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HOBBITFAN13
Lorien
Feb 21 2016, 6:38pm
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Here I put a list from many other lists from websites and made these five into a poll. What is the best movie of these five top movies?
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Otaku-sempai
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Feb 21 2016, 6:51pm
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Again, this one screams for an "Other" category.
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dernwyn
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Feb 21 2016, 8:33pm
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None of these. Paging Darkstone (and other movie buffs)!
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I'm not sure what kind of websites you used for your information, but none of these even remotely qualify as "best movie".
Now, if you wanted us to select the best movie from among these, that's another thing entirely! 
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sevilodorf
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Feb 21 2016, 8:44pm
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what is best for me now was not best for me then and won't be best in the future.
I'd rank any LOTR movie over the Star Wars because the Star Wars dialog gives me twitches. Harry Potter as a franchise is uneven to the extreme and would have benefited from being filmed closer together as the stars aged too much.
But there are tons of films and franchises I enjoy that aren't listed.....Marvel....both Avengers and X Men..... Star Trek.....both old and new....
Then go for the oldies but goodies..... Cary Grant's movies, for that matter Shirley Temple's, Jimmy Stewart movies, Hitchcock's......
can't possible say best of all time......
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Annael
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Feb 21 2016, 9:02pm
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If you're judging by popular consensus of critics & film buffs, the only one on your list they'd agree with is The Godfather.
But that doesn't mean we as individuals have to agree.
I have a long list of films that I can watch over and over and never tire of. I couldn't say which one is the "best" - best at what? Best at everything? David Lean's films, particularly Dr. Zhivago, are for me the best "big" movies; but my personal preference is for small quirky movies like Cold Comfort Farm, Local Hero, Enchanted April. My all-time favorite might just be Truly, Madly, Deeply, but then there's A Room with a View, Persuasion, It's a Wonderful Life, Laura, The Philadelphia Story, Stranger than Fiction . . . nope, can't pick just one.
I've never seen The Godfather.
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HOBBITFAN13
Lorien
Feb 21 2016, 10:02pm
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I'm not sure what kind of websites you used for your information, but none of these even remotely qualify as "best movie". Now, if you wanted us to select the best movie from among these, that's another thing entirely!
Sorry I didn't explain this right. 
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Omnigeek
Lorien
Feb 21 2016, 10:05pm
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The only one on the list that even comes up for consideration is "The Godfather" but depending on mood of the day:
- The Sound of Music
- An American in Paris
- Rocky
- The Sting
- Gettysburg
- The Longest Day
- A Bridge Too Far
- The Man Who Killed Liberty Valance
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- Tootsie
- Patton
- Superman the Movie
- The Little Mermaid
- We Were Soldiers
- The Searchers
- Oliver!
- Gandhi
- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Yes, I did throw in a Disney movie and Willy Wonka on that list ... 
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dernwyn
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Feb 21 2016, 11:04pm
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I can edit the poll to state "of these movies".
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Gianna
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Feb 21 2016, 11:19pm
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Best movie amongst these choices is ROTK.
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However, none of them are the best movie of all time...
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Darkstone
Immortal
Feb 22 2016, 2:30pm
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Citizen Kane (1941) is the best American movie of all time.
The Godfather (1972) would be the only one from your list within the top 10.
There's no doubt that Seven Samurai, Citizen Kane, and The Godfather were, are, and will continue to be extremely influential with filmmakers past, present, and future. Indeed, if you study the other four films on your list, it's obvious that their makers owe so much to the pioneering genius of Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles, and Francis Ford Coppola. (Not to mention Sergei Eisenstein and Leni Riefenstahl.)
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AshNazg
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Feb 23 2016, 4:17am
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You give people a selection and say "best movie" I'd assume most people would know you mean choose the best of this selection, not what is the best movie ever made. I suppose if you had asked that they'd say "On what merits?? How much I enjoy them? How well they're made? What time-frame? What if the best movie hasn't been made yet! How do you define a movie?" And even then the results would be meaningless because critical consensus needs to be taken into account.
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Bracegirdle
Valinor
Feb 23 2016, 4:19am
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*Pretending there is an *Other*
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A few of my favs. in no particular order...
Cuckoo’s Nest
Once Upon a Time in the West
It’s a Wonderful Life
North by Northwest
Mary Poppins
2001 Space Odyssey (& 2010)
The Apartment
Mary Poppins
Mr. Smith goes to Washington
Shawshank Redemption
Hard Times
Elephant Man
Cool Hand Luke
Sometimes a Great Notion
Grapes of Wrath
The Godfather
Jaws
Close Encounters
Virginia Woolf
Shindler’s List
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Otaku-sempai
Immortal
Feb 23 2016, 4:31am
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You give people a selection and say "best movie" I'd assume most people would know you mean choose the best of this selection, not what is the best movie ever made.
The wording was changed from the original post. The choices were originally supposed to represent the best movies ever. dernwyn changed it.
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Starling
Half-elven
Feb 23 2016, 6:13am
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in my opinion, one of the most overrated films of all time.
There is a pose known in our family as 'The Shawshank Manoeuvre'. We like to strike this when we achieve a goal or feel generally triumphant.
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Bracegirdle
Valinor
Feb 23 2016, 1:38pm
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As this post has forsaken the OP’s original intent
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and has already wandered off-course into the land of interesting.
We have “best” and we have “favorite”. Well, “best” according to whom; by what standard; in what way? Are we supposed to regurgitate “Citizen Kane” as “best” of all time, as we are told to do by critics and filmmakers? IMO there is no “best” but there are many “favorites” of which I could not pick “just one”. Do I pick one that makes me laugh? Do I pick one that makes me weep? Do I pick one that makes me think? Or do I pick one that strikes an emotion somewhere in between? Nope, can’t do it. Not just one! So, “best” aside, my “favorites” are movies that I just plain enjoy for what they give me.
And my incomplete list goes on:
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Spartacus
Rear Window
Psycho
Liberty Valance
Dr. Strangelove
The Shining
Vertigo
Superman (the 1st)
Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Patton
Fargo
Tombstone
Cannery Row
Lust for Life
Dirty Dozen
Midnight Express
The Odd Couple
Where Eagles Dare
The Vikings
Soylent Green
Planet of the Apes
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dormouse
Half-elven
Feb 23 2016, 3:41pm
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..since one of those films stands out for me as the one I like best (no prizes for guessing which!) I'm not sure how there can be an objective 'best movie of all time' because it depends what the judgement is based on, and who's making it.
As everyone seems to be naming other movies that stand out for them, I'd add a few more names that come to mind
Gladiator
Ben Hur
The Sound of Music
Dr. Zhivago
The Book Thief
Camelot
Whistle Down the Wind
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Ataahua
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Feb 23 2016, 5:33pm
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I've come over all faint.
Shawshank ... *not* great?
I may need a dose of something medicinal...
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Bracegirdle
Valinor
Feb 23 2016, 8:53pm
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That's two fainters. And add dormouse's 'Ben Hur' to my lists. Thank you. //
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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Feb 23 2016, 11:17pm
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Empire Strikes Back. But RotK was close (I like FotR better).
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Starling
Half-elven
Feb 24 2016, 7:01am
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I like to think of The Shawshank Redemption as a gigantic, steaming piece of..........cheese. 
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TheOnlyOneAroundWithAnySense
Rohan
Feb 24 2016, 2:17pm
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As has been elaborated on, these would not be the best fives films
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Of all the films to choose from since the late 1800's to now. But you did put my favorite up there (and, yes, I'm the type that considers that synonymous with the best), so I voted for it.
It's got a ring and a king and an innocent being who loses his soul on a moutainside.
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Kilidoescartwheels
Valinor
Feb 24 2016, 5:42pm
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Let's see, two are fantasy films, one is a crime drama, one is sci-fi and one is a comic book movie. Pretty diverse list, and I'm not sure they can be so easily compared. To be honest, I don't think I've ever seen "The Godfather" all the way through, parts of it for sure but not the whole thing. So, unlike the Academy Awards board, I can't vote because I haven't seen all five of them.
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TaliaEmerald
Bree
Feb 25 2016, 1:14am
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The Return of the King...it's really a no-brainer. 
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