favorite movies thread--top 10

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
ok, it's been awhile since we've had one like this, so...

time to throw it in again.

ok, in no particular order:



Tombstone (classic)

Fellowship of the Ring (incredible--not much explanation required)

Gattaca (inspiring--i don't know why, but i love it)

Super Troopers (simply hilarious)

Office Space (classic comedy)

K-PAX (probably my current favorite "serious" film)

Pulp Fiction (just a great movie)

Baseketball (silly, yet hilarious)

Tommy Boy (Farley at his best)

American History X (great movie and message to go along with it--Norton kicks ass)



honorable mention: The Count of Monte Cristo
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  • Reply 1 of 40
    wotanwotan Posts: 106member
    Some of my favorite films, in order:



    1. Dancer in the Dark

    2. Contact

    3. Weekend

    4. West Side Story

    5. Cremaster 3

    6. The Matrix

    7. Merci pour le chocolat

    8. Masculine-Feminine

    9. Koyaanisqatsi

    10. Metropolis



    Ahh... So many great places to see good films in New York!
  • Reply 2 of 40
    brussellbrussell Posts: 9,812member
    1. Titantic

    2. Harry Potter I

    3. Phantom Menace

    4. Jurassic Park

    5. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship

    6. Independence Day

    7. Spiderman

    8. Star Wars (the original)

    9. The Lion King

    10. ET



    OK, so these aren't MY favorites, but they're the top 10 highest-grossing films (worldwide), so somebody must like them.
  • Reply 3 of 40
    Should be top 50 for me...but here's a quicky list off the top of my head...



    1. Metropolis

    2. Citizen Kane

    3. Frankenstein (uncut)

    4. King Kong ('33 uncut)

    5. Maltese Falcon

    6. Apocolypse Now (director's cut)

    7. Taxi Driver

    8. Brazil

    9. Alien

    10. Matrix



    Wow, pretty dark stuff...let me add:



    1. The General (Buster Keaton)

    2. Night at the Opera (Marx Bros.)

    3. Bringing Up Baby (Grant/Hepburn)

    4. The Producers

    5. The Odd Couple

    6. Young Frankenstein

    7. The Disorderly Orderly

    8. M.A.S.H.

    9. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    10. There's Something About Mary



    and on and on and on...
  • Reply 4 of 40
    (I can't count to ten. My other hand is busy.)



    1. Better Off Dead

    2. Princess Bride

    3. Sound of Music

    4. My Fair Lady

    5. Die Hard



    Wait-- the other shoe is off!



    6. Airplane

    7. Holy Grail

    8. Predator

    9. Dawn of the Dead / Rocky Horror (it's the same movie to us when we watched them)

    10. the James Bond one where he almost dies but he tries to catch the bad guys with cool gadgets, but he almost dies, and then gets the cool chicks, but he almost dies, and then saves the world right after he almost dies, and then gets the girl.
  • Reply 5 of 40
    [quote]Originally posted by GardenOfEarthlyDelights:

    <strong>



    10. the James Bond one where he almost dies but he tries to catch the bad guys with cool gadgets, but he almost dies, and then gets the cool chicks, but he almost dies, and then saves the world right after he almost dies, and then gets the girl.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Hmmmmmmm I don't think I've seen that one.
  • Reply 6 of 40
    Gattaca (agreed, unexplainable favorite)

    Shawshank Redemption

    Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

    Star Trek VI: THe Undiscovered Country

    Harry Potter II

    LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring

    The Game

    Sphere

    Pelican Brief

    2001: A Space Oddyssey
  • Reply 7 of 40
    1. Evil Dead 2

    2. City of Lost Children

    3. Rushmore

    4. Tombstone

    5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    6. Alien

    7. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

    8. Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

    9. Magnolia

    10.Requiem for a Dream



    These are the ones that come to mind... in no particular order (except for Evil Dead 2)



    Edit: Fight Club and Three Kings should be in there somewhere.



    [ 12-10-2002: Message edited by: n a d n e r b ]</p>
  • Reply 8 of 40
    murbotmurbot Posts: 5,262member
    1. Slapshot

    2. Memento

    3. The Matrix

    4. Seven

    5. Evil Dead (all of them)

    6. Lost Highway

    7. Mulholland Drive (best lesbian scene EVAR)

    8. Pulp Fiction

    9. Game of Death

    10. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes



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  • Reply 8 of 40
    [quote]Originally posted by n a d n e r b:

    [QB]1. Evil Dead 2

    2. City of Lost Children

    3. Rushmore

    4. Tombstone

    5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    6. Alien

    7. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

    8. Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

    9. Magnolia

    10.Requiem for a Dream

    QB]<hr></blockquote>



    Uh...add those to my next list... :o The Professional, Snatch and 5th Element too! I CAN'T STOP! ...love movies... <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
  • Reply 10 of 40
    1)Fight Club

    2) The Matrix

    3) The Crow

    4) Monthy python and the holy grail

    5) Monthy python--and now for something completly different

    6)Monthy python- the meaning of life

    7) Full metal Jacket

    8) Big daddy

    9) Little Nicky

    10) Vampire hunter D- Blood Lust (if any one knows anime they should know this)
  • Reply 11 of 40
    like murbots list but would add these to be slightly more "artistic": (ps. these are movies i never get tired of watching)



    Aguirre: The Wraith of God

    The Stunt Man

    Lawrence of Arabia (hell, almost any Peter O'Toole movie)

    Blue Velvet (or any David Lynch)

    Dead Ringers (or any David Cronenberg)

    MP and the Holy Grail

    Dawn of the Dead

    Picnic at Hanging Rock

    Office Space

    Boogie Nights / The Princess Bride (actually the same movie if you watch closely)

    (and i liked some from last year: Amelie, Moulon Rouge....shit, i must be turning into a chick....)



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  • Reply 12 of 40
    rooroo Posts: 162member
    [quote]Originally posted by pyroMacbabe:

    <strong>

    10) Vampire hunter D- Blood Lust (if any one knows anime they should know this)</strong><hr></blockquote>



    saw it in the theatres, which rocked. my current list, in no particular order:



    la cite des enfants perdus (ah, freaky and dark)

    shinju ten no amijima (really beautiful, with a million layers of meaning)

    strictly ballroom ("is that scott dancing with fran?")

    diva (another beautiful film, complete with opera)

    party girl (parker posey at her best)

    galipoli (watched it in high school for a class, i was jumping up and down in my seat)

    brazil (a man swallowed by papers....)

    top hat (and every other fred and ginger movie... i wish i could dance like that)

    princess bride ('nuff said)

    hotaru no haka (makes me cry. a lot.)



    ... and ghost in the shell, tonari no totoro... and a million more, but this is a good, wide-ranging selection.
  • Reply 13 of 40
    ringoringo Posts: 329member
    1. Leon ("The Professional" uncut)

    2. Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi ("Spirited Away")

    3. Shawshank Redemption

    4. Fellowship of the Ring

    5. Office Space



    More to come.
  • Reply 13 of 40
    rooroo Posts: 162member
    [quote]Originally posted by thegelding:

    <strong>

    Picnic at Hanging Rock

    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    that movie freaks me out like nothing else. i get nightmares.
  • Reply 15 of 40
    • Shawn's Top 10 Movies:

    • Requiem for a Dream

    • Y Tu Mama Tambien

    • The Godfather

    • The Godfather, part II

    • Citizen Kane

    • La dolce vita

    • The Shawshank Redemption

    • The Matrix

    • The Fugitive

    • Roo and Jack- The Uncensored Tapes

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  • Reply 16 of 40
    in no particular order:

    Ordet-deep, moving Danish film

    The Seven Samurai-stars Toshiro Mifune, directed by Akira Kurosawa

    The Princess Bride

    North By Northwest

    LOTR

    MASH

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    The Matrix

    Rashomon-very disturbing movie, stars Toshiro Mifune, directed by Akira Kurosawa

    Arsenic and Old Lace-very amusing
  • Reply 17 of 40
    ariari Posts: 126member
    1. The Silence of the Lambs

    2. The Usual Suspects

    3. The Shining

    4. Take the Money and Run

    5. 2001: A Space Odyssey

    6. Annie Hall\t

    7. Sleeper

    8. A Fish Called Wanda

    9. Hannibal

    10. The Thin Red Line
  • Reply 18 of 40
    1. The Big Lebowski

    2. Bottle Rocket

    3. Rushmore

    4. The Royal Tenenbaums

    5. Amelie

    6. Surviving Desire

    7. The Spanish Prisoner

    8. Donnie Darko

    9. Kissing Jessica Stein

    10. Bring It On!
  • Reply 19 of 40
    I forgot about The Silence of the Lambs... What a classic.
  • Reply 20 of 40
    [quote]Originally posted by thegelding:

    <strong>

    Boogie Nights / The Princess Bride (actually the same movie if you watch closely)

    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    Boogie Nights IS my favorite movie. Could you explain what you mean? I don't see the parallel...
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