I would have liked Shakespeare in Love much more if they hadn't cut the original ending. They leave you guessing in the end, but with the original, they just go ahead and tell you the ending the way it should be.
I know that's six movies, and sorry there's no "oldies" in there. I honestly haven't seen many. Of everything I've seen (and remember), those six are my all-time favs.
EDIT: Does no one else like Schindler's List? Talk about a powerful movie!
Gee, reading everyone's list here, there are so many *really* good films. I hadn't quite realised.
But 2001: A Space Odyssey <a href="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0062622"; target="_blank">http://us.imdb.com/Title?0062622</a>; is definitely in my top five. It made an incredible impression on me when I first saw it. I came out of the cinema with my mouth wide open, as did everyone else.
A reviewer's comment from the above site:
2001 a space odyssey is the best film ever made.there is no other film like it and i suspect their never will be.this is a directors film with director as the star.the visual flair of the film as still to be matched despite all the technological innovations that have been invented since its making in 1968.there is very little dialogue in the film,just enough to structure the story the rest is left to polemic direction and perfectly choreographed sound and visuals,the use of music plays a very important roll in this film,with composers as diverse as Gyorgy Ligeti,Aram Khatchaturian,Johann Strauss and Richard Strauss when Ligeti's Atmospheres begins playing as Dave Bowman enters the stargate sequence is one of cinemas enduring images,which once seen is never forgotten,the whole film from start to finish is an extravaganza that assaults the senses.i have heard many people comment on how boring this film is,but after all you need a little imagination to appreciate the finer things in life and this is certainly one of them.a true classic.this is the sci-fi film all others use as a reference....in a nutshell the BEST.
<strong>I would have liked Shakespeare in Love much more if they hadn't cut the original ending. They leave you guessing in the end, but with the original, they just go ahead and tell you the ending the way it should be.</strong><hr></blockquote>
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1. Pink Flamingos
2. Blue Velvet
3. Fast Times At Ridgemont High
4. Rock N Roll High School
5. Rushmore
Strangely, I've never seen any of these movies on the big screen, only on video. I have watched all of these movies more than ten times though.
The Boondock Saints
Entropy
Blues Brothers
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Ghostbusters
Suicide Kings
Blade Runner
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Unforgiven
O Brother Where Art Thou
Brothers McMullen
12 Monkeys
Seven
To Kill a Mockingbird
Breakfast Club
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Clerks
The Sting
The Godfather
Melina
Swingers
Meatballs
Return to Paradise
Man Bites Dog
Nobody's Fool
American History X
Raiders of the Lost Ark
and about a hundred more...
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Tirez sur la Pianiste
Jules et Jim (Possibly the best French film ever.)
Lawrence of Arabia
Rear Window (Grace Kelly...Mmm...)
All About Eve
Blow Up (Unjustly obscure today, but still great.)
The Lady from Shanghai
Carnal Knowledge (Surprise! Candice Bergin can act. No surprise: Simon Garfunkel can't.)
Au Revoir, Les Enfants
Network
Belle de Jour (Catherine Deneuve...Mmm...)
Wild Strawberries
Hud
The Lion in Winter
Charade (1963; Marky Mark stars in the remake. Ur...thanks, but no thanks.)
Les Parapluies des Cherbourg
Midnight Cowboy
La Nuit Americain
Persona
Husbands and Wives (1992; The last Woody Allen film that matters.)
Sabrina (1954)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Wonder Boys
Rushmore
Julius Caesar (1953)
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Proof (1991)
Being John Malkovich
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
You Can Count On Me
Bonnie and Clyde
Afterglow (At the time, I'd thought Julie Christie was dead!)
Shakespeare in Love
Dog Day Afternoon
A Fish Called Wanda
A Room with a View
Great films everyone should see.
Cheers,
Mark.
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Brazil
Naked Lunch
Bladerunner
Lost Highway
Fear and Loathing in Las vegas
Stop or My Mom Will Shoot.
Just kidding.
1. Matrix
2. Shawshank Redemption
3. Empire Strikes Back
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Aliens
Honorable Mention:
Memento
Fight Club
Traffic
Sixth Sense
A Night on Earth
The Party (Peter Sellers has gotta be the funniest)
The Shawshank Redemption
The Milagro Beanfield War
Traffic
The Shawshank Redemption
What About Bob?
Moulin Rouge
Schindler's List
Pleasantville
The Truman Show
I know that's six movies, and sorry there's no "oldies" in there. I honestly haven't seen many. Of everything I've seen (and remember), those six are my all-time favs.
EDIT: Does no one else like Schindler's List? Talk about a powerful movie!
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But 2001: A Space Odyssey <a href="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0062622"; target="_blank">http://us.imdb.com/Title?0062622</a>; is definitely in my top five. It made an incredible impression on me when I first saw it. I came out of the cinema with my mouth wide open, as did everyone else.
A reviewer's comment from the above site:
2001 a space odyssey is the best film ever made.there is no other film like it and i suspect their never will be.this is a directors film with director as the star.the visual flair of the film as still to be matched despite all the technological innovations that have been invented since its making in 1968.there is very little dialogue in the film,just enough to structure the story the rest is left to polemic direction and perfectly choreographed sound and visuals,the use of music plays a very important roll in this film,with composers as diverse as Gyorgy Ligeti,Aram Khatchaturian,Johann Strauss and Richard Strauss when Ligeti's Atmospheres begins playing as Dave Bowman enters the stargate sequence is one of cinemas enduring images,which once seen is never forgotten,the whole film from start to finish is an extravaganza that assaults the senses.i have heard many people comment on how boring this film is,but after all you need a little imagination to appreciate the finer things in life and this is certainly one of them.a true classic.this is the sci-fi film all others use as a reference....in a nutshell the BEST.
- T.I.
<strong>I would have liked Shakespeare in Love much more if they hadn't cut the original ending.
What was the original ending?
Lawrence of Arabia
The Empire Strikes Back
The Godfather Part II
Heat
Apocalypse Now
And so many runners up... I love movies! Honourable mentions include The Third Man, L.A. Confidential, Taxi Driver, The Train...