What are your top 10 favourite films?

[Paul Riley]

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

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
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]

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.

[krashkart]

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]

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

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]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

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

[Paul Riley]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

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

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)

You like your comedy then eh?.God the baked bean scene in Blazing Saddles nearly killed me
LMFAO! @ 0:36 - 0:37 ,those high pitched farts are just too funny!

[STEED]

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

[Egan]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

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.....

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.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Egan

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.

And Bad Lieutenant , 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...

[Lionclaw]

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.

[Paul Riley]

Originally Posted by Paul Riley

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

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
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)

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

[Paul Riley]

Originally Posted by Paul Riley

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

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

[krashkart]

Originally Posted by Paul Riley

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

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

[Paul Riley]

Originally Posted by krashkart

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

I know

[flatsixes]

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