Posted on 09/13/2009 2:58:46 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Frank Darabont, the director of The Shawshank Redemption, has words for the millions of people who believe his 1994 prison drama is the greatest film of all time. “I think that’s a little crackers, to be honest, especially when you think of the other films on the list.” He means films such as The Godfather, Citizen Kane, Lolita, Vertigo and foreign-language contenders like Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist, Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt, Luis Buñuel’s Belle de jour or Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant.
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ditto on the Green Mile, To Kill A Mockingbird was a great movie too. If a movie has timmie robbins in it I pass seeing it. Loonie Leftie actor, I wouod go to a jane fonda flick 1st.
Ooh! I forgot about ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’! Another great movie. For years we called my son Boo. LOL! How could anyone truly have one favorite? There are too many fabulous movies. I love all the movies with Bing Crosby, too.
Monica, there are two versions...Be sure to get the original with gregory peck. The new version with Armand Asante (sp?) is also good, but the original is the best. Ava Gardner is spectacular in this movie along with Fred Astaire.
That aspect flew right by me.
I recently saw 2001 again but this time in HD. Wow, the movie looks so great in HD. I still think it doesn’t make a hell of a lot of sense without reading the book.
Did you see Keira Knightley in “Atonement”? Great film and she is breathtakingly beautiful in it.
You make a great point, and one could/should respect more 'within-the-industry' opinions to perhaps warrant more weight, but truly, in the end, what we all like (or love) the most is based on our satisfaction, not necessarily a critic's recommendation.
I have noticed some gamesmanship with more recent movies on the IMDb rankings, but Shawshank has faithfully remained at near the top.
Shawshank Redemption
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Rush Hour 3
Lethal Weapon 3
Goodfellas
Better off Dead[=
I’m going with The Searchers and Red River.
Darn Straight! “You shall not pass!”
That picture with Keira Knightly looks more like a Bronte movie than an Austen movie.
Incredible movie, every one should watch that.
I fully agree with you, it is the finest movie ever made.
Just like....
“ooooh, Funny Girl is great art, but I disagree with Bab’s political views.”
If you dislike you don’t support.
Better yet... “Hitler did make the trains run on time, but I disagree with his political views.”
My thoughts as well.
NO.
Personally, I thought both The Third Miracle and The Passion of the Christ were pretty good. And I have to confess to a great fondness for Galaxy Quest and Multiplicity.
Who can forget (and believe me, I've really, really, REALLY tried to) such dialogue as:
Criswell: Greetings, my friends. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember, my friends, future events such as these will affect you in the future.
...
Colonel Tom Edwards: You speak of Solaranite. But just what is it?
Eros: Take a can of your gasoline. Say this can of gasoline is the sun. Now, you spread a thin line of it to a ball, representing the earth. Now, the gasoline represents the sunlight, the sun particles. Here we saturate the ball with the gasoline, the sunlight. Then we put a flame to the ball. The flame will speedily travel around the earth, back along the line of gasoline to the can, or the sun itself. It will explode this source and spread to every place that gasoline, our sunlight, touches. Explode the sunlight here, gentlemen, you explode the universe. Explode the sunlight here and a chain reaction will occur direct to the sun itself and to all the planets that sunlight touches, to every planet in the universe. This is why you must be stopped. This is why any means must be used to stop you. In a friendly manner or as (it seems) you want it.
Lieutenant John Harper: He's mad.
Tanna: Mad? Is it mad that you destroy other people to save yourselves? You have done this. Is it mad that one country must destroy another to save themselves? You have also done this. How then is it "mad" that one planet must destroy another who threatens the very existence-...
Eros:[shoves her roughly aside] That's enough. [to the humans]
Eros: In my land, women are for advancing the race, not for fighting man's battles.
Robert Duvall as Arthur Boo Radley,
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