Best movie(s) of all time

[Vegeta]

It's that time again...

for a best movie/movies of all time thread!



So let's start the bidding.

What is it going to be? Not many people can honestly pick a greatest of all time.. that is much to complex for a person to handle. So we will break it down into categories.

Comedy
Suspense
Action/Adventure
Thriller/Horror

are the basic catergories. Then there are your Westerns, you Kung-Fu, your Euro-trash Single-White-Female-ish movies, etc etc.

So start throwing out some and let see what we can get. Don't forget to make comments!

Here are a few to get you going:

Fight club (sorry but that is SO obvious) for Action/Adv.

I liked Arlington Rd. for a suspense thriller.. but not best of all tiem that is for sure...

One of my favorite supspens movies of all time was by Alfred Hitchcock(sp).. and I forget the name... but it was htis guy.. and he put this bomb in his basement to blow up his wife becasue he though she was cheating on him.. and these muggers break in and tie him up in the basement.. with hte bomb.. and all day he is sitting watchin hte clock on hte bomb tick.. oh it is a great movie...

Anyone know what that is?


Anyways.. I wanna hear what you all think.

[Fred]

Comedy: Sneakers (I'm DRIVING!!!)

Suspense: Event Horizon

Action/Adventure: Lord of the Rings

Thriller/Horror: also gotta be Event Horizon

Western: The Man with No Name trilogy with Clint Eastwood (Spagetti Westerns).

War Movie: Saving Private Ryan

Sci-Fi: Star Wars Episodes 4-6.

of course, you know my minds gonna change in 5 seconds...

---Fred

[BareBack]

These are more Faves that Best ofs...
Here goes (thinking cap is on...)

Comedy: Bio-Dome; How High

Suspense: Not into Suspense flicks

Action/Adventure: Last Boy Scout; Fast and the Furious

Thriller/Horror: Arachnophobia (spelling?)


That'll do, but I'm like Fred, my mind'll prob change once I post this.

[Hemlock86]

Comedy ........Friday
Suspense ......What Lies beneath
Action/Adventure ......Lord of the Rings
Thriller/Horror .......Aliens
Western...........The outlaw Josey Whales
Sci-fi........T2
War Movie.......Saving private ryan
Worst Movie.........Blare witch Project
Most stupid story.....Fast and furious
Most racism.....american History X
Most nudity(non porn)......Eyes wide shut
Most violent....A Clockwork Orange
Most Bling Bling.....Do P diddy videos count?!?!?!
Most drugs........Fear and loathing in Las Vegas

muhahahahahahha

[Thordic]

How can you have a "best Movie of All Time" thread without a drama category?

Drama's are THE best movies of all time.

Citizen Kane? Hello?

Or, more recently, movies like A Beautiful Mind? Man Without a Face? Dead Poet's Society? One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

These are the "Greatest" movies of all time. Comedies/action/etc come and go, but drama's are good over all time. Citizen Kane was made in 1941, and it's still an amazing movie.

Here's a good list of the Best Movies of All Time though:

http://us.imdb.com/top_250_films

[mykroft]

Thordic: Citizen Kane has a plot hole a mile wide in the first 5 minutes.

The movie revolves around 2 things, the fact he died alone, and what his last word was. How in the heck do theyknow his last word was 'Rosebud' if he died alone?

Best movies:

Drama: The Usual Suspects
Comedy: Grosse Point Blank
Action: Die Hard
Spy: Ronin
Suspense: The Birds
Horror: Ginger Snaps
War: Saving Private Ryan
Science Fiction: Aliens
Fantasy: Mononoke Hima (Princess Mononoke)
Historical: Braveheart
Animation: Akira
Western: Lonesome Dove miniseries
Space Opera: Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
Based on true story: Blackhawk Down (Yes, I know the movie spelled Blackhawk as Black Hawk, they were wrong)

[dre1919]

Comedy ........Army of Darkness
Suspense ......The Mothman Prophecies
Action/Adventure .......Die Hard
Horror .......The Blair Witch Project (innovative)
Western ..........Tombstone
Crime Drama ......Seven
Sci-fi .......Vanilla Sky, Minority Report
War Movie ......Last of the Mohicans, Pearl Harbor, The Patriot.
Worst Movie ........Zoolander
Most stupid story ....Again, Zoolander.
Most nudity(non porn) .....Eyes Wide Shut, Embrace of the Vampire (Alyssa Milano gets naked almost at will...not a bad thing.)
Most Violent .......The Way of the Gun

[Smitty2k1]

Screw listing catigories... here goes:

First off let me say evil dead 2 is quite posibly the funniest movie ever...

Half Baked
American History X
Office Space
Mall Rats
Dogma
Scarface
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Lord of the Rings
Starwars (all)
Akira
Enemy at the Gates
Donnie Darko
Mulholland Drive
Fight Club
Suicide Kings
Saving Private Ryan
A Clockwork Orange
Blackhawk Down
Seven
Pulp Fiction
The Godfather
Shawshank Redemption
Appocolype Now
Full Metal Jacket
Reseviour Dogs
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Godfather

Damnit I know I like more

WORST MOVIE EVER:
****ING FAST AND FURIOUS
I hate ricers.

[StuDawggie]

Originally posted by Smitty2k1
Screw listing catigories... here goes:

First off let me say evil dead 2 is quite posibly the funniest movie ever...

I agree with forget the categories... Here's my list
the entire Evil Dead Trilogy: "Evil Dead", "Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn", and "Army of Darkness"
"The Bride of Chucky" (just flat out funny)
"Dolls" (classic bad horror)
"Leprechaun" (a movie with a midget gone bad is always good)
"Seven"
"Citizen Kane"
"The Green Mile"
"Albino Aligator"
"Godfather"
"American History X"
"Animal House" (it's on every frat guys favorite movie list)
"Tombstone"
"Brain Donors" (remake of a Marx Brothers' Comedy "Duck Soup")
"Duck Soup" (Classic Marx Brothers)
"Silence of the Lambs"
"Young Frankenstien"
"Robin Hood: Men in Tights"
"Blazing Saddles" (How can you not find guys sitting around a campfire eatting beans and farting not funny?!?)
"Terror Toons" (I just rented it and it's a must buy for anyone who likes poorly made horror films. It's so bad it makes "Army of Darkness" look like an Oscar cailber movie. Plus I think the entire thing was done by a guy with a high tech video camera and basic computer editing software. Truly the best B horror flick I've ever seen)

That's pretty much it for my favorite movies... There are others that I like, but these are at the front of my movie library.

[slateman]

I can't deal with this category thing. Its too complicated and requires too much brainwork. I'll just list some

The Shawshank Redemption
Glory (Morgan Freeman really should get an Oscar)
BraveHeart
Tora, Tora, Tora!!!
Gladiator (Russel Crow should have gotten an Oscar..twice)
Chariots of Fire
Apocalypse Now

But the best of all time is definalty THE GODFATHER
Greatest movie ever. Period.

Here's what everyone has listed for Sci-Fi: Vanilla Sky, Minority Report, Star Wars Episodes 4-6 (The Empire Strikes Back is clearly the best), T2 (uh...OK. To each his own.), and Aliens (see last).
But the best SciFi movie (and also one of the best movies ever) is, the one that started it all, "2001: A Space Odyssey" In my humble opinion, its the best Kubrick movie.

But as I read the previous posts, I'm deeply concerned an disappointed. Some of you have no taste (Fast and the Furious...I'm sorry was that out loud ) I notice that no one has put my favorite movie up. Tisk,tisk,tisk

HEAT
This movie is simply about two people: Pacino and DeNiro. True, it has an incredibly strong cast (Tom Siezmore, Ashley Judd, Val kilmer, and a certain 12 year old girl named Natalie Portman). It has a great plot and some great action scenes (The bank shootout) but it comes down to the two leads: Pacino and DeNiro. Both are capable leading a movie to greatness but the two of them together (much less as adversaries) are absolutely fantastic. This movie is possibly the MOST WELL ACTED MOVIE IN HISTORY. And the end scene, at the airport... I don't want to ruin it for those who haven't seen it, so I'll just say "Superb". Everytime that movie is on, I stop whatever I'm doing and watch it.

[grEnAlEins]

best movies

Apocalipse Now

Full Metal Jacket

Field of Dreams

Childs play movies, aka chucky (the slasher doll)

Office Space

Bevis and Butt-head Do America

Best Stupid movie ever is: Waiting for Guffman

Best classic movie: The Rear Window, with jimmy stewart

[Hemlock86]

Dont forget National Lampoons Christams Vacation, probably the funniest movie ever.

[bsusigep18]

Anybody out there seen 'Supertroopers'?? Thats my new favorite comedy.

obviously almost all movies cross genres many times..but heres a short list of my favorites that come to mind.


Comedy: Fletch (classic...Dr. Rosen*****)
Suspense: Se7en
Action: Blade II (action, not plot)
Horror: Mothman Prophecies
Drama: Boondock Saints1

Blockbuster: Lord of the Rings (talk about an amazing movie!)

[Hexis]

Epic: Braveheart

Comedy: South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut

Action: Top Gun

Wong Fei Hung: Drunken Master 2 (Jackie Chan)

Wong Fei Hung/Humor: Last Hero in China (Jet Li)

Wong Fei Hung/Child: Iron Monkey (Donnie Yen)

Kung Fu/Wushu: Fong Sai-Yuk (Jet Li)

Adventure: Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
(till Two Towers comes out at least)

Thriller/Horror: Alien

Suspense: Silence of the Lambs

Documentary: Roger and Me

Mystery: The Usual Suspects

SciFi: Star Wars Episode 5: The Empire Strikes Back

Shakespeare: Hamlet (1996, Kenneth Branagh)

Romance: Shakesphere In Love

Prison: The Shawshank Redemption

Dark: Fight Club

Anime: Akira

Zombie Humor: Army of Darkness

Uber Suspense: Se7en

SciFi/Humor: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

Music: Almost Famous

Concert: The Last Waltz

DocuDrama: Shindler's List

[ttoad4000t]

top 5...

5. Dont Be a Menace In South Central (also one of the dumbest, but i thought it was hilarious)

4. Saving Private Ryan

3. Office Space

2. Dr. Strangelove

1. Zoolander