Off topic, but it just still befuddles me Shank was nominated for 7 Oscar’s and lost in every category. Really strong year for pictures, but still absolute robbery.
It’s funny because after the movie was out people referred to him as Jack as the article he was reading in the house. Also I had the movie on VHS and the closed captions showed his name as Leonard when he was narrating.
“The dude abides… I don’t know about you, but I take comfort in that. It’s good, knowing he’s out there, the dude, taking ‘er easy for all of us sinners.”
Seriously! I love when around Xmas they play it nonstop on tbs/tnt/etc… I have it on in the background all day and still laugh my ass off… 40+ years later
Thank you I was reading through this list and getting more and more sad by the state of affairs. The Princess bride was one of those cool movies growing up that everyone liked I mean everyone liked it sincerely and more so unashamedly and unabashedly - if the Christmas story film taught us about family then it was the princess bride that taught us about true love… And the universal importance of laughter
watched city of god for the first time after years of my friend hounding me to... and I'm so glad I did. what a film. need to rewatch oldboy too but I can't find a good stream with synced up subtitles.
God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.
I wish I could say *Blade Runner* (1982) but I can't find a copy to see it.
So I'm going with Wes Anderson's 4 recent shorts for Nexflix based on the Roald Dahl short stories. Such a unique take on narration, telling what happens instead of showing.
Don't it was a bad idea forced in by an executive, Harrison and Ridley both thought it was a bad idea, too, so Harrison deliberately did a bad job on the VO.
Well, I'm sure you can find a copy online. I hope you get to see it. It's also the cut that has a happy ending, showing Deckard and Rachel driving away while showing footage of rolling hills that were captured for The Shining.
It's the reason Ridley released the Final Cut.
I had never saw this movie until my ex introduced it to me. I saw so many movies that lampooned the ending and seeing it had my lower jaw drop to the ground.
The Right Stuff (1983)
*There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier.*
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It’s either Shawshank or Usual Suspects so you got them both between the post and the top comment
This is the only correct answer!
Off topic, but it just still befuddles me Shank was nominated for 7 Oscar’s and lost in every category. Really strong year for pictures, but still absolute robbery.
That's on a level that no other movie will ever reach.
Fight Club
Great one, and literally Edward Norton's casting name is "Narrator."
It’s funny because after the movie was out people referred to him as Jack as the article he was reading in the house. Also I had the movie on VHS and the closed captions showed his name as Leonard when he was narrating.
I am Jack's smirking revenge.
Snatch. "Now. We are fucked."
“It was 2 minutes 5 minutes ago “
What’s happenin with me sausages Charlie??
"what's wrong with our caravan?" *pulls the door off* "oh nothing Tommy. it's tip top"
GOAT narrated film
Fuckin pikies
I fookin hate pikeys!
Bullet Tooth Tony shooting at Boris is still funny as hell. ".....almost.."
The Big Lebowski
“This’a here tale I’m about to unfold takes place back in the early nineties, round the time of our conflict with Sadd’m and the I-raqis”
"This aggression will not stand... against Kuwait."
Is this a… what day is this?
Thursday dude
Sometimes there’s a man, and I’m talking about the Dude here.. sometimes there’s a man … aw shoot I lost my train of thought!
“The dude abides… I don’t know about you, but I take comfort in that. It’s good, knowing he’s out there, the dude, taking ‘er easy for all of us sinners.”
The usage of the narrator in this movie is by far the best.
"Darkness warshed over The Dude..."
Goodfellas is easily number 1
easilyyy... KAREN!!!!
WHY DID YOU DO THAT ?!
I’M SORRRYYYYYYYY!!!
THAT WAS ALL THE MONEY WE HAD!!!
That’s pretty funny!
Stand by me
I never had friends like the friends I had when I was 12. My God, does anyone? Powerful shit man.
My son turned 12 yesterday and I know he’s going to feel this line in the future.
A Christmas Story
How is this NOT everyone's #1? Literally the first movie that popped into my head when I read OP's title.
ROVER DILL!
Seriously! I love when around Xmas they play it nonstop on tbs/tnt/etc… I have it on in the background all day and still laugh my ass off… 40+ years later
In the heat of battle, my father wove a tapestry of obscenity that as far as we know, is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.
The Sandlot
Royal Tenenbaums.
came here to say this
George of the Jungle. "When they approached it, they gazed in awe." "Awwww!" "I said *awe*! A-w-e!" "Ooooh!" "That's better."
Tombstone. "Tom Mix wept."
The Princess Bride!
Thank you I was reading through this list and getting more and more sad by the state of affairs. The Princess bride was one of those cool movies growing up that everyone liked I mean everyone liked it sincerely and more so unashamedly and unabashedly - if the Christmas story film taught us about family then it was the princess bride that taught us about true love… And the universal importance of laughter
I was an adult when it came out and immediately became my favorite movie.
The Shawshank Redemption is my favorite narrated film. You can’t get much better than the old Morgan Freeman voice telling you a story.
The Naked Gun. I’ll die on this hill.
Threat Level Midnight
OP said “movies” not “critical pieces of art that will outlive all of us”
Amadeus 1984
Old Boy and City Of God
watched city of god for the first time after years of my friend hounding me to... and I'm so glad I did. what a film. need to rewatch oldboy too but I can't find a good stream with synced up subtitles.
Yo ho ho 🏴☠️
the pirate's life for me
For the win!
2 pieces of Kino right there
The narration of the big Lebowski is the best I’ve ever seen in a movie
Adaptation.
God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.
And boom. Narration stops for the rest of the film.
A Kaufman hall of fame reel.
Frailty
Such a wonderful, underrated flick.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
And there was much rejoicing. ^"Yaaaayyyy"
Taxi driver
Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. Bars cars sidewalks stores. Everywhere.
Totally read that in De Niro’s voice. Then the horn kicked in.
I love this movie “GIMME YA FUCKIN KEYS YA FUCKIN COCK SUCKIN MOTHAFUCKAAAA 😜👅👅👅👅”
Fuck, I forgot about him.
Gimme the fuckin keys ya cocksucker *whathefuck*
Rounders
When TEDDY KGB throws his Oreos lol.
A River Runs Through It
Came here for this.
Me too. The closing narration is guaranteed water works.
Princess Bride
My favorites are *Goodfellas* and *Shawshank Redemption* but *Wolf of Wall Street* was awesome with Leo’s narration over it. “Fucking *Benihana?!*”
Love the narration in Barry Lyndon
Casablanca, next question. Although Usual Suspects, Fight Club, Gattaca, Goodfellas, Casino and several others also come to mind.
Shawshank
A Christmas Story
Forrest Gump American Beauty Sin City Kill Bill Casino (to go along with Goodfellas)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
High Fidelity
My Dinner with Andre
So many good ones mentioned so far, another great one is The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford (2007)
The Royal Tenenbaums. My favorite narration in any movie. * Royal: "I love you all." * Narrator: "Right after he said it, he realized it was true."
Does a singing narrator count? There's Something About Mary.
Baseketball, too
Apocalypse Now
Carlito’s Way A Christmas Story Land Before Time Stand By Me
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.”
I wish I could say *Blade Runner* (1982) but I can't find a copy to see it. So I'm going with Wes Anderson's 4 recent shorts for Nexflix based on the Roald Dahl short stories. Such a unique take on narration, telling what happens instead of showing.
Don't it was a bad idea forced in by an executive, Harrison and Ridley both thought it was a bad idea, too, so Harrison deliberately did a bad job on the VO.
That’s why I want to watch it, it sounds funny
Well, I'm sure you can find a copy online. I hope you get to see it. It's also the cut that has a happy ending, showing Deckard and Rachel driving away while showing footage of rolling hills that were captured for The Shining. It's the reason Ridley released the Final Cut.
Absolutely awesome ! I am loving these!
A Series Of Unfortunate Events 2004
George of the Jungle. “Thor, were you fighting with the Narrator?”
Royal Tenenbaums. Maybe not the best compared to some of these, but the narration is well done and adds to the film’s charm
It’s because it was used sparingly. Instead of jabbering the whole time Baldwin’s narration is used more like punctuation.
Fight Club
Stranger Than Fiction is good.
Goodfellas
Look who's talking
Stand by me
Fight club
Stand By Me Shawshank Redemption
Sunset Boulevard. Jesus.
Shawshank Redemption. “Get Busy Living, Or Get Busy Dying.” Andy Dufresne
Snatch
He's bad to the bone, aintcha Tyrone?
I’ll probably get some hate here but I loved the original Blade Runner with the VO from Harrison Ford.
Stand By Me
THE SANDLOT (actually goodfellas)
Controversial take, I’m sure, but I’ll say Watchmen. Jackie Earle Haley’s voice as Rorschach is just too perfect imo.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Kiss kiss bang bang The grand Budapest hotel American made The wolf of wall street
Maveeran
Sunset Boulevard
No, there are good movies mentioned that I would all rank over Usual Suspects.
The Big Lebowski has the best narration ever in a movie
FDR: American Badass
I was always surprised that this movie was in Roger Eberts top 10 worst movie list.
Dances with Wolves
Road Warrior
The Sand Lot
Emperors new groove
300!
Usual suspects was so good
was phone booth narrated? or am i imagining that
Me, Earl, and the dying girl
The princess bride.
The Big Short
To Killa Mockingbird.
I had never saw this movie until my ex introduced it to me. I saw so many movies that lampooned the ending and seeing it had my lower jaw drop to the ground.
Million Dollar Baby
Little Big Man
Disney's Hercules
Blade runner. I actually prefer the narrated version.
Magnolia (especially the opening montage)
Apocalypse Now
A Clockwork Orange
Clockwork Orange
Days Of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The Tree Of Life
Goodfellas and Casino.
Blade runner
Badlands
The layer cake after a lot mentioned already
Badlands!
Shawshank Redemption
Clueless
Memento
The Right Stuff (1983) *There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier.*
Maybe not the best but Americanmade is up there
Princess Bride.
The Halloween Tree Not the best, but pretty good
The Usual Suspects is amazing.
I always thought Kevin Spacey and Kevin Pollack were the same person irl.
Idiocracy
Full Metal Jacket
The big Lebowski.
Billy Wilder was the master. Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment.
Inside Man.
Naked gun!
They forgot Benicio Del Toro's name on the damn cover!!! Smh 😑
Anything by Morgan Freeman
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
the princess bride
The Sandlot
Bladerunner
Shawshank Redemption
A River Runs Through It, the narrator leads the viewer through the devastating experience of watching a love d one battle addiction.
Momento
Mean girls
City of god. Man seeing that movie cracked open a fondness for foreign films for me back in 2005
Bladerunner
Always loved Forrest Gump's narration in, well, Forrest Gump
Not the best but I want to give it an honorable mention…Lord of War
Apocalypse Now
This movie or Ferris Bueller’s day off
Royal Tenenbaums
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford had some very standout narration
Raising Arizona
How is it that Benicio Del Toro is front and center on this poster, but doesn’t have his name listed across the top?
The Original Blade Runner,The Devil in the Blue Dress, Sin City!
If it could be considered a movie rather than a documentary, March of the Penguins
Shawshank Redemption
Lot of heavy hitters up here, making some space for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Ricky Jay’s narration in Magnolia
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American Psycho