After thinking it over - yes it IS quite hard to pick
just 10, I feel like I'm being disloyal to those movies I don't mention, lol.
OK, not in any order but here goes:
dead poet's society / freedom
ordinary people / life is difficult
like water for chocolate / sensuality
silence of the lambs / the dark side
sense and sensibility / suspense of waiting/proper behavior
kill bill vol 2 / importance of the proper education
wait until dark / audrey
a bronx tale / day in the life
citizen x / monstrous true story
fiddler on the roof / great everything
steel magnolias / tissues
gone with the wind / classic
Just can't seem to restrict it anymore today
"Kill Bill Vol. II" -- importance of education.
I think that's exactly what Quentin was after -- you have to learn how to do away with your advasaries before you walk into it blindly. Uma Thurman's perserverance is astounding in this movie. Okay, so it's fantastic imagination almost run wild. Very, very entertaining and, as usual, a juggernaut script.
I agree LWiz. I adore the dark & darker humor
typical of Q & U. Isn't Uma so good at what she does,
she perfects Beatrix Kiddo & seems born for this role.
She was one mean machine in the films but one also felt great empathy for her character. She was a bird of the feather that got all her feathers plucked (well, and a few other wounds) and proved that revenge is truly sweet. Not on my top ten list but easily on a top one-hundred list.
Here's my top 10 favorites (without regard to critical or popular appeal, or lack thereof):
1. "The Right Stuff"
2. "The Deerhunter"
3. "My Favorite Year"
4. "Tombstone"
5. "Midnight Run"
6. "King of Comedy"
7. "Aliens"
8. "The Godfather, Part 2"
9. "Stripes"
10. "Dr. Strangelove"
That's an intriguing mix, AllanSwann -- I think I've always loved "The Right Stuff" for its musical score as much as anything else in the movie. I'm not quite sure about "Stripes" next door to "Dr. Strangelove."
1) The Godfather (series, all of them, in one long boxer sweating 3-pizza ordering, dear god I can't feel my legs marathon.)
2) Saving Private Ryan
3) Braveheart (no sniggering please)
4) Itallian Job
5) The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (waoo wao waoooooooo)
6) Star Wars (god, I can't even keep straight what the epsiode enumerations are. The first one of the original series, not the one with annoying, floppy eared muppet)
7) Pi
8) Saints and Soldiers (good indy flick)
9) Napoleon Dynamite
10) Amelie
Yes, there's a rather pronounced absence of older films. There's a good reason for this, but i'll not share it unless provoked.
Stairway to Heaven ( A Matter of Life or Death)
Hamlet( Olivier)
Seven Samurai
The Red Shoes
Day of the Jackal(original version)
Zulu
The Producers
Blazing Saddles
Judgment at Nuremberg
The Godfather( Part Two)
Lightwizard wrote:That's an intriguing mix, AllanSwann -- I think I've always loved "The Right Stuff" for its musical score as much as anything else in the movie. I'm not quite sure about "Stripes" next door to "Dr. Strangelove."
I'll confess to being pedestrian (no foreign flix), contemporary (nothing older than the 60s) and highly unlikely to coincide with any critic's list. The comedies I picked based upon their ability to consistently, after many, many viewings, to still provoke an audible chuckle. "Strangelove" is absolutely a classic while "Stripes" is my personal favorite film from Harold Ramis (the hands-down contemporary "King of Comedy").
1 Brazil
2 The Shawshank Redemption
3 Dark Star
4 taegukgi (Brotherhood)
5 Lawrence of Arabia
6 Trainspotting
7 Donnie Darko
8 Stalingrad
9 Aliens
10 Jaws
My top ten will probably be different in about 10 minutes time. There are just too many favourets out there. Number 11 (if there was one) would be Platoon.
Sorry, couldn't leave it out.
The Deerhunter was soo long a nd dreary, I couldnt watch it all.
I love King of Comedy, coz of De Niro and Lewis!!!
Not in any particular order:
1. Candy Stripers
2. Debbie Does Dallas
3. Deep Throat
4. Naked Came the Stranger
5. Three Daughters
6. Alice in Wonderland
7. Randy the Electric Lady
8. Outlaw Ladies
9. Three Daughters
10. Shayla's Web
Im admitting Ive actually seen Debbie does Dallas.
I guess I listed one of those twice. Anyway, I'm only kidding. I've never seen any of those movies except for Candy Stripers and that one kind of sucked... Here's my real list:
In America
Terminator 2
Dead Poet Society
Pay it forward
Brave Heart
Scent of a Woman
Garden State
American Beauty
Saving Private Ryan
Back to the Future (All 3)
Good to see "In America" show up on someone's personal list.
There's two ways of responding here: 1) my favorite movies of all time, i.e. those movies I've watched 20 times or more; and 2) a top ten where I list the movies that I think are the best movies I've ever seen.
What the hell - here's both:
Favorites:
1. Clue
2. Rock & Rule
3. Sixteen Candels
4. Risky Business
5. American Graffiti
6. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
7. Stand By Me
8. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
9. National Lampoon's Vacation
10. Predator
Best:
1. Platoon
2. Glory
3. Waking Life
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Requiem for a Dream
7. American Beauty
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
9. Good Will Hunting
10. Natural Born Killers
This is hard but off hard there are too many good movies that I probably won't think of.
All time favorites
The Matrix
Lord Of The Rings
Fight Club
American Beauty
Its a wonderful Life
Boondock Saints
Forrest Gump
The Usual Suspects
Cruel Intentions
The Sixth Sense
Others would be
American Pie
Something About Mary
Heathers
Serendipity
When Harry Met sally
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
E.T.
Indiana Jones (all of them)
Spiderman
Full Metal Jacket
French Kiss
Shawshank redemption
Glory
two fabulous movies also.
And Good Fellas
Just saw "GoodFellas" in hi def and it is still my favorite ganster flick even over "The Godfather." I do believe it spawned "The Sopranos." That doesn't discount some of my other favorites, Kubrick's "The Killing," "The Grifters," "White Heat" and "The Usual Suspects." "The Usual Suspects" is unique in dealing with the world of international gangsters (what and ending!) As far as what would be more in the genre of a "cop flick," it's "LA Confidential."
It is hard to pin down a top ten, and I admire film critics and film historians when they are able to do it. It think their lists has more to do with the historical significance of the film at the time it was released as much as anything else. It's not necessary to be a film historian to pick ones personal favorites -- it's the movies that had an emotional impact and may have touched one deeply in its thematic material, or maybe just a great diversion of entertainment.
Welcome to A2K, azure.
Thank you for the welcome Lightwizard.
I agree about the critics top movies. You can almost certainly expect to see Citizen Kane and Casablanca in the top five.
Good fellas is also my favorite over the Godfather. L.A. Confidential was a great cop movie. Its hard to pin my top my movies down as well because there are also so many categories. Drama, Action, comedy, etc...
I never really listen to movie critics. There are plenty of times I think they got it wrong. I can certainly appreciate the historical films but as for myself I can relate more to more modern day films or movies I saw as a child. There was one particular movie I saw when I was young and it really had an effect on me that still lingers as an adult. "The Exorcist" was the movie that made me afraid of the dark, even now.
