Best Ever Movie - Round Two

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Sir Og
What is it that some people don't like about Braveheart?!?

It was supposed to be historical, but instead was more of an ad for Scottish nationalism. The English were evil caricatures, while Mel Gibson was a messianic figure. Very much like The Patriot. That said, it was more entertaining than most Hollywood films, but that is truly damning with faint praise.

[Ned]

Sik, in the year Braveheart won the award, Babe was the best picture. I wonder if anyone here even saw Babe.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Ned
Sik, in the year Braveheart won the award, Babe was the best picture. I wonder if anyone here even saw Babe.

Pas moi. About time a pig movie won though.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by molly bloom
This poll is sooo silly. No John Ford. No Preston Sturges. No Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Robert Wise, Kubrick, Hitchcock, Renoir, Lang, Ophuls, Sirk, in fact nothing that wouldn't have impinged on the consciousness of some whacked out Valley Girl (except perhaps Citizen Kane....).

No Indian films. No Chinese films. No German or Italian or French cinema represented.

And Braveheart!!!!! I've done more cinematic dumps!!!!

Star Wars!!!! Why not nominate 'the Jetsons', for Gawd's sake? Hmm, yes, the great acting range of Mark Hamill, from A to ...... A, and back again.

I understand. Films for grown ups like 'Culloden', 'The World of Apu' and 'L'Armee des Ombres' are just not as gee whizz bang as 'Braveheart' and 'the Matrix'.

Well, in principle I agree with you on a lot of your points, but lets not get too riled here - the purpose of polls like this in places like this is not for definitive "answers" but to find out what the people you're hanging with think.

And in a forum dominated by white males of European/American descent whom all speak English, I would've been surprised had any non-English film made the list and shocked had any non-Western* film made the list.

Hell, I would likely have been equally shocked if these movies had not been nominated - it's just a function of the audience.

But still, I don't understand.... Gladiator? Why in the name of all that is Rational in this world is Gladiator on this list?

*Western Civ, not cowboys.

[FrustratedPoet]

Originally posted by Ned
I wonder if anyone here even saw Babe.

I would be surprised if most people here HADN'T seen Babe.

I saw it and didn't really like it. It was better than Braveheart though.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Sikander


Pas moi. About time a pig movie won though.

You mean you don't recall Charlotte's Web?

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Sikander


Pas moi. About time a pig movie won though.

Same here. Good film, and if you like that I strongly recommend 1988's The Bear, by the same man who gave us Enemy at the Gates and The Name of the Rose, Jean-Jacques Annaud. There will likely never be a better non-CGI-enhanced animal film again.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by tinyp3nis

Grown ups, fashion snobs, what's the difference eh.

Sorry I couldn't pick films more to your taste- my local Blockbuster was out of 'The Wombles' and 'Who Dares Wins'....

Had you actually seen 'Culloden' you'd have realised what a good director (Peter Watkins) could do with a small budget and black and white film. As opposed to Mel Gibson, a Hollywood budget and the consummate dreckfest that is 'Jockfart'.

Films notable by their absence: 'The Searchers', 'Safety First', 'The Third Man', 'Ran', 'Wild Strawberries', 'Rome, Open City', 'Klute', 'L'Atalante', 'La Regle du Jeu', 'Tokyo Story', 'Pather Panchali', 'North by Northwest', 'Shadow of a Doubt', 'Don't Look Now', 'Once Upon a Time In America', 'Storm over Asia', 'Picnic at Hanging Rock', 'High Tide', 'The Conversation', 'Bonnie and Clyde', 'The Manchurian Candidate' 'To Be or Not To Be', 'Dead of Night', 'The Haunting', 'Godfather II', 'Public Enemy' 'Angels With Dirty Faces' 'The Grifters', 'Fanny and Alexander', 'Babette's Feast', 'Les Diaboliques', 'The General', 'M', 'Mephisto', 'Metropolis' etc, etc, etc....

There's so much excellent American cinema alone missing from the top 10 and films in it that frankly are nine days' wonders, and will not stand the test of time- special effects aren't a substitute for good film making, they're an adjunct to it.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Woah woah...I gave Usual Suspects 8, which should have made it 15...what's this ten stuff?

[The Emperor Fabulous]

I love how people can just complain and complain and complain about an insignificant poll. If you dislike it, just make a new one.

How about "Best foreign film ever" or "Best film that doesn't have Keanu Reeves"?

[Hueij]

Originally posted by JohnT


Same here. Good film, and if you like that I strongly recommend 1988's The Bear, by the same man who gave us Enemy at the Gates and The Name of the Rose, Jean-Jacques Annaud. There will likely never be a better non-CGI-enhanced animal film again.

Wow. I thought I was the only one that remembered that one.

[Hueij]

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous
I love how people can just complain and complain and complain about an insignificant poll. If you dislike it, just make a new one.

How about "Best foreign film ever" or "Best film that doesn't have Keanu Reeves"?

Maybe "Best movie from before 1990 and people under 30 can't vote"?

Come on, Matrix

[mindseye]

'Don't Look Now'

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Originally posted by Hueij

Maybe "Best movie from before 1990 and people under 30 can't vote"?

Come on, Matrix

...they made movies before 1990?!

[MrFun]

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous


...they made movies before 1990?!