What is the best movie ever?

The Elephant Man

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Yawn

OVER-OVERRATED

The Lobster

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Hard mode: What's the best movie ever that can be watched alone or with others and retain the title?

The apex of what cinema can do is Jaws

Umberto D

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The Shining or The Prestige. Unfortunately others won't want to watch anything >50 years old or else Citizen Kane might have that title.

The Monster Squad

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aim higher

the 300 blows

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Is it twue the "4K" version of this isn't a new transfer from the master but just an upscaled Blu-ray?

>What is the best movie ever?
Jurassic Park

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Harikiri

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La Dolce Vita

these are also acceptable answers

Contrary to popular belief, movie quality can be measured in a more or less objective way. You only have to know and understand cinematographic language to be able to ANALYZE stuff like photography, montage, sound design, camera work, colour theory, narrative structures, etc according to pre stablished parameters like genre theory, aesthetic styles or other such social agreements. That´s what analysis entails, personal taste is another thing entirely. Box office is irrelevant as most of the audience don´t qualify as informed opinions. Box office can´t tell you if a movie is good, it tells you if a movie is popular. If we took Box office as an indicator of quality cape movies, transformer movies or fast and the furious movies would be the best movies ever made, which is offcourse ridiculous. When something is popular that´s not an indication of the product´s quality but rather an indication of a society´s tastes. The box office says more about culture and politics than it says about movies.

As for awards, that highly depends on who the judges are and the criteria used to judge. The academy awards for example are mostly a marketing tool. Several movies have awards they just don´t deserve for reasons other than the quality of the production. The results are clearly going to be different if instead of a suit the judge is a competent cinematographer, your average viewer or a political activist because the level of analysis is different and the objectives are different.

Good analysis user.

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check 'em

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>dork
no u

Starship Troopers

I respect your opinion but I must disagree. While films may certainly be rated on many of the elements you have mentioned, in the end they are an art form. While I myself am continually frustrated by the subjective nature of art, it is a reality that I have come to accept. Movies, and whatever else you would care to rate, are 'good' or 'bad' depending on the criteria that you are using, which varies wildly from person to person. You yourself have named several criterion that a regularly used, such as box office numbers, film-making techniques, and so on. Why is one more valid than another?

The Wild Bunch

Nice try Bateman

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