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Best Ever Movie?
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| Citizen Kane (1st) |
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3 |
4.55% |
| Godfather (2nd) |
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9 |
13.64% |
| Shawshank Redemption (3rd) |
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8 |
12.12% |
| Chinatown (4th) |
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4 |
6.06% |
| Terminator II (5th) |
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6 |
9.09% |
| Matrix (6th) |
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9 |
13.64% |
| Braveheart (7th) |
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8 |
12.12% |
| Fight Club (8th) |
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5 |
7.58% |
| Casablanca (9th) |
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4 |
6.06% |
| Gladiator (10=) |
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2 |
3.03% |
| Star Wars V (10=) |
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3 |
4.55% |
| The Usual Suspects (10=) |
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5 |
7.58% |
| Total: |
66 voters |
100% |
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JohnT
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Capitalist
Mar 1999
time: 00:30
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quote:
Originally posted by molly bloom
This poll is sooo silly. No John Ford. No Preston Sturges. No Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Robert Wise, Kubrick, Hitchcock, Renoir, Lang, Ophuls, Sirk, in fact nothing that wouldn't have impinged on the consciousness of some whacked out Valley Girl (except perhaps Citizen Kane....).
No Indian films. No Chinese films. No German or Italian or French cinema represented.
And Braveheart!!!!! I've done more cinematic dumps!!!!
Star Wars!!!! Why not nominate 'the Jetsons', for Gawd's sake? Hmm, yes, the great acting range of Mark Hamill, from A to ...... A, and back again.
I understand. Films for grown ups like 'Culloden', 'The World of Apu' and 'L'Armee des Ombres' are just not as gee whizz bang as 'Braveheart' and 'the Matrix'. |
Well, in principle I agree with you on a lot of your points, but lets not get too riled here - the purpose of polls like this in places like this is not for definitive "answers" but to find out what the people you're hanging with think.
And in a forum dominated by white males of European/American descent whom all speak English, I would've been surprised had any non-English film made the list and shocked had any non-Western* film made the list.
Hell, I would likely have been equally shocked if these movies had not been nominated - it's just a function of the audience.
But still, I don't understand.... Gladiator? Why in the name of all that is Rational in this world is Gladiator on this list? 
*Western Civ, not cowboys.
Last edited by JohnT on 15-08-2003 at 17:46
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molly bloom
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Lundenwic
Oct 2001
time: 15:30
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quote:
Originally posted by tinyp3nis
Grown ups, fashion snobs, what's the difference eh.  |
Sorry I couldn't pick films more to your taste- my local Blockbuster was out of 'The Wombles' and 'Who Dares Wins'....
Had you actually seen 'Culloden' you'd have realised what a good director (Peter Watkins) could do with a small budget and black and white film. As opposed to Mel Gibson, a Hollywood budget and the consummate dreckfest that is 'Jockfart'.
Films notable by their absence: 'The Searchers', 'Safety First', 'The Third Man', 'Ran', 'Wild Strawberries', 'Rome, Open City', 'Klute', 'L'Atalante', 'La Regle du Jeu', 'Tokyo Story', 'Pather Panchali', 'North by Northwest', 'Shadow of a Doubt', 'Don't Look Now', 'Once Upon a Time In America', 'Storm over Asia', 'Picnic at Hanging Rock', 'High Tide', 'The Conversation', 'Bonnie and Clyde', 'The Manchurian Candidate' 'To Be or Not To Be', 'Dead of Night', 'The Haunting', 'Godfather II', 'Public Enemy' 'Angels With Dirty Faces' 'The Grifters', 'Fanny and Alexander', 'Babette's Feast', 'Les Diaboliques', 'The General', 'M', 'Mephisto', 'Metropolis' etc, etc, etc....
There's so much excellent American cinema alone missing from the top 10 and films in it that frankly are nine days' wonders, and will not stand the test of time- special effects aren't a substitute for good film making, they're an adjunct to it.
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