Is it the best due to personal tastes? Technical brilliance? Box office results? Cultural impact? Story?
I want you to justify why it's the best movie ever made.
And go!
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
It has blonde Gynoids. 'Nuff said.
If I have to pick just one, I'll pick two :
Godfather I & II - created a new idiom for expression of culture, power-dynamics, aesthetically ground-breaking. The films gave us a new dramatic universe, along with the first semi-honest account of Mafia culture.
I’m going with Rush and Bohemian Rhapsody.
First those films managed to make me I feel I was watching that decade the films were set in coming to life. The recreation of the decade was brilliant.
Plus I felt part of the live audience either at the races in Rush or Queen concerts in Bohemian Rhapsody. both films made me feel like I was there watching the show live.
Fight Club. Perfect in every way.
shareI consider “On the Waterfront” (1954) to be the best movie, with the best actor Marlon Brando, the best director Elia Kazan, a wonderful score, shot on location during a time where art was imitating real life (in Hoboken, NJ). I love it because it’s about doing the right thing even when you have to risk it all, perhaps even your personal security, comfort, and reputation. It’s awesome!
shareThe squeegy thing about the film was that Elia Kazan, who named names of friends who had been communist back in the thirties to the HUAC, made a movie celebrating an informant. :)
A lot of folks held his informing against him, considered the film somewhat an apologia. All that said, yea - great film. Also naive - the mob controlled the docks decades after, for all I know still do. Decades later - RICO football score sentences, proffer agreements, witness protection did do the main job. So Elia was partly right.
The Last Picture Show, simply because of the cultural impact that the movie had during it's time. Phenomenal cast.
shareSky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)!
1. While true to itself, it doesn't take itself too seriously.
2. It creates its own world/universe.
3. It breaks the rules of action/adventure/sci-fi movies.
4. The writing/direction dares to be different.
5. The in-jokes.
6. It's a tribute to the classic Hollywood serials of the 1930s-1940s.
7. The "everything-but-the-kitchen-sink" factor: imagination runs amok.
8. The ground-breaking CGI.
9. The actors and their performances.
10. Edward Shearmur's greatest-of-all-time score.
11. It's awe-inspiringly beautiful!
ben hur - great story and cinematography. and all those extras.
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