Movie lovers..PLEASE HELP...my top 10

The Godfather
Tears of the Sun
1941
Animal house
Fractured
2000 Space Odyssey
Rocky Balboa
Big Lebowski
Taken
Message in a Bottle
The Postman
Gladiator

in any order at any time

Originally posted by olliemc84
Grandma's Boy
Super Troopers

Haha

I love both of these movies! The first time I saw Grandma's Boy I was surprised. I really didn't want to watch it but i laughed all the way through it. lol



OP here are some of the ones I like. To make a favorite list would be impossible.


All Star Wars
The Mummy/Mummy Returns
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Signs
Stargate
District 9
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Pretty in Pink
Total Recall
Face/Off (pretty much anything with Nicolas Cage BUT Ghost Rider)
Life is Beautiful

Originally posted by Xcellante
Man I love stuff like this. Kinda beats the head pounding trauma of trying to understand what the heck is happening in the world.

So without any further ado:

1. Signs - A lot of people gets this confused as an alien movie. For me it was a lot more personal than that. The fact aliens were in the movie does not necessarily mean it was about them. They served as a backdrop to Gibsons character who had lost faith only to slowly regain it over the course of the movie. For me this will always be my favourite.
This is my favorite movie for sure. I get a lot of crap for it too because many didn't like it. It's nice to see someone who does!

I like it for the same reasons you did but I also liked the aliens in the movie. The birthday scene made me jump in my theater seat and drop my pop corn. It creeped me out and I loved it. I also loved Mel Gibsons character. Watching the movie multiple times I got things that I didn't see the first time.

I watch this movie weekly

3. The Goonies - Need I say more. Came out roughly when I was just discovering life is too short to be taken seriously. One of the few gems that should never and could not be replicated "YOU HEAR ME HOLLYWOOD?" From the moment the credits started rolling I wanted to go on a crusade to find my own pirate ship. How often does a movie make you want to do that?

This is a classic! Who doesn't love Goonies! I think this movie is why I liked baby ruth candy bars and rocky road ice cream. Still love both to this day.

Sadly though I have read they want to do a remake and use Shia Leboeuf as Mikey.. Please NO!!!

10. Gremlins - Pure manic genius. The idea of supernatural creatures causing havoc on a grand scale was always going to be a winner in my book and instead of hating the chaos creating half brothers of the innocent mowgi, you actually went along for the ride and enjoyed their senseless destruction. A comedic gem.

Who didn't want a mowgi!?!

Do you remember Monster Squad?

I love most genres and can't pick reasons why but I'll list my top 10 in no order:

Robocop
Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn
Cloverfield
Commando
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Ghostbusters
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Dark Knight
The Wrestler
Starsky & Hutch

Just 10? Tough call...

1.Dirty Harry
2.The Wild Bunch
3.The Outsiders
4.Some Like it Hot
5.Blade Runner (the Final Cut...of course!)
6.The Empire Strikes Back
7.Full Metal Jacket
8.Sunset Boulevard
9.The Life of Brian
10.Harvey

I'd like to add in The French Connection too, but can't think what I'd take out...and Bullitt...and The Great Escape...ooh...and Platoon...and The Killing Fields should be in there...could we make it Top 20?

Originally posted by hapablab
the philedelphia story (jimmy stewart, not tom hanks lol)

Oh yeah...that one too...tightest dialogue ever! And Hepburn, Stewart AND Grant. Movie heaven.

ETA...Talking of Grant...North by North-West deserves an honourable mention...conspiracy wise

Vertigo Kim Novak
hubba hubba

It's difficult to choose only 10 films,but here goes:
1.In the mouth of madness
2.Event horizon
3.Der Untergang
4.Lord of the rings trilogy
5.Immortal (Ad Vitam)
6.Stargate
7.Das Experiment
8.Star trek(all the movies except insurrection)
9.They live
10.The thing

I'm short on time so I'll post my top10 later, but I am surprised by the omission of a few movies...

The Professional
One flew over the Cuckoos Nest
The Wizard of Oz
Better off Dead
A Bronx Tale
True Romance
Heathers

ok.........maybe I'll just make my own top ten before I judge!!

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How could I forget One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, I've only seen it about 50 times. And the Colour Purple.

Originally posted by wigit
reply to post by TodoMedio

 

How could I forget One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, I've only seen it about 50 times. And the Colour Purple.

You see this is exactly why I have to have a top 100. 10 is way too measley to include all the greats....YES to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...amazing film...

And while we're talking Jack, we have to have China Town in there...

Originally posted by Biliverdin
You see this is exactly why I have to have a top 100. 10 is way too measley to include all the greats....YES to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...amazing film...

I totally agree. Someone start a top 100 thread please.

Dumb and Dumber
Anchorman
Armageddon
The Dark Knight
John Q
Independence Day
Hook
Finding Neverland
Star Wars
Phantom of the Opera

10 is just too hard...

Here's a few.

One flew over the cuckoo's nest.
To kill a mockingbird
Donnie darko
Little miss sunshine
PI
The Fountain
The Man From Earth
Ghost world
Network
Let The Right One In
Aliens
Moon
Sin City
The Watchmen
City of God
Amores Perros
Oldboy
Being John Malkovich
Dogma
The lost boys
American beauty
Clerks
Rushmore
Usual suspects
Exorcist
The Matrix
Taxi driver
A clockwork orange
The big Lebowski
Casino
Goodfellas
Pans labyrinth
Lost in translation
2001 ASO
Eternal sunshine Of The spotless mind
Deerhunter
Memento
Broken flowers
The shawshank redemption
Waking life
American history X
The shining
Amelie
V For Vendetta
12 Angry Men
The thing
Magnolia
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Citizen Kane
Them



I can't think too well and I'm sure I'm missing some glaringly obvious ones/

Oh well

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Chasing Amy
3. The Green Mile
4. Spiderman 2
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
6. The Fisher King
7. Unforgiven
8. Alien
9. The Big Lebowski
10. Spirited Away

I'd give justifications, but they should be self evident.

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Ooooooooooohhhhhh Monster Squad. Now that was good. Kids against Dracula, Wolfman, Swamp Beast, Frankenstein and The Mummy was always a personal favourite of mine. Took me ages to track down a copy of it on DVD a few years back. Now my son gets to enjoy the movies I enjoyed as a kid.

Although Neverending Story repeated over and over does have its limits But he loves it.

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I felt the same way about Grandma's Boy. Bought it in the bargain bin at a Blockbuster came home and laughed my butt off. Dante is my hero LMAO!!!

My ten favorite (at the moment):

1. Pulp Fiction
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Pan's Labyrinth
4. Inception
5. Rear Window
6. The Shining
7. Zodiac
8. Inglorious Basterds
9. The Big Lebowski
10. Into The Wild

Originally posted by Biliverdin

Originally posted by hapablab
the philedelphia story (jimmy stewart, not tom hanks lol)

Oh yeah...that one too...tightest dialogue ever! And Hepburn, Stewart AND Grant. Movie heaven.

ETA...Talking of Grant...North by North-West deserves an honourable mention...conspiracy wise

edit on 4-3-2012 by Biliverdin because: (no reason given)

Oh yeah Stewart's acting was so good, how he can show love like that even in his eyes, I swear I melt every time I watch it. Grant's acting was perfect for the role, you know they really did a good job casting for that movie each actor showed the perfect acting skills for the role they were playing, now I'm off to find a copy I have to see it again!! lol.

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Oh yeah!



*sigh*

They just don't make 'em like that anymore, do they?