The nuILx Poll of All-Time Greatest Movies

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VALLEY GIRL, a movie about the importance of using your will and the best blue-eyed Cage performance EVAH - still skinny and "fast-forwarding to the future of acting" (c) his oscar speech years later when accepting an award for seargant piccolo's accordion

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 19 August 2002 05:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

My favorites:

Dazed and Confused
Animal House
Vacation
Wonderboys
The Dirty Dozen - What a cast
Platoon
Silence of the Lambs
Kicking and Screaming - my favorite of all time
Braveheart
Office Space
Goodfellas
Casino
Easy Money

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 19 August 2002 13:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dancer in the Dark, Showgirls, Up in Smoke, The Idiots, Gimme Shelter, Freddy Got Fingered, Hills Have Eyes, The Brood, Lost Highway, Caddyshack

― dave q, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 11:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

(did you forget salo dave q? or do you really think lost highway is bettah?)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 11:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dunno 'bout greatest and dunno a lot about films but these are some I have liked off the top of my head. It's been a while since I watched some of them.

Annie Hall
Citizen Kane (Am I really the first person to vote for this?)
The Hudsucker Proxy
A Long Day's Journey Into Night
The Last Picture Show
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Monty Python & the Quest For the Holy Grail
Slacker
Rear Window
Fast Times At Ridgemont High

― sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 12:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

mark s - watched 'Salo' again recently, seemed very much like an 'Animal Farm'-type rilly obvious (not a bad thing tho) allegory with everybody being symbolic, also seemed like a filmed Restoration comedy or something, but then, I've seen it about 12 times so maybe I'm getting nitpicky. 'Lost Highway' choice based on self-congratulation euphoria on finally 'getting' it (i think?) on 2nd viewing (first time I watched it I practically demanded my money back from the cinema, watched it again and thot 'OK this makes sense now'), so my opinion isn't really to be trusted on this one either

― dave q, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 08:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Filth and the Fury!

― Miss Laura, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 10:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

Manos: The Hands of Fate as interpreted by MST3K = "Filmed on location in a vacant lot."
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-- Ned Raggett (ne...), August 10th, 2002.

Least surprising choice on the whole thread. ;)

― L'Histoire d'Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

There are a lot of people calling Simpsons episodes "movies," when they are sort of not. But, hey, I've probably toyed with the idea of putting a CD-Rom on my list of films ("Immemory").

― L'Histoire d'Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link

greatest:
tokyo story
hiroshima mon amour
rules of the game
decalogue 1
the passion of joan of arc
persona
earth (silent russian one)
battleship potemkin
vivre sa vie
repulsion

favorite:
hiroshima mon amour
tokyo story
ordet
nashville
ten (the abbas kiarostami one)
through a glass darkly
vivre sa vie
blue velvet
rules of the game
once upon a time in the west

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 26 May 2005 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Eschewing the actual thread question, here are 20 current personal favorites instead of 10 all-time 'greatest':

End of Evangelion
Donnie Darko
Pulp Fiction
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
LOTR: Return of the King
Serpico
Magnolia
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Big Lebowski
Blade Runner
American Beauty
Akira
The Shining
Lost in Translation
Trainspotting
Blue Velvet
Reservoir Dogs
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now: Redux

― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

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