The Best movies of all time

Discussion in 'Movies, TV and Music' started by Rewinder, Jul 12, 2005.

  1. K:thecore

    K:thecore Member+

    May 20, 2002
    Honolulu
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    tayake it doon.
     
  2. Riz

    Riz Member+

    Nov 18, 2004
    R-ville, Murrlin
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  3. martymarts

    martymarts Member

    Mar 11, 2003
    NYC
    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....!
     
  4. royalstilton

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    Aug 2, 2004
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    please say it ain't so... :eek:
     
  5. jayro75

    jayro75 Member

    Sep 8, 2004

    I stopped reading here....

    Thanks for reminding me I'm going to immediately post this movie in the worst movie thread.....
     
  6. oman

    oman Member

    Jan 7, 2000
    South of Frisconsin
    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.

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  7. martymarts

    martymarts Member

    Mar 11, 2003
    NYC
    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!
     
  8. oman

    oman Member

    Jan 7, 2000
    South of Frisconsin
    Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man

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  9. oman

    oman Member

    Jan 7, 2000
    South of Frisconsin
    [​IMG]

    Ghost Dog:WOTS
     
  10. jatm516

    jatm516 Member

    Feb 4, 2005
    Hope, Arkansas
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    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.
     
  11. royalstilton

    royalstilton Member

    Aug 2, 2004
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    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!"
     
  12. jayro75

    jayro75 Member

    Sep 8, 2004

    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.....
     
  13. Claymore

    Claymore Member

    Jul 9, 2000
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    Good call - can't believe I missed that one.
     
  14. DFWGOONER

    DFWGOONER New Member

    May 10, 2005
    Fort Worth
    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.
     
  15. Alberto

    Alberto Member+

    Feb 28, 2000
    Northern, New Jersey
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    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
     
  16. stevieg987

    stevieg987 Member

    Mar 20, 2005
    American History X
    25th Hour
    Pulp Fiction
    Usual Suspects
    Shawshank Redemption
    Memento
    Green Mile
     
  17. Gerrit

    Gerrit New Member

    May 20, 2005
    Istanbul, Turkey
    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
     
  18. martymarts

    martymarts Member

    Mar 11, 2003
    NYC
    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?:D

    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?
     
  19. jwaldman11

    jwaldman11 New Member

    Jun 14, 2002
    The OC
    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.
     
  20. royalstilton

    royalstilton Member

    Aug 2, 2004
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    it's so good that you can be honest about this. it makes the world a better place.
     
  21. Ray Luca

    Ray Luca BigSoccer Yellow Card

    Feb 2, 2005
    best years of our lives

    judgement at Nuremburg

    Lawrence of Arabia

    Ten commandments

    and a couple of hundred more I didn't mention
     

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