Your Personal Top Ten Favorite Films

Aw man, I forgot Shaun of the Dead!

Casablanca
Unforgiven
The Untouchables
Silverado
Laura
Midnight Run
Pulp Fiction
Se7en
Roadhouse
Miracle on 34th Street

Based purely on how often I reach for them on a boring evening or afternoon (and in no order):

Om Gud Vill/God Willing
American Splendor
Stardust
Rock And Roll High School
High Fidelity
Duck Soup and Monkey Business (I can’t keep it to one Marx Brothers movie)
Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
This is Spinal Tap special edition

Can I cheat and grab a DVD full of Three Stooges shorts?

Movies I regularly pull out and watch for fun:

Ghostbusters
Fargo
Pulp Fiction
Zulu
Dumb and Dumber
Happy Gilmore
Aliens
Ocean’s Eleven (Clooney version)
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Incredibles

First, I’m going to cheat by getting those cd jewel cases that hold two each. Hell with the cover art!

Grosse Pointe Blank
Tombstone
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The World According to Garp
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Godfather
What Dreams May Come
The Seventh Sign
The Deer Hunter
Blade
Invasions of the Body Snatchers (1978?)
When a Stranger Calls (1975?)
Aladdin
First Blood
Joy Luck Club
The Majestic
The Truman Show
Forrest Gump
Gone with the Wind
Set it Off

I know, that’s 21!

In no particular order:

Yojimbo
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Big Lebowski
The Lion in Winter (O’Toole/Hepburn)
Kung Fu Hustle
Shaun of the Dead
Wall-E
Death to Smoochy
Star Wars
Fellowship of the Ring

ETA: lobotomyboy63’s post reminded me of another favorite: Tombstone, the most quotable move ever. I get 11, right? :smiley:

I would consider the LOTR trilogy to be one film.
About a Boy.
Master and Commander.
Out of Africa.
Blade Runner.
Tootsie.
A Fish Called Wanda.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
After that it gets harder. Maybe the Incredibles. Or Midnight Run with Robert DeNiro and Charles Grodin. Or Without a Clue with Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley.

American Beauty
The Dark Crystal
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Brazil
Metropolis (anime version)
Life of Brian
Dazed and Confused
Time Bandits
Chicago

And since I am on a desert island, I absolutely must have my Davd Gilmour - Remember That Night concert DVD. Allow me that and I’ll never even think about being rescued!

1. Trevor (Oscar for best short film, live action, 1994)
2. Brokeback Mountain
3. Midnight Cowboy

4. In and Out
5. Boys In the Band
6. Priscilla Queen of the Desert
7. American Beauty
8. Priest
9. The Ritz
10. Mommie Dearest, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Valley of The Dolls

My ten films (not in any particular order) would include:

You’ll Find Out! (with Kaye Kyser, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Bela Lugosi, et. al.)
Forbidden Planet
Deep Rising
Robots
The Usual Suspects
The Italian Job (with Mark Wahlberg)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (the original version)
The Incredibles
They Live
Ocean’s Twelve

If I could add say, five more, they’d be:
The Battle of Algiers (La bataille d’Alger)
The Dam Busters
Sugarland Express
A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)
The Haunted Mansion (starring Eddie Murphy)

Top 10:

  1. A Bridge Too Far
  2. Von Ryan’s Express
  3. Where Eagles Dare
  4. The Prestige
  5. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
  6. Zulu
  7. The Italian Job
  8. The Great Escape
  9. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  10. Das Boot

How could I forget Raiders! And The Bridge on the River Kwai!

  1. Citizen Kane (makes the list because of genuine adoration, honest)
  2. The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp
    3 The Godfather
  3. Jackie Brown
  4. The Great Race
  5. Barry Lyndon
  6. Kind Heart & Coronets
  7. Vertigo
  8. Midnight Run
  9. The Deer Hunter

A Matter of Life and Death
All About Eve
Halloween
Psycho
Rear Window
Meet Me in St. Louis
Babe 2: Pig in the City
Casablanca
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Tie between Sorcerer and Rififi

A Philadelphia Story.
Willow.
Los últimos de Filipinas.
Rear Window.
Airbag.
Belle Époque.
Terminator.
La venganza de Don Mendo.
Sergeant York.
Sergeant Rutledge. (not sure if that’s really the original name, can’t access IMDB and the spanish wiki page is very empty)

… I really should start cutting down on the war movies…

In the order they come to mind:

1: The Usual Suspects
2: Michael Bay’s TransFormers
3: Stardust
4: Gone With the Wind
5: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
6: Dangerous Liaisons
7: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
8: Wall Street
9: Love Actually
10: Terminator 2

No, I’m not that sophisticated when it comes to movies - I just wanna be entertained.

In no particular order:

  1. McCabe & Mrs. Miller
  2. Bull Durham
  3. Vertigo
  4. The Royal Tenenbaums
  5. Kill Bill, Vol. 1
  6. Dawn of the Dead (the original George Romero version, natch)
  7. The Last Waltz
  8. Crumb
  9. Night of the Hunter
  10. Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain

I can’t believe I forgot Monty Python, A Fish Called Wanda, and Mel Brooks! MP: if I had to pick one, I guess Life of Brian, but I’d like to bring MP and the Holy Grail too. It’s a toss up for Mel Brooks stuff too: Young Frankenstein probably wins, but Blazing Saddles is a close second.

Laugh. Scoff. Smirk. Whatever. I happen to lurve these movies.

Snatch
Trainspotting
Clueless
Mister Roberts
The Color Purple
Remember the Titans
Babe
Tombstone
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast
The Iron Giant
A Nightmare Before Christmas (I know - it’s eleven)

Additional lurves:
Doc Hollywood - I watch this EVERY time it’s on.
What a Girl Wants - I don’t care what you think!
Ever After - Drew Barrymore Rocks!
Ocean’s 11

I love Snatch too, jali.