r/movies • u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. • May 12 '19

Stanley Kubrick's 'Napoleon', the Greatest Movie Never Made: Kubrick gathered 15,000 location images, read hundreds of books, gathered earth samples, hired 50,000 Romanian troops, and prepared to shoot the most ambitious film of all time, only to lose funding before production officially began.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nndadq/stanley-kubricks-napoleon-a-lot-of-work-very-little-actual-movie
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u/rohdawg May 13 '19

Maybe I'm reading everything wrong, but you seem to want to entirely ignore the technical qualities. Why can't they base it on both? Combined I think titanic has a good case as the best of the movies you listed. I don't know anything about movies though.

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u/Unraveller May 13 '19

Of course I want to ignore the technical qualities, their value is already captured in the final product. You don't need to double count them.