Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, Ben Hur, 1925What's the best movie ever made?

Are you asking me? How are we measuring 'best'?

Movies are not an Olympic sport. There is no objective scorecard for content, artistic impression, or execution. Box office takings are no guide, otherwise Michael Bay would be in the top ten directors of all time. He isn't.

Similarly, with apologies to Mr Cameron, Titanic is a terrible, cliche-ridden, rip-off of a movie (A Night to Remember, if you must know). Avatar is technically good, but think of it as Dances with Smurfs, or Smurf-a-hontas; the 1950's Western script and that honking dialogue... Read more of this post