QuoteNot a fan? Most people I know liked it. 295k voted for it on IMDB.Originally Posted by pete
Pulp Fiction on TV tonight. None of Tarantino's other work have come close since.
Good top 250 list here not too heavily weighed by modern films. Got to worry about no.2 so high though.
Not a fan? Most people I know liked it. 295k voted for it on IMDB.
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The "correct" version of Das Boot has always been a source of confusion. Here's the clearest explanation I can put together. The film is the original version, is 150 minutes long and was nominated for six Oscars. It was edited, under the supervision of Petersen, into a 209 minute director's cut and released in 1997.
Between the two of these, in 1985, the uncut miniseries version, which is 293 minutes long, was released. In short there are two or three "proper" versions but the film came first.
On the BBC2 thing, they didn't show it in one week when they showed it over the course of a few weeks. You might be confusing it with the reshowing of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy a couple of years earlier which was done in a single week.
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It is good but not 2nd best of all time?
List is full of strange ones though.
Without dissecting the whole thing Fight Club is a full 42 places ahead of Raging Bull??
The Deer Hunter 12 places behind The Green Mile??
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Given the average age bracket of people who vote in these polls, speaks volumes for the results and the lack of taste displayed is another one of those proofs.
No Country For Old Men looks interesting.Anybody seen it yet.I am presuming it has'nt being released in Ireland yet.
The critics are loving it.
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Saw`Resurrection Man` last night, good film.
Hardly lack of taste , its just reflecting films that most people liked the best . It's only supposedly a lack of taste as against your own tastes in cases you disagree with
Incorrect Gustavo, putting Fight Club ahead of Raging Bull in any list shows a clear lack of taste, and said people should be banned from voting in film polls, general elections and anything that requires a bit of individual thought
Saw 2 films recently:
American Gangster - Quite good. Russell Crowe not too annoying and you get a good sense of New York in the 70's.
Assasination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford- Not bad. At least half an hour too long but some good scenes and acting is generally good. Got the impression they were conciously trying to make a "classic".
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So people should only agree with your opinion?
You're new to talking to me aren't youSo people should only agree with your opinion?
In fairness Gustavo there is a reason for example that Westlife are so popular.
A lot of people have terrible taste.
Any poll which is done over the internet in this format, where anybody can vote, even if they haven't seen all the movies on the list, or worse, there is no list, is terribly flawed.
Any list of "best" movies compiled by professional movie critics is always very different from one compiled by "layviewers".
I'm not saying the list compiled by the pro's is always more accurate, but it would be compiled by more experienced and knowledgeable movie-watchers. I'd trust it.
It's like those polls of football teams to find the best ever player, and the winner invariably played for that club within the last 10-15 years, because most of the voters don't remember many players older than that time.
EDIT: I'm not sure how the voting worked,as it shows both number of votes, and ranking. Seems somewhat unusual.
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Judging the merits of films is subjective though , so no list can ever hope to be "accurate"
I agree that things which rely on personal taste can never be fully objective, but it is a dangerous, and in my opinion, lazy, option to take.
Does the same rationale apply to football? Would you argue with the statement that "Kilbane is as good as Ronaldinho."
If compiling a list of the top five players in the EPL, would you prefer the input of Jamie Redknapp or Harry Redknapp?
If discussing music, whose opinion on great songs would you consider more valid - Mick Jagger or Christina Aguilera?
I think it isn't unreasonable to say that there are people who have studied film, are aware of techniques used in films, who understand processes which happen in films, and who can understand how certain things which happen on screen are reflections of work done behind the camera. If a group of such people got together and created a list of criteria which was broad enough to cover every kind of film, and based on those criteria they agreed upon a list of films they felt, as objectively as possible, to be the best films ever, I'd trust it more than this thread, for example.
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Good to see Memento in the top 50! Not too sure about the LOTR movies placed above classics such as Taxi Driver, Apoc Now and Raging bull but that is just my opinion.
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