Your Top 10 Greatest Films

[Snowey1210]

Movies I hate include:
- Anything with Fast and the Furious in the title.
- Anything starring a musician who suddenly discovered his/her acting talent.
- Grease
- The Wizard of Oz -Water!? That's the best they could come up with ...
- The Grudge

Urgh... I had to sit through Fast and the Furious, and the Grudge with my mates. They were terrible! I didn't see the whole point of fast and the furious, it was all flash and no substance. The Grudge was just annoying, I don't like horror movies in general as most of them are far too cliche. The new ones especially rely more on pointless violence rather than suspence for the shock factor. Give me a hitchcock film anyday!

 

[swordpath]

I need to rewatch Bladerunner. I actually own it but have only seen it once. I didn't think it was that great.

 

[Flush]

- American Beauty
- A Beautiful Mind
- American History X
- Requiem For a Dream
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- The Naked Gun
- The Big Lebowski
- Donnie Darko
- Monster's Ball
- The Pianist

 

[booyalab]

I need to rewatch Bladerunner. I actually own it but have only seen it once. I didn't think it was that great.

The director's cut is better, though Ridley Scott is a douche for changing the story and pretending he didn't.

 

[TenebrousReflection]

That is very good taste for 1980-present. It seems that you have a particular affinity for movies set in dystopian near-futures.

Ya, that would be an accurate description. In general, I like movies that show the dangers of conformity/complacency to a corrupt system and then the struggle against that with a message that even in such a world, the actions of the individual can still make a difference. I also often feel that even though I benefit from a natural affinity with technology, that it is gradually destroying our humanity, so I also like movies that draw attention to the downsides of technological evolution in a subtle way that might make others question how we use it and how it is changing us as individuals and societies. Both of those tend to be represented to some degree in dystopian future movies so those type tend to come to mind first for favorite movies.

I've seen a couple people mention A Scanner Darkly, and thats one I've got somewhere in my netflix queue and bumped it up a bit higher after the comments here.

The other genres/types of movies I like a lot are dark/cynical comedies (Thank you for Smoking was an example of one of those that I really liked, and I also watched Grosse Pointe Blank not long ago and enjoyed that one as well), superhero movies (the X-men movies should be in my top list, can't believe I forgot those), and movies with a medieval or fantasy setting (Princess Bride).

 

[EffEmDoubleyou]

Tenebrous, you might enjoy Southland Tales, the follow-up to Donnie Darko by Richard Kelly.

If I'm being honest, I found the movie to be a pile of dung, but it's got near-future dystopia coming out of the ass!

 

[Tallulah]

The director's cut is better, though Ridley Scott is a douche for changing the story and pretending he didn't.

I've only seen the director's cut, and I was confused as heck. Kind of interesting to see how much of the new Battlestar Galactica is stolen from Bladerunner, though.

 

[nemo]

The Grudge was just annoying, I don't like horror movies in general as most of them are far too cliche. The new ones especially rely more on pointless violence rather than suspence for the shock factor.

Like most things in life, I personally thought it should have been filled with Zombies and set on fire.

 

[DigitalMethod]

Star Wars: Episode IV
Star Wars: Episode V
Star Wars: Episode VI
Star Wars: Episode I
Star Wars: Episode II
Star Wars: Episode III
Star Wars: Clone Wars Vol. 1 Animated Series
Star Wars: Clone Wars Vol. 2 Animated Series

Hm...
YouTube - Arby 'n' the Chief: The Movie (FULL)

I guess that's the core stuff.


Oh, Mass Effect, that was a really good Sci-Fi RPG.. if you want to consider that a movie, I guess you could.

 

[SillySapienne]

- Hands on a Hard Body, Hands on a Hard Body: The Documentary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

- Darwin's Nightmare Darwin& - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

- Amorres Perros Amores perros - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

- Forrest Gump (And fuck anybody who didn't like/love it)

- The Big Lebowski

- Zero Effect Zero Effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

- Waiting for Guffman Waiting for Guffman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

- Requiem for a Dream

- American Beauty

- The Cutting Edge (Laugh all you want) The Cutting Edge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And that's all I can think of right now.

LOL, I didn't even realize that I had listed 10 movies.

How daren I forget these....

- Run Lola Run

- Pootie Tang Pootie Tang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

- Reality Bites Reality Bites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

- Bamboozled Bamboozled - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

- Stealing Beauty Stealing Beauty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

- Besieged Besieged (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

- Flirting with Disaster Flirting with Disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

- I Huckabees

- Shawshank Redemption

- Fight Club

- The Game

 

[SillySapienne]

I have notoriously hokey taste in movies, but I'll put up ten favorites.

• The Princess Bride
• Grosse Pointe Blank
• Arsenic and Old Lace
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Pootie Tang
• Zoolander
• Raising Arizona
• While You Were Sleeping
• Harvey
• O Brother Where Art Thou?

I triple + Pootie Tang!!!

I think I've just fallen in love with you!!!

 

[ThatsWhatHeSaid]

Shrek

 

[quietmusician]

This is hard. I'm going to post whatever comes to mind first. No special order.

1.Mulholland Drive
2.Kill Bill
3.Magnolia
4.Hancock
5.Requiem For A Dream
6.21 Grams
7.The Big Lebowski
8.Birthday Girl
9.Matchstick Men
10.Hard Candy

 

[Lexicon]

Top 10 Favorites..



A Clockwork Orange
Amelie
American Psycho
Attack of The Killer Shrews
Back To The Future
Batman
Benny & Joon
Better Off Dead
Big Fish
Breakfast At Tiffany's
Boondock Saints
Cabaret
Chicago
Chinatown
Creepshow
Dark City
Donnie Brasco
Dune
East of Eden
Equilibrium
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
Evil Dead
Evil Ed
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
Fiddler on The Roof
Fight Club
Flight of The Navigator
Four Rooms
Ghostbusters [1 & 2]
Harrison Bergeron
Home Alone [1 & 2]
Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (none of the sequels)
House
IT
Jurassic Park
Little Shop of Horrors (the original & the musical)
Kill Bill
My Fair Lady
Mommie Dearest
Night of The Living Dead
Oldboy
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Psycho [original]
Pete's Dragon
Rebel Without A Cause
Requiem For a Dream
Sleepaway Camp [& all sequels]
Six Shooter
Snatch
Sweeney Todd (the original Broadway recording)
Tank Girl
Thank You For Smoking
The Birds
The Crow
The Green Mile
The Mouse & His Child
The People Under The Stairs
The Producers [original]
The Professional
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
They Live
The Lorax
Trainspotting
Vertigo
Waking Life
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
Wild Zero (pretty much any & all zombie flicks, actually)


...and I'm thinking "You, Me, & Everyone We Know." Just watched it a couple of days ago. That one, too.


...that's more than 10.. huh?
Aw well..
Books & movies are my friends, dammit.
& the cat of course.

 

[SillySapienne]

How could I forget, House of Yes is definitely one of my favorite movies!!!

 

[ygolo]

With links to trailers:

1. 1 Giant Leap
2. La Vita e Bella (Life is Beautiful)
3. Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail
4. Schindler's List
5. Lahgan
6. The Princess Bride
7. El Norte
8. Legend Of Drunken Master
9. Amelie
10. Akira

 

[Lexicon]

With links to trailers:

1. 1 Giant Leap
2. La Vita e Bella (Life is Beautiful)
3. Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail
4. Schindler's List
5. Lahgan
6. The Princess Bride
7. El Norte
8. Legend Of Drunken Master
9. Amelie
10. Akira

Ah I forgot about Monty Python!

So ashamed.


Oh! oh! And THE WARRIORS!!!!!

...I need to stop now.

 

[nonsequitur]

My top 10 "greatest" movies aren't my top 10 "favourite" movies.

Some of the lists overlap, naturally.

Greatest:
Citizen Kane
In the Mood for Love
It's a Wonderful Life
Annie Hall
Casablanca
Breakfast at Tiffany's
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Dark Knight
W;t
Waking Life

(Recent) favourites:
Lost in Translation
Stranger than Fiction
Juno
Once
Knocked Up
Sense and Sensibility
In the Mood for Love
Annie Hall
Casablanca
It's a Wonderful Life

 

[wolfy]

High Fidelity
Mad Max
Goodbye Pork Pie
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Stranger Than Fiction
Drunken Master 2
Police Story 1
Lost in Translation
The Goonies
Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade
Raiders of The Lost Ark

 

[Desperado44]

Godfather 1-3
Star Wars 1-3
Serendipity
Gladiator
Snow Falls on Cedars
A Time to Kill
300
Platoon
For Love of the Game
Brian's Song (original)
Predator
The Terminator
Where Eagles Dare
The Magnificent Seven