# Fact: Titanic is the Best Movie Ever Made or Ever Will Be Made. Discuss. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 6, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461 "2013-08-06T01:46:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461/21 "2013-08-06T03:02:41Z")
Ok I didn’t justify my choice at all, so here it goes: Kill Bill is the perfect movie to me in every way. Awesome visuals. Awesome story. Awesome characters. Awesome soundtrack. It is fun to watch over and over and over again. It is emotionally powerful and strikes all the right emotional chords of satisfaction of revenge, sorrow over lost love, triumph over evil, redeeming yourself, etc. The dialogue is perfect and memorable. The pacing is perfect and powerful. There will never be another movie as good as Kill Bill, ever. That being said, it’s not personally my favorite movie of all time. It’s up there, but I personally like a few others more. But I do think, as objectively speaking as I can get (and I know it’s not objective at all, really), it’s the best movie. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461/22 "2013-08-06T03:03:19Z")
**Highlander** , is the only correct answer. (Given the thread title.) Bonus points if you get the reference. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461/23 "2013-08-06T03:15:26Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I’ve never seen it; I know the ending. No you don’t. Titanic is a very good movie. Not one of the best films ever. Now if you want a great movie, perhaps one of the best ever that would be Field of Dreams. Not only is a great movie adaptation from a so-so book, it is one of those films that is truly _magical_. Things happen that can only happen in a movie. (or novel) But you get to see the magic. The score to Field of Dreams is perfect. PERFECT! My god! That cornfield is still to this day a tourist attraction. Not really a tourist attraction as a mystical destination. Like Mecca. How many movies can boast that! Titanic? No. Titanic was built on an event that has fascinated people for decades. Field of Dreams _invented_ that interest. E.T. is one of the best movies ever made. It really doesn’t miss a beat. It’s rhythms are really perfect. It’s just fricking amazing and like Field of Dreams it is very life affirming. (That’s important to me) Beauty and the Beast and Spirited Away are amazing films. Again, rhythm! Rhythm! There is a time for each word to be said and time for each edit. These films really do that very well. Fearless is fantastic film. Watch it. Most of you haven’t seen it. You really should. Hell, ever Rosie Perez is good in this movie. If the director can make her good, imagine the performances he got out of Jeff Bridges, John Tuturro, Tom Hulce and Isabella Rosalellini! Of course the greatest film ever made is very obvious. It is a great tale of heroes of mythological importance. It deals in the themes of vengeance, regret, sacrifice, redemption and hope. It’s a beautiful film that doesn’t flinch when looking at man’s inhumanity to man or of the beauty of man’s love for his fellow man. The greatest movie ever made is Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461/24 "2013-08-06T03:23:43Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > “Alien” is possibly the best movie I’ve never seen. The most interesting comment in this thread so far. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461/25 "2013-08-06T03:23:48Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > No you don’t. True. That is a major reason it so great. You get not one but two plot twists at the end of a real historical story that somehow make it even more tragic. Even when the heroine has a chance to make everything right as much as possible 85 years later, she fucks people over again in the same way she always did. You don’t see that type of thing very often. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461/26 "2013-08-06T03:24:11Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I’m pretty sure _The Third Man_ is the best movie that has been made or that will ever be made. In addition to its passion play of moral ambiguity, its fantastic cinematography and music, and its delightful twist, it also has the wonderful aspect of being filmed in situ in post-war Vienna. . . . It is, indeed, very much a pip! Haunting, delightful, eerie, and witty. And Welles delivers himself of the famous “The cuckcoo clock” speech. Not an easy movie to watch: the emotions are awfully raw. But a beautiful movie. Even the ruins have a horrid monumental grandeur. (I’ll guess you also know of “The Further Adventures of Harry Lime,” the radio show. Also a lot of fun! Nothing but popcorn, and nothing to compete with the power of the movie, but good listening.) ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461/27 "2013-08-06T03:39:36Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > My favorite movie is “Murder by Death,” which I have seen around fifty times. > > In my opinion, the best movie ever made is “2001: A Space Odyssey.” > > There is no way in fuck I would ever present these opinions as objective, or absolute, or factual. It’s a matter of taste, and only fools make firm declarations about one personal preference being better than another. > > “Casablanca” is a very good movie. > > “Titanic” has some good things in its favor, but also some flaws and shortcomings. > > “Alien” is possibly the best movie I’ve never seen. Here let me fix that for you. Blah,blah,blah “Casablanca” is [del]a very good movie.[/del] the best movie ever made. Blah, blah, blah 😃 ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461/28 "2013-08-06T03:50:26Z")
My pick is “The Godfather 1”. Don’t even try to compare the quality of acting between the two. Only in the gravity of a situation can Titanic match GF. Acting in The Poseidon Adventure was even better. I would class Titanic with other epic dramas like The Ten Commandments, Poseidon Adventure, Braveheart, and Schindler’s List. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461/29 "2013-08-06T04:04:37Z")
\*Titanic \*isn’t even the best movie about the Titanic . . . though I admit I haven’t seen [all of them](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_about_the_RMS_Titanic). ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461/30 "2013-08-06T04:43:24Z")
Titanic is NOT the best movie ever made or will ever be made. However, it IS the movie equivalent of Whitney Houston’s cover of _I Will Always Love You_: most of us think “hey, decent cover of Dolly’s song,” but for some people it is wired straight into their brains and they can and must put it on eterna-repeat forever. A bit scary, but damn near chemical in its addictive properties. Casablanca is more like the movie equivalent of _Satisfaction_ - distilled essence of pop-rock-song / studio-movie goodness that is so full of every cliche and attitude that it doesn’t even really need to make sense to reach in and touch you. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461/31 "2013-08-06T04:53:08Z")
If you watch Titanic once a week and never get bored I honestly think you have a mental problem. I’m not snarking. Watching any movie that much is super creepy, especially something that’s so bland. Pulp Fiction for me. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461/32 "2013-08-06T05:32:54Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > . . . “Casablanca” is [del]a very good movie.[/del] the best movie ever made. . . . Ah, yes, yes, indeed, Mr. Blaine. Ahem. Yes, indeed. (Swats fly.) Yes. By the way, did you ever catch the Playboy magazine that interpolated the sex scene with Rick and Ilsa? Pretty damn hot. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461/33 "2013-08-06T05:39:47Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Of course the greatest film ever made is very obvious. It is a great tale of heroes of mythological importance. It deals in the themes of vengeance, regret, sacrifice, redemption and hope. It’s a beautiful film that doesn’t flinch when looking at man’s inhumanity to man or of the beauty of man’s love for his fellow man. The greatest movie ever made is Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn. Couldn’t have said it better myself. _The Wrath of Khan_ is indisputably the greatest movie ever made. I also have irrefutable evidence that _Titanic_ is disqualified from this competition: _My Heart Will Go On_. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461/34 "2013-08-06T07:43:27Z")
Bullitt would be my Titanic but then I am a man. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461/35 "2013-08-06T08:03:10Z")
It’s just a remake of The African Queen, and not a very good one. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461/36 "2013-08-06T08:15:53Z")
I like _Titanic_, but I wouldn’t call it the best movie ever made. I think I’ve only watched it maybe five or six times. I don’t know what the best movie ever made is, I haven’t seen enough, particularly of the classics, to make an informed decision. But the _Back to the Future_ trilogy is still 100% rewatchable and 100% satisfying, and I do watch them at least once a year. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461/37 "2013-08-06T09:31:29Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I like _Titanic_, but I wouldn’t call it the best movie ever made. I think I’ve only watched it maybe five or six times. _Only_ five or six?! I can only think of a handful of movies I’ve seen more than that. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461/38 "2013-08-06T10:31:59Z")
> [@Red\_Barchetta](#): > > _Only_ five or six?! I can only think of a handful of movies I’ve seen more than that. I have no problem watching movies that I like repeatedly. I guess the people who don’t are instead spending their movie watching time on a wider range of films than I do (not unlikely, I have narrow tastes). ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461/39 "2013-08-06T10:42:59Z")
Sorry. Best movie ever is The Incredibles. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461/40 "2013-08-06T10:50:04Z")
Sorry, Shag, but you lost all credibility beginning with the ninth word of your thread title. mmm [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-titanic-is-the-best-movie-ever-made-or-ever-will-be-made-discuss/665461.md?page=3)