ABC News asks viewers to vote best films of all times...

ABC News is taking in votes for the best films of all times on
their site:

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/Best_Film/

Results will be presented during a special two-hour broadcast on Feb. 22, 2011.
Since that poll was presented to me on a web-forum themed around James Cameron's "Avatar", it is quite clear what they recommend to vote as best SF film of all times...
And since I am an Avatard myself, you can guess what I voted for... despite the great competition in that category.

My choices:

best film: "Casablanca"
best comedy: "Dr. Strangelove"
best SF: "Avatar" (although that was a toughie, with so many great ones to choose from)
best animated: "Fantasia" - Hey, they had Bela Lugosi model for the demonic Chernobog used in the Mussorgskij sequence "A Night on Bald Mountain"... and the dancing hippo is cute, too.
best musical: "Rocky Horror Picture Show" (of course! what else??)
best suspense/thriller: "The Shining" - Redrum.... Redrum... :smilielol5:
best action: "The Great Escape" (I sometimes whistle the theme from it, too...)
best romantic screen couple: Cary Grant & Grace Kelly ("To Catch a Thief" - 'nuff said)
greatest film character: Indiana Jones (and they showed the clip of "Raiders" where he shot that swordsman to prove it...)
best line: "You talkin' to me?" (nicely spoofed by Pumbaa in "The Lion King")
best horror: "Halloween" (I love old-fashioned suspense horror instead of splatter - plus: double-win for John Carpenter for also composing one hell of a trademark horror movie score)
best western: "The Magnificent Seven" (Yul Brynner created the gunslinger, wearing black in this one - later quoted in Michael Crichton's "Westworld")
best chick flick: "Terms of Endearment" (it has Jack Nicholson in it with some nice quotes, such as: "Wind in the hair! Lead in the pencil!")
best political/historical film: "Wag the Dog" (thinking about the mechanisms of contemporary politics and the media dealing with them, this great satire even beats "Schindler's List", IMO)
greatest on-screen kiss: "Casablanca" ("Here's lookin' at you, kid" - Nicely spoofed by Bruce Campbell as Ash in "Army of Darkness" kissing the medieval girl Sheila - before she became an undead, of course...)

Wiggling bare toes,

~*Ganesha*~

 

Avatar, what a fucking joke.

I'm not a big fan of Halloween, either (though the score is amazing, and I love II), but Avatar is the only terrible choice.

I'm really surprised and proud about Dr. Strangelove actually.

 

OK, Monty Python with "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is hard competition in that category, but "Mein Führer... I can walk!" or: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room." - Need I say more?


It surpassed the mere comedy, nicely showing the absurdity of the theories of "winning" a nuclear war, therefore, it has to be the No. 1 choice as best comedy, IMO.

"Sky people cannot learn... you do not See..."


Wiggling bare toes,

~*Ganesha*~

 

The original was better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkV-of_eN2w"]YouTube - Colors of the Wind

(seriously listened to this within the last hour)

 

its a toss up with HAIR at that.. haha, and I love both..

 

I can't see how anything other than the Sound of Music could be considered the best musical.

Or Aladdin if animated are being considered too.

 

The Rocky Horror is really that good, though. I mean it took transvestitism and made it accessible

I took my father to see the a production of it last year. As a man set in his ways, for one night only he didn't mind to grind against another man in drag. I think it has a really great feel good factor, the performance from Tim Curry was brilliant and let's not forgot how timeless the music is.

It's up there, certainly.

 

I think for the greatest musical, the music kinda sucks. Most of the lyrics included. (Judging strictly by the movie version, of course.)

The performances are great; all of them. The idea; pretty radical. But c'mon, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut had better written music.

 

I really love the soundtrack. But then, this is about the greatest films, the soundtrack though imperative to a musical doesn't have to define it. Conversely, there are maybe other musicals with great scores but are terribly conceived on the screen. I liked The Phantom Of The Opera for example, but a lot of people complained about the film when they compared it to the theater version.

It's all down to personal taste, anyways.

 

That's just what people say when they're too lazy to argue.

Theater's nearly always better, just because of the experience. I've never liked a single version of the Nutcracker that I've seen on screen; I saw it in theater first, it'd have to be fucking amazing to come close to comparing.

I don't get what's so good about the soundtrack though. Do people actually like songs that aren't 'Dammit, Janet' (understandable) and Time Warp (baffling)?

Soundtrack is definitely the most important factor of a musical, hell, it's one of the most important factors of movies. A bad soundtrack can kill a comedy like nothing else.

 

I did not realise you were such a snob.

 

That's not even fair, we're talking about musicals.

Talking about any sorta 'high arts' brings it out that kinda speak, just like owning a BMW.
(I'm drunk though)

 

The Matrix, Dark Knight and Return of the Jedi are the ones I've watched the most

But my favourite is probably Ronin

"Did you ever kill anyone?"
"I hurt someones feelings once"

Or

The Long Kiss Good Night

"I let you touch my cowboy, I think I need a bath"

 

Who said I was being fair?

 

And I prefer Grease to Sound of Music when it comes to musicals

"I got chills, they're multiplying, and I'm looooosing control"

Yeah, I know, gay

 

The coulpe'a boring songs ruin it.

Hope you enjoy this cover of one of my favorites though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HImrcpJje0"]YouTube - Less Than Jake Hopelessly Devoted to You

 

How am I a snob??

 

I thought there was a little more kick in your tail, happy drinking Duck :cheers2:

 

Any person who refers to their dad as "father" is a snob in my world.

 

can't argue with that.