.

Got stupid after the first two times it was said in the movie, in saying that though I did buy it as a ex-rental from Extra Vision.

Music wasn't bad in it

Massive Attack, etc

claire h · 20-10-2002 12:55pm

Goodness:

Chasing Amy
American Beauty
Election
Girl Interrupted
The Virgin Suicides
The Royal Tenenbaums
Good Will Hunting
Shrek
The Nightmare Before Christmas

Cabaal · 20-10-2002 1:05pm

Originally posted by claire h
Goodness:

Good Will Hunting

what about
"Good Will Hunting II: Hunting Season" ??

Mystic Fibrosis · 20-10-2002 1:29pm

Rushmore
Gladiator (if only for the soundtrack)
Citizen Kane
The ORIGINAL spiderman movie (Oh, the hideously dated cheeziness)
Truman Show
EdTV
I have to say The Matrix
Predator
The Omen
Panic Room
The Others
Pokémon: The Movie( I'm not kidding)
Most thrillers that keep you guessing

shep the malevolent pixie · 20-10-2002 2:33pm

some like it hot- best movie ever.
monty python and the holy grail.
singin' in the rain
the godfather movies
casablanca
the hudsucker proxy
and so on.
pushing tin was shiiite. i mean, yeah it had john cusack but even with him it was shiiite. but it vaguely served to entertain. i suppose.
sHep :cool:

lordsippa · 20-10-2002 2:59pm

OK, I'm not going to repeat anything above but...

BRAINDEAD
Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
Twelve Monkeys
US Marshalls
Requim For A Dream
Snatch
Detroit Rock City
WAYNES WORLD!!!

purplepolkadot · 20-10-2002 4:45pm

dear lord how could i forget gladiator, and the indiana joneses, except the second one isn't as good as the other two, a bit dark for a swashbuckling adventure thing.
i like pushing tin, thought it was clever and it has four of my favourite actors in it; thornton, cusack, blanchette and jolie. although yeah there was a couple of plotholes yeah.
the donkey in shrek was brilliant. and i thought dogma was brilliant as a comedy, which is what kevin smith is best at, not opening people's minds and **** like that. you have to admit the "i'll cry rape" and the gay-couple-like relationship between bartleby an loki and the bit where jay gets up and says "what the **** is this? what the **** happened here? who the **** are you? what the **** are you doing? and what the **** happened to that guy's head?" bits are stupidly funny. go on.
and i'm sorry bob but neither interesting nor entertaining were Loser! (talk about blowing monkey), Bad Company (can't even remember that, it was so bland, and that was what two monthes ago?) Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (more predictable than time, with uber-**** acting) Say It Ain't So (one word- ****).

Mystic Fibrosis · 20-10-2002 5:11pm

"I didn't come on you Pete, I swear..."

Mystic Fibrosis · 20-10-2002 6:09pm

kaimera · 20-10-2002 6:44pm

Damn that poll is poor.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Shawshank Redemption.

hehehe...Dont be a Menace....BRILLIANT!

The Matrix.

Star Wars.

Bond - Dr. No cos twas the first.
Goldfinger cos twas the bestest.

s0l · 20-10-2002 7:21pm

I agree. (But i'm voting on Spiderman purely on the novel way osbourne dies. Oh, that was hard to watch.)

LIL NORMAN!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

poor little guy, never saw it coming.
heehee, great memories of sitting in a pizza hut after seeing Spiderman and spraying my drink alover my pizza after richard said "poor norman, he'll be in my mind forever"
come to think of it, you'd have to have been there, or know richard

s0l · 20-10-2002 7:22pm

I agree. (But i'm voting on Spiderman purely on the novel way osbourne dies. Oh, that was hard to watch.)

LIL NORMAN!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

poor little guy, never saw it coming.
heehee, great memories of sitting in a pizza hut after seeing Spiderman and spraying my drink alover my pizza after richard said "poor norman, he'll be in my mind forever"
come to think of it, you'd have to have been there, or know richard, he had a talent he did

qwidgybo · 20-10-2002 7:58pm

hmmm,
some like it hot is a good ol'film.

the virgin suicides.....found it a bit pointless myself.liked the way it was shot and put together and so on,though.

orangerhino(bob,yes?),i would be absolutely horrified at your list of good films,(i mean,all those adam sandler ones??and MEET THE PARENTS??dear god!)but you put clueless in there,and i really really really really really really love that film.*sighs*must watch it again...

monty python and the holy grail is fabfabfab.i eman,there's a charcater called patsy in it!i love people called patsy!life of brian is also quite fabtastic.and wonderful.and soooooo gas.

i don't like thrillers.very annoying.

edtv and the truman show were a bit shhhhhhhhite,i mo thuairim féin.

and harry potter??the only good parts about that film are the bits the attractive scottish quiddich player are in.

that's all i have to say for now...

imp · 20-10-2002 8:11pm

Originally posted by qwidgybo
and harry potter??the only good parts about that film are the bits the attractive scottish quiddich player are in.

Isn't he like... 12??

}:>

qwidgybo · 20-10-2002 8:40pm

or seventeen!!

imp · 20-10-2002 8:45pm

My mistake!

}:>

Crash · 20-10-2002 9:29pm

Can we stop with the really stupid "Hey, i'm gonna waste peoples time by posting up my favourite movies and getting people to discuss how irritating i am" polls. they've been done to ****ing death.

On the other hand, a topic concerning something along the lines of cinematography in various movies, how well they were shot etc. could actually be mildly interesting opposed to this ****e. so, how bout i change the subject.

Great use of cinematography:

Three Kings

Behind Enemy Lines (crap storyline and went a teensy bit overboard on the effects, but damn purdy film)

anyone else have views on this?

oq4v3ht0u76kf2 · 20-10-2002 9:47pm

Neil; calm down... I merely posted that list as a list of films I enjoyed seens as it provided more discussion than "No yuo111! Your list is teh ****emonkey!11"

And I don't care how purdy Behind Enemy Lines was... that as a shocking outrage to storytellers everywhere. Ya gotta wonder about the script writing meeting for that film... we have two stoners, let's call them Bob and Sven...

Bob: I know, let's have an indestructible man...
Sven: With armour and stuff?
B: Not at all, just pure indestructible...
S: Yeah, able to run as fast as a jeep with 200lb sack on his back...
B: Yeah dude! And let's have him fighting the commies...
S: Yeah, that'll show 'em!! It's real patriotic like...
B: Yeah...
S: Yeah...

Then they told the team of monkeys at typewriters to write the script...

TheAlmightyArse · 20-10-2002 10:19pm

Black Hawk Down.

What in poo was that all about? It didn't seem to have a plot in the traditional sense, more a few just about coherent sketches interspersed with explosions, big noisey helcopters and blokes going "rar!"

I got the impression, really I did, that the script wasn't so much written as it was sneezed.

Green Hand Guy · 21-10-2002 5:45pm

Lord of the Rings? I loved the books but the movie? It was good but not one of the best ever. They cut out too much important stuff for it to be brilliant.

My favourite movie ever has to be The Empire Strikes Back. Who wouldn't like seeing that asshole Mark Hammil getting his hand cut off? Also Darth Vader kicks ass. They ruined him in Return of the Jedi by turning him good in the end. It would have been better if he'd let the Emperor kill Luke and THEN killed the Emperor.

Attack of the Clones was good too for two reasons, Natalie Portman and lightsabres. Wouldn't it be cool if they somehow combined the two? It would make some kind of super lightsabre woman. Oh, and they should have had more scenes with Yoda using his lightsabre.

claire h · 21-10-2002 6:56pm

Originally posted by Green Hand Guy
Natalie Portman and lightsabres. Wouldn't it be cool if they somehow combined the two? It would make some kind of super lightsabre woman.

Or a rather interesting porn movie.

shep the malevolent pixie · 21-10-2002 6:59pm

what important stuff did they cut? mostly all they got rid of was the tom bombadill sh*te and he was just annoying anyway.
ooh oliver wood......*drools slightly* the actor's name is....wait for it.....sean biggerstaff!!!! *falls into fits of maniacal laughter*

sHep :cool:

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