# What is the best movie you've ever seen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 21, 2002, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-movie-youve-ever-seen/144149 "2002-12-21T01:25:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![yawndave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/43a26b/32.png) [@yawndave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yawndave)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-movie-youve-ever-seen/144149/41 "2002-12-21T18:03:57Z")
“Best”? How about my favorite? **Contact**. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-movie-youve-ever-seen/144149/42 "2002-12-21T18:43:34Z")
La Jetee ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-movie-youve-ever-seen/144149/43 "2002-12-21T19:46:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SmileyDeath \* > \*\*I’d have to say **Heathers** \*\* That is always my stock answer for favorite movie. ---
**Author:** ![Slainte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-movie-youve-ever-seen/144149/44 "2002-12-21T22:12:46Z")
_The Shawshank Redemption_ followed by _American Beauty_. ---
**Author:** ![I\_am\_Sparticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@I\_am\_Sparticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_am_Sparticus)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-movie-youve-ever-seen/144149/45 "2002-12-21T23:23:30Z")
Lots of good choices here (a few not bad ones too) but I’ll have to go with **Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Godfather 1 & 2, Third Man, Chinatown**. Interestingly, the good guy doesn’t really win at the end of any of these. ---
**Author:** ![Ooner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c67d28/32.png) [@Ooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ooner)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-movie-youve-ever-seen/144149/46 "2002-12-21T23:27:16Z")
Depends entirely on the criteria for “good,” but I’ll say: Out of Sight ---
**Author:** ![Lure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@Lure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lure)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-movie-youve-ever-seen/144149/47 "2002-12-21T23:41:51Z")
I’d agree with a lot of these,but 3rd Man has always been a grind for me to get thru.Could be the euro location/technique.A lot of these have a,well,foreign/heavy feel to me,like they’re speaking the native language and I’m not picking up the dialogue. One of my personal favories is \*\* Detour \*\*.Something in that film connects with me,like reading an old pulp story when I was a kid.Could (and have thanks to TCM) watch this one on semimonthly basis. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-movie-youve-ever-seen/144149/48 "2002-12-22T00:05:36Z")
The Bride of Chucky… seriously. ---
**Author:** ![stockton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@stockton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stockton)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-movie-youve-ever-seen/144149/49 "2002-12-22T03:08:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alias \* > \*\*Again, _Fight Club_ > It’s so different from everything else, and that’s so refreshing in a world with so many cookie-cutter movies coming out all the time. Fight Club is it’s own thing, and it’s probably the best movie I’ve ever seen. > . \*\* Four votes for Fight Club? WHAT’S THE FIRST RULE OF FIGHT CLUB? I’ll mention **Pulp Fiction** now, since it’s flawless and sublime. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-movie-youve-ever-seen/144149/50 "2002-12-22T03:12:51Z")
[Koyaanisqatsi](http://www.koyaanisqatsi.org/) and [For All Mankind](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0097372). Of course, both of those are documentaries, in the non-documentary category, I’d have to say Orson Welles version of [The Trial](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0057427). One can’t help but watch that and wonder what Welles would have done if he’d have had a decent budget to make the film. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-movie-youve-ever-seen/144149/51 "2002-12-22T03:15:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by stockton \* > \*\*Four votes for Fight Club? WHAT’S THE FIRST RULE OF FIGHT CLUB? > > \*\* Same as the second rule. Remember the last rule of Fight Club? If this is your first night at Fight Club, you HAVE to fight! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Diff\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@Diff\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diff_T)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-movie-youve-ever-seen/144149/52 "2002-12-22T03:23:45Z")
The Truman Show ---
**Author:** ![Alexei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Alexei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alexei)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-movie-youve-ever-seen/144149/53 "2002-12-22T06:29:26Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Fuel_ > The Ring. we need more movies like The Ring… or fight club. I hope you mean the original Japanese version. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yawndave[/] > “Best”? How about my favorite? Contact . \ Worst. Film. Ever. \ As for my film, it’ll have to be Night of the Creeps. ---
**Author:** ![beauxeault](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9c0ed/32.png) [@beauxeault](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beauxeault)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-movie-youve-ever-seen/144149/54 "2002-12-22T06:36:25Z")
Waking Life, Fight Club, Clerks. Not in that order. Fight Club is probably the best, but I could (and have a tendancy to) think about Waking Life for hours. If you haven’t seen it yet, track it down and be redeemed, heathen. ---
**Author:** ![Ersatz\_Shmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@Ersatz\_Shmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ersatz_Shmoe)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-movie-youve-ever-seen/144149/55 "2002-12-22T08:48:52Z")
\ > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alexei \* > \*\*I hope you mean the original Japanese version. You know, as much as I wanted to chime in with the other movie geeks on this one and praise the original Japanese version, I have to admit I liked the remake better. Just a little bit. The original seemed to leave more to the imagination, but the American version creeped me out more. They’re basically the same movie, anyway. My $0.02. \ ---
**Author:** ![Keith\_Berry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/22d042/32.png) [@Keith\_Berry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keith_Berry)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-movie-youve-ever-seen/144149/56 "2002-12-22T10:57:38Z")
APOCALYPSE NOW. The original version, not the re-released “I’m a fucking washed-up hack so I’m re-editing my best film to remind people that I was once a genius” version. Saw it at a young age and continously revisit it…they don’t make movies as engrossing, entertaining, and thought-provoking as this one anymore. My fantasy: A DVD release of the original cut with ALL of the footage from the 6 hour version included as supplement, and the film presented in the original 2:35 ratio and not the bullshit cropped 2:00 ratio the current DVDs have. ---
**Author:** ![Pythagras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/45deac/32.png) [@Pythagras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pythagras)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-movie-youve-ever-seen/144149/57 "2002-12-23T08:15:11Z")
Either **Blade Runner** or **Thin Red Line** ---
**Author:** ![WortMeWorry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@WortMeWorry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WortMeWorry)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-movie-youve-ever-seen/144149/58 "2002-12-23T08:42:31Z")
The Outlaw Josey Wales, endevor to persevere. ---
**Author:** ![hammos1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@hammos1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hammos1)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-movie-youve-ever-seen/144149/59 "2002-12-23T10:37:18Z")
Memento ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2002, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-best-movie-youve-ever-seen/144149/60 "2002-12-23T16:36:06Z")
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