Best Movie you've ever seen

The Usual Suspects.

Tender Mercies (Robert Duvall in his Best Actor performance)

Shawshank Redemption

Just recently watched 'Captain Phillips' and it was pretty good too!

Hard to answer so I'll change the question - movies that affected me most by decade

ages

0-10 Star Wars

10-20 La Dolce Vita

20-30 Avalon

30-40 Hard. Maybe Spielberg's AI.

40-50: Probably Taymor's Across the Universe.

Nightcrawler was really good. Certainly not best of all time, but a good one to watch. I'll also second whiplash. If I had to pick my favoriteof all time, I'd probably go with troy.

RipeTomatoes wrote:

Vacation from work so I have plenty of spare time! Not much a of movie guy but I'd love to hear some recommendations!

Best movies you've ever seen?

Your best bet is to visit IMDB's website, they have a list of the top 250 movies ever produced per viewer rating (includes metascore of all critics as well so you're not relying on the opinions of 12 year olds with a smart phone).

My personal favorite is Inglorious Bastrds, best roll Brad Pitt ever played hands down. Really can't go wrong with any Tarantino movie though. I saw someone say Mad Max, if you're looking for something with quality effects production that films about as good as it gets. If you're into animated films Inside Out is a great one, definitely worth your time if you don't mind children's movies.

A few more of my favorites:

Moonrise Kindgom

Grandbudapest Hotel

Pulp Fiction (assuming every human being hasn't seen this)

Wolf of Wall Street (don't even watch if kids are in the house)

Children of Men

The Ninth Configuration

Fire Walk With Me

The Italian job - either version.

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

Good fun not the best but good.

Have to include four great black & white movies:

"Lolita" (Sue Lyon, James Mason & Peter Sellers)

"Streetcar Named Desire" (Marlon Brando & Vivian Leigh)

"Days of Wine and Roses" (Jack Lemon & Lee Remick)

"The Last Picture Show" (Ben Johnson, Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Sheperd, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman, Randy Quaid)

Not for the sentimental.

Tracktown!

If you guys like Wrestling movies, well this new Disney film made in India should interest you:

Dangal

https://youtu.be/ppkYwBcbl5M

ThatAverageRunner wrote:

Not the best, but very good ones are the Princess Bride and Whiplash

i was really surprised by whiplash. Great movie

Most folks missed Blood From The Mummy Tomb. Don't be one of them.

"Beautiful Girls" 1996. Lots of big name stars- Natalie Portman, Matt Dillon, Lauren Holly, Rosie O'Donnell, Tim Hutton, Uma Thurman, Michael Rapaport, Mira Sorvino

Tons of one liners. The most underrated movie of all time.

In no particular order

Taxi Driver -

Cinema Paradiso - Italian but good if you don't mind subtitles

Shawshank Redemption - takes 1st in rewatchability

Psycho

The Shining

Good Will Hunting

Movie man wrote:

"Beautiful Girls" 1996. Lots of big name stars- Natalie Portman, Matt Dillon, Lauren Holly, Rosie O'Donnell, Tim Hutton, Uma Thurman, Michael Rapaport, Mira Sorvino

Tons of one liners. The most underrated movie of all time.

This was my favorite movie for a handful of years. Great flick, but not the best movie I've ever seen.

Not my favorite movie to watch. But the best I've seen is probably Deer Hunter. Writing, acting, drama, suspense, crazy scenes that stick with you for days. It's got it all.

Lomez wrote:

In no particular order

Taxi Driver -

Cinema Paradiso - Italian but good if you don't mind subtitles

Shawshank Redemption - takes 1st in rewatchability

Psycho

The Shining

Good Will Hunting

Good point about Shawshank, one I never really thought about. I only re-watch my favorite movies about once a year, but Shawshank is a movie that I could watch like once a month or something. The story is told so well, similar to Forrest Gump for me.

kod3200 wrote:

RipeTomatoes wrote:

Best movies you've ever seen?

Grandbudapest Hotel

Pulp Fiction (assuming every human being hasn't seen this)

Wolf of Wall Street (don't even watch if kids are in the house)

Actually I forgot all these because they're so new.

RipeTomatoes wrote:

Vacation from work so I have plenty of spare time! Not much a of movie guy but I'd love to hear some recommendations!

Best movies you've ever seen?

Try

Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World

A naval movie set in the time period 1805.