What say you?

That list of runners-up is so much better than the winners, it's depressing.

Best winner: Schindler's List

Best runner-up: Goodfellas

Will anyone vote for any of the winners of 1995 (Forrest Gump) though to 1999?

I really can't see anyone voting for anything 1995-2005 except American Beauty, Gladiator or LOTR.

RotK is the one that I want to see again and again, but Schindler's List is the best all-around of all the films listed.

I keep thinking that the thread title refers to some special Alcoholics Anonymous awards. It would go a long way to explaining Shakespeare In Love.

Out of the list of winners "Dances With Wolves" ranks highest on my favorite films of all-time.

But yeah, there were three losing films that make my top 5. The highest of which is Pulp Fiction. (the other two being JFK and Good Fellas).

i had to say forrest gump. i either didn't like the other films or hadn't seen them.

ditto.

My biggest reaction is that Mitchell enjoys making these polls. they are cool.

Unforgiven slightly over Schindler's List...and, of course, Good Fellas.

Titanic and Shakespeare in Love are much better then anything that's won since then.

Best Winner: Gladiator
Best Runner Up: Lost In Translation

I should have ranked them. ROTK, Million Dollar Baby, American Beauty and Gladiator are all better than both of those films and nothing will persuede otherwise. Titantic was horrible.

At least it wasn't boring. Same can't be said for Gladiator and ROTK. American Beauty was every bit as cliche addled as Titanic but the difference is the latter knew it was and went with it whereas the former thought it was 'daring and provocative'. Hey look the house is red, white and blue...how symbolic!

I tried to watch Titantic agian recently and had to skip to the iceberg part. Every single character is a stereotype, it should have been made an action film with a tacked on love scene not the other way round. I feel no emotion from the leads as we know the relationship is doomed from the start, obviously this doesn't harm Romeo and Juliet but that's besides the point.

Is your defence of the film is that Titantic is somehow 'ironic'?

Quite the opposite. Not an ironic bone in its body. It's unabashed melodrama and works on that level. The whole point was to make a movie that in its straight line plot and emotional directness could have been made the year it was set (1912). Billy Zane gave the best performance because he realized better then anyone else the sort of broad 'silent movie' acting that was required.

Titanic works on a cinematic craft level, not as an emotional and intellectual pursuit. Really, it deserved the Best Picture nod for that, coupled with its cultural impact (highest grossing film, water cooler talk, etc.)

You've hit the nail on head there. Exactly why I hated it.

Unforgiven-Goodfellas.

Tempted to say 'Pulp Fiction' but Goodfellas was just robbed plain and simple

You hate melodramas as a general rule? Not a big fan of Breaking the Waves or Douglas Sirk films I'm guessing.

American Beauty/Goodfellas.

So many on both lists are pure schmaltz...even the ones I like.

Yo NumberTen--have you seen any Scorsese movies yet?

Negative. I haven't had time to sit down and watch any movies recently. Even when the Olympic coverage is on, I'm usually reading or doing something else.

Miissed this poll first time around.

I'll go with Schindler's List and Goodfellas, two of the greatest movies ever.

And Titanic isn't as bad as some were making it out to be. Not to say it was great, either. It was melodramatic, but fairly well made.

four times as many to choose from!

i went with 'silence' and pulp. 'silence' probably isn't better than schindler's list, but i'd rather watch it (thread schizo on what the criteria are)

haven't seen goodfellas, but pulp fiction is just so omnipresent

SIL is one of the most despised BP winners of the 90s. It struck me as a witty and literate romantic comedy that almost never gets made anymore. It was certainly better then Ryan which was a retread of about a dozen other war movies. What don't you like about it?

Schindler's List
Shawshank Redemption

Best Winner: LOTR: Return of the King. Tough choice. The majority of the films on that list have either aged horribly, or there just bleh films. I was never a huge fan of Schindler's List either.

Best Runner-Up: Pulp Fiction. Was a very tough choice between that and Goodfellas. Obviously I love both, but I went with PF just because its perfect on so many levels; and was so different than anything we had seen in a long while.

uh, yeah.

If forced to pick I'd go with Silence of the Lambs out of sheer entertainment value. I think I like
only three of the films on that list.

Out of runners up I chose Shawshank.

Am I the only one on this board who doesn't like The Shawshank Redemption?

guess I am

No, I think it's overrated, too. Still, I wouldn't say it's bad.

Hey, somebody else voted for The Thin Red Line, cool!

I really hope no one would have voted for Crash had this been updated.

Anyone else click on this hoping it was about the best American Apparel ads?

I was going to vote for the Tube Sock girl:

Braveheart and The Pianist

No. It's a corny, preposterous turd that goes on longer than a prison sentence.

It's only value, to me, is that every now and then I get to say,
"And those were the coldest beers we ever drank."

I would have if Good Fellas wasn't on there; it's just such a superb gangster movie, and I knew a few of those types from Chicago Heights ( I went to Marian Catholic--jointly owned by the Archdiocese and the Heights Mob), and it was spot-on in the reality dept., as well as being just really well-crafted film-making. But Thin Red Line---whoo-ee, I just saw it again on the small screen, and goddam if it isn't one of the top ten war films ever. Malick's films are slow as molasses, but the shots are so beautiful, one right after another, that it's hard to complain.
Narrative/voice-overs are sometimes considered a cheap screenwriting device, but I think that both of these films make the voice-over work in a special way.

Two hours of asshole actors congratulating each other on how great it is to be an asshole actor.

Joseph Fiennes--plays Shakespeare, whom I love, like a fucking hermaphrodite, and he has a three-foot long neck. They should've used his head to play ring-toss between takes.

Gwyneth Paltrow--somehow manages to steal the "Most Boring Actor in this Film" honors away from traditional honoree, Ben Affleck, who, ironically, is kind of amusing playing his idiot self.

Nice production design, though.

Aw, grumpy. What about, "I guess I just missed my friend."

Silence Of The Lambs

Pulp Fiction edging Goodfellas

apparently i voted in this a long time ago, so i don't remember exactly what i voted, but i imagine unforgiven was my 'winner' and Fargo my runner-up.

hate hate hate american beauty...nonconformity-as-schmaltz

Remember when Wes Bentley was being touted as the next big thing? For that matter: remember Wes Bentley?

Braveheart!!!!