What are your 10 favourite films ?

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Film like music is very subjective and personal, what are you top ten films?

Mine ,at the moment, are as follows in no particular order:

Goodfellas

The Shawshank Redemption

Layer Cake

The Business

The Wall

Kes

Wild at Heart

Some like it hot

Gladiator

Dead Poets Soceity

 

[timwileman]

12 angry men

kiss kiss bang bang

empire strikes back

can i count LOTR as 1?

goodfellas

X2 (2nd xmen film)

schindlers list

godfather pt 2

the usual suspects

the third man

 

[Anonymous]

Toughie. It varies, but here's today's snapshot in no particular order.

THE THIRD MAN
PAN'S LABYRINTH
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
JAWS
THE SEARCHERS
ANCHORMAN (got to have at least 1 guilty pleasure in there....)
A FEW GOOD MEN
ALIEN
THE WILD BUNCH
THE PRESTIGE

 

[Anonymous]

I was close to add "Pans Labyrinth" great film, I forgot about " Jaws" !

 

[Gerrardasnails]

Kestrel:
Film like music is very subjective and personal, what are you top ten films?

Mine ,at the moment, are as follows in no particular order:

Goodfellas

The Shawshank Redemption

Layer Cake

The Business

The Wall

Kes

Wild at Heart

Some like it hot

Gladiator

Dead Poets Soceity

It is definitely a subjective task, I am shocked by "The Business" though Kestrel!

Off the top of my head and if I thought more, I'm sure it would change.....

Goodfellas
Betty Blue
Naked
Edward Scissorhands
No Country For Old Men
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Pulp Fiction
Godfather
Amelie
City of God

 

[Anonymous]

Right now, off the top
of my head:

Bladerunner

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Donnie Darko

The Godfather

True Romance

The Big Sleep

The Fisher King

Vertigo

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

No Country For Old Men

 

[Anonymous]

The Business is a great fun film, fab 80's soundtrack as well !

so far I have forgotten three films that should have been in my top 10 , Jaws, Donnie Darko and Pans Labyrinth.

I drew up that original top ten too quickly .

 

[Cofnchtr]

Hi,

A quick think gives the following:

Aliens

Batman

The Thing (Carpenter's)

Pulp Fiction

Gone In 60 Seconds

Terminator 2

Reservoir Dogs

Star Wars

The Lion King

Jurassic Park

Given longer thought the above list would probably change...

Cheers,

Cofnchtr.

 

[Anonymous]

These are the films I keep watching again and again:

Good Will Hunting

Star Wars: the Empire Strikes Back

Toy story

Pulp Fiction

Memento

The Terminator

Ben-Hur

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Ghandi

Back to the Future

 

[Gerrardasnails]

dominic dawes:
Right now, off the top
of my head:

Bladerunner

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Donnie Darko

The Godfather

True Romance

The Big Sleep

The Fisher King

Vertigo

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

No Country For Old Men

See, there you go; Eternal Sunshine and Donnie Darko - two sublime films and I forgot them!

 

[Anonymous]

There are so many!!!!!...... but here goes...

• STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE
• RETURN OF THE JEDI
• ALIENS
• CASSHERN
• UNDERWORLD
• CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
• RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
• THE DEPARTED
• THE EXORCIST
• THE ABYSS

 

[Anonymous]

Good thread!

The big lebowski

The exorcist

The thing

The godfather

Event horizon

Amelie

O brother where art thou!

American beauty

Boogie nights

pans labyrinth

I want to add a few more! there other that it seems unfair to leave out

 

[Anonymous]

irishav:
There are so many!!!!!...... but here goes...

• STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE
• RETURN OF THE JEDI
• ALIENS
• CASSHERN
• UNDERWORLD
• CLOSE ENCOUNTERS
• RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
• THE DEPARTED
• THE EXORCIST
• THE ABYSS

Couldn't agree more, so many films so many choices. Your list reminded me of a classic saga I wouldn't want to miss on my list: INDIANA JONES.
So, Good Will Hunting has to go to make space for Indiana Jones.

 

[Anonymous]

Another 2 I forgot,

The Thing and The exorcist,

 

[Anonymous]

In no particular order:-

Fight Club

Blade Runner

Singles

The Empire Strikes Back

Blade

Starship Troopers

School Of Rock (Come On!! it namechecks Rush and Yes)

The Big Lebowski

Dumb And Dumber

The Breakfast Club

This list would probably change if I was sat in front of my film collection or grow to list of hundreds.

 

[fr0g]

I would say my top 3 are
Pi
Close Encounters of the third kind
Matrix

then maybe 7 out of...


AI
2001 : A space oddysey
Surviving the game
Waking life
Superman (1978)
The Crow
Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind
Dark City
Taxi
Alien
Poltergeist

 

[Anonymous]

Wow. I never thought I'd see a great Kubrick film (2001: A Space Odyssey) sat next to a really dreadful parody of a Kubrick film (AI) on a best films list.

Still, lots of great shouts: It didn't occur to me, but Pi is great. And Taxi. And Matrix...

Yes, this a good thread. Just the thing to distract me from doing some actual work...

 

[Anonymous]

So many to choose from:

Goodfellas
Amelie
The Apartment
Broadway Danny Rose
Platoon
When We Were Kings (Documentary I know but too good to miss out)
Some Like it Hot
Blade
Leon
Into The Wild

So many more to mention but I'd be happy watching that lot over and over again.

 

[John Duncan]

dominic dawes:
Wow. I never thought I'd see a great Kubrick film (2001: A Space Odyssey) sat next to a really dreadful parody of a Kubrick film (AI) on a best films list.

Still, lots of great shouts: It didn't occur to me, but Pi is great. And Taxi. And Matrix...

Yes, this a good thread. Just the thing to distract me from doing some actual work...

I watched Pi. The 'sh' was silent, obviously.

Isn't subjectivity great?

 

[Anonymous]

Yup. It's nearly as good as being right all the time.

 

[John Duncan]

I wouldn't know.

Fr0g, can you help?

 

[fr0g]

JohnDuncan:I wouldn't know.

Fr0g, can you help?

Nope, I haven't got the superstar advantage of an aliterating name

 

[Clare Newsome]

Blimey, this is almost impossible - almost cruel, actually. Like Sophie's Choice, but for your movie collection...

Here are 10, based solely on watchability, not (as is obvious when you go down the list) artistic merit. In no particular order.and subject to change within nanoseconds:

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Goldfinger (today's Bond of choice - could be just about any. Apart from Moonraker. Or View to a Kill)

Pulp Fiction

The Empire Strikes Back

The Big Lebowski (today's Coen Bros choice - could be just about any. Apart from The Ladykillers).

Grosse Point Blank

Moulin Rouge

It's a Wonderful Life

The Philadelphia Story/High Society (same story/script...but how can you choose between Frank Sinatra and Cary Grant?)

Goodfellas

 

[Anonymous]

Yeah, my real name is Algernon Flurblehurnan. I think you can see why I changed it...

 

[fr0g]

dominic dawes:Wow. I never thought I'd see a great Kubrick film (2001: A Space Odyssey) sat next to a really dreadful parody of a Kubrick film (AI) on a best films list

I loved AI. In fact I have probably watched it more times than any other film apart from Pi.

It's obviously not a tour de force in filmmaking, but it had the necessary ingredient for me...watchability.

I also loved Daredevil with Ben Affleck!