Best 10 Movies of all Time

I can't wait til Gringotex sees this thread and completely ruins it.

I can't do it by genre since all my favorites are from the same genre and I don't like any musicals unless you count Team America.

my ten, in no order:

Scanners
The Dead Zone
Dark City
PI
Matrix: reloaded
Videodrome
Blood Simple
Black Sunday
Unbreakable
The Devil's Backbone (El Espinazo del diablo)


I like pretty much everything Cronenberg does as well as Mario Brava and some Dario Argento (though Suspiria was good it was overrated). Cronenberg is probably my favorite though as I like everything he did in the 80's and I hear his late 70's stuff is really good though I've never seen them (the brood, rabid, for example). Maybe Gringo can tell me if The Brood and Rabid were good. People give me grief for liking the Matrix Reloaded so much but I can't help it, the gith scenes were great and it's the best looking movie I've ever seen - pure eye candy. Blade Runner directors cut should have been somewhere in my top ten but I'm not sure where. Also I think M. Knight Shamylan is awesome (never saw the village though, which apparently sucks).

 

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ditch ET, replace with Aliens
take out Jungle Book, add Monsters, Inc
pull the plug on True Lies, put in Raiders I
eliminate the best musical category entirely ( just kidding, no changes )
i like Holy Grail better than LOB, but i wouldnt quibble
i don't think of Blazing Saddles as a western, but as a comedy
i think you are missing historical drama category, like Braveheart ( which appeals mostly to Gibson fans and some Irish )

 

Amadeus is a musical? Alright then.... I guess I know I can take the rest of this list with a big grain of salt.

I don't even know why I'm going to ask you this. Have you even seen The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, Hired Hand, Once Upon A Time In The West or Unforgiven?

If so I'd like to know how you rank Butch & Sundance ahead of them.

I see someone else already brought up Blazing Saddles being a comedy. It's as much a western as Spaceballs is sci-fi and Young Frankenstein is horror.

I can barely see Star Wars being the best sci-fi of all time (it's not IMO), but E.T.?

I give up.

* And GringoTex, when you see this thread please don't post your Top 10. On your list you're only in the 900s and I want to see everything before your Top 10 first.

 

Life Of Brian is the greatest comedy of all time.

 

Am I the only person who likes Grease the best?

 

Moulin Rouge-best musical

Revenge of the Sith, best Sci-Fi. Trust me on that one. It could happen. you know, it could.

 

how about for best western: High Noon

 

The Top Ten Movies that Suck but You Like Them ​

Because They Have Gay Subtext and You're a Homo​

1. The Shawshank Redemption​

2. The Usual Suspects​

3. Fight Club​

4. Star Wars​

5. Lost in Translation​

6. Se7en​

7. Snatch​

8. Chicago​

9. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid​

10. The English Patient​

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You must spread some reputation, blah, blah

I think the problem I have with these lists in general is that it's easy to mix up ten best with ten personal favourite
The ten best would undoubtedly contain the Godfather, 2001, Citizen Kane, etc. becuase they're epic/groundbreaking/classic [delete as appropriate] but Shakespeare in Love? True Lies?

My top ten (in no particular order and probably the ones I watch the most) has a couple of 'classics' but I'm open to the fact that they're far from 'best'.

Withnail and I
Airplane/Top Secret (I really can't choose between these two and it's close between them and Holy Grail)
The Empire Strikes Back
Highlander
Robocop
The Thing (1982)
Toy Story/ 2 (Again very hard to choose between them)
Bullitt
Casablanca
Goldfinger

And this would probably change week to week. Also, I've only seen it once but The Incredibles is *very* close to dislodging the Toy Story's.

 

Bingo.

And I see GT already covered what alot of people seem to come up with on their lists.

 

I'm gonna go ahead and give When Hell Unfreezes props for at least introducing the genre idea. Granted, the thread title was misleading and unfortunate, but the first post is a better start than these threads usually get off to.

With that in mind:

My (current) favorite films:
1) Comedy - Annie Hall/Raising Arizona
2) Musical - Mary Poppins/Wizard of Oz
3) Western - Lonesome Dove/Outlaw Josey Wales
4) War - Battle of Algiers/Lawrence of Arabia
5) Horror - Evil Dead/The Others
6) Slop - A River Runs Through It/About a Boy
7) Sci-fi/Fantasy - LOTR trilogy/Blade Runner
8) Animated - Spirited Away/Toy Story
9) Action/Adventure - Iron Monkey/Raiders
10) Documentary - Manufacturing Consent/Gol!
11) Sports - Field of Dreams/Victory
12) Mystery - Vertigo/Gosford Park
13) Biopic - Lumumba/Coal Miner's Daughter
14) Politics/History - All the President's Men/The Last Emperor

 

Now here's a man who knows a good western. I'm astonished how well "Lonesone Dove" has held up. Normally, tv dates horribly. This ranks up there with "Berlin Alexanderplatz" and "Fanny and Alexander" as the greatest made for tv movies ever.

 

Who is that?

 

1. Best film ever. Ernest Goes To Prison

2. Best comedy. Slam Dunk Ernest

3. Best musical. Ernest Saves Christmas

4. Best western. Ernest Rides Again

5. Best war. Ernest In The Army

6. Best horror. Ernest Scared Stupid

7. Best slop. Ernest Goes To School

8. Best sci fi. The Ernest Film Festival

9. Best cartoon. Toy Story (Featuring voice of Ernest)

10. Best Action. Ernest Goes To Camp

 

Well, I really really like #1,#2, #4, #6, #7. #3 was ok, not a big fan of #5, #8, #9 or #10. Clearly I must be bisexual then.

 

No, you're just not a flamer.

 

For Westerns I love The Wild Bunch
SciFi: Forbidden Planet
Fantasy: Return of the King
Adventure/Action Raiders of the Lost Ark
Comedy: Young Frankensteen
Horror: The Exorcist Still scares the crap out of me.
Mystery: Vertigo
War: Apocalypse Now
Drama: Godfather II
Musical: Westside Story though the music from South Pacific is the best

 

Keep up with what? Answer my question.

 

Cidade de Deus should be among some of these lists. Amazing movie.