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What's your favorite movie? What makes it so great?
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Mon 13 Aug 2007
My favorite movie of all time is “The Lion King” because it’s a great family movie that will last for generations, and the music is catchy and fun. Hakuna Matata!
Wed 8 Aug 2007
It is perfect in every way. Deeply meaningful. Rich in metaphor. Perfectly written and produced, well cast, excellent special effects. It’s got broad emotional range. It’s timeless. It speaks to all ages. It is everything Art is supposed to be, and there is no better movie.
By the way, I think Citizen Kane is the most wretched, boring movie ever. I can’t drag myself past the first 5 minutes. I don’t care who or what Rosebud is–it’s dreary and cumbersome and I will never forgive AFI for saying it is #1! Ugh!! Get over it!
Thanks for letting me opinionate.
Carma
Wed 2 May 2007
It is one of best movie in history. Every year in Christmas all the family to see it again. It deserves to be the best one of all the times.
Wed 2 May 2007
This is my favorite family movie. It has a message for kids and parents alike, not to mention the great musical scenes.
Fri 27 Apr 2007
Ah, Yellow Submarine. True, Spirited Away has eclipsed this film as the greatest animated film ever, and, yes, many years later I understood the multiple drug references (Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds is Not, as John claimed, about a freaking dog ) but this film will always be a staple of my childhood. It combines the genius of the greatest rock band that has been or will ever be with great, drug-inspired animation.
Tue 27 Feb 2007
The rather simple story of a pig that becomes a sheep herder. (Only it’s so much more than you think)
With such a simple premise, the movie is often tossed away as a kid’s story, something that you liked when you were ten, but you’ve since grown out of (much like Disney). However, the film is filled with such richness, such life that it has a beauty all it’s own. From the dark anonymity of the opening scene in the industrial pig farm to the final shot at the big competition, the cinematography positively shines. Each shot is filled with life, and farm seems some wonderful dream of childhood, yet still grounded in reality. For a “kid’s movie”, it is suprisingly dark and serious at times (the racist attitude of the dogs towards the sheep, the death of Ma and Babe’s near execution for it), and there’s an underlying current of sadness throughout, that this the end of an era for the farm (with the death of the farmer and his wife, the farm seemed likely to be put up to auction and sold off). The performances were all-around great, from the voice cast to the wonderfully understated James Cromwell (who does all his own singing and dancing). The final shot of the film, when the clouds break, with Hoggett and Babe left standing the middle of the field, the whole audience in stunned silence, is one of the most wonderful moments ever captured on film. That’ll do pig, that’ll do.
(And the sequel is even better)
By: Peter Bryan
