This Forum Needs a Top Ten Movies Thread

[muy_thaiguy]

60's or before (still not attempting a personal top 10 or anything, just pointing out notables)
Zulu
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Magnificent 7
Dr Strangelove (actually, if I had an all-time top 10 this would definitely be in there)
Disney's Peter Pan - the only classic that they succeeded with in my eyes, though I still have a few probs with it.
Later
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Airplane
Dark Crystal
One Flew Over the Coockoo's Nest


On the subject of Princess Bride I have said this before and no doubt I will say it again. This is an absolutley unique work of art. People often say (of any title) "I saw the movie, I liked it, but I found the book unreadable" or alternatively "I loved the book - the movie was disapointing". Princess Bride cannot be appreciated in total until you have both read the book and seen the movie.It is a story about storytelling, which cannot be fully appreciated until you have read the book, seen the movie, and appreciated the differences between them and the original book by S. Morgenstern.

I will not attempt to point out which parts of the above paragraph are true and which are spoilers.

One of my favorites as a kid!

[nagerous]

nietzsche. this is not really the forums top ten movies then, it is your top ten movies How many people have said one flew over the cuckoo's nest, which you've continually ignored and refused to add. The whole premise of this thread is bullshit, with a dictatorial thread hoster who refuses to budge on what he has created his list of favourite films.

[nietzsche]

nietzsche. this is not really the forums top ten movies then, it is your top ten movies How many people have said one flew over the cuckoo's nest, which you've continually ignored and refused to add. The whole premise of this thread is bullshit, with a dictatorial thread hoster who refuses to budge on what he has created his list of favourite films.

wait, I'm waiting for the results of the poll so we can form the list, one flew over the cuckoos nest is one movie that i consider very good and I forgot at the moment I was making the draft.

BTW, I just watched for the first time Apocalypse Now! and it was a long time of quality, a good treatment of a topic that is part of american history and thought.

I ask you guys now, how do you decide whether a movie makes the list or not? Is it personal? Do we take it as a whole and like it no matter what others say about technicalities? Or does it have to come up good on most of the aesthetic rules the critics consider?

For instance, and with the justified anger of nagerous, he says he liked Requiem for a Dream, I did find some quality in the movie, good direction, a topic interesting and central to our times, yet I consider it disgusting. It was a pain to me to watch it, it touch me in the guts if you may say it, and thats why I don't like it.

The same is the case of Great Expectations. I know most of you think of it to be an average movie, but I enjoy it every time I watch it. It would made my top ten but this list is democratic, even though nagerous thinks is not.

[nagerous]

Requiem for a Dream is good, but not as good as say City of God or Leon, which should be on my list but I forgot to include it. Both are directed by international directors, and City of God or Cidade de Deus is actually in Portuguese. I would definitely recommend that for your list or Taxi Driver before Requiem for a Dream. My personal list is only rough working as some films like The Good, The Bad and The Ugly should be potentially higher and there are many other films that I really liked such as Usual Suspects, The Wrestler, Born on the 4th July, Apoc Now and Mean Streets that haven't made the cut.

[skeletonboy]

Best movie of all time? Bambi

[nagerous]

In fact to write a purely subjective list based on CC user's tastes would be an enormous task, that you would have devote hours of your time for. You would have to also deal with a lot of chopping and changing from various users on what people like/dislike and you would also have to deal with various strong-minded people who attempt to push forward their particular tastes or whatnot. It would be interesting however as an academic study to analyse the tastes of CCers outside the taste of the real world, perhaps by doing a comparison with the imdb top 250 chart. Perhaps, CCers have a tendency to prefer more violent films/war films considering this is a war gaming website. Just some points to note.

[nietzsche]

Requiem for a Dream is good, but not as good as say City of God or Leon, which should be on my list but I forgot to include it. Both are directed by international directors, and City of God or Cidade de Deus is actually in Portuguese. I would definitely recommend that for your list or Taxi Driver before Requiem for a Dream. My personal list is only rough working as some films like The Good, The Bad and The Ugly should be potentially higher and there are many other films that I really liked such as Dr. Strangelove, The Wrestler, Born on the 4th July, Apoc Now and Mean Streets that haven't made the cut.

Leon of course, (and every movie Natalie Portman is on ) and most of the movies you mentioned are very good. Perhaps we need a bigger list. I'm actually watching the movies you guys mention that I haven't watched before.

Another movie that I personally like is The Closer (or Closer), I enjoy watching it again and again. Cidade de Deus I liked but not as much as most people did.

BTW It's worth to mention that some great actors are out of the list for now, e.g. Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robert Downey Jr.

[General Brewsie]

Modern (?): Top Gun

[muy_thaiguy]

Remember the Titans?

[nietzsche]

In fact to write a purely subjective list based on CC user's tastes would be an enormous task, that you would have devote hours of your time for. You would have to also deal with a lot of chopping and changing from various users on what people like/dislike and you would also have to deal with various strong-minded people who attempt to push forward their particular tastes or whatnot. It would be interesting however as an academic study to analyse the tastes of CCers outside the taste of the real world, perhaps by doing a comparison with the imdb top 250 chart. Perhaps, CCers have a tendency to prefer more violent films/war films considering this is a war gaming website. Just some points to note.

Yes, and it would be pointless for it to be exactly as the beginning of the top 250 if imdb. Perhaps it would also represent that in average we CCers are smart people, since we are not playing dominoes here.

I just watched the Princess Bride and IMO doesn't make the list, yes it's good, funny and all, but is a little bit overrated.

I'll watch Full Metal Jacket tomorrow.

BTW the poll results seem to be going towards One list of 20. I'll keep it up a few days more. After that we can make the list and then I'll set up a poll to decide the places on the list.

Keep posting your lists and opinions.

[Yoda Skywalker]

1. One Flew Over The Coo Coo's Nest
2. The Graduate
3. The Exorcist
4. It's A Wonderful Life
5. Gone With The Wind
6. Bridge Over The River Kwai
7. The Godfather
8. Planet Of The Apes
9. Rocky
10. Taxi Driver
11. Animal House
12. Streetcar Named Desire
13. Apocolypse Now (Redux or Other)
14. Raging Bull
15. The Godfather 2
16. Star Wars
17. The Unforgiven
18. Wall Street
19. Clockwork Orange
20. The Color Of Money
21. The Wizzard Of Oz
22. The Goodbye Girl
23. Pulp Fiction
24. The Big Lebowski
25. Jaws
26. Trading Places
27. Saturday Night Fever
28. Psycho
29. Boogie Nights
30. Raiders Of The Lost Arch
31. Platoon
32. Hannah & Her Sisters
33. Fargo
34. The African Queen
35. Alien
36. Shawshank Redemtion
37. Thelma & Loise
38. Silence Of The Lambs
39. Vacation
40. Full Metal Jacket
41. The Jerk
42. The Talented Mr Ripley
43. The Road Warrior
44. Kelley's Heros
45. Good Fellas
46. Citezen Cain
47. On The Waterfront
48. The Dirty Dozen
49. Operation Petticoat
50. E.T.
51. To Kill A Mockingbird
52. The Terminator
53. Cool Hand Luke
54. Forrest Gump
55. An Officer & A Gentelman
56. Dr. Strangeglove
57. Scarface (1983)
58. Casa Blanca
59. The Cain Mutiny
60. Bad News Bears
61. The Hustler
62. M*A*S*H
63. The Longest Yard
64, Easy Rider
65. The Wrath Of Khan
66. Amittyville Horor
67. Ed Wood
68. Logan's Run
69. Caddy Shack
70. On Golden Pond
71. Witness
72. The Hunt For Red October
73. Highlander
74. Sixteen Candles
75. The Color Purple
76. Good Morning Vietnam
77. Midnight Run
78. Patton
79. Rush
80. Spartucus
81. Smokey and the Bandit


That's about it for now. This list for me this last 12 months has been more about chronology than anything else. There's about 20 movies I need to sit down and watch from beginning to end but I've been in no mood to allow myself to get engross into too many movies as of late. I NEED my check a.s.a.p.

[MeDeFe]

I don't think I've seen a single movie not from western Europe or the USA mentioned on any list presented here yet so I'll toss in Rashomon and Sansho the Bailiff. Those two definitely deserve a mention.

Ingmar Bergman appears to be absent, despite being acclaimed as one of the greatest directors of all time and being known to have influenced many others. How come? Certainly, not all of his works are equally great, but surely The Silence or The Seventh Seal are movies that one should watch.

[Uncle Waldo]

1. One Flew Over The Coo Coo's Nest
2. The Graduate
3. Exorcist
4. It's A Wonderful Life
5. Taxi Driver
6. Planet Of The Apes
7. Rocky
8. The Goodbye Girl
9. Pulp Fiction
10. The Big Lebowski/Boogie Nights

Yoda you sound like a genius. I'll bet you're very very handsome as well.

[muy_thaiguy]

I don't think I've seen a single movie not from western Europe or the USA mentioned on any list presented here yet so I'll toss in Rashomon and Sansho the Bailiff. Those two definitely deserve a mention.

Ingmar Bergman appears to be absent, despite being acclaimed as one of the greatest directors of all time and being known to have influenced many others. How come? Certainly, not all of his works are equally great, but surely The Silence or The Seventh Seal are movies that one should watch.

Or how about one of Bruce Lee's films?

[khazalid]

sammo hung!

[Falkomagno]

I put my thoughts here, to support some previous calls, and maybe to expose new ones.


Modern Movies
- Luna Papa
- Spirit Away
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Amélie
- Memento
- Delikatessen
- Black Cat, White Cat
- Braveheart
- The Fight Club
- Turtles can fly
- Mullholland drive
- Crash
- Pulp fiction
- A Scanner Darkly
- Pi
- Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Tesis
- Festen (The Celebration)
- La lengua de las mariposas
- Dobermann

Not oldies, not modern
- Taxi Driver
- The Shining
- Scarface
- The Godfather I, II and III
- That Obscure Object of Desire

Old movies
- The Seven Samurai
- Citizen Kane
- Modern Times
- The Battleship Potemkin
- Metropolis

[safariguy5]

I'm a bit surprised nobody's mentioned Forrest Gump or Good Will Hunting. 2 of my favorites. I personally believe Shawshank Redemption to be a great film as well. Not sure whether it would be top 10, but post 1970 top 21 for sure.

Also, just to throw some names out there:

Schindler's List
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Last Kings of Scotland
Children of Men

Since we all are here to appreciate films to some degree or another...may I suggest some movies I think work watching but probably not top 10 material:
Lord of War
Inside Man

[StrawberriFields]

What about Gladiator? That was such an amazing film!

[nietzsche]

no love for America Beauty, A Clockwork Orange or Annie Hall?

[nagerous]

no love for America Beauty, A Clockwork Orange or Annie Hall?

Not seen Annie Hall, but the first two are indeed top quality films and ones that just miss out on my personal top twenty.

[Minister Masket]

Gladiator
Memento
Sunshine
The Prestige
And for the love of all that's good in this world, put Wall.E in there.

(Also agreed that the LOTR trilogy should be counted as one)

[DAZMCFC]

no love for America Beauty, A Clockwork Orange or Annie Hall?

Not seen Annie Hall, but the first two are indeed top quality films and ones that just miss out on my personal top twenty.

to be honest nag, A Clockwork Orange is overated.

[nietzsche]

no love for America Beauty, A Clockwork Orange or Annie Hall?

Not seen Annie Hall, but the first two are indeed top quality films and ones that just miss out on my personal top twenty.

to be honest nag, A Clockwork Orange is overated.

Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well.

[nietzsche]

As I promised, last night watched The Big Lebowski. Good movie, not sure if it belongs to a top 20, if it does, it's right at the bottom IMO. Those Cohen brothers must be like gold mines for Hollywood studios.

[pancakemix]

And for the love of all that's good in this world, put Wall.E in there.

You've got to be joking. PLEASE tell me you are joking.