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List your top ten motion pictures.

1.) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2.) Once Upon a Time in America
3.) 8 1/2
4.) The Godfather
5.) Barton Fink
6.) The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
7.) Goodfellas
8.) The Big Lebowski
9.) Adaptaion.
10.) Ed Wood

Let's see... Three Italian movies have the top three spots. Five of the movies were made by Italian/Italian Americans. Four of the movies are about film making (roughly). All ten are realism (most with a pinch of surrealism). Two Sergio Leone movies have the top two spots. Two Coen Bros. films are in there.

I think this reflects my movie tastes fairly well. ;o

Honorable mentions:
- Magnolia
- Boogie Nights
- The Bicycle Thief
- La Dolce Vita
- Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
- Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
 
Holy high ranking Life Aquatic, batman! I don't know if I can come up with a top 10, but I'll think about it. Now by top ten do you mean "favorite" or "best?"
 
That's a wierd list, man. I'm a big fan of Team Zissou, but I couldn't put that one in my top 10. And I've never understood some people's obsession with The Big Lebowski. It's one of those films that some friend or co-worker tells you you have to see, and then you do, and you're like, "Why?"
 
in no paticular order...

Taxi Driver
Pulp Fiction
Saving Private Ryan
Scarface
Raging Bull
Big Lebowsky
Good Fellas
Resovior Dogs
Raising Arizona
Trainspotting
 
No order..

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Terminator 2
The Incredibles
The Crow
Scarface
Pulp Fiction
Garden State
The Butterfly Effect
Reservoir Dogs
Can't think of a tenth one..
 
I'm not going to order this either, and I'm going by favorite, not necessarily best(though one would be hard pressed to argue the quality of these films, of course ;-) ):

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Seven Samurai
Fight Club
Garden State
Yojimbo
Spirited Away
The Good, the Bad and The Ugly
Lost in Translation
Sin City
Harvey
 
I'm currently restructuring the list, so no numbers ...

Fight Club
American Beauty
Leon
Lost in Translation
Requiem for a Dream
Se7en
American Psycho
Pulp Fiction
The Matrix
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Too many honorable mentions to list.
 
1. Pulp Fiction
2. The Usual Suspects
3. Se7en
4. Star Wars
5. Sin City
6. Reservoir Dogs
7. Jackie Brown
8. Lord of the rings
9. Cinderella Man
10. Memento
There's still some good movies out there that I need to see. But at the moment that is the list.
 
Star Wars: ROTJ
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Rocky
Willow
The Matrix
Goonies
Braveheart
Back to the Future
Big
Night of the Living Dead
 
In no order:

Battle Royale
Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
Spider-Man 2
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
The Evil Dead
Ichi the Killer
Big Fish
Dogma
The Matrix
Boondock Saints
 
Animal House
Cool Hand Luke
A Bridge Too Far
Dead Man
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Tombstone
It's a Wonderful Life
SLC Punk!
Unkle Buck
Halloween
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

This is not my official list I need a few weeks to ponder my 10 favorite movies. This will give you an idea of my favorites from most genres.

I know it is 11 but hey who is counting?
 
[quote name='Admiral Ackbar']A pox on all of you who don't list Citizen Kane as number one! A pox I say!!!![/QUOTE]

I love Citizen Kane, but I believe we're going by favorites, not best.
 
[quote name='Admiral Ackbar']A pox on all of you who don't list Citizen Kane as number one! A pox I say!!!![/QUOTE]
Citizen Kane would make my top 10 best movies ever made list but not on my favorite list. It is a great flick and it is on every critic's top 10 because most can't think outside of the box. I will leave Kane for the lists that have Godfather, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Schindler's List, Casablanca, Raging Bull.... The most generic lists of all time. I'm not saying they are bad movies because they are great movies just not as great as the "prestige list in its self."
It is ok to have a few of these movies on your list but having your list revolving around these prestige movies is…. boring.

Ok now I am just rambling.
 
[quote name='BIG5']That's a wierd list, man. I'm a big fan of Team Zissou, but I couldn't put that one in my top 10. And I've never understood some people's obsession with The Big Lebowski. It's one of those films that some friend or co-worker tells you you have to see, and then you do, and you're like, "Why?"[/QUOTE]

I think The Big Lebowski is one of those movies you either love or you just don't get. And I don't mean "don't get" in the sense that you don't understand it, it's just a different type of movie.

It's definitely in my top ten movies (obviously). I think the dialog in TBL is probably the funniest of any movie I have ever seen.
 
In reverse alphabetical order:

Usual Suspects
Sin City
Se7en
Reservoir Dogs
Raising Arizona
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill 1&2
Hedwig & the Angry Inch
Fight Club
Better Off Dead

I'm sure I left several off that I love.
 
[quote name='MrBadExample']In reverse alphabetical order:

Usual Suspects
Sin City
Se7en
Reservoir Dogs
Raising Arizona
Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill 1&2
Hedwig & the Angry Inch
Fight Club
Better Off Dead

I'm sure I left several off that I love.[/QUOTE]

Great choices, though I haven't seen Raising Arizona or Hedwig. I love Better Off Dead but I didn't expect it to make anyone's list. :lol:
 
Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is my favorite movie. I've always been a Star Wars geek. Here's the other 9 in no particular order:

Half Baked
Rounders
The Matrix
Desperado
Halloween
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Meet the Parents
American Pie
American Beauty
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']Great choices, though I haven't seen Raising Arizona or Hedwig. I love Better Off Dead but I didn't expect it to make anyone's list. :lol:[/QUOTE]
Raising Arizona is great if you haven't seen it watch it soon!
 
no order...

braveheart
big lebowski
pulp fiction
sin city (im dying to get the dvd)
leon, the professional
taxi driver
office space
napoleon dynamite
lord of the rings (i saw all three in a row at a theatre so it counts as one)
princess bride
 
too fickle, but here is Halliwell's top 10:
1. Tokyo Story
2. La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game)
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. Godfather Trilogy
5. The Seven Samurai
6. Citizen Kane
7. Raging Bull
8. Vertigo
9. Some Like it Hot
10. 8 1/2
 
1 Signs
2 Lord of the Rings (The Two Towers is my favorite)
3 The Mummy
4 Braveheart
5 Shrek 2
6 Master and Commander
7 The Matrix
8 Gladiator
9 Any Pixar film
10 The Shawshank Redemption
 
I don't know how to pick top 10 movies except to pick 10 movies I like the best. Here they are:
Shawshank Redemption
Casablanca
Princess Bride
Last of the Mohicans
Amadeus
Braveheart
Rear Window
Vertigo
Notorious
Rebecca
 
In no real order my top ten favorites...

Back to the future (trilogy)
Die Hard (trilogy)
The Crow (all 4 movies)
Empire Records
Better Off Dead
Daredevil- DIRECTORs Cut
Clerks
Star Wars (all)
Highlander (1st movie not the bullshit sequels that ruin the first)
The Goonies

Lots of other favorites but those are my top favs....
 
[quote name='mookiemeister']I don't know how to pick top 10 movies except to pick 10 movies I like the best. Here they are:
Shawshank Redemption
Casablanca
Princess Bride
Last of the Mohicans
Amadeus
Braveheart
Rear Window
Vertigo
Notorious
Rebecca[/QUOTE]

Interesting choices... I actually really liked the one's bolded. I'm a huge fan of Alfred Hitchcock.

As for my favorite movies:
(in no particular order)

Star Wars (TESB was the best one)
SLC Punk
The Exorcist (one of the only movies that actually scared me)
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Lord of the Rings (ROTK was probably the best one)
Napolean Dynamite
uhh...if Family Guy on DVD counts
Reservoir Dogs
Dazed and Confused (pretty funny, not way up there on the list)

Oh, well. Screw it. I can't think of the 10th one right now.
 
1 Braveheart
2 Blow
3 Labyrinth
4 The Last Samurai
5 The Shawshank Redemption
6 The Professional
7 Gladiator
8 The Butterfly Effect
9 Rebound
10 Forrest Gump

honorable horse mention to: The Princess Bride, Death to Smoochy, American Beauty, Edward Scissorhands
 
I told you I would forget some - Top 11-20

Kingpin
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Beetlejuice
Princess Bride
The Professional
Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
Incredibles
Old School
Very Bad Things
 
1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Godfather
3. Se7en
4. The Silence of the Lambs
5. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
6. Pulp Fiction
7. Scarface
8. The Matrix
9. Jaws
10. Jurassic Park
bonus: 11. Gremlins
 
It's tought to narrow down to my top 10 faves. There are sooo many movies I love. I will try. Here's my list in no particular order.

Shaun of the Dead
Shrek
Finding Nemo
Monty Python & The Holy Grail
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Kill Bill volume 1
The Devil's Brigade
The Thing (the remake with Kurt Russell)
Ravenous
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels


It was really, really hard to narrow down to this list of 10. Tons of honorable mentions but too many to list.
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']I'm currently restructuring the list, so no numbers ...

Fight Club
American Beauty
Leon
Lost in Translation
Requiem for a Dream
Se7en
American Psycho
Pulp Fiction
The Matrix
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Too many honorable mentions to list.[/QUOTE]

Ten more:

American History X
Garden State
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Fifth Element
Reservoir Dogs
Office Space
Donnie Darko
Dogma
The Emperor's New Groove
The Sandlot
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
 
No order at all, and the list could change depending on the day.

The usual Suspects
Pulp Fiction
Seven Samurai
The Good, the Bad and The Ugly
Batman Begins
LOTR Trilogy
Terminator Trilogy
There's somthing about mary
The matrix
The Fifth Element

And many more!
 
No particular order (after Holy Grail, which is my all-time #1)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Saving Private Ryan
Goodfellas
The Jerk
This is Spinal Tap
Midnight Run
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Princess Bride
The Shawshank Redemption

OK, I cheated a bit by counting the Lord of the Rings trilogy as one movie. If forced to choose just one of the three, I guess I'd go with Return of the King.
 
No order like everyone else:

Fight Club
Star Wars Episode 3 and 5
Escape from L.A.
The Big Lebowsky
Meet the Parents
Spirited Away
Rocky I and II
Dawn of the Dead(not remake)

Some honoralbe mentions:
Anything Depp
Any cowboy movies with Eastwood and The Duke
Batman Begins
Vanilla Sky
Cold Mountain(my g/f made me watch it and i loved it)
American Beauty
 
Flash Gordon (1980 version)
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Return of the Living Dead
Shaun of the Dead
Raders of the Lost Ark
Fargo
E.T.

It's hard to come up with a 10th........so I'll leave it at 9 with and alternating 10th
 
Dawn of the Dead
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Night of the Living Dead
Zombi
Shaun of the Dead
Ichi the Killer
Dead Alive
The Evil Dead
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Hellraiser

I like movies like Pulp Fiction and Fight Club, but I just can't put them up there with the rest of my favorites.
 
I'm back! With a 2nd list..

Dawn of the dead (romero)
frailty
Evil dead trilogy
scarface
the killer
hard boiled
robocop
Vampire Hunter D:bloodlust
coming to america
saving private ryan
 
Bump.

[quote name='BigSpoonyBard']Holy high ranking Life Aquatic, batman! I don't know if I can come up with a top 10, but I'll think about it. Now by top ten do you mean "favorite" or "best?"[/QUOTE]

I mean "favorite", I guess.

And I think "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou" is Anderson's best film. Hands down. It also had great drops of surrealism and was often reminiscent of a Federico Fellini film (surrealism meets realism | life imitates art imitates life).
 
Pulp Fiction
Resevoir Dogs
Matrix
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Kill Bill : Volume 2
Hero
Seven Samurai
Se7en
Saving Private Ryan
The Searchers

These movies are not my favorites, but they are all in my opinion the best movies ever made...for reasons that ave no direct relation to my opinion, but rather stated fact, and execution
 
Casablanca
Pulp Fiction
Star Wars (original trilogy unedited)
The Birds
The Blues Brothers
The Matrix (first only)
Night of the Living Dead
Dial M for Murder
North by Northwest
Indiana Jones (trilogy)
 
I'm really sure I could come up with a top ten. It's just really too difficult, but I'll try. I'm going to make this a list of the best films and then another one later on of my favorites.

Se7en
Star Wars: A New Hope (unedited of course)
Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back (unedited of course, this is my favorite movie by the way)
Memento
Casablanca
Godfather
Lord of the Rings: Two Towers/ Return of the King (tied)
Indiana Jones
Citizin Kane
La Dolce Vita
Rushmore
etc. etc. etc. etc.

Too difficult to make just a list of the Top Ten Best. I could go on and on. I'll try and come back later on with just my favorites since I've just read half of this thread and the last post by the OP and it seems that that was what we were going by.
 
Heat
Glory
Pulp Fiction
Star Wars: Episode 5- Empire Strikes Back
Saving Private Ryan
Gladiator
Die Hard
Versus
Tae Guk Gi
Lost In Translation
 
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