Best movie all time.

Originally posted by @chaney3
To RHP General Forum members:

Watch this movie, An Officer and a Gentleman.

Then....report back to this thread, and thank me for the suggestion.

Hey Dive, this movie counts as romance. Maybe you will stop being unromantic to your wife, watch this movie with her, then thank me later. 🙂

I rather like this review on An Officer and a Gentleman:

'Macho, materialistic, and pro-militarist, it's an objectionable little number made all the more insidious by the way Hackford pulls the strings and turns it into a heart-chilling weepie.'

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
I rather like this review on An Officer and a Gentleman:

'Macho, materialistic, and pro-militarist, it's an objectionable little number made all the more insidious by the way Hackford pulls the strings and turns it into a heart-chilling weepie.'

Ghost, are you trying to put a wedge, of sorts, in our solid friendship?

Originally posted by @chaney3
Ghost, are you trying to put a wedge, of sorts, in our solid friendship?

Yes.

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Yes.

That's unfortunate.

We share the same taste in tank tops.

Oh well.

Ghost tried to sidetrack my request, without success.

Please watch the movie, and report back.

Not Ghost, lesser friend.

Fight Club is a great film.

Another one that may become more interesting again, with the same actor is "American History X"; seemingly ever more prevalent both sides of the pond.

Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-duke
Many years ago, one of the producers of The bridge on the river Kwai was a client of mine. (Went to his funeral).

Your invoice gave him a heart attack?

Easy Rider
liked it a lot

Science Fiction:

Candidates:
Silent Running
Blade Runner
Serenity
Gravity
Dark Star
Star Trek 2 Wrath of Khan
Galaxy Quest

Best: Brazil

Originally posted by @ponderable

Best war film: Hunde wollt ihr ewig leben?
english: The bridge on the river Kwai

I once knew a former U.S. army ranger who had fought in the Vietnam war (he saw action in Cambodia, although the U.S. govt at the time denied that there were any U.S. forces in Cambodia). He said that the only film which realistically depicted the insanity of war was "Apocalypse Now." Coppola adapted his screenplay from Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness."

I'm not a fan of war films myself, but I thought "Das Boot" (1981, w Herbert Grönemeyer) was excellent.

Originally posted by @fmf
Science Fiction:

Candidates:
Silent Running
Blade Runner
Serenity
Gravity
Dark Star
Star Trek 2 Wrath of Khan
Galaxy Quest

Best: Brazil

"Gravity"? Really? Clooney sleep-walked through that. "Interstellar" was lightyears better.

"Blade Runner" I agree was among the best SciFi ever made.

"Forbidden Planet" still holds up very well, even against modern CGI-movies.

Genre: hard to pigeonhole but very very good: Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Originally posted by @fmf
Your invoice gave him a heart attack?

😲 Hope not.

Best film about media: Schtonk (It even nearly won an oscar as best foreign film)

Originally posted by @moonbus
"Gravity"? Really? Clooney sleep-walked through that.

I assumed that was to simulate the lack of oxygen.