Recommend (or don't) a movie thread v2

[undercoverbrother]

1 - Three Kings
2 - Fantastic Mr. Fox
3 - 5th Element
4 - The Road Warrior &/or Fury Road
5 - Snatch
6 - A Bronx Tail
7 - Good Fellas
8 -
9 -
10 -

All I an think of right now

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

I would be curious the know what peoples top ten of all time are

Difficult to say if this is it. But I do love these movies.

1.The Shining
2.The God Father
3.Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
4.The Light House
5.The Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring
6.Spirited Away
7.12 Angry Men
8.The Silence of the Lambs
9.The Phantom Thread
10.Walk Hard: The Story of Dewy Cox

Such an impossible task imo but in no order and I reserve the right to change my mind right after this

American Gigolo
All That Jazz
Double Indemnity
Bride of Frankenstein
The Silence of the Lambs
Broadcast News
Psycho
The Graduate
Apocalypse Now

List probably skews a little too New Hollywood heavy than is ideal for a rounded list but I like what I like.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Top ten what? Best films ever or favourite? Those are very different lists. Mainly due to the exclusion of (most) action and comedy.

Best? In no particular order:

Shawshank
The Ten Commandments
Godfather
Blade Runner the Final Cut
There will be blood
A clockwork orange or Dr strangelove - sorry Kubrick, you only get one entry
Star Wars
One flew over the ####oos nest
American beauty
The sling blade

Ugh. Plus silence of the lambs. I can’t exclude that. Maybe remove blade runner. Or American beauty. Or Star Wars. Depending on how I feel that day.

Favourite is mostly the same but throw in stuff like T2, animal house, trading places, fury road, alien, gladiator, fight club, clerks, planet of the apes, Jurassic park for consideration.

[Jiri Hrdina]

####oo is filtered?

[getbak]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

####oo is filtered?

Remember a couple of years ago when it was trendy among certain hoopleheads online to call anyone they disagreed with a "c-u-c-k"? That combo of 4 letters got added to the filter list shortly thereafter.

[Itse]

I don't really care for lists of "best ever". "Groundbreaking" is what critics list are good for.

As for favorites... Obviously it's going to fluctuate depending on what I've seen recently etc, but here's some:

Blade Runner (Director's cut or Final Cut)
Full Metal Jacket
Star Wars (IV)
Strange Days
Aliens
Ex Machina
Just Sex (yeah the one with Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis, a real guilty pleasure movie, but I genuinely really like it)
Life of Brian
The Wall
Man Without a Past (by Aki Kaurismäki)

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

####oo is filtered?

I assumed you invented the filter...

[PsYcNeT]

1. The Thing (1982)
2. The Fly (1986)
3. Videodrome (1983)
4. Akira (1988)
5. The Killer (1989)
6. Hereditary (2018)
7. A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
8. Re-Animator (1985)
9. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
10. Alien (1979)

HM: The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

I've actually never thought about how heavily skewed I am to 80s practical effects but...here we are.

[KTrain]

These are my favourite. No particular order.

Bladerunner
Contact
Zodiac
Ghostbusters
Heat
Godfather
Star Wars
Akira
Arrival
Children of Men

[Nadal Fan]

My 10 greatest movies I've ever seen would be in no particular order. ....

The Dark Knight
Jurassic Park
The Shining
The Night of the Hunter
Black Narcissus
Casablanca
Singing in the Rain
Metropolis
Dawn of the Dead
Godfather
HM: Frankenstein and La Dolce Vita shoot this was hard to only name 10

This list looks alot different than my 10 favorite films because I put more weight into older movies because I think it's very impressive to entertain audiences say 80 years after its released. Plus several of those movies had such a huge influence on movies years after, Batman 89 is very inspired by Metropolis for example. Singing in the Rain is an amazing musical but I enjoy other musicals just as much (Moulin Rouge, Grease, Across the Universe) but I had to give the nod to Singing because I have no clue how people in 2075 will enjoy Grease for example.

[OutOfTheCube]

Didn't you just watch Casablanca like a week ago?

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Is the list limited to movies we’ve watched more than 7 days ago? If so, I need to completely rethink mine.

[OutOfTheCube]

I guess not, I just think for a movie to really enter that level with me personally it's gotta be something I watch multiple times, that holds up over repeat viewings over multiple years, that I keep finding new little nuances and things to enjoy, that I read articles about and have conversations with people about it. To just watch a movie once and next day be like "yep top 5 greatest ever" seems weird to me.

[photon]

No way I could make a list, just so many good movies.

But ones that I'd probably add to ones already mentioned..

12 Years a Slave
Back to the Future
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Iron Giant
Toy Story
Pan's Labyrinth

[Yeah_Baby]

I can't believe I forgot The Seventh Seal....effff

[photon]

Actually I might swap out The Incredibles for Toy Story, I think I've rewatched that more, and Toy Story graphics just don't hold up as well.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

It doesn’t happen often but I can see it with a movie like Casablanca where you know going in it’s widely regarded as one of the best ever.

Probably less common when you see a brand new movie in theatre and haven’t heard all the praise yet or there’s no consensus of it being an all time great.

Except There Will Be Blood. The second the credits rolled in the theatre I knew I’d seen an all time great movie. Made even better by the fact I’d heard no buzz, knew nothing about it, and literally thought it was going to be like Wall Street except about Oil in the early 1900s. I’m not even sure if I knew Daniel Day Lewis was in it or that it was directed by PTA.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

1. The Thing (1982)
2. The Fly (1986)
3. Videodrome (1983)
4. Akira (1988)
5. The Killer (1989)
6. Hereditary (2018)
7. A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
8. Re-Animator (1985)
9. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
10. Alien (1979)

HM: The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

I've actually never thought about how heavily skewed I am to 80s practical effects but...here we are.

They should do a remake of Re-Animator (a good one not the Italian one). Such a great flick.

[Nadal Fan]

Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube

Didn't you just watch Casablanca like a week ago?

Lol yea it's a recent watch for sure but I've heard of all the praise and I went in with sky high expectations and I was captivated instantly and even watched it the next day with commentary by Roger Ebert. Its a perfectly made movie and I can recognize it's greatness after two viewings. This year is it's 80th anniversary and I enjoyed it better than any 2022 movie which is crazy impressive; how many movies released in 2022 will audiences in 2102 still enjoy besides Morbius?

Variety just released a list of top 100 movies and it's much more mainstream but also wild (Bridesmaids over Alien ) this one I've seen 30 films.

https://variety.com/lists/best-movie...aduate-1967-2/

[PsYcNeT]

Huh. 49 in the Variety list, mostly in the top 50. Glad to see Chinatown make an appearance but some of this list is very out of whack.

Wizard of Oz doesn't belong anywhere near the top 10, let alone #2.