[Googer-Giger]

Yeah, I saw the bad movies thread, so post your top 5 or 10 favorite movies of all time. If you have one clear winner, than just post 1.

1: Scarface.
2:Matrix, the second 2 sucked!
3:Stand By Me.
4: Schindler's List
5: Master and Commander: The far side of the world.
6: Borne Identity.
7: Kung Pow: Enter the Fist.
8: Back to the future Part 2.
9: Spiderman 1 (2 wasn't as good).
10:The Lord Of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

[aberdeenwriter]

Pulp Fiction
Groundhog Day
The Last Samurai
Casablanca
Apocalypse Now
The Godfather trilogy
Leaving Las Vegas
Taxi Driver
Singin' in the Rain
The Maltese Falcon
Silence of the Lambs
American Graffiti
Duck Soup
Used Cars
Sands of Iwo Jima
The Day of the Jackal (the original)
The Thomas Crown Affair (the original)
From Here to Eternity
Dr. Strangelove
His Girl Friday
There's Something About Mary
Goldfinger (The Sean Connery 007 Series)
Chinatown
Dirty Harry
Bridges of Madison County
Top Gun
The Terminator (series)
All The President's Men
Fargo
The Usual Suspects
Die Hard (series)
Lethal Weapon (series)
Training Day
Full Metal Jacket
Saving Private Ryan
The Right Stuff
The Karate Kid I & II
L.A. Confidential (thanks to sek929 for the reminder!)
FIGHT CLUB! (Jeez! How could I have forgotten this one? )
Annie Hall
Master and Commander: The far side of the world.
Borne Identity I & II
Rocky
BOWFINGER (The funniest movie on my list!)
To Live & Die in L.A.
House of Games
Das Boot

I'm loving this thread because it's making me think about films I haven't seen in a while which are real gems. One VERY underrated or overlooked film is from 1942 and starring the beautiful and extremely talented Carole Lombard (the wife of screen idol, Clark Gable) in her last movie before dying in a plane crash coming home from a war bond drive and comedian, Jack Benny. "To Be or Not to Be" is a VERY funny film but one which is filled with real drama and suspense and the two stars were never better, their talents are perfectly showcased in this film. If you ever wondered what made these two celebrities as popular as they were, you'll understand after watching this terrific film. The script is electrically vibrant and intelligent and VERY funny and it is directed by Hollywood legend Ernst Lubitsch. Anyone who doesn't think Jack Benny was a very solid actor should watch this. If you can find this at your local video store you will really enjoy it!

"To Be Or Not To Be" (1942)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035446/

Starman

[loki74]

Well I don't really have favorites per se (to me a good film is a good film) but I did especially enjoy:

(in no particular order)

- The Rock
- Rush Hour 1 & 2
- Along Came a Spider
- Serenity
- Some Like It Hot
- The Incredibles
- Star Wars (all of 'em)
- North By Northwest
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (the original)
- National Treasure

seriously though, I'll watch just about anything; it has to be pretty much total and utter crap for me to really find nothing redeemable about it. And unfortunately, there are those out there...

[paul w]

Off the top of my head, in no particular order:

1. The Blue Brothers
2. Paper Moon
3. The Empire Strikes back
4. Broadway Danny Rose
5. Spirited Away

[rickey939]

1.) Hoosiers
2.) Hoosiers
3.) Hoosiers
4.) Hoosiers
5.) Hoosiers

[Googer-Giger]

The Blues Brother's was great, I also forgot School of Rock, damnit, why can't videogames now be as good as music.

Notice I did say "now", because they're really aren't any good ones out now, ugh, I will start a new thread for this!

[macfantn]

Pulp Fiction
True Romance
Memento
The Game
South Park
Clerks
Shaun of the Dead
Office Space
Scarface
Goodfellas

[Googer-Giger]

Clerks 2 comes out soon.

[sek929]

The Shining
Pulp Fiction
Dawn of the Dead (original)
Alien
A Clockwork Orange
F.M.J. (I know, I'm a Kubrick nut)
The Big Lebowski
Snatch
Spaceballs
L.A. Confidential
Office Space

My list goes up to 11

[BRussell]

Nice choices abe. I'll pick mine from yours.

Originally Posted by aberdeenwriter

The Godfather trilogy
The Terminator (just 1 and 2)
Fargo
The Usual Suspects

But I'd also have to thrown in:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (much better than the Da Vinci Code )
Annie Hall
Star Wars
Rocky
Jaws

I'm a sucker for the 1970s.

[bembol]

Back to the Future
The Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction
21 Grams
Crash (Paul Haggis)
Groundhog Day
Traffic
Clerks
Die Hard
Forrest Gump

[lpkmckenna]

This is a list of movies I unreservedly recommend to anyone. There are lots of movies I enjoy that I recognize lack universal appeal and/or are pretty flawed (like Star Wars). This is pretty close to my vision of "must-see" films.

In no particular order:

The Shawshank Redemption
Girl, Interrupted
Se7en
Rob Roy
The Matrix
The Professional
Amadeus
The Killing Fields
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Usual Suspects
anything by Pixar

I'm missing a lot of "classic" films because I haven't seen them in many years, and I think everybody already knows you gotta see Citizen Kane and Casablanca.

[rickey939]

Originally Posted by rickey939

1.) Hoosiers
2.) Hoosiers
3.) Hoosiers
4.) Hoosiers
5.) Hoosiers

I agree, I also like "Hoosiers" as well.

[Ghoser777]

Originally Posted by sek929

My list goes up to 11

And Spinal Tap isn't even in your list...

[aberdeenwriter]

Originally Posted by BRussell

Nice choices abe. I'll pick mine from yours.

But I'd also have to thrown in:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (much better than the Da Vinci Code )
Annie Hall
Star Wars
Rocky
Jaws

I'm a sucker for the 1970s.

Thanks! And sometimes when a movie becomes so popular I forget the impact or the quality of the experience over time. I think I'll add some from your list, too!

As well as the OP's.

[badidea]

Originally Posted by sek929

I'm a Kubrick nut

seconded

[Doofy]

Favourites:

Three Colours Red.
Dekalog.
The Breakfast Club.

Worth a mention:

Meet Joe Black.
Caddyshack.
Animal House.
Bubble Boy.
Flight Of The Phoenix (original).
Where Eagles Dare.
American Graffiti.
Ben Hur.
El Cid.
Tremors.
Critters.

[red rocket]

2001
A Clockwork Orange
Lord of Illusions (Director's Cut)
Fight Club
LOTR (Extended Edition)
The Matrix
A Beautiful Mind
The Last Samurai
eXistenZ
As Good As It Gets

[lurkalot]

Expired

[Dakar]

Originally Posted by rickey939

I agree, I also like "Hoosiers" as well.

You must love March Madeness.

Originally Posted by Doofy

Favourites:

Three Colours Red.
Dekalog.
The Breakfast Club.

Worth a mention:

Meet Joe Black.
Caddyshack.
Animal House.
Bubble Boy.
Flight Of The Phoenix (original).
Where Eagles Dare.
American Graffiti.
Ben Hur.
El Cid.
Tremors.
Critters.

One of these sticks out like a sore thumb...

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by Dakar

One of these sticks out like a sore thumb...

Eclectic tastes.

[Dakar]

Originally Posted by Doofy

Eclectic tastes.

That's something I would say.


Maybe its a good movie, but I couldn't get into it when I watched it. Also Jake Gylanhaaaaalllllllalalalal.

The more amusing thing is I can't claim to have watched any movie on your list in its entirety (except tremors and BFC is close...), though there's probably 5 I wouldn't mind catching.

[Gossamer]

The Emperor's New Groove
Matrix
Gone in Sixty Seconds
Transporter (2 more than 1, they were good for the excitement factor, not much else)
Unbreakable
Anything Pixar, especially Cars and The Incredibles

plenty more...

[Y3a]

Day the Earth Stood Still
Beast From 20 Thousand Fathoms
Dirty Dozen
Big Lebowski
Blood Simple
Star Wars-Empire Strikes Back
Alien
Aliens
Flim-Flam Man
Dr. Strangelove
5th Element
12 O'Clock High
Mighty Joe Young(1948 version)
Harry Potter series
John Carpenters "The Thing"
True Lies
The Emperor of the North
Friday
Raiders of the Lost Arc
Maltese Falcon
High Plains Drifter
Hang 'em High
Bedazzled(1968)
The Good, Bad, and Ugly
The Green Mile
Braveheart
X-Men series
20 Million Miles to Earth
This Island Earth(NOT MST2K version)

Towed in a Hole (Laurel & Hardy)

[blackstar]

1) Good Fellas
2) A Bronx Story
3) Catch me if you can
4) White men can't jump
5) The Shawshank redemption

[Hawkeye_a]

1. Forrest Gump
2. Magnolia
3. Schindler's List
4. Dances With Wolves
5. Braveheart

Worthy contendors:
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The Godfather (all 3)
L.A. Confidential
Boogie Nights
Punch Drunk Love
Gladiator
Toy Story
Spirited Away
Lord of the Rings (all of em)
Cinema Paradiso
The Sword in the Stone

[osiris]

(in no order)

The Third Man
2001: A Space Odyssey
Citizen Kane
The Shining
Airplane!

and a few more...

Bladerunner
The Matrix
Star Wars
The Godfather
Goodfellas/Casino
Finding Neverland
A Clockwork Orange
THX-1138
Soylent Green
Jaws
The Gumball Rally
Brazil
Snatch
Fight Club
1941

[Dakar]

Originally Posted by Hawkeye_a

Punch Drunk Love

Nice.

[Monique]

The Godfather part 1 and 2
Lost in Translation
Pulp Fiction
Anything by the Coen brothers
Sixth Sense
The Game
Fight Club
Pride and Prejudice (because I am a female)
Cyrano de Bergerac (French one with Depardieu)
Henry V (with Ken Brannagh)
The Phantom of the Opera (the 2005 version)
Saving Private Ryan
Munich

[Gossamer]

Originally Posted by Monique

Lost in Translation........Sooooo boring

Pride and Prejudice (because I am a female)........so I can't like it?

Munich...........I slept through most of it.

.

[Landos Mustache]

1) Batman Begins
2) The Abyss
3) Aliens
4) Gattaca
5) The life Aquatic

[Eug Wanker]

A few of my favourite movies

Tampopo
Hero
Brazil
Spirited Away
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Blade Runner
The Killing Fields
Gandhi
Dr. Strangelove
The Party
The Elephant Man
Oldboy
Dumplings
Fargo
Sling Blade
Ikiru
The Terminator
Harold and Maude
Reservoir Dogs
Raging Bull
Shaolin Soccer (original version preferred)

...and lots of others...

[cszar2001]

Dr. Strangelove
The Matrix
Lord of War
Blues Brothers
Groundhog Day
The Great Dictator

[Dakar]

Originally Posted by cszar2001

The Great Dictator

There's a movie you don't hear people mention too often. Good stuff, though.

[blackstar]

Originally Posted by Dakar

There's a movie you don't hear people mention too often. Good stuff, though.

hell yeah its awesome

[Nexus5]

(in no order)

- Blade Runner
- Fight Club
- The Game
- 21 Grams
- Aliens
- Casino
- Training Day
- Apocalypse Now
- Dirty Harry
- Collateral
- American Beauty
- Absolute Giganten
- Star Wars
- The Fog

[Landos Mustache]

I don't get the whole bladerunner thing. I've seen it a few times although the first time was in the late 90's, perhaps I just had to be there.

[Dakar]

Originally Posted by Eug Wanker

The Party

Whoa! I completely missed this! Birdie num num?

[exca1ibur]

- Scarface
- BladeRunner
- Full Metal Jacket
- Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- Training Day
- Empire Strikes Back
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- The Matrix
- Aliens
- The Thing
- Blade 1 & 2
- Vertigo
- Hero
- Enter The Dragon
- The Terminator 1 & 2
- Batman Begins
- Spiderman
- Shawshank Redemption
- The Last Samurai
- Se7en
- Glory

All I can think of so far

[RAILhead]

No one's listed Ghostbusters? How old are you people?

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

I don't get the whole bladerunner thing. I've seen it a few times although the first time was in the late 90's, perhaps I just had to be there.

You have to watch the original (with voiceover) first, then the director's cut (without voiceover). Then you'll get it.

[Landos Mustache]

Originally Posted by Doofy

You have to watch the original (with voiceover) first, then the director's cut (without voiceover). Then you'll get it.

I have the DVD so I'll check which I have.

Voiceover or not I don't think it will make it any more exciting. I mean you can see the cables holding up the flying police cars in most shots.

[Dakar]

Originally Posted by RAILhead

No one's listed Ghostbusters? How old are you people?

I'd disagree with you but since everyone is listing eleventy million titles you probably have a point.

[Eug Wanker]

Voiceover or not I don't think it will make it any more exciting.

The voiceover for Blade Runner was idiotic. I thought so at the theatre too the first time I saw it, cuz it just assumed everyone in the theatre was a moron. The Director's Cut is MUCH better, although it's partially because the ending is different too.

I mean you can see the cables holding up the flying police cars in most shots.

Actually, I never saw the cables in the theatre. I only noticed them on the DVD.

It's like those special effects in the original Star Trek. On TV the engineering room data board looked like flashing lights. On the DVD, it looks like a painted board sliding back and forth behind holes in the wall, which it is. Nonetheless, the original Star Trek still rocks.

[aberdeenwriter]

Originally Posted by Landos Mustache

I have the DVD so I'll check which I have.

Voiceover or not I don't think it will make it any more exciting. I mean you can see the cables holding up the flying police cars in most shots.

Don't feel badly, Landos. I don't get 2001.

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by Eug Wanker

The voiceover for Blade Runner was idiotic. I thought so at the theatre too the first time I saw it, cuz it just assumed everyone in the theatre was a moron. The Director's Cut is MUCH better, although it's partially because the ending is different too.

Point proven. But you have to watch the original first (as you, and I expect every other fan, did). If you don't the full greatness of the director's cut doesn't shine through.

[kaze0]

Mean Girls, Bring It On, Fight Club, Jack Frost, Nightmare on Elm Street, Rear Window

[Eug Wanker]

Originally Posted by Doofy

Point proven. But you have to watch the original first (as you, and I expect every other fan, did). If you don't the full greatness of the director's cut doesn't shine through.

Yeah, I still remember thinking in the theatre... "WTF is it with this stupid voiceover, and why the sappy ending?" Then the DC came out.

I never did like that kiss scene though. Too melodramatic.



The captain was too melodramatic too.



Darryl Hannah and Rutger Hauer rocked though.



P.S. Landos, one of the reasons I liked it was because it was a visually beautiful fusion of action and sci-fi, while trying to tackle a very interesting subject, all in a very non-Hollywood dystopian setting. Remember, this is a movie from 1982. Star Wars came out only 5 years earlier, and Alien just 3 years earlier.

I look forward to the Special Edition (if it ever sees the light of day).

[aberdeenwriter]

Originally Posted by Eug Wanker

P.S. Landos, one of the reasons I liked it was because it was a visually beautiful fusion of action and sci-fi, while trying to tackle a very interesting subject, all in a very non-Hollywood dystopian setting. Remember, this is a movie from 1982. Star Wars came out only 5 years earlier, and Alien just 3 years earlier.

[Landos Mustache]

Originally Posted by Eug Wanker

P.S. Landos, one of the reasons I liked it was because it was a visually beautiful fusion of action and sci-fi, while trying to tackle a very interesting subject, all in a very non-Hollywood dystopian setting. Remember, this is a movie from 1982. Star Wars came out only 5 years earlier, and Alien just 3 years earlier.

The name is Lando

Anywho, I like the way the movie was dark and somewhat interesting but I didn't think it was as mind blowing as many people think it was.

But again, I saw it for the first time in the 90's.