Wow, they must be amazing because ‘Singin’ in the rain’ is absolutely superb. Not being sarcy, genuinely not a musicals expert by any means so just wondering what films they are.
wife and I tried watching Godfather, maybe 20 years ago. Went on forever and ever with nothing seeming to happen…I don’t remember how far we got, but it wasn’t far enough apparently because we turned it off out of boredom. Now that was a long time ago, so my memory may be a bit hazy on the details, but both of us thought at the time that we already wasted enough time and no way it was going to get good enough later on for us to justify sitting through any more of it. So I haven’t really ‘seen’ the movie I guess, but only because it bored me enough to turn it off.
same with Casablanca—we made it to the end, but were both quite underwhelmed as to what the big deal was supposed to be.
I feel the same way, which is why really depressing movies will never make it to the top of my list, but many comedies will. And then you have movies like one of my top favourites, Jurassic Park, which is basically an adventure/thriller but despite the peril that the characters are sometimes in, it’s basically a joyful movie with a sense of humour that is spectacular entertainment in the literal meaning of the term. It’s the sort of movie that makes you want to get the largest possible TV or, preferably, a 4K projector. One can just imagine that everyone involved probably had fun making it.
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Speaking of fun, writer-director Rian Johnson and actor Daniel Craig have both said they had fun making the first three “Knives Out” movies and are hoping to make more, and it shows. Even though the last one IMHO wasn’t as good as the first two, all of them are marvellously entertaining. Those are the kinds of movies that tend to make it to the top of my list, and good critics recognize their worth, even if they’re obviously made for mass-market appeal.
I would agree.
Please note that what I was talking about in my post was not my opinion. I was talking about the Coen’s opinions. Feel free to send that video to them.
Could not agree more (though my agreement with your analysis might lead me to say it’s not a good film). I could not figure out what was going on at the end. Now perhaps I’m just one of those lowbrow dummy heads who doesn’t get such highbrow greatness. But I do not see how I was supposed to understand what was going on based on what was on the screen.
I did a deep dive after viewing. Oh, that was some star gate to some other dimension (or realm, or something). And that was some kind of human zoo, observed by some pure energy aliens, with an accelerated timeline. And the astronaut was ultimately transformed into some kind of advanced, evolved super-fetus, come back to Earth (somehow) to do something really beneficial or really destructive, not sure.
The short story “The Sentinel,” the other explanations, reviews, etc., made it clearer. “Here’s what was going on.” Well, I stubbornly insist my movies put everything I need to understand them right there on the screen.
Mind you, I enjoy complex plots, deliberate ambiguity, etc. But this was (for me!) a longish lead-in to a muddled mess of a resolution. Yes, the direction was stunning—extremely engaging and intriguing. But it was in the service of a stand-alone movie that was a little too enamored with its own technique and sophistication.
One last thing: Master though he was, Kubrick never saw a 30-second bit in a script that wouldn’t benefit from being stretched into a 10-minute spectacle.
That’s my favorite line in the movie. It’s the one moment we see what Rick is really about.
Please note that I explicitly say in my post: “To them I would say:”
Emphasis added.
One last try:
High Noon.
Nix. Don’t like westerns! 
That was always my impression of the movie. It was a Twilight Zone episode padded for time with long squences of filler.
Some of my all-time favorites have been mentioned here, but I notice one that hasn’t: Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind. I have no expectation whatsoever that it will be unchallenged.
For me it was the thought “this is just a rip off of Kimba The White Lion, fucking Disney!”
Okay, since most of my previous nominees have been lost in the vetoes of other movies, I’ll try with the ones that haven’t been criticized yet.
When Harry Met Sally
Fantasia or, if you disqualify it for the Black Pegasus maidens, Fantasia 2
The Last Picture Show
Psycho
and one more I just thought of
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
That’s Fantasia 2000. 
ISTR the Japanese studio that owns the rights to Kimba said they were flattered by the homage, or some such.
Wasn’t that a live-action movie?
One more nomination. Green Book.
My adult children and I have completely different tastes in movies; it’s hard to find a movie any two of us will enjoy, let alone all three. I was surprised and pleased when they both chose Green Book. I’d already seen it but joined in the watching. They BOTH thought it was excellent! (It’s not among my favorites, but I agree it is good. We also all gave a thumbs-up to Oppenheimer.)
ETA: A sentimental love story I like, though my kids refuse to watch it, is The Notebook. Any vetoes?
I’m not going to say I disliked Green Book, but I will say I didn’t like the “white savior” theme.
I wouldn’t exactly call Green Book a white savior story, but the theme of a white guy learning how not to be racist by spending time with an actual black person might have been enlightened in, say, 1950. I’m happy, though, that it brought Don Shirley some attention. He was a fine musician.