The Greatest Films of All Time

[Stumpy Tim]

Don't Look Now is my all-time favourite film - truly great thriller. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is a splendid film as it broke barriers down for Chinese films. And The Filth & the Fury is a cracking documentary.

Life of Brian should certainly be there too

 

[Simster]

Life of Brian should certainly be there too

Much as enjoyed Life Of Brian, I think it's overrated.

 

[Meade's Ball]

I was lucky to be unemployed when a Hitchcock season took to the Duke of Yorks screen in about 1993. I lived in a housing benefit house on Stanley Road some 20 doors or so from the Dukes, borrowed the odd note from my mum and went to see every afternoon showing they had. My favourite was Spellbound. So absurd, and poorly acted in places, muderously theatrical, as all Hitchcock films were in their garish Victorian framing, but hugely enjoyable, and some of the shotmanship was profoundly amusing along with Dali's dream sequence.
Not sure i watched Rope there or on video at home. But i loved the pomposity of that.

I am unable to make a Top Ten List of my favourite "movies". it would be like a Top Four of my sexual conquests, stating how great i was round Melissa's house that autumn night, how she squealed and bit a nugget of her tongue off (if i ever knew a Melissa or ever caused a squeal in any act outside of the revelation of my hairy, grey torso to the sexually-thrilled and unexpected).

 

[goldstone]

Casablanca HAS to be on a list of the greatest films.

 

[NMH]

Much as enjoyed Life Of Brian, I think it's overrated.

Isn't the point of an excellent film, that you enjoy it "much"?

Of course, there are films that make you feel uncomfortable, and if they were made with the exact intent of doing that, then they must also be rather good.
For example, 'The Alien'.
'Jaws' was another, and although not one I rate as highly, it made a lot of people become disquieted about the simple activity of going swimming.

 

[Simster]

Isn't the point of an excellent film, that you enjoy it "much"?

Erm, yes. I'm not exactly disagreeing with you am I? I'm just saying that in MY opinion, it is overrated. Am I allowed to do that?

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Specially for Uncle Spielberg ...


1. Citizen Kane -SEEN... FANTASTIC!!!
2. La Règle du Jeu - SEEN... OK
3. Battleship Potemkin - SEEN...SHOULD BE NO 1
4. Vertigo - SEEN.. HITHCOCK COULD DO BETTER
5. L'Avventura - NOT SEEN
6. 8½ - SEEN SHOULD BE NO.2 BUT AMACORD IS BETTER
7. Tokyo Story - TOKYO MONOTOGARI?OOOOOOO DEEP AND DEPRESSING!!!
8= Bicycle Thieves -NOT SEEN
8= The Godfather & The Godfather II - HMMM....OK I SUPPOSE
10. The Passion of Joan of Arc. - FABULOUS..... NOT THE ONE WITH MILLA IN!!!

How anyhting by Preston Sturges, especially Sullivan's Travels is not on there I do not know.

OH and US......get a life and actually watch some films made before 1977 will you!!!

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

There's a bloody good reason for that too.

If anyone ever reached out for the lowest common denominator...

As an example, Schindler's List is an EXCELLENT film. However, while the first two hours are an absolute blunt assault on your senses regarding the horrors of the holocaust - and he does get a level of those horrors across to us, although nothing like what it would have been like to live in that time, Speilberg still can't resist the tempatation to lapse into a level of tear-jerking and mawkishness in the last hour, just in case anyone should forget what a good guy Oskar Schindler turned out to be. As if he hadn't made a fairly decent layered appraisal of his character in the first two hours.

We didn't need the story slapped on to us like Barbara Cartland's make-up. Believe me, we'd got the scenario by then, we can work it out for ourselves.

That for me, is a classic Speilberg trait, and it's not necessarily a good one.

and the ending was truly awful!!!!! Give me Keneally's book instead any day!!!!

 

[NMH]

Erm, yes. I'm not exactly disagreeing with you am I? I'm just saying that in MY opinion, it is overrated. Am I allowed to do that?

er....bit over the top there Saylor, I was just asking if your perspective - that you 'much enjoyed' LOB, means that it effectively did what it was made to do.
Yes, if it were mentioned as the 'top comedy film of all time' I suppose it might come under the comparison with Airplane, Blues Bros and Young Frankensteine, but comedy films usually are conspicuous in their absence in top awards and lists.

 

[Dave the OAP]

A Man For All Seasons - Paul Scofield
Lawrence of Arabia - Peter O'Toole
Women in Love - Glenda Jackson
Saving Private Ryan - I know its schmaltzy, but I really enjoyed it( apart from the first twenty minutes)
Cromwell - Richard Harris
The Sand Pipers ( or Pebblers?) - Steve McQueen

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

I am also a dedicated voyeur but - I've watched Rear Window once and loved every frame of it but didn't feel an urge to see it again. I've seen North By Northwest and Vertigo about 10 times and could very happily sit down and watch either again now, esp. the latter - if only to TRY and perfect my James Mason impression. Vertigo is just a deep, weird film.

Can't agree MoH... think I've seen Rear Window eight times now

 

[Simster]

Yes, NMH, it did. But to put it on a potential list of all time classic films is going too far I think. I have to say that I enjoy both "Withnail and I" and "Spinal Tap" far more than LOB - but that's just me.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

ET is a fabulous film call me a man boy if you want, I will always rate it as an alltime classic , do I care if Simster pisses himself, not really

SL ending was the survivors and ended the film well imho. The last hour was about what OS did to keep the workers safe, the last 10 minutes only was Spielberg's take on the story.

 

[Lokki 7]

SL ending was the survivors and ended the film well imho.

There is nothing "humble" about your opinions US.

 

[Man of Harveys]

There is nothing "humble" about your opinions US.

Are you being a holocaust denier?

 

[Leekbrookgull]

The Long Good Friday,The Railway Children (original) and,split between Fahrenheit 9/11, Mississippi Burning and finally Conspiracy.

 

[Norman Potting]

They not be great art but.....

1. "Ruthless People" with Danny DeVito and Bette Midler in full on scenery chewing mode makes me laugh still.

2. "Spinal Tap" ..."But this one goes up to 11" does it for me every time!

and if you want drama, how about "Brighton Rock" with a very young Dickie Attenborough and our own fair Sussex City in all it's black and white glory. The books good as well.

 

[goldstone]

Saving Private Ryan - I know its schmaltzy, but I really enjoyed it( apart from the first twenty minutes)

I'm not sure how you can "really enjoy" a film if you didn't like the first twenty minutes? That's an awful big chunk of the film!

 

[Pevenseagull]

............
and if you want drama, how about "Brighton Rock" with a very young Dickie Attenborough and our own fair Sussex City in all it's black and white glory. The books good as well.

yeah, spose that Graham Greene weren't that bad at that writting stuff

 

[surrey jim]

for me the best films are

Shawshank Redemption
Football Factory
Butterfly Effect
Resevoir Dogs
Quadrophenia