Best written movie?

[Pekka]

What's your favourite movie as far as writing goes?

I like Wes Anderson just like everyone else (writer), and I like Todd Solondz's Happiness is cream of the crop. It's absolutely brilliant from the first minute to the last. I can watch it over and over again, of course it's a great movie but the writing is very special.

What's your favourite?

[Richelieu]

Fight Club.

[Pekka]

that's pretty good too.

What I love about happiness is the kind of dark, self hating, dark, dark, self hating, dark, brilliant writing

[Japher]

Fight Club.

I was going to say that

but it would of violated the first rule




(seriously, it was the first movie that popped into my head)

[Kontiki]

Heavily narrative or dialogue-based movies would be at the top of the list, I suppose. Usual Suspects and Glengarry Glen Ross come to mind.

[Zkribbler]

Amadeus.

(BTW: Chinatown is generally touted as the best written screenplay. I don't know why. I've read it, and --ehh. )

[Guynemer]

I'm a bit partial to L.A. Confidential.

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by Japher
I was going to say that

but it would of violated the first rule

I'm going to have to beat the **** out of me.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Big Fish

[snoopy369]

The Princess Bride

Seriously, I thought the writing was great (for what it was supposed to be)

[snoopy369]

I also note that most of you seem to like movies that came from books. Hmm...

[Japher]

The Princess Bride was a book

[Imran Siddiqui]

PWNED!

[Japher]

you'd think he'd know that

I mean, Fred Savage was having it read to him in the movie!