Cliché Thread: Best Film I've Ever Seen

[Kira-]

[Edited from original post]

movies I like:

Forrest Gump
Mildred Pierce
City of God
The Usual Suspects
(500) Days of Summer
Amelie
Spirited Away
Lost in Translation
Ferris Bueller's Day Off



I mostly made this thread so I can get more suggestions for foreign films and anything else I haven't seen (of which there are a lot). Feel free to criticize my list and add your own.

 

[nublet06]

the wickerman

 

[Celph]

you better step ya game up if you consider yourself a critic

stuff like little miss sunshine and ferris buehler's day off and etc. are good, decent movies but nothing you'd ever want to rank on a list of great movies

office space and clerks are also the gold standard comedies must be held to

 

[Fly_Amanita]

I mostly made this thread so I can get more suggestions for foreign films and anything else I haven't seen (of which there are a lot). Feel free to criticize my list and add your own.

Foreign films, eh? You should watch Allegro non troppo. It's an Italian parody of Fantasia with a more cynical view of the Western world. Tale of Tales is also good, although it's incredibly hard to follow if you don't already know anything about the movie.

A few other foreign movies that I've heard great things about, but never got around to seeing, are 8½, Tokyo Story, and Battleship Potemkin.

 

[choknater]

i really like ratatouille =\

 

[killer tofu]

battleship potemkin sounds like it has potential

 

[Frames]

trainspotting son

 

[-Rei-]

i really like ratatouille =\

i like that movie too


Forrest Gump

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Les Miserables but I can't remember which version

watch El Mariachi
its an independent film with the director of the other el Mariachi movies. Its a prequel to the Hollywood made Antonio Banderas versions

 

[Lovage]

2 foreign movies i saw recently, really really good
first korean one: christmas in august, very good sad movie
spanish one: abre los ojos (open your eyes) this is the original spanish movie made in america as Vanilla Sky. really really good

 

[Kouryuu]

I agree. Iron Man was garbage.

Not much of a movie guy but one of my most liked movies has been The Matrix (just the first one though).

Tarantino films also ****.

 

[Nasty_Nate]

Forrest Gump is obv one of the best movies ever made

A couple **** movies include:
Sin City
Kung Fu Hustle
The Mist

Cheesy movies that I like include
From Dusk til Dawn
They live

 

[joeplicate]

Jurassic Park

nuff said

 

[SuperRad]

I love movies.

Here are some of my favorite movies:
Die Hard
The Big Lebowski
Ghostbusters
Blues Brothers
Clerks

Here are some movies that I like that are also generally considered "Classics" and "Very Important to Cinema" and **** like that:
Citizen Kane
Godfather [and Godfather Pt 2]
Boogie Nights (I like Paul Thomas Anderson a whole lot)


I'd like to also take this moment to sing the praises of Christopher and Jonathon Nolan who have managed to put together an astoundingly good group of movies [Memento, Batman Begins, The Prestige and The Dark Knight]. 3/4 of those are among the best movies I've ever seen and Batman Begins is right behind them.

EDIT:
On Iron Man:
I think it was one of the best Blockbuster movies to come out in the past couple years. You had good performances by the leads [Robert Downey Jr, Jeff Bridges, Terrance Howard and Gwyneth Paltrow] and a fun, action packed script. It wasn't something I felt like I needed to see over and over again, but I had a lot of fun seeing it in the theater.

 

[Celph]

LMAO THE DARK KNIGHT AND MEMENTO ARE AMONG THE BEST MOVIES YOU'VE EVER SEEN

and you liked iron man

oh man

 

[debaser]

I like movies too

Children of Men
Shaun of the Dead
Office Space
Evil Dead II and III
Raiders of the Lost Arc
Bill Murray
Coen Brothers
Pixar
Miyazaki
anything scored by John Williams

what I like in a nutshell. Children of Men is probably my favorite movie ever.

I thought Iron Man was overrated. It felt so generic. Dark Knight was good but was a little drawn out. The last good movie I watched was Hamlet 2 (few days ago).

 

[RelaxImAProfessional]

Fight Club

Akira

donnie darko

Slumdog Millionaire

dilwale dulhaniya le jayenge

trainspotting

lord of the rings

life aquatic

nacho libre

little miss sunshine

the godfather 1 and 2

 

[SuperRad]

What are your criticisms of Memento?

 

[HyugaRicdeau]

The Man Who Would Be King
The Big Lebowski
Dr Strangelove
Rushmore
O Brother Where Art Thou
Network

Something like that

 

[RelaxImAProfessional]

What are your criticisms of Memento?

it made me keep thinking how much easier everything would have been if he could just remember ****.

 

[ConnorTheKid]

I looooove BRINK!

 

[joeplicate]

dr strangelove *****

honestly I thought donnie darko was overhyped and only good because jaded 17-20 year olds really liked it and because it had that mad world cover

 

[SuperRad]

i loved it when i was 13
liked it when i was 16
and now i dont really care about it either way

when i was 13 i thought i was edgy as **** for finding and watching it

 

[pockyD]

SOMe LIKE IT HOT

 

[RelaxImAProfessional]

when i watched donnie darko i didnt even know it had hype and never heard of it before. so it was really good.

 

[malva00]

lol slumdog millionaire what horrible taste in movies

u guys should listen to lovage and watch christmas in august(1998)

 

[Nasty_Nate]

whoopsies!

 

[Nasty_Nate]

Debaser- Children of Men your favorite movie ever....?

It had cool shots, and a good idea for a storyline (should point out this is different from a good storyline), but fell short of being a good movie. And Hamlet 2 was just aweful.

And Kira, what do you like about There Will Be Blood? I found it boring and very very sloooow, yet it somehow got movie of the year so there must be something Im missing
Also as far as Darjeeling Unlimited goes, boring and nothing happened. Being high must have made the difference

 

[ROMBO69]

you better step ya game up if you consider yourself a critic

stuff like little miss sunshine and ferris buehler's day off and etc. are good, decent movies but nothing you'd ever want to rank on a list of great movies

office space and clerks are also the gold standard comedies must be held to

LOL **** right he better step his **** up if he thinks hes a critic, and that's his list. A lot of them are good/ok movies, but they aint masterpieces. I haven't seen Usual Suspects though, but i heard its realllly good.


LOL you talk about hating overrated popular ****?? YET you got slumdog on there.......


I've got a lot of favorites, but I'll just say my all time favorite; The Shawshank Redemption.

 

[SuperRad]

I fell in love with There Will Be Blood.
Yeah, it's pretentious. Yeah, it may have been a tad long.
But every time I watch it I look forward to scene after scene and when the movie is over, I have a big grin on my face.
I really enjoy Daniel Day Lewis's performance as well as the cinematography and score

 

[Cheeri-Oats]

I thought I'd never agree with PockyD...

One movie that should be recommended because of cinematography and visual aesthetics alone is Bladerunner. That's epic cult-**** right there.

Because everyone is going to rehash the same post-1980s stuff here are some good movies that stay relevant despite 30 years old or older (in no particular order):

The Godfather (Part 1 and 2)
The Graduate
The Apartment
The General
Rebel Without a Cause
Blazing Saddles
Young Frankenstein
2001: A Space Odyssey
Jaws
Alien

Good Modernish Foreign Films that I Love:
Cinema Paradiso (Italian)
Life is Beautiful (Italian)
Jeux D'enfants (French)

Yeah... There are a lot more.

 

[SuperRad]

2001: A Space Odyssey

uh-oh

duck before the ****storm hits

edit: i dont think 2001 is awful
i like it

 

[pockyD]

yes that move is terrible

what do you mean agree? as in 'some like it hot' was amazing?

 

[Cheeri-Oats]

Yes, Some Like It Hot IS amazing. Jack Lemmon was a godsend.

And 2001 is great too. I appreciate it for the cultural relevance and the authenticity it brought to science fiction films. Lot of tropes and techniques are taken for granted now.

 

[Fly_Amanita]

2001 was my favorite movie while I was in high school.

 

[Atlus8]

The Patriot (who cares for historical inaccuracies? s#!+ was r@pe!)

Chicago

The Green Mile

Shawshank Redemption

Lord of the Rings The Return of the King

(where are the cartoon Disney movies at?)

 

[Lovage]

and who can forget The Infinite Voyage of Captain Drake

 

[The Greater Leon]

kira heres some foreign films i liked:

Pan's Labyrinth - Spanish
Old Boy - Korean
Bounce Ko Gals - Japanese

 

[Atlus8]

and who can forget The Infinite Voyage of Captain Drake

I did, honestly! The only thing I can recall was some giant snake coming from the ground.

 

[Lovage]

bite the d!ck!!!

 

[Gaara♥]

favs are

Pulp Fiction
Fight Club
The Count of Monte Cristo
Office Space
Gangs of New York
Knocked Up
Wedding Crashers
.... cant think of many more