Jake Gittes

Did you really even need to put Lawrence in the poll? I picked Chinatown (because Chinatown), Heat and Vertigo, but there's probably another 10 movies there I'd pay good money to see on the big screen.

I think with 5 lines Casablanca is the most represented movie on the list, and it deserves it 'cause I can't think of another single movie with such an absurd amount of truly iconic lines. It's perfectly fine by me.

Can I have the line No. 19? Heh heh

I gotta admit I didn't really like Network when I saw it for the first (and so far only) time back in 2011. I enjoyed some of the satire (especially the ending) but in other spots I remember it felt pretty obvious (granted it definitely wasn't in 1976), I couldn't complain about the performances but none of them really blew me away. And I fucking hated all the shouting, it was effective at first but after a while it began to feel like all of the hysterics and big speeches were there just so everyone in the cast could get an easy Oscar nomination. And with at least half the characters being little more than one-note personalities taken to the extreme in service of the satire (Finch is the old man who's MAD AS HELL AND HE'S NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE, Dunaway is the cold heartless bitch who only cares about ratings, Duvall is the tyrannical boss always shouting at the top of his lungs, basically it felt like Holden's character was the only believable human being that was on screen for more than 10 minutes) it was pretty hard for me to actually care about any of it.

Nah. It's not like there were too few films being made in the old days. The classics are classics because they stood the test of time, and that's pretty damn hard to do when you're talking about many decades passing.

Fuck, I'm kicking myself for not originally thinking of Glengarry all that much. "Who ever told you that you could work with MEN?"

"We'll always have Paris" was #2 on my list. I was... taken aback when it didn't even make the top 50.

I wasn't bored for a minute both times I saw it.

I picked Before Midnight for BP. If we had to rank them I would've put Gravity #2, Inside Llewyn Davis #3, Wolf #4 and Short Term 12 #5. I still haven't seen Her.

This is just beautiful. Got even better when I began to read all of Baumer's lines in Liam Neeson's voice.

Well, we don't. Opinion is the most crucial part of it. If historians, critics, audiences, award voters really like Spielberg, that just makes him widely acclaimed. But acclaimed and best are different things. There's no determining and factually proving who the best is. This isn't sports. And that's the beautiful thing about all of it - all people approach movies differently, everyone has his own best director, writer, actor or whoever. What do we have left if we take opinion out of it? I'd say we have something that's really fucking boring and completely uninteresting and, consequently, something I'm not at all happy or willing to be a part of.

So what you're saying is, he's the most popular, the most well-known, and hey, critics and the Academy like him too. Well, no one would argue with that, you could prove all of those as objective, as facts. "Best" doesn't even come anywhere near this. You wanna consider him the best, feel free, but if you want to pretend that's not just your opinion, but it's also somehow objectively true, I'm sorry but I'm not gonna take you seriously. I'm constantly surprised by people's strange need to consider their opinions more than what they are.

From what I've seen of Ang Lee (and granted, I have yet to see Hulk, Brokeback and Lust, Caution), he's bland as fuck. He might move effortlessly between genres, but there's no personality there, no interesting voice, you could slap any other director's name on his movies and no one would notice it. I can appreciate range, but Lee seems to me a good example of how overrated range can be in some cases. QT might just be doing his QT thing a lot of the time, but he absolutely perfected it and made what are in my opinion a few masterpieces that aren't like any other films I've seen. And while I'm not a huge fan of Cameron or Nolan, I can't deny that they aren't journeymen, either.

Kubrick. Although I'd like it to be Spielberg

I wouldn't say Linklater is that influential, but he's definitely one of the most significant independent filmmakers of the past 20 years, and he has done/is doing things in the Before trilogy and Boyhood in terms of telling a story over an extended period of time that very few, if any, directors have ever done before him. Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly are also two highly original pieces of work. As for Anderson, please, he is practically his own genre at this point.

I know all the names yet Kar Wai is the only one from whom I've seen more than one movie.

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QT

No. I think you're talking about Cronenberg's Crash, which is also great and you should see it. (fwiw, your description of that scene is much worse than its actual depiction in the movie).

I think it was sarcastic

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You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.

Who's "we"?

Wow at Bergman. I love seeing him so high.