Greatest Movie of All Time?

Tokyo Story made a brief appearance last year i think then dropped out.

What hurts these movies is the number of votes. They don't get in because they don't have to many voters voting for them! Rating wise, they all can get into the top 250.

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Brief appearance? Nostromo just made that list.

Indeed. Though there is The Empire Strikes Back which is for me THE Star Wars movie.

I was talking about IMDB 250.

I think Ozu is a better filmmaker than Mizoguchi, but they could use some of Mizoguchi's depiction of men and sympathy for women (though Ozu's female protagonists are very interesting and well illustrated).

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Tokyo Story doesn't have enough votes, only 16,000. But it's 8.2 so it would be certainly in the top 250 if it had more votes.

The bottom vote cut off varies from time to time. Its adjusted regularly. I remember it being 6000 about 1.5 years ago. Now its 25000. So maybe it made an appearance when they reduced the limit.

Very good list, but mine is better, top 25 greatest movies with a rough order of preference (only 1 movie per director allowed):

1 - PMMM, the movie parts 1 & 2 (?)
2 - My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki)
3 - Ikiru (Kurosawa)
4 - Tokyo Story (Ozu)
5 - Stalker (Tarkovsky)
6 - 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)
7 - Bicycle Thieves (De Sica)
8 - Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata)
9 - Ugetsu (Mizoguchi)
10 - Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
11 - 8 1/2 (Fellini)
12 - The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner)
13 - Star Wars (Lucas)
14 - The Lord of the Rings (Jackson)
15 - Blade Runner (Scott)
16 - Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson)
17 - Apu Trilogy (Ray)
18 - Persona (Bergman)
19 - The Terminator (Cameron)
20 - Schindler's List (Spielberg)
21 - The Human Condition (Kobayashi)
22 - Taxi Driver (Scorsese)
23 - Once Upon a Time in America (Leone)
24 - Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal (forgot, some jap guy)
25 - Citizen Kane (Welles)

You don't even know who directed your favourite movie?

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I like it OK - . The whole thing is so over-the-top that it can't help but be entertaining to a point. The problem is that it's about an hour too long. The original was a bit overboard too, but it basically told the same story in half the time.

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To be fair, I don't know who directed Donnie Darko off the top of my head, but I've never felt compelled to learn because the only other thing that I know from him is Southland Tales, and it sucked.

No, it's because the real author is the guy who wrote it, Gen Urobuchi:



His nickname among english speaking fans is Urobucher because he likes to torture (psychologically and physically) and kills most of his characters. He is a writer not a film director (he writes novels, videogames, tv series and films). I have seem some of his other works, it's not as good so he good really lucky with PMMM.

PMMM is more like a novel than a film in some sense since the main focus is on character development, though it's directing appears to be very good and it's visually very impressive, though not very elegant. Miyazaki's, Kubrick's and Kurosawa's films have probably more skilled direction.

Anyway, how do you rate the films on that top 25 list?

I also have trouble remembering the director of Donnie Darko, it's because he's only made Southland Tales and The Box since, neither of which I have a desire to see. The Box mainly because The Trailer seemed to give everything away

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@Guaporense your list is good but come on though The Godfather has to be on there somewhere on there and you listed Tarantino as the director of Once Upon A Time in America.

This thread is pointless. There's no way there can be a consensus "Greatest Movie" . My opinion on the greatest movie is my favourite film (Taxi Driver) . If i was to go down the same road as Daniel M, i'd add Star Wars, Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction to the Godfather. But as someone already said the most liked film doesn't equal the best.

Well, Apocalypse Now had the same director and it's better than The Godfather.

In your opinion.

And in the opinion of most critics as well. The Godfather is excellent though and it is less flawed than Apocalypse Now but it is not as haunting and powerful as the latter. So Apocalypse Now is slightly superior in relation to The Godfather.

Apocalypse Now > The Godfather

Both brilliant films, though.

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