Best Film You Have Ever Seen

[MontyVeda]

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.

You are a very brave man Colin... however I too doubt your sanity knowing this fact.

edit... to, too, doh!

 

[ColinJ]

You are a very brave man Colin... however I too doubt your sanity knowing this fact.

edit... to, too, doh!

I allowed certain family members to persuade me that it was a good idea!

If you want to know how I felt watching those films, you can achieve a similar effect by reading The Matrix and The Mater (A feminist analysis spanning the entire Matrix trilogy). That scrambled my brain in the same fashion!

 

[wildjetskier]

Children of Men

Leon

Heat

Seven Samurai

4 of mine

 

[MontyVeda]

I allowed certain family members to persuade me that it was a good idea!

If you want to know how I felt watching those films, you can achieve a similar effect by reading The Matrix and The Mater (A feminist analysis spanning the entire Matrix trilogy). That scrambled my brain in the same fashion!

Actually I expect it's not much different to watching The English Patient just the once!

ps. I gave up after one sentence of that link Colin

Back to best films... Son of Rambow reminded just how much fun being a kid was more than any other film has. I can't recommend it highly enough. [sub](plus it's far better than that tosh hitch-hikers attempt Garth Jennings made)[/sub]

 

[Basil.B]

The Godfather

 

[Fab Foodie]

Ben Hur - without a doubt my fave.

Others include:

The Battle of Britain
Manhunter
Alien
Das Boot
Enemy at the Gate
Apollo 13
The Cruel Sea
Ice Cold in Alex
The Dambusters
Passport to Pimlico
The Titfield Thunderbolt
Carry-on up the Khyber
Airplane
The Wall
Quadrophenia
The Blues Brothers
Dune
Pretty Woman
Love Actually
The Railway Children
The Sound of Music
Village of the Damned
Whistle down the wind
Ryan's daughter
The Elephant Man

 

[Yellow Fang]

I've found that a lot of my favourite films turned out to be those I channel hopped onto about five or ten minutes in and became totally absorbed with. Examples include

The Wicker Man
Kidnapped
The Black Narcissus
Dr Zhivago

 

[Ravenbait]

I'd like to add:

Kamikaze Girls

Big Man Japan

Sam

 

[aberal]

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!

+1 Some ropey acting and the ending is a bit naff - but it's a laugh a minute. Bella bella. Bella Gordon, bella Dorothy.

 

[Fab Foodie]

wtf?!

I've got Dignitas' number if you need it?

Nah, keep it, I'm far to chipper for that ... it comes from watching a bit of unadulterated smaltz once in a while ....