[Vwing]

Since this is a movie forum, let's have everyone post their top 10 favorite movies, preferably in order but it doesn't matter. As far as trilogies (SW, LOTR, or Matrix) go, you make the decision whether or not you count the whole thing as one movie or divide it into its parts. I'm just gonna count SW as a trilogy since I want more space but I actually do like ROTJ most, then the original, then ESB. And no discussion about why I like the 'worst' most and the 'best' the least. Just list

1. Frequency - One of 3 movies I'm not ashamed to admit I've cried at
2. Star Wars trilogy (original of course)
3. Saving Private Ryan - Second of 3 I've cried at
4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
5. Pulp Fiction
6. History of the World Part I - 3rd of 3 of cried at...lol j/k
7. Forrest Gump - the real 3rd of 3
8. Moulin Rouge - not discussing this with you civilian! lol
9. Kill Bill Vol. 1
10. Equilibrium - Yeah it's B-movie crap but I can watch it over and over I love it!

Honorable mention goes to the first 2 godfathers, fight club, goldeneye, Field of Dreams, For love of the Game, Matrix and Matrix Revolutions, and the first 2 installments of the LOTR trilogy (liked the 3rd, but was horribly edited and much more boring than the first 2, which really weren't)

[Despondent]

Love the topic. I'll have to give it some thought. In the meantime,

was at a 4th of July bar-b-que a dozen years ago, discussing movies with a wine snob. "what's your favorite movie?" I asked. "I don't have one favorite movie. I have five favorite movies" he said, and (for once in my life) without missing a beat I (earnestly) replied "the Rocky series?"

my list is sure to include Empire and The Right Stuff.

[Jordan]

Not in any order

1. Batman
2. Dicktracy
3. Princess Bride
4. Memento
5. Spanish Prisoner
6. Nightmare Before Christmas
7. Hunt for Red October
8. Maltese Falcon
9. Enforcer
10. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
11. Missouri Break

And at least 500 more.

[Vwing]

Oh wow, I can't believe I forgot to add memento, that's like number 4 for me. Also Princess Bride is great, another movie I can just watch over and over again. And all Christopher Guest movies rock.

[civilian_number_two]

Off the top of my head (plus about three minutes' worth of thought and a piece of paper), my 10 Favorite American narrative films:

1) Brazil
2) Annie Hall
3) Quiz Show
(no order from now forward)
Rear Window
Goodfellas
Taxi Driver
The Apartment
An American in Paris
Double Indemnity
The Big Lebowski

Plus, of course, loads of others I feel sorry couldn't make it.

[Heccubus]

No particular order:

• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Akira
• Ghost In The Shell
• Evil Dead 2
• Dawn Of The Dead
• The Exorcist
• Nightmare On Elm Street
• Waking Life
• Spinal Tap
• Night Of The Living Dead

[A Mighty Pirate]

Big Lebowski.

Boondock Saints

Office Space

The Usual Suspects

Get Shorty

Snatch

Home Alone

Taxi Driver

Matrix

Batman.


That is all.

That is the only list of movies I will ever need.

[Reader]

In no particular order and subject to change at any time, as usual:

Midnight Cowboy
Crumb
Duck Soup
Alien
Apocolypse Now
Wayne's World (1, not 2)
Woodstock
Monty Python: Holy Grail
Blade Runner
A Clockwork Orange OR 2001: A Space Odyssey (can't decide)

honourable mention to many Coen Bros. films and certain Woody Allen pictures. and also Withnail and I

This post has been edited by Reader: 09 February 2004 - 11:17 PM

[Despondent]

these don't count:

BeeGees: One Night Only

A Very Brady Christmas

(memories of) The Rocky Horror Picture Show


Ten films (in no particular order)

The Empire Strikes Back

Waiting for Guffman

A Christmas Story

Bedknobs & Broomsticks

The Sound of Music

The Right Stuff

Doctor Zhivago

A Mighty Wind

Star Wars

National Lampoon's Vacation

[NETHEREIDY]

1. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2. The Seven Samurai
3. Monty Python: The Holy Grail
4. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
5. Gamera III: Incomplete Struggle
6. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
7. Bran Stoker's Dracula
8. The Seven Year Itch
9. Enter the Dragon
10.The Ghost and the Darkness

[barend]

I love Lord of the Rings more than anything, and I used to feel that way about SW:OT,but I think it's unfair (personally) to include a trilogy in my list of films as they have the unfair advantage of time on their side as far as story telling goes!!!

so here is my list of single films:

01.Bladerunner (the directors cut)

02.The Shining (the Kubric version, duh)

03.Brahm Stokers' Dracula

04.Resevoir Dogs

05.The Crow (only the first one, the other two do not exist as far as I am concerned)

06.the City Of Lost Children

07.Big Trouble In Little China

08.Fight Club

09.Apocalypse Now (Redux)

10.Dark City

there a few films i'm horrified didn't make the list, but oh-well!

[NETHEREIDY]

yes! Finally, someone other than me put Dracula in their top ten! Rock on, man.

Dark City is cool too by the way.

[Vwing]

I really liked Dark City too, thought it dragged on at a couple of points and got a little bored by it at some points (however, I also had a headache at the time and that made it hard for me to really watch it well), but definitely a cool concept and a very well-done movie. Also didn't like the fact that they ruined the story at the beginning with that insulting voiceover from Sutherland explaining the story for the weak of mind, it would've been much better without knowing what he told us, and discovering it for ourselves later. Never saw the Crow, Alex Proyas's (who did Dark City) other film, but I probably will soon, and am looking forward to his I, Robot, comin out in July. Also just a comment barend, you put Resevoir Dogs over Pulp Fiction? Why?