Topic: best movie you have ever seen in your life (Read 4709 times)

Goodfellas, cause who doesn't like Joe Pesci, Robert DeNiro, and Ray Liotta.

I'd have to say The Perks of Being a Wallflower is my current favorite. We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists is a close second.

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I've seen both. Have you seen some of the movies I've recommended to compare?

In other words, I stand from the position of having seen your two choices and the ones I've mentioned. Do you stand from the same position?

Matrix. -No need to explain why.


Donnie darko is also a good movie.

Never heard of it.

Not only did I have to look up the title of the movie, but I also had to look up the meaning of the acronym.

Now, if there's a place in your heart for this movie, then that's what is important. You simply can't argue with that. That being said, I have noted that it isn't exactly a film that gets many stars. Maybe you should watch Sansho the Bailiff to counteract the low star rating, and it should counteract any warm and fuzzy feeling you may have gotten from Harry and the Hendersons as well.

Here's a clip (despite the hiss, turn the volume up to hear the ghostly lyrics): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh9quT-m7Sk

Harry and the Henderson's ainec

Shawshank Redemption

Bladerunner http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/?ref_=sr_1 score 8.3 !

Then Tron Legacy for a while. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104001/?ref_=sr_1

Cannibal Hollocaust: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal_Holocaust

Found it on a list of the best horror movies, so decided with a name like that, it couldn't be bad. After watching it with some friends, they wouldn't talk to me for a while. Its so good it was banned in a bunch of countries, and the director was charged with making a snuff film because some of the death scenes were beyond the scope of 1980s special effects.

But really, if you are into slasher movies like SAW, this movie goes way beyond that, I wouldn't reccomend it for the faint of heart, or those with a weak constitution. I wouldn't say it is the best movie I've ever seen, but it was the most impressionable.


More in depth on the director's snuff accusation:

He was found not guilty, but not before being arrested and serving a bit of prison time. What happened was, they wanted to get media attention, so what they did was after the movie was shot, he told some of the actors to go into hiding, so when they weren't seen or heard from again, people started speculating he had actually killed them. After being arrested and forced to prove that he could recreate the scenes in question, he had the actors come out of hiding, and was let off, but was still convicted for obscenity charges.

I have seen it.

Now right back at you: if you haven't seen Edward Yang's Yi Yi, then you're missing out on something highly revered, highly praised, critically acclaimed, polled as one of the best, and truly profound.

Trailer for Yi Yi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F6tSorwYqw

Falling down
I'd you haven't seen it you really should :-)

Duly noted. I do intend to watch it. I'll now watch it sooner, rather than later, because of your encouragement. And you need to watch those films starring Hideko Takamine and those other Ozu films!

In the meantime, enjoy this fan made tribute to Hideko Takamine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSLKCLv-7bI

And this fan made tribute to Setsuko Hara and Hideko Takamine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O6tdZucyVc

And this tribute to Setsuko Hara in Kurosawa's No Regrets for our Youth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUGhS7t903c

This is not a joke. Do this now and you will forever thank me. Drop whatever you are doing, doesn't matter if the child falls to a gruesome death 30 stories below or you're in the process of writing down a perfect and simple solution towards world peace in the short fleeting minutes you can remember it, drop whatever it is you do and watch Ikiru now. It's that good.

I've seen all of those, except for Ikiru, which I have on DVD, so it's on my list.

Regarding Ugetsu, the lead is played by Masayuki Mori, who also is in Rashomon. He also appears in two other films which I absolutely love. They are Kurosawa's The Idiot, and Mikio Naruse's When a Woman Ascends the Stairs. I wholeheartedly encourage you to get into the Mikio Naruse films, pretty much all starring Hideko Takamine.

As for Ozu's Tokyo Story (Tokyo mongatari), if you haven't seen these other Ozu titles, watch them as soon as you can:

Late Spring
Early Summer
Tokyo Twilight
Equinox Flower
Late Autumn
The End of Summer
Floating Weeds
An Autumn Afternoon

Regarding Setsuko Hara, who was in Tokyo Story, she's also in Late Spring, Early Summer, Tokyo Twilight, Late Autumn and The End of Summer. But she's also in Kurosawa's The Idiot. And she's also in another gem of Kurosawa's: No Regrets for our Youth. She's also in Mikio Naruse's Sound of the Mountain, which I haven't seen yet.

And then regarding Hideko Takamine, who I mentioned was in Mikio Naruse's When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, she also gives a wonderful performance in Keisuke Kinoshita's Twenty-four Eyes. That's another one of those films where the last ten minutes is just amazingly powerful.

No doubt your familiar with Toshiro Mifune, appearing in so many Kurosawa films. He also gives a wonderful performance in Hiroshi Inagaki's Samurai Trilogy. That trilogy also stars Mariko Okada, who gave a feisty performance in Ozu's Late Autumn.

And speaking of actresses named Mariko, an absolute must watch is Masahiro Shinoda's Pale Flower, starring the incredibly beautiful Mariko Kaga.

The 50s were indeed a great time for Japanese movies. The emotional impact of some of these are staggering. I suspect this has much to do with the healing the Japanese psyche needed after Hiroshima.

Other favorites of mine from that time:
- Kurosawas Ikiru, Rashomon and The Seven Samurai of course
- Ugetsu monogatari, which you already mentioned
- Ozu's Tokyo mongatari is another treat dealing with the mental break between Taisho-era Japan (agrarian, slow, reserved) and the brash, industrial, hurried Showa-era Japan symbolized in the struggles of a family.

Anju, how I long for you.
Isn't life torture?

How a song found a mother's children. Such a beautiful and tragic story. The last ten minutes were intense and powerful.

Kenji Mizoguchi, the director, is one of the big four. The four are Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa, Mikio Naruse, and of course, Kenji Mizoguchi. If you haven't explored the classic film canon of mid 20th Century Japanese cinema, aside from Sansho Dayu, no better time to start than now.

Since you're familiar with Sansho the Bailiff, then you might be aware that the mother was played by Kinuyo Tanaka. Much earlier in this thread, I mentioned a wonderful Yasujiro Ozu film starring Kinuyo Tanaka. It was Equinox Flower. Ozu is pretty much universally praised as one of the greatest directors of all time. In practical terms, what does that mean? It means that everyone who gets familiar with his work absolutely loves it. I earnestly encourage you to explore not just the films of the big four, but also films by these semi contemporaries of the big four: Keisuke Kinoshita, Masahiro Shinoda, Shohei Imamura, Nagasi Oshima, and Masaki Kobayashi.  

But first, since you've seen Sansho the Bailiff, let's take a deeper look at what others are saying.

David Bordwell on Mizoguchi and Sansho the Bailiff:
http://www.davidbordwell.net/books/figures_intro.php?ss=3

Roger Ebert lists Sansho the Bailiff as one of the 'Great Films' and gives it four stars:
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-sansho-the-bailiff-1954

Two articles from Criterion:
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2678-sansho-the-bailiff-the-lessons-of-sansho
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/960-sansho-the-bailiff

Muru Ami
Jose Rizal
Postmen in the Mountains
3 idiots
Azumi
The Blind Swordsman: Satoichi
Ninja Assasin
The Abyss
ET
Star Wars
LOTR

above list are some of my favorites..action, drama, adventure, journey...life

From your picture I thought it would have been Eraserhead... It was a pretty bizarre film.

Sansho Dayu was awesome. I don't think I've ever seen such an intense emotional rollercoaster before or after.