What is your favorite movie?

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.

David Cronenburg is a brilliant director. This is most likely the most interesting experimental narrative film of all time. James Woods and Debbie Harry deliver some pretty serious characters. It tackled the idea of television consumption before anything else really ever did. Cronenburg needs to be recognized!

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.

I loe fantasy films and this one really gets your imagination going. You want to put yourself in the situation and try and decide what you would do. It takes everyman and gives him the power of the universe. It has teriffic special effects for a film of its era.

There were two versions. I did not see the one made in 1950. The 1998 version starring Jimmy Stewart is my favorite. The casting for each part could not have been more perfect. All of the actors were superb.
The story was very different, but could have been a true scenario. I AM ASTOUNDED THAT IT WAS NOT IN THE TOP 100!!

BOB FEDORUK

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

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

This was Tim Burton’s best film. Although there were some gimmicks, everyone gave a great performance and this was one of the most poignant parent/child conflict stories ever told. Perhaps Albert Finney’s best performance ever, even though he didn’t receive an academy award.

Three of the most critically and commercially successful films (and novels) of all time. This is storytelling at it’s very best, and this world will never see anything like it ever again. There is something in these movies for everyone, every genre is present, and every cinematic fix is fulfilled. The art of moviemaking is all about telling great stories, inspiring emotion, conveying ideals, and affecting an audience. There is no film in existence today that has done this more effectively than Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. It is a testament to the beauty of human imagination, and is a true gift to the world.

COMPLETELY AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where, oh where has all of Hollywoods creativity vanished to? Well, at least there’s Tim Burton and his fantastic ability to create quirky-but-loveable characters, not to mention beautiful imagery. With Edward Scissorhands, he takes the story of Beauty and the Beast and puts it in modern day Burbank. In a role that’s 90% physical/facial and only 10% verbal, Johnny Depp portrays Edward, a young boy with, well, scissor hands. Winona Ryder plays the young love interest, whose love/understanding of Edward doesn’t waiver, even when it turns out his disability can do harm as well as good.

THE WIZARD OF OZ spans every genre – drama, comedy, music, dance, fantasy, a little sci-fi (that man behind the curtain, swoops of flying monkeys, more frightening than any Star Wars storm troopers), and even some horror (cinema’s most famous on-screen meltdown). Its creators took a solid piece of classic literature and managed to not ruin it! They in fact, transcended the original and made a classic in and of its own right that stands over time as one of the boldest examples of moviemaking creativity and chutzpah. Yes, the costumes, the acting, the choreography, the fabulous voice of the incomparable young Judy Garland – even the medium itself is explored as the advent of color movie photography was written directly into the storyline, turning this film into the all time cinematic milestone that it is.

THE WIZARD OF OZ has legs – it has held up through every technological battering . . . er, breakthrough over the course of years. In fact, a whole generation never even saw it in its true form–on a big screen, until re-releases well into the late ‘70’s. And who of that generation could forget the anticipation of seeing this on a color TV set for the first time? Would the magic of the Munchkinland in our imaginations hold up through the psychedelic prism of early color broadcast technology? We weren’t disappointed.

The story, though laden with elements of allegory and metaphor, is never loaded. It is a story of coming of age and coming to terms. Spiritual, but not dogmatic, it appeals to the technicolor dreams of a dustbowl-desperate black and white America. And, ultimately good triumphs over evil– the harsh reality of grown-up frailty rescued by the strong heart of a little girl.

I loved it from my first viewing and it has stayed dear to me through repeated viewings and even through the eyes of my children. And in the long run, I know that when I’m feeling afraid or alone or even just a little strange–perhaps even as I go to meet my maker, I can always close my eyes, click my heels together, and whisper, “There’s no place like home.”

Very creative, excellent special effects.

Harry potter is a boy I can identify with, as I was raised in a similar fasion thet he was.
By: Anne Wunsch