If you were going to choose a movie as a candidate for 'one of the all time greats' that would be widely recognized and agreed on, what would it be? Not the best movie of all time, but a movie you could get widespread agreement would be a candidate for that (with some people of course considering it the best, but the idea is that almost everyone would consider it one of the greats.) For example, maybe Casablanca?
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Typo Boy - Dec 28, 2008 2:54:37 pm PST #9166 of 10000
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DavidS - Dec 28, 2008 2:58:19 pm PST #9167 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
For example, maybe Casablanca?
Certainly an "all-time great."
Others might include: The Third Man, The Godfather, Sunset Boulevard, Wings of Desire (I'm trying to take one from every decade)...
Barb - Dec 28, 2008 2:59:55 pm PST #9168 of 10000
“Not dead yet!”
You'd need someone who's a motivated go-getter, but neither prudish nor low-class.
She's the wrong physical type altogether for this role, but I love Minnie Driver.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 28, 2008 3:03:59 pm PST #9169 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Gone with the Wind, The Godfather, and Lawrence of Arabia tend to make a lot of people's all-time lists too.
Dr. Zhivago is one of my favorite epic movies, but it seems to have fallen off people's radar in recent years.
Barb - Dec 28, 2008 3:05:46 pm PST #9170 of 10000
“Not dead yet!”
but the idea is that almost everyone would consider it one of the greats.
Hmm... The Wizard of Oz
West Side Story
Rebel Without a Cause
The Graduate
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Sting
Driving Miss Daisy
Jessica - Dec 28, 2008 3:13:25 pm PST #9171 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I can't believe I'm the first to mention Citizen Kane.
le nubian - Dec 28, 2008 3:17:17 pm PST #9172 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ha! I'm already disagreeing with movies already mentioned!
I think it might help to narrow down what "all time great" means: so is this by genre? In which case I suspect most people would put "Blade Runner" on that list over and over again.
"Wizard of Oz" has to be on an all-time great list. I just watched some of that movie again when it was on tv for the holidays and what a crazy weird movie that is when it comes right down to it - and man how successful.
"Memento" would make my personal list, but I doubt seriously that a whole lot of people would agree with me.
Woody Allen movies except for "Hannah and Her Sisters" do nothing for me, but I recognize that at least one of his movies belongs on the list.
DebetEsse - Dec 28, 2008 3:20:32 pm PST #9173 of 10000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I'd say Psycho probably most of Hitchcock's movies would be the one on the list, but maybe Vertigo , too. King Kong , probably.
dcp - Dec 28, 2008 3:42:34 pm PST #9174 of 10000
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Huh. That's a good question. When I look over my list of movies that I liked well enough to want to own someday, the only ones that I think other people might (or ought to) think belong among the all-time greats are Dr. Strangelove, Gosford Park, and The Milagro Beanfield War.
Kathy A - Dec 28, 2008 3:47:03 pm PST #9175 of 10000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
looking at my dvd shelves...
Young Frankenstein
West Side Story
Singin' in the Rain
Easter Parade
The Wizard of Oz
The Great Escape
Amadeus
The Shawshank Redemption
Aliens
M
Dumbo
Mary Poppins