Your top 10 movies of all time?

[Neversoft]

Just as the title says - what are you top ten favourite movies of all time? This is going to be hard, but here goes...

1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001 - 2003, Dir. Peter Jackson)
2. Oldboy (2003, Dir. Chan-wook Park)
3. The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Dir. Frank Darabont)
4. Ping Pong (2002, Dir. Fumihiko Sori)
5. The Matrix (1999, Dir. Wachowski Brothers)
6. Into The Wild (2007, Dir. Sean Penn)
7. The Seven Samurai (1954, Dir. Akira Kurosawa)
8. One Hour Photo (2002, Dir. Mark Romanek)
9. Letters From Iwo Jima (2006, Dir. Clint Eastwood)
10. Ran (1980, Dir. Akira Kurosawa)

Just missed the cut - Shinjuku Incident, Saving Private Ryan and The Incredibles.

What about yours? :D

[Misawa]

Jaws
Pulp Fiction
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Suspiria
Last House on the Left (1972)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Zombie
Deep Red
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
The Shawshank Redemption

Honourable mentions: Alien, Aliens, Reservoir Dogs, Cannibal Holocaust, Tenebrae, Night of the Living Dead (1968), Misery, Jurassic Park, The Empire Strikes Back, Jaws 2, Ichi the Killer.

[ItsDave]

1. Click
2. Shaun of The Dead
3. Beverely Hills Cop 3
4. Faceoff
5. Anger Management
6. The Incredibles
7. Hot Fuzz
8. The Mask
9. Liar Liar
10. Toy Story

[Special]

10?! I have too many favourites, but my all time one has to be Twister (1996)

[TehJoshy]

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Snatch
3. The Departed
4. The Godfather Trilogy
5. The DaVinci Code
6. Ancorman
7. Bowfinger
8. Wayne's World 1/2
9. Batman Begins/Dark Knight
10. Angles & Demons

[Black_Apalachi]

Too hard ;l
My list would probably include;

Reservoir Dogs
The Big Lebowski
The Shawshank Redemption
The Bourne Identity
King Kong (2005, Peter Jackson)
Ocean's 11
Dances With Wolves
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Lethal Weapon
Bambi

I guess "nostalgia" is a good way to justify some of them :P. I've no doubt forgotten some as well. Pup Fiction and The Lord of the Rings amongst others should probably be in there really lol.

[Hiro]

1. Paint Your Wagon
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
3. Star Wars
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Wayne's World
6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7. Forrest Gump
8. Raiders of the Lost Ark
9. See No Evil, Hear No Evil
10. Full Metal Jacket

A strange mix there. :D

[untrustus]

i haven't seen too many films, but here's a rough top 10:

1. toy story
2. pulp fiction
3. napoleon dynamite
4. ferris bueller's day off
5. donnie darko
6. garden state
7. little miss sunshine
8. control
9. a hard day's night
10. trainspotting


1. Click

troll? please be a troll.

[Neversoft]

Too hard ;l
My list would probably include;

Reservoir Dogs
The Big Lebowski
The Shawshank Redemption
The Bourne Identity
King Kong (2005, Peter Jackson)
Ocean's 11
Dances With Wolves
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Lethal Weapon
Bambi

I guess "nostalgia" is a good way to justify some of them :P. I've no doubt forgotten some as well. Pup Fiction and The Lord of the Rings amongst others should probably be in there really lol.

No Requiem For A Dream? :P

[Simmzay]

Shawshank redemption, Saving Private Ryan, Collateral, Memento, Magnolia, Requiem for a dream, There will be blood, No country for old men, American History X and Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.

[Black_Apalachi]

i haven't seen too many films, but here's a rough top 10: ...

Oh yeah, Garden State is great :).


No Requiem For A Dream? :P

That's a hard one really. It's a fantastic film but I think of my favourites as ones I know I'll watch over and over in years to come (cos I hardly ever re-watch things). I'm not saying I'll never watch Requiem for a second time but I probably won't for a few more years at least.

[Jord]

1. Rocky I/II/III
2. Jarhead
3. Rambo I/II/III/ John rambo
4. Watchmen
5. Smokin ace 1
6. Harry brown
7. Saving private ryan
8. See no evil hear no evil
9. shaun of the dead
10. Dog house

[Misawa]

Thankfully "John Rambo" was retitled to just Rambo. After all, the original is not even called Rambo, but First Blood.

Doghouse? I hated that film. Relatively good list though.

[Stryderman]

In no particular order :rolleyes:

Crank 1 & 2
Kidulthood & Adulthood
Fast & furious films
Jurassic park trilogy
Lets go to prison
Employee of the month
Kidulthood & Adulthood
Death becomes her
American pie films
Twilight films :eusa_shif

[adaym]

Why are people naming more than one film for one selection?


Lion King
Toy Story
Jurassic Park
Layer Cake
The Matrix
Anchorman
The Hangover
Maltese Falcon (original Bogart)
Postman Always Rings Twice
Forrest Gump

[leah]

cruel intentions
run fat boy run
coyote ugly
oceans 11
the little mermaid
harry potter and the philosophers stone
marley and me
the lion king
snow white and the seven dwarfs
cinderella

[Jord]

Thankfully "John Rambo" was retitled to just Rambo. After all, the original is not even called Rambo, but First Blood.

Doghouse? I hated that film. Relatively good list though.

I loved doghouse due to it having proper actors I can relate to rather then posh people

And I really hate when in american shows they try to a British voice.. it is so annoyoing

[MrPinkPanther]

Misawa you missed out Avatar!

Top 10:

Return of the King
Terminator 2
Aliens
The Matrix
Avatar
Fellowship of the Ring
Alien
Sweeney Todd
Empire Strikes Back
Finding Nemo

[Black_Apalachi]

Actually a kind of random film I really like is Dog Soldiers. I get the impression it had a relatively small budget and if you consider it a "horror", it would be one of the very few horrors I like. It may have made it on my top 10 on a different day. As could Jurassic Park and Watchmen.

[Fez]

Misawa you missed out Avatar!


http://cdn.videogum.com/img/thumbnails/photos/you_mad.jpg

Awful film which relies on the greatest visuals of all time. A tech demo.

Trying to make my list, but can't get it through my head, will post later.

[Neversoft]

Why are people naming more than one film for one selection?

I don't really like to think of the Lord of the Rings films as seperate entities, plus the entire trilogy would just take up my top three anyway. Might as well count them as one so I can actually fit other films on my list.

Although I would put the Lord of the Rings films in the following order.

1. The Fellowship of the Ring
2. The Return of the King
3. The Two Towers

[Misawa]

The Fellowship of the Ring to me was extremely boring. It's just exposition, exposition, exposition that builds up a concluding five-minute battle. I was really put off by it. Regardless, the two sequels are very good.

[Neversoft]

I absolutely love the first film and have no problem with the exposition. It's quite refreshing seeing as how the other two films are more about the battles. The first film did a fantastic job of introducing the audience to the world of middle earth and even though a lot of it was exposition (although not as much as you make it out to be) I personally don't think the film has any dull points. I was always interested in what was happening and looking forward to what would happen next. I also think The Fellowship of the Ring has some of the best cinematography of the trilogy. It's shot so beautifully. In my opinion it has the best soundtrack out of the three films as well, and some of the best scenes and characterization. I don't think I'll ever love a film more than The Fellowship of the Ring.

[Misawa]

Yes, it is indeed all that you say. Perhaps it is because I saw it after it had hit DVD so I had heard a lot about it that gave me a picture of fantastic battles, etc, which of course the sequels handle well. I had never read the books.

[Black_Apalachi]

I know what Adam's saying but also entirely agree with Neversoft. I still remember how when it ended, I was sitting in the cinema just in awe and suspense, as if waiting for the next one to roll on :P. Don't think I've ever anticipated a sequel more than The Two Towers. Actually it feels horrible to call it a sequel :(.

In fact I've just realised something; The Lord Of The Rings does an even better job of putting you into the Shire and Mordor than Avatar does with Pandora!

[Misawa]

Probably because they're not CGI and actually there. Plus Pandora was pretty generic. That wasn't the first time I've seen plants that light up and floating mountains in a film.

[Black_Apalachi]

Yeah but so was the Shire, Mordor and the woods etc in between :P. The houses in the Shire were pretty unusual but that's about it. Still, that being said plus the fact we're comparing it to something in 3D, it is clearly amazing.

[Misawa]

I can't remember the names of places, but I mean like the fantastic greenery, etc that was actually real.

[RedStratocas]

these are in loose order:

little miss sunshine
the truman show
no country for old men
superbad
anchorman
wristcutters: a love story
back to the future I
being john malkovich
the departed
garden state.

ive probably forgotten a few that i like more than a few of these, these were just the first to my head lol. the first 5 are for sure though.

[MrPinkPanther]

In fact I've just realised something; The Lord Of The Rings does an even better job of putting you into the Shire and Mordor than Avatar does with Pandora!
Just because you didn't like Avatar it doesn't mean you need to bring it up in every thread in the film section. If you want to complain about it then go to the Avatar thread and quit ruining this one.

[Neversoft]

I know what Adam's saying but also entirely agree with Neversoft. I still remember how when it ended, I was sitting in the cinema just in awe and suspense, as if waiting for the next one to roll on :P. Don't think I've ever anticipated a sequel more than The Two Towers. Actually it feels horrible to call it a sequel :(.

In fact I've just realised something; The Lord Of The Rings does an even better job of putting you into the Shire and Mordor than Avatar does with Pandora!

Haha, you're lucky you got to see it at the cinema. :P I first saw it at my auntie's house in France when it came out on VHS. I didn't know what it was and hadn't heard anything about it, but my mind was well and truly blown. It was the first film to actually leave me speechless. :P


Yeah but so was the Shire, Mordor and the woods etc in between :P. The houses in the Shire were pretty unusual but that's about it. Still, that being said plus the fact we're comparing it to something in 3D, it is clearly amazing.

There is a rumour going around that The Lord of the Rings is going to be re-released in 3D. Not sure whether it's true or not, but what would be the point? I wish PJ and New Line would leave the movies alone now. :P


Just because you didn't like Avatar it doesn't mean you need to bring it up in every thread in the film section. If you want to complain about it then go to the Avatar thread and quit ruining this one.

Huh? I'm sure Sergio liked Avatar. Plus it was just a comparison. He's not bashing the film.

[Misawa]

Actually, he liked Avatar, so perhaps it is you who should stop "ruining" this thread and read before you post so uninformedly.

[Black_Apalachi]

Haha, you're lucky you got to see it at the cinema. :P I first saw it at my auntie's house in France when it came out on VHS. I didn't know what it was and hadn't heard anything about it, but my mind was well and truly blown. It was the first film to actually leave me speechless. :P ...

You hadn't even heard of it until it hit VHS?! That's insane! Although I didn't see The Two Towers until I was at my mate's house when his dad brought it home and we watched it.



... There is a rumour going around that The Lord of the Rings is going to be re-released in 3D. Not sure whether it's true or not, but what would be the point? I wish PJ and New Line would leave the movies alone now. :P ...

I will actually cry if they do that. Would Peter Jackson really do that? :( I could imagine it more with King Kong (although I'd still hate it).



... Huh? I'm sure Sergio liked Avatar. Plus it was just a comparison. He's not bashing the film.

Haha cheers guys :P. Yep, just because I agree that it doesn't deserve every award going, doesn't mean I didn't like it. Thanks for the positive contribution to the thread though, FlyDuo, considering I'm ruining it so much.

[Neversoft]

You hadn't even heard of it until it hit VHS?! That's insane! Although I didn't see The Two Towers until I was at my mate's house when his dad brought it home and we watched it.



I will actually cry if they do that. Would Peter Jackson really do that? :( I could imagine it more with King Kong (although I'd still hate it).

I didn't start using the internet until 2004 and I didn't keep up with all the showbiz at all. I just knew about upcoming movies through word of mouth or until I saw them for sale in various shops or at the cinema. I saw The Two Towers and Return of the King within the first week of release at the cinema though. :D

More importantly, you just said you have never aniticipated a sequel more than The Two Towers but you didn't see it until your friends Dad bought it home one night!? :P

Hmm, I wouldn't be surprised. I think PJ liked Avatar, but then again him and Cameron are friends and Jackson's company handled the special effects in Avatar so he could hardly bad mouth the movie. :P

[Black_Apalachi]

Actually you're right, that doesn't make sense does it lol :S. I remember when FOTR ended, just being like 'grrr I want to see what happens next' but I also remember seeing one of them at my mate's house. Maybe it was The Return of the King, or maybe I was just young at the time and didn't get to the cinema as often as I do now :P.

Disappointed that PJ even likes Cameron :(.

[Neversoft]

Disappointed that PJ even likes Cameron :(.

Why? Cameron has made some fantastic films that I'm sure have inspired many filmmakers.

[Black_Apalachi]

I dunno he just seems like a bit of a ****. Did you see the video of the fan asking for an autograph? Was funny when he said that his film doesn't even have a decent plot, and that a 3 year old could follow it :P.

[Misawa]

Obviously Cameron has proved himself to be a miserable two-faced *******. As far as I'm concerned, Avatar is a stain on a wonderful career: Terminator 2: Judgement Day and Aliens are masterpieces - two of the greatest sequels ever made.

[Neversoft]

I dunno he just seems like a bit of a ****. Did you see the video of the fan asking for an autograph? Was funny when he said that his film doesn't even have a decent plot, and that a 3 year old could follow it :P.

Cameron wouldn't be a **** around Jackson and other directors though, would he? :P The fan asking Cameron for an autograph was just a grain of sand on the beach, no one cares about him. I'm sure Cameron has a lot of respect for Peter.

[Black_Apalachi]

I know what you mean and it's probably harsh to judge famous people on brief moments such as that. Still, Jackson seems a lot cooler to me :8.

[Misawa]

Jackson's now unrecognisable compared to when he was making the trilogy. Lost a ton of weight.

[Neversoft]

Yeah, he lost all that weight during King Kong. It's funny because he kind of looked like Stanley Kubrick before.

[Black_Apalachi]

Have you met him, or any other big directors (other than Tarantino)??

[Neversoft]

If Misawa had met Peter Jackson I'd have to kill him out of jealous rage. PJ usually spends his time in New Zealand though. He only seems to be over here and in America for events and premieres.

[Misawa]

I haven't. The only "big" directors I've met are Tarantino, Eli Roth (since he acted in *******s) and Edgar Wright.

You're right about the Kubrick resemblance.

[clueless]

forrest gump
pans labyrinth
amelie
cruel intentions
lost in translation
the truman show
sliding doors
clueless
the talented mr ripley
phonebooth
girl interrupted
the hole

i had 12 and theres loads more
i cant pick!

[superstar911]

1) A Few Good Men
2) Dead Poet Society
3) (500) Days of Summer
4) The American President
5) Breakfast Club
6) Weekend at Bernies (My guilty pleasure)

-I haven't ranked the following but they would complete my top 10-
Risky Business
Rain Man
Raising Arizona
Fame (The original)

I have a lot of movies I love so this is just a rough list off the top of my head.