What is your favorite movie?

THE MAIN REASON: THE VERY BEST

RACING MOVIE EVER FILMED. I’VE SEEN

IT ABOUT A MILLION TIMES. THE WAY

THAT JOHN FRANKENHEIMER DIRECTED

THIS MOVIE WAS EXCELLENT.

Ben Hur is one of my fave movies of all time. It’s so sad to hear about the movie drop down to 100 in the afi 10th anniversary. i think it should be in the top ten movies in 100 years 100 movies. The racing scene just very exciting.William Wyler created everything based on the accurate deatils of the bible. Everything was exquite. It’s the best movie of Charlton Heston. William Wyler one of the best directors in hollywood. He’s a master!

This movie have absolutely everything that a movie could ever have. It has great action, war scenes, amazing cinematography, good acting, love scenes, scary scenes, and comic relief. Its practically every genre you can think of, packed into a feature length film. This is probably the greatest book to movie trasition in Hollywoods history. It was a good four hours long, but it was completely worth it. the movie kept me entertained from begining to end, and it was,in my honest opinion, the greatest directorial achievement in American history. Kudos to Peter Jackson for making the greatest movie in the history of mankind.

This is just a very imaginative movie, with great action, action-packed, and simply not a dull moment.

One of my earliest memories is traveling with my parents and my older sister and staying in a hotel over in eastern Washington. That night, we were watching H.B.O (a rare treat for me at the time,) and the film BATMAN was on. I never looked at clowns the same way.
Since everyone knows the story behind Batman, I’ll skip right to the review part. I’ll also add that I know very little about the comics, having only read a few of them. That being said, Michael Keaton plays Batman/Bruce Wayne with just the right balance of anger, obsession and intelligence. He’s a guy with a strong desire to do good, but greatly fears the idea of becoming the type of person he hunts. That brings us to the villain of the piece, the yin to Batman’s yang, the day to his night and the root of my intense distrust for clowns and their kind, The Joker. In the hands of the great Jack Nicholson, the Joker is like a hybrid of Robin Williams and Charles Manson. Again, I know slim to zilch about the comics, but I believe Jack was the perfect choice for such a role, one that makes his character in THE SHINING look calm and well-adjusted. The supporting cast ranges from pretty darn cool (Robert Wuhl and Jack Palance) to just plain uninteresting (Kim Basinger.)

A great social comentary

I think this movie had it all. Great acting, directing, and script (based on the great novel by J.R.R. Tolkien). I also think it set a new standard for epic movies, the use of special FX, and CG graphics and characters. Peter Jackson sets the bar extremely high for any other director who attempts to adapt another epic fantasy into film.

It’s an action packed SCI-FI Masterpiece based the legendary 80s toys & animated series, ya have giant transforming robots in battle & a hot girl, Megan Fox!!!

SIDE-SPLITTING PARODY

GWTW is the model for every epic, romance or human condition flim. The spectacle, acting, music and pure movie magic have never been surpassed.

Mag.7 has human interaction,pathos, good acting, fantastic music and scenery. More than a western - a great movie experience.

Zulu is a spectacular presentation of the human spirit. Great photography and music wrap the good acting and inspiring story in a mesmerizing event.With all the world attacking english/american values, this film is a shot in the arm for our image.

if we agree lord of the rings 1 is a wonderful film we must agree this about other two film of trilogy because journey continues and many say that last installment is greatest.best fantasy film with a marvellous story

Chuck Palahniuk’s Masterpiece, made into one of the best movies ever made by David Fincher. Total Film ranked it #1 and AFI fails to recognize it as one of the best.

Best use of the tools of the cinema to tell a fascinating story through visual and aural means with a minimum of dialogue.

First part is an exquisite rendition of the very important theme in the book “African Genesis”, an underappreciated non-fiction book.
The movie contains the greatest visual metaphor ever portrayed: the transition from the whirling femur bone, realized by the ape to be a great weapon, into the turning space station. The space parogram was launched after Sputnik because of its national defense (weaponry) important. D. K. Heffner

The best science-fiction movie.

Outperforms all vietnam era movies as you are actually travelling along with Martin Sheen on his “Assignment”. You visually experience vietnam
firsthand and become mesmerized and feel as if you are the one going down the river. I have watched this movie once per year for past 5 or 6 years and find something new and different each time. Should have won for best picture, but we cant have everything. Redux version adds even more detail, like 45 more minutes. Even though Brando has a minimal role, he still steals the show with his presence. For those who have never seen Martin Sheen in action, this role couldnt have been played by anyone else which is a great compliment to him.

1) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2) Au Hasard Balthazar
3) Seven Samurai
4) Seconds
5) 8 1/2
6) The Shining
7) The Conformist
Tokyo Story
9) Les Enfants Du Paradis
10) The Man Who Shot Libert Valance
11) The Silence
12) Umberto D
13) La Regle Du Jeu
14) Jules At Jim
15) Wild Strawberries
16) Lawrence of Arabia
17) Spellbound
18) The Hours
19) The Double Life of Veronique
20) The Best Years of Our Lives

I saw it in its first release in the 60s and several times in all its re-releases. It’s a movie that must be experienced on the biggest screen with the best print and sound to be fully appreciated. It was way ahead of its time. Unfortunately, audiences today have been de-intellectualized by Hollywood which thinks everything has to be fully explained by the narrative. 2001’s ambiguity was central to the appreciation of the film as a piece of art. It compels you to challenge your mind and your perceptions. If that is too much for the viewer, just kick back and enjoy the special effects which have been rarely equaled.

The best movie in cinematic history? Hardly. I have always had a problem with this film’s ending — which makes absolutely no sense at all — and why HAL would want to murder the crew in the first place. Both of these elements of the film are not adequately addressed or resolved.

It was never adequately explained what went wrong with HAL that he wanted to murder the entire crew. What was he going to do when he got to Jupiter? He has no physical body to leave the ship, so what was he going to do when he got there? Even if it was a malfunction in his “reason” circuits, why was this never addressed and pointed out as the plot went along? All that the two crewmen intimated was that they thought HAL was malfunctioning, but they never addressed or resolved exactly what it was in HAL’s circuitry that was going wrong. They left it up in the air and unresolved.

The ending was ridiculous and made absolutely no sense at all and looks as though it was lifted from an entirely different movie. What did it all mean? The “star” trails that streak by inside the black monolith in orbit around Jupiter, the strange psychedelic lights whizzing by as Bowman flies over some weird landscape, Bowman in his spacesuit entering the dining room seeing himself as an old man, Bowman on his death bed and finally Bowman as an embryo floating in space. It all seems to be so odd and disjointed from the rest of the movie that was so realistic and of the “hard” science fiction genre in tone and plot. The ending, on the other hand, was so abstract and “Twilight Zone-esque” that it really doesn’t fit. From all I have read and seen about this vague, open-ended ending of the movie, the filmmakers (Kubrick and Clarke) deliberately left the ending unresolved. To me, this is a major cop-out. Why make a movie where you leave the ending to be a mish-mash that makes no specific point? In the end, the movie says NOTHING. It leaves it to the viewer to fill in an ending that he THINKS it was about. No, this movie falls apart in the end and all that beautiful mystery leading up to the climax, falls apart and falls flat. A totally dissatisfying way to end an otherwise interesting movie.

tHE FESH APPROACH TO SCIENCE FICTION. IT HELD UP PRETTY WELL WITH KEEPING UP WITH ORIGINAL STORY. THE CINEMATOGRAPHY WAS MARVELOUS, AND THE MUSIC WAS SUPERB.

The most beautiful film on the list. A work of art.

The fact that 2001 still hasn’t cracked the top 10 of AFI’s list is a real travesty. Kubrick is a true genius of cinema, and 2001 is clearly his greatest film. Kubrick ranks with Kurosawa and Welles as one of the greatest directors ever. What makes 2001 so great is that it is open to many different interpretations. John Lennon once compared it to a religious experience. So much is conveyed in the film without dialogue such as the nature of consciousness, human nature, and the struggle for survival across millenia. The direction, cinematography and soundtrack are flawless. If there is a year 3001, I am confident people will still consider this one of the the true greats of cinema.

Still the most “cinematic” movie in the history of cinema, “2001″ asks deep questions about humanity’s relationship to the universe, and poses vague and thought-provoking answers, leaving much to the viewer’s imagination and intellect. Absolutely uncompromising in its execution, and still visually spectacular in spite of the primitive (by today’s standards) tools used in its creation, this film stands apart. An utterly unique experience – try saying that twice about any hollywood-financed picture.

Once has been possible that cinema make a film which is better than a classic book

Script, cinematography, score, sound effects, visual effects, casting, acting, star power - great in every aspect of what makes a great film. The most complete movie ever made.

To me, a great movie must mesmerize an audience. When I saw this movie, it was the only time I’ve ever experience complete silence in a movie theater. A full theater with about 500-600 people (yes, the old days of big screens) and no one said a word. This film kept you fixated on the screen. You couldn’t keep your eyes off the action, and when Marlo Brando appears, you just are taken to another place. Creepy, challenging, entertaining, this one did it all.

The first time I watched this two and a half hour film with only 40 minutes of dialogue, I found myself in almost a trance throughout its duration. With brilliant shots, beautiful direction, and a flawless soundtrack, 2001 is one of the most incredible films ever created. Although it is difficult to get through when you first watch it, afterwards you have literally hours upon hours of things to think about from it.

Perfect genius of Stanley Kubrick. The Total Master.

What I love most about these movies is that they brought backk to life a genre of film that had been lost but then also reinvented it. Johnny Depp created in Jack Sparrow one of those legendary characters that crosses boundaries, a character we all will remember for years to come. These movies also have one more very important element..FUN, they brought back fun and adventure to the industry.