The greatest films of all-time

I disagree. The book is strong. One of the merits of the film was its faithfulness to the book (a rare feat, usually to the detriment of the film).

The book is strong?  Is that a polite way of saying it stinks?  Seriously though, what characteristics about it did you find compelling?  I found the sparse narrative contrived, the story absurd, and the actual writing poor(which rather surprised me, considering I've read several McCarthy books that I considered very good). 

I think Avatar has very quickly risen up the ranks in my personal favorites.

A beautiful mind

Scarface

Doctor Zhivago, David Lean got the lot that one

Its a polite way of saying I'm not clear on why I liked it, but I did. The Crossing sits on my shelf unread, and his McCarthy's other texts are further away. The Road was the first one I read. Although I did not find it nearly as depressing as his reputation led me to expect, I found the book resonated well with the other dystopic American novel that I have been able to recommend to others (Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart, also published as Bearheart: the Heirship Chronicles) and was certainly much more realistic that the better known The Stand by Stephen King. That much was enough to get my interest. His writing kept it. The grammatically incomplete sentences communicated well the fragmented humanity left in the wake of the undefined disaster (it resembles what we would expect during a nuclear winter, but that seems never quite clear).

I read the novel the same week as a Dean Koontz novel, so perhaps my standards had been lowered. The Road renewed my resolve to pull The Crossing off the shelf and give it a read. As film The Road is notable both because it was faithful to the novel--what other film can I state that about--and because it offers far more substance than the two blockbusters I watched the same week.

It's interesting to see a world-wide list rather than the usual "American" movies.  My picks:

Godfather I and II (not III)

Lord of the Rings trilogy

Shawshank Redemption

The Commitments

Unforgiven

the Godfather, Bronx tale, Casaplanca, Nobodys fool, True Grit, Hustler(original)

So many

I don't know about the better, but the one that most impacted me was Mulholland Dr., from Lynch. I was like "holy shit, so people can make movies like that?"

From last year's movies, "Rachel Getting Married" takes the cake.

Karl, you are waaaay off topic. It's "greatest" films of all time. "Porky's"??????????? The word "great" is not that elastic

Don't forget Rambo, which should be considered hors concours along with Citizen Kane

The Fugitive (1993)

Deliverance

 An excellent debut by Spielberg and the tension is kept well by never showing the driver of the truck

I'm a fan of fantasy and kung fu movies, nothing moves me more than a nice sword or a good kick :D

LotR series - it's just so epic

Harry Potter series

Final Fantasy

Danny the Dog

Chackie Chan stuff

and so on...

Brave heart- Mel Gipson

Enter the dragon- Bruce Lee

From dusk till dawn I

Spaceship trupers I

Jet Lee  stuf...

Here are some of my favorite movies:  Casablanca, Gone with the Wind, The Lord of the Rings, The Matrix movies, Star Wars for the ground-breaking f-x, and The Sound of Music.

lord of the rings

bodyguard

star wars

forest gump

hannibal lectur

saw 1 2 3 4 5 6

gladiator

knights of the south bronxs,i have to add a chess film

 saw 1 2 3 4 5 6 how pathetic at least hostel had the decency to only make 2 films saw 1 is the only half decent 1

They already made six "SAW" movies?!