Some of your favourite films?

[Deleted User] · 07/03/09 - 20:53

Well, i'm re-watching 'Sin City' after about 2 years and within those 2 years i have had various experience in watching various styles of film. I have grown to massive appreciation of David Lynch and Jean-luc Godard. Thinking that this would completely take away my appreciation of mainstream cinema, it actually hasn't.
My top 20 films (in no order apart from number 1) are as follows:

1. The crow
2. The silence of the lambs
3. The basketball diaries
4. Double indemnity
5. The wizard of oz (For many external reasons)
6. Mulholland Drive
7. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
8. American beauty
9. Pulp fiction
10. City of god
11. Pan's Labyrinth
12. Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux
13. The shawshank redemption
14. Full Metal Jacket
15. The breakfast club
16. Magnolia
17. A clockwork orange
18. Crash - Not the car crash fetish one
19. Once upon a time in america
20. Dogma

So, what are your top 20? (if you can be arsed typing)

[Deleted User] · 07/03/09 - 20:59

I like david lynchs stuff to!

I can't get the film ''the ninth configuration'' out of my head though....most of the films I like are nutty though.

[Deleted User] · 07/03/09 - 21:00

Anyone remember the watermelon man?

[Deleted User] · 07/03/09 - 21:02

how about INLAND EMPIRE? :eek:

Mindfook or what haha

[Deleted User] · 07/03/09 - 21:05

I will have to check that one out shaun, and see how mindfooked I am.

captncool · 07/03/09 - 21:05

jackie chan .

GoodMikey · 07/03/09 - 21:05

Alfie
Rodger Dodger
Metropolis
Rearwindow
Godfather's 1+2
As Good As It Gets
American History X
Wicked City (animated)
Fight Club
300
The departed
Gone in 60 Seconds
Pirates of the Carribean 1 2 3
Troy
saving private ryan
Walk the Line
Shawshank Redemption
Rainman
Slumdog Millionaire
Schindler's List

Elanor · 07/03/09 - 21:21

I can never pick a favourite film, or a top 3, but top 20 is just about doable. My top 20 today is:

* Before Sunrise
* Before Sunset
* The English Patient
* The Truman Show
* Gattaca
* Bob Roberts
* To Kill a Mockingbird
* Superman
* Doctor Zhivago
* Brief Encounter
* Dead Poets Society
* High Fidelity
* The Breakfast Club
* E.T.
* Back to the Future
* Au Revoir Les Enfants
* The Wicker Man
* Breakfast at Tiffany's
* The Shawshank Redemption
* Eat Drink Man Woman

Ask me again tomorrow, it'll probably be totally different.

System · 07/03/09 - 22:08

I loved:

1. Ghost
2. Grease
3. Dirty Dancing
4. Thelma & Louise
5. Shawshank
6. Kramer versus Kramer
7. Watership Down
8. Titanic
9. Flashdance
10. Brokeback Mountain

[Deleted User] · 07/03/09 - 22:18

My favs as a kid were Disney's Toby Tyler about a kid joining the circus and when I was a teen To Sir With Love.

Lots of other goodies as well if I can think of them ???????????????

....................Marty.

Whadda ya feel like doin' tonight Marty ?????????????????

Well recently on American tv Ernest Borgnine (who played Marty) told us.

quatro · 07/03/09 - 22:21

The Green Mile
Coyote Ugly
Moulin Rouge
Slumdog Millionaire
Shawshank Redemption
Castaway
Billy Elliott
Wall-E
Old Yeller

swingaleg · 07/03/09 - 22:27

Sh-sh-Shaun wrote: »

Well, i'm re-watching 'Sin City' after about 2 years and within those 2 years i have had various experience in watching various styles of film. I have grown to massive appreciation of David Lynch and Jean-luc Godard. Thinking that this would completely take away my appreciation of mainstream cinema, it actually hasn't.
My top 20 films (in no order apart from number 1) are as follows:

1. The crow
2. The silence of the lambs
3. The basketball diaries
4. Double indemnity
5. The wizard of oz (For many external reasons)
6. Mulholland Drive
7. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
8. American beauty
9. Pulp fiction
10. City of god
11. Pan's Labyrinth
12. Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux
13. The shawshank redemption
14. Full Metal Jacket
15. The breakfast club
16. Magnolia
17. A clockwork orange
18. Crash - Not the car crash fetish one
19. Once upon a time in america
20. Dogma

So, what are your top 20? (if you can be arsed typing)

I don't watch many films but you've mentionned the last 2 that I watched and thought were terrific........

Sin City and Pan's Labyrinth.............

I thought Fargo was pretty good as well..........

System · 07/03/09 - 22:27

quatro wrote: »

The Green Mile
Coyote Ugly
Moulin Rouge
Slumdog Millionaire
Shawshank Redemption
Castaway
Billy Elliott
Wall-E
Old Yeller

Loved some of those as well.

KaliMist · 07/03/09 - 22:30

Rocky horror picture show has to be my all time favourite film but funnily enough I'm not that into other sci-fi/musicals.

I usually hate weepy chick flicks but 'The Notebook' is absolutely fantastic and had me in tears, longing for a huge romantic gesture from my OH.... it passed after around half an hour though.

I love gangster movies like Casino, Goodfellas and Scarface, the Godfather.

American history X, Battle Royal, Now and Then, Reservoir Dogs and anything with Steve Buscemi in it are also notable movies I like.

[Deleted User] · 07/03/09 - 22:35

In no order!!

Dirty Dancing
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Hot Fuzz
Mamma Mia
Narnia
Batman (new ones!!)
Practical Magic
Funny Face
Cruel Intentions
Just Like Heaven
Legally Blonde
Sweet Home Alabama
Miss Congeneality
Notting Hill
Silence of the Lambs
Bourne Trilogy

Oh I can't think of any more!!:)

[Deleted User] · 07/03/09 - 22:42

Two classics that I urge anyone reading this to hunt and watch - you won't be dissappointed

i) Laurel & Hardy - Way Out West
ii) Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein

Both are B&W and over 50years old but beat many recent comedies hands down!

More here if you're interested...

http://www.heyuguys.co.uk./index.php?option=com_idoblog&task=viewpost&id=382&Itemid=54

System · 08/03/09 - 00:28

Here's an alphabetical selection of 25. 'Z' defeated me.

Aliens
Blade Runner
Charade
Donnie Darko
Event Horizon
Fog, The (original)
Gladiator
Heat
Ipcress File, The
JFK
Key Largo
L.A. Confidential
Matrix, The
North By Northwest
Others, The
Pan's Labyrinth
Quiz Show
Requiem For A Dream
Shadow Of A Doubt
Third Man, The
Usual Suspects, The
Vanishing, The (original)
War Of The Worlds (original)
X-Files, The
Y Tu Mama Tambien

[Deleted User] · 08/03/09 - 04:00

American History X
Goodfellas
Leon
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Usual Suspects

Revenga · 08/03/09 - 19:11

The Lord of the Rings (I'm counting as one...)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Grindhouse
A Clockwork Orange
Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction
Mulholland Drive
Gladiator
The Beach
American Beauty
Tell No One (Ne Le Dis a personne)
Pan's Labyrinth
Misery
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

That's only 17 ... lol. There are far more and my favourite films change very quickly. But the above kind of stick there. Some mainstream, some less so.

[Deleted User] · 08/03/09 - 19:26

Reservoir Dogs
Chasing Amy
Once Upon a Time in the West
The Usual Suspects
Jean de Florette
Cyrano de Bergerac
Battleship Potempkin
M
The Empire Strikes Back
LA Confidential
The Godfather (Parts one and two)
2001 A Space Odyssey
Terminator
Dawn of the Dead
Ring
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Festen
Shaun of the Dead
Wall-E
Kind Hearts and Coronets

But it will be different tomorrow.

[Deleted User] · 08/03/09 - 20:20

My 1st post on DS (so treat me kindly) ...
1. Shawshank
2. Green Mile
3. Breakfast at Tiffanys
4. English Patient
5. In Bruges
6. Day of the Jackal (original 1973 version)
7. Little Miss Sunshine
8. Full Monty
9. Billy Elliott
10. Shirley Valentine

not got to 20 yet ... but those are definite favourites

[Deleted User] · 08/03/09 - 20:21

Gone With the Wind
Amelie
The Godfather
Donnie Darko
Brief Encounter
Secretary
Dead Man's Shoes

[Deleted User] · 08/03/09 - 20:24

In no particular order

A night to remember
frequency
frailty
the rock
back to the future (all of them)
man in the iron mask (the newer one)
count of monte cristo (the newer one lol)
shawshank
it's a wonderful life
grease
les miserables
angels with dirty faces
some like it hot
oliver
deadly pursuit
stargate
amadeus
last of the mohicans
indiana jones and the last crusade
die hard (all of them)

[Deleted User] · 08/03/09 - 20:35

Not sure if I can manage 20, but here goes

1. Star Wars original trilogy
2. Serenity
3. Waitress
4. Usual Suspects
5. Sweeney Todd
6. Singing in the Rain
7. The Italian Job (original)
8. The Great Escape
9. Shawshank Redemption
10. Hudsucker Proxy
11. In Bruges
12. Little Miss Sunshine
13. The Princess Bride
14. 300
15. The Life of Brian
16. Fargo
17. Shaun of the Dead

That's about all I can think of at the moment.

jra · 08/03/09 - 20:57

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (special edition cut)
Alien/Aliens (director's cut)/Alien 3 (special edition cut)
Terminator 1/2 (special edition cut)
Assault On Precinct 13 (1976 John Carpenter release)
Goodfellas
Casino
Alien Vs Predator (R1 unrated version)
Lethal Weapon 1/2 (R1 uncut)/3/4 (R1 uncut)
The 51st State
Die Hard (all of them)
Airplane
Naked Gun (all of them)
Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2
Commando (director's cut/R1 uncut)
Eraser (R1 uncut)
Back To The Future (1/2/3)
Austin Powers (all of them)
Under Siege 1/2 (R1 uncut)
Con Air (R1 unrated version)
Pulp Fiction

[Deleted User] · 08/03/09 - 21:09

My fave films in no particular order

die hard trilogy
point break
terminator 1+3
robocop
blood diamond
star wars trilogy
indian jones trilogy
ghostbusters
back to the future 1,2+3
Nightmare on elm street
fugative
blade runner
stargate
pulp fiction
short circut

the list could go on forerver, there arent many movies I wont watch, I just love films!!

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