Here's a list of the best movies of all time. I'm not saying these grossed the most money, were critically acclaimed, or changed the world. These are the movies that I will stop and watch whenever they are on. These movies made me laugh or cry or inspired me. I defy you to find a better list of movies. If you haven't seen one of the movies listed below, I recommend you go out and buy it now.
A River Runs Through It
Ghostbusters (Part I)
Back to the Future
Braveheart
Ferris Beuhler’s Day Off
Shawshank Redemption
The Muppet Movie (the first one)
Forest Gump
American History X
National Lampoon’s Vacation
Holiday Inn
The Lord of the Rings
Saving Private Ryan
Goodfellas
A Few Good Men
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Patton
The Breakfast Club
The Silence of the Lambs
Rainman
The Wizard of Oz
Star Wars
The Sixth Sense
Driving Miss Daisy
The Shining
A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott)
American Beauty
The Last Samurai
The Matrix
Groundhog Day
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A River Runs Through It
Ghostbusters (Part I)
Back to the Future
Braveheart
Ferris Beuhler’s Day Off
Shawshank Redemption
The Muppet Movie (the first one)
Forest Gump
American History X
National Lampoon’s Vacation
Holiday Inn
The Lord of the Rings
Saving Private Ryan
Goodfellas
A Few Good Men
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Patton
The Breakfast Club
The Silence of the Lambs
Rainman
The Wizard of Oz
Star Wars
The Sixth Sense
Driving Miss Daisy
The Shining
A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott)
American Beauty
The Last Samurai
The Matrix
Groundhog Day
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posted by File Boy & D.Tkon at 8:57 AM
48 Comments:
I don't expect anyone to comment on this post because these are the best movies of all time. No comment necessary. I might later compile a list of best songs ever, best countries ever and best planets ever. I can do best popcorn ever, best restaurants, best soda, best beers and so on. I have all the answers and speak for all of humanity. If you are considering some product or activity but don't know where it fits into the list of bests ever, feel free to ask. Considering a new car? Wonder where it falls on the best cars ever list? All you have to do is ask.
This list had BETTER not be in any particular order.
The Breakfast Club?
Are you gay?
Where's Pretty Woman?
yes, I'm gay.
Who doesn't like the Breakfast Club? And, what's gay about that movie? Great soundtrack, great actors, great movie.
Pretty Woman, anonymous?! Pretty f'ing Woman? Are you pulling my leg? Mess with a bull and you get the horns (Bender).
This list is in a particular order too.
Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?
Wow! What a list. I know you don't want my opinion, but it's free so I'm offering it. I think you list has some kick ass movies on it. I also think some of these movies don't belong on any list that has the word "Best" In the title. Which ones you ask? Well, I think the following movies from your list either sucked, failed to entertain me, or just don't belong on a best of list:
Ghostbusters
Ferris Beuhler's Day Off
The Lord of the Rings
The Breakfast Club
The Sixth Sense <-- STUPID!
And any list that fails to include the Mike Myers Austin Powers series isn't worth the paper it's written on.
You can't tell me you didn't laugh at Austin Powers.
I laughed at Dumb & Dumber. I laugh just thinking about it.
Arlington Road? Extraordinary film. Or is it too intellectual for you?
And where's "The Road to Perdition"
Why's that not on your list?
And Raising Arizona? That movie was hilarious! And was unique - almost created it's own genre. And speaking of genres . . . where's Natural Born Killers?
You need to return to the drawing board my friend.
I can't stop thinking about this.
What about the horror genre? The Ring is the only movie I've ever seen that I had to pause in the middle because it was getting too intense.
And I know it's thought of as a woman's movie, but Steel Magnolias is funny and moving.
You can't tell me E.T. didn't do anything for you. I mean, you were a child when it came out so I know you at that point your heart was still untainted.
And I know that "cartoons" are cartoons. But c'mon- you didn't tear up to the lion one?
I said this list is what moves me. Not what was critically acclaimed (Arlington Road may be a great movie but I've never seen it so if I haven't seen it I can't comment whether its too intellectual for me or not, "betrnu" (if that's even your real name). What about Citizen Kane? What about A Streetcar Named Desire? What about...oh shut up.
Now, as far as ET goes, I NEVER SAW IT! I wasn't allowed to see it because it had a demon in it (radical fundamentalist upbringing). I never saw Titanic either. Actually I sort of boycotted Titanic. Too much hype, I refused to succomb. I won't ever see either movie at this point because I think that's more interesting.
You are all missing a crucial point here: my point of view. Muppet Movie - first movie I ever saw in a theatre(1979).
Ghostbusters - second movie I ever saw in a theatre, first movie I saw with my brother, first time I went to the movies without a parental escort. Plus - its about ghosts and I was 12 at the time.
Back to the Future - I was young enough to think Michael J. Fox was the man. I went out and bought a skate board and did the kick-flip move whenever I stopped skating. You know, you kick the skateboard and it flips into your hand. Sometimes I'd do that move even when I wasn't done skating if someone was around to see me do it.
Same things are true of Ferris Buehler's Day Off and Raiders. Anyone who was my age when they came out loved them (like with Star Wars).
Austin Powers is funny, but too blunt. I like the movie. Did it move me? No. Was I in hysterics? No. The Sixth Sense probably doesn't belong on this list - but I put it in there because it was a cool movie that I will watch whenver it comes on, like the Matrix, which is cool because of the extended fight scenes (like Braveheart).
Oh and this is the list, and you're all just going to have to live with it. If your favorite movie didn't make it to the best of all time movies list as maintained by this author, then your movie doesn't count. Also it means you don't have good taste in movies. You probably sit around watching Dr. Phil all the time in your underwear for all I know. Your family probably doesn't visit you as often as you'd like because they all wince at your movie collection and refuse to sit through another airing of Jurassic Park or the Fly Part II. You need to get a grip and get some good movies to put in that cabinet under your t.v. And I'll tell you something else, your t.v. is fuzzy because you haven't upgraded to digital and plasma yet because you're too busy reinactnig the Rocky Horor Picture Show movie by yourself in your basement.
Fine! Then I'll just have to go out and start my own list - one not influenced by fundamentalist proclivities and demon avoidance.
And really now, the Mupet Movie? You're just trying to be outrageous. I know it. You really didn't see that in the theatre. Nobody alive would admit that.
I'm sorry I exploded at everyone. I just got really upset when everyone began questioning my list. I did see the Muppet Movie in the theatre, I was 6 years old at the time and I was the biggest Jim Henson fan of all time. Anyone who denies Jim Henson's genius is only decieving themselves.
Besides, loving the Muppet Movie is no more outrageous than say, loving spongebob squarepants.
Don't pick on Spongebob. He's untouchable. And by the way, I didn't think you exploded at anyone. You were just passionately defending your right to be an individual.
I had no idea you were such a Jim Henson fan. But be careful. There are some folks out there would be suspicious of you. If you like Mupets, then you're a fan of Marionettes. Marionettes is a FRENCH word. Therefore you love the French. Obviously you see where this is going. Just be careful about how open you choose to be with your French sympathizing.
"I went out and bought a skate board and did the kick-flip move"
...he IS gay
D- Have you ever stopped to wonder "why are there so many, songs about Rainbows? And what's on the other side?"
I guess France is on the other side. Who knew?
Strip clubs. That's what's on the other side. Ever been in one?
I didn't even mention how I could do the 360 or ollie. I also knew how to do rail slides and hang tens. Not to brag though.
I thought skating was pretty bitchin. I had some rad skate gloves too. Me and all the gays would get our skateboards out and gay it up all the time. It was just a big gay skatefest of homos skating all over the place.
are the strip clubs in france? I'm confused.
I had no idea you were a skate board dude. When I was in college I used to ride my skate board down this huge hill every morning on my way to Crew practice (right past the Watergate Hotel). One day I hit a small hole and my board stopped dead and I went ass over teakettles and got banged up bad. I picked up my board and started walking because I was too shook up to get back on. About 60 feet from where I fell, I found a wallet! I never would have seen it if I had gotten back on my board. I thought it was my lucky day. Then I opened it and saw that it was mine. Amazing huh?
Wow. Don't take it so personally. There are a lot of people out there who have poor taste in "best movies of all times" lists, Fileboy, you are not alone.
P.S. You really need to see ET.
You didn't recognize your own wallet? Did you bump your head?
I was shaken up pretty bad.
did you go to georgetown?
GWU. I wasn't smart enough for Georgetown
Everyone gets crazy when you tell them you haven't seen ET. Like you've missed out on the greatest movie of all time. And why was it so great? Because it had a leading female actor who was roughly the same age as you were when it came out Addgirl? Now you can see why I liked several of the movies on my list. And, by the way, google the top 100 movies of all time and you'll see my list is pretty well represented.
ET was not a great movie. It was a Spielberg movie that didn't live up to the hype.
I can't believe I forgot American Beauty. I just added it in its rightful place.
I can't believe your mom let you watch that. One of the girls uses the "C" word!
I didn't like it because of the girl. ET was the first movie I saw in a movie theater without my mother. (Although, before that I did see The Fox and The Hound at a drive-in theater but it doesn't count because I fell asleep.)
The movie is moving. It causes EE-MOW-SHUN. Plus, it's funny.
Anyway, you asked to be defied. You specifically stated, "I defy you..."
I stand in defiance. The list of the greatest movies has to be the ones you would sit down and watch over and over. When "Shawn of The Dead" was on HBO- every single frigging time I flipped through the channels and saw it, I couldn't stop myself from watching it. It's a good movie. But it's not the best of all time. The google list has The Godfather. I liked it, don't get me wrong. But c'mon. It was an art movie. It runs S---O-----O----O SLOW. Plus all of the really cool stuff happens in the first hour. A Clockwork Orange... WTF? I know that it supposedly "changed the way we think" or whatever. It sucked. That list has to represent what sold at the box office and not what people actually watch.
"Best of All Time" means I'd seek it out to watch it again. That narrows the list down a lot. Actually, for me it narrows it down to one: A Few Good Men- I've seen it probably more than 200 times. I can't stop myself, it's sad. I'm still on the edge of my seat for Nicholson on the stand. I see it made your list and was close to the top, so I forgive you for some of the others.
bla bla bla. Any list that omits Pulp Fiction just isn't worth reading. Greatest movie of perhaps all time.
quentin - Pulp Fiction was great, but I think the dialogue in Jackie Brown was superior.
Jackie Brown blows.
Pulp fiction is mediocre.
Now, Resevoir Dogs--that's a MOVIE!!!
So let's hear the best songs ever list...
I'm almost afraid to put my best songs ever list up because of all the flack I got from this post. Plus the funny thing is (and this may be true of the movie list as well), the list of best songs ever is very difficult to do because in my mind it changes. I think I could do my favorite songs as of right now if anyone was interested. Or even if no one was interested.
Hey, Quentin Tarantino was here! As far as Pulp Fiction goes, its a good movie - I'd even say a great movie. I do watch that whenever its on. But its one of those movies where the writer/director tries to be so avant-garde that it gets in the way. Or that is, its a good movie because its quirky. So how many times can he trot out quirky movies and still entertain us? Most of Quentin's work is like this. Like those crappy movies he released last summer with the cheesy machine gun leg woman. We get it, its cheesy for cheese-sake. In Pulp Fiction you have a white guy using the "N" word in front of a black guy (because he's so f'ing cool the black guy respects him despite the "N" word's use). Jackie Brown? I saw it, I wouldn't watch it over and over again. When I saw it I had the feeling Quentin was just trying to resurrect old outmoded actors for the sake of being edgy (like Travolta).
Here's a challenge for Quentin, just make a movie that follows in chronological order and isn't over-the-top cheesy. I don't think he can do it. He's like the Weird Al Yancovich of movies. We all know he sucks, but for a while we all have to go watch his crap because everyone thinks its cool and you want to be in on it.
"Hey, I just rented Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2. I'm going to watch them back-to-back and then go stick my head in the toilet".
Love the Royalties - keep on watchin baby! And for the freakin record, I love cheese. I put it on everything I eat, including women. In fact, I have a shrine to cheeze-wiz in my mansion. It takes up almost an entire floor. I have a picture of Travolta signed in cheeze-wiz. Actually, I eat so much of the stuff that when I eventually have to pee, I often take a cheeze-wiz!!!
Don't bother posting your favorite song list. Save yourself the abuse. I'm sure it will just completely suck. And by the way, while you're head's in the toilet, be sure to take a few breaths.
You're right, my opinion sucks, but then again, you're here on my site, I'm not on yours reading your opinion, am I?
You should let me do my job here and stop interfering anyway. You don't see me interfering in your job, Quentin. I mean, you don't see me down at the corner kicking dicks out of your mouth, do you?
Time Article titled: Has Tarantino Been Flushed Away found here:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article1672383.ece
Basically the article indicates Quentin sucks.
Time Article titled: Has Tarantino Been Flushed Away found here:
http://entertainment.timesonline.
co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment
/film/article1672383.ece
Basically the article indicates Quentin sucks.
I guess you win. How can I compete with what you've said here? Obviously you're smarter than me and more popular than me. Well, at least I still have all of my money.
I'm sorry Quentin, don't take it so bad. You're a nice guy and at least you have your money. I still like you.
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