Best Movie of All Time: S

[calsnowskier]

Which is the best? Use your own criteria.

Note that your pick will be visible.

 

[calsnowskier]

SOLID lineup, 1-5. SPR is possibly my overall fave, though.

 

[Davis_Mike]

No Stripes? I abstain.

 

[FaCe-LeE-uS]

Shit... Umm... Eeny meeny miny moe...

 

[FaCe-LeE-uS]

Shocked I was the first to pick Shawshank!!

 

[PatsFan2003]

Tough, tough list.

 

[beardown07]

Shocked I was the first to pick Shawshank!!

Another tough category

 

[Indrid Cold]

Fiennes and Neeson both knocked it out of the park in Schindler's List...it was total Niagara Falls for me during the placing of the stones on Schindler's grave in Jerusalem.

 

[Wazmankg]

I've seen it twice and it's not exactly a movie you want to watch over and over but Schindler's List for me. Again all 5 are great movies.

 

[Sam Sportboy]

Between the Shank and Lambs fer me......................went Shank: Whenever that flick is on I stop and watch...........

 

[Innermind]

This category is very tough. So... I'll use the desert island criteria, and go with the film I would watch the most again & again:

 

[williewilliejuan]

Went with the one I can stop down and watch anytime its on - Shawshank. It's almost an unfair criteria though because SPR and Schindler's aren't exact watch over and over material, but they're amazing movies.

 

[Schmoopy1000]

I like this list, but have to go with Saving Private Ryan.

 

[Sgt Brutus]

Wow most loaded class. Hard between Schindler and Saving Private Ryan and Shawshank

 

[PatsFan2003]

Parts of Saving Private Ryan had either my stomach in knots or crying like a bay.

 

[DirtDirtDirt]

No Good Fellas or Godfather?

Blasphemous

 

[beardown07]

 

[Indrid Cold]

I like this list, but have to go with Saving Private Ryan.

I still don't get how Roger Maris got killed in that tower not long after D-Day AND hit 61 HRs in 1961.

 

[Indrid Cold]

Parts of Saving Private Ryan had either my stomach in knots or crying like a bay.

The opening scene reminded me very much of taking my father to the Cantigny museum in Wheaton, IL after they had opened a new D-Day exhibit. We entered a theater that was set up to look like a landing ship and watched a brief movie on a screen at the front. The movie featured lots of footage from the day itself of men being hosed down by machine gun fire and being blown to bits by artillery. When the movie ended, the screen pulled up and the theater wall went down like a landing ramp...we did NOT want to go out that door! Mind you, dad actually fought in Sicily and Europe, landing at Normandy at D-Day plus 7 and taking part in the Bulge.
Watching SPR gave me that same feeling of actually being there and wanting to be ANYWHERE else instead.

The death of the medic was the most potent for me...having the translator cross through a wall of mist just before encountering the scene was a brilliant touch, like he was descending into hell.

 

[PatsFan2003]

The opening scene reminded me very much of taking my father to the Cantigny museum in Wheaton, IL after they had opened a new D-Day exhibit. We entered a theater that was set up to look like a landing ship and watched a brief movie on a screen at the front. The movie featured lots of footage from the day itself of men being hosed down by machine gun fire and being blown to bits by artillery. When the movie ended, the screen pulled up and the theater wall went down like a landing ramp...we did NOT want to go out that door! Mind you, dad actually fought in Sicily and Europe, landing at Normandy at D-Day plus 7 and taking part in the Bulge.
Watching SPR gave me that same feeling of actually being there and wanting to be ANYWHERE else instead.

The death of the medic was the most potent for me...having the translator cross through a wall of mist just before encountering the scene was a brilliant touch, like he was descending into hell.

Oh yeah. That was terrible as was the knife fight at the end of the movie. To me that was almost unbearable to watch.

I can't even imagine being in a place like Obama beach or being in battle period.