[GhettoExorcist]

I think most critics would vote the horribly overrated borefest Citizen Kane as the greatest film of all time. The Godfather may possibly take the title as well.

[Jason Stringer]

The Godfather would be a great contender, as would A Clockwork Orange in the novel-and-film race.

[Pagan]

Terminator 2 and Halloween are quite good.

[GhettoExorcist]

We can’t mix OUR favorites with the greatest films of all time. I’m not really a fan of the Godfather and I really didn’t like Citizen Kane but I’m almost positive those would be the frontrunners. Terminator 2 is a great flick as is Halloween but I doubt they’d stand a chance.

[Justin]

I have to admit I haven’t even see the Godfather, but I’m working on changing that.

To me The Exorcist will always be the greatest film ever made, though Night Of The Living Dead, Carrie, & BOTH King Kong films come close.

[Greg]

Well, Citizen Kane is a film more highly regarded among filmmakers since a lot of its amazing acheivements are not noticable without knowing what to look for: visual effects 50 years before its time (Orson Welles cut in next to Teddy Roosevelt and Hitler– had to do that with CGI in Forrest Gump), innovative aging makeup, perfectly measured shots in the photography that perfectly dissolve to other shots where a shape in the shot looks exactly the same as the previous, deliberately scratching film to make the documentaryesque footage look old, and that’s just a few of the examples. Yet it was made in 1941 and a lot of films back then move a lot slower than films years after that.

But fiction novel? It’ll be a bit too much to slate a novel from the 20th century. If you’re saying horror fiction, it might be Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy (Dante’s Inferno) or John Milton’s Paradise Lost, or Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

In the film race, it’s usually very unlikely to beat the usual five that end up on the top lists: Citizen Kane, Casablanca, Gone With The Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, and The Rules of the Game.

[kokumo]

“The Last Picture Show”, novel & film, by far the best.

[SLAM234]

The World According To Garp.

[Father_Lamont]

1. Casablanca
2. The Third Man
3. The Godfather
4. The Exorcist
5. Ben-Hur

[ManInKhakiExorcist]

…Or even if it isn’t, what is the greatest fiction novel ever written?

At the risk of looking like a hopeless nerd, I vote Blatty’s novel The Exorcist. And to really stir things up, although I mean it completely as well, the greatest film is Friedkin’s The Exorcist.

M.I.K.E.

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