Best Movies Ever

I am not planning to write a flame here. I am not going to advocate a best movie list. This post is about the feeling of closure when refreshing memories.

The last few weeks I was feeling nostalgia for some films I watched as a child and a youth. For example, I remember that I had laughed my head off watching Terence Hill in They call me Trinity, now with more distance of years and being more mature, except for some few scenes which I still found funny, I thought the film was very much a waste of my time, although I can see the appeal for audiences of young boys. The second example is The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, directed by Sergio Leone, music score by Ennio Morricone. I had liked this film very much when I saw it as a boy, but at least can't remember finding it funny. Now watching it again, I found the three hours of the film spinning away. A very pleasurable experience.

I was following the top250 list in imdb and found there were still some films I didn't know. Sometimes I just didn't know the international title, but in some cases I had actually missed the film when it came out. Another list of best movies include the American Film Institute's (find it in wikipedia).

Worthwhile reading about good films: Roger Ebert - The Great Movies.

This would be a great subject for a wikibook, which could start compiling the articles on some movies, together with some history of movie making (e.g. history of cinema). Just discovered, wikipedia now has the functionality to compile books from articles. When reading an article, in the left panel, there's a "add to book" link. Press it and you have a new section in your book. You can print the book and order it by mail.

On a side note, it's a great relief that Adobe finally released the flash plugins for amd64. It's more comfortable to watch movies in a browser than downloading them via youtube-download.