Thank you Dowly :yeah:

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

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.

Get the book. Your opinion will change dramatically.

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.

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....

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

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.

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

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

:yep:

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

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 .

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

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...

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