What is the BEST film you've ever seen?

[Beach Hut]

Godfather 2

 

[Giraffe]

Schindler's List.

Only film that has left me thinking about it for months afterwards.
BUT it's not a film to be watched over and over again.

For that, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

My Top 5 all time.

1. Schindler's List
2. ET - The Extraterrestial
3. Close Encounters of the Third Time
4. Downfall
5. The Machinist

 

[Garage_Doors]

Don't see what all the fuss is about with BTTF, only seen the first one but I thought it was so shit I just couldn't bring my self to watching the others.

Your loss. Fantastic trilogy.

 

[BhafcTim]

Inception

 

[Garage_Doors]

My Top 5 all time.

1. Schindler's List
2. ET - The Extraterrestial
3. Close Encounters of the Third Time
4. Downfall
5. The Machinist

What about Hook?

 

[grubbyhands]

Worlds fastest Indian for me first, then Shawshank and green mile as runners up.

 

[gripper stebson]

Ooh can I throw in Airplane as the film that made me love comedy.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

What about Hook?

Not in my top 100. I liked it a lot though.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Inception

A top 10 for sure. The best film of the last 5 years for me.

 

[m20gull]

Torn between Casablanca, Blues Brothers and Pulp Fiction.

 

[midnight_rendezvous]

Rufio, rufio, ru-fi-oooooooo!

 

[Kumquat]

In all seriousness, my favourite film is Festen. A film that manages to be incredibly dark but also quite funny. The acting is unbelievable from a cast of unknowns. Beautiful Girls is one of my favourites too. Almost the opposite of Festen. A light-hearted story of a fella scared of tying the knot who heads back to his hick home town for reassurance and awakening. Star studded but hugely under rated at the box office, it got rave reviews from those in the know. Still stands the test of time. Great performances from Natalie Portman and Michael Rapaport in particular.

 

[Stat Brother]

If there's a correlation between the best film and the one you've seen the most, then my answer is either:-

Wrath of Khan

or

Cool Runnings.

 

[Kumquat]

Ooh can I throw in Airplane as the film that made me love comedy.

That's a great shout, shirley!

 

[wallyback]

Shallow Grave
Moonrise Kingdom
A1
The Apartment
Halloween
Close Encounters
Italian Job
Omen
What's New Pussycat

 

[Poyetry In Motion]

Bloodbath at the House of Death ( Kenny Everett, Pamela Stephenson, Vincent Price ). The best 'B' movie in my opinion

Ronin ( Jean Reno, Bob De Niro ) Just a brilliant, brilliant flick - car chases, girls, guns etc . what more do you need?

 

[SuperBrighton]

Difficult to pick a 'best ever' film, so many to choose from, some of my favourites:

Fight Club (obvious I like this one)
The Shawshank Redemption
Saving Private Ryan
Seven
Gladiator
Shutter Island

I love psychological thrillers and war films but the latter seems to blend together and I sometimes forget which films are which.

 

[Dancing Sock]

Only film that has left me thinking about it for months afterwards.
BUT it's not a film to be watched over and over again.

For that, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

This, a film to be played once when in the "right" mood then put away and stored as a memory.

Parts of this film just had me burst into tears, that part where the Nazi was just shooting random jews from his balcony for no reason, really made me think long and hard at how someone's life could just literally be wasted, everything they've done and everything they will do, just wasted by a guy without a care in the world for them. The red girl bit had me going too.

I give credit to the actors and Speilberg, who admittedly said he found it an incredibly difficult to see it through to the end.

 

[ArfurW8]

From a purely great cinema going experience I think I'd go for Se7en. Superb.

One of my favourites too.

Also,
Crash
Warriors,one from my youth,I came out of the cinema feeling 10 feet tall and hard as nails.