Of All Time!

Rating: Null/10 (5 December 2001)

Although Gone With the Wind might not be the best film of all time, it certainly is the greatest. Being the first real blockbuster film, I was surprised to see the amount of negative reviews and comments by some imdb members. Others going as far as saying the film was full of film cliches.

But in 1939 when the film was released, cinema was still in it's infancy and cliches did not exist then, this film created a lot of them. The best way to look at this film is in the historical context in which it was created. The technical aspects i.e. the use of colour, soundtrack. I think this film has never been done better. Even though the performances might seem old-hat to our modern day sensibilities, they were spot on then.
Plus one cannot deny that it does have some of the greatest lines in motion picture history!!