What Are Your Top 10 Favorite Movies of All Time? - Page 2

Well, it's very difficult to pick just ten, but here are mine in no particular order:

The Third Man
Paths of Glory
The Ninth Configuration
Citizen Kane
Pulp Fiction
Night of the Living Dead
Seven Samurai
Blue
White
Red




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He thought on homeland, the big timber, the air thin and chill all the year long. Tulip poplars so big through the trunk they put you in mind of locomotives set on end. He thought of getting home and building him a cabin on Cold Mountain so high that not a soul but the nighthawks passing across the clouds in autumn could hear his sad cry. Of living a life so quiet he would not need ears. And if Ada would go with him, there might be the hope, so far off in the distance he did not even really see it, that in time his despair might be honed off to a point so fine and thin that it would be nearly the same as vanishing.
-- Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

Tough, but you've gotta love the lists.

Here are mine, and like everyone else here they could change if you ask again tomorrow.

1Seven Samurai
2Star Wars
3West Side Story
4A Clockwork Orange
5The Great Escape
6His Girl Friday
7North by Northwest
8Pulp Fiction
9Fist of Legend
10The Man Who Would be King


Honorable mention:
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Singin' in the Rain
Brazil
Mr. Roberts
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Godfather
L.A. Confidential
Real Genius
Rio Bravo


Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Joel

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Dune (1984)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Brazil (1985)

1) The Godfather
2) To Kill a Mockingbird
3) Schindler's List
4) Apocalypse Now
5) The Godfather Part II
6) Amadeus
7) Annie Hall
8) The Grapes of Wrath
9) Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
10) American Graffiti
10) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

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The Dark Tower



Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)?

My choices in no partical order.

Jaws
Dirty Harry
Bridge on the River Kwai
Caddyshack
Big Lebowski
Goldfinger
Alien
Braveheart
Spy who shagged me
Die Hard

This list does change every other day.

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Taxi Driver
3. A Clockwork Orange
4. Citizen Kane
5. Raging Bull
6. The Decalogue (I thought it was a TV movie, but since DonaldB listed it, I'll count it!)
7. Dr. Strangelove
8. The Seventh Seal
9. Annie Hall
10. The Seventh Seal

As you can see, too many newer (post 1970) American films, but since it's a favorites list, it stands.

It is hard to rank them, but here are my top 10 favorites :

Vertigo
Third Man
Chinatown
Taxi Driver
Godfather
On the Waterfront
Maltese Falcon
L.A.Confidential
Silence of the Lambs
Shawshank Redemption

1. Saturday Night Fever
1. It's a Wonderful Life (tie)
3. Jaws
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey
5. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
6. Psycho (1960)
7. Taxi Driver
8. Annie Hall
9. Goodfellas
10. Pinocchio

With honorable mentions to: The Godfather, Nashville, The Last Picture Show, Raging Bull, Manhattan, The Bride of Frankenstein, La Belle et la Bette, Apocalypse Now, Double Indemnity and Evil Dead II.

Out with it:

1. Empire Strikes Back (and the rest of the saga)
2. The Godfather
3. The Godfather Part II
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. Raging Bull
7. Lawrence of Arabia
8. Sunrise
9. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
10. Saving Private Ryan

Comedy - Sherlock, Jr. or The Naked Gun
Foreign Language - Playtime or Seven Samurai
Hitchcock - Rear Window
Performances - Patton or On the Waterfront
Animated - Fantasia
Most watched - Laurel & Hardy (any pre-1940 films)
Guilty Pleasure - The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Evan

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Inpo and subject to ever changing whims...

1) Fargo
2) Dr. Strangelove
3) Babe Pig in the City
4) The Great Escape
5) Hannah and Her Sisters
6) Goodfellas
7) The Big Chill
8) Toy Story 2
9) Rear Window
10)Pulp Fiction

I cant give you my top 10, but top 20 I can just about manage! (In order of age)

Grand Illusion
Rebecca
Black Narcissus
The Third Man
Nights of Cabiria
Sweet Smell of Success
Vertigo
The Apartment
The Wild Bunch
The French Connection
Deliverance
Paris, Texas
Blue Velvet
Manhunter
Glengarry Glen Ross
Heat
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Swingers
Out of Sight
Fight Club

Honourable mentions:

Kiss Me Deadly
The Shining
Requiem for a Dream
Angel Heart
The Straight Story
LA Confidential
Sunset Boulevard
8 1/2
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Ladykillers
A.I.
Manhattan
Big Lebowski
The Deer Hunter
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Planet of the Apes (2001) - yes you read correctly

Subject to change indeed....

The Empire Strikes Back
Lawrence of Arabia
Seven Samuri
The Godfather
Memento
Amadeus
Billy Elliot
The Shawshank Redemtion
Braveheart
On the Waterfront

1. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
2. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
3. Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
4. Jaws
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark
6. Saving Private Ryan
7. Star Wars: A New Hope
8. Beauty and the Beast
9. The Lion King
10. Fantasia

Of course, my Top 10 changes pretty often, so this is far from a concrete list.

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[Edited last by Kristian on September 29, 2001 at 06:50 AM]

In no order and, as always, subject to change:

Vertigo--Hitchcock
Rear Window--Hitchcock
Three Colors trilogy--Kieslowski
The 400 Blows--Truffaut
This is Spinal Tap--Reiner
Metropolitan--Stillman
Citizen Kane--Welles
The Godfather--Coppola
Nashville--Altman
Stranger Than Paradise--Jarmusch

The Kieslowski films seem like one to me, so that's how I'm counting them.


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1. Ghostbusters II
2. Jurassic Park
3. Phantasm II
4. Phantasm
5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
6. RoboCop
7. Aliens
8. Zombie
9. City Of The Living Dead (AKA The Gates Of Hell)
10. Return Of The Jedi

Virtually impossible for me to pick just ten or even twenty -- there's just too many great movies -- so here's ten plus, spanning the 1940's-90's, from my list of 50-100 all-time favorites:

Bicycle Thief
Lenny
The Devils
Two For the Road
Jean De Florette/Manon of the Spring
Nashville
The Conversation
Star Wars
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Singin' in the Rain
Husbands and Wives
Gallipoli
It's A Wonderful Life
Moonlighting
Slacker
Treasure of the Sierra Madre

As of now...
Belle De Jour
12 Angry Men
In the Company of Men
D.O.A.
My Fair Lady
The Story of Qiu Ju (or any Zhang Yimou film)
M
Alphaville
Such a Long Journey
Taxi Driver

Except for Belle De Jour, all the others are in random order.

Bruce

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In no particular order...except the order that I am thinking of them

1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Abyss
3. With Honors
4. Back to the Future
5. Fugitive
6. Forrest Gump
7. Toy Story 2
8. Terminator 2
9. Matrix
10. Die Hard

and very close in there Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

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1. Braveheart
2. Fight Club
3. Titanic
4. Raiders of the Lost Ark
5. Aliens
6. Empire Strikes Back
7. Army Of Darkness
8. Big Trouble In Little China
9. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (The Disney one)
10. Seven

Yes, it changes, just like everyone else's.

Chuck

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He had a plan. Maybe you just didn't see it 'til it hit you between the eyes. But, it started to make sense... in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

INPO (except that E.T. is currently my all time favorite)

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
It's a Wonderful Life
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Wizard of Oz
Unforgiven
Charade
Lawrence of Arabia
Raising Arizona
Patton
North by Northwest



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God Bless America

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. The Green Mile
3. Rudy
4. Memento
5. Road to Perdition
6. Dominick & Eugene
7. Field of Dreams
8. A Midnight Clear
9. Searching for Bobby Fischer
10. October Sky

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I only have a solidified top five:

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2. Fight Club
3. Dr. Strangelove
4. Goodfellas
5. Citizen Kane

Wow, blast from the past.

Ahhh, I was so young and naive back then.

I only have a solidified Top 3:

Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Valley Girl
The Last American Virgin

Yeah, I mean you used to have a Lawrence of Arabia sig way back then... oh wait