what do you think is the best movie you have seen and why?

Answer 1

Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I would love to skip school, paint the town red and be crazy for just one day and know that in the end i won't get into trouble about it. Plus, i dream of driving the Ferrari that is in that movie!

Answer 2

Titanic. When I would watch it and the ship would pull away from the dock in the beginning it was like I left with the ship and that I was in the story, almost like a dream. After, lots of teenage girls would be crying so they also got really into it.

All intelligent women should see Whale Rider. It is about a long line of chiefs (always male) but the next one in line was supposed to be female but the chief would not accept it. It has one of the best endings ever in a movie. I also loved The Matrix since it is similar to our reality.

Answer 3

1. Shawshank Redemption - storyline and acting.
2. The Terminal - Tom hanks is god in acting
3. Last Samurai - I love the flow - too touching.
4. King Kong (2005) - I used to love a girl then, and I easily associated myself with the theme in the movie that love is everything . Sigh...
5. Rang De Basanti (Hindi Movie )

Answer 4

MY VOTE IS: THE GODFATHER

WHY??????


The Godfather is one of the few films in which I personally did not find any significant weakness even after many viewings. From the direction, to the acting, to the storyline, to the score, The Godfather has the word classic written all over, and it really is not much of a surprise that it is now considered by many one of the top five movies of all time. Perhaps when it comes to cinematic techniques The Godfather has not been as revolutionary as Citizen Kane, but its influence on motion pictures is comparable. Rarely a movie has defined or re-defined a genre as much as this one did for "gangster movies", but its influence goes well beyond that.

The Godfather's influence has been so big through the years that elements of it can be found in virtually every "organized crime film" nowadays; almost every comedy featuring a gangster in the last few years has spoofed something in The Godfather. The Italian-American old mobster a-la Don Vito Corleone has become one of the most established figures in the public's imagination.

But to say that The Godfather is simply "influential" is to diminish its true qualities, and so is to describe it simply as "a movie about gangsters". The Mafia is certainly the main focus the story revolves around (despite the fact that the word is never mentioned), but although the movie never tries to forcedly insert separate subjects it contains an amount of psychological and social subtexts that cannot be overlooked. Considerations on how the social environments changes us, on how moral values appear different from different point of views, on how violence can destroy a human soul, and on how power can corrupt an individual are deeply blended into a story that stays practically always true to complete realism, and the result is a picture of astonishing efficacy and believability.

As good as the direction and the story are, it would be unfair not to consider the major role that the actors' performances had in the cinematic triumph that was The Godfather. Praised by many as the best cast to ever appear in an American movie, all the cast in The Godfather succeeds in portraying complex, three-dimensional characters without ever making a slip. The exceptional portrayals of Don Vito and Michael Corleone respectively by Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, the performances by Robert Duvall, James Caan and Diane Keaton as Tom Hagen, Santino Corleone and Kay Adams, the ruthless Virgil Sollozzo played by Al Lettieri -- as well as more than a few other roles -- are all perfect for the movie, and they all succeed in making us believe these are real people, not just actors. We are not watching a central character and a bunch of incomplete figures that revolve around him: although Michael Corleone is the character that gets the most screen time, everybody is the center of this world his own way. The movie makes it possible for the viewers to identify with different characters and to observe how their personality and story fits in, and it does it much more effectively than many bloated multiple-storyline movies that came out in the last few years.

The movie opens on the wedding of Don Vito Corleone's daughter, Connie (Talia Shire). Don Corleone is a powerful man, and it was not without the use of violence that he achieved this position during the course of his life. The wedding scene gives a perfect setting of where and how the Don's power extends; from the regular worker in a neighborhood, to the immensely popular singer, to the friends in politics and right to the ruthless killer, Don Corleone has links to people ready to ask him favors and to pay him back. Some are trustworthy, some are not, but thanks to his intelligence and intuit the Don can almost always distinguish the two.

However, this is 1946, times are changing, and to many of the younger people working in the crime business, Don Corleone's ideas are becoming obsolete. The Don believes that the new trend in the business, narcotics, is too dangerous and the families dealing with it would eventually end up self-destroying; while his family had deals in alcohol and gambling for a long time, part of the Government and law enforcement was ready to close one eye. Drugs are another thing.

To this day, Don Corleone was able to keep things together while maintaining his economic and political power, but things will brutally change when a powerful drug dealer name Sollozzo enters the picture. The refusal of Don Corleone to cooperate with Sollozzo, and a weakness immediately spotted by the latter, will ignite a war that will cost many lives, and that will see Michael Corleone, Vito's younger son and the one who never wanted to take part in the family business, lose his "innocence" and transform into a gangster as ruthless as the people he initially stood up against.

I purposely decided not to spoil much about the plot because I believe that the film is perfectly enjoyed without knowing anything in advance, and -- believe it or not -- there are still quite a lot of people who have never seen this movie. There are multiple scenes that manage to create an incredible tension, various twists, and although like any other masterpiece The Godfather can be watched knowing the whole story beforehand and still be a phenomenal experience, I believe it is always a pleasure to see it for the first time and enjoy its multiple climaxes. Besides, to outline such complicated characters and such an emotionally intense story in a short review like this one would be inadmissible.

There has been much speculation on how the events in The Godfather novel written by Mario Puzo, the book the film is based on, could be an exposé of true facts. Many believe that the character of Johnny Fontane , for instance, was based on Frank Sinatra's real life, and many of the other characters were modeled after real people. I won't go into that: frankly, I have no idea whether these voices are reliable, although the Frank Sinatra reference seems obviously quite believable.

The cinematography of The Godfather is dark and tasteful, and colors are used perfectly to give a true feel of the era it is set in. There is a fair amount of violence, though rarely gratuitous.

The Godfather certainly doesn't need my recommendation. The film is universally considered one of the best of all time, and the performances by Pacino and Brando alone is the stuff of legends.

Answer 5

North By Northwest. Hitchcock and Cary Grant are at the top of their respective games. Eva Marie Saint smoulders. You've got a killer score by Bernard Herrmann, and a dynamite supporting cast. There's action, suspense, and humor, plus you have the cropduster strafing scene and the big showdown atop Mount Rushmore. You've also got the added plus of a Technicolor tour of an America that is long gone.

Answer 6

Flowers for Algernon... the King and I... the Wizard of Oz ... the Brian Piccolo story, the Santa Claus, to kill a Mockingbird, roots, the fantastic voyage, around the world in 80 days, three days of the Condor... Camelot... 13 days in October... the Andromeda strain... the boy in the plastic bubble,... the diary of Anne Frank, there are just too many... in one way or another they all tell us about the human spirit.

Answer 7

Titanic because it was depicted on one of the biggest tragedies of the century and celine dion sang my heart will go on for the movie and has been many a times quoted as the greatest song ever written and sung besides actin and effects have been phenominal little wonder why even toughest of guys cry the first time they see it

Answer 8

Shawshank Redemption because it's a story about life. Sometimes I feel like I am in a prison in my life and I always dream of breaking out of my prison. Plus it shows the strength of friendship and bonds people make to survive in life. It's about travesty, trials and tribulations. It's an anecdote about life, plus the acting is good and there's a solid plot, even if it's not all that believable. The direction is okay. I am also a fan of Stephen King.

Answer 9

The Basic Instinct 1. The best erotic thriller screened ever!!!
And because Sharon is the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen.

Answer 10

I don't know about best movie but my favorite movie is "The Big Lebowski" Every line in that movie is funny and remember "nobody f*cks with the Jesus"