The October Fear Fest continues here at EYG with a movie that may not be specifically a horror movie, but a film that tells the story of the creation of horror movies… or horrible movies.  I find it fascinating how the movies that are about the making of the worst movies of all time turn out to be so memorable and wonderful.  We recently had The Disaster Artist, the amazing tale of the making of The Room with Tommy Wiseau and this film is Ed Wood, who made one of the worst films of all time in Plan 9 from Outer Space.

The fact is that these movies are so good because they are not about the actual movie they made, but because they focus on the characters that were involved in them, and Ed Wood features the story of the ever eccentric and always energetic Edward Wood Jr (Johnny Depp).  A young director, inspired by Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, made movies his own way. Quick.  Without a bunch of costly reshoots or second takes.  And he filled the films with his friends.

One friend in particular was Bela Legosi (Martin Landau), the star of Universal Pictures’ Dracula.  Legosi had fallen on hard times later in his life when he met Wood, who was a huge fan.  Legosi was broke, addicted to morphine and living alone with his dogs.  Wood did not see this in the former star.  He saw the man he remembered and he did what he could to return Legosi to prominence.

The Oscar winning performance of Martin Landau as Bela Legosi is one of the best parts of Ed Wood.  Landau completely engulfs the Dracula star that you would probably wonder if this was actually Legosi himself.   The relationship between Legosi and Wood carries a chunk of this movie and every time Legosi called up Wood and said, “Help me, Eddie,” you get a lump in your throat.

Johnny Depp is so full of energy and brings a remarkable comedic performance as the cross-dressing director who was seemingly oblivious to his shortcomings as a director.  As ridiculous as he could be, Depp brought such a humanity to Wood, a man who cared for the people around him and just wanted to create something wonderful.

The film is just as funny as it is touching.  There are so many great scenes where you have to laugh.  The baptism scene where Bunny (Bill Murray), in response to the question of “Will you reject Satan” says “Sure” is just a riot.

There are many great performances here besides the aforementioned Depp, Landau and Murray.  Sarah Jessica Parker plays Ed Wood’s first girlfriend, a rotten woman who is really just in it for her own career.  Vincent D’Onofrio is brilliant in a cameo as Wood’s inspiration Orson Welles.  Professional wrestler George “The Animal” Steele plays Wood’s infamous actor Tor Johnson.  Patricia Arquette plays Kathy, the woman who becomes the second Mrs. Wood and stays at the side of Ed under all circumstances.  Their side plot of a love story is heart warming among the chaos surrounding them.

Directed by Tim Burton, Ed Wood is a love letter to the idea of film making, no matter how poorly those films are made.  The film is packed full with amazing performances from the talented cast, led by the tragic life of Bela Legosi through the eyes of Martin Landau.  This is one of my favorite performances from Johnny Depp as well.

The choice to film this biopic in black and white created such a perfect mood that the film carried through every scene.  It was beautiful to watch and a joy to experience.

I was inspired to rewatch this after the Top 10 Show episode about Movies set in LA and I am very glad I did.  I had not seen this in a long time, and I remembered liking it the first time, but now after this viewing, I find this to be a near masterpiece.  It is so good that it has inspired me to go watch Plan 9 from Outer Space…and not just the RiffTrax version of it either.  Now that is the power of a film.

The October Fear Fest rolls on with one of the Universal monsters, The Wolf Man.  The original film starring Lon Chaney in his iconic role of Larry Talbot,a man who returned to his home only to be attacked and bitten by a werewolf.

The story is simple and works well because of it.  There is not an attempt to make this more than what it is.  Larry is bitten (by Bela Legosi of all people) and, slowly begins to believe the legend being told him by the gypsies in the area.

There are some interesting ideas here, in particular how the mind can cause people to believe anything, including that they are being turned into a wolf.  This is a little more literal than just a mind trip, but the idea is solid.

The look of the Wolf Man is pretty good considering it is 1941.  The film keeps the use of the Wolf to a limited amount, wisely preventing the need for too much overuse.

“Even a man who is pure of heart, and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright.”

This is repeated several times throughout the movie and works very well to help create the mood of the film.  It also is well constructed in ways of mood.

The Wolf Man is an excellent film that introduces an iconic monster to the world.  It is a lot of fun.

I teach 7th grade literacy and we read the novel by Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty.  So every year, after we finish the book, we watch the movie from 1998 based on the book, The Mighty.

This week, I watched it five times.

Once for each class.  So I figured I may as well add it to the Doc’s Classics Movies Reviewed section and take a break from the October Fear Fest.

I very much enjoy the film.  Some kids asked me about having to watch it with each class and I told them that there were enough scenes that I enjoyed that helped me get through.

Truthfully, a lot of this movie is cheesy.  It is nowhere near as good as the book, but the movie has one big thing going for it and that is a tremendous cast of actors.  Henry Dean Stanton and Gena Rowlands are the grandparents and they bring the goods in their scenes together.  One in particular really highlighted their skills as actors.

The Mighty tells the story of an unlikely friendship between Max (Elden Hensen, who I found out just now also plays Foggy Nelson in Netflix’s Daredevil.  MIND BLOWN!!!), and Kevin (Kieran Culkin).  Kevin has a disease that affects his ability to walk and grow properly and Max, the big and strong son of a convicted murderer, carries Kevin around on his shoulders as they go on adventures, “slaying dragons and saving damsels.”

Both boys do a great job in The Mighty.  Any time a movie has kids as its main leads takes a huge chance.  If those kids do not work, the film does not work.  Fortunately, Max and Kevin work very well.

The cast also has James Gandolfini as Max’s father Kenny Kane, Gillian Anderson (of X-Files fame) as Loretta Lee, and Meat Loaf as Iggy Lee.  All of these actors get a chance to shine and show exactly what they can do.

Then, Sharon Stone plays Gwen Dillon, Kevin’s doting mother who is dealing with the struggles of raising a child with a debilitating disease.  Sharon Stone is effervescent here and brought so much humanity to the Fair Gwen.

There were several scenes that were cheesy (most of which were added to the film and not included in the book), but none of the scenes stretched credibility enough to take me out of the film.  And there is some real emotion shown in the film, without feeling as if they are trying to manipulate the audience.

The Horror Binge-a-thon during the October Fear Fest continued with the John Landis film, An American Werewolf in London.  I have to say, I was not as impressed with this movie as I thought I would be.

I remember watching this years ago, but I wonder if I hadn’t watched the whole thing (or had seen an edited version on TV) because much of what was here was unfamiliar.

While trekking through the Moors of England, David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) wind up being attacked by a werewolf.  Jack was killed, but David survived.  After several weeks in the hospital, David receives a surprise visit from the still deceased Jack who has some uncomfortable news. David is a werewolf and must kill himself to end the blood line of the wolf.

David believes that he is dreaming and meets up with a nurse(Jenny Agutter) from the hospital who lets him stay at her flat.  Unfortunately, time is running out as the moon is due to be full the next night.

I found this to be pretty disappointing.  The tones of the film vary wildly from scene to scene and I just never thought that the film found its footing.

When David is transforming into the werewolf, however, the film is frighteningly solid.  The transformation is painful, harsh and scary.  You feel for David at the time, wishing his pain would end.  The people he kill are all just glorified extras that you have no emotional connection to so their deaths do not overcome the feeling of connection you have for David.  Because of that, the end results feels empty.

The relationship with David and nurse Alex is strange and sudden.  There are a lot of feelings of rushing here as the film does not take its time on any major point.  The whole part with the Slaughtered Lamb and the patrons who refuse to say anything makes no sense whatsoever.  Why are they so secretive?  Why is it such a big issue when one tries to talk to the doctor?  It makes no sense.

Much of the plot is thin and does not pay off.  The film looks great, especially the part where the werewolf transformation is taking place.  I just did not buy the blend of horror and humor in this case.

Next up in the October Fear Fest and the Horror binge-a-thon is a film based on the story written by one of my all-time favorite authors, EYG Hall of Famer Edgar Allan Poe.

House of Usher is based on the story “The Fall of the House of Usher,” one of Poe’s classic tales of Gothic horror and macabre.

After a long trip from Boston, Phillip (Mark Damon) arrives at the House of Usher to see his fiance Madeline (Myrna Fahey) but he is met at the door by the loyal servant of the Usher family, Bristol (Harry Ellerbe).  The servant attempts to sway Phillip into leaving, but he would have none of it, demanding to see Madeline and her brother Roderick (Vincent Price).  Phillip intends to take Madeline with him back to Boston.  Roderick insists that Madeline is sick and that the evil of the lineage of the House of Usher would not, could not continue. In fact, all of the Usher family has gone crazy and died horrible deaths and there is nothing that could be done about it.

How much the two remaining Usher family members were doomed to a curse compared to making this a self-fulfilling prophecy is a fascinating study here.  You feel for the plight of poor Madeline and you believe that Roderick truly believed the insanity was unavoidable.

Vincent Price is the horror-filled goodness here as this marked the first time he and director Roger Cormen teamed up for an Edgar Allan Poe tale.  They were really able to distinguish the tone of the story and made the terrors real.  I was rooting for Madeline and Phillip, even though I knew that Poe’s works never come to a happy end.

I love Edgar Allan Poe and his work very much.  I had not read “The Fall of the House of Usher” before this, but the film is supposedly one of the more faithful adaptations of his work.

For the time (1960) and the low reported budget, House of Usher looks great.  The look of the film adds to the overall creepy feel of the film.  The House itself brings a great deal of character to the film as well.

House of Usher works so well that you are disturbed and unhinged by what happens to the characters, despite the expectations that things would not go well.

More meta for the sequel which, as Randy says, is never as good as the original.

Scream 2 is very solid however, as the story takes a bit of a divergence while keeping the familiar beats that made the first Scream such a fun return to slasher movies.

Sydney (Neve Campbell) has moved on with her life after the events the year prior.  She has gone to college and she has a new boyfriend (Jerry O’Connell).  However, with the release of the movie based on Gail Weathers’ (Courteneny Cox) novel about the murders, the craziness starts up again with an apparent copycat killer once again stalking Sydney and her friends.

Scream 2 had a lot of fun playing with the suspects list, actually verbalizing every possible suspect from Deputy Dewey (David Arquette) to Randy (Jami Kennedy).

The sequel was also not afraid to push boundaries a great deal as they wind up killing off Randy inside the news van in a graphic and bloody manner.  This showed that anyone was in danger and there were major stakes to be had.  I mean, if the rules guy himself could bit it, then any of our favorite survivors could be next.

Wes Craven returned only one year after Scream opened to create this effective sequel.  It makes one believe that he must have had the idea already in place for them to crank this out as quickly as they did.

There was a welcome addition to the cast here with Liev Schreiber as Cotton Weary, the man who Sydney had incorrectly accused of her mother’s murder originally.  Cotton spent a year in jail only to be exonerated by Gail’s book.  Cotton, however, was looking to cash in on his fifteen minutes of fame and he wanted Sydney to help him do that.  She was not exactly jumping for joy over the chance.  Schreiber brought a different vibe to the film with Cotton and play an important piece in the overall narrative.

So as I continue the October Fear Fest and the Horror Binge-a-thon today, Scream 2 is an excellent sequel that captures what everyone liked about the first one with some well deserved twists and unexpected plot points to keep even the biggest horror fans guessing.

What’s better to fit into the horror genre than a musical?

Wait…I didn’t mean it like that.

The next film in the October Fear Fest and the horror binge-a-thon is the stage play Sweeney Todd, which was adapted for the big screen starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter as two of the worst protagonists to ever grace the cinema world.

After being banished by an evil judge, Benjamin Barker returns to London under the name Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp) to reunite with his lost love and daughter.  When the truth of the situation confronts him, he quickly changes his plan from reunion to revenge.  Meeting up with Ms. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter), the pair concoct a plan for Todd to get his revenge on the people of London, to murder the evil Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman) and to hide their bloody rampage inside Ms. Lovett’s meat pies.

Directed by the stylish Tim Burton with songs from Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a blood-soaked good time.

The most interesting thought experiment is trying to decide exactly which of these characters are the worst.  Sweeney Todd has the tragic background and you are meant to identify with him as the hero, but he is anything but.  His descent into madness had happened well before he had returned to London and he has basically become a serial killer.  Judge Turpin was a horrendous man who abused the power of his position for his own whims, taking Lucy (Laura Michelle Kelly) from Benjamin and raping her.  He also took the Barkers’ daughter as his own ward.  If that is not enough, we get a scene of him sentencing a young boy to hang from the neck for the crime of stealing.  Ms. Lovett manipulated Sweeney Todd into what she wanted to aid in her own success with her meat pies.  She did not blink at all when the dead bodies started falling into her bake shop.

Ms. Lovett did show some feelings for Toby (Ed Sanders), the boy who was working for the Italian barber Pirelli (Sacha Baron Cohen).  However, once Toby started asking questions, she locked him in the cellar and brought Sweeney Todd down to, supposedly, get rid of him.

These rotten people all have extremely satisfying endings as Burton spared no scene of horror.  Ms. Lovett, in particular, gets a gruesome finale.

The music is wonderful.  I love the songs and the performances, even by the so-so singers, are perfect.  The song, “Little Priest” is one of my favorite songs of the whole piece.

Sweeney Todd is dark and comedic.  It is brutal and violent.  It blends all of this together seamlessly and creates a visually and thoroughly engaging film.  Depp and Carter are wonderful as the criminal duo and Alan Rickman is as fantastic as always with his dirtbag judge.

The next film for the October Fear Fest during the horror binge-a-thon is the documentary by Seth Breedlove and Lyle Blackburn of the Small Town Monsters crew that deals with the story of the Mothman.

Back in the 1960s, there were multiple sightings of a strange, birdman like creature in the town and surrounding areas of Point Pleasant, West Virginia.  There were sightings on a regular basis for 13 months, which included plenty of unidentified flying objects and strange lights in the sky as well.  The legend of the sightings included some who claimed the Mothman as a prophet of doom, even going as far as saying that it was seen perched on the Silver Bridge, which collapsed soon after in 1967.

The documentary was well done, specifically in the way of creating a mood in the viewer.  The music, the stylish manner, the coincidences really do a fine job of setting the feeling for the viewer.  Many of the re-enactments of certain major events were well done and helped to make the film creepy.  However, there is not a really deep investigation into the mystery though.  It basically gives the information of the eye-witnesses and tells the story.  There is little to no counter points shown to balance the story.  It takes the assumption that this was something weird and goes from there.

It was an interesting documentary to watch, but it did not truly provide much real substantiated material from anyone other than a town that holds Mothman festivals.

The month of October Fear Fest continues here at EYG with our look at horror classics in the “Doc’s Classic Movies Reviewed” section.  We started last week with Invasion of the Body Snatchers and this week, we start today and tomorrow’s horror binge-a-thon with Wes Craven’s beloved horror movie satire, Scream.

While it is a satire of horror movies, Scream also is a great example of how successful a slasher film can be.  Not only does the film subvert the genre, taking the “rules” and playing with them in many unexpected ways, but it also resets the rules for future films.

Starring Courteney Cox, who was in the middle of her huge success with Friends, Cox’s soon to be husband David Arquette, Neve Campbell who is everyone’s favorite non-victim, and Billy Loomis himself, Skeet Ulrich.

The use of dialogue involving other scary movies into Scream is a stroke of genius and really created a meta film that was also not-mega at all.  The back story with Sidney’s mother works wonderfully, even without anything first hand for us to see.  Connecting Courteney Cox’s reporter character to Sidney’s mom’s story was great.

Gail and Dep. Dewey were a fun couple too, mirroring the real life pairing between actors.

The use of a star with the stature of Drew Barrymore as the first victim of Ghostface was surprising for certain.  I remember being shocked when she died when I first saw this film years ago.  You just do not do such a thing.  I mean, there is Drew’s face front and center on the movie poster and, yet, she is the, well…technically, second victim to die (Ah, poor Steve…we hardly knew ye!).

Ghostface was anything but a perfect killing machine as he flailed and was battered through the movie as well. Having there be two Ghostfaces in the end is a twist that really kept people guessing.  It was a great film that set off a very successful slasher franchise, which is kind of ironic.

As we are now in October, I have started a watch of some of the horror/thriller genre films that either I haven’t yet seen or ones that I haven’t seen in a long time.  The remake of Invasion of Body Snatchers falls into that second category.

I remember watching the film as a youth, but I honestly did not remember much about it so this rewatch today was very much like watching it for the first time.

Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum and Veronica Cartwright were the main actors in the cast.  They all were very solid in the well acted remake.  Sutherland, in particular, was great as Matthew Bannell, a health inspector, discovers that people are being replaced with emotion-less pod creatures after they sleep.  Bannell, along with a small group of his friends, try to find a way to stop the creatures before it is too late.

The film creates an effective feeling of paranoia as the story progresses.  You immediately distrust everyone and some of the imagery of the film was fairly frightening, especially for the time.

I did have a couple of issues.  I did not understand the relationship between Bannell and Brooke Adams’ character, Elizabeth.  Through much of the film, I wondered if they had been related, until later when they were kissing and proclaiming their love for one another.  I’m not sure if they were intended to be exes, just friends or acquaintances.

The invasion also seemed to arrive without much reasoning.  I think that is part of the idea though, indicating that something like this can come from nowhere and you might never see it coming.

The sound of the movie really works well, helping to create that feeling of anxiety and helplessness that the film fosters.  The cries of the pod creatures was also very unnerving.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers was a strong remake and works in many manners.

Fantastic Mr. Fox is a lovely to look at, fun to watch and enjoyable time at an animated movie. Based on a story from Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox blends the best of Dahl with the traits of Wes Anderson in a wonderful mishmash of styles.

George Clooney voices the lead character, Mr. Fox, who is a proud “wild animal” that gives up his life of chicken stealing when he discovers that his wife,  Mrs. Fox (Meryl Streep) is pregnant with his first child.  After years of a dull, domesticated life, Mr. Fox feels the pull of his life of crime once more when he discovers three big time farmers just begging to be pilfered.

Many of Anderson’s normal crew is involved in voicing characters in this animated classic, including Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Willem Dafoe and Eric Chase Anderson.

The animation style is great in the stop action animation style.  The herky-jerky style showed an even more artistic flair from the director, who insisted on the film not being too finished in the animation.

There is a lot going on in this story besides the apparent midlife crisis of Mr. Fox.  The film deals with the relationships between parents and children as well as the jealousy that can develop between family members.  Mr. Fox’s son Ash (Jason Schwartzman) was not an athlete like his father no matter what he did, but his cousin Kristofferson (Eric Chase Anderson) was a natural and created a ton of tension inside Ash.

Some of the bits in Fantastic Mr. Fox are extremely funny and entertaining.  They show the wit of Wes Anderson very well without completely losing the darkness of Roald Dahl.

Fantastic Mr. Fox is a fine film that the entire family can enjoy.  The movie is not just for kids despite the fact that they will probably enjoy watching it.

I had an afternoon filled with campy clowns killing innocent bystanders in a sleepy town.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space is a weird ride.  The film is silly and a good-natured horror movie that does not take itself seriously and knows exactly what it is.

Looking at the title and the movie poster, I was pretty sure this would be nothing more than a terrible B movie.  I was wrong.  This was a reasonably enjoyable B movie.

I mean…what else can you ask for but a clown car being chased by an ice cream truck?

There are some cute and imaginative uses of the clowns.  They might be considered very creepy for those who have the unreasonable fear of clowns.  After It, I was really surprised to find out how many people were actually scared of clowns.  And these clowns can be creepy.  Sure, if you are not fearful of clowns, you will not be scared by the Killer Klowns, but if you are…

I certainly have seen worse alien invasion movies.  I have seen alien invasion movies that are every bit as ridiculous as Killer Klowns from Outer Space but try to take themselves seriously as if they were the second coming of Citizen Kane.  Killer Klowns from Outer Space embraces the silliness and provides a fun time because of it.

Quite a brutal and frightening film.

Michael Rooker is Henry, a character loosely based on the serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, and Rooker is a dominating force on the screen.  The chilling and callous manner in which he dispatches these innocent people shows how much of a monster some of these serial killers can be.

It is odd, but Henry is not the worst character in the film. Otis (Tom Towles) is far and away a worse person.  Otis would at times accompany Henry on his killing sprees and he would even video tape the events.

I have to say that I was having a herd time finding someone to root for in the film.  It weirdly almost sets Henry up as the anti-hero in a few scenes, but those feel wrong (as is proven at the film’s conclusion).  I really wanted there to be some kind of comeuppance for the pair of horrid individuals, and when that did not fully happen, I found it to be a little unsatisfying.

However, the final shot of the film is absolutely dark and powerfully scary.

Michael Rooker was top of the line in the role.  His performance was frightening and executed perfectly.  The imagery was dark, brutal and nightmarish.  The belief that there were people like this in the world truly makes one doubt humanity.

Finding a rating for this film is tough.  It doesn’t feel right to give this one a “FUN TIME” rating, but I would not go to the “CLASSIC” rating either.  It also does not feel right to call this “OVERRATED” as I would consider this a (mostly) positive review.  So I am going to debut a new rating for this film that will cover it.  It is a….

I was struggling trying to determine what exactly I wanted to watch tonight.  Everything that I found was either too long or not what I wanted.  There were actually a bunch of creepy/scary films available, but I just did not feel like I was wanting to handle a movie with shock and terror in it.

So I played a film with those words in the title!

Birdemic: Shock and Terror is one of the worst movies ever made.  Thankfully, I have only seen it as a part of the special presentations by the RiffTrax Live guys, Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett.  Even today, Birdemic: Shock and Terror is my favorite RiffTrax show I have seen.

Birdemic the movie is a film that is meant to pay homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, but it fails in just about every imaginable manner.  It takes around 45 minutes before we see any birds on the screen at all and when they finally do show up, they are possibly the worst special effects to find its way onto a movie screen.

Calling the acting wooden would be too good.  Alan Bagh (who plays Rod) is unbelievably robotic in his portrayal of the software salesman turned solar panel magnate who dates our lovely young model Nathalie (Whitney Moore) and these two stumble through the somewhat unaffected world where killer eagles are attacking people at gas stations, alongside the road and at motels.

This is truly a film that is impossible to describe.  The special effects, the sound quality (or lack thereof), the acting, the story, the consistent shots of people driving their cars for no determinable reason.

Thankfully, the RiffTrack guys make this a remarkably entertaining, making me laugh out loud at their hi-jinks and witty banter.  The best part though is when none of the three of them are able to make a joke because they are too busy laughing themselves at the horrible performance of Rod.

The reason behind the Birdemic, we guess, has to do with global warming as the film takes many opportunity to spread the word about how humans are affecting nature (including one of the most awkward allusions to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth movie.

I love the RiffTrax performance and if you see Birdemic: Shock and Terror (which also somehow spawned a sequel), you must see the RiffTrax version.  That is because, scoring the movie itself only… it is …

Burt Reynolds passed away recently at the age of 82.  I had never seen this iconic film from his oeuvre so I put it on the list to watch.

It was very disturbing of a film.

It started with the epic dueling banjos that was so fantastic.  About midway through the film, the horrible rape scene takes place (poor Ned Beatty) and the rest of the film was tense.

Honestly, the first part of the film featured Reynolds. but the second half of the film belonged to Jon Voight as Ed and Ned Beatty dealing with his own pain over what happened to him.  Burt was regulated to the sidelines with his injured leg.

I will say that the first part of Deliverance, after dueling banjos, was dull.  There was just too much canoeing going on.  It seemed to me that a lot of that could have been removed and it would have made the film a tighter feel.  However, once the hillbillies showed up with their plans of making poor Ned Beatty squeal, this film picked up the pace.

There is a lot of uncertainty in the film as well.  Drew (Ronny Cox) fell out of the canoe as the four friends reached the dangerous rapids.  Why was that?  Reynolds’ character claimed he was shot, but I am not sure of that.  I did not hear a shot fired nor was their any real evidence of that when they came across Drew’s body later.  It as a strange part of the story.

I have heard a lot of great word of mouth about this movie, but to me, it is, at best, okay.  The second half of the film was better and, of course, the Dueling Banjos song was tremendous.  Otherwise, there was the shock value of the rape and not that much more.

It is a solid film in the technical aspects, but I do not see it as one of the great films of all time. It certainly has some of the most iconic moments of all time, but moments do not necessarily make a movie.