Great Films

The greatest films of all time, in no specific order:

It's A Wonderful Life
The Best Years Of Our Lives
Seven Days In May
The Sixth Sense
Ghandi
One Eyed Jacks
The Private Affairs of Bell Ami
Field of Dreams
The Manchurian Candidate
Starting Out In The Evening
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
All About Eve

Not quite on the list:

Strangers On A Train
2001 A Space Odyssey
Being There ( should probably be on the list, still debating)
Run Silent Run Deep
Lawrence of Arabia
Wizard of Oz
Sunset Boulevard
Shane ( Close call, might be on the list)
Streetcar Named Desire
Mildred Pierce
Executive Suite

Defiantly not on the list but great picture:

The Children's Hour
Citizen Kane (yeah, you think I'm crazy)
12 Angry Men
Ben Hur
Red River
Above And Beyond
No Country For Old Men
In Cold Blood
Dear Heart
That Hamilton Woman
South Pacific
A Nun's Story
Bridge On The River Kwai
Dr Zhivago
Contact
The Sweet Smell Of Success
Roman Holiday
Saving Private Ryan
Castaway
Bad Day at Black Rock
The Sound Of Music
Hud

Not on the list and not a great picture:

Gone With The Wind ( Great cast, extravaganza, but weak plot, no depth, riddled with stereotypes.)

Some of these pics have been on the Great Movie List so long that people now put them on their list even though they're no longer relevant. Like Citizen Kane. Oh. My. God. I've tried to watch it 3 times over 20 years and can't take it after 30 minutes. I'm sure it was important 80 years ago, but for friggin Christ stop putting it on the Great Picture List in 2014. Maltese Falcon, It's a Wonderful Life, same thing. Watch once. Time goes on. Like saying John Wayne is a good actor or Michael Jackson was a great star. MJ was a faggoty pedophile who had so much plastic surgery his nose fell off during his pedophile trials (when he showed up in pajamas) and he died through drug abuse. Stop making Cirque du Soleil shows about that guy, fer cryin' out loud.

Or thinking Bob Dylan was a great singer. The guy can't carry a tune to save his life; he mumbles every line of his unimaginative songs, here's an example "I ain't lookin' to drag you down or drain you down, chain you down or bring you down"....awesome Bob, you rhymed down with down, twice. Friggin' genius. And mumbling the whole time.

Think for yourselves people, Jesus Christ.

Quote: zippyboy

Some of these pics have been on the Great Movie List so long that people now put them on their list even though they're no longer relevant. Like Citizen Kane. Oh. My. God. I've tried to watch it 3 times over 20 years and can't take it after 30 minutes. I'm sure it was important 80 years ago, but for friggin Christ stop putting it on the Great Picture List in 2014. Maltese Falcon, It's a Wonderful Life, same thing. Watch once. Time goes on. Like saying John Wayne is a good actor or Michael Jackson was a great star. MJ was a faggoty pedophile who had so much plastic surgery his nose fell off during his pedophile trials (when he showed up in pajamas) and he died through drug abuse. Stop making Cirque du Soleil shows about that guy, fer cryin' out loud.

Or thinking Bob Dylan was a great singer. The guy can't carry a tune to save his life; he mumbles every line of his unimaginative songs, here's an example "I ain't lookin' to drag you down or drain you down, chain you down or bring you down"....awesome Bob, you rhymed down with down, twice. Friggin' genius. And mumbling the whole time.

Think for yourselves people, Jesus Christ.

I can't see why you don't get how great It's a Wonderful Life is. Just a great picture now and forever. Do you really think it's lame?

Wow. I've only seen two of those movies by choice (Saving Private Ryan / Cast Away), and one of them was because it was mandated in 10th grade Social Studies (Ghandi)

I can hardly make a list of my own.

Saving Private Ryan
We Were Soldiers
Good Fellas
The Big Lebowski
Clerks
Lord of the Rings
Forest Gump
Kill Bill

These are the only ones I can even remember as saying "Yes. That was damn good" after having watched them. Of them, only Saving Private Ryan and We Were Soldiers are ones which I have continued to watch once a year. Perhaps add Clerks, LotR, and Lebowski if I ever resume smoking weed ;)

I've never been much of a movie guy, but I do miss that feeling after watching a good flick. Even the Hobbit left me kind of disappointed, and I hugely appreciated LotR.

I was beside myself waiting for Ron Howard to release the movie version of King's book The Dark Tower, but it got canceled.

Perhaps if they make another realistic war flick, but based on the Pacific theatre, I may get excited once again. Oh! Midway, 1976 with Heston. Add that to the list.

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Wow. I've only seen two of those movies by choice (Saving Private Ryan / Cast Away), and one of them was because it was mandated in 10th grade Social Studies (Ghandi)

I can hardly make a list of my own.

Saving Private Ryan
We Were Soldiers
Good Fellas
The Big Lebowski
Clerks
Lord of the Rings
Forest Gump
Kill Bill

These are the only ones I can even remember as saying "Yes. That was damn good" after having watched them. Of them, only Saving Private Ryan and We Were Soldiers are ones which I have continued to watch once a year. Perhaps add Clerks, LotR, and Lebowski if I ever resume smoking weed ;)

I've never been much of a movie guy, but I do miss that feeling after watching a good flick. Even the Hobbit left me kind of disappointed, and I hugely appreciated LotR.

I was beside myself waiting for Ron Howard to release the movie version of King's book The Dark Tower, but it got canceled.

Perhaps if they make another realistic war flick, but based on the Pacific theatre, I may get excited once again. Oh! Midway, 1976 with Heston. Add that to the list.

Personally, I thought MacArthur was a better picture than Midway. Twelve O'clock High too. Young Man With a Horn

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Personally, I thought MacArthur was a better picture than Midway. Twelve O'clock High too. Young Man With a Horn

Could have been. I think I'm too young for this thread, as even Midway was 5yrs before my time ;)

Citizen Kane will always be near the top because
Orson Wells taught directors how to direct with
this movie. Like Hemingway changed writing forever,
Wells changed how movies were directed forever.
He was only 26 and he was a genius. Read the Wiki
entry about him sometime, if you've got half an hour
to kill. It's that long.

Wonderful Life is pure Americana, that's why it's on the
list.

Quote: Face

Wow. I've only seen two of those movies by choice (Saving Private Ryan / Cast Away), and one of them was because it was mandated in 10th grade Social Studies (Ghandi)

I can hardly make a list of my own.

Saving Private Ryan
We Were Soldiers
Good Fellas
The Big Lebowski
Clerks
Lord of the Rings
Forest Gump
Kill Bill

These are the only ones I can even remember as saying "Yes. That was damn good" after having watched them. Of them, only Saving Private Ryan and We Were Soldiers are ones which I have continued to watch once a year. Perhaps add Clerks, LotR, and Lebowski if I ever resume smoking weed ;)

I've never been much of a movie guy, but I do miss that feeling after watching a good flick. Even the Hobbit left me kind of disappointed, and I hugely appreciated LotR.

I was beside myself waiting for Ron Howard to release the movie version of King's book The Dark Tower, but it got canceled.

Perhaps if they make another realistic war flick, but based on the Pacific theatre, I may get excited once again. Oh! Midway, 1976 with Heston. Add that to the list.

Good Fellas was a great picture. Not an all time great, but great. So was My Cousin Vinny. Marisa Tomei was great in that, and she stole the show in The Wrestler. Casino was a great picture, but also, not an all time great. Soldier In The Rain. Haven't see that in decades. To Live And Die In L.A. Great picture. The Oxbow Incident. Paths Of Glory. The Bad And The Beautiful. Mildred Pierce. Maybe if I saw some of them again I would mention them somewhere. Certainly some of them are on the great pictures or even the greatest pictures of all time list. DOA . I can't stop myself. I know a lot of pictures. Angel Face. Jim Thorpe, All American. The Days of Wine And Roses.

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Some of these pics have been on the Great Movie List so long that people now put them on their list even though they're no longer relevant. Like Citizen Kane. Oh. My. God. I've tried to watch it 3 times over 20 years and can't take it after 30 minutes. I'm sure it was important 80 years ago, but for friggin Christ stop putting it on the Great Picture List in 2014. Maltese Falcon, It's a Wonderful Life, same thing. Watch once. Time goes on. Like saying John Wayne is a good actor or Michael Jackson was a great star. MJ was a faggoty pedophile who had so much plastic surgery his nose fell off during his pedophile trials (when he showed up in pajamas) and he died through drug abuse. Stop making Cirque du Soleil shows about that guy, fer cryin' out loud.

Or thinking Bob Dylan was a great singer. The guy can't carry a tune to save his life; he mumbles every line of his unimaginative songs, here's an example "I ain't lookin' to drag you down or drain you down, chain you down or bring you down"....awesome Bob, you rhymed down with down, twice. Friggin' genius. And mumbling the whole time.

Think for yourselves people, Jesus Christ.

I rarely quote entire posts, but this is classic. You're
Archie Bunker. You're the guy who looks at a Picasso
painting and says it's 'crap'. You're the guy who hears
opera and deems it nonsense. You're the guy who
thinks classical music is 'boring' You're the guy who
thinks the Elvis on velvet paintings are real art.

There are films I thoroughly enjoyed (not on the list) at the time. Like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7XGaoOlar8&feature=player_detailpage#t=43.

They were well done at the time, but maybe overshadowed by something else. Just not quite in a high enough bracket.