The best movie and why?

[Ellena]

Green Mile

even I had tears in my eyes when I watched it for the first time

i second it. IN fact i am surprised none mentioned it till now.
Touching film, an emotionally powerful experience, great acting...
.....like "walking a mile u'll never forget".
Don't think there will ever be another film that could get the first spot in ma list.

[totlxtc]

Le Mans - Not Steve McQueens best film but perfectly captured the whole aspect of the 24 heures de mans in the 1970's. Never will you be able to make a film about motorsport that captures the atmosphere again. McQueen actually driving the cars himself, the Gulf porsches EPIC!

I do not think there is another sport related film that comes close.

PS: If you never cried at Green Mile, YOU ARE NOT HUMAN!

[ADR147]

i second it. IN fact i am surprised none mentioned it till now.
Touching film, an emotionally powerful experience, great acting...
.....like "walking a mile u'll never forget".
Don't think there will ever be another film that could get the first spot in ma list.

i am sorry but i feel a need to point out that it is meaningless un-realistic pap!

[In-off]

There's never been a better film than The Godfather

True, Dude Where's My Car? ran it close, but not quite close enough

[noel]

Bladerunner.

The visionary movie that wonders what it would be like if, among other things,
"... you could see what I've seen with your eyes! " (Roy Batty)

A still astonishing film that becomes truer and more relevant year by year.


=o)

Noel

[trigger666]

"usual suspects"
kevin spacey is awsome and has a good twist in the end

[hegeland]

'le salaire de la peur' (wages of fear) is a great movie, one of the best I've seen in recent times. '12 angry men' also very good.

[CueAntW147]

Has to be the Wizard Of Oz for me, all time classic and even more special when you consider they managed to add colour to the original black & white version.........

[Templeton Peck]

TV would still be in black & white if Ted Lowe hadn't invented colour television for snooker.

[attilahun]

Gladiator, The Hustler, Bram Stoker Dracula, Hondo, Seven Samurai.......and many more....

[Templeton Peck]

Bram Stoker Dracula

A bit of support there for the, ahem, local boy...

[attilahun]

A bit of support there for the, ahem, local boy...

Of course...even though the book and the movie have nothing to do with reality....

[Anastasia]

I like "SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET"

[mattyuk]

I have many fave films but Saving Private Ryan is and always will be the greatest depiction of war ever filmed. My grandad died in that war so its kind of poignant for me anyway. To think what sheer hell those guys on the landing crafts went through.

[JiangYu]

There is no doubt in my mind that Chungking Express is my favourite movie and not just because it's the best movie out there - it has a lot of sentimental value to it, for me personally, because I feel like a lot of the plot reminds me of, well me. The movie itself is a Chinese one starring Tony Leung (International Asian Super Actor who's won best Actor more than 3 times, most noted for his role in Infernal Affairs, of which the Scorsese film, The Departed was a remake of it) and Faye Wong (Music Icon in Asia).

It's a film about two different stories which connect (but the protagonists are not really known to each other in as great a detail as they think - the film is based around a fast-food diner and Chungking Mansions - a real life building full of shabby hostels in Hong Kong inhabited by many South Asian people and tourists). The two stories feature the lives of two love-torn cops, Cop 223 (played by Takeshi Kaneshiro) and Cop 633 (played by Tony Leung). In the first story, the Cop is getting grips to a breakup that has obvious emotional effects on him. Qiwu's (Cop 223) girlfriend May broke up with him on April 1st (April Fool's Day). His birthday is May 1 and he chooses to wait for May for a month before moving on. Every day he buys a tin of pineapple with an expiration date of May 1. By the end of this time, he feels that he will either be rejoined with his love or that it will have expired forever. His world will change when he meets up with a mysterious woman in a blonde wig.

The Second film vastly outweighs the first film, it's really hard to describe. In the second story, the unnamed Cop 663 (played by Tony Leung) is similarly dealing with a breakup, this time from a flight attendant (Valerie Chow). He meets Faye, the new girl at the snack bar (played by Faye Wong). She falls for him in secret, and frequently breaks into his apartment during the day to redecorate and "improve" his living situation. He doesn't suspect Faye at all, but personafies almost every household object in light of the change, for example, talking to a bar of soap about how it suddenly got so fat.

It's one of those films which really is for a lonely romantic and it's not a chickflick, drama or an action film. It's just a film about two lonely romantics and after watching it fully, you'll see another side to being a lonely romantic if you've ever experienced that at all or are going through the same thing. To sum up the genre, it's a serious comedy-noir, in the sense that the movie is so serious on a lot of issues that it's funny at the same time.

- The Movie is Top 10 Movies of all time as rated by TIME Magazine
- Critically acclaimed and probably the most well known Asian film besides, after Infernal Affairs.
- Rated 98% Rotten Tomatoes - I'm sure many of you know just how hard Rotten Tomato critics are. Well, here's the proof that they really like the film - 98%!
- Heavily endorsed by Quentin Tarentino
- In a poll published by Sight and Sound (the monthly magazine of the British Film Institute) asking fifty leading UK film critics to choose the ten best films from the past 25 years, Chungking Express was placed at number eight, and was described as arguably one of the best contemporary Asian films.
- Trailer
- Clip


A very melancholly but optimistic story of the love-torn romantic.

I understand I've written a very long post but I've just recently watched it for the second time. The first time I watched it was in 1994, when it came out, but I only watched parts of it. The Second time watching it has meant so much to me. The least you can do is watch the clip and trailer