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Top Ten Movies

DominicCobb

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I was looking at the Top Ten Trilogies thread and I started thinking about what my top ten movies are. Actually that's not true. I started a list of my favorite movies about four years ago and have been updating it ever since. I think there's almost 700 movies on there right now.
So I don't know if this is already a thread but... if it was I couldn't find it.

Here's my top ten:
1. Star Wars
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
4. Raging Bull
5. The Godfather
6. Schindler's List
7. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
8. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
9. Apocalypse Now
10.Back to the Future

And just because:
11.Saving Private Ryan
12.Goldfinger
13.Jaws
14.Lawrence of Arabia
15.Pulp Fiction
16.Taxi Driver
17.Rocky
18.The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
19.2001: A Space Odyssey
20.Monty Python and the Holy Grail

What's your ​top ten?
 

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I talked with a few friends about top ten movies and how there are the "movies I consider to be the greatest movies" and "movies I cannot stop loving/watching"

curiously a lot of times one movie that has stayed with you longer than any "important" movie will never show up in your top ten because it is not great enough to be among the greatest...

I sure know that Aliens is the greatest movie I have ever seen, but one movie will never leave the top ten no matter how much it has "no right to be there":

The boat that Rocked
 

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  1. Raising Arizona
  2. Brazil
  3. Koyaanisqatsi
  4. Dr. Strangelove
  5. Naked (Mike Leigh)
  6. Leon
  7. The Empire Strikes Back
  8. 2001: A Space Odyssey
  9. La Cite Des Enfants Perdus
  10. Transformers: The Movie
My list fluctuates and it's nearly impossible for me to pick 10.

Continuing:
11. Punch Drunk Love
12. Das Boot
13. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Will add more as I think of them.
 

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off the top of my head...

Das Boot
Raiders
Predator 2
Alien 3
CE3K
Jaws
Primer
Amelie
Solaris [remake]
Magnolia

like others I cant make a definitive top 10 from categories like movies and music its rotates it varies etc etc, these are just movies that I never grow tired of.
 

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1. The Godfather
2. Evil Dead 2
3. Say Anything
4. Goodfellas
5. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
6. The Big Lebowski
7. Dazed and Confused
8. The Killing (Kubrick, 1956)
9. Pulp Fiction
10. Mad Max 2
 

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pan's labyrinth
the orphanage
the godfather
children of men
back to the future
ghostbusters
star wars
when harry met sally
pulp fiction
drive
 

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oldboy
yojimbo
failan
blade runner
raiders of the lost ark
sympathy for mr. vengeance
twilight samurai
pulp fiction
nadja
dig!
brazil
hanabi
bottle rocket
bad lieutenant
synthetic pleasures
 

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In no particular order/ first ones that pop into my head:

Star Wars (the whole damn saga, prequels (edits) and all)
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time/Summer Wars
Chronicle
Ed Wood
Millennium Actress
Hugo
Captain America: The First Avenger
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Megamind
The Three Stooges/Ed, Edd n' Eddy's Big Picture Show
 

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A lot of you will probably find this list kind of messed up, but it's my honest opinion. It's a bit more on the side of what's entertaining than on the side of artistic quality.

1. The Dark Knight
2. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
3. Forrest Gump
4. The Matrix
5. Beauty and the Beast (you can tease me for loving a princess movie)
6. The Godfather
7. The Empire Strikes Back
8. Up
9. Batman Begins
10. The Sound of Music

Aw, why not 10 more?

11. Star Wars
12. Ratatouille
13. Psycho
14. Toy Story 3
15. Back to the Future
16. Terminator 2
17. Die Hard
18. Inception
19. Raiders of the Lost Ark
20. The Shawshank Redemption
 

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Top ten movies that while may not seem great, have changed my life in some way shape or form.....

1. It's a Wonderful Life (the ending gets me every time)
2. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Just amazing)
3. Inception (visuals, music, story, I love everything about it)
4. Drive (probably the coolest movie I have ever seen)
5. The Blues Brothers (such a fun ride from start to finish)
6. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of The Black Pearl (a crowning achievement in a modern swashbuckling adventure)
7. Jaws (just simply PERFECTION)
8. The Untouchables (love the action, drama, and feel the need to cheer every time Costner delivers the final cheesy line)
9. Casablanca (from being heartbroken straight to his heartfelt final goodbye to Ilsa, Rick knew how to be the coolest from start to finish)
10. Batman (1989) (I was 5 when I saw it in theaters and it was the first time I "heard" music and felt its effects. This movie is why my career is in the music field)


These films are MY classics
 

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njvc, ssj, Nic, QuickCut and Musiced...

I love your lists. Such a great variety of movies. :)
 

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1. The Matrix
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Donnie Darko
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Fight Club
6. Reservoir Dogs
7. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark
9. Gattaca
10. RoboCop
 

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In no particular order. (and not counting Star Wars OT trilogy and LOTR...)

- Jaws
- Blade Runner
- Vertigo
- Pan's Labyrinth (thought about it before njvc put it on his list)
- The Orphanage (thought about it before njvc put it on his list, 2)
- Alien
- The Terminator.
- Rocky.
- Conan (82)
- The adventures of Robin Hood (38)

could have added Raiders. Althought Temple of Doom is probably the Indy I prefer watching the most. (Even if I do think Raiders is better movie overall)
 

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Really hard for me. It depends on my mood, but here are 10 of my favorites. In no particular order:


  • The Empire Strikes Back
  • Blade Runner
  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  • Terminator 2
  • Alien
  • Leon
  • Ghostbusters
  • Real Genius (a guilty pleasure that I go back to repeatedly)
  • Kill Bill vol. 1
 

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Thought of a few more:

Princess Mononoke
Attack the Block
Watchmen
Roshomon
The Grey
Terminator 2
Rebuild of Evangelion (at least the first two of this quadrilogy)
Hot Fuzz
Blazing Saddle
Back to the Future
Tropic Thunder
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
Drive Angry
 

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This is very hard to narrow down, but lists are fun! In no particular order.

01.Fight Club
02.Amelié
03.Big Fish
04.Strange Brew
05.Undercover Brother
06.Trading Places
07.The Big Lebowski
08. Psycho II (yes, you got that right)
09. Seven Samurai
10. Dune
 

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It also depends in my case. It's never a fixed list.
Some of my favourites, in no particular order:

  • Once Upon a Time in the West
  • Citizen Kane
  • Seven Samurai
  • Star Wars OT
  • Superman (as a whole)
  • Apocalypse Now (Blu Ray, including Redux)
  • King Kong (The Original)
  • Everything Manchester United-history related

This is by no means a complete list. In fact, I hate having to dial it down to 10 titles.

Personal soft spots include:
  • Escape to Victory
  • Goal, and Goal II
  • Ip Man film series
  • The Blues Brothers
  • Loose Cannon (starring Akroyd and Hackman)
  • Walk the Line
  • Léon
  • Resident Evil film franchise
  • Entire Jean-Claude Van Damme filmography
  • Thor
  • Mr. Nobody
  • Bronson
  • Clint Eastwood filmography (living legend, him!)

I could keep this up all night, you know...
 

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That's what she said...
 

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My top 10 films may not be the best films but they have a story/meaning behind them

1) batman - this was the first film I really looked forward to, I mean I collected everything that was batman related. unfortunately this was one of the first films here in the uk to be given a 12a rating and I was about 10 or 11 at the time. I had to wait until the end of it's cinema run until I got to see it and I remember the woman asking my dad how old I was and he had to memorizes a different birth date for me

2) ghost busters – after seeing this film I built my own proton pack and ghost buster catcher, my grandad got me a boiler suit from work and for a year I was the fifth ghost buster. To this day my family still reminds me of this and bill murray is my hero

3) highlander - me and the family went on holiday to skegness and the hotel we stayed in had cable which was a big thing at the time. my parents went out for the evening leaving me and my sister alone and we started to watch this film highlander that just blew me away

4) anchorman – I was at a very low point in my life and needed to cheer myself up. I went into this film not knowing a great deal about it (I didn't know who will ferrell was at the time) but I needed a laugh and this film really delivered. I will always defend will ferrell against his haters :)

5) robocop – I must have been about 10 or 11 when I saw this film and I never saw the violence or heard the language I just saw this cool character and copied his walk and added my own sound effects

6) eternal sunshine of the spotless mind – I see a lot of films at the cinema and I say 95% of the films I see don't really effect me in any way. After I saw this film I knew I had seen something very special, something very unique that I find hard to describe

7) Rambo – I think when your young your dad almost forces you to watch a film that he loves (a passing of the torch if you will) and this was it

8) planes trains and auto-mobiles – john candy’s speech you wanna hurt me (look it up on you tube) means a real lot to me. I was bullied at school so the line 'I like me' was a something that meant a lot to me at the time and still does. I remember the day he died and my mum telling me and feeling genuinely upset, a true talent lost

9) pulp fiction – the mid 90's for me was a really good period we had the hole brit-pop era and I was about 16 at the time. My parents had gone away on holiday leaving me alone for the first time and so I had friends round. At the time I was to young to watch this film at the cinema but someone had a copy and it was the must see film of the time. I remember watching this in the afternoon and my friends had fallen asleep (I think I had threw a party the night before) and I was just transfixed by what I was seeing.

10) Labyrinth/the muppets 2011 – the last day's of school before holidays here in the uk you get to watch a film and I remember seeing labyrinth for the first time. I used to watch fraggle rock and muppet babies when I was young (was probably too young for the muppet show) and like john candy the news of Jim henson's death was really sad for me. This year my nephew has started to get into the muppets, and I take him to the cinema a lot and so it was a fantastic experience seeing the muppets with him. since then when ever he's slept over he's watched the muppet show and labyrinth for the first time.
 

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Kal-El said:
I could keep this up all night, you know...

TV's Frink said:
That's what she said...

If that's what she said then you might have a problem. :lol: Unless the "TV" in your name doesn't stand for "Television" :p :lol:
 
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