*Nods to Lushe* The BEST movies ever created by the hands of Man

[Chrosis]

My nominations are...

Blazing Saddle

Six String Samurai

V for Vendetta

Predator

[Kholdhearted]

V for Vendetta


Seconded, and I also nominate LOTR: The twin towers and LOTR: The return of the king. They truly lived up to the J.R.R.Tolkein standard.

[Flashfan]

Scarface I had a dream that Tony was in LOTR lets just say they're problems got alot simpler.

[lushe]

I gotta go with the butterfly effect. that movie was fucking deep dude

[Legato]

I gotta go with the butterfly effect. that movie was fucking deep dude

Let me get this straight. You hate X-3 yet you loved Butterfly Effect?

Couldn't you have atleast chosen Donnie Darko since not only that was a better movie but they share some similarities.

[El_Shamro]

2001: A Space Odyssey

[Ghengis]

Anything with Leslie Neilson, excluding that crappy little movie where these hawaiian ninja kids block bullets with their swords.

[Radical]

original '70s Superman movie

original Star Wars

V for Vendetta

What the *Bleep* Do We Know?

[GrimShadow]

Anything with Leslie Neilson, excluding that crappy little movie where these hawaiian ninja kids block bullets with their swords.

He practically saved the last two Scary Movie films from being any less funny. His best work IMO is the Naked Gun movies.

Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.

[Kage Kisaragi]

Interview with a Vampire.. I watched it like 6 times during the summer when it came out.. it was that damn good.

The Original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie

Superman 2

The first Batman Movie (Who do you Trust?)

Gremlins

Best Animated Movie

G.I. Joe The Movie

Transformers the Movie

Lion King

Aladdin

[Guts/Batman]

Braveheart

Conan the Barbarian

Transformers: The Movie

Batman (Adam West)

[Dalak]

The Princess Bride



Anybody want a Peanut? :D

[Chrosis]

The Princess Bride



Anybody want a Peanut? :D

Rodents of Unusual Size

[Ghost]

I'd say Terry Gilliams The Adventures of Baron Münchausen. But maybe that's just me. ;)

[sun tzu]

What the *Bleep* Do We Know?
...
You liked that movie?
I had to stop in the middle...Just couldn't take it any more. Such a freaking rape of quantum physics...

My vote goes to the Spiderman movies, the Shrek movies, original Star Wars, and Le Diner des Cons for sheer comedy.

[Altraferne]

I'd say Terry Gilliams The Adventures of Baron Münchausen. But maybe that's just me. ;)
I liked that one immensely. I had never seen anything like it at the time.

My votes:

Anything made by Miyazaki

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

The Mummy Movies

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

Terminator 1 & 2

[Schornforce]

I wouldn't say that these are the best, but they're certainly some of my favorites:

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

The Wizard of Oz

Aladdin

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Original Star Wars Trilogy

The Muppet Movie

Mystery Science Theater 3000 the Movie

X-Men 2

Spider-Man 2

Mary Poppins

Labyrinth

Iron Giant

... and I'd throw Pokemon 2000 on the list too, but then people would probably stone me.

[Dark Soul # 7]

V For Vendetta
Spider-man 2
The Lion King
The Empire Strikes Back
Placid Lake (maybe not the best but I found it to be brilliant)
Matrix
Corpse Bride

[mrc1214]

Bridge on the River Kwai
Godfather I & II
Raging Bull
Star Wars Original Trilogy
Predator (I know looking at the rest it doesnt fit but its just an awesome movie)
LOTR- id go with the whole trilogy but ROTK is one of the best films of all time
Rocky I-IV
Forrest Gump
Saving Private Ryan
Network-its so dead on for what the news is like today its almost scary.
Wild Bunch
Dirty Dozen
Great Escape
Hoosiers
i could go all day but ill stop there. And i have still not watched A Nightmare Before Christmas but everyone i know swears by it and i dont know why i havent got around to it.

[Michael P]

i could go all day but ill stop there. And i have still not watched A Nightmare Before Christmas but everyone i know swears by it and i dont know why i havent got around to it.
It's being re-released into theaters a week from Friday. You should go.

[mrc1214]

It's being re-released into theaters a week from Friday. You should go.

I should would it be a good movie to bring a date to?? cause all my guy friends have seen it. So i might as well bring a girl.

[Buzz Dixon]

The best movie ever made was a Nazi historical epic filmed during the last days of WWII. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels pulled 10,000 German troops off the front lines to play extras in this film. The German troops were delighted to spend six weeks playing dress-up rather than face advancing Russian armies, and the filming is credited with having shortened the war by at least a month, thus saving thousands of lives of people who would have otherwise died in combat or the death camps.

Hence it is the best movie ever made.

[Frodo-X]

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[Ryan Day]

Seven Samurai
Magnolia
Annie Hall
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
maybe Casablanca or Philadelphia Story

[HomerJay]

You people make my head hurt.
Here are some films I consider to be nearly flawless:

- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Raiders Of The Lost Ark
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Pulp Fiction
- Psycho
- Rear Window
- Goodfellas
- Citizen Kane
- The Exorcist
- The Godfather
- The Godfather pt II
- A Clockwork Orange
- Casablanca
- 12 Angry Men
- The Silence of the Lambs
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Dr. Strangelove
- Taxi Driver

[CDB]

-Jurassic Park
-Batman Begins
-X-2
- Original and Prequel Star Wars triologies
- The Matrix Triology...The Burly Brawl is my all-time favorite fight scene
-Spiderman movies
-Ghostbusters 1 & 2
-Superman Returns and Superman 2
-Batman Returns
-Malcom X
-The Incredibles
- Friday
-The Good, the bad, and the ugly!!
-Forrest Gump
- Rocky 3
-Remember the Titans
-Disney's Peter Pan
-Hook
-Sounder
-Aladdin
-Hercules
-The Last Samurai

[Crimson Avenger]

Die Hard
Aliens
Raiders of the Lost Ark
LA Confidential
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

[BoosterBronze]

Starship Troopers

[stealthwise]

Good lord. I MUST have become a film snob, because some of those picks are just horrid in my eyes.

V for f'n Vendetta? *Sigh*

I'd probably bring up:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Unforgiven
Adaptation

[Guts/Batman]

Damn...

Forgot Unforgiven. That is truly one of the best ever made.

Tombstone also belongs on this list. Great movie.

[SMKSPY]

um, aren't all movies created by the hands of man?

[HomerJay]

Good lord. I MUST have become a film snob, because some of those picks are just horrid in my eyes.
Same here.
The thread title is BEST movies, NOT FAVORITE.

[EZMOHR]

Same here.
The thread title is BEST movies, NOT FAVORITE.


It's good thing we got you and stealthwise picking for us.....because anybody who would say Unforgiven is anything other than a remake of well.....Shane, The Outlaw Josey Wales, or Pale Rider, which are all superior movies, is the picture they put under Film Snob, Le in the dictionary.

That being said, one man's Best is another man's trash. SO here are my BEST (Probablly trash to the genus Snobfilm). Oh and by best, I mean movies that I could watch 1000's of times, and not get sick of.

-Batman Begins
-The Right Stuff
-The Bridge on the River Kwai
-Shane
-JFK
-Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
-Young Frankenstein
-Blazing Saddles
-LA Confidential
-The Original Star Wars Trilogy
-The Return of the King
-Jaws
-Pee Wee's Big Adventure

And why are they the BEST movies to me. Because they all only lived up to what they were billed to be. A movie about a great superhero who was rudementry at best his first years in the biz. A movie about the real heroes in the 20th Century that showed they were men. A movie about different types of honor. A movie about a haunted gunman wanting to mellow out. A movie that deals only with paranoia after a tragic event. A movie about friendship in the old west. A movie making fun of the laughable early horror films that took themselves way too seriously. A movie doing the same thing about Old Westerns. A movie that painted the 50's not as glossy as they were made out to be. Movies that were made only to entertain you in a pulpy, Saturday afternoon way. A movie about what lurks below what you can see. And shit, just a movie about being a kid forever. Sure, they probablly aren't perfect, or...."THE GREATEST MOVIES MADE BY MAN'S HANDS," but they never pretended to be anything other than the movies they were.

[Guts/Batman]

I got sick of watching Batman Begins after 3 watches. I can no longer watch the devlopment of Batman scenes anymore. I have to skip ahead to the Batman scenes.

Jaws is just awesome. It doesn't get the right billing anymore. It is truly a horror flick, although I don't think it gets that due.

[Julusnc]

My list of movies I enjoy because they worked perfectly from start to finish.

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Seven Samurai
Rear Window
North By Northwest
The Godfather I and II
Fight Club
Goodfellas
The Third Man
The Searchers
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Alien
Saving Private Ryan
Some Like it Hot
The Professional
Sin City
The Sting
Jaws
The Deep
Blade Runner
The Big Sleep
Kill Bill I and II
Ben Hur
The Good The Bad and The Ugly
The Wild Bunch
The Usual Suspects
LA Confidential
The Green Mile
The Shawshank Redemption
The African Queen
The Night of The Hunter
Duck Soup
It Happen One Night
A Christmas Story
Twelve Monkeys
Snatch
Stalag 17
The Bride Over The River Kwai
Blazing Saddles
Sling Blade
Das Boote
The Thing
The Man Who Would Be King
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

All of the above are perfect films and should be veiwed by all film lovers.

[HomerJay]

Sure, they probablly aren't perfect, or...."THE GREATEST MOVIES MADE BY MAN'S HANDS," but they never pretended to be anything other than the movies they were.
Sorry to upset you for some bizarre reason, but I simply meant that the thread title should be "favorite" movies, NOT "best", which is why I quantified my list by saying it was a list of flims I considered flawless NOT my favorites. My "best" list and "favorite" list don't look all that much alike.

My FAVORITE list (just for EZMOHR):
- Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (original)
- Raiders Of The Lost Ark
- Goodfellas
- Raising Arizona
- The Evil Dead
- Pulp Fiction
- Superman
- Hoosiers
- Office Space
- Caddyshack
- Die Hard
- Dawn Of The Dead (original)
- Halloween
- This Is Spinal Tap
- Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

[EZMOHR]

Sorry to upset you for some bizarre reason, but I simply meant that the thread title should be "favorite" movies, NOT "best", which is why I quantified my list by saying it was a list of flims I considered flawless NOT my favorites. My "best" list and "favorite" list don't look all that much alike.

My FAVORITE list (just for EZMOHR):
- Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (original)
- Raiders Of The Lost Ark
- Goodfellas
- Raising Arizona
- The Evil Dead
- Pulp Fiction
- Superman
- Hoosiers
- Office Space
- Caddyshack
- Die Hard
- Dawn Of The Dead (original)
- Halloween
- This Is Spinal Tap
- Close Encounters Of The Third Kind


Not upset, it's just what's the point of saying that blah blah is a perfect movie...but it's not one of your favorites.

Example: Everyone says The Godfather I and Godfather II are PERFECT Movies. Great for some people. I think the Godfather trilogy is SORRY. Like Episode I sorry. I don't care if it is perfect or not. To me, they suck ass big time. After finally staying awake to watch the first one then the second for the first time after 5 attempts before, I just don't see why people say they are PERFECT or Great. They are stereotypes, and worse they seem like stereotypes we would laugh our ass off if it was a skit on Chappelle.

So, nah not upset, its just why did it upset you that people were equating PERFECT and FAVORITE. If a so called perfect movie sucks for the watcher..who cares how perfect. For most people, the perfect movie is a Favorite movie.

[Ed Cunard]

Same here.
The thread title is BEST movies, NOT FAVORITE.

Dear lord, I'm rubbing off on you.

I'm sorry.

[Leslie Lee III]

Conan the Barbarian
Scarface
A Bittersweet Life
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Oldboy
Kourei
Empire Strikes Back
Road to Perdition

Art = subjective. Favorite = best.

[Ed Cunard]

Favorite = comment on the individual's enjoyment of the work. Best = comment on the work itself.

[EZMOHR]

Favorite = comment on the individual's enjoyment of the work. Best = comment on the work itself.


Best=what some people think the comment on the work itself is. Favorite= comment on the individual's enjoyment of the work.

[HomerJay]

FAVORITE
Main Entry: 1fa·vor·ite
Pronunciation: 'fA-v(&-)r&t, 'fA-v&rt, chiefly dialect 'fA-v&-"rIt
Function: noun
Etymology: Italian favorito, past participle of favorire to favor, from favore favor, from Latin favor
1 : one that is treated or regarded with special favor or liking; especially : a person who is specially loved, trusted, or provided with favors by someone of high rank or authority

BEST
Main Entry: 1best
Pronunciation: 'best
Function: adjective, superlative of GOOD
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English betst; akin to Old English bOt remedy -- more at BETTER
1 : excelling all others <the best student>
2 : most productive of good : offering or producing the greatest advantage, utility, or satisfaction <what is the best thing to do>
3 : MOST, LARGEST <it rained for the best part of their vacation>

My FAVORITE movie is Night Of The Living dead although I also consider it to be quite flawed (acting, visual effects). I consider Citizen Kane to the BEST film ever made (cinematography, structure, direction, screenplay, editing), but I also find it to be a bit boring.

BEST = Technically sound in its craft
FAVORITE = Connects with me & personal preference

[Indigo Al]

Dear dear children ... there is no "objectivity" here.... there is but one Greatest Movie Ever made.... and that would be Russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Catch it October 20th on the TCM channel, hosted by Rob Zombie!!!

http://tcmdb.com/title/title.jsp?stid=74621