Time to take the Gloves off: Best One Movie of all Time - you decide

[LynneSin]

We make all these topics of best war, lovestory, liberal, comedy, etc.....

But what is the best movie off all time - the movie that deserves the title of all time best movie - what is YOUR choice.

Mine would have to be "Dr. Stranglove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" - Greatest Political Satire of all time and probably one of the best movies of all time. It just barely beat "City Lights" by Charlie Chaplin, who bucked trends and said that you could make a great silent movie even though everyone is doing talkies.

[Emboldened Chimp]

1. Citizen Kane

[nuxvomica]

56. No competition

There's Kane up there in the stratosphere and then there's all the other ones down here.

[FARAFIELD]

63. THERE ARE A LOT OF IMPORTANT MOVIE

but only one movie can be my favorite and thats field of dreams.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. The Wizard of Oz

[Um_Yeah]

3. Deathwish 3

With Charles Bronson.

[noonwitch]

4. The Lion in Winter

Every performance is perfect, from Kate and Peter O'Toole to each of the sons, the girlfriend and Timothy Dalton as Phillip.

[Gigi]

19. Very good

Lion is in my top five. The performances are exquisite and the writing is exceptional.

[Malikshah]

41. My dear, in a world where carpenters rise from the dead, anything is poss.

By far--the. best. movie.
Watch it every Christmas (and in between too)

Great to see there are kindred spirits out there. And they *always* have lines to quote...

[SiobhanClancy]

48. Cinematic perfection

If I could only own one video(or DVD)this would be the one.

[nuxvomica]

59. That movie could've been a lot better

If only it had been written so that Henry and Eleanor were together in every scene!

[Itascapark]

5. Singing in the Rain

:bounce:

"Good morning, good morning,
we've talked the whole night through..."

[vi5]

6. I'd have to say the Godfather.....

It's not the movie I can watch again and again like some others, but there's no way I can deny that the direction, the acting, the writing and everything else about that movie is everything that a movie should be.

[LynneSin]

7. Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb

Since my original post didn't have my favorite movie in the title.

But it barely beats City Lights by Charlie Chaplin.

[RandomKoolzip]

8. Roadhouse starring Patrick Swayze.

Actually my favorite movie is Harold and Maude....

[Liberal Veteran]

9. Inherit the Wind

I loved it.

[GOPisEvil]

10. All bow before Casablanca!

Wasn't Bergman beautiful?

Picture from oscars.org. :-)

[leftynyc]

38. Wholeheartedly Agree - Casablanca

However, Inherit the Wind is definitely right up there.

[NashVegas]

46. I'm so there

..

[JackSwift]

52. Casablanca is my personal favorite

but asking for a best ignore so much great stuff. Go see the classics!

[Gigi]

11. Best movie?

My vote: "The Philadelphia Story"---smart, sexy, funny. Katharine
Hepburn, Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart---the acting jackpot.

[catpower2000]

12. I did a series of movie match-ups for a couple of days...

here in the lounge, and put Citizen Kane up against all sorts of terrific movies, including Raging Bull, Seven Samurai, Rear Window (or was it Vertigo? I forget), and several others. Citizen Kane came out on top, hands down. So apparently DU thinks it's Citizen Kane.

Cat

[GOPisEvil]

15. Well, DU's just wrong dammit!

:P

Citizen Kane is in my top 5, I guess...Casablanca, Seven Samurai, Godfather I&II...It's a great movie, but not the best ever, IMHO. ;-)

[Gigi]

18. Citizen

I HATE that movie! Why does everyone rave about it?!!!

[Kolesar]

28. I thought it was never going to end

I just don't get Citizen Kane. Casablanca and The Last Emporer are compelling films.

[JackSwift]

54. It's a movie made for adults

by a child (Welles was 25) and he emphatically proved the principle of the camera as narrator if not outright invented it in Citizen Kane. Technically it was groundbreaking in everyway. It was also a more sophistated story than anything that came before it, the story of a man losing his soul to ambition. And it was an incredibly well made movie. Not just a complete tour d'force and masterpiece, but really head and shoulders over everything that came before. But not my favorite, Casablanca is. Kane is a bit dark for most of my moods.

[edzontar]

13. Vertigo by Hitchcock

I would say his "run" of classics from Vertigo to Marnie via North by Northwest, Psycho, and the Birds marks the greatest sequence of brilliant releases by ANY director.

You could make a matching case, of course, for Kubrick or Kurasawa or Bunuel or Fellini at various points.

But I stand by my choice!

[judy]

32. Yessssss edzontar ! My choice too !

Vertigo is my favorite movie of all time and all movies. I have seen it countless times, and there is always something to discover....

From it comes my DU nickname Judy Barton: "I'm just a girl for Salina Kansas, I work at Magnin's", my email is "magningirl"

Good choice !!!

[blackcat77]

14. Casablanca

It had it all -- romance, intrigue, crime, war, great production values, and two of the very best actors of the day as stars.

[GOPisEvil]

22. Look at the supporting cast!

Peter Lorre, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid and Sydney Greenstreet! :wow:

[BOSSHOG]

16. COOL HAND LUKE

Ethos, Logos and Pathos. The best and worst of human nature and some damn fine acting.

[SoCalDem]

44. another vote for Luke

:)

[peekaloo]

74. shakin' the Bu$h, Boss......shakin' the Bu$h......LOL

:D

[cprise]

17. Blade Runner, by Ridley Scott

.

[Kolesar]

29. I gotta watch that again in DVD

Would you recommend the "director's cut", with no voice over? I still have not seen that version. I have not seen the film in a long while. That movie had an amazing ambience.

[Exultant Democracy]

49. Blade Runner was a work of art. n/t

[Loonman]

20. The Road Warrior

[Ivar]

34. Mad Max, Reaganism and The Road Warrior

If you liked "The Road Warrior". Or "Mel Gibson kills gay bad guys" as I like to call it, you might be interesting in this article entitled "Mad Max, Reaganism and The Road Warrior"

[Loonman]

71. Already read it

Can't somebody enjoy a movie without fucking political implications?

[samsingh]

21. my fair lady

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

23. I agree with Samsingh

"My Fair Lady" has everything!!

[MrBenchley]

24. 2001: A Space Odyssey

Humankind's journey from the savannah to the stars...

"Daddy's traveling."

[madrchsod]

25. any movie staring

cindy crawford....

[Paul1574]

26. its a wonderful life....

no one can deny the genius of this movie

[Duncan Grant]

27. "All About Eve"...

because when George Sanders says to Eve, "You're much too small for that gesture", it cracks me up. Thelma Ritter is also superb. And what an all star cast!

[GumboYaYa]

30. "A Clockwork Orange"

This is the most daring movie ever made. Kubick asks you to sympathize with the most heinous of all characters because the state controlling our personalities and thoughts is an even greater evil.

I can watch this movie over and over and always have a new insight from it.

[dragonquest8]

31. schindler's list

quite a powerful movie....

[obietiger]

33. Bridge on the River Kwai

Alec Guinness and Sessue Hayakawa were outstanding in their roles.

[DrDan]

35. Godfather

*

[quispquake]

36. Ditto-The Godfather

I must've seen this 50 times now, and it still holds me spellbound...

[mitchum]

43. "The Godfather" it is...

despite the willful contrarians who argue for "Godfather 2" They're just like those who argue that "Magnificent Ambersons" is better than "Citizen Kane" Yeah, right.

[Khephra]

37. Blue Velvet

The most perfect movie ever made.

:evilgrin:

[LynneSin]

42. Blue Velvet would have been #3

It was just on IFC last week - I love love love that movie!

[Ivar]

39. Lawrence of Arabia

Who can ask for more?

[ArkDem]

40. Holy Grail

.

[ornotna]

45. Zorba The Greek

I love that movie.

[Pert_UK]

47. Withnail and I......

A work of tragi-comic genius.

P.

[morstyranni]

73. Wha?

Best of all time or your favourite? There's a difference.

[proud patriot]

50. It's a mad mad mad mad mad world

:D

[Capn Sunshine]

51. Maltese Falcon

Bogie. At his best.

also
To Have and Have Not
Bogie & Bacall. Walter Brennan.
Very underrated, as good as Casablanca IMO

[JackSwift]

55. definitely one of the tops and not getting enough mention

it is "the stuff dreams are made of".

[ikojo]

53. Grapes of Wrath starring Henry Fonda

This is difficult..I love Star Wars but I know it's not one of the best movies ever made.

I would have to say that one of the best movies made probably would not be made today and that is "Grapes of Wrath." It was on Fox Movie Channel last night and I love it each time I see it.

It tells a story of what it was like to be poor in the US during the Depression. Given that most people were poor it is pretty much everyone's story.

Workers were taken advantage of by unscrupulous land owners all in the name of money. When they tried to organize against the oppression there were (as there are today) those who could be bought off with mere promises.

Excellent, excellent movie!

Another good movie is by the producer John Sayles called Matewan. It is a movie set in the mining towns of West Virginia and shows how the bosses pitted one immigrant group against another in the attempt to forestall union organizing.

Difficult choices indeed.

[JackSwift]

58. Star Wars is schlock, but Empire Strikes Back

is a great movie.

[oasis]

65. Grapes of Wrath..yes...Fonda at his best

"2001:A Space Odyssey" is right up there too. "The Searchers" is a powerful flick, staring Duke Wayne. "Shakespeare In Love" is about the best in the last five years.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

57. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Followed by The Manchurian Candiate, Twelve Angry Men, and The Matrix.

On edit: Almost forgot one of the REAL biggies: Easy Rider.

[KamaAina]

60. Ishtar

just kidding :-)

[SaveElmer]

61. Patton

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[Raenelle]

62. Glory

n/t

[Lady Freedom]

64. Dracula ( 1929)

[BGAL1965]

66. OH COME ON FOLKS?!?!?!?!?

CASABLANCA!!!!!!!!!!

[Lady Freedom]

67. Ok, that ties with Drac.

[VOX]

68. "Citizen Kane" -- its power just doesn't diminish over time...

It's a lot of fun, too. And it's all the more remarkable by the fact that Orson Welles was only 25 years old when he made "Kane."

"Casablanca" runs a (very) close second.

On edit: typos

[Downeast]

69. African Queen

With Humphry Bogart and Kathryn Hepburn.

[ProfessorGAC]

70. The Godfather Part 2

Best character development and weaving plot line of any movie i've ever seen.
The Professor

[GalleryGod]

72. Coppola's "The Godfather"

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: The script has become our vernacular.

[peekaloo]

75. To Kill A Mockingbird