I have always claimed that I have objective proof that Casablanca is the best movie ever made.
Back in the late 70s the only way to see a movie was at the movies, on TV or maybe at a film society. One night Casablanca was on TV at about 10:30 on a week night. But only where we lived - much more localized TV in Australia back then. Friends of ours spent three and a half hours of not very friendly driving to come to our home to watch it. When it ended they headed back for work the next day.
I have never known anyone to make such an effort to see a movie - I certainly haven’t. And they had seen it once before.
I think those two occurred to me because they’re older, and people would have to go out of their way to see them. A lot of new movies get some word of mouth, and are shown on TV, and they’re in places where it’s easy to see them even if they’re not your cup of tea. If we’re ever to find a universally-liked movie, it seems like it’ll be one that only attracts fans to come see it, and its detractors won’t go to that much trouble.
007 At least five Bond movies are good enough.
National Velvet
Ghost
Grease
Saturday Night Fever
Stand by me
Fried Green Tomatoes
Pick an artist and rate their movies id say most would be good enough
Off the top of my memory
Tarantino
Clint Eastwood
Bette Davis
Joan Crawford
Jack Nicholson
Steve McQueen
Meryl Streep
Daniel Craig
Tilda Swinton
Cate Blanchett
Matt Damon
It may not have been seen by a lot of people, but whenever I watch Amelie, I’m filled with joy and delight from beginning to end. I simply can’t imagine anyone not loving that movie.
(Waiting for someone to come in and say they hate it in 3…2…)
I am not sure it is a good movie, as we have not even agreed on a definition of that, but it certinly is a lovely feel good movie, so I am seconding Amélie.
I thought both were great, and I love Mel Brooks! In fact I’d say both were works of comedic genius! Sadly, humour is one of the more divisive of subjective issues. I’m sure there are many sourpusses who don’t consider those movies funny at all!
How so? Over on the ATMB, it says there are only 1000 or so active posters. How is it “impossible” that 1000 folk cannot agree on something? (Provided folk opine only on films they have seen, and eschew joke answers.)
Those are challenging for me, as I feel comedy generally does not age well. When young, I woulda said both of those were GREAT! Rewatched both recently - felt notsomuch. Similarly, folk often praise Some Like it Hot. Allow me to nix that before it gets nominated.
Sorry folk - the list is getting long. Not sure when/if I’ll update it. Anyone else who care, feel free. I wonder if it might have been preferable to pose 2 companion threads - 1 simply for compiling a list, and the other for discussing individual films and what makes a good film.
I loved the first one, but I guess I got jaded in the four years it took to make the next one because they all just seemed to be toy commercials after the first.
To be fair they were all toy commercials, the first one wasn’t so blatant. Lucas took a small pay in his directing pay for the licensing rights, one of the worst financial decisions of the film industry.
I watched it once and didn’t really like it. I gave it a second chance and didn’t like it any more than the first time. Samuel L. Jackson preaching a sermon before he offs someone was funny, but little else. And the movie did a poor job of trying to make gangsters seem affable. I like movies where mobsters have to pay for their crimes.
I didn’t hate it when I saw it, but I found it a bit wonky. Oh well, I was a 22-year-old with little life experience. Maybe I’d like it more if I re-watched it.
I would like to advance my own candidate: Schindler’s List. Dark but amazingly executed.
I would definitely put Young Frankenstein up for nomination, if for no other reason than Mel Brooks wasn’t in it. Beautifully shot in the style of much earlier films, and still hilarious after over 50 years. Just seeing Cloris Leachman outtakes has me gasping for air.
In its own weird way, Pulp Fiction is a morality tale. Jules recognizes the miracle he witnessed and lives; the doubter Vincent dies. Butch faces a trial to prove himself worthy of his great-grandfather’s watch and rescues Marcellus.
That said, I know someone who tried to watch it and couldn’t get through the pawn shop scene, so I know it’s not universally liked.
Oh, I know. It’s just 9 year old me didn’t know for the first one, but 13 year old me knew by the second. A friend of mine used to say, “one day you come home from school and Ultraman is just two guys in rubber suits pretending to fight and it’s all down hill from there.”
I would not vote NO on either, but I fail to see the wonderment of these films. Exactly like the Princees Bride love fest, (of which I happen to agree) but I do not agree on these. They are merely OK.
I’ll point to the fact that, in the 100-ish posts so far in this thread, nearly every movie which has been proposed so far has had at least one detractor who doesn’t see it as being at least “good.”
