Best Film Ever Made :)

[bednobs]

having read ynnafymmi's post below about great expectations, in which she asserts it's the best film ever made on 4 separate occasions, i was wondering what YOU thought the best film ever made was - it may or may not be your favourite film, but what is it for you?

[Mozz71]

Citizen Kane Andy, haven't seen it and can't spell it ;-)

[bednobs]

thanks for mansplaining that to me Andy, i wondered why on earth I'd asked what is the best film to YOU and not what is the best film, and now i know seeing as you explained it for my simple, full of cotton wool brain.

Mozz, i'm inclined to perhaps agree wth you about LOTR trilogy, and since i agree i'm going to take your point about the three of them being one :)

[Mozz71]

Thank you bednobs. Glad you saw reason ;-)

[jno]

fair enough, LOTR was actually made as one film, as I recall - they didn't call all the cast and crew back every couple of years to make sequels. (The Hobbit is another matter.) It was released in three parts, but I think the book was too.

[Mozz71]

You're rigtt jno, the books were released individually over a two year period. One day I may.do the three movie marathon (about 14 hours in total) but if I never see The Hobbit again, I'll be quite happy.

[Cloverjo]

Bugsy Malone and all of the Toy Story films I could happily watch for the rest of my life.

[tiggerblue10]

Too many to choose from but has to be out of Shawshank Redemption, LOTR trilogy and Gladiator. Also, all of them had brilliant soundtracks.

For classics it has to be The Wizard of Oz. Going from sepia or black and white, can't remember which, to technicolour was quite spectacular.

[Sqad]

The film that made a lasting emotional effect on me:

Dead Poets Society.

[Mozz71]

It's a beautiful film Sqad, made even more poignant by Robin Williams' death.

[zylaphone]

The Green Mile

[Bobbisox1]

The Green Mile
Gone with the Wind
I Daniel Blake

[Bobbisox1]

Snap Zyla x

[Peter Pedant]

spozza on mozza
I was thinking of that earlier
final word - rosebud

thing is he didnt have an oeuvre ( welles)
you know ugh-vrugh - The Magnificent Ambersons the follow up was a dog
then he ended up doing Dry-fly herreth commercials

[Peter Pedant]

thinga about three in one films ( LOTR) is that you have one - - fee

the three musketeers and four musketeers ( wiv Michael York dat one 1975) was done as one film and shown as two - to howls of disbelief and pleas of poverty
Frank Finlay - even had two parts !
That might be the one where Roy Kinnear fell off his horse broke his pelvis and died....

[Zacs-Master]

Roy Kinnear wasn’t in LOTR was he?

[jno]

PP, the cast of the musketeers films were angry that they were being paid for one film when it was released as two.

Kinnear was killed in Return of the Musketeers years later
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098194/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt

and the director was so upset he quit films, a great loss.

[naomi24]

I enjoyed LOTR but wouldn’t be bothered to watch them again. It took me a whole year to wade through the book - I kept going back to try to sort out who was who - but I missed it when I’d finished.

I’m with mozz on The Hobbit. I’m sorry I wasted time on it - although I enjoyed the book.

[Peter Pedant]

// "Out of Africa" ?//
dwarma or real life ?

My family knew the Feench Attons
Denys - "eez grave eez where the lions rest" drank and screwed her money away an Meryl Streep had to spend the rest of her life writing about it in order to leev

and karen blixen spoke english like the rest of us

[Mozz71]

Naomi- the book of the Hobbit is a classic, one of the first books I remember reading and enjoying at school. It could've easily been adapted as two movies, if not one long one. Stretching it out over three movies to match the LOTR films was a terrible idea. It's a children's book, and the narrative wasn't strong enough to take all that padding.

[Peter Pedant]

you mean D'Artagnan wasnt one of the Lord of the Rings?
Lardy lardy or - - mone dieu ! - yeah moan that is! Macron will whine when he finds out!
Like to see that one