What are your top 10 favourite films? [Archive]

Paul Riley

07-29-11, 06:42 AM

Well,keeping with the 'favourite' theme here,what are your top ten favourite films?,in order of preference,with '1' naturally being your favourite.This list can also include animated films,cartoons,mini series' and boxed sets.
This list is dynamic and can change accordingly to your ever changing opinions about things :yep:

For me it would have to be:

1 - Alien
2 - Aliens
3 - The Terminator
4 - The Thing
5 - V The Mini Series (cult 80s SCI FI from the 80s)
6 - An American Werewolf In London
7 - Jaws :D
8 - Company Of Wolves
9 - Flight Of Dragons (animated film from the 80s,so rare you cant even get it on DVD only VHS format)
10 - Dungeons & Dragons - volumes I-IV (the entire boxed set of cartoons from the 80s)

Dowly

07-29-11, 06:55 AM

Purely based on which flicks I watch over and over again, if I can't think of
anything else to watch:

1 - Alien
2 - Aliens
3 - A Bridge Too Far
4 - Event Horizon
5 - Schindler's List
6 - Alien 3
7 - Beautiful Mind
8 - Stalingrad
9 - Blair Witch Project
10 - Trilogy of the Dead (Romero's 3 classic zombie flicks, can't pick the best)

EDIT: Oh, didn't notice that mini-series' were allowed too. Well, add Game of Thrones & Generation Kill as honorable mentions then. :O:

krashkart

07-29-11, 07:14 AM

In no particular order:

Everything Is Illuminated
Die Hard
Space: Above and Beyond
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Easy Rider
They Live
Payback
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
Restrepo (do documentaries count?)
Open Range

Herr-Berbunch

07-29-11, 07:38 AM

Obviously Dowly's list is only the 'family' version of his favourite films. :O:

Mine? Here you go:

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Blazing Saddles
3. The Life of Brian
4. Apocolypse Now (haven't yet seen Redux)
5. Man Bites Dog (I doubt many will have seen this one...)
6. Naked (...or this wonderful Mike Leigh film)
7. Full Metal Jacket (particularly Parris Island scenes)
8. Leon (still to see the version intégrale)
9. The Princess Bride (I know, kids fantasy film, but it's just great!)
10. Any Bourne film (JB is the new, er, JB)

Dowly

07-29-11, 07:39 AM

Obviously Dowly's list is only the 'family' version of his favourite films. :O:

:03:

Paul Riley

07-29-11, 07:45 AM

STEED

07-29-11, 07:52 AM

1. ALIEN
2. ALIENS
3. SPLIT SECOND
4. DOWNFALL
5. THE LONGEST DAY
6. BRANINGAN
7. THE OMEGA MAN
8. SOYLENT GREEN
9. THE ODESSA FILE
10. THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD

Paul Riley

07-29-11, 07:59 AM

1. ALIEN
2. ALIENS
3. SPLIT SECOND
4. DOWNFALL
5. THE LONGEST DAY
6. BRANINGAN
7. THE OMEGA MAN
8. SOYLENT GREEN
9. THE ODESSA FILE
10. THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD

Nos 1 & 2 should be hard to beat :03:

Lionclaw

07-29-11, 08:09 AM

Dirty Harry
The Godfather
Rambo
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Warriors
Yes Man
The "Bourne trilogy"
A Knight's Tale
Dumb and Dumber
Goldfinger

Couldn't really rank them 1-10.

Dowly

07-29-11, 08:11 AM

3. SPLIT SECOND

Amazing flick! :rock:

frau kaleun

07-29-11, 08:22 AM

Ten is not a big enough number. But I'll list the first ten that come to mind.

Das Boot
Lawrence of Arabia
Groundhog Day
Star Wars
Yojimbo
Jaws
The Lion in Winter
The Great Dictator
Seven Samurai
Kung Fu Panda

Herr-Berbunch

07-29-11, 08:27 AM

@FK which Star Wars? Surely not the entire double-trilogy? I nearly put Episode V down but then changed it for Naked. Please tell me it's not in the range I-III. :hmmm:

frau kaleun

07-29-11, 08:39 AM

@FK which Star Wars? Surely not the entire double-trilogy? I nearly put Episode V down but then changed it for Naked. Please tell me it's not in the range I-III. :hmmm:

Lol, I think for anyone like me who saw the first film in the theater in 1977, "Star Wars" means the movie that is now called A New Hope.

Empire Strikes Back may be a better film in many ways but I think for me the first one will always be the sentimental favorite. I saw it so many times in 1977-78 that the original version was etched permanently into my brain... in fact I think there may be a whole lobe in there where it just runs on a continuous loop. :O:

Herr-Berbunch

07-29-11, 08:45 AM

Phew, thank goodness for that, for a moment I thought you'd succumb to the later crap. :yeah:

AVGWarhawk

07-29-11, 08:47 AM

No particular order:

Gladiator
Jaws
Star Wars
Smokey and the Bandit (Jack Gleason at his best)
All Jurassic Parks
All Indiana Jones (cept Temple of Doom)
Duel
Good Fellas
Terminator

frau kaleun

07-29-11, 08:55 AM

Phew, thank goodness for that, for a moment I thought you'd succumb to the later crap. :yeah:

I actually stood in line for several hours to buy tickets to Episode One, and saw it eight times, I think, in the first few days of its release. Three times just on the first day. Just missed a first midnight showing when the dude at the front of the other line bought the last ticket for it just as I moved up to the counter. And overall, I liked TPM. Part of it was the excitement of having a new SW film after all those years, I know. But I didn't even hate Jar Jar as much as some people did.

Especially in retrospect - after Eps 2 & 3 - TPM stands out as the best of the three prequels IMO. Even the kid actor "Annakin the Mannikin" looks halfway decent after the catastrophe that was his teenage counterpart. Not that I place a whole lot of the blame on the actors, I don't think Lucas really knows how to direct live human beings any more (if he ever did) and any actor who requires a lot of guidance from a director or is otherwise inexperienced will not fare well in that situation. Particularly given the crap dialogue they have to speak. :nope:

Paul Riley

07-29-11, 09:14 AM

danasan

07-29-11, 09:14 AM

Not in the correct order:

Lord Of The Rings
Once Upon A Time In The West
Platoon
Monsters
Pushing Hands (tu***299; sh***466;u) by Ang Lee
Das Boot
Seven
IP Man
Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa
Gladiator

AVGWarhawk

07-29-11, 09:15 AM

I actually stood in line for several hours to buy tickets to Episode One, and saw it eight times, I think, in the first few days of its release. Three times just on the first day. Just missed a first midnight showing when the dude at the front of the other line bought the last ticket for it just as I moved up to the counter. And overall, I liked TPM. Part of it was the excitement of having a new SW film after all those years, I know. But I didn't even hate Jar Jar as much as some people did.

Especially in retrospect - after Eps 2 & 3 - TPM stands out as the best of the three prequels IMO. Even the kid actor "Annakin the Mannikin" looks halfway decent after the catastrophe that was his teenage counterpart. Not that I place a whole lot of the blame on the actors, I don't think Lucas really knows how to direct live human beings any more (if he ever did) and any actor who requires a lot of guidance from a director or is otherwise inexperienced will not fare well in that situation. Particularly given the crap dialogue they have to speak. :nope:

Star Wars the first three are it for me. I never watched the prequel stuff. No interest. Heck, I watched the original Star Wars on the big screen when it came out. :DL Old school brother....

Rockstar

07-29-11, 09:21 AM

oooh oooh I wanna play

The Searchers
Zulu
Miracle
Enemy Below
Lawrence of Arabia
Marathon Man
Captain Ron
Kelly's Heroes
Underdog
The Great Race

though not a movie I have to give honorable mention to Sponge Bob Squarepants 'The Camping Episode'.

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Herr-Berbunch

07-29-11, 09:54 AM

So, Paul, you're shifting the goalposts to 20?

After careful deliberation, these are in no particular order...

11. Funeral in Berlin
12. The Usual Suspects
13. The 39 Steps
14. Tora! Tora! Tora!
15. An Ungentlemanly Act
16. La Haine
17. North by Northwest
18. Battle Royale
19. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
20. Twin Town

:D

Oh, and then Rockstar had to mention Zulu :damn: Can we make it 30?

flatsixes

07-29-11, 10:03 AM

Lawrence of Arabia
The Godfather
The Godfather II
Saving Private Ryan
The Third Man
Memento
Run, Lola, Run
The Seven Samurai
High Noon
Double Indemnity

Crap. Can I get another ten?

Herr-Berbunch

07-29-11, 10:05 AM

Crap. Can I get another ten?

UPDATE - I shall increase this list to 20,there are just too many good AND sadly awfully SH#T films out there,mainly the new films today :nope:

Yes :yep:

Growler

07-29-11, 10:06 AM

In no particular order, the ten that go in the car rather than the truck the next time I move:

ALIENS
12 Angry Men (1957)
The Truman Show
Groundhog Day
Kelly's Heroes
Smoke Signals
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Better Off Dead
The Abyss
Gettysburg

flatsixes

07-29-11, 10:22 AM

Another ten (thanks)

The Departed
Strangers On A Train
Rear Window (Grace Kelly at 23 years old stops my heart.)
The Big Lebowski
The Searchers
Reservoir Dogs
Good Fellas
Dr Strangelove
Full Metal Jacket

Please let me know when you've raised the limit again. :D

Paul Riley

07-29-11, 10:41 AM

UPDATE - I shall increase this list to 20,there are just too many good AND sadly awfully SH#T films out there,mainly the new films today :nope:

YET ANOTHER UPDATE! - Just name every great film you've seen in your entire existence on this ball of iron,rock & gas!,in a long drawn out list,below your top 20 would be ideal :nope:;)

krashkart

07-29-11, 11:37 AM

YET ANOTHER UPDATE! - Just name every great film you've seen in your entire existence on this ball of iron,rock & gas!,in a long drawn out list,below your top 20 would be ideal :nope:;)

You should set a reasonable limit of say, oh I dunno, somewhere between 20 and 40.000e64. :yep:

Paul Riley

07-29-11, 11:41 AM

You should set a reasonable limit of say, oh I dunno, somewhere between 20 and 40.000e64. :yep:

I know :dead::yep:

flatsixes

07-29-11, 11:46 AM

I slept through "When Harry Met Sally" once. Loved it.

Takeda Shingen

07-29-11, 12:14 PM

Seven Samurai
The Big Lebowski
Leon
The Thin Red Line
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Pulp Fiction
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Great Escape
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

danasan

07-29-11, 12:19 PM

11. Léon by Luc Besson >>> that is my all-time-number-one
12. Shaft (old)
13. Shaft (new)
14. Mississippi Burning
15. The Green Mile
16. Philadelphia
17. The Time Machine (old one)
18. King Kong (1976)
19. Matrix

krashkart

07-29-11, 12:23 PM

Adding another one to my list:

The Music Lovers, starring Richard Chamberlain. Good film! :DL

Sailor Steve

07-29-11, 01:52 PM

I define "favorite" as movies I can watch over and over again, and do.

The Three Musketeers (1974) and The Four Musketeers (1975) (They really are one movie)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Battle Of Britain
The Longest Day
Casablanca
Das Boot
Superman (1978)
The Train
Flight Of The Phoenix (original, with Jimmy Stewart)
The Caine Mutiny
Big Jake
Gettysburg
Glory
The Red Badge Of Courage (original, with Audie Murphy)
Wings (1927)
The Long Riders
Tombstone
Support Your Local Sheriff
Grand Prix
The Racers

sidslotm

11-28-11, 10:25 AM

And not forgetting that time honoured favorit, "The land that time forgot" with probably the best actor ever, Doug McClure.

I know, I know, but when the pressure is on, when your overwhelmed, when all around you fails and you stare into the abyss. Put this film on and a new perspective confronts you, problems melt away, you are in harmony with all things. :up:

I thought I'd get the hang of it all one day, but I never did. :rock:

Oberon

11-28-11, 11:26 AM

Hmmm

1. Gandhi
2. The Longest Day
3. The Battle of Britain
4. Thirteen Days
5. Hunt for Red October
6. For a Few Dollars More
7. Leon
8. Sherlock Holmes (2010)
9. Twister
10. The Titfield Thunderbolt (a real classic)

joegrundman

11-28-11, 11:49 AM

top ten defined as films i've seen most often - which isn't really the same as films i think of as most brilliant, just most what i can watch when filled with ennui:

1. conan the barbarian
2. payback
3. a better tomorrow
4. terminator
5. wicker man
6. the good, the bad and the ugly
7. black hawk down
8. third man
9. master and commander
10. full metal jacket

kranz

11-28-11, 12:13 PM

without any particular order.

1.Gladiator
2.Dirty Harry
3.Training Day
4.The Great Escape
5.Papilon
6.Saving Private Ryan
7.Stalingrad (not to be confused with Enemy at the Gates, also good but not on my top 10)
8.Trainspotting
9. Demony Wojny wg Goi (a Polish movie about the war in Yugoslavia)
10. every movie with Edward Norton except for Fight Club.

Raptor1

11-28-11, 12:45 PM

Ah, necromancy; humanity's finest asset!

Hmm, let's see. Excepting those I obviously forgot about and in no particular order:

1. Star Wars (The only one which I probably won't count is Episode I)
2. Kara no Kyoukai (All 7 movies)
3. All Quiet on the Western Front
4. Tora! Tora! Tora!
5. A Bridge Too Far
6. Master and Commander
7. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

...I think that's all I can come up with for now...

Oberon

11-28-11, 01:05 PM

2. Kara no Kyoukai (All 7 movies)

*Bookmarks*

What about 'Knocking on Heavens Door' of Bebop? I thought that was quite the Tour de Force, got me into the series. :yep:

Raptor1

11-28-11, 01:09 PM

I've (unfortunately) never seen it or the series. I keep telling myself I should, but I never get around to actually doing it...

Osmium Steele

11-28-11, 01:48 PM

I agree with Frau, 10 is not a big enough number. My top 5 are set in stone, after that things get kind of fluid. At the moment:

1. My Favorite Year
2. Apollo 13
3. Gettysburg
4. Ran
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
6. Serenity
7. Animal House
8. The Last Starfighter
9. Tora! Tora! Tora!
10. The Blood of Heroes

Ooh, I can go to 20 now? Sweet!

11. The Producers (both versions for different reasons)
12. Blade Runner
13. Caddyshack
14. Blazing Saddles
15. Episode IV
16. Alien/s
17. The Exorcist
18. The Fast & The Furious
19. The Right Stuff
20. A Bridge Too Far

*sigh* Seven Samurai and Yojimbo should be in there somewhere... :yep:

ajrimmer42

11-28-11, 02:11 PM

Just reel a few of mine off, couldn't possibly put them in any order:

Full Metal Jacket
Platoon
Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker
The Boondock Saints
The Boondock Saints II
Das Boot
LOTR
Hitchhiker's Guide
Withnail & I (probably would be my all time favourite if I had to choose one)
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (others are good but you can't beat the so-bad-it's-good acting in the first:haha:)
Saving Private Ryan
Toy Story
Band of Brothers
Die Hard Trilogy
Johnny English (massively underrated imo)
Four Lions (Rubber dingy rapids bro :haha: filmed right here in my home town)
POTC
Wanted
City of Ember
Threads (If there ever was a film you should be required to watch by law it's Threads. Another one filmed in Sheffield. Quite disturbing when you live here in fact. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/)
The Full Monty (yet another Steel City classic)
The Navigators (My friend was in this when she was 9 :D again, filmed in Sheffield lol)

Dowly

11-28-11, 02:39 PM

Some flicks I've seen after my first reply that I thought were good:

- Zatoichi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zatoichi#List_of_original_films) series (the original ones with Shintaro Katsu)
- Sharpe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_%28TV_series%29) movies, have seen 8 of them so far and they be good. :yep:
- Flesh+Blood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesh_%26_Blood_%28film%29), cheesy, but still entertaining plus it has Rutger Hauer
- The Name of the Rose (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name_of_the_Rose_%28film%29), it was ok, always nice to see Connery's flicks I've missed.
- The Room (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room_%28film%29), for those days when you feel down, pop in The Room and you instantly feel better knowing that there will always be someone who sucks more than you: Tommy Wiseau.

Raptor1

11-28-11, 02:44 PM

- Sharpe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_%28TV_series%29) movies, have seen 8 of them so far and they be good. :yep:

That's another thing I have to watch at some point. I've read some of the novels and they're excellent.

ajrimmer42

11-28-11, 02:58 PM

Reminds me lol, add Hornblower to my list, wonderful series. :rock:

Jimbuna

11-28-11, 04:19 PM

That's another thing I have to watch at some point. I've read some of the novels and they're excellent.

They are well worth viewing :yep:

Falkirion

11-28-11, 05:56 PM

Too many to name.

Star Wars (All 6 have their ups and downs, downs more prelevant in Ep 2)
Das Boot
LOTR
Avatar
Scott Pilgrim vs the World (Though I prefer the novels to the movie)
POTC Curse of the Black Pearl and Worlds end. DMC and FOY weren't as good.
Metal Gear Solid 3 (MGS is pretty much a movie in game form)
Terminator 2
Any movie by Kevin Smith (Mallrats, Clerks 1 & 2 etc)
Sin City
Predator

Can't think of anything else at the moment. I tend to watch more TV series and anime than movies.

Kongo Otto

11-28-11, 06:25 PM

Bullitt
Das Boot
Walking tall (the 1973 one)
Tora Tora Tora
The Sand pebbles
The Omega Man
All the President's Men
Marathon Man
The Godfather 1 & 2
All Quiet on the Western Front (the 1930 Original

Thats my Movie top ten.

There are many more, but as the list is limited to 10.

1480

11-28-11, 09:09 PM

My list needs to be broken down into periods of time and genres, since I have a lot of films that fall into those categories. I could sit here all day and do top ten lists of each genre etc so here is the abridged list if I were to end up on an island:

10. Halloween (John Carpenter's)
09. Dr. Strangelove
08. Best in Show
07. M*A*S*H
06. Seven Samurai
05. Slapshot
04. Unforgiven
03. North by Northwest.
02. Arsenic and Old Lace
01. Das Boot

Torvald Von Mansee

11-29-11, 11:15 AM

Talking off the top of my head, in no particular order:

Natural Born Killers
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Castle in the Sky Laputa
The Ghost in the Shell
Hero (Zhang Yimou one)
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey
three other movies the names of which escape me

Biggles

11-29-11, 11:44 AM

Can't really come up with a good order, but here are some good movies in my opinion:

There Will Be Blood. Absolutely fantastic movie. One of few I honored with a second watch on the big screen.

Der Untergang. Some might know it as "Downfall", the movie about Hitler's last ten days in life. Great movie all the way through, and it led to one of my favorite internet memes: the Hitler Parodies! :D

Schindler's List. Incredibly moving, and utterly horrifying.

Up by Pixar. Great looking and amazing soundtrack, and thoroughly enjoyable.

Star Wars IV Very fond of Ep. IV, I love them all, but IV is special for me for some reason...

Dowly

01-10-12, 01:29 AM

Watched The Blue Max (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060177/) last night.

It's about this german soldier (Stachel) who has served for two years in the infantry and transfers to
the Air Service in hopes to get the 20 kills required for the Pour le Mérite, he is
kinda like.. err.. whatshisface from Cross of Iron who's there just to get the medal.

Mmm... that's pretty much all I got out of it, fell asleep around the middle part.
The flying scenes were pretty nice, lots of WWI planes to look at. Oh and there's
this scene where Ursula Andress is showing a lot of sideboob action, so that
was good too. :yep:

Aaanywho, might be worth checking out if you're into WWI air war. :up:

HunterICX

01-10-12, 06:11 AM

Well here they are in no particular order.

1. The Longest Day
2. Terminator 2
3. Starwars Episode V: Empire Strikes Back
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
5. Leon
6. Elle s'appelait Sarah (Sarah's Key)
7. Sin City
8. L'affaire Farewell
9. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
10. Sherlock Holmes

HunterICX

Jimbuna

01-10-12, 08:16 AM

Watched The Blue Max (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060177/) last night.

You fell asleep! :o

So you missed the part where he crashed and died at the end? :DL

Osmium Steele

01-10-12, 08:24 AM

You didn't say SPOILER ALERT!!!

Dowly

01-10-12, 08:59 AM

Guess I'm not going to watch it to the end tonight, then.

Herr-Berbunch

01-10-12, 09:39 AM

Guess I'm not going to watch it to the end tonight, then.

I bet you do, just for the sideboobs :yeah:

Best I could get, sorry.

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antikristuseke

01-10-12, 10:12 AM

Most of my favorites have already been mentioned, but I'd like to add Layer Cake and Drive to the list.

Dowly

01-10-12, 10:14 AM

I bet you do, just for the sideboobs :yeah:

Best I could get, sorry.

http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/5618/ua1m.jpghttp://img259.imageshack.us/img259/9093/ua2v.jpg

Got your back :yeah:

http://i1183.photobucket.com/albums/x462/Dowly/Ursula_Andress_1.jpg

http://i1183.photobucket.com/albums/x462/Dowly/Ursula_Andress_2.jpg

Sailor Steve

01-10-12, 10:28 AM

You fell asleep! :o

So you missed the part where he crashed and died at the end? :DL
You need to read the book. The movie is fairly faithful until the end, which is vastly different, and much more horrifying.

Herr-Berbunch

01-10-12, 11:14 AM

Thank you Dowly :yeah:

Jimbuna

01-10-12, 11:18 AM

You need to read the book. The movie is fairly faithful until the end, which is vastly different, and much more horrifying.

Never read the book but I thought the film ending was quite good.

Skybird

01-10-12, 11:36 AM

These movies had an impact in my life that lasted, but more movies that impressed or moved me as well could also be mentioned, in fact such "top lists" do injustice to the sheer quantity and diversity of good stuff in the given category:

2001
Blade Runner
Stalker
My father's glory + My mother's castle
Gladiator
Lord of the rings
Why has Bodhidharma left for the East?
City lights
Winterschläfer/Wintersleeper
The thin red line
Choice of arms
Star Wars
High noon
The big Blue

Many may have been forgottewn since they appeared once on TV, and then never no more. And I love that Czech movie of Little Mermaid they made in the 70s. Czech TV films fopr kids were frreat for some time: Pan Tau, The Visitors (not the US series!), Little Mermaid - they don't do such quality and humane stuff anymore. For kids, almost all is just crap, crap, and more crap.

Sailor Steve

01-10-12, 01:21 PM

Never read the book but I thought the film ending was quite good.
Get the book. Your opinion will change dramatically.

Egan

01-10-12, 01:22 PM

Mine? Here you go:
5. Man Bites Dog (I doubt many will have seen this one...)

Ah yes, the Belgian serial killer flick. Quite possibly the most violent Palm D'or winner ever. I used to love it when I was younger. I first saw it at a friend's house where he put this on followed by the original (Keitel version) of The Bad Lieutenant. That was a night.....:timeout:

OK, my turn. Bear in mind that on a different day, there might be different entries..

1: Night on Earth
2: Kelly's Heroes
3: Das Boot
4: La Haine
5: Glen Garry Glenross
6: Kind Hearts and Coronets
7: Raiders of the Lost Ark
8: Withnail and I
9: Goodfellas
10: Pale Rider

Honorable mentions also go to The Thing, because it's ace, Cinema Paradisa, for making me cry like a little girl in the final act no matter how often I see it, and There Will Be Blood, for totally blowing me away.

I left Star Wars out because I was so young when I first saw it and it was such a big part of my life I think the whole thing has transcended favourite movie status into something more akin to a major cultural landmark for me. I like all six, by the way, idiot frog people included.

Egan

01-10-12, 01:23 PM

Get the book. Your opinion will change dramatically.

True that, Very true. Excellent movie, even better read.

I was thinking, by the way, a list of our top ten least favourite films might be interesting....

Bilge_Rat

01-10-12, 04:46 PM

my interest is more in filmakers than specific films, anything by Kubrick is a must, although David Fincher, Scorsese, Coppola, Eastwood, Malick and the Coen Brothers are consistently good.

my current top ten would be:

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Tree of Life
3. Apocalypse Now
4. Lawrence of Arabia
5. Il Divo
6. Goldfinger
7. Raging Bull
8. Zodiac
9. The Hurt Locker
10. Inglorious Basterds

u crank

01-10-12, 05:20 PM

It's hard to narrow it to ten, but these are films I have watched at least three times.

In no particular order....

No country for old men
The Missouri breaks
The way back
The proposition
Murphy's war
Winter's bone
Snatch
There will be blood
Twelve monkeys
Full metal jacket

Non movie favorites...

Generation kill
Breaking bad
Battlestar Gallactica, the new one.

Jimbuna

01-10-12, 05:47 PM

Get the book. Your opinion will change dramatically.

Possibly but as a movie (based on my location) I'll offer:

Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120735/quotes

clive bradbury

01-10-12, 06:22 PM

I know that we are talking favourites, not 'best ever' films, and that brings personal taste into it but...

'The thin red line'? - could never get into that film over two attempts - give me 'Cross of Iron' every time...

Many already mentioned (e.g. Godfather, Blade Runner) would be on my list, so I offer two more:

Fitzcarraldo
Raging Bull

Sailor Steve

01-11-12, 03:10 AM

Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
:yep:

Not on my list, but quite good. :rock:

THE_MASK

01-11-12, 04:30 AM

I have only ever seen these movies at the movie theatre .
Towering inferno
Star Wars in 1977
Jurasic park
Stuart little

I like the old biblical movies .

kiwi_2005

01-11-12, 11:34 AM

The Men who stare at Goats
Moon
Schindler's List
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Cargo
Saving private ryan
The fortress war
Kung fu hustle
Downfall
Napoleon Dynamite

Herr-Berbunch

01-11-12, 11:55 AM

Ah yes, the Belgian serial killer flick. Quite possibly the most violent Palm D'or winner ever. I used to love it when I was younger. I first saw it at a friend's house where he put this on followed by the original (Keitel version) of The Bad Lieutenant. That was a night.....

I'm glad someone else likes it, thought I was just a bit odd. :D

And Bad Lieutenant :rock:, although I can't bring myself to knowingly watch the Nicholas Cage 'rethought' version. Or anything with Cage in really.

Nice to see La Haine on your list too, can't remember if it was on my list but I had on VHS, I think I still have somewhere if it survived the cull...

Egan

01-11-12, 02:24 PM

I love La Haine. Really, really love it. Haven't watched it for a while but I might dig it out this weekend.

Agiel7

01-11-12, 04:12 PM

Apocalypse Now
Heat
Collateral
The Godfather Part II
Blade Runner
Lost in Translation
Groundhog Day
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Waltz with Bashir
The Thin Red Line

I cannot believe that the unbridled brilliance of Michael Mann's films haven't been mentioned until now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oTNNjRuqbE&feature=related

Dowly

01-11-12, 04:20 PM

I cannot believe that the unbridled brilliance of Michael Mann's films haven't been mentioned until now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oTNNjRuqbE&feature=related

I liked it, but didn't think it was anything special other than having a great chase scene. :hmmm:

momo55

01-11-12, 08:52 PM

In no particular order :

- La vita è bella (Life is beautiful) (1997)
- La guerre du feu (quest for fire) (1981) ( no subtitles needed with this movie )
- Das boot
- Schindler's List
- La grande vadrouille (Don't look : we're being shot at) (1966)
- The battle of the Bulge
- A man called horse (1970)
- Dances with wolves
- Enemy at the gates
- The pianist