These are the movies I’ve watched the most in my life and would like to have with me on a desert island to remind me of the good ol’ days when I wasn’t on a desert island. In no particular order:
Amelie
I Heart Huckabees
Newsies
Adaptation
Rushmore
Sense and Sensibility
Fight Club
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
What About Bob?
School of Rock
All About Eve
Broken Blossoms
Casablanca
Dead Poets’ Society
Glory
Life is Beautiful
Moonstruck
Mr. Hollings’s Opus
Now, Voyager
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
The Wizard of Oz
I know, that’s 11.
The first five, and in that order, are mainstays of my top 10 list; the rest are ones that are on it today.
Local Hero (1983)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Boogie Nights (1997)
This is Spinal Tap (1984)
Unforgiven (1992)
It Happened One Night (1934)
Aliens (1986)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Fargo (1996)
Reviewing my list, and looking at those from other posters, I’m struck by how many truly great movies were made in the 1980s.
I better post without having read the thread*.[ul][li]Duck Soup for the anarchic brilliance that is the Marx Brothers []Young Frankenstein - the funniest and most respectful parody ever created[]The Maltese Falcon - “the stuff that dreams are made of”[]Godspell - because if Jesus were a solemn, effeminate depressive with a British accent as He is in other films, the church would never have gotten started[]Cabaret - Divine Decadence![]Angel Heart - “You’re gonna burn for this.” “I know - in hell.”[]Fantasia - that film is still twenty years ahead of its time, and always will be[]Pinocchio - the best animated film, ever[]Tootsie - And the award for best leading performance, Ever, is…[]Forbidden Planet - The Tempest, in outer space, and it works[/ul][/li]
Regards,
Shodan
Hmmm…
Lebowski
Rear Window
High Noon
Wild Strawberries
Casablanca
Das Boot
Life of Brian
The General
That’s enough
Wow, tough to come up with 10, but here goes (no particular order):
Honorable mention to Fargo, The Blues Brothers, Aliens, Galaxy Quest, the original The Producers and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
In no particular order:
Honorable Mention:
Goodfellows
Any Monty Python
Any Mel brooks, particularly Young Frankenstein
The Princess Bride
Wow. I could live with ArchiveGuy’s list if I had to, though *Vertigo *is not my favorite Hitchcock: too fussy; I prefer the id-hysteria of The Birds. But otherwise, all of these movies are at least in my top 100.
My top ten (which varies; there are actually about 30 movies that rotate in and out):
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[li]1928 Carl Dreyer: The Passion of Joan of Arc[/li][li]1953 Kenji Mizoguchi:* Ugetsu*[/li][li]1927 F.W. Murnau: Sunrise[/li][li]1972 Andrei Tarkovsky: Solyaris[/li][li]1952 Roberto Rossellini: Europa 51[/li][li]1955 Charles Laughton: Night of the Hunter[/li][li]1941 Preston Sturges: Sullivan’s Travels[/li][li]1931 Charles Chaplin: City Lights[/li][li]1934 John Ford: Judge Priest[/li][li]1936 William Wyler:* Dodsworth*[/li][/ol]
Fight Club
Star Wars IV-VI
Finding Nemo
The Emperor’s New Groove
Men In Black
A Christmas Story
Pulp Fiction
Monty Python’s The Life of Brian
Underworld
(Yeah, its 11)
No particular order: Apollo 13, Three Godfathers (John Wayne), Beauty and the Beast, Princess Bride, Field of Dreams, Best Years of Their Lives, Arsenic and Old Lace,
Harvey, So Proudly We Hail, Them!
The Rocketeer
Call of Cthulhu
SOS Pacific
Ladies Crave Excitement
Miracle on 34th Street
Galaxy Quest
Sense & Sensibility
Hobson’s Choice
Them!
The Core
The Crawling Eye (The Trollenberg Terror)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Comrades, Almost a Love Story
A Tale of Two Sisters
The Bride with White Hair
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Kill Bill
Cinema Paradiso
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
** 1. Jean de Florette/ Manon of the springs **
Followed, out of my head and in no particular order by :
Three colours : Blue (and possibly also Red)
Bladerunner
Name of the rose
Excalibur
Time of the Gypsies
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Pan’s labyrinth
Land and freedom
Barry Lyndon
All the mornings of the world
Of course, as soon as I’ll post this list, I will go :smack: because I forgot that other movie that I can’t possibly not mention in my top ten list.
:smack:
:smack:
<sigh> I really don’t want to be one of those… to hell with the rules… I’m just going for it, but… to hell with the rules, I’m going for it.
This is in no particular order- any of these movies I will stop and watch at any point if they are on TV. Most I own.
Braveheart
Amelie
Moulin Rouge
Star Wars Ep’s IV-VI
O Brother Where Art Though & Big Lebowski (Two favorite Coen Brothers)
Field of Dreams
Dead Poets Society
Rocky I-IV (V does not exist, Rocky Balboa was decent, but not anywhere near list worthy)
Rounders
Almost Famous
Aladdin & Jungle Book (My two favorite Disney movies)
Monty Pythons Life of Brian (I find this far funnier than Holy Grail- which I also go into hysterics)
Pulp Fiction
Best in Show
Ferris Beuller’s Day Off
A Clockwork Orange
Stand By Me
Full Metal Jacket
Swingers
Favorites? I don’t really know. Here are some that I really like a lot. The list could be completely different by tomorrow.
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[li]The Stunt Man[/li][li]Sweet Smell of Success[/li][li]My Favorite Year[/li][li]The Thin Blue Line[/li][li]Broadway Danny Rose[/li][li]The Godfather Part II[/li][li]Love and Death[/li][li]Trois Couleurs: Rouge[/li][li]Troi Couleurs: Bleu[/li][li]Ran[/li][/ul]
Hi labdad!
It’s nice to hear from a fellow fan of “You’ll Find Out!”. This movie is available on DVD, (I have a copy), however, I don’t recall who I bought it from!
Fight Club
The Hunt for Red October
The Shawshank Redemption
Apollo 13
Miller’s Crossing
Fargo
The Incredibles
The Godfather
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
Also…
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Memento
L. A. Confidential
Get Shorty
LOTR (considered as one movie for my purposes)
Sirens
Hester Street
Out of Africa
A River Runs Through It
Fight Club
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The Mummy (no, not the boring Karloff classic, the cheesy Indiana Jone ripoff)
The Princess Bride
Pride and Prejudice (Keira version, even if it’s a bit rushed)
A Man for All Seasons
Star Wars
Terminator 2
Forrest Gump
Wayne’s World
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
The Empire Strikes Back
Dawn of the Dead
Smokey and the Bandit
Groundhog Day
Saving Private Ryan