BigSoccer's 10 Greatest Movies of All-Time Poll

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  1. GringoTex

    GringoTex Member

    Aug 22, 2001
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    Bless you for including these two films. They could have easily made my list- they're two of the greatest films ever made and nobody appreciates it yet.
     
  2. Belgian guy

    Belgian guy Member+

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    A clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
    East of Eden (Elia Kazan)
    Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
    Requiem for a Dream (Aranofsky)
    Hable Con Ella (Almodovar)
    Breaking the waves (Lars von Trier)
    Manhunter (Micheal Mann)
    Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
    Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)
    Badlands (Terrence Malick)
     
  3. riverplate

    riverplate Member+

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    Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean 1962)
    The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman 1957)
    I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini 1953)
    The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa 1951)
    La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini 1960)
    Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo 1967)
    The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot 1955)
    Viva Zapata! (Elia Kazan 1952)
    2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick 1968)
    The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola 1972)
     
  4. david dunn

    david dunn New Member

    Jun 20, 2003
    france
    I loved these two films since the first time I seen it, I just can't understood why people don't like this masterpiece Unbreakable, maybe they thought they will see another sixth sense?
    And for A.I. I was surpised to observe that many people didn't understood it, they thinked the creatures on the end were aliens instead of robots: no sense, is the same phenomenal happend to american audiance?
    I observe too, that this movie have more and more good reviews, I think it's belong to that sort of movies wich have bad reviews when they came out, and some yeras after there are considered as masterpiece by many many people(it was the case for movies like about once upon a time in the west, 2001...)

    did you understood everythink I wrote? I try to perfect my english...
     
  5. Ghost

    Ghost Member+

    Sep 5, 2001
    My 2 cents, I ahve problems with AI, though I'm warmer to it with time. Unbreakable is a gem waiting to be rediscovered.
     
  6. elainemichelle

    elainemichelle New Member

    Jul 20, 2002
    American History X
    -Such a cool movie. Everyone needs to see it if they haven't.

    Ferris Bueller's Day Off
    -Great movie for sick days.

    Down and Out in Beverly Hills
    -My second R rated movie. I think I was 7.

    Life is Beautiful
    -Still makes me smile and cry.

    Enemy at the Gates
    -No reason.

    Dial M for Murder
    -Sure there are better Hitchcock films out there but I like this one

    Peter Pan
    -I like the unremastered versaion better. This is my number one favorite.

    A Midsummer Night's Dream
    -The one with Kevin Kline. This was my first Shakespeare play ever and I loved reading it.

    The Breakfast Club
    -Another classic.

    Fast and the Furious
    -Reminds me of the weekend we spent in Sandestin. Good times, good times.
     
  7. afgrijselijkheid

    Dec 29, 2002
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    off the top of my head, 10 of what i like to refer to as 'perfect movies'

    goodfellas
    grosse pointe blank
    o brother where art thou
    the african queen
    on the waterfront
    the sting
    a fish called wanda
    lock, stock and two smoking barrels
    malcom X
    arthur

    i also like this more way more than everyone i know

    and like you, i might give a different list if asked an hour from now
     
  8. PSUdude

    PSUdude New Member

    Dec 15, 1998
    Elmhurst, Queens, NY
    I'm shocked, SHOCKED no one's mentioned "Gigli"...

    andy here's mine (no real order, cant figure out where they could go in an order):

    Goodfellas
    Dazed and Confused
    The warriors
    Clerks
    Matrix
    Star Wars
    National Lampoon's Vacation
    Animal House
    Major League
    Beverly Hills Cop 2
     
  9. dawgpound2

    dawgpound2 Member

    Mar 3, 2001
    Los Angeles, CA
    In no order:

    The Godfather
    The Godfather II-the greatest sequel of all-time.
    Life is Beautiful
    You Can Count on Me-Mark Ruffalo with maybe the best performance of all time.
    Amelie
    Schindler's List
    Holiday Inn
    Annie Hall
    Casino
    Hannah and Her Sisters



    I thought Unbreakable was entertaining, but thin.
     
  10. Fah Que

    Fah Que Member

    Sep 29, 2000
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    Airplane
    Airplane II
    Hotshots
    Hotshots part duex
    Naked Gun
    Naked Gun 2 1/2
    Naked Gun 33 1/3
    Loaded weapon
    Joe Dirt
    Top Secret!
     
  11. GringoTex

    GringoTex Member

    Aug 22, 2001
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    I'm hard pressed to think of a film that explores the parent/son relationship more deeply than "Unbreakable."
     
  12. Dante

    Dante Moderator
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    Nov 19, 1998
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    Unbreakable has to be one of the best movies ever! The little nuances throughout the film make it perfect for me. A.I. had to be one of the mos disappointing movies I've ever watched.

    Here's my top ten, sans director or year....

    Blade Runner
    Unbreakable
    American History X
    Star Wars: ESB
    Goodfellas
    The Seven Samurai
    The Godfather
    The Godfather II
    Glory
    Saving Private Ryan
     
  13. Mad_Bishop

    Mad_Bishop Member

    Oct 11, 2000
    Columbia, MO
    400 Blows
    Roshomon
    Double Indemnity
    Strangers on a Train
    Rear Window
    NxNW
    Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
    Manchurian Candidate
    Metropolis
    Dr. Strangelove

    how's that for a pretentious film-school list?
     
  14. amerifolklegend

    amerifolklegend New Member

    Jul 21, 1999
    Oakley, America
    Not very, since I've seen them all.

    A truly great movie needs to have only been seen by very small circles, come from a foreign country, have ass-backwards standards in storytelling and acting, and be in black and white.

    If you see a film, that automatically takes away from its greatness.

    The perfect film is so rare, that immediately after it was shot, the director viewed it once then he burned the only copy, killed all the actors, gauged his own eyes out, and moved to a mountain in Tibet and was never heard from again.
     
  15. GringoTex

    GringoTex Member

    Aug 22, 2001
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    I've got a bootleg of it.
     
  16. amerifolklegend

    amerifolklegend New Member

    Jul 21, 1999
    Oakley, America
    Heh heh heh. :D
     
  17. dawgpound2

    dawgpound2 Member

    Mar 3, 2001
    Los Angeles, CA
    Gringo, I respect your movie knowledge, but for crying out loud, "Parenthood" explored those themes in more depth!
     
  18. GringoTex

    GringoTex Member

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    It distilled the comic book culture down to its basic motive: the desire to replace the absent father.
     
  19. microbrew

    microbrew New Member

    Jun 29, 2002
    NJ
    I have a VCD of the bootleg, with the Left audio channel in English, and the Right audio channel in Cantonese.
     
  20. amerifolklegend

    amerifolklegend New Member

    Jul 21, 1999
    Oakley, America
    When my father's brother's first wife's son was seventeen, he didn't up with a great idea for a film. Unfortunately, he was in a coma when he didn't do this. In his unconscious state, he decided that he would spend the rest of his life persuing the goal of never even thinking about making this opus. He knew then and there that it would be the greatest cinematic masterpiece the world has never known. Around three months after the initial comatic vision that he never had, he suddenly awoke.

    However, putting his art that he didn't have before even his own self and wanting to preserve the brilliance that he was about to never even think of producing, he quickly tied his sheets together and hung himself from a light fixture in hospital room. Nobody even knew he was out of the coma yet. It was literally like seconds before he managed to get himself hung.



    I had a dream the other night that showed me the awesomeness of his unmade and unthought-of film. It really is lush and spectacular. There are no actors, no screen shots, and no sound. It has no title and no credits. It's just two hours and fifty four minutes (not including intermission) of blank film. I was elated to the point of tears at being picked from beyond the grave to be the one that was chosen to see this miraculous film. Never before and never again (and, well...never still) will there be a film made of this importance.

    "With nothing, you have something. But as soon as it is something, it is nothing again."
    ~this guy Mike I know from the bar



    I'll have a couple copies up on ebay by the end of the day.
     
  21. Belgian guy

    Belgian guy Member+

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    Aug 19, 2002
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    I dunno what drugs you are on, but I wanna try some...
     
  22. amerifolklegend

    amerifolklegend New Member

    Jul 21, 1999
    Oakley, America
    See, this is what happens when you don't do a damned thing all day.

    Entirely too much time on my hands, I tell ya.
     
  23. Father Ted

    Father Ted BigSoccer Supporter

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    Nov 2, 2001
    Connecticut
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    I've tabulated the results so far and the top 13 are:

    Dr Strangelove (8 votes)
    Godfather (7)
    Seven Samurai (7)
    Goodfellas (6)
    Citizen Kane (5)
    Godfather II (5)
    Blade Runner (4)
    2001: A Space Odyssey (3)
    Casino (3)
    Lawrence of Arabia (3)
    Raging Bull (3)
    The Searchers (3)
    The Seventh Seal (3)
     
  24. supersport

    supersport New Member

    Oct 17, 2001
    San Francisco
    Goodfellas
    Casino
    Deer Hunter
    Mean Streets
    Godfather
    Godfather II
    Bladerunner
    Outlaw Josey Wales
    Life is Beautiful
    La Dolce Vita
     
  25. Soccernova78

    Soccernova78 Member

    Mar 16, 2003
    Beyond The Infinite
    Here's mine:

    The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
    The Godfather II (Coppola, 1974)
    Goodfellas (Scorscese, 1990)
    On the Waterfront (Kazan, 1954)
    Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick, 1964)
    Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, 1998)
    Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
    A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick, 1971)
    A Night at the Opera (Wood, 1935)
    The Great Escape (Sturges, 1963)

    My favorite scene is the "Baptism Scene" in "The Godfather".

    Honorable Mention: The "I Coulda Been a Contendah. I Coulda Been Somebody" scene with Brando and Steiger in "On the Waterfront".

    And the "Omaha Beach" scene in "Saving Private Ryan" is the most powerful and visceral.

    Just had to throw that in.
     

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