Best Film You Have Ever Seen

[StuAff]

Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai".

A visually stunning film, which has spawned many lacklustre imitators.

+1. Looking forward to the BFI Blu-ray release (sometime this year, hopefully..).
Citizen Kane
Blade Runner

 

[slowmotion]

Has nobody mentioned "The Italian Job" ?
You will incur my displeasure !
Showing my age now.

Top call!
Undiluted fun. I loved the Noel Coward scenes.
Benny Hill was a bonus.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Senna. A truly great piece of cinema.

 

[Silver Fox]

Der Untergang ( Downfall ).
Conspiracy.
V for Vendetta.
Sleepers.
Manhunter.
Shutter Island.
Black Hawk Down.
Heat.
Alien 1+2.
Godfather 1+2
The Dark Knight.
Silence of the Lambs.
Training Day.
District 9.
Predator.
Layer Cake.
Blade Trilogy.
Matrix Trilogy.
Seven.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Matrix Trilogy.

You actually liked the second and third ones? I guess someone had to!

 

[ColinJ]

You actually liked the second and third ones? I guess someone had to!

I thought the first Matrix film was a bit 'different' and there were some interesting effects in it but the other two were so dire that I had a strange emotional experience watching them - the people I watched the sequels with were so entranced that I began to doubt my own sanity!

I really tried, but I couldn't silence the voice in my head screaming "This is utter tosh"!

Watching them back to back was one of the least enjoyable times I've ever spent in front of a TV set.

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Has nobody mentioned "The Italian Job" ?

Liked it so much I bought the Italian Job fruit machine. Also built the car too from scratch.

 

[swee'pea99]

Lawrence of Arabia

(on a BIG screen)

"No prisoners!"

 

[Archie_tect]

Best film ever seen? .... forget the plot as soon as I leave the cinema these days, and that's if I stay awake long enough.

For sheer nostalgia it's great to see Gregory's Girl now and again!

 

[Mr Phoebus]

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Lawrence of Arabia

(on a BIG screen)

"No prisoners!"
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That's one of the greats because of the awesome film score. I crank up the 5.1 for it.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Talk of Lawrence of Arabia reminds me that I forgot one of my favourite guilty pleasures - Doctor Zhivago, also directed by David Lean. Certainly not the best film ever made, and yes, it's all kinds of silly in many ways, but just such a sweeping, gorgeous melodrama with great performances and set-pieces and unabashed, unironic love that really convinces you (well, me anyway - but then I'm a sucker for good romantic melodrama).

 

[Archie_tect]

Good to see that underneath your resilient shell, you're an old softie like the rest of us FM.

Mind you, I would struggle to name 50 films never mind have a top 50 favourite ones!

 

[dellzeqq]

Can I appear to be an intellectual by saying The Battleship Potemkin?

by all means. It's a superb film.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Bh2SuJrEjwM

 

[ColinJ]

Mind you, I would struggle to name 50 films never mind have a top 50 favourite ones!

I cheated when I ran out of ideas and picked the rest of my list from Empire's The 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time!

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Good to see that underneath your resilient shell, you're an old softie like the rest of us FM.

Mind you, I would struggle to name 50 films never mind have a top 50 favourite ones!

Oh, I cry in movies all the time. I can't see any point in watching things that don't move me, or intrigue me, or do something to me.
And I felt I had to edit that list down to 50 from around 100 - but then several people have mentioned things I had missed off entirely for some unexplained reason. Dr Strangelove should definitely be in my Top 50, for example.

The Battleship Potemkin? I know it's important and everything, but I just don't like it that much and if I was to chose an early Soviet film, it would be Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera. This makes me realize I also missed out Paradjanov's The Colour of Pomegranates, which is just beautiful. This favourite film business is never ending...