Oh wow, didn't realise No Country was released that year. That's 3 of my post 2000 favourite films!
Film There Will Be Blood - Is it the best movie ever made?
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Yeah, Ratatouille is above it.
No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood were actually filmed close to each other. Filming for No Country For Old Men actually had to be postponed when the There Will Be Blood scene with the burning derrick was filmed, as the wind carried the smoke to their set and basically rendered filming outside impossible.
Loved that film, quite unknown
Anyway, it's art, there should not be that best movie ever thing.
I like the movie thought
There is though. It's Barry Lyndon.
Yeah it's not often mentioned in lists or anything, but it's a gorgeous, poetic film elevated by wonderful performances, score and photography. It's hypnotic.
It's a brilliant film, not the best of all time though.
Yea The Assassination of Jesse James was brilliant. Hes a very good director too Andrew Dominik
Well for many might have been deemed slow, I guess. I hate that term in films.
Anyway, fantastic film on every aspect, everyone is great in it too
This is the same as folks crying out how wonderful Oppenheimer is. For me it was like watching paint dry. American Historical dramas including Gone with the Wind are dull as hell.
It's a great movie with terrific performances from both Day-Lewis and Dano. Not sure I'd elevate it to anywhere near best ever, though.
Yes the best score out of the three is Jesse James. Was all done by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. If you loved the score for Jesse James, check out The Proposition by John Hillcoat. It’s an Australian Western - another incredible movie but the score was also done by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis and it’s superb.
Oppenheimer was fantastic.
A masterpiece! Utterly profound, so perfect.
Nah, found it very boring and forgettable.
There Will Be Blood? How did your phone autocorrect from Con Air to that?
I thought Jonny Greenwood’s score for TWbB should’ve been in contention for best score that year, but it had bits from another composition of his.
I'm sure there are plenty of Michael Bay films for you to enjoy mate.
Never seen one actually. Shawshank is my favourite film of all time, but each to their own.
Then how can you say that Oppenheimer is boring?
Because it is ridiculously long and depressing. Give me Shawshank or Forest Gump any day, at least you come out with your spirits lifted.
Shawshank isn't also long and depressing?
Not at all, has a happy ending (apart from Red's fate) and the relationship with Red (Morgan Freeman) is heart warming.
Also will add Shawshank runtime is 2h 20 mins which is long but not unreasonable and has tone where there are funny moments throughout. Oppenheimer is 3 hours of grim and depressing biopic, though I admit well acted.
In all fairness, it was a very heavy subject.
I thought it's pacing was fairly good and didn't feel like 3 hours.
Not every movie, book should lift our spirtis...Forrest Gump BTW, it's almost as fake and manipulative as Patch Adams, yet a better film than Patch.
Shawshank it's indeed a well rounded movie, to call it the best ever it's a bit of a stretch given it lacks ambition and in a world with so many extraordinary filmakers, yet a very fine and entertaining movie.
Oh absolutely but if it isn’t uplifting at least make it shorter or add some suspense. No Country for Old Men for example is a great film and not overly long and dull
Great movie but I wouldn't put it in my personal top 20. It's not a movie I've thought about a lot or talked about a lot with friends.
Good but somewhat overrated movie featuring two greedy assholes being exploitative but in the end quietly realizing they’re pathetic at the cost of getting everything they wanted.
Fun related aside, one of my old screen names when I played Counter Strike: Source regularly back in 2008 was ‘Bastard from a basket’
Fun related aside, one of my old screen names when I played Counter Strike: Source regularly back in 2008 was ‘Bastard from a basket’
Loved this movie when it came out, still do, and don't think PTA has come close to this level since.
As for 'best movie ever', impossible to answer because you'd need to define what a 'best movie ever' should be and I don't think that's easy.
As for 'best movie ever', impossible to answer because you'd need to define what a 'best movie ever' should be and I don't think that's easy.
Dano wasn't supposed to play both brothers originally. Would've been a different movie with another actor.
I thought Phantom Thread was pretty spectacular.
This
Great movie, one of Daniel's best perfomances
Oh yeah, it definitely was. Beautiful movie.
The best thing about this movie was that it made an incredible answer to the question "If you could call your penis a movie name, what would it be"?
I'm between Terminator 1 and 2. Like you said, all about personal taste but in what I look for in terms of storyline, action, romance (1st), sci-fi, affects, them 2 for me. I'd also add Brad Fiedel doing the soundtrack for both films, absolutely incredible