What do you mean you've never seen Citizen Kane? It's the best movie ever!" Thus begins many a fraught conversation between friends, neighbors, strangers—the outrage that you've never seen an acclaimed movie, and the exhortation that you must see it; after all, it's the best movie ever. With so many movies considered "required viewing" and only so much time in the day, it's easy to let some big on
es slip through the cracks. Kaitlin was absent the day in freshman year where Citizen Kane was viewed and just never got around to it; only Michael ever made time for Gran Torino. Existing in a world with famous movies you've never seen leads to a lot of preconceptions and prejudices. Who cares about a sled anyway? Oh yeah, best movie ever. After all meeting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in the late aughts, the panel of Bestest Movie Ever got together to look at their viewing history, finding the holes and set out with one purpose: explore our misconceptions and predictions about what famous movies are really about, watch them, and then come back, and discuss how right—and mainly, how wrong—we were. Is it the best movie ever? Maybe not—but it's certainly the bestest.
