Posted on 12/21/2014 7:36:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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.
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.
Death Wish.
Stripes
Or the original Sleuth
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?
Best movies:
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Fifth Element
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!
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.
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.
Best Years of Our Lives is better by far.
One of the best movies ever.
heh heh.
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.
Do you know that if you say “Love Actually” 3 times in front of a mirror, Satan will appear?
Joe Dirt
Caddyshack
These movies tell about everything one needs to know.
Inconceiveable!
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.
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.
Best movie ever? Easy. Unforgiven.
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.
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