We'll Kudos! Days worth of good movies in these lists! I like too many movies but... nearly anything by the Coen Brothers, Billy Wilder, Hitchcock or Terry Gillian so; Oh Brother where Art Thou Fargo Some like Hot Sunset Boulevard The 39 Steps - original Frankenstein The Magnficent Seven 12 Monkeys The Hustler 3 Days of the Condor Tootsie Thunderbolt and Lightfoot French Connection Shawshank Cinema Paradiso Cyrano De Bergerac Lord of the Rings Magnolia Reservoir Dogs Pulp Fiction The Firm Vanilla Sky Malice Death of a Sales Man Dangerous Liasons A Man for All Seasons Jaws Star Wars (Fcuk the sequels!) Blade Runner Alien Gods & Monsters Minority Report Diamonds are Forever Thunderball Live and Let Die American Beauty Sophie's Choice The Lady Killers (original) Lavender Hill Mob Belles of St Trinians Carry on Up the Khyber The Producers Holy Grail Mary Poppins Willy Wonka Bed Knobs and Broomsticks Toy Story 1 & 2 The Incredibles Spiderman Batman Begins Unforgiven The War Gunfight at Okay Coral Lust for Life Train Spotting Paths of Glory Little Bigman Midnight Cowboy Deliverance Apocalypse Now Mars Attacks Nightmare before Christmas Dragonheart Ed Wood Terminator 2 Shadow of the Vampire Jacobs Ladder Vote Bob Roberts One flew over the Cuckoos nest Groundhog Day When Harry Met Sally Moonstruck Jean De Floret & Manon De Source Les Visiteurs Leon Raging Bull Guns of Navarone Battle of Britain Bringing out the dead Great Escape The Blue Max The Defiant Ones In the Heat of the Night The Deer Hunter Sixth Sense Unbreakable Crimes & Misdemeanors Singing the Rain An American in Paris Moulin Rouge Romeo & Juliet (Baz Lerman) The Sting Conspiracy Theory The Wizard of Oz Fisher King Baron Munchausen and about a gazillion others....!
I stopped reading here.... Thanks for reminding me I'm going to immediately post this movie in the worst movie thread.....
I came here figuring that you would have posted something insane, after reading what you wrote on the other thread. I hope you are a really beautiful dumb girl. I always thought this was a near perfect movie.
I'm not a big fan of Scorsese, partly because I've gotten fed up with a diet of gangster flicks, but, mainly coz he's got such a farkin big mouth! (I do want to see the Howard hughes thing though) I had a neighbour who was an EMT and we would sit on the front porch of an evening and he'd tell me stories about some of the sh1t that he had to deal with. I have to give him his due, Scorsese brought those stories to life in a twisted sick nightmare fantasy. Yup, I liked it As for 'Oh Brother', if you can't get passed George Clooney hard luck on you!
Yeah i'm a huge pat conroy fan, and your point is correct. I gave up on the idea a long time ago, though, to expect the book to be like the movie. Every time a book is made into a movie, you hear all the book lovers whine about the differences. I think you just need different expectations for each. Yeah, I like Prince of Tides (the movie), but not for the same things I read the book for. I think that Pat conroy's books read like poetry. His descriptions are just that good. this just isn't going to carry over into the movie.
--- it ain't me who's down on Oh, Brother..., and i note that the language on the 'poster' for that film in jayro's post looks like Greek, but in Roman alfabet. what's that about? if you like a movie, you like it. you listed about 50 films, and maybe if you narrowed them down to a dozen, give or take, as most have done, such marginally "great films" as Conspiracy Theory and The Firm wouldn't have been on your list. don't get me wrong. it's not that those are bad movies. it's just that hardly anyone would place them in their top ten of movies they liked, let alone "best of all time", which i think intends to subject the film to something stricter than "hey, man, i thought it was funny!"
It was the first one that came up on a google search... It seems to be from a geman site since it has a .de web address.....
Just to name a few of my favs, in no particular order. But there are several more that I am not going to list that I love but all I can watch over and over. Trainspotting Monty Python and the Holy Grail A Fish Called Wanda Fast Times at Ridgemont High Fever Pitch Breakfast Club 16 Candles Formula 51 Seven Samurai The Challenge The Long Riders American Werewold in London The Thing (1982) Halloween 1 & 2 Shaun of the Dead Close Encounters of the Third Kind Black Rain LOTR Trilogy Blazing Saddles 24 Hour Party People I could keep going but I think I will stop there. These are most of ones that I frequent alot, but there are so many more. I am a movie freak.
A couple of films not mentioned. If they were my apologies. Blue Velvet Forbidden Planet The Man who would be King The Four Hundred Blows The Graduate It's a Wonderful Life Bridge on the River Kwai Treasure of the Sierra Madre The Wild Bunch Patton
My top-3: The Exorcist Kissed The Magdalene Sisters other nice titles: Swimming Pool La vita e bella Lola Rennt Il Postino Le diner de cons (only great comedy I ever saw) Rosetta and in the horror category: My little eye The shining Urban legend Red dragon
Dude you're absolutely right, I did a list of movies I like rather than what I consider the best of all time! Slap wrist for me I guess? The trouble is other than the Arsenal I'm not a great one for favorites things! Sometimes I might sit down and watch Citizen Kane and another time I might feel like a well crafted Sydney Pollack, like The Firm. I know which is the greater cinematic achievement, but, my favorites are driven by mood; I suppose that means I'm a moody bar steward? Darn, I missed Momento,The Green Mile, Close encounters, it's a wonderful life, Life is Beautiful, The Railway Children, Walkabout, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, White Heat, Agnes of God, Shrek!, Fantastic Voyage, The Graduate, De, de de de, de de, de de, de de, de de de, do, do do do, do do, do do, do do dooooooooo..... And finally, one which I haven't seen since I was a kid and which I bet not one of you out there knows, pure nostalgia; The Amazing Mr Blunden?
Yeah, but I think that's everyone. There are times when I'm in the mood for something dark and serious, like "Sin City", times when I want something that's over the top, like "Roadhouse", and times when I want something totally silly and off-the-wall, like "Super Troopers". So asking me to pick one "best" movie is impossible.
best years of our lives judgement at Nuremburg Lawrence of Arabia Ten commandments and a couple of hundred more I didn't mention