The best movie ever made

Baptist Press ^ | 12/21/2014 | Phil Boatwright,

[gorush]

Airplane, Blazing Saddles (or anything else with or by Mel Brooks, Animal House...oh, wait...you asked for the best movie ever made...never mind.

[Ken H]

The most enjoyable movie for me is 'North by Northwest'. Cary Grant was never better and Eva Marie Saint was hot.

Bit of trivia - Cary Grant was the first choice to play James Bond. The studio wanted a commitment to do a series of the films, but Grant would only commit to one.

[DuncanWaring]

Death Wish.

[Ready4Freddy]

Stripes

Or the original Sleuth

[Crapgame]

Wow....had to go deep before any Freeper correctly identified the BEST movie ever made:

The Searchers

You want Christmas movies? Miracle on 34th Street, White Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life...

In that order.

Can I still say White Christmas or is that racist?

[Cowboy Bob]

Best movies:

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Fifth Element

[econjack]

...but “The Quiet Man” deserves an honorable mention.

Bingo!! My all-time favorite movie, which I've probably watched over 50 times and the only movie I "own". Unlike a lot of people, I watch a movie to be entertained rather than educated or lectured to. If a movie has a message...fine. But, for me, that's not why I watch a film. Whether it's entertainment...escapism...just plain enjoyment of actors plying their craft...whatever it is, a social message is not why I watch movie. To me, The Quiet Man has it all and the magic between Wayne and O'Hara is palpable...simply the best!

[InterceptPoint]

[TontoKowalski]

"Silence of the Lambs." The first time I saw that, everyone in the theater was absolutely transfixed on the film.

Edge of the chair the whole time. Fantastic acting. Evil villain. Charming and pretty hero. And, of course, the bafoonish prison psychiatrist that you really didn't mind getting eaten in the end.

[exDemMom]

That's the magic of movies: some folks will enjoy a film that may seem an endurance test for others.

Indeed. I utterly loathe "It's a Wonderful Life." The premise that the world would be quite different if a specific person (selected at random) had not existed is ludicrous. And the movie just goes downhill from there, with its over-the-top sappiness.

It's hard to pick a movie that I would consider among the best ever made. Patton, The Addams Family, Beauty and the Beast... clearly, good movies can fall into any genre.

[laplata]

“Best Years of Our Lives” is better by far.

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One of the best movies ever.

[Ken H]

heh heh.

[Thorliveshere]

I love Airplane! It is one of my all-time favorites. Close second is Top Secret, which is just as zany and funny as Airplane! IMHO.

[D_Idaho]

Do you know that if you say “Love Actually” 3 times in front of a mirror, Satan will appear?

[jetson]

Big Lebowski

Joe Dirt

Caddyshack

These movies tell about everything one needs to know.

[rabidralph]

Inconceiveable!

[cyclotic]

I can’t believe no one has mentioned Die Hard as the best Christmas movie yet.

I agree with Its a Wonderful Life. The premise is true. No matter who you are, your impact on others can change the world.

[notted]

It’s a Wonderful Life, is one of my favorite movies as well. My take is; that the theme of envy, is personified by Mr. Potter, which shows the destruction that envy causes for the whole town, the movie also shows that retreat from the world, holds untold consequences, by premising the plot on how George wishes he was never born. It is a variation of the idea of envy, but an envy of the dead and the retreat from responsibility. The movie successfully demonstrates how envy can be overcome by charity.

[mad_as_he$$]

Best movie ever? Easy. Unforgiven.

[Verbosus]

Weekend at Bernies II

It has every aspect of a Shakespearian classic play - the occult, love, hate, ambition, greed, humor, comic relief, death, wealth and it’s opulence, poverty and it’s blight, politics....

I could easily go on - but the brilliance of that masterpiece speaks for itself.