where is the culture

What culture?

i do agree with what HMS and Burgoo king said. I think that i needs to be around 25 years for it to be a classic, but some movies, like Jurrasic park (19 years old) can arguably be consindered a classic.

platton and apocolyplse now are classics too dont forget its a mad mad mad world from the 60's thats classic comedy right there and what about smokey and the bandit and starwars and caddyshack those are classics i dont really care if they are or arent they are great moies

i literally spent half an hour replying and then i deleted it, and i'm sure as fuck not writing it twice, i can barely believe i wrote it once.

suffice it to say that burgoo king knows almost nothing about films, including the words 'classic' and 'cult', and his arrogant dismissal of everyone else's taste only highlighted how much of a poseur he is.

you even fail at pretension. the word you're looking for is cinematography, buddy, not 'picture'. unless you're talking about the aspect ratio? 'screenplay' encompasses 'plot'. and please name the great. acting. TALENT. that appeared in crash (2006), ludacris? "asian woman #2?

mikkelsen - i have a huge boner for orson welles and i really dug book so in truth im a little biased on that one.

correction i misspelled platoon and go apex!!!

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red dawn the new one was an amazing move aside from the fact that they changed the story slightly it was an amazingly good story and very real

I'm disappointed no one has mentioned what is (IMHO) far and away the best movie of all time, Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa. It simultaneously invented and perfected an entire archetype of movies, the group adventure.

Other inexcusable unmentioneds:

The works of Wes Anderson, but especially The Royal Tenenbaums, which flip flops with The Big Lebowski for my favorite comedy of all time depending on my mood, with Super Troopers coming in at a close third.

The works of the Coen Brothers, who have put out the most consistently high critical acclaim movies of the modern era, especially the aforementioned The Big Lebowski, but also True Grit, No Country for Old Men, Raising Arizona, Fargo, Miller's Crossing, the list goes on.

The works of Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine is one of the most beautifully romantic movies in a long time, and Synechdoche, NY is the most deep philosophic examination of the human condition and what it means to be mortal of perhaps any movie ever.

Quentin Tarantino. How has he of all people not come up yet? Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Death Proof, Inglorious Basterds, everything he does comes out pure gold.

There's certainly more artists I'm forgetting, especially ones who've stopped working like Kubrick, Bergman, Ford, etc.

god forbid that this thread shouldn't be a definitive list of the greatest films of all time.

the biggest disappointment is how neocentric it is. though on reflection that doesn't surprise me.

huh

its mainstream hollywoodcentric

Interesting list of films...
Austin powers is obviously the best movie in existence. LOL

On a serious note, whoever said Godfather 2 wasn't good, is insane! That's my favorite one, I loved the whole history of Vito back in Sicily and his growing up in the whole crime syndicate.

Someone mentioned Platoon and Apocalypse now, those are amazing films I thought, and definitely ones I would recommend to any war buff. The Killing Fields about the Cambodian war is also really good, though it lacks action and is more focused on the drama aspect it was still a powerful film. I can't think of any more at the moment, Band of Brothers is good, but it's a TV miniseries...Carlos: The Jackal might fit in the category of war but it's mainly about a terrorist.

I'm also a pretty big fan of foreign films, Sin Nombre, City of God are good foreign films from Brazil I believe, Takashi Miike makes some CRAZY movies residing in Japan, Ichi the Killer is so over-the-top-in-your-face gore that it's such a fun film to watch. He also does some quite strange films, Visitor Q being one of them - I never actually managed to finish it because it was a nuisance to watch and had zero appeal to me.

House of Flying Daggers, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Enter the Dragon, Bloodsport, excellent martial art films if anyone likes those.

Black Dynamite, Balls Out, Shaun of the Dead for the comedy lovers.

Pretty much anything with Ahnuhld Schwarzenegger for action films, mindless entertainment is always great.

There are way too many movies I like to actually write here, just tried to give a quick rundown of what I enjoy more or less...just my 2 cents.

Don't forget scarface I live by tony Montana's credo

what credo is that? make as many posts of as little consequence as possible?

@mhiof i never used the word 'mainstream', since im not a 12 year-old and it isnt 1991.

incidentally, taken was awful, i had to stop watching 10 minutes through, it was infuriating me. incomprehensibly stupid. i heard that in taken 3 hes going to get his cat stolen.

Actually x, in taken 3 there is a real plot twister- it is his ex-mother-in-law that is taken, and at the end it is revealed it is all a ruse as HE is the actual kidnapper...... hope i didn't ruin it for anybody.

lol based on how dumb you guys make it sound, no it doesn't

Christmas Movie Survey Challenge!

Everyone make a list of their top 6 films(movies) in order highest first. Then using the following points system (Yes! I stole it from F1) we can decide The Warlight Favourite Movie Of All Time!!

Closing date: December 24th Midnight GMT +0

Can you wait this long for the result? :P

Points awarded as follows:

1st choice: 10 points
2nd choice: 6 points
3rd choice: 4 points
4th choice: 3 points
5th choice: 2 points
6th choice: 1 point

So my (WO) picks are in order:

1) Bridge on the River Kwai
2) Lawrence of Arabia
3) Schindler's List
4) Unforgiven
5) Zulu
6) Ice Cold in Alex

1- rambo first blood
2- braveheart
3- the hangover
4- the thirteenth warrior
5- abyss
6- the lion king (yeah i like this kids movie)

hmm not my picks, but it is your opinion. Here is mine.

1. Star Wars Episode 5

2. The Matrix

3. Tron (first one)

4. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

5. Star Wars Episode 4

6. The Dark Knight

i watched the scott pilgrim movie and i was comletely lost