These are the movies that made Hollywood great. And today I'm
counting down my picks for the Top 15 Greatest Movies of All Time. All those listed movies
that I have watched left me a huge impact In no particular time.
So here are the movies that are highly considered as The Greatest
Movies of All Time:
1. The GodFather (1972): Considered
by many as a one of the Greatest movie of all time and one of
the most influential, especially in the gangster genre.
This classic movie follows the corleone family as the reigns of the business
passed from Don Vito to son Micheal.
In this film and it's
1974 sequel. Francis Coppola crafts a world that allows us to care for and even
identify with men who are fundamentally bad guys. And virtuoso performances by
greats like Brando, pacino and Duvall. Elevate the subtle writing and
graphic violence. To make the God Father a truly Great
Movie.
2. The Shawshank Redemption: Is
a 1994 American drama film written and
directed by Frank Darabont, and
based on the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank
Redemption. The story is about how hope can make you reclaim your
life even if tragedy strikes.The screenwriting is perfect. The acting is
perfect. The emotions are conveyed in a very delicate manner in some of the
scenes and in some scenes, the emotions scream out of the screen and catch you
by the collar. If there is a movie which comes close to a perfect 10 for me, it
is this.
Framed in the 1940's for the double murder of his wife and
her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank
prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden.
During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other
inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and
unquenchable sense of hope.
3. Forrest Gump: Released
in 1994 was based on the novel of the same title by Winston Groom. Though
its strong language, violence, and sexual situations make it questionable for
children, Forrest Gump can introduce young viewers to prominent moments in
the 20th century. Through the use of Oscar-winning visual effects, Forrest
interacts with U.S. presidents, teaches Elvis Presley how to do his famous
"pelvis dance," and inspires John Lennon to write the song
"Imagine."
The encounters sometimes border on the
absurd, but they're anchored by Hanks' extraordinary, Oscar-winning
performance. He makes the slow-witted Forrest a sympathetic and believable
character instead of a stereotyped simpleton. Superb acting by the entire cast,
especially Wright as Jenny and Gary Sinise as Forrest's army
lieutenant, add substance to this sentimental tearjerker.
It brilliantly portrays tragic
situations with a funny zing. It takes a certain genius to be able to do that
on screen.
You may not find anything special about Pulp Fiction, it keeps you on the edge
but it got no story line. There is no conclusion or result. We are used to a
certain catharsis at the end of watching a film and yes this film doesn't offer
that.
5. schindler's list: Is one of the most critically acclaimed
films of the 1990’s. This Steven Spielberg historical drama, based on the life
of Oskar Schindler, an ethnic German businessman who saved the lives of more
than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing
them in his factories.
6. TheDark Knight: Is a 2008 superhero
film directed, co-produced, and co-written
by Christopher Nolan. Dark twisted and with a depth not present in
most comic book movies. This second film in Nolan's batman franchise redefined
the genre and appealed to both comic book fans and the general public.
Tracking the caped crusaderas as he
battles the infamous joker. The Dark Knight blurs the lines between superhero
and super villain painting each a complex and embattled character.
With a standout performance by Heath
Ledger that won the actor a posthumous Oscar. Batman story was given a
decisively gritty sequel and one that surpassed the original.
7. Lord of The Rings: Is
a film series consisting of
three high fantasy adventure
films directed by Peter Jackson. They are based on the novel The Lord of the
Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. The
films are subtitled The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two
Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003). LOTR is,
at its core, a triumph of good over evil. A story of how firm, dogged resolve
can defeat the mightiest of terror and evil, when bravery, courage and
strength, all seem lost. A story like that will always continue to
inspire and enthrall.
Set in the fictional
world of Middle-earth, the films follow the hobbit Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) as he and
a Fellowship embark on a quest
to destroy the One Ring, and thus
ensure the destruction of its maker, the Dark Lord Sauron (Sala Baker).
The Fellowship eventually splits up and Frodo continues the quest together with
his loyal companion Sam (Sean
Astin) and the treacherous Gollum (Andy Serkis).
Meanwhile, Aragorn (Viggo
Mortensen), heir in exile to the throne of Gondor, Legolas, Gimli, Merry,
and Pippin, and the wizard Gandalf (Ian
McKellen) unite to rally the Free
Peoples of Middle-earth in the War
of the Ring.
8. Fight Club: Is a 1999 American
film based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck
Palahniuk. The film was directed by David
Fincher, and stars Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter.
Norton plays the unnamed protagonist, referred to as the narrator, who is
discontented with his white-collar job. He forms a "fight club" with
soap maker Tyler Durden, played by Pitt, and they are joined by men who also
want to fight recreationally. The narrator becomes embroiled in a relationship
with Durden and a dissolute woman, Marla Singer, played by Bonham Carter.
Fight Club is one movie that exactly caught the
pre-millennial tension. Great performances, stunning visuals and a plot like
nothing you've ever seen - one of the films of the year.
9. Apocalypse Now: Is a
1979 American epic war film directed, produced, and co-written by Francis
Ford Coppola. With great actors like: Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic
Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Larry
Fishburne, and Dennis Hopper. The movie crackle scenes after scenes of
horrifically and masterly executed death and destruction.
This Vietnam War epic follows a group with killing Colonel Kurtz Cornel. But the result is less a journey about the horror faced in tranches and more about the shadows of the soul.
10. The wizard of OZ (1939): Is a
1939 American musical fantasy
film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.This technicolor masterpiece transcends age
and race to tell the coming-of-age story of a Young Kansas girl who dream of a
land somewhere over the Rainbow.
Though it's now considered
as one of the Greatest Movies of All Time in Hollywood
history. Wizard was not commercially successful upon it's release. However it's
mix of timeless music, comedy and a ratable moral has made this a film all
parents recommend to their children and enjoy watching with them.
11. Gone With The Wind (1939): Painting
a romanticized picture of the war-torn south before, during and following the
civil war. David O Selznick's Gone
with The Wind presents
viewer's with a strong heroine in search of control.
winning a record number of Oscar's
including an historic one for African American actress Hattie Mc Daniel. The
film is beautifully brilliant and ambitious in scope. Ultimately with all it's
romance and geart break. Gone With The Wind is a cinematic
land mark that won't be forgotten soon.
12. "psycho" 1960: Directed
by Alfred Hitchcock, This classic horror flick is one of those rare movies that
gets everything right. There are few scenes as memorable and influential as
Alfred Hitchcock's shower incident. With it's many cuts, many angles and subtle
hints of violence and nudity.
But to downplay the rest of psycho
would be fatal. This thriller is Hitch Cock's masterwork. Shifting the norms of
acceptable on-screen violence and sexuality. This movie surprised everyone who
saw it but even if you know the secrets of Psycho it's as
terrifying as ever. Often ranked
among the Greatest Movies of All Time, it set a new level of acceptability for violence,
deviant behavior and sexuality in American films.
13. Saving Private Ryan: Steven spielberg's 1998 epic Saving Private Ryan. A gripping depiction of a World war 2 squadron tasked with bringing home the
titular soldier James Francis Ryan after D-Day. It's best known for it's iconic
opening scene. Which forever redefined the scope and ambitions of the war Film
genre.
Uncompromising, powerful war movie that does not pull any
punches. Pefectly balances the inhumanity of war and the humanity of its
protagonists. Devastating and essential viewing.
14. star wars episode v - The Empire Strikes Back: while the first film in George Lucas's
Star Wars saga was fun space adventure. The Empire Strikes Back is
the best of three Star Wars films, and the most thought-provoking. After the
space opera cheerfulness of the original film, this one plunges into darkness
and even despair, and surrenders more completely to the underlying mystery of
the story.
"Empire" is not only a feast
for the eyes with it's expensive and extravagant visuals. It's also a timeless
story which we can all relate aside from the distant planets light sabers and
alien creatures. That is innovative and creative. This chapter in the life of
Luke Sky Walker and friend's is epic film making at it's finest.
15. Mad Max- Fury Road: Fury
Road is a tale of human struggle, despair, hope, dehumanization, faith, love,
objectification, childhood, militarization, parenthood, redemption, and self
actualization. Every frame of this film is a delight. Every line uttered
and action taken has meaning and place. Every trinket of every costume and
every vehicle is part of a living, breathing world of madness, fire and blood.
Fury Road is that
rarest of indulgences, a blockbuster-season release that fully delivers on its
promise. This is vital action filmmaking, a wash of sensation almost primal in
its intensity and utterly devoid of the mopey self-seriousness that is so much
in vogue these days. May you stay mad forever, Max.
Do you agree with my List? What's your Favourite Movie of All Time?
These are the movies that made Hollywood great. And today I'm
counting down my picks for the Top 15 Greatest Movies of All Time. All those listed movies
that I have watched left me a huge impact In no particular time.
So here are the movies that are highly considered as The Greatest
Movies of All Time:
1. The GodFather (1972): Considered
by many as a one of the Greatest movie of all time and one of
the most influential, especially in the gangster genre.
This classic movie follows the corleone family as the reigns of the business
passed from Don Vito to son Micheal.
In this film and it's
1974 sequel. Francis Coppola crafts a world that allows us to care for and even
identify with men who are fundamentally bad guys. And virtuoso performances by
greats like Brando, pacino and Duvall. Elevate the subtle writing and
graphic violence. To make the God Father a truly Great
Movie.
2. The Shawshank Redemption: Is
a 1994 American drama film written and
directed by Frank Darabont, and
based on the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank
Redemption. The story is about how hope can make you reclaim your
life even if tragedy strikes.The screenwriting is perfect. The acting is
perfect. The emotions are conveyed in a very delicate manner in some of the
scenes and in some scenes, the emotions scream out of the screen and catch you
by the collar. If there is a movie which comes close to a perfect 10 for me, it
is this.
Framed in the 1940's for the double murder of his wife and
her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank
prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden.
During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other
inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and
unquenchable sense of hope.
3. Forrest Gump: Released
in 1994 was based on the novel of the same title by Winston Groom. Though
its strong language, violence, and sexual situations make it questionable for
children, Forrest Gump can introduce young viewers to prominent moments in
the 20th century. Through the use of Oscar-winning visual effects, Forrest
interacts with U.S. presidents, teaches Elvis Presley how to do his famous
"pelvis dance," and inspires John Lennon to write the song
"Imagine."
The encounters sometimes border on the
absurd, but they're anchored by Hanks' extraordinary, Oscar-winning
performance. He makes the slow-witted Forrest a sympathetic and believable
character instead of a stereotyped simpleton. Superb acting by the entire cast,
especially Wright as Jenny and Gary Sinise as Forrest's army
lieutenant, add substance to this sentimental tearjerker.
4. Pulp Fiction: Pulp
Fiction was released in 1994.It defined a generation of film making. If you
watch this film closely, you will notice many memes and styles from this film
have been copied into later comedy, gangster, Western genre of films.
It brilliantly portrays tragic
situations with a funny zing. It takes a certain genius to be able to do that
on screen.
You may not find anything special about Pulp Fiction, it keeps you on the edge
but it got no story line. There is no conclusion or result. We are used to a
certain catharsis at the end of watching a film and yes this film doesn't offer
that.
5. schindler's list: Is one of the most critically acclaimed
films of the 1990’s. This Steven Spielberg historical drama, based on the life
of Oskar Schindler, an ethnic German businessman who saved the lives of more
than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing
them in his factories.
6. TheDark Knight: Is a 2008 superhero
film directed, co-produced, and co-written
by Christopher Nolan. Dark twisted and with a depth not present in
most comic book movies. This second film in Nolan's batman franchise redefined
the genre and appealed to both comic book fans and the general public.
Tracking the caped crusaderas as he
battles the infamous joker. The Dark Knight blurs the lines between superhero
and super villain painting each a complex and embattled character.
With a standout performance by Heath
Ledger that won the actor a posthumous Oscar. Batman story was given a
decisively gritty sequel and one that surpassed the original.
7. Lord of The Rings: Is
a film series consisting of
three high fantasy adventure
films directed by Peter Jackson. They are based on the novel The Lord of the
Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. The
films are subtitled The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two
Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003). LOTR is,
at its core, a triumph of good over evil. A story of how firm, dogged resolve
can defeat the mightiest of terror and evil, when bravery, courage and
strength, all seem lost. A story like that will always continue to
inspire and enthrall.
Set in the fictional
world of Middle-earth, the films follow the hobbit Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) as he and
a Fellowship embark on a quest
to destroy the One Ring, and thus
ensure the destruction of its maker, the Dark Lord Sauron (Sala Baker).
The Fellowship eventually splits up and Frodo continues the quest together with
his loyal companion Sam (Sean
Astin) and the treacherous Gollum (Andy Serkis).
Meanwhile, Aragorn (Viggo
Mortensen), heir in exile to the throne of Gondor, Legolas, Gimli, Merry,
and Pippin, and the wizard Gandalf (Ian
McKellen) unite to rally the Free
Peoples of Middle-earth in the War
of the Ring.
8. Fight Club: Is a 1999 American
film based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck
Palahniuk. The film was directed by David
Fincher, and stars Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter.
Norton plays the unnamed protagonist, referred to as the narrator, who is
discontented with his white-collar job. He forms a "fight club" with
soap maker Tyler Durden, played by Pitt, and they are joined by men who also
want to fight recreationally. The narrator becomes embroiled in a relationship
with Durden and a dissolute woman, Marla Singer, played by Bonham Carter.
Fight Club is one movie that exactly caught the
pre-millennial tension. Great performances, stunning visuals and a plot like
nothing you've ever seen - one of the films of the year.
9. Apocalypse Now: Is a
1979 American epic war film directed, produced, and co-written by Francis
Ford Coppola. With great actors like: Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic
Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Larry
Fishburne, and Dennis Hopper. The movie crackle scenes after scenes of
horrifically and masterly executed death and destruction.
This Vietnam War epic follows a group with killing Colonel Kurtz Cornel. But the result is less a journey about the horror faced in tranches and more about the shadows of the soul.
10. The wizard of OZ (1939): Is a
1939 American musical fantasy
film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.This technicolor masterpiece transcends age
and race to tell the coming-of-age story of a Young Kansas girl who dream of a
land somewhere over the Rainbow.
Though it's now considered
as one of the Greatest Movies of All Time in Hollywood
history. Wizard was not commercially successful upon it's release. However it's
mix of timeless music, comedy and a ratable moral has made this a film all
parents recommend to their children and enjoy watching with them.
11. Gone With The Wind (1939): Painting
a romanticized picture of the war-torn south before, during and following the
civil war. David O Selznick's Gone
with The Wind presents
viewer's with a strong heroine in search of control.
winning a record number of Oscar's
including an historic one for African American actress Hattie Mc Daniel. The
film is beautifully brilliant and ambitious in scope. Ultimately with all it's
romance and geart break. Gone With The Wind is a cinematic
land mark that won't be forgotten soon.
12. "psycho" 1960: Directed
by Alfred Hitchcock, This classic horror flick is one of those rare movies that
gets everything right. There are few scenes as memorable and influential as
Alfred Hitchcock's shower incident. With it's many cuts, many angles and subtle
hints of violence and nudity.
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But to downplay the rest of psycho
would be fatal. This thriller is Hitch Cock's masterwork. Shifting the norms of
acceptable on-screen violence and sexuality. This movie surprised everyone who
saw it but even if you know the secrets of Psycho it's as
terrifying as ever. Often ranked
among the Greatest Movies of All Time, it set a new level of acceptability for violence,
deviant behavior and sexuality in American films.
13. Saving Private Ryan: Steven spielberg's 1998 epic Saving Private Ryan. A gripping depiction of a World war 2 squadron tasked with bringing home the
titular soldier James Francis Ryan after D-Day. It's best known for it's iconic
opening scene. Which forever redefined the scope and ambitions of the war Film
genre.
Uncompromising, powerful war movie that does not pull any
punches. Pefectly balances the inhumanity of war and the humanity of its
protagonists. Devastating and essential viewing.
14. star wars episode v - The Empire Strikes Back: while the first film in George Lucas's
Star Wars saga was fun space adventure. The Empire Strikes Back is
the best of three Star Wars films, and the most thought-provoking. After the
space opera cheerfulness of the original film, this one plunges into darkness
and even despair, and surrenders more completely to the underlying mystery of
the story.
It is because of the
emotions stirred in ``Empire'' that the entire series takes on a mythic quality that
resonates back to the first and ahead to the third. This is the heart.
"Empire" is not only a feast
for the eyes with it's expensive and extravagant visuals. It's also a timeless
story which we can all relate aside from the distant planets light sabers and
alien creatures. That is innovative and creative. This chapter in the life of
Luke Sky Walker and friend's is epic film making at it's finest.
15. Mad Max- Fury Road: Fury
Road is a tale of human struggle, despair, hope, dehumanization, faith, love,
objectification, childhood, militarization, parenthood, redemption, and self
actualization. Every frame of this film is a delight. Every line uttered
and action taken has meaning and place. Every trinket of every costume and
every vehicle is part of a living, breathing world of madness, fire and blood.
Do you agree with my List? What's your Favourite Movie of All Time?
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