What's the best movie ever created?

Bookbear · Post by **Bookbear** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 9:40 pm

How about Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Babs?

"So, yes... I am nouveau riche... but then I find it's the 'riche' that counts, don't you?"

"This place is fantastic. It's like Gone With the Wind on Mescalin. "

"You know I'm straight."
"So am I. Straight to my house. Let's go. "

"Yes, I am a bitch, and proud of it, honey."

"If you're thirsty, a drink will cure it, if you're not, a drink will prevent it. Prevention is better than a cure. "

"Welcome to Savannah, honey."

rested gal · Post by **rested gal** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:26 pm

Bookbear wrote:How about Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Yes! I liked it.

Let's see.. some of my favorites, not in any particular order:

Dangerous Liasons
Pulp Fiction
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Being There
Patton
The Big Chill
When Harry Met Sally
Gone With the Wind
The Godfather
Thank You for Not Smoking
Breaker Morant
Roger and Me
Ordinary People
Matewan
Stuart Little
Bull Durham
Das Boot (the subtitled original)
La Cage Aux Folles (subtitled original)
Broadcast News
Raising Arizona
Raise the Red Lantern
Witness
Amadeus
All About Eve
This is Spinal Tap
Terms of Endearment
Witness
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (the re-make)
Hannah and Her Sisters
Crimes and Misdemeanors
The Shooting Party
The Duellists
Best in Show
The Last Waltz
Dead Ringers
Damage
A Passage to India
Chocolat
Little Shop of Horrors
To Die For
A Streetcar Named Desire (the original)
Tootsie
The Natural
The Right Stuff
All That Jazz
The Times of Harvey Milk
Enron:The Smartest Guys in the Room

The Player
Short Cuts
Gosford Park
Nashville
(yeah, those last four show I'm very much a Robert Altman fan)

editing to add: A Man For All Seasons (can't believe I forgot that one -- always liked it so much.)

DreamDiver · Post by **DreamDiver** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:30 pm

Absolute Favorite:
West Wing. The entire series is brilliant. It has superior casting, superior dialog, gripping interaction and all with very little in the way of on-screen violence. Aaron Sorken will be known one day as the Shakespeare of our time.

Others...

Anime:
Hayao Miyazaki's films, especially 'My Neighbor Totoro', 'Princess Mononoke', 'Spirited Away',
'Howl's Moving Castle', 'Nausicaa', 'Porco Rosso' and others. The artistry is compelling, and the story lines are lasting.

Sci-Fi: (no particular order) - Mostly violent, but the good guys win in these...
Fifth Element, Chronicles of Riddick, Total Recall, Total Recall - the series, Stargate, Stargate - the series, Babylon 5 - the series, Hellboy, Dark City, Spawn, Tank Girl, Buckaroo Banzai ("Everyone 'need see' Buckaroo Banzai"), Titan AE (anime sci-fi)
Dune (1984 version) - well adapted from Herbert's original book for a three hour film.
Dune (2000 version) - mini-series
Children of Dune (2003) - mini-series
Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider - Cradle of Life - who can't love AJ as Lady Croft?

Fantasy:
Lord of the Rings - all three - breath-taking scenery, compelling version of Tolkein's original ideas.
Witches of Eastwick - mindless entertainment, but very funny
Beetlejuice - also mindless, but very funny

Classics:
Pride & Prejudice - A&E version
To Have and To Have Not - Who can't love Hoagy Carmichael's music?
Casablanca - classic of classics - too many misquotable quotes to mention
Maltese Falconm
Roman Holiday
African Queen
South Pacific

Comedy:
An American President
The whole nine yards
The whole ten yards

There are probably others...

Gregg · Post by **Gregg** » Sat Aug 09, 2008 11:56 pm

Thanks for the Red October tip. That was great. Just watched it.

I loved Annie Hall.

Clockwork Orange.

And the soundtrack to Repo Man was as good as the film.

I went to more than a few movies in the last thirty years. And now I'm finally coming back. It's time to catch up. Tomorrow it's Citizen Kane. Bipap willing, that is.

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telly · Post by **telly** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:56 am

What's up? Long time everyone. Here's my faves:

2001, 400 Blows, Aguirre The Wrath of God, Akira, Alien, Animal House, Amelie, Anything by Krzystof Kieslowski, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Blue Velvet, Chinatown, Clockwork Orange, Chung King Express, Cold Fever, City of Lost Children, Close Encounters, Cyclo, Das Boot, Days of Being Wild, Dazed &; Confused, Deer Hunter, Delicatessen, Dr. Strangelove, Fallen Angels, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Finding Nemo, The Godfather, Fargo, Frankenstein, Grand Illusion, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Kill Bill, La Femme Nikita, Lawrence of Arabia, Lost in Translation, Lord of the Rings, Mabarosi, Monty Python &; The Holy Grail, Night of the Living Dead, Nobody Knows, Old Boy, Paris, Texas, Patton, Planet of the Apes, Pulp Fiction, Psycho, Raise the Red Lantern, Reservoir Dogs, Rashomon, Rear Window, Repo Man, Seven Samurai, Silence of the Lambs, Slacker, Stalag 17, Suburbia, Star Wars, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Taxi Driver, The Professional, The Wild Bunch, Vertigo, Wings of Desire, Young Frankenstein

Babette · Post by **Babette** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 8:39 am

SHEESH!!! The Princess Bride! How could I have forgotten that one???

It's a far better book than a movie (as usual) BUT IT'S A GREAT MOVIE! I watch it every time it's on TV!!!!

BTW, if you read the book, you discover it is NOT a children's book, and that they completely altered the "secondary" story. There is no grandpa in the book. And the kid isn't SICK, he's obese. And there's a bunch of half-nekkid Hollywood starlets, too.

Definitely have to recommend The Princess Bride. LIFE IS NOT FAIR!

Which reminds me of William Styron. Another one better read than filmed, but you can start by WATCHING Sophie's Choice, I suppose. I didn't. It was so muddled up, I couldn't compare it to the book at all.

Sort of like Exodus. The movie had NO BEARING on the book by Leon Uris that I could even fathom. If you like Hunt for Red October, you'll love anything by Leon Uris. Definitely cold war propoganda. Took me awhile to recognize it - I was in my teens when I read most of his work.

LOL,
Babs

alnhwrd · Post by **alnhwrd** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 12:47 am

And I completely forgot the works of one the all time greatest hollywood actors: Errol Flynn! So add The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood, and Dawn Patrol to the list too!!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:09 am

Oh Bookbear, but of COURSE "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil!" Particularly with the STELLAR CAST OF CHARACTERS PLAYING THEMSELVES! Notably the Lady Chablis.

Berendt is a great writer. I really enjoyed that book immensely, as well. Just finished one he wrote about a scandal in Venice... Dang it what was it called? Ah yes "The City of Falling Angels."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berendt

Anyway, is it Southern Gothic on the Rocks Day again? Okay, then:

Love Song for Bobby Long
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Long Hot Summer
Cape Fear
The Skeleton Key
Flesh and Bone (more western than southern, but definitely gothic)
Suddenly, Last Summer - the original with E. Taylor
Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte - yummy!!!
Sweet Bird of Youth
Storville
Blaze
Deliverance - a classic for the whole family to enjoy!!!!! ))))))
A Streetcar named Desire
Night of the Iguana - the original John Huston version
Bastard out of Carolina - as usual, the book is far too complex to film. I prefer the book

Cheers,
B.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:14 am

Oh yes!!! Paris, Texas!!! Good call there! Thanks!!!!

Anything with Harry Dean Stanton in it. I love him so much. Shortly after seeing Paris, Texas for the first time, I acquired a cat, and named it after him. So I could stand on my porch calling "Harry Dean! Harry Dean! Come back!"

Which of course seques into "Come back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean."

And, let us not forget, all Monty Python movies, including TV shows.

And The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

We did the Time Warp last night during dinner. It's kind of a tradition amongst a particular group of my friends... Reenactors. You can't live with them, and you can't shoot them, because they simply refuse to stay dead.

LOL,
Babs

DreamDiver · Post by **DreamDiver** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:04 pm

Babette (aka Janet Weiss) wrote:And The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

We did the Time Warp last night during dinner...

Curry, Sarandon and Bostwick are priceless in this quirky cult classic.

Did you use the props? (Newspaper, rice, bread, etc.)

Babette · Post by **Babette** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:36 pm

Oh no, we just wiggled and sang.

LOL,
Babs

Gregg · Post by **Gregg** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:50 pm

Come up to the lab, and see what's on the slab.

Not bad recall, since I saw it in 1974.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:31 am

Okay, for you MEN out there, I got a suggestion from a friend. This is his favorite all-time movie: Unforgiven, with Gene Hackman:

http://www.homevideos.com/revnclas/12.htm

He is rather insistent that I MUST watch it.... I'm feeling sort of creepy... Anyone remember "A Clockwork Orange"? I sure hope he can't find those eyelid clamps on Ebay....

LOL,
Babs

gasp · Post by **gasp** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 1:10 pm

Guest wrote:Sheesh, well now that you've replied we can't spam delete this.

Fine. Maybe we'll just have fun.

My fave is "Harold and Maude."

I really relate to Maude. Anyone know a nice 21+ Harold I can date?

LOL,
B.

Babette, is that you? Are you still a guest on the new forum format too? That must be exasperating! I do know a Harold you can date, but he's about the same age as Maude's beloved Harold. I think age is what got him to where he is/was/ . . .

Babette · Post by **Babette** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 4:01 pm

That post was made before the forum was revised.

Are you saying the Harold you know is DEAD, like Bud Cort? Sounds like a PERFECT MATCH!

LOL,
B.

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