best movie ever

[efcdrake]

what would you say the best movie of all time is?

[snapdarlich]

Ghostbusters for me....

Maybe not a 'serious' contender...but I love it.

Oh...And Local Hero.

[lindapinda]

I alternate between "The Searchers" and "The Green Mile"..then again.."The Shawshank Redemption" !!

[shortylilly]

it has got to be Blow-starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz. Not many have watched this, but i would strongly recommend it!!!!

[sunflower68]

Yes I have to say the Shawshank Redemption

[kick3m0n]

couldn't possibly pick just one. Among my favourites are:

The Great Escape, LA Confidential, Memento, The Big Lebowski, Star Wars, Donnie Darko, Goodfellas.

[johntheplamf]

Seabiscuit or Moulin Riuge:O)

[johntheplamf]

Rouge* Grrrrr

[itsallyellow]

My favourite has to be the Life Aquatic: with Steve Zissou. Its fantastic and if you haven't seen it then you should!! Wes Anderson is pure unadultered genious!!! On a different level Midnight Express is brilliant. I love the Simpsons homeage to this when Homer is in the Airport and then the heartbeat kicks in.

Best?? Hmm... Lawrence of Arabia is pretty awe inspiring. The Two Towers is great too. Though does a truly great film have to be nearly or over 3hours long!!

[Alan2]

Midnight Cowboy

[tamd88]

Mmmm hard one, a few would be Scarface, Godfather Trilogy, Star Wars, Lord Of The Rings Trilogy

[funnywebsite]

I don't know if anybody could put one down as the best ever movie. I liked Saturday Night Fever, I liked the one about Tina Turner's life story, I even liked as a couple of the others mentioned Shawshank Redemption, I love My Fair Lady, it always makes me cry at the end. There are loads of great films. Channel 5 does one every afternoon and if I am in, they show some good ones. I love Columbo movies and Clint Eastwood films.

[nedflanders]

bill & ted's excellent adventure and shawshank redemption - both different class!

[sandrajo]

Bridge over the river kwai

[EuanC]

Apocalypse Now.

[EuanC]

Or

Blade Runner.

[galltin]

Godfather 2

[Gnisy]

Shawshank Redemption.
Two towers of the LOTR series.
Sound of Music
Forrest Gump

I'm fickle-minded.

[vehelpfulguy]

Well the film that is often voted the best ever by film critics is "Citizen Kane".

If you are a true film fan then go buy it and watch it over Christmas, you will not regret it.

This was the first film made by Orson Wells. He was only in his mid twenties and he wrote it and starred in it.

It is a tour-de-force of a film about the life of a man called Charles Foster Kane.

It is loosely based on the life of a real man called William Randolph Hearst, a very powerful, rich man who owned hundreds of newspapers in the USA and was still alive at the time (bit like Rupert Murdoch today).

The film opens with Kane dying and saying one word on his death bed. The newspaper people try to find out what this final word he said meant, and spend the rest of the film trying to find it.

While doing this the meet everyone who ever met him, and so tell his story. It is therefore in flashback.

It uses many clever movie techniques and was a wonder considering it was Orson Welles first film.

Hearst was so annoyed he tried to buy up the film and have the prints burnt.

As an aside, the word that Kane says on his deathbed was the actual nickname that the real life Hearst used for his lovers private parts, which is why he was so annoyed.

Go see it.

[paddycar]

top 3 in no particular order:-

Dog Day Afternoon

Scarface

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

[sfsorrow]

the original dawn of the dead is my no1,i also love snatch i laugh my head off every time i see it. p.s c'mon you blue boys "nil satis nisi optimum"