Best Films of all Time?

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[dfwgator]

My favorite movies, that are all based in Berlin:

The Lives of Others
Goodbye, Lenin.
One, Two, Three
Der Untergang (Downfall)

[a fool in paradise]

Vo-lare....

[a fool in paradise]

Some people have too much time, you know this is a subject that can never be settled. It has already been decided, by the Movie polls, and Hollywood. The Winner is... the Studios that pwn our nation's cultural history from the 20th Century.

[GreenHornet]

No Blazing Saddles either. What in the wide, wide world of sports is agoin' on here?

We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!

[Kenny Bunk]

It’s Pocahontas with blue people.”

Kid nailed it. See it anyway.

[RedRedRose]

Some of my faves:

Arsenic and Old Lace
Going My Way
Boys Town
Rebecca
The Jolson Story
Wizard Of Oz

[a fool in paradise]

One of the best horror movies of all time...

No Dracula, Frankenstein, or Freaks.

[Non-Sequitur]

No “Lion in Winter” or “A Man for All Seasons”? Not much of a list then.

[RedRedRose]

Almost forgot

Yankee Doodle Dandy with Jimmy Cagney

[stainlessbanner]

Pale Rider, Braveheart, Ben-Hur, Ten Commandments, Spartacus, Rocky, Red Dawn, Way of the Dragon, Seven Samauri, Gone with the Wind, The Stand (TV movie)....

Admittedly I haven't seen many of the movies on this list, but they left out some of the greats!

[a fool in paradise]

There are about twenty films on this list that are right in my wheelhouse time wise and I've never heard of them. I'm guessing the author is an art school snob. If nobody watched it and nobody ever heard of it outside Greenwich Village I’m not sure how good it could really be.

Some of these lists seem to be culled from older lists and older older lists. Except there are films like Blade Runner that were rejected by the critics in their original release so just relying on the "old guard's" opinion doesn't justify including some of the "art school snob" titles here, they didn't always get it right at the time.

And the contemporary choices don't always pass muster either.

[rlmorel]

Das Boot is one of my favorites.

[wbarmy]

I had forgotten about Arsenic and Old Lace. What a fantastic movie!

[rlmorel]

Downfall and The Lives of Others are two very, very good films.

The guy who played Hitler was amazing creepy, partly because he made him so...human.

My favorite scene from The Lives of Others is when the lady is peeping through her keyhole while the guys are breaking into the other apartment.

[wbarmy]

Neither the Seven Samurai or the Magnificent Seven.

BALONEY

[JoeProBono]

[Non-Sequitur]

Not a bad performance in the entire movie.

[RedRedRose]

I watch my copy of Life Stinks every few months for a good laugh.

[JoeProBono]

[ImProudToBeAnAmerican]

‘Harold and Maude’ - der!

Surprised, but glad to see ‘Bladerunner’ on the list.