Re: Best Film : Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:31 am  

bren2k wrote:

A delightfully appropriate typo.

Haha exactly pal

Re: Best Film : Wed Mar 30, 2016 8:26 pm  

The Avenger wrote:

Impossible to genuinely name just one film IMO

I'm going to avoid multi film series like LotR etc

Shawshank Redemption is a masterpiece
Schindlers List is the least enjoyable but most captivating and emotionally stirring movie I've ever experienced

I watched Schindler's List again recently. Wouldn't necessarily call it the best film ever, but I'd forgotten just what a masterpiece of cinema it is.

Shawshank Redemption, Silence of the Lambs and American History X are three of my personal favourites, but it's difficult to quantify what "Best Film" even means, never mind to pick one.

On the flip side I always felt the Pulp Fiction is probably the most overrated film ever made. I didn't hate it, it has some pretty iconic moments, but I've never quite understood why it's such a mainstay of people's top film lists. Style over substance.

Re: Best Film : Thu Mar 31, 2016 8:45 am  

Mr. Zucchini Head wrote:

I watched Schindler's List again recently. Wouldn't necessarily call it the best film ever, but I'd forgotten just what a masterpiece of cinema it is.

Shawshank Redemption, Silence of the Lambs and American History X are three of my personal favourites, but it's difficult to quantify what "Best Film" even means, never mind to pick one.

On the flip side I always felt the Pulp Fiction is probably the most overrated film ever made. I didn't hate it, it has some pretty iconic moments, but I've never quite understood why it's such a mainstay of people's top film lists. Style over substance.

I would agree that 'best' film is pretty much impossible to quantify, in any terms other than your own personal, very subjective opinion.

For example - I love Pulp Fiction; I guess I was the right age to feel that QT was making cinema that was aimed at me - shamelessly geeky and reverent of the past, but modern, edgy and lacking any respect for structure or convention. I would suggest that Pulp Fiction is a triumph of style *and* substance!

Re: Best Film : Fri Apr 08, 2016 10:27 am  

Forest Gump, I never get sick of watching that film.

Re: Best Film : Mon Apr 18, 2016 4:58 pm  

Most of Kubrick's work, if I had to pick one, then I'd go for Barry Lyndon.

Re: Best Film : Tue Apr 19, 2016 7:11 pm  

Kubrick was a master. Spartacus, The Shining and a Clockwork Orange for me.

Re: Best Film : Mon Apr 25, 2016 4:53 am  

My best film is The Wolf of Wall Street. It's awesome film i never seen before.

Re: Best Film : Mon May 16, 2016 9:51 pm  

Just don't get why so many people vote for Shawshank Redemption.
It's not bad, I enjoyed it at the time but best ever? It's as if some people have been brainwashed by the media before they have seen it and then vote for it by default, just cause some top 100 film TV show voted for it.

Its the same as those who vote for Bohemian Rhapsody!!

Re: Best Film : Mon May 16, 2016 10:31 pm  

MattyB wrote:

Just don't get why so many people vote for Shawshank Redemption.
It's not bad, I enjoyed it at the time but best ever? It's as if some people have been brainwashed by the media before they have seen it and then vote for it by default, just cause some top 100 film TV show voted for it.

Its the same as those who vote for Bohemian Rhapsody!!

Maybe because they like it?

They do say that opinions are like arseholes - everybody has one, and they all stink.

Re: Best Film : Wed Oct 26, 2016 6:21 am  

bren2k wrote:

Maybe because they like it?

They do say that opinions are like arseholes - everybody has one, and they all stink.

Bingo , how did great dude beat the swear filter

Fwiw I do agree about Shawshank being over rated , although still a very good film I wouldn't even say its the best Stephen King adaption let alone the best prison movie .