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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
