# Most beautiful movie ever made **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 21, 2001, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-movie-ever-made/62763 "2001-04-21T04:47:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 38
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-movie-ever-made/62763/38 "2001-04-23T16:41:41Z")
[ul][li] **Giant** - Great story, beautifully filmed.[/li][li] **Gone With the Wind** - Can’t believe no one’s mentioned this one yet.[/li][li] **Lolita** - (The recent version.) Regardless of what you may think of the movie, the cinematography was stunningly beautiful.[/li][li] **The Shining** - Since I snubbed Kubrick’s Lolita, I’ll give him a nod for this film. Beautifully filmed (in a horrifying way…)[/li][li] **The English Patient** (I can hear the groans…) The movie _was_ too long, but again, it was beautifully filmed. The shots of the cave paintings, the scene in the old church, many more shots beautifully done.[/ul][/li] I’ll second the mentions of **Lawrence of Arabia** and **Star Wars**. Both stunning on the big screen. And by the way, **Slithy Tove** , the Fulton County Library System (in Atlanta) has a large collection of fine videos. We just don’t hand 'em out to obnoxious Yankees who make fun of our accents. 😉 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-beautiful-movie-ever-made/62763)._