Your Top 10 Greatest Films

[Noel]

Conan the Barbarian
The Seventh Seal
The Fountain
Blade Runner
Hard Boiled
Big Trouble in Little China
Lawrence of Arabia
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Hot Fuzz
Amadeus

 

[anii]

I'm so pleased to see the love from multiple people for "Raising Arizona". Whenever I mention it I get blank looks. It's the funniest movie ever made, to my sensibility.

"Her womb was a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase."

That said, here's my list:

Contact
Office Space
Shawshank Redemption
Ruby in Paradise
The Princess Bride
Happy Accidents
Another Woman

That's really all there is. But if I have to round up:

Passionfish
The Sound of Music
Stealing Beauty

I shouldn't like these as much as I do but I can't help it:

Kill Bill
Shaun of the Dead
Planet Terror

 

[swordpath]

Goodfellas missing from too many lists in here.

 

[cafe]

I'm so pleased to see the love from multiple people for "Raising Arizona". Whenever I mention it I get blank looks. It's the funniest movie ever made, to my sensibility.

Maybe it wasn't Arizona. Maybe it was Utah. :yim_rolling_on_the_

 

[disregard]

Goodfellas missing from too many lists in here.

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Can't you restrict your use of those pictures to Down Below?

C'mon.. there's a time and a place laddie.

 

[swordpath]

C'mon.. there's a time and a place laddie.

...


That time and place is potentially wherever the BEAT posts a post.

 

[EffEmDoubleyou]

Goodfellas missing from too many lists in here.

For what it's worth, that would be one of two Scorsese movies in my top 20, along with The King Of Comedy. The Last Temptation Of Christ isn't far behind, either.

 

[swordpath]

^I'm ashamed to say I haven't seen The Last Temp of Christ. I actually had it to checkout at Blockbuster recently but did a last minute switcharoo. I love Scorsese.

 

[RDF]

I mostly just watch and then forget. I don't consider myself a connoisseur. So my 10 are pretty much just fun movies (partly culled from previous lists).

Pulp Fiction
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Grosse Pointe Blank
Platoon
Apocalypse Now
The Matrix
Mad Max
Dirty Harry
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

 

[Mort Belfry]

Can't you restrict your use of those pictures to Down Below?

C'mon.. there's a time and a place laddie.

It's an ISTJ thing. sassafrassquatch was/is the same.

 

[Domino]

Simple enough, right? What are your Top 10 Greatest Films ever? Or (and this is a clear difference) what are your Top 10 Favorite Films ever? I could do both, but I will attempt an "objective" Top 10 Greatest. It's obviously fairly subjective, but I am shooting for a canon, not a love list. Ranked or unranked is fine; mine is simply alphabetical.

8 1/2
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
City Lights
The Godfather Pts. 1 and 2 (can't really separate them)
Grand Illusion
The Searchers
Seven Samurai
Ugetsu
Wild Strawberries

Just 10 of my favorites.


Mad Max
Bladerunner
Black Rain
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Modern Times
Girl Shy
His Girl Friday
Baby Face
Star Wars
The Narrow Margin

 

[pure_mercury]

This is such a great thread for someone with Netflix.

 

[swordpath]

It's an ISTJ thing. sassafrassquatch was/is the same.

And I'll be damned if someone tries to change who I am.

 

[spartan26]

I'm including a (HOF) for top ten made but not one of my favorites (Fav) for personally enjoy but not one of top ten made. Most I'm not going to bother..

In no partic order

Clear and Present Danger
Batman Begins
North By Northwest
Used Cars (fav)
Do The Right Thing (HOF)
Goodfellas
Red (Three Colours Triology: Rogue)
Shallow Grave
Quiz Show
Bladerunner

I don't know, I could swap out half of them on any given day

 

[EffEmDoubleyou]

Do The Right Thing and Quiz Show are two great movies everyone seems to have forgotten about. Do The Right Thing is definitely Spike's best.

 

[swordpath]

I hate "all time faves" lists. I like a lot of movies. I'm just going to list some of my top favorites.

Saving Private Ryan
The Band of Brothers Series
Pulp Fiction
Children of Men
Goodfellas
Casino
Taxi Driver
The Big Lebowski
Good Will Hunting
The Matrix
Fight Club

 

[pure_mercury]

Do The Right Thing and Quiz Show are two great movies everyone seems to have forgotten about. Do The Right Thing is definitely Spike's best.

I think that Bamboozled is right up there with it, actually. Other than the crappy-looking DV and being maybe 15-20 minutes too long, that movie is fantastic. It's hilarious and it has perhaps his most coherent sociopolitical message. Savion Glover is awesome, and Michael Rappoport is one of my very favorite comedic character actors. And the montage of blacks in entertainment is just heartbreaking. It's not as raw and unsettling as Do the Right Thing, but it's criminally underappreciated.

 

[Valiant]

In no particular order except the first one, Braveheart.

1. Braveheart
2. The Seahawk (1940's, starring Errol Flynn)
3. The Wind that shakes the barley
4. Star Wars: The return of the Jedi
5. Shooter
6. Indiana Jones and the raiders of the lost ark
7. Full Metal Jacket
8. The Die Hard movies
9. The Big Lebowski
10. Pirates of the Caribbean (all)

 

[Domino]

In no particular order except the first one, Braveheart.

1. Braveheart
2. The Seahawk (1940's, starring Errol Flynn)
3. The Wind that shakes the barley
4. Star Wars: The return of the Jedi
5. Shooter
6. Indiana Jones and the raiders of the lost ark
7. Full Metal Jacket
8. The Die Hard movies
9. The Big Lebowski
10. Pirates of the Caribbean (all)

Your second choice! Do you also like "Captain Blood"?

 

[Councilor]

Back to the Future
Kill Bill vol 1
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Amytiville Horror
Phantasm
Nightmare on Elm Street
Ghostbusters
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Beginning
The Never Ending story
Initial D, Battle Stage