Your Choices For The Greatest Movies Ever Made?

I have seen a lot of movies and to each his own.What would the world be like if everyone liked the same thing? There are what some people see and think as being "bad movies" and "good movies" and then there are what some people see and think as being "great movies" Here's what i think are the greatest motion pictures ever made. If anyone has not seen any of the films in my list,check them out,you will not be disappointed...

1 - War And Peace -1967 - Russian...Directed by, Sergei Bondarchuk.

2 - Lawrence Of Arabia -1962 - British...Directed by, David Lean.

3 - 2001 A Space Odyssey - 1968 - British...Directed by, Stanley Kubrick

4 - French Connection - 1971 - American...Directed by, William Friedkin

5 - Apocalypse Now - 1979 - American...Directed by, Francis Ford Coppola

6 - North By Northwest - 1959 - American...Directed by, Alfred Hitchcock

7 - House Of Flying Daggers - 2004 - Chinese...Directed by, Yimou Zhang

8 - Dances With Wolves - 1990 - American...Directed by, Kevin Costner

9 - Apocalypto - 2006 - American...Directed by, Mel Gibson

10 - Saving Private Ryan - 1998 - American...Directed by, Steven Spielberg


Of course all those films "must be seen" in their original "Wide Screen" format...

They Live. Best movie ever. Best fight scene in a movie ever. Best one liners, ever.

I like house of flying daggers, these kind of movies are great!

As far as the greatest movies, I'm a horror movie fanatic.

The Exorcist
ALL of the older Nightmare on Elm Street
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Not a True story by the way)
that's it.
I love ALL kinds of movies though.
Netflix Rocks!

i could easily add another 20 movies to my list, but those are the greatest of the greats to me.

reply to post by blocula

I've only seen 2 of the movies on your list.
LOL

Fiddler on the Roof

Originally posted by GmoS719
reply to post by blocula

 

I've only seen 2 of the movies on your list.
LOL

Which ones have you seen?

Ugh! Duplicate thread and apparently I posted on the wrong one..

So I'll just paste my reply to your other post here. =]

In no particular order:

- The Big Lebowski

- The Royal Tenenbaums

- Donnie Brasco

- Ferris Bueller's Day Off

- The Fall

- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Maybe my #1)

- Taxi Driver

- Reservoir Dogs

- Big Trouble in Little China

- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Bam!


ETA: You listed Dances With Wolves, which I think is a damn great flick and should have probably been on my list too.

1.The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari (1920)

2.The Thief Of Bagdad (1924)

3.Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

4.All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)

5.Night Of The Living Dead (1968)

I love the classics.

Originally posted by blocula

Originally posted by GmoS719
reply to post by blocula

 

I've only seen 2 of the movies on your list.
LOL

Which ones have you seen?

The house of flying daggers and saving private ryan

Originally posted by TruthWizard
1.The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari (1920)

2.The Thief Of Bagdad (1924)

3.Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

4.All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)

5.Night Of The Living Dead (1968)

I love the classics.

I forgot to add Night of the Living Dead!
great movie.

Double post much?

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I'll weigh in with a few, in no particular order:

The Big Lebowski
The Blues Brothers
Heat
The Deer Hunter
First Blood
This is Spinal Tap

I just watched the 1956 Ten Commandments recently and forgot how epic of a movie it really is

I have many but those that deserve repeat viewing are:

1. The Great Escape (Steve McQueen)

2. The Exodus (Paul Newman)

3. Rain Man (Dustin Hoffman)

4. The Verdict (Paul Newman)

5. The Godfather

6. All the President's Men

7. Goodfellers

8. The Green Mile

9. Lord of the Rings

10. Schindlers List

11. Gone With The Wind

12. Dr Zhivago (Omar Shariff)

13. Forrest Gump

14. The Piano

15. The Last of the Mohicans

16. Titanic

17. Black Hawk Down

18. Apocalypto

19. The Bourne Identity

20. Midnight Express

1. The Seventh Seal

2. Blade Runner

3. The Royal Tenenbaums

4. Seven Samurai

5. 2001: A Space Oddyssey

6. Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas

7. Akira

8. Videodrome

9. The Third Man

10. The Shining

Just my two cents

Saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and while I normally enjoy those kinds of movies, I hated that one. Couldn't get into The Seventh Seal either, nothing was happening so I gave up with 20 minutes to go.



Greatest movies....hmm.....


The Big Lebowski
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Commando
Predator
The Dark Knight
Scarface (the one about Tony Montana not Al Capone)
Robocop
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Ghostbusters
Muppet Christmas Carol
Scrooged
Dead Poets Society
Cloverfield
Goldeneye
Ong Bak
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Shrek
Toy Story 3
Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn
Pulp Fiction
Snatch
The Passion of the Christ
Saving Private Ryan
The Terminal
Star Wars Episode 4: A New Hope
This Is Spinal Tap

Forest Gump - because "sometimes, there just aren't enough rocks."

Originally posted by blocula
I have seen a lot of movies and to each his own.What would the world be like if everyone liked the same thing? There are what some people see and think as being "bad movies" and "good movies" and then there are what some people see and think as being "great movies" Here's what i think are the greatest motion pictures ever made. If anyone has not seen any of the films in my list,check them out,you will not be disappointed...

1 - War And Peace -1967 - Russian...Directed by, Sergei Bondarchuk.

2 - Lawrence Of Arabia -1962 - British...Directed by, David Lean.

3 - 2001 A Space Odyssey - 1968 - British...Directed by, Stanley Kubrick

4 - French Connection - 1971 - American...Directed by, William Friedkin

5 - Apocalypse Now - 1979 - American...Directed by, Francis Ford Coppola

6 - North By Northwest - 1959 - American...Directed by, Alfred Hitchcock

7 - House Of Flying Daggers - 2004 - Chinese...Directed by, Yimou Zhang

8 - Dances With Wolves - 1990 - American...Directed by, Kevin Costner

9 - Apocalypto - 2006 - American...Directed by, Mel Gibson

10 - Saving Private Ryan - 1998 - American...Directed by, Steven Spielberg


Of course all those films "must be seen" in their original "Wide Screen" format...

edit on 18-10-2011 by blocula because: (no reason given)

I have seen all the movies on your list and they are all great movies......but to make a list of just 10 is just impossible........there are so many kinds of movies, no sorry that's just impossible...........

davethebear...I'm glad you've had a chance to see all 10 of the movies that i listed...

I agree that it's a very hard choice.Thats why i didn't ask for a specific number of films in my thread headline.But if i "had" to pick only 10...The movies i listed would be my choices.

When listing favorite movies,we can start with a 10 best list.But then that seems to require the need for a 15 best.Before you know it 15 turns into 20 into 30 into 50...So i cut myself off at 10 for this thread...