Esta é sem dúvida, a melhor comédia de sempre. Como este blog é dedicado às opiniões pessoais, não me preocupo em ser isento, mas se tivesse que ter esse cuidado, diria o mesmo. Aviso desde já, quem não é apreciador de humor britânico, que esqueça este post e o filme. Mas se não for este o caso, é um filme obrigatório por tudo o que um apreciador de comédia inglesa pode pedir, ou seja, humor inteligente e com excelentes interpretações.

Os conhecedores de Monty Python, seja dos outros filmes (Life Of Brian, Meaning Of Life, etc) ou da famosa e inigualável (os Gato Fedorento bem tentaram) série Flying Circus, irão encontrar todas aquelas situações ridículas e absolutamente "non sense" bem características destes humoristas, mas com o acréscimo de que as personagens ainda tem mais piada!

Analisando os filmes de comédia que são feitos hoje em dia, o Holy Grail irá reinar por muito tempo. Não querendo desprezar, claro, grandes comediantes como Eddie Izzard, Ricky Gervais; grandes séries que se tem feito : Little Britain, Blackadder (com o melhor de Rowan Atkinson), Seinfeld, The Office, etc.

A história do filme baseia-se na demanda pelo cálice utilizado por Cristo na Última Ceia, o Graal. O Rei Arthur (Graham Chapman) percorre a Inglaterra à procura de cavaleiros com coragem suficiente para o ajudar nessa perigosa tarefa. À medida que vão avançando, montados nos seus cavalos fictícios, imitando o som dos cascos batendo com dois cocos, as situações mais ridículas e hilariantes vão acontecendo. Desde mortíferos coelhos brancos e ninfomaníacas sozinhas num castelo, tudo de mais inesperado e burlesco acontece neste filme genial. Enfim, é um filme absolutamente obrigatório para quem se quiser rir, contado assim não tem piada, é preciso ver mesmo.

Fica aqui um pequeno excerto da luta infernal destes cavaleiros:

O orçamento para este filme foi em parte investimento de bandas como Led Zeppelin e Pink Floyd. Esta informação é só para aguçar o apetite dos admiradores...

Curiosidade : se virem o filme reparem quando Deus aparece nas nuvens, a imagem Dele é uma fotografia de um jogador inglês de cricket do século 19...Genial!! :P

Assinado : Knight Who Say NI!

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When I was a young boy my father used to take me to the Smithsonian at least a couple of times a year. We always avoided the art museums and spent most our time roaming the science halls. I remember a large model of an atom hanging from one of the ceilings, just like the one made of Tinker Toys sitting on my desk at home. It looked like all the pictures that I ever saw of atoms in science books or the National Geographic. I thought it looked a lot like the poster of our the solar system hanging on my bedroom wall, except that the electrons were all the same size and they didn't revolve around the the nucleus in a single plane. Everyone knew this is what an atom looked like and it had already become the universal symbol for nuclear energy.

I later learned that this model was just one pictorial metaphor for what an atom might look like (if we could see one). To this day, no one has seen an atom nor will anyone ever likely do so. If it were possible, the atom would look like nothing we had imagined.

The electrons of an atom are spinning so quickly that there would be no visibly distinct paths but instead they produce a 'cloud' of orbits making up a 'solid' shell around the nucleus. And this shell would be much, much farther away from the center than what popular pictures would suggest. If the proton of a Hydrogen atom was the size of a basketball, then the ping-pong ball sized electron would be over 260 yards away. An atom is made up of mostly "nothing" and our common models do a poor job of presenting this.

Since my childhood days at the Smithsonian other atomic models have been suggested. Though not everyone agrees on the same model, most would agree that none of these models are 'wrong' while at the same time no one would suggest that any one model has it just 'right'. For example, in the following picture we have seven different representations of the atom, and each one may help us to have a better understanding of nuclear theory. Although each model is different, they all work to illustrate similar principles. To hold religiously to the idea that any one model is a complete and accurate representation of the atom would be untenable.

The concept of the Trinity is another type of model that accurately, yet incompletely, illustrates the nature of an infinite God that is inconceivable to finite mankind. This Trinitarian model works well for many Christians but to say that it must work for all is, I believe, arrogant. To see Jesus as savior does not require an acceptance of a Godhead that consists of three persons, especially since one of these persons is a spirit that is rarely mentioned in scripture and is not attributed with any personable qualities.

The model of God that the Jews choose to recognize works just as well for them, obviously. They were never Trinitarian, right up to the time of Jesus' and on to this present day. Jews read the same Old Testament scriptures that Christians do (as did the Jews of Jesus' time) but they see none of the suggestions for a triune God. An acceptance of Jesus as God must first be a requisite for seeing Trinitarian support in the Bible, but even without that triune support Jews have not come to develop a dualistic, Father/Spirit, concept of God.

As an established church doctrine, the Trinity did not exist for the first 300 years of Christianity, yet since that time it has become a litmus test for 'authentic' Christian faith, and is a part of the more common creeds. Criticisms are often leveled at religious leaders where it is suggested that they are not "Christian" because they are not Trinitarian. Large parts of the Church consider entire denominations as not qualifiedly Christian because they do not profess this belief in the Trinity (even though the members of the denominations in question may think of themselves as being Christian.)

There is a popular book out now, "The Shack" (which I have linked to on my side bar) that is causing quite a religious stir. The author has written a fictional work that he hopes will help people understand and appreciate the nature of the Trinity. Many have attacked the book as a being in 'error' and promoting lies and distortions about the Trinity (which I find amusing since this book is really just an allegory trying to better explain a metaphor). Many people love this book, and I fairly enjoyed it myself, thinking that the author did a good job turning something so ethereal into an idea that I could better grasp.

This book reminded me though, that the Trinity is just one way to conceptualize the relational aspect that many beleive exists within God as well as between God and ourselves. In this regard I think the concept of a triune God can be a great help for people trying to work out how they relate to God, who by his nature is so difficult to relate to.

But as Patsy says in Monty Python and the Holy Grail; "It's only a model!" (Of course, as we found out in Spamalot, Patsy is half-Jewish. He never advertised this because, as he puts it, "it's just not the kind of thing you say to a heavily armed Christian.")

But I just had to share this Black Knight graph.

And of course, this:

 
more graph humor and song chart memes

"The Princess Bride!"  I need to watch it again very soon!

Have fun storming the castle!

With virtually no chance of catching Barack Obama in either delegates or the popular vote, Hillary Clinton continues to insist on dragging the Democratic Party through a bloody and needless fight to the convention in August. She needs to win around 80% of the remaining popular vote, for example, but is down by 8% in the latest Gallup tracking poll.

Disarmed and without a leg to stand on, Clinton is now asking the question, "Why can't (Obama) close the deal?"

The answer is simple: because a black knight with no chance of victory is blocking his way.

Newsprism

Well, she left a comment today:

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Well now, I fear we have no choice. Let us see this video of ze 15bnvjl of a Dalek menacing some silly English (and an American) (and a Time Lord) kennnnnighits, which has inspired catseye43621 (who is a girl) so!

so I don't know if you heard, but apparently the other day over in India they found a woman they believe to be a, uh, well, a witch:

Tiwary said Devi claimed to be a faith healer and was treating a mentally ill woman in the village. When the woman attempted to commit suicide, Devi was attacked by angry villagers, Tiwary said.

Everyone knows the way to tell if someone is a witch is if they'll burn, like wood. and wood floats. and what else floats? Bread! Apples! Very small rocks! Mud! Churches! And a duck, of course.

But it seems they do things a bit differently in India:

He said Devi was tied to a tree with rope and repeatedly beaten. Her hair was then cut off and she was paraded through the village, Tiwary said. A video of the attack was aired Friday by New Delhi Television.

You catch that last bit? CNN goes deeper on that:

Nishant Tiwari, a police official in northeastern India, said a journalist who filmed the beating called him Thursday to report the incident, which took place in the village of Dumaria in central eastern Bihar state.

He arrived to find the woman tied to a tree, her hair partially cut and her complexion ruddy from being slapped. She had no serious injuries...

Tiwari said he was disturbed by the fact that a journalist filmed the incident before contacting authorities.

Yeah, no shit. But it does raise an interesting question about the role of journalism as observer and documenter. Journalists are not a part of the story, their job is to report what is happening. We all have our roles.

Thankfully, she is ok. But the truth here seems to be not that she's a witch, but that they attacked her because she wasn't a witch:

Ayodhya said he paid her to use magic and prayer to improve his wife's health.

They attacked her because her magic failed, not because she was a witch. Which raises more questions than it answers, really.

Also, Hillary Clinton reportedly sent a winged monkey to get her the woman's shoes.

I must say that I only ever buy them those teeny, tiny eggs, and spend their egg money on something Easterish but which isn't going to mean spending a fiver on an egg and a thousand pounds at the dentist.  This is not actually because I am a good, health conscious parent.  It's more to do with the fact that eggs are so cheap that everyone buys children Easter Eggs, even if they only met them once at a bus stop, and if you buy them some too, and you have three children, you could actually open a branch of Thorntons in your hallway come Easter Sunday.  Somebody has to draw the line somewhere and it's me.

It's some kind of weird adult compulsion, this egg buying business.  I expect it has a lot to do with BOGOF's and Three for Two's actually, and nothing at all to do with a deep seated need to celebrate pagan fertility rites thinly disguised as Christian festivals.  It also has something to do with the fact that if you randomly get rid of the two eggs you didn't really want to buy, but couldn't resist because they were such a bargain, it saves you piling on four stone on your own in the house over the Easter weekend, compulsively watching Tony Curtis and Kurt Russell in Spartacus whilst wiping bits of creme egg off your chin.

As with most major festivals I am a bit of a bah humbug when it comes to such things.  I don't mind things like Easter bonnets, and rustled up a splendid one for Tilly one year. I got quite competitive about it actually.  She got bored rigid by the whole thing after twenty minutes of faffing around with some cardboard and ribbon.  I really got the bit between my teeth and three days later came up with what can only be described as a creation which was truly bonnetacular.  Philip Treacey would have been proud of it.  It was something you would expect to see Tara Palmer Tompkinson parading around a paddock in on Ladies Day at Ascot.  Tilly was, naturally, totally unimpressed, but I took a picture of it with my phone and sent it to all my friends and got much kudos!  I was really looking forward to when Tallulah had to do the same thing, and had my design all planned out.  As it was they must have gotten bored of that idea by the time she hoved into view and nobody has ever asked us to make another one, much to my disappointment.  I really feel that it could have been my new forte.

Things I don't like about Easter are, a) the fact that it now starts in about November and ends some time in May, b) hot cross buns (urgh, currants and bread, urghhh!), c) Lent (???), d) Simnel Cake (looks great, tastes like crap.  Marzipan is evil, bad and wrong), e) hard boiled eggs (smell like farts).  The other thing is rabbits.  Why, why, why rabbits? 

Rabbits, unbeknownst to most of the population, are evil things.  My gran had a killer rabbit, just like the one in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  It was forever leaping out of bushes going for people's jugulars.  It was called Peter, but it was really the spawn of satan with a bobtail.  It was a hideous little beast.  My brother and I had rabbits and all they ever did was scratch and bite us, crap on us and constantly escape from the garden.  The only thing we liked them for was the fact that they were good at starting digging bloody big holes that we could  continue with and not get into trouble for trashing the lawn with, because we could blame the rabbits.  Other than that, what was the point of them say I?  They also don't taste very nice.  Too sweet for my liking.  Oh!  I hate Spartacus as well.  Tony Curtis never did it for me. I always preferred Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot.

So, basically the only good things about Easter are chicks, hats and chocolate.  I'm also very fussy about my chocolate.  I will eat most types of chocolate, but if someone is going to go to the trouble of buying me an egg, then I want what I want.  Mostly what I don't want are Cadbury's Creme Eggs.  I can't help it.  I have tried and tried to like them.  I finally gave up on the regular sized ones a few years ago.  Last year I tried one of the little ones, and I hate those too.  Apparently they do vast ones as well.  I just can't imagine how tooth achingly sweet those would be.  I don't actually know if the giant ones are filled with that creamy goo or not.  If they were it would be compulsory to wear some kind of all in one protective suit whilst eating it surely?  Otherwise you would just end up welded to the kitchen cabinets with rotted stumps for teeth.  Urghh!

The best Easter Eggs, as any fule kno, are other peoples! I'd rather eat the children's when they're at school thanks!  I do remember the first Easter Egg I ever had though.  I was very small, must have been two or three at the most.  It was a Freddy Frog one, which had mini egg type eggs inside it and Freddies on either side of it.  I remember it so distinctly because the shell of the main egg was so hard that my dad had to bring in a hammer from the tool shed to smash it with and it was quite traumatising!  Another year I got a little willow basket with tiny eggs in.  I think that was my favourite of all time.  I had the basket for years and years.  It may even still be kicking around at mum's somewhere.  She hates throwing things out.  She's probably using it as a handy string holder or something.

Right.  So that's Easter covered, and March has only just begun.  I'm getting the marketing bug of discussing these things early.  On Easter Sunday I will probably be discussing what I'm going to do with myself on the longest day of the year, and by the time Whitsun rolls round I shall be making plans for my Fireworks party.  It's all a bit too scary really.

Talking of which, we went to Norwich today.  We're having a weekend going to visit the in-laws, before we jet off to Canada.  We stay in a hotel in Norwich because despite the fact that Jason's mother says she wouldn't mind our noise, her house is very small and we are very large and very noisy.  I am convinced that she says that she doesn't mind the noise because it has been so long since she has had kids herself that she has forgotten how much one does mind the noise when being woken from restful slumber at half past three in the morning because the entire rest of the household has had to get up and do what seems like a percussion and voices version of the Hokey Cokey in the hallway for several hours.

The children love staying in the hotel.  It has a guest suite with its own garden, two bedrooms, a bathroom and a lounge/kitchen type affair.  They think it's the height of decadence to get in their pyjamas and zoom around the garden, and then get up the next day and eat breakfast in the restaurant.  I have to say that I still think eating breakfast in a restaurant is a pretty exciting affair.  It was last time we went, mainly because Matilda emptied an entire fried breakfast onto her lap in a moment of critical absent mindedness.  I am almost sure that the staff will remember us from last time.  I just hope they don't hold it against us...

BONG!

Richard Attenborough arrested on roller-coaster!

BONG!

Theresa Russell dons moustache to attend opera!

BONG!

Cathy O'Donnell finds loudspeaker in chimney!

BONG!

Semi-clad stunt-woman kisses wall!

Believe it or not, non-British Shadowplayers, the ITV News At Ten really does begin like this, with dramatic news and an anchor barking out headlines in between the strokes of Big Ben. The stories might not be quite as enticing as those outlined above, but the effect is similar: everything is at once dramatized and trivialised.

The News at Tentheme is very famous here, which is why it was hilarious to us as kids when we saw a matinee at the late-lamented Odeon Clerk Street of what I think was Eddie Romero's no-budget Dr Moreau rip-off re-imagining, THE TWILIGHT PEOPLE, and the news theme struck up as background score to a man-versus-monster fight scene. You do run this risk when you score your film with stock music: somebody might come along and make one of those themes famous.

Early Cronenberg films, their music tracks assembled by Ivan Reitman, of all people, seem to have escaped this fate -- the music just sounds cheap and drippy. It was so great when Howard Shore and Michael Kamen came along to write proper scores -- really good ones.

The best stock score I can think of is probably the stuff by "DeWolfe" for MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL, which succeeds in raising the production values whenever it comes on, which is the exact opposite of the effect stock music usually has. For ages I wondered who this great unknown film composer was. Actually, I still don't know. I've stumbled across some DeWolfe company CDs in the past, but never found the HOLY GRAIL score on any of them...

It never seems possible to get stock music to fit as nicely as a well-composed score -- the solution would be to select the music in advance and shoot to it and cut to it, like Leone did with Morricone's score for ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, and Powell did with BLACK NARCISSUS, and musicals directors routinely do. As our piece The Chills #1 hopefully demonstrated, moving the camera in time with a score is a powerful thing...

and this?

This!

A leading human rights group appealed to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on Thursday to stop the execution of a woman accused of witchcraft and performing supernatural acts.

The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement that the kingdom's religious police who arrested and interrogated Fawza Falih, and the judges who tried her in the northern town of Quraiyat never gave her the opportunity to prove her innocence in the face of "absurd charges that have no basis in law."

Falih's case underscores shortcomings in Saudi Arabia's Islamic legal system in which rules of evidence are shaky, lawyers are not always present and sentences often depend on the whim of judges...

In Falih's case, the judges relied on a coerced confession and on the statements of witnesses who said she had "bewitched" them to convict her in April 2006, according to the group.

Falih later retracted her confession in court, claiming it was extracted under duress, and said that as an illiterate woman, she did not understand the document she was forced to fingerprint...

An appeals court ruled in September 2006 that Falih could not be sentenced to death for witchcraft because she had retracted her confession. But a lower court subsequently reissued the death sentence for the benefit of "public interest" and to "protect the creed, souls and property of this country," the group's statement said.

D'ya like the part about the lower court overruling the appeals court? Justice stood on its head, I'd say. Like the world. See picture at the top.

The guy holding hands on the left -- here's what he said to the United Nations General Assembly on September 12, 2002:

We must choose between a world of fear and a world of progress. We cannot stand by and do nothing while dangers gather. We must stand up for our security, and for the permanent rights and the hopes of mankind. By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand. And, delegates to the United Nations, you have the power to make that stand, as well.

When he said "mankind," I guess he meant "men."

If you haven't, shame on you.

25. First Blood (1982)

The very first Rambo movie, and probably some of Stallone's best work. Scenes and lines from these movies have been parodied countless times by TV shows and other movies including Hot Shots! part due x. Go out and rent or buy this movie NOW. the new Rambo movie opens on January 25th and I'm sure will rock just like the last three.

24. National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)

One of the greatest classic comedies ever made, NLV is for sure a true classic from the cinema and a must see movie. Everyone has seen this movie at least twice (it's on TBS a LOT...well it used to be). If you haven't seen this, i'm sure you have seen "Christmas Vacation". But this movie is a sure fire classic. "roll 'em up."

23. Citizen Kane (1941)

Citizen Kane has been tagged by some, as one of the greatest movies EVER made. And they may be right. Directed by the late great Orson Welles,The film is basically about a group of reporters who are trying to decipher the last word ever spoke by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire newspaper tycoon: "Rosebud."As the reporters investigate further, the viewers see a display of a fascinating man's rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off the "top of the world." Not a film to pass up. One of the greatest ever made.

22. Casablanca (1942)

Classic film set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

21. Rocky (1976)

Now, i know a lot of people aren't into boxing, or boxing movies, but Rocky is without a doubt one of cinema's greatest sports films. It was the movie that taught us courage, and to fight at no matter what the cost. The film did so well, it spawned 5 sequels, all of which star Stallone as Rocky Balboa.

20.War Of The Worlds (1953)

What began as H.G. Wells terrifying radio broadcast, transformed itself into a motion picture in 1953. To this day the movie is still frightening, and though has been colorized since, still leaves a chill down your spine. People actually believed that the radio broadcasts that were made actually happened, turning citizens into a panic. In 2005, Stephen Spielberg did a horror remake of this classic film. Watch the original first before you see the new one. The DVD includes original War Of The Worlds radio broadcasts. Great stuff.

19. The Last Starfighter (1984)

A story of a young man living in a trailer park, who plays a Starfighter arcade game which turns out to be a training device for the space war.And of course in the end, he believes in himself and saves the day. Sound familiar? of course it does, but I'm sure you've never seen this movie. But you should.

18. Police Academy (1984)

Do i even need to review this movie? You have seen Police Academy right? Well i hope so.Misfits training to be cops...80's style. Can't pass this one up. You can get the DVD of this for about 5 bucks, and i suggest you do...or I'll cut you. Well maybe not. But you deserve it if you don't see this movie.

17. Predator (1987)

Ah yes, Arnold is here to kick alien butt. Or to have his butt kicked BY aliens. Predator is a cult classic, that became even more popular from Alien series, comic books, and the AVP comic books and movies. Arnold is trapped in the jungle, alone, fighting off (as he calls it) "One ugly mother f#@ker!" Be sure to check out Predator 2, though it didn't make it on this list, is a fun sequel none the less.

16. Caddyshack (1980)

Who could forget Caddyshack? Billy Murray battling the gopher. Rodney Dangerfield being...well pretty much himself. A true American classic. Though Chevy chase is often ridiculed in this day in age, he was a good actor back in the day, and a funny guy. Kudos to you Chevy for hanging in there all those years. Sorry about your TV show, but it did suck.

15. Monty Python And the Holy Grail (1975)

Don't even lie to me and tell you have never seen Monty Python and the holy grail. Because you NEED to see this movie. Sure, British comedy is a little different then ours, but it's funny, intelligent and most importantly....witty. I'm a big fan of this film, and their other films, but if theres one you must see, it's this one. "you must bring us...a shrubbery!"

14. Red Dawn (1984)

It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers bands together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.It's Patrick Swayze. It's Charlie Sheen. It's Lea Thompson. It's 1984. What more could be said about this movie? I have only just recently seen this film a few years ago, and i was not disappointed. Sure it's a LITTLE cheesy. A little far-fetched, but it's one of the greats from the 80's.

13. T2: Judgment Day (1991)

James Cameron's dark sequel to the terminator is a thrill ride from beginning to end, and more of a classic then the original. This movie is where the famous "I'll Be Back" line originated from. This is the film in which you see the human race wiped out and disintegrated in a vision. One of the greatest Sci-Fi's ever made.

12. Alien (1979)

Director Ridley Scott brings us the story of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and her seemless endeavor of trying to stay alive after an Alien climbs itself on board of her space ship.Now some will argue that "Aliens" is a much better film, and they may be right. There are more Aliens in the sequel, and much more story to tell...but theres something about Alien that remains a classic in movie history. This is where it all began. But then again the classic "bitch!" from Aliens is a force not to be reckoned with.

11. Army Of Darkness (1992)

This was a tough decision to make. I was trying to figure out if "Evil Dead II - Dead By Dawn" deserved this spot, or my personal favorite "Army Of Darkness". In the end, i decided on AOD because it is the more famous of the trilogy. Video games, TV shows, and movies have all done parodies or AOD. This movie has become a cult classic over the years, and it deserves it so. If the movie was a big hit in theaters, maybe the film wouldn't have the value it has today. It's a great tale of man who gets hurled back in time to defeat the evil dead. He doesn't want to be there, he just wants to go home.He embarks a horrible mission where the evil is torturing him along the way And in the end, he comes to his senses, swallows his pride and kicks some dead butt. Hail to the king baby!Great one-liners too.

10. The Goonies (1985)

Richard Donner's classic film about some youngin's looking for gold under the earth. Classic characters and great story telling. The Goonies isn't for everyone, but it's a classic film remembered for it's 80's style humer and actors. Check it out if you've never seen it.

9. Lifeforce (1985)

Why is this film on here? Because it's one of the sci-fi greats that i don't think as much recognition as it should have. A space crew finds an alien space ship with 3 human life forms on board and some giant space bats. They bring them back with them, they turn out to be vampires. Not only vampires, but space vampires! This movie is twisted, dark and probably one of the strangest films I've ever seen. It is one of the greats from 80's, and tobe hooper proves it in this vastly entertaining film.The plot sounds kinda dumb...but I assure you, this movie is lot better then you could possibly even imagine.

8. King Kong (1933)

What would a list of the greatest movies ever that you should have seen be without King Kong? Everyone knows the story...maybe you have seen Peter Jackson's King Kong. Which is great movie, but here again, nothing beats the original. 1933, and the special effects are still astounding.You will never see another movie as clever as this one from that time period.

7. Gremlins (1984)

The story of how a cute pet can turn into a demon and destroy a town. You know the story. Gizmo, the Gremlins...true movie magic is this film. Gizmo is probably one of the greatest movie characters on the screen that can make you say "awe how cute".And then they turn into monsters and destroy everything...but anyway, this movie has spawned tons of toys and parodies in other films over the years. This movie even made a sequel, "Gremlins 2: The New Batch" where they actually did a parody of the first movie! How cool is that? Nothing better then knowing you can take a crack at yourself and laugh about it.But anyway, cinematic movie making right here. A MUST own.

6. Poltergeist (1982)

This is a true classic film, that i'm sure all of us have seen at one point at another. Who could forget the scene where the ghost is walking down the stair case...or the family's daughter lost in the after world. Or how about the coffins bursting through the house revealing the remains of the once living town citizens. This movie is full of classic moments, and this is where the famous "They're Here" line comes from. And of course it's sequel "they're baaaack" originated. This a movie that every house hold should have a copy of of. Seriously.

5.Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)

The very first (but actually second in chronological order) of the Indiana Jones films starring Harrison Ford and directed by Steven Spielberg. Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant, before the Nazis do. Giant Bolder. I'm sure you own this movie though.

Right?

4. Back To The future (1985)

Robert Zemeckis first of three films about young Marty Mcfly who travels back in time with his buddy doc brown (Christopher Lloyd) to avert certain futures. This movie has the classic scene where Marty plays Johhny B. Good at the high school dance. Who could forget that? The entire film is perfect from beginning to end (even though some of it doesn't make any sense, but who cares it's just a movie right?) with great comedic style and adventure. Funny enough, the flying car at the end of the movie was actually supposed to be a joke. Then the studio asked them to make a sequel (Back To The Future Part 2 and 3 that were filmed back to back) so had to compensate the beginning of BTTF 2 because of the ending of this film. Great stuff though, you can't miss out on it.

3. Ghostbusters (1984)

The gangs all here. Bill, Dan, Sigourney, Ivan, Harold and Hudson.The Ghostbusters logo is the second most most recognizable logo all of time, next to coca-cola. and with good reason. Blasting ghosts, making jokes and kicking some paranormal behind is what Ghost busting is all about. A true classic, one that everyone should at least see once, no matter what your age. I ain't fraid of no ghost.

2.Star Wars (1977)

No movie more deserving then Lucas's Original star wars movie. One of the greatest idea's ever conceived, and probably one of the most recognizable films ever made, Star Wars by far deserves second place. Who could forget about R2D2, C3PO, Lando, Leia, Luke, Vader and all the rest. The original way. Not the shotty sequels that came years later, but the original films with muppets, great story telling and direction. Kudos to you George Lucas for the first 3 original films. Jeers for the latest ones. Because in opinion, do not even come close to holding a candle to these classics, especially A New Hope. Probably more homages and Parodies then any other film to date.

1. Gone With The Wind (1939)

Gone with the wind has been claimed by many as THE greatest film ever made. Maybe...maybe not. But this one stands the test of time. It is truly a great sight to behold, and a worthy film that should be nothing less then number 1 on this list. It is story telling at it's greatest...characters you will never forget. And famous lines you will hear repeated in other TV shows and movies for another hundred years. If you have never seen this movie, i suggest you do. You will never regret it. Because even if you do not care for it...you can still say "yes, i have seen gone with the wind", because i think everyone should.The film takes place during the civil war, and what despite what some might say, is not really a romance story.It is the story of a young woman going through all the hardships of that time. Cruel and unusual punishment for her ways, and when she tries to make amends for the things she has said and done "where will i go? What will i do?" Her husband simply replies..."Frankly my dear, i don't give a damn."

There you have it. I know theres a few films that SHOULD have been on this list, but i honestly could not find a place for them. Such as "The wizard Of Oz" and "E.T."But i wanted to compile a list of movies that seem to be part of history...movies time will never forget. Movies that all of us SHOULD have seen at one point in time.Maybe we have...maybe we haven't. But you should see them. Because for the most part, even though they aren't all life changing movies, you will never regret seeing them.

Because then you can always say that you have.

Other Films:

26.The Wizard Of Oz

27.E.T.

28.Saving Private Ryan

29.Jurassic Park

30.Titanic

31.The Godfather

32.Goodfella's

33.Spartacus

34.Godzilla

35.A Clockwork Orange

36.The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

37.Jason And The Argonauts

38.Logan's Run

39.Die Hard

40.Night Of The Living Dead

41.The Nightmare Before Christmas

42.Kelly's Heroes

43.Young Guns

44.Platoon

45.Lethal Weapon

46.Scarface

47.Frankenstein

48.Full Metal Jacket

49. The Silence Of The Lambs

50.Planet Of The apes

- StraTT

Spamalot reworks the classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail as a musical. But it wasn't the first Python movie adaptation. That honor (cough cough) goes to Monty Pyper's Life of Bryan. Which bastardizes Monty Python's Life of Brian for shits and giggles. Actually, it's a drunken tribute to the classic movie that I filmed with some friends maybe six years ago, which has been languishing on a VHS tape till the advent of the YouTube. The original version was a little longer than the ten minute edit I posted on YouTube, mostly due to a series of flubbed takes. Maybe I'll "restore some deleted footage" and post a special edition some day. Probably not, though. Tiny facts: Bryan (who plays Brian) had never seen the original movie, and was not encouraged to do so. Jamie Pyper, the narrator, is one of the greatest living Englishmen. And yes, I know the whole thing's a bit rubbish...

According to various historical sources, there was not one Arthur but hundreds...perhaps thousands in 6th century England. Indeed, here in Dallas in the year 2003, there are thousands of Arthurs now living in the North Texas region. How many kings? Ooodles of Kings but no kings; however, back then (i.e. 6th century), there were quite a few.

According to generally reliable research sources, for example, Geoffrey of Monmouth (about 1100-1155 A.D.) recorded Arthur as a High-King of Britain. He was the son of his predecessor, Uther Pendragon and nephew of King Ambrosius. As a descendant of High-King Eudaf Hen's nephew, Conan Meriadoc, Arthur's grandfather, had crossed the Channel from Brittany and established the dynasty at the beginning of the 5th century. The Breton King Aldrien had been asked to rescue Britain from the turmoil in which it found itself after the Roman administration had departed. He sent his brother, Constantine, to help. Constantine appears to have been the historical self-proclaimed British Emperor who took the last Roman troops from Britain in a vain attempt to assert his claims on the Continent in 407. Chronologically speaking, it is just possible he was King Arthur's grandfather. Arthur's Breton Ancestry was recorded by Gallet.

Of course, historical material such as this brought tears of joy to the eyes of both Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones (also their parents). They were inspired by it to bring the story of King Arthur and the Holy Grail to the sometimes silver screen. This they have done. Truly, the Pendragons are the stuff of legend. Predictably, Gilliam and Jones took certain liberties to achieve enhanced dramatic effect, adding some important new information revealed by their own historical research. For example, details about martial arts for quadriplegics, the Sepulcher of the Holy Grenade and its Killer Rabbit, aerodynamics of various species of migrating swallows, and interior decorating (e.g. curtains) in 6th century royal quarters. Exciting new stuff indeed.

Who said in 1974 that "They just don't make great movies anymore"? Well, whoever said that could not be more wrong.