Greatest Movies of All Time

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

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.

Little Ms. Sunshine, no?

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

I guess I should add in Horror:

1) exorcist

2) halloween

3) jaws

- Doc

Hon. Mention - 2016 pres election

[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.

Little Ms. Sunshine, no?

If little ms. sunshine and eternal sunshine are different than I errored. What ever the film it was a funny line.

[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.

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.

Yes, that was rather brash of me to just declare a winner with only a trite Corleone-ism as my buffer. My bad.

I've noticed, with me anyway, first impressions tend to stick for a while. For instance, I listed Raising Ariz. as a go-to movie, but it really isn't. I liked it when it first came out. I was in my late twenties, so it has stuck. Now, it's just ok. The Big Leb.- When it came out I was a red-neck so its genre was in my no-fly zone. And it has stuck there.

But then, I watched 'There Will Be Blood' when it first came out and thought it was slow. Now, it's a go-to movie. What the hay.

Anyway, as to O Brother- for my taste I felt that the punch lines for many of the particular scenes were not up to what I was expecting. I will have to watch it again to be more precise as to what I'm talking about. Or... maybe I'll become a believer.

[huckelberry]

Just for discussion I notice that for movies about the Vietnam war it is Apocalypse Now which gets mentioned. In my mind I thought either Platoon or Full Metal Jacket were better films. But then each of those three might be seen as flawed. Platoon too focused on the political division but then that was the focus of the movie. Full Metal Jacket seemed artificial but at the same time seems to touch real things. For me Apocalypse now most moving moment is arrival, getting stoned in the blazing sun. One can feel the moment, the joint just coming on. But in my mind the movie falls apart despite trying to be so dramatic in the end.

Full disclosure, I did not go to Vietnam so my judgement is aesthetic, from a distance. My father who saw combat in wwII thought moments in Apocalypse Now were moving, touched reality. I do not think he was sold on the movie as a whole.

[Res Ipsa]

I guess I should add in Horror:

1) exorcist

2) halloween

3) jaws

- Doc

Hon. Mention - 2016 pres election

As an aside, I just watched M. Night Shayamalan's newest, Knock at the Cabin. in my opinion, he's been hit and miss over the years. I think this one was a solid hit. For best horror, I have to throw in Cabin in the Woods.

[honorentheos]

Folk horror hits for me better than most, putting Hereditary near or at the top. But it's really hard to not include Asian horror as some of the most effective lingering films. Ju-On, Ringu...

[honorentheos]

To tangent off, some of my favorite films of all time are Yojimbo, The Twilight Samurai, and 13 Assassins. All movies I own, have seen multiple times, and would gladly watch with someone again.

[dantana]

I guess one of the perks of no longer believing in deity based existence theory is demon/ghost themed, 'The Omen' type flix no longer have any scare factor for me. Like they did in the past.

[Gadianton]

Hereditary was good. Midsomer was epic because it's about Mormonism. I'm not a huge horror fan, but back in the day I ended up watching just about every B horror movie there is. Someone mentioned Hellraiser, that's the pin guy right? There were some moving visuals in that one. Population 436 is severely underrated. The ring was pretty good.