Greatest Movies of All Time

[yellowstone123]

Eternal Sunshine where Alan Arkin says that if your not snorting heroin at age 85 there’s something wrong with you is one of the best lines ever.

[dantana]

Nothing personal, just business. That is - No Country for Old Men is the best Coen bros. movie, with Fargo at place by just a nose and Raising Arizona coming in for show.

Yellowstone123, Love Alan A. - Freebie and the Bean.

[honorentheos]

Nothing personal, just business. That is - No Country for Old Men is the best Coen bros. movie, with Fargo at place by just a nose and Raising Arizona coming in for show.

I think your comment captures the dilemma I see here. Those are all great movies. No Country for Old Men is a spectacular movie and is the high water mark for certain kinds of film, in my opinion. But I have watched it exactly once.

O Brother, Where Art Thou?, on the other hand, is a spectacular film as well. I can also watch it infinite amounts of times apparently. It resonates as well as stimulates where No Country imposes and challenges. Fargo's story telling stands out from its peers, and Raising Arizona is quirky fun. But I'd put The Big Lebowski ahead of both for comedy, quotabilty, and that certain essence that the Coen Brothers can bring to film. That's not to take away from any of them, it just highlights why I find it difficult to speak of movies in superlatives.

[honorentheos]

It did cross my mind that Oh Brother would fall into that approach to story which can be called postmodern whiich you have expressed interest in.

To be fair, it's less about expressing interest in postmodern film and instead recognizing almost all film made for adults over the last couple of decades are postmodern.

It reminds me I should add to that old thread ...

[Res Ipsa]

Nothing personal, just business. That is - No Country for Old Men is the best Coen bros. movie, with Fargo at place by just a nose and Raising Arizona coming in for show.

I think your comment captures the dilemma I see here. Those are all great movies. No Country for Old Men is a spectacular movie and is the high water mark for certain kinds of film, in my opinion. But I have watched it exactly once.

O Brother, Where Art Thou?, on the other hand, is a spectacular film as well. I can also watch it infinite amounts of times apparently. It resonates as well as stimulates where No Country imposes and challenges. Fargo's story telling stands out from its peers, and Raising Arizona is quirky fun. But I'd put The Big Lebowski ahead of both for comedy, quotabilty, and that certain essence that the Coen Brothers can bring to film. That's not to take away from any of them, it just highlights why I find it difficult to speak of movies in superlatives.

It’s hard for me to choose among their films. I’m awfully partial to Blood Simple. I watched it again recently and still enjoyed it.

[honorentheos]

I think your comment captures the dilemma I see here. Those are all great movies. No Country for Old Men is a spectacular movie and is the high water mark for certain kinds of film, in my opinion. But I have watched it exactly once.

O Brother, Where Art Thou?, on the other hand, is a spectacular film as well. I can also watch it infinite amounts of times apparently. It resonates as well as stimulates where No Country imposes and challenges. Fargo's story telling stands out from its peers, and Raising Arizona is quirky fun. But I'd put The Big Lebowski ahead of both for comedy, quotabilty, and that certain essence that the Coen Brothers can bring to film. That's not to take away from any of them, it just highlights why I find it difficult to speak of movies in superlatives.

It’s hard for me to choose among their films. I’m awfully partial to Blood Simple. I watched it again recently and still enjoyed it.

Wow, completely forgot about Blood Simple. Great addition to the discussion for sure. Yeah, they have quite the filmography.

[honorentheos]

Ha! I used to own that movie and soundtrack. Oh brother, I mean.

My top 3 in order of times viewed:

1) Southwest episode IV

2) I Huckabees (it helped with my existential crisis)

3) OBWAT

My top 3 arthouse movies, when I used to go to such things:

1) Brokeback mtn (not sure it quals as such, but that’s where I saw it)

2) Rushmore

3) Being John Malkovich

I wish I could be more avant-garde, like, I dunno, loving movies like Antichrist or Elephant, but I don’t. I tried.

Top 3 cape**** movies:

1) The Dark Knight

2) Avengers: Infinity War (just edged Iron Man)

3) Iron Man

- Doc

PS - Honorable mention to Eternal Sunshine for arthouse, I guess?

Great choices. Antichrist isn't a good movie, in my opinion. I admire the risk von Trier took in making it, but I think his releasing Nymphomaniac as the third movie in his so-called depression trilogy made the explicit sex and violence in it seem more gratuitous through association now than when it came out. Hard to watch, can be worth some thought, but not a film I can take seriously anymore. Melancholia, though? Chef's kiss.

I'm surprised no one else puts Logan on their superhero lists.

[Kishkumen]

Metropolis-
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dune (the original)
Candyman (the original)
Hellraiser
Hereditary
Harvey
Citizen Kane
Akira
Until the Last Sword is Drawn
Oldboy (the original)
I Heart Huckabee's
Eyes Without a Face
Amelie
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
Spirited Away
A Dark Song
Kung Fu Hustle
Apocalypse Now
I'm a Cyborg, and That's OK
They Call Me Trinity
Sabata (Lee van Cleef kinda plays a good guy for once)
Ong-Bak

And so many more. Too many to list for so many genres, eras and countries.

Lots of great films on that list.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

crap. I forgot about Adaptation.

- Doc

[Vēritās]

I'll try to add some favorites not already mentioned....

Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 4h 11m

Great mobster movie from the depression era that starred Robert DeNiro, Burt Young, James Woods, Joe Pesci, Jennifer Connelly, William Forsythe, James Russo, Elizabeth McGovern.

Anything from Guy Ritchie. Particularly Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and The Gentlemen.

I saw Oppenheimer last week and I noticed many actors in that flick were also in Christopher Nolan's Batman series. Starting to become a Nolan fan.

Also Michael Mann. Last of the Mohicans & Heat.

Burn After Reading and Being John Malkovich aren't movies I can watch over and over again but they are movies that have specific scenes that will make me laugh out loud every time. My fave from BjM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luZ9IQO980o

And BaR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPvOA2UCsOY