P4's top 10 list of movies. What's yours?

Someone asked me what my favorite movies are, so I made a list and thought I would share. Here's my top ten in chronological order with director, IMDB rating and link:

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) (Stanley Kubrick) (8.6)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) (Stanley Kubrick) (8.4)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

A Clockwork Orange (1971) (Stanley Kubrick) (8.5)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)

The Godfather (1972) (Francis Ford Coppola) (9.2)
The Godfather (1972)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) (Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones) (8.4)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) (George Lucas) (8.8)
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991) (Jonathan Demme) (8.7)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Groundhog Day (1993) (Harold Ramis) (8.2)
Groundhog Day (1993)

Memento (2000) (Christopher Nolan) (8.7)
Memento (2000)

Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001) (Jean-Pierre Jeunet) (8.6)
Amélie (2001)

Would be cool to see someone else make a similar list. I'll post the bottom half of my top 20 later if this thread gets attention. I hate old movies by the way so the fact that most of these are old means they are pretty damn exceptional. Oh, and I haven't seen Inception yet.

imo:

1. Pulp Fiction
2. No Country for Old Men
3. The Matrix
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Inglorious Basterds
6. The Godfather
7. The Godfather Part II
8. Adaptation
9. The Big Lebowski
10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

In no particular order:
Spirited Away
Pulp Fiction
The Departed
Inception
Memento
American Beauty
Donnie Darko
Fight Club
Wall-e
Boondock Saints

That's 10 off the top of my head but after looking online at other people's top 100 movies there are just so many I want to add including comedies, disney movies and more.

That's a toughie

When I isolate film, I isolate comedies from dramas, and tend to include a variety partly for the purpose of variety. Like I won't use up two spots for both Godfathers even though they're both equal, I'll just pick one then move on to a different film.

My top ten non-comedies consist of about fifty different ties, so I'll just cherry pick for a nice variety. Also, you'll notice that I tend to care most about intellectual intrigue and profound human situation stuff.



Rope - Best Hitchcock film, best Jimmy Stewart. Perfectly done, play style. Controversial topic, unquestionably best monologue ever conceived in the end

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Alien - Best scifi, mysterious, and Ripley is most badass female to ever exist. Wins out over Aliens due to being more intellectually intriguing despite the fact that Aliens is equally as good, just in a different way

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Schindler's List - Best Spielberg. Overall tied with Saving Private Ryan, but chose this one because it's slightly more epic IMO

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The Proposition - Best western. More real and dark than other westerns, and less actiony cliche (even though that's awesome). Doesn't use traditional character or story roles, yet does a superb job, which is telling of it's superb quality

http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/im...roposition.JPG

The Celebration - Hard to describe. Deals with real world shit. Cinematography is virtually perfect

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Before Sunrise - Best romance. Before Sunset may be better, but I can't bring myself to watch it. Word is the actors wrote all their lines and improvised much of it. Only romance I've seen that isn't hella contrived and fairy tale-ish

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Evil - After watching you'll wish your name was Erik Ponti. Ignore the title, it's a terrible translation and has nothing to do with the film

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Dersu Uzala - Best Kurosawa. The story of a mountain man who crosses paths with Russian soldiers, and the trials, revelations, and camaraderie that grows. Flew under radar because people love Kurosawas big budget samurai Toshiro Mifune stuff.

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Sepukku - Best samurai. Less actiony than others, but depth of human condition exceeds.

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Spring, Summer, Fall, winter, and Spring - Virtually no words, very beautiful cinematography and scenery. Film is about expressing Buddhism through film, which means as little 'explanation' as possible, but as much 'experience' as possible

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i usually cant think of 10 movies but here goes:

Alien (best title sequence ever?)
Terminator 1 or 2
2001: a space odyssey
Wall-E
Spirited away
Total recall
...damn i only made it to 6 then hurt my brain trying to think of one that wasn't sci fi

I'm mainstream, sorry I don't have Wuf's or MCat's ability to find and watch non-popular films

1. Shawshank
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Inception
4. Scarface
5. Caddyshack
6. Dark Knight
7. Silence of the Lambs
8. Saving Private Ryan
9. Bull Durham
10. Memento

In the order they were on imdb, I'm lazy and can't be arsed to think:

godfather
the good the bad and the ugly
pulp fiction
fight club
city of god
raiders of the lost ark
the usual suspects
american history x
la confidential
fargo

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Originally Posted by pocketfours

Someone asked me what my favorite movies are, so I made a list and thought I would share. Here's my top ten in chronological order with director, IMDB rating and link:

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) (Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones) (8.4)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

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Yesssssssssssssss ty you've reminded me I've got this on dvd so I'm now going to watch this and spend the next two hours in fits of laughter ty ty ty

Put this as my number 1, Life of Brian as number 2, don't care about the rest :D

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I'm mainstream, sorry I don't have Wuf's or MCat's ability to find and watch non-popular films

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The majority of my favorite films are mainstream, FWIW. I love movies like Braveheart, Munich, Blood Diamond, etc. The secret to finding non-mainstream is actually very easy

Have an active netflix account and rate movies you like the way you see fit. Follow their quality recommendation system based on your ratings, then IMDB it see how it rates there. You'll find non-mainstream via netflix, and find out if they're likely to be good based on IMDB rating. EZ game. I only became a film elitist after I started doing this because it really does bring out so many fantastic yet underrated titles.

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Originally Posted by Duck Hunter

Yesssssssssssssss ty you've reminded me I've got this on dvd so I'm now going to watch this and spend the next two hours in fits of laughter ty ty ty

Put this as my number 1, Life of Brian as number 2, don't care about the rest :D

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I hear ya, although I think The Meaning of Life (1983), Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982) and And Now for Something Completely Different (1971) are all absolutely ridiculously mindblowingly brilliant as well.

If you like Monty Python then I'm pretty sure Dr. Strangelove would blow your mind if you haven't seen it.

no particular order

fight club
goodfellas
casino
carlitos way
pulp fiction
american beauty
american history x
snatch
saving private ryan
scarface

and one bonus one - blow

american beauty
scream
seven
silence of the lambs
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
memento
the usual suspects
the matrix
district 9
the fugitive

bonus forget paris/groundhog day since my list seemed really dark

Nice list wuf, although I wish you would have singled out the ten very best ones.

Here's the bottom half of my top 20 in chronological order:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) (Milos Forman) (8.9)

The Shining (1980) (Stanley Kubrik) (8.5)

Blade Runner (1982) (Ridley Scott) (8.3)

Baraka (1992) (Ron Fricke) (8.2)

Forrest Gump (1994) (Robert Zemeckis) (8.6)

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) (Frank Darabont) (9.2)

Pulp Fiction (1994) (Quentin Tarantino) (8.9)

Fight Club (1999) (David Fincher) (8.8)

Requiem for a Dream (2000) (Darren Aronofsky) (8.5)

Oldboy (2003) (Chan-wook Park) (8.3)

i like drmcboys list, i was close to including Matrix/silence of lambs/ usual suspects/ eternal sunshine on my list but decided not to..


also p4s requiem is the shittttt

1) Matrix
2) Apocolypse Now
3) Color of Money
4) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
5) Alien
6) Braveheart or The Patriot (interchangeable movies, just different eras)
7) Dances with Wolves
8) Mad Max Series
9) Tin Cup
10) Black Hawk Down

If I think about it more, then that list would probably change... but that is the first run at it

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Nice list wuf, although I wish you would have singled out the ten very best ones.

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Well, I kinda did. The only exchange I would make is one of the Godfathers for Alien, but didn't because it was already mentioned and I didn't feel like figuring out which Godfather.

The thing is that I have an easy twenty films in my top ten that I can't rank any higher or lower, they're all just tied. Once I include comedies, documentaries, and actions, that top ten becomes like top fifty

And that's not including some film that are not best of best quality, but for some reason they click super well for me and I love them (The Kingdom or The Notebook are good examples of these)

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Well, I kinda did. The only exchange I would make is one of the Godfathers for Alien, but didn't because it was already mentioned and I didn't feel like figuring out which Godfather.

The thing is that I have an easy twenty films in my top ten that I can't rank any higher or lower, they're all just tied. Once I include comedies, documentaries, and actions, that top ten becomes like top fifty

And that's not including some film that are not best of best quality, but for some reason they click super well for me and I love them (The Kingdom or The Notebook are good examples of these)

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Ok. Anything else in your top 50 that most of us might not have seen?

Have you seen the most popular Kubrik movies by the way (Strangelove, 2001, Clockwork, The Shining, etc)?

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Ok. Anything else in your top 50 that most of us might not have seen?

Have you seen the most popular Kubrik movies by the way (Strangelove, 2001, Clockwork, The Shining, etc)?

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I didn't understand Strangelove but will rewatch at a later date and possibly get it this time. I'm moody, so I try to not watch film when not in a good mood, and I've found that I still often have to return after a few years, and my experience will turn out much different

Turned off 2001 because I felt it wasn't going where it should quickly enough. Some of my favorite films are very 'slow', but they're really not, they just seem that way superficially. I felt 2001 overdid it

Turned off Clockwork at second rape scene. I can't handle that shit. Was very excited to watch it too. Would probably like it if I ever chose to finish

The Shining was good, but I'm not a Jack Nicholson fan. I love Stephen King though. His dialogue and ability to frame everyday characters is unrivaled.


The best Kubrick, however, is Paths of Glory IMO. It was quite ahead of its time. Old film had some serious cinematography issues, but Paths of Glory was one of the first that began to break from that mold successfully

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1) Matrix
2) Apocolypse Now
3) Color of Money
4) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
5) Alien
6) Braveheart or The Patriot (interchangeable movies, just different eras)
7) Dances with Wolves
8) Mad Max Series
9) Tin Cup
10) Black Hawk Down

If I think about it more, then that list would probably change... but that is the first run at it

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a Kevin Kostner movie in your top 10? Really? I have to admit that it was one of the few VHS's that we had when I was a kid, and I watched the hell out of it. It is a good movie.. but I just cant put a KK movie in my top 10.

tough maybe ,

- shawshank
- American history X
- Inception
- Forest Gump
- Dumb and Dumber
- Matrix
- Catch me if you can
- goodfellas
- Braveheart
- Starwars

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Ok. Anything else in your top 50 that most of us might not have seen?

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Here's ten more with emphasis on rare or under radar

The Straight Story - I don't like David Lynch because he's too weird for me, but this film is the opposite of weird. However, Lynch tackling a 'normal' idea is still rather strange. Straight Story doesn't sound or look good from the cover, the plot is pretty much the stupidest sounding thing ever, but as is the case with any truly great director, Lynch took a boring idea and made it a profound journey of the human experience

http://www.collider.com/uploads/imag..._image__1_.jpg

Match Point - One of the best stories ever. What makes it so great is how it gradually culminates into something more sinister than what people like to admit could happen to them or they could do themselves

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l1...g?t=1284921797

District B13 - Very unique and fun to watch. Mix of parkour and hollywood martial arts, buddy action, future slums, save the girl, etc. Make sure to turn off dubs and use subtitles instead

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l1...istrictb13.jpg

Touching the Void - Reenacted documentary with interviews. Most amazing survival story in the history of the planet. This story, which is completely true, is so beyond insane that you won't believe it even after watching it. In fact, you won't believe it when things just begin, but the beginning is a walk in the park compared to what happened to Joe Simpson and how he lived to tell the story. Touching the Void is truly amazing, and I don't even rate it with any other film because it's untouchable and not comparable

http://www.trentofestival.it/res/pho...x640/226_1.jpg

Cool Hand Luke - A Young Paul Newman was one of a kind. He had the most pimp and cool demeanor of any actor. The film was meant to be a philosophical/religious allegory, but ended up being a story about somebody so cool, they named him Cool

http://www.threedonia.com/wp-content...ndluke_560.jpg

The Man Who Would Be King - One of the most unknown, underrated films of all time. Sean Connery, Michael Caine, unique story, has everything going for it, but for some weird reason, nobody ever heard of it. Two British soldiers at the beginning of 1900s, go searching through the tribal 'istan' countries for treasure and glory. One of them becomes more than he ever imagined, the other mutters hilarious old British slang. This film made Michael Caine one of my favorite actors

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__ZC6F3SCIT...ing+throne.JPG

Ran - Kurosawa's second best IMO. Higher budget than his other stuff, Tatsuya Nakadai steals the show as a Feudal Lord who gets betrayed

http://www.asianamericanmedia.org/files/2010/05/ran.jpg

Duel - I'd have to say that Spielberg is the best director ever. Not because of Schindler's List or Saving Private Ryan, but because of Duel, and how it contrasts with the others. Duel is a short story, made for TV, extremely low budget, very non-standard plot and character lines, and Spielberg turned it into a sort of sinister thriller. He took almost nothing, and made gold. The story sounds like crap, and somebody like Michael Bay would collapse in tears if he tried to make it into a meaningful movie, but Spielberg got every ounce of intensity and human emotion he could out of it, and did so to such a degree that the inanimate antagonist comes to life as a vivid sociopath

http://alsolikelife.com/shooting/images/duel/duel7.jpg

Merry Christmas - Xmas time in the trenches of WWI. The German, French, and Scottish soldiers set off a cascade of rare and bold actions that provoke them all to set down their arms and spend Christmas together and at peace. The story is profound and timeless, and I really need to watch it again

http://0.tqn.com/d/worldfilm/1/0/6/T/28.jpg

Dead Man - Hard to describe other than Johnny Depp dies (or does he?), and he must travel to his resting place with his guide, an indian called Nobody, while being hunted for bounty, and coming over tribulations and developing revelations during his journey. Beautiful cinematography, Neil Young scored the entire thing with virtually one awesome riff, and Jarmusch is an amazing director.

http://aquariumdrunkard.com/wp-conte...neil-young.jpg

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I didn't understand Strangelove but will rewatch at a later date and possibly get it this time. I'm moody, so I try to not watch film when not in a good mood, and I've found that I still often have to return after a few years, and my experience will turn out much different

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In order to appreciate Dr Strangelove you need to understand how the cold war was affecting people during the time of its release.

"Fearful that the Russians are fluoridating America's drinking water, General Jack D. Ripper unleashes a B-52 H-Bomb attack on the Soviets"

It's a pitch black satirical comedy, but at the same time it's a horror/thriller to those overly worried about nuclear holocaust. Most importantly this movie will not make you stop worrying and it will certainly not make you "love the bomb" like the title suggests it will.

I'm sure you have seen the official safety clips released to teach children how to protect themselves in case of a nuclear attack...

YouTube - Duck And Cover - Original 1950 Airing

Did you find that clip funny in any way? It looks like a satire clip but amazingly it wasn't one. Just shows how Kubrick was way ahead of his time. Nobody else would have come to the idea of making a comedy about nuclear holocaust during the cold war. The whole movie is like a story a father tells his children to warn them about the dangers of playing with nuclear weapons (which is absurd).

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Turned off 2001 because I felt it wasn't going where it should quickly enough. Some of my favorite films are very 'slow', but they're really not, they just seem that way superficially. I felt 2001 overdid it

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I agree. I recommend anyone watching this movie for the first time to skip through the ridiculous prologue and fast forward through the ending. Just bad luck if nobody warned you :) Throughout the main storyline the pace is fine I think. Ok so maybe a little slow if you watch it on a small screen and dislike classical music :)

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Turned off Clockwork at second rape scene. I can't handle that shit. Was very excited to watch it too. Would probably like it if I ever chose to finish

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Watch it to the end or I will tie you down and hold your eyes open until you have watched it fifteen times.


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The best Kubrick, however, is Paths of Glory IMO. It was quite ahead of its time. Old film had some serious cinematography issues, but Paths of Glory was one of the first that began to break from that mold successfully

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I've been waiting for HD release on this one. I have it in SD so perhaps I should just watch it. I'm sure it's good. I hope you have seen full metal jacket as well.

Thanks for the recommendations wuf I will look into those. I've seen cool hand luke and match point, liked them both a lot.

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Watch it to the end or I will tie you down and hold your eyes open until you have watched it fifteen times.

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I'm on a rather lengthy hiatus from film, but when I start watching them again, I'm going to pick Clockwork back up. I just have to be in a mood where I don't get absolutely furious at the rape scenes. When I watched them break into the couples' house I literally wanted to smash my TV with a bat

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I've been waiting for HD release on this one. I have it in SD so perhaps I should just watch it. I'm sure it's good. I hope you have seen full metal jacket as well.

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The thing about Full Metal Jacket for me was that I felt it was two different movies. The first was the boot camp, the second was the war. I didn't like that. I thought the first half was amazing, but second half was lacking.

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a Kevin Kostner movie in your top 10? Really? I have to admit that it was one of the few VHS's that we had when I was a kid, and I watched the hell out of it. It is a good movie.. but I just cant put a KK movie in my top 10.

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Alright, even I admit two KK movies in the top ten is pushing it too far... as I said i threw it together fast. For sheer volume of watching though, I'd have to say I've watched Tin Cup a ton... Pump up the volume probably belongs in mine also, as well as a ton of sci-fi movies, I've seen so many stinking movies over the years... hard to pin it down to 10.

I love movies and will more than likely wish to update my list a few minutes after posting this. In No Particular Order:

Holy Grail (will forever be my favorite)
The Matrix
Waking Life
Akira
T2
Office Space
American Beauty
Donnie Darko
Rounders
Searching for Bobby Fischer

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I'm on a rather lengthy hiatus from film, but when I start watching them again, I'm going to pick Clockwork back up. I just have to be in a mood where I don't get absolutely furious at the rape scenes. When I watched them break into the couples' house I literally wanted to smash my TV with a bat

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I feel like movies activate parts of the brain that are inactive in normal daily life, so the only way I'll keep away from them is if they stop making good ones and I don't see that happening.

I'm guessing you probably watched Match Point in one of those moods, since I thought it was absolutely gross, almost to the point of being unbearable. It's crazy how movies can have that kind of effect on you even when you know that you are viewing pure fiction.

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I feel like movies activate parts of the brain that are inactive in normal daily life, so the only way I'll keep away from them is if they stop making good ones and I don't see that happening.

I'm guessing you probably watched Match Point in one of those moods, since I thought it was absolutely gross, almost to the point of being unbearable. It's crazy how movies can have that kind of effect on you even when you know that you are viewing pure fiction.

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I loved everything about Match Point. I love almost everything evil and sinister and disturbing except rape. It puts me in a fit of rage, I can't really explain it. All the other stuff just intrigues me or makes me feel creeped out or something, but those emotions aren't that bad IMO. I actually like some forms of the emotions of fear and sadness, but hate the emotion of anger

If I could choose to make any movie, it would be a rendition of Diablo, and would be the most deliciously wicked and profoundly frightening thing anybody ever saw

I'm the same way, I'll watch people get murdered all day but I tend to pass on any movies with rape scenes, still haven't re watched sopranos for same reason.

I feel like I should make a list, but it's very difficult for me to consider all films and I inevitably forget so many. But I will try...

Last of the Mohicans - This is my favorite movie. I realize it's not the best, but it's my favorite. Best soundtrack ever... oh and it turns out Daniel Day-Lewis has always been a REALLY good actor.

Once Upon a Time in the West - My favorite western. The musical themes in this are fantastic. I'll never forget after watching the opening scene with my dad, and him telling me that you can't imagine the impact of having "Tom Joad" shoot a little kid.

The Big Lebowski - Just fucking brilliant.

Dr. Strangelove - Awesome for all the reasons listed above. Definitely my favorite Kubrik.

Animal House - This may seem juvenile, but there is so much lulz in 'dis movie. It's also a great movie to watch while attempting the Century Club.

Apocalypse Now - The feel of this movie is fucking awesome. "Saigon... shit" That line alone just gives me fucking chills.

Unforgiven - This movie is so raw and direct... it just feels so realistic that it almost feels fake.

The Wild Bunch - Why the fuck do I love westerns so much...

Love Actually - My favorite romantic comedy... because I'm a fag. I don't care. I would prefer to drop a few scenes, but overall, I love it.

It's a Wonderful Life - I had never seen this movie until college. It always gets ripped and mocked by being shown too many times, etc... but ya know what. Jimmy Stewart is fucking pimp. It's an awesome movie, and one I can't wait to show my kids.

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I loved everything about Match Point. I love almost everything evil and sinister and disturbing except rape. It puts me in a fit of rage, I can't really explain it. All the other stuff just intrigues me or makes me feel creeped out or something, but those emotions aren't that bad IMO. I actually like some forms of the emotions of fear and sadness, but hate the emotion of anger

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That's interesting. I think murder is much worse than rape in general, although the big difference is that murder is occasionally justifiable whereas rape could be justifiable only in very theoretical circumstances (as a weird form of revenge perhaps). Totally unjustified murder is always worse than the worst kind of rape in my opinion.

I do have to say that I've never been as put off by murder as much as I was when watching Match Point, but that's just a sign of a good movie. However I disagree with the moviemakers about whether an intelligent sociopath could reasonably justify the actions taken in the film. To me it seems much more plausible that the main character would simply have beat the shit out of his pregnant girlfriend and told her to stfu and gtfo. At the very least he should have tried that before resorting to such extreme measures.

The conclusion also required the viewer to digest an astronomically unlikely path of events, which is a very common "flaw" in movies which rubs me the wrong way. It seems as though the moviemakers themselves had a hard time believing it so they had to inject some superficial chaos theory speculation in the dialog so that viewers would accept it. Let's be realistic, this movie had nothing to do with luck and chance, instead it was a fairly simple and cruel, but very well acted story about the life of a (moderately) intelligent sociopath.

i should also add that pulp fiction would have been on my list except that most of the actors, esp sam j, have been so bad since it came out that they have ruined it for me.

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That's interesting. I think murder is much worse than rape in general, although the big difference is that murder is occasionally justifiable whereas rape could be justifiable only in very theoretical circumstances (as a weird form of revenge perhaps). Totally unjustified murder is always worse than the worst kind of rape in my opinion.

I do have to say that I've never been as put off by murder as much as I was when watching Match Point, but that's just a sign of a good movie. However I disagree with the moviemakers about whether an intelligent sociopath could reasonably justify the actions taken in the film. To me it seems much more plausible that the main character would simply have beat the shit out of his pregnant girlfriend and told her to stfu and gtfo. At the very least he should have tried that before resorting to such extreme measures.

The conclusion also required the viewer to digest an astronomically unlikely path of events, which is a very common "flaw" in movies which rubs me the wrong way. It seems as though the moviemakers themselves had a hard time believing it so they had to inject some superficial chaos theory speculation in the dialog so that viewers would accept it. Let's be realistic, this movie had nothing to do with luck and chance, instead it was a fairly simple and cruel, but very well acted story about the life of a (moderately) intelligent sociopath.

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I generally enjoy watching bad things happen to other people. The reason I don't like rape is an autonomic primitive alpha male protective response that I can't control, but watching some other douchebag get cunt-slapped in some other way is always fun. Part of this is because I'm neurotic due to the pain of my own life that I feel I need to project it onto others, but that's a different subject.....

And about Match Point, I don't think the rarity of the circumstances detracts from it. That type of thing can be bad in film, but usually only if it's not done well. Sometimes movies should be about normal stuff, and sometimes about rarities

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I generally enjoy watching bad things happen to other people. The reason I don't like rape is an autonomic primitive alpha male protective response that I can't control, but watching some other douchebag get cunt-slapped in some other way is always fun. Part of this is because I'm neurotic due to the pain of my own life that I feel I need to project it onto others, but that's a different subject.....

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Yeah I totally get it. I personally get the alpha male response when children are harmed, and I guess I consider a wanted unborn child as valuable as a born one.

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And about Match Point, I don't think the rarity of the circumstances detracts from it. That type of thing can be bad in film, but usually only if it's not done well. Sometimes movies should be about normal stuff, and sometimes about rarities

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Maybe the rarity wasn't that bad but the fact that villain clearly didn't optimize EV certainly detracted from my experience. They achieved a bigger impact by taking away credibility.

Blade Runner
12 Monkeys
Fear and Loathing
Aguirre, Wrath of God
The Elephant Man
Dawn of the Dead (remake... sorry George)
Aliens
The Crow
eXistenZ
The Big Lebowski


I would come up with a completely different 10 tomorrow.

^^^ DOD 2004? LMAO. NOTLD LDO.

deal with it.

Haha just kidding I haven't seen either of them. Have to watch them though I like zombies. Shaun of the dead was nice.

I like Night. If you haven't seen it, definitely get it. But don't bring it to a movie night or you'll loose some friends. Out of the whole series I think Dawn is the best, but it was seriously low budged and it showed. The remake really made sense. I had to see it a couple of times until I could admit that it's the better movie... you couldn't ask for a much better team than Zach Snyder and James Gunn to remake it.
I wish he could finally stop with the living dead series and make original movies like Martin again. It's been going on for at least three parts too many.

As far as Zombis go, I think Return Of The Living Dead is hugely underrated. Mostly because it's terrible in every way. But also one of the best on a million different levels. :D

How do I lose friends if I bring the mother of all zombie movies? I don't want those friends.

good lists i guess i would add life is beautiful

[12:50:58 PM] jizzy: in no order, shawshank has to be there
[12:51:00 PM] jizzy: usual suspects
[12:51:15 PM] jizzy: city of god
[12:51:24 PM] jizzy: casino
[12:51:29 PM] jizzy: private ryan
[12:51:36 PM] jizzy: snatch
[12:51:48 PM] jizzy: american beauty
[12:51:56 PM] jizzy: lost in translation
[12:52:10 PM] jizzy: forrest gump
[12:52:36 PM] jizzy: hmmm, the very last one is a tough one
[12:52:41 PM] jizzy: i'd say cowboy bebop
[12:52:51 PM] jizzy: i like it a lot, but it's no top ten material
[12:52:57 PM] jizzy: i'd say ocean's eleven (2001) and million dollar baby tied

dawn of the dead remake was actually REALLY good... I love zombie movies, so I rented it just because I felt I had to.. but I was really surprised and pleased with its production value, homage to the original, but not letting itself be completely constricted by its predecessor.

Dawn of the dead remake is probably the best zombie movie ever made imo. It actually scared the shit out of me and gave me a genuine nightmare, which was amazing btw. The dream was just like a zombie movie, I can really clearly remember a scene from the dream where I got split up from a few of my mates, and could see them accross a walkway in another building and could see a ton of zombies trying to break in, I'm desperately trying to warn them but they don't hear or see me, and my mates are all totally shitting themselves, and then the zombies finally breaking in and kill everyone. Best nightmare ever. Woke up freaked out and sweating like priest in a playground.

The first zombie film to figure out the protagonists need to find full medieval armor, chainsaws, and unlimited ammo shotguns will be the greatest zombie film of all time

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Evil dead 3?

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Once Upon A Time In The West
Apocalypse Now
Taxi Driver
Silence of the Lambs
Maltese Falcon (if you haven't seen it, don't be put off by Humphrey Bogart and whatnot... it's still a great movie)
Death and the maiden
Nosferatu (Herzog)
Titanic (Screw you guys! It's a flawless movie.)
Angel Heart
Dark City

Great thread. Downloaded a few movies of ppl's list and will give them a try.

Side note: How come their are no disney movies on any lists?? They were the shitttttt when I was a kid. gogogogo lion king

I think we have a gay.

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Titanic

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Those in glass houses etc.

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Side note: How come their are no disney movies on any lists?? They were the shitttttt when I was a kid. gogogogo lion king

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Aladdin is actually quite good.

mean girls hasn't been mentioned yet...

seriously, though, haven't seen a single kevin smith film mentioned yet. dogma def cracks my top five

Mean Girls is actually good as well

But only in the comedy/hot chicks category, and even then, it's more a hit n quit good, not a classic good

When it comes to Kevin Smith, nothing comes close to Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Arguably a top comedy. People who disagree need to consider what it would be like to have their asshole eaten out by a fat man in an overcoat

Ok, I'll play.

pulp fiction

equilibrium

on any sunday (not the football movie.. On Any Sunday (1971))

apocalypse now

zombieland

there will be blood

lockstock/snatch (too hard for me to pick)

no country for old men

akira

leon the professional

Wall-E is mentioned twice, The Shining once and Lord of the Rings zero, what the hell is going on? I've seen Wall-e a few times, I like the fat people sipping drinks in lounge chairs, that's like me without the fat.

I enjoyed the LOTR trilogy, but I doubt any of them make it into my top 30 list much less top 10. Never seen wall-e. The shinning is pretty awesome, probably is one of the few horror movies that makes it into my top 30. The Thing would probably be the other, but I guess thats more sci-fi/zombieish.

Will someone help this wayward soul?

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No. No fatties.

WTF, first its talking about botox and now this. Are we linked to some beauty site or something?

I'll prob change my mind tomorrow but whatever:

No order in this:

American History X
Saving Private Ryan
Seven Samurai
Bridge too Far
Schindler's List
Last of the Mohicans
Glory
Downfall
Gettysburg
Terminator 2

Heavily related to war yes.....

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no order

Halloween
Speed
Anchorman
Paranormal Activity
Home alone
Forrest Gump
The Hitcher
The Shining
Shivers
Titanic

honourable mention: Uncle Buck, Shaun of the Dead

5th Element.
Reservior Dogs
Being John Malkovich
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind
how the FUCK is Rounders not mentioned until now
The Hangover
Terminator 2.
Fight Club
The entirety of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Drum Roll for my number one.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

I really have never made a top 10 but here are some movies I love (in no paticular order):

1) Memento
2) Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
3) The Big Lebowski
4) Pulp Fiction
5) American Psycho
6) Wayne's World
7) Silence of the Lambs (best fucking thriller ever)
8) Forest Gump
9) Hero
10) Superbad
11) Good Fellas
12) Caddyshack

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so much win in this thread. can't play though

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100% serious

Rounders:Poker players :: Caddyshack:Golfers
IMO

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Evil - After watching you'll wish your name was Erik Ponti. Ignore the title, it's a terrible translation and has nothing to do with the film

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Just saw this one last week. Easily the best movie I've seen this year.

Raise the Red Lantern
The Lives of Others
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Chinatown
The Seven Samurai
Wild Strawberries
Central do Brasil
Cinema Paradiso
Pan's Labyrinth
Grave of the Fireflies

My favorite by far is Raise the Red Lantern, about a Chinese concubine who is a rich man's 4th husband and how the four of them compete for the master's attention. The depth of storyline goes well beyond what I would have even thought possible in a 2-hour film (and I'm sure it's even better if you're familiar with Chinese culture, which I'm not). The cinematography is astonishingly beautiful as well.

I saw Raise the Red Lantern years ago when we were watching that Hugh Heffner Girls Next Door show and it reminded someone about it. It is certainly a good recommendation for friends if you can find the appropriate context to bring it up.

I wouldn't recommend Grave of the Fireflies. It's a good movie, but watching isn't worth it. If you've seen it, you certainly know why. Very interesting for its perspective and a deeply good story.

And while I'm at it, 2001 a Space Odyssey was one of the most painful movie experiences I have ever had. I appreciate that for being a late 60s movie, it is a brilliant and far-seeing work of art, but for a man in the post 2001 world, I hated the vast majority of it save for HAL and the spaceship models.

Also, Rounders should not be in anyone's top 10 movies. If you can't think of 10 movies which trump it, count yourself lucky. You clearly have not seen many of the world's best movies.

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Please further explain your sentiments about Grave of the Fireflies, Rilla.

Grave of the Fireflies leaves you gripped in total despair. The sadness is ruinous.

It's not as bad as I'm making it out to be, but it's a very sad story and I can't think of any reason to recommend someone spend 90 minutes thinking about the futility of hope and love and togetherness in a world at war.

Wat.

Contemplating the human condition in the context of war is something you would advise against? Either I'm not understanding you, or we are looking for completely different things in movies.