SuperSamyon
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Fantastic movie. Great choice! I feel like watching it again this weekend.
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Shawshank Redemption is the best movie ever made IMO. What's yours?
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Fantastic movie. Great choice! I feel like watching it again this weekend.
True Savior
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Tatsuya Nakadai intensity is something else. Also dat Okamoto snow !
Tatsuya Nakadai intensity is something else. Also dat Okamoto snow !
I have to admit I really dislike Shawshank Redemption. I thought it was awfully cliche and trope ridden, and I didn't like the racial implications.
Anyway, for me the two best films of all time are:
2001 A Space Odyssey. Essentially, the "Lord of the Rings" of filmmaking. It's for those of us with long attention spans and who like arcane concepts, high ideas and have a distain for all things least-common-denominator.
Baraka. A film that has no actors nor script yet tells a very compelling and meaningful story. Essentially visual meditation. Also, best soundtrack of any film ever.
Anyway, for me the two best films of all time are:
2001 A Space Odyssey. Essentially, the "Lord of the Rings" of filmmaking. It's for those of us with long attention spans and who like arcane concepts, high ideas and have a distain for all things least-common-denominator.
Baraka. A film that has no actors nor script yet tells a very compelling and meaningful story. Essentially visual meditation. Also, best soundtrack of any film ever.
My #1 is Brazil.
I think it's a timeless film with concepts that never stop resonating and in a lot of ways are more relevant as time goes on. Visually it's unique, the performances are strong, the writing is great, the cinematography is stylised and appealing, it''s funny and depressing at the same time, creepy, scary, it's my groovy fave-rave fab grab pic and has been since I was a little lad.
I think it's a timeless film with concepts that never stop resonating and in a lot of ways are more relevant as time goes on. Visually it's unique, the performances are strong, the writing is great, the cinematography is stylised and appealing, it''s funny and depressing at the same time, creepy, scary, it's my groovy fave-rave fab grab pic and has been since I was a little lad.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
bender
What time is it?
Interesting to see a few mentions for The Fountain. That's the movie that had me jump off the Aronofsky bandwagon. I love Pi and Requiem though.
I teeter between Pulp Fiction, Lost In Translation, Princess Bride or Princess Mononoke for my favorite movie of all time.
p.s. Just ordered Sword of Doom thanks to those gifs.
I teeter between Pulp Fiction, Lost In Translation, Princess Bride or Princess Mononoke for my favorite movie of all time.
p.s. Just ordered Sword of Doom thanks to those gifs.
I watched it for the first time last night and I agree, it was boring.
afternoon delight
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Jaws.
It's a tough choice, but it always wins.
It's a tough choice, but it always wins.
Glirk-Dirka
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TrAcEr_x90
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Runner up: The Fountain
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I cant even tell you all how many times I have rewatched this movie. Seems like its a pretty polarzing film but its my #1.
I cant even tell you all how many times I have rewatched this movie. Seems like its a pretty polarzing film but its my #1.
PrimaNocta
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My top 3 are: Braveheart, Shawshank Redemption & Coming to America.
Indeed. Beautiful film, wonderfully scored, excellent acting, so many feels. My favorite.
RiccochetJ
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Mine too. I pretty much love everything about that movie.
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Preach brother, preach!
God this is hard but I would agree with Shawshank if not Green Mile
But my own personal top 10, which changes of course:
1) Big Trouble in Little China
2) Empire Strikes Back
3) LOTR: Fellowship
4) O Brother, Where art Thou(really underrated)
5) Back to the Future
6) Training Day
7) Starship Troopers
8) Coming to America
9) History of the World Part 1
10) Princess Bride
There are tons more, but it really depends on my mood i guess.
But my own personal top 10, which changes of course:
1) Big Trouble in Little China
2) Empire Strikes Back
3) LOTR: Fellowship
4) O Brother, Where art Thou(really underrated)
5) Back to the Future
6) Training Day
7) Starship Troopers
8) Coming to America
9) History of the World Part 1
10) Princess Bride
There are tons more, but it really depends on my mood i guess.
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
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The Seven Samurai obviously.
It also quite possibly has the most authentic and terrifying hand to hand combat ever put to film. So realistic people to this day think some of it looks fake, presumably because there aren't fountains of blood when someone is cut. In even the best movies, excellent swordmen are God-tier with their weapon choreography. Seven Samurai is the only movie to portray it as the insane, sloppy, one-sided, murder festival that it is.
Just thinking about those women with pitchforks brings the feels. It's the only "war" movie that really shows what war is like, and it's not even a traditional war movie with armies or anything. It's just 7 guys altruistically helping a peasant village survive against a mob of staving guys trying to survive themselves. Glory and honor? GTFO, ithey're completely irrelevant to the film.
Also it's 60 years old and nobody has even come close or entered the same ballpark in any way whatsoever. Even the best anti-war films ever made don't touch the raw human honesty Seven Samurai pulls off effortlessly.
That movie is simultaneously a window into 16th century Japan and into the human soul for any culture or time in history. It also grows on you. I first saw it at 16 and meh? Cheesy. Second and third viewings were better. But over the last 10 years it grew in my mind as the cinematic equivalent of the 9th symphony.
It also quite possibly has the most authentic and terrifying hand to hand combat ever put to film. So realistic people to this day think some of it looks fake, presumably because there aren't fountains of blood when someone is cut. In even the best movies, excellent swordmen are God-tier with their weapon choreography. Seven Samurai is the only movie to portray it as the insane, sloppy, one-sided, murder festival that it is.
Just thinking about those women with pitchforks brings the feels. It's the only "war" movie that really shows what war is like, and it's not even a traditional war movie with armies or anything. It's just 7 guys altruistically helping a peasant village survive against a mob of staving guys trying to survive themselves. Glory and honor? GTFO, ithey're completely irrelevant to the film.
Also it's 60 years old and nobody has even come close or entered the same ballpark in any way whatsoever. Even the best anti-war films ever made don't touch the raw human honesty Seven Samurai pulls off effortlessly.
That movie is simultaneously a window into 16th century Japan and into the human soul for any culture or time in history. It also grows on you. I first saw it at 16 and meh? Cheesy. Second and third viewings were better. But over the last 10 years it grew in my mind as the cinematic equivalent of the 9th symphony.
megamerican
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Goodfellas, Boogie Nights, or Robocop depending on what mood I'm in that day.
MRrogermoore
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Seven samurai, Amelie without thinking much.
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need to really put some thought into it or maybe a rewatch of some.
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need to really put some thought into it or maybe a rewatch of some.
Muffdraul
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This post speaks for me in all ways.
rokkerkory
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Star Wars ep 4
Lord Morairty007
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My favorite movie of all time is Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade but the best movie ever made for me is
Oooh, nice call, I haven't seen that film in a while, so crazy intense.
If you ask me to be objective, I've been leaning towards this film more and more over the years.
My personal fav is still Godard's Breathless.
I have to give it up to Raiders of the Lost Ark for being absolutely flawless in terms of pace. Raiders and The Third Man are both films that play with the audiences expectations and assumptions about when characters are "safe" or "in danger," and about who or what is "in play" at any given moment. They're both perfectly-executed roller-coasters.
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