GOODFELLAS Named BEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME

[LordJeffBuck]

All those in this thread who have seen a film made before the 1980's please raise your hand.

Casablanca?
Citizen Kane?
Battleship Potempkin?
The Apartment?

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Seen 'em all, like 'em all except for Potemkin.

Here are some of my favorites:

Humphrey Bogart
Casablanca
Maltese Falcon
High Sierra
To Have and to Have Not (w/Bacall)
The Big Sleep (w/Bacall)
Key Largo (w/Bacall)
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
in a Lonely Place
The African Queen
The Caine Mutiny

Alfred Hitchcock
The Lodger
Blackmail
The 39 Steps
Sabotage
The Lady Vanishes
Rebecca (Lawrence Olivier)
Foreign Correspondent
Suspicion (Cary Grant)
Shadow of a Doubt
Lifeboat
Spellbound
Notorious (Cary Grant)
Rope (Jimmy Stewart)
Strangers on a Train
Rear Window (Jimmy Stewart)
Dial M for Murder
Vertigo (Jimmy Stewart)
North By Northwest (Cary Grant)
Psycho
The Birds

Cary Grant
Blonde Venus (Marlene Dietrich)
Bringing Up Baby (Katherine Hepburn)
Holiday (Katherine Hepburn)
Gunga Din
His Girl Friday
The Philadephia Story (K. Hepburn, J. Stweart)
The Talk of the Town
Suspicion (Hitchcock)
Notorious (Hitchcock)
North By Nortwest (Hitchcock)
Charade (Audrey Hepburn)

Billy Wilder (director)
Sunset Boulevard ( William Holden)
Stalag 17 (William Holden)
Some Like It Hot (Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis)
The Seven Year Itch (Marilyn Monroe)
One, Two, Three (James Cagney)
The Apartment
Double Indemnity
Five Graves to Cairo
Witness for the Prosecution
Love in the Afternoon (Audrey Hepburn)

Stanley Kubrick
Dr. Strangelove
The Killing
Lolita
Barry Lyndon
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey
Paths of Glory

Frank Capra (director)
It Happened One Night
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
It's a Wonderful Life

Miscellaneous Hollywood Classics
Citizen Kane (Welles)
Touch of Evil (Welles)
The Third Man (Welles)
Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (musical)
Asphalt Jungle (heist movie)
Roman Holiday (Audrey Hepburn)
Wuthering Heights (Lawrence Olivier)
Shane (western)
On the Waterfront (Brando)
All About Eve (Bette Davis)
Chinatown (Nicholson)
Manchurian Candidate (Sinatra)
Apocalypse Now (Brando/Duvall)

If anyone cares, I'll post a list of foreign films later in the day....

 

[Thump]

If anyone cares, I'll post a list of foreign films later in the day....

Nah, that's OK. j/k

 

[PrincessPeach]

Nah, that's OK. j/k

I was about to say please do... :)

Of course, I'm safe from Thump's homo comments.

 

[Thump]

I was about to say please do... :)

Of course, I'm safe from Thump's homo comments.

Yeah, but not my lesbo comments!

 

[PrincessPeach]

Yeah, but not my lesbo comments!

I'm guessing that, like most guys, your lesbo comments would largely consist of "Can I watch?"

 

[Thump]

I'm guessing that, like most guys, your lesbo comments would largely consist of "Can I watch?"

Sounds like you personally know ever male member of this board!

 

[PrincessPeach]

Sounds like you personally know ever male member of this board!

Hey, I don' know nothin' 'bout nobody's "male member" here. I'll leave that to you. Anyway, isn't there another thread for that?

 

[vrbryant]

My list, off the top of my head, in no particular order:

The Matrix
Sin City
Donnie Darko
Patton
The Royal Tenenbaums
Full Metal Jacket
A Clockwork Orange
Disney's Robin Hood
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Requiem for a Dream
Snatch.
Wedding Crashers
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Big Lebowski
Ninja Scroll
Glory
Four Rooms
The Godfather
The Godfather II
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Magnolia
Rushmore
Lost in Translation
Pulp Fiction
Resevoir Dogs
Memento
Se7en
The Shawshank Redemption
Taxi Driver
True Romance
American History X
Ravenous
Cube
American Psycho
Fargo
Rear Window
The Money Pit
Papillon
Shadow of the Vampire
Super Troopers
Zoolander

and I still maintain that the worst movie ever made is Batman & Robin, and the biggest fuck-up in Academy Awards history is giving Rocky the award for Best Picture.

 

[BB73]

Actually, Lea Thompson and Jennifer Gray are in Red Dawn dummy :)

And I won't even go into your Ghost infatuation...you still running wet clay through your hands on lonely nights BB?

OK - guilty as charged - but for Demi Moore fantasies, not Swayze.

 

[BB73]

I've never even seen that movie so if you have and I haven't, what's that tell you?

It tells me I always had a thing for Julie Newmar - the best Catwoman.

 

[Thump]

It tells me I always had a thing for Julie Newmar - the best Catwoman.

She's hot in a Bea Arthur kind of way.

 

[BuckeyeTillIDie]

Citizen Kane....

Goodfellas is up there, though.

 

[BB73]

Good list, LJB, great call on The Asphalt Jungle, which is lesser known than most.

Some other classics:

The Best Years of Our Lives
The Great Escape
Bullitt
Wait Until Dark
Double Indemnity
Sergeant York
High Noon
Hombre

 

[avoiddallyod]

I cannot belive half baked was not on that list........

 

[Dryden]

I still maintain that the worst movie ever made is Batman & Robin, and the biggest fuck-up in Academy Awards history is giving Rocky the award for Best Picture.

Batman & Robin is absolute trash, but it is hardly the worst movie ever. I think Battlefield Earth, Kazaam, Glitter or Chairman of the Board all give it a run. In fact, Batman & Robin probably isn't even the worst franchise killing 'superhero' sequel, since Superman III and Superman IV were far worse and less watchable.

I think Rocky is a fine film, so I'd have to give the nod for biggest fuck-up in Academy history to the committee that selected Planet of the Apes for best costume/make-up in 1968, while simultaneously rejecting the nomination of 2001: A Space Odyssey in the same category because the Academy was convinced that Kubrick employed real apes for the evolution sequence at the beginning of the film.