Your Top Twenty Favorite Flicks of All Time

[MAX]

I know we've done these before but they're always fun and help kill boredom during office downtime. :)

I'll start, no particular order and some are subject to change if I remember others.

I couldn't even list twenty but ten seemed too small of a list. lol.

Have fun kiddies. :)

1) A River Runs Through It

2) Arthur

3) Gladiator

4) Heaven Can Wait

5) Scent of a Woman

6) The Shawshank Redemption

7) Goodfellas

8) It's A Wonderful Life

9) Pulp Fiction

10) Star Wars (1977)

11) Dirty Harry

12) Lady and the Tramp

13) Dazed and Confused

14) The Bridge on the River Kwai

15) Lethal Weapon 2

16) Unforgiven

17) The Outsiders

[julia]

these are in no piticular order
1. die hard 1
2. rocky 1
3. nightmare on elm st. 1
4. exorcist
5. fast times at ridgemont high
6. this is spinal tap
7. Stripes
8. Dazed and Confused
9. deepthroat lol
10. blues brothers
11. the godfather 1
12. private parts
13. the breakfast club
14. the wedding singer
15. big daddy
16. air force one
17. monty python and the holy grail
18. blazing saddles
19. young frankinstein
20. national lampoon's vacation

[Carmine]

Goodfellas
Godfather 1
Godfather 2
Rocky 1-5
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
50 first dates
61*
The Glenn Miller story
Pride of the Yankees
Star Wars
Forrest Gump
Appollo 13
Field of Dreams
Bull Durham
The Blues Brothers
The Natural
Cocktail
Pretty Women
Analyze this
Analyze that
Scarface
Casino

[Warham]

Ok, I'll bite

Star Wars 1-6
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Field of Dreams
Terminator 2
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Space Cowboys
Shrek
Matrix Reloaded
Dirty Harry
The Fugitive
The Breakfast Club
The Wedding Singer
X2

[Golden AWe]

Godfather 1
Godfather 2
Star Wars
Apocalypse. Now.
The Taxi Driver
Dirty Harry
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
2001: Space Odyssey
Clockwork Orange
Three Colors: Red
Dr. Strangelove
Deep Red
The Deer Hunter
Life Of Brian
La Strada
It's a wonderful life
Mies vailla menneisyyttä (The man without a past)
Talvisota (The winter war)
After Hours

first best 20 to pop up into my mind...

[MAX]

Hey AWe,

That's so stellar that you also have "It's A Wonderful Life" on your list. Screw Christmas, it is just a great story and has a lot of grate dialogue. Donna Reed was a hotty in her day too.

I also noticed that the majority of us also agree on "Star Wars" and "Dirty Harry" as well. :cool:

[bueno bob]

1. Star Wars

2. The Empire Strikes Back

3. Return of the Jedi

4. The Phantom Menace

5. Attack of the Clones

6. Revenge of the Sith (Can I use this yet?)

7. A Nightmare On Elm Street

8. Mad Max

9. The Road Warrior

10. The Sure Thing (Daphne Zuniga...errrrr...)

11. Ocean's Eleven (the remake)

12. The Matrix

13. Angel Heart

14. Shaun of the Dead (I just love this movie)

15. Dog Soldiers (Love this one, too...cult English werewolf flick)

16. SLC Punk

17. Unforgiven

18. National Lampoon's Vacation

19. Caddyshack

20. 3 way tie: Reefer Madness/Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure/Dazed & Confused

[Golden AWe]

Originally posted by MAX
Hey AWe,

That's so stellar that you also have "It's A Wonderful Life" on your list. Screw Christmas, it is just a great story and has a lot of grate dialogue. Donna Reed was a hotty in her day too.

I also noticed that the majority of us also agree on "Star Wars" and "Dirty Harry" as well. :cool:

Yup, it's a tradition to watch it every Christmas...they show it on the finnish tv too, every year...the original "good actions will pay off sooner or later"...it has the feeling that the cheesiness was not there to make a lot of money...it feels like "pure, good will."

[MAX]

Originally posted by bueno bob
SLC Punk

I've still never seen this one and had forgotten about it. I remember when it was filmed here. How much of the storyline really has to do with my home base?

Also, I'm just getting ready to read your highly anticipated camping nightmare thread. :)

In keeping with the same vein, here's one of my camping nightmares from my frat days. I got fucked up, passed out in-between the houseboats and got tagged by the girlfriend and soon to be Mrs. Maximus Paparazzi. lol.

Yep, that pathetic fucked up lush was moi back in the day. :o

[MAX]

Originally posted by Golden AWe
Yup, it's a tradition to watch it every Christmas...they show it on the finnish tv too, every year...the original "good actions will pay off sooner or later"...it has the feeling that the cheesiness was not there to make a lot of money...it feels like "pure, good will."

It's a stellar flick and Jimmy Stewart is truly one of the best. Glad you like it AWe. :)

[Coyote]

In no order...

Ford Fairlane
Mad Max 1+2
The Dune
Casablanca
The Color Of Money
Easy Rider
Blade Runner
Raiders of The Lost Ark
Saving Private Ryan
Scarface
Carlito's Way
Cotton Club
Shaft
Cobra
James Bond (You Only Live Twice)
Harley Davidson & The Marlboro Man
Smokey And The Bandit
Chinatown
The Two Jakes

[Golden AWe]

Originally posted by Coyote
In no order...

Ford Fairlane
Mad Max 1+2
The Dune
Casablanca
The Color Of Money
Easy Rider
Blade Runner
Raiders of The Lost Ark
Saving Private Ryan
Scarface
Carlito's Way
Cotton Club
Shaft
Cobra
James Bond (You Only Live Twice)
Harley Davidson & The Marlboro Man
Smokey And The Bandit
Chinatown
The Two Jakes


cobra? COBRA?


you must've really love the cover of the movie...stallone in leather...hahahah

[Coyote]

Originally posted by Golden AWe
cobra? COBRA?


you must've really love the cover of the movie...stallone in leather...hahahah

It's the 1950 Mercury that caught my attention. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[Golden AWe]

Originally posted by Coyote
It's the 1950 Mercury that caught my attention. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

yeah right, that's what they all say...hahahah..

the problem is, I haven't forgotten about that cover either...hahahah

OOPS!

[vanzilla]

1. Kill Bill Vol. 2

2. American Movie

3. Pulp Fiction

4. Kill Bill Vol. 1

5. Fletch

6. This is Spinal Tap

7. The Pianist

8. Saving Private Ryan

9. Resevior Dogs

10. This Is Spinal Tap

11. Star Wars Episode IV

12. Less Than Zero

13. Breakfast Club

14. Fight Club

15. Star Wars Episode V

16. Raiders Of The Lost Ark

17. Stand By Me

18. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

19. Blazing Saddles

20. Wierd Science

21. Can't Buy Me Love

22. Anchorman

23. Mean Girls

24. Dark Days

25. Caddyshack

[Terry]

The Wraith
The Warriors
The Deep
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Blade Runner
Death Wish 2
Zapped!
Deep Inside Nikki Sinn
Fletch
Empire Strikes Back
Godfather Part 2
Scarface
Halloween
Halloween 2
Seems Like Old Times
Modern Problems
Pale Rider
8 Men Out
Bad News Bears
Jaws

[academic punk]

Absolutely no order whatsoever:

1) Fargo ("Hey, Jose Feliciano. Can't go wrong")

2) Raising Arizona ("Son, you got a panty on your head")

3) Arthur ("If she were to murder the tie, then it would be a perfect crime")

4) The Outsiders ("Get 'em, Ponyboy! Get 'em!")

5) Shallow Grave ("How much does it cost you to have a good time???")

6) Trainspotting ("I'm not constipated anymore.")

7) Airplane ("You can tell me, I'm a doctor")

8) Airplane II (I'm sorry, I'm a doctor, I don't do impressions")

9) The Naked Gun ("It's Enrico Pallozzo!!! Enrico Pallazzo saved the Queen!")

10) Taxi Driver ("Listen you fuckers, youn screwheads...")

11) Raging Bull ("Bring it over!!! It's like a piece of charcoal!")

12) Zelig ("I hate your pancakes. I throw them under the table when you're not looking.")

13) Crimes and Misdemeanors ("I've jumped out the window.")

14) Apocolypse Now ("If you take out the first and last letter of the word "life", you get "If"!!!!)

15) Spellbound (an amazing documentary about participants in the national spelling bee competition. EXCELLENT!!!)

16) Scrooged (Not what I'd consider great, but I never seem to turn it off whenever it's on cable...)

17) Willy Wonka

18 & 19)Spider-Man, 1 and 2 (HUGE SPidey fan...can't help myself, if I had to choose between the two, I'd go with the second...)

I'll leave the last one open 'cause I'm certain I'm forgetting something...

[Coyote]

Originally posted by Golden AWe
yeah right, that's what they all say...hahahah..

the problem is, I haven't forgotten about that cover either...hahahah

OOPS!

Isn't this where we both shut up about the subject at hand?

[academic punk]

Ah, fuck, I left out any Clint.

eh...The Unforgiven.

And somewhere in there throw the South Park flick. I'm done with it, but I laughed my fucking balls off when I saw it opening day at the theater...

Barfly. Godfather 2. Shit...now the brain starts cranking...

[Guitar Shark]

Some really, really good choices in this thread. :cool: I'll give it a shot as well (in rough order):

1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
2. Raising Arizona
3. The Princess Bride
4. A Christmas Story
5. The Lord of the Rings trilogy
6. National Lampoon's Vacation
7. Amadeus
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
9. The Shawshank Redemption
10. American Beauty
11. Back to the Future
12. Blues Brothers
13. Office Space
14. Hoosiers
15. Fargo
16. E.T.
17. The Fugitive
18. Raiders of the Lost Ark
19. The Shining
20. Dumb and Dumber

Honorable Mentions:

1. Arthur
2. Wayne's World
3. Silence of the Lambs
4. Pulp Fiction
5. The Matrix
6. When Harry Met Sally

[vanzilla]

Damn!!! I can't believe I left Amadeus and Office Space off my list!

Good selection Shark!

[Bill Lumbergh]

1. The Empire Strikes Back

2. Star Wars

3. Return of the Jedi

4. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

5. Raiders of the Lost Ark

6. IJ and the Last Crusade

7. Predator

8. The Fugitive

9. Pulp Fiction

10. A Nightmare on Elm Street

11. The Godfather

12. Field of Dreams

13. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

14. Aliens

15. The Mosquito Coast

16. Office Space

17. Rocky

18. They Live

19. The People Under the Stairs

20. First Blood

[Coyote]

Damn. Forgot all about "The Holy Grail" and a couple of others...

[bueno bob]

Originally posted by MAX
I've still never seen this one and had forgotten about it. I remember when it was filmed here. How much of the storyline really has to do with my home base?

Also, I'm just getting ready to read your highly anticipated camping nightmare thread. :)

In keeping with the same vein, here's one of my camping nightmares from my frat days. I got fucked up, passed out in-between the houseboats and got tagged by the girlfriend and soon to be Mrs. Maximus Paparazzi. lol.

Yep, that pathetic fucked up lush was moi back in the day. :o

Lookin' sharp!!

Go see SLC Punk, for sure, it's one of the best movies I've ever seen about...fuck, anything...I ran with the punk culture a lot when I was younger, so it made a LOT of sense to me and it was like I knew virtually everybody in the movie in some sense. Basically, it's like...a day in the life of, sort of shit...about kids trying to be punk in Salt Lake City and how badly it goes for them...it's funny, it's sad, it's dramatic...really excellent story.

You'll love Crackhead Bob - think of me :D

[Hardrock69]

Man...this is gonna be an impossibility.

HOWEVER, I will just list 20 fave flix....in no particular order:

1. Queen Of The Damned
2. The Matrix
3. Raiders Of The Lost Ark
4. Plan 9 From Outer Space
5-7 Star Wars 4,5,6
8-10 The Lord Of The Rings
11. The Gladiator
12. High Plains Drifter
13. Dirty Harry
14. Contact
15. Monty Python & The Holy Grail
16. Animal House
17. Casablanca
18. The Maltese Falcon
19. Blade Runner
20. THe Road Warrior

Man....so many flix. My videotape collection is at 800 plus.....though not al of them are movies, and some tapes have 2 movies on them.

Terry had "THE WRAITH" on his list...fucking kewel flick that not many have heard of, much less like.

I dig any James Bond (Sean Connery is the man), insane comedies, ALL of the Aliens flicks (I think Sigourney Weaver is HOT!!)

http://www.celebskin.net/g/sigourney-weaver/sigourney-weaver-14.jpg

Ummm...well....anyway....and porn director Blake Andrews is the shit....

:D

[ashstralia]

Originally posted by Hardrock69
14. Contact

trivia..

there's a scene in this movie
where jodie is in the control room,
which is full of sciency type equipment.

if you look carefully, there is an eventide h3000
harmonizer!

he he, mebbe they were gonna get stevie to play
some alien love music.

oh, and ' the fisher king'.

[Grant]

1. JFK

2. Lawrence Of Arabia

3. King Kong (1933)

4. Raiders Of The Lost Ark

5. King Of Kings

6. The Omen

7. Saving Private Ryan

8. Dirty Harry

9. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

10. Ace Ventura Pet Detective

11. Dumb & Dumber

12. Citizen Kane

13. The Godfather

14. The Ten Commandments

15. Dog Day Afternoon

16. Serpico

17. Airplane

18. Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade

19. Good Morning Vietnam

20. Lethal Weapon 2


Honourable mentions:

1. Platoon

2. Midnight Express

3. Magnum Force

4. It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

5. The Exorcist

6. First Blood

7. American Pie

8. Amadeus

9. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

10. The Princess Bride

[flappo]

exc thread

stickying this !

[Roguesgirl]

In no order

Gladiator
Braveheart
Dances with Wolves
Wizard of Oz
The Godfather
The Godfather II
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Silence of the lambs
Cape Fear
The Out-of-Towners (the origianl w/ Jack Lemmon)
Airplane
Cable Guy
American beauty
Kill Bill vol.1
Kill bill vol.2
Fight Club
Primal Fear
A Beautiful Mind
Rain Man

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Here's my list, but it's kind of truncated for I can't mention my favorite French films that hardly anybody has ever seen here:

2001: A Space Odyssey

A Clockwork Orange

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Planet of the Apes (1967!)

Little Big Man

Dances with Wolves

Amadeus

Brazil

The Meaning of Life

Life of Brian

Chainsaw Massacre

Shining

Jacob's Ladder

Terminator II

The Indiana Jones trilogy

The Back to the Future trilogy

Forrest Gump

Man on the Moon

The Big Lebowski

O Brother

These are among my fav' American movies. Fuckin' great! I almost have them all on video. But as everybody in the thread I surely forgot a few other gems (not Star Wars though, I never could stand it, sorry).

[blonddgirl777]

Jacob's Ladder...
How many times will i have to view this to really grasp it...
That's what make it soooo good1

[Jérôme Frenchise]

A really poignant film for sure. Very original too, I think. I've watched it and shown it about 20 times these last 12 years. Nice to learn you dig it as well.
Now, what are your fav' movies?

[Hardrock69]

Originally posted by ashstralia
trivia..

there's a scene in this movie
where jodie is in the control room,
which is full of sciency type equipment.

if you look carefully, there is an eventide h3000
harmonizer!

he he, mebbe they were gonna get stevie to play
some alien love music.

oh, and ' the fisher king'.


Ahhh...so now I will haveta go home tonight and watch my DVD...love the DVD technology...I can freeze-frame it, and then zoom in up to 60X.

[blonddgirl777]

Originally posted by Jérôme Frenchise
A really poignant film for sure. Very original too, I think. I've watched it and shown it about 20 times these last 12 years. Nice to learn you dig it as well.
Now, what are your fav' movies?

There are a couple Hollywood movies that I like but can't really remember them all (on top of my head)...

Quintin Tarentino is good in general
Russ Meyers

All of the "Godfathers"

But in french... nothing beats "37.2, Le Matin"... soooo touching!!!
La Femme Nikita (french original version, of course)

Le Declin de l'Empire Americain
Les Invasions Barbares

I would have to think about it more...

[larbo]

o' brother where art thou - do not seek the treasure
American History X - you fucked with the wrong bull
tombstone - poor soul you was just too high strung
The Unforgiven - I'll kill your dog
Jay & Silent Bob strike back - hey baby! ever had your asshole licked by a fat man in an over coat?

Clerks - 37 dicks? try not to suck any dicks on your way across the parking lot.

saving private ryan
Castaway - spalding!!! or whatever that fucking balls name was.
Ace Ventura pet detective - lehoo zeeher loser
meet the parents - you can milk a cat?
Groundhog day - I'm not living by their rules anymore
above the law
saw - holy shit this movie was freaky
cold mountain - brrrrrrr. goddamn it's cold up here. thats the windchill fucker
three midgets and a lady - I need a stool

:D
Forrest Gump - mama always said women were like a box of chocolates, the ones with the cherries are better

there's something about mary - where'd it go?
hannibal - well hello clitoris
mothman - that shit happened about 40 minutes away from where I live and it's a fact!
fast times at ridgemont high - I know that dude

[Roguesgirl]

Jay and Silent Bob flicks were great!

O' Brother where art thou was real good too.

(I knew I would forget some)

[academic punk]

Originally posted by Roguesgirl
In no order

Gladiator
Braveheart
Dances with Wolves
Wizard of Oz
The Godfather
The Godfather II
Goodfellas
Pulp Fiction
Silence of the lambs
Cape Fear
The Out-of-Towners (the origianl w/ Jack Lemmon)
Airplane
Cable Guy
American beauty
Kill Bill vol.1
Kill bill vol.2
Fight Club
Primal Fear
A Beautiful Mind
Rain Man

Jesus. Typical chick-flicks.

[Roguesgirl]

Originally posted by academic punk
Jesus. Typical chick-flicks.

sickening, ain't it?:p

[aesop]

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25. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

[BOMBER]

Braveheart
Goodfellas
The Naked Gun
The Empire Strikes Back
The Castle
Evil Dead 2
Casino
Pale Rider
The Godfather
Romper Stomper
True Romance
Kill Bill
Seven
What About Bob?
Dirty Harry
Shawshank Redemption
Heat
Total Recall
Die Hard With A Vengance
Austin Powers

[Roguesgirl]

True Romance was great movie.


Best scene is when Hopper is telling Walken where Sicilians come from :cool:

awesome

[s.o.s.r]

ok, just a score, hmmm...

subway
leon
the fifth element (massive fan of luc besson movies)
life is beautiful
both taxi films
the waynes worlds
and the bill and teds
top gun
ferris bueller's day off
almost famous
spinal tap
the goonies
snatch
city of god
la haine (just for the pot-fuelled edith piaf scratch)
any given sunday
and to be patriotic, 4 weddings and a funeral ;)

[Grant]

Originally posted by BOMBER

The Castle


Fuck, I could forget that one. Hilarious!:D

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Originally posted by s.o.s.r
la haine (just for the pot-fuelled edith piaf scratch)

I'm amazed this one crossed the Channel, really.

[s.o.s.r]

Originally posted by Jérôme Frenchise
I'm amazed this one crossed the Channel, really.

yeah? it's pretty well known, one of those rites of passage type films for a lotta guys my age, we got shown it in french class at high school. absolute shit load of my buddies have 'nique la police' on mp3.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

You had a real cool teacher anyway.
I teach English to high-school pupils, and the toughest I've ever shown was "Bonnie and Clyde" or, in another genre, the Pythons' "Meaning of life".
I couldn't stand Kassovitz, so I boycotted "La haine". I might have missed something worth it, yet.
Then I left the cinema at about half of "Trainspotting", but saw "A clockwork orange" twice in a row at the same period, when they put it back on screens in a little movie theater I knew well. Maybe it's just Kubrick who only could make transcendent art even with that much violence?

[s.o.s.r]

yeah, we had cool french teachers, one is a famous author now, had a film made out of one of her books. another one is in prison though so you gotta ride out your luck eh?! we got shown subway and nikita in french class, nikita is way out there in some places, really dark shit. agree with you about trainspotting and clockwork orange. kubrick's film is dream-like, ethereal, it's kinda like witnessing violence by proxy. trainspotting is much more gritty and in your face, very worth watching.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Originally posted by s.o.s.r
yeah, we had cool french teachers, one is a famous author now, had a film made out of one of her books. another one is in prison though so you gotta ride out your luck eh?! we got shown SUBWAY and nikita in french class, nikita is way out there in some places, really dark shit. agree with you about trainspotting and clockwork orange. kubrick's film is dream-like, ethereal, it's kinda like witnessing violence by proxy. trainspotting is much more gritty and in your face, very worth watching.

"Nikita"... You may say I'm hard to please, but I can't stand Besson's films either!
Christophe Lambert used to be a good actor. Back at the time of "Subway", in which you had a few great French supporting actors, like J-P Bacri (police inspector, " 'Chier! 'Chier!") or Michel Galabru (nutty ageing superintendent).
But mostly, our national star, one of my darlings: Isabelle Adjani.

[s.o.s.r]

nice fuckin photo man! yeah, you are pretty hard to please! old mr m showed us subway 'cause he had a major thing for isabelle adjani. i love that cast, "batman et robin... les meilleurs" and "je suis pas fred," ... "moi non plus." galabru does deadpan better than anyone i ever saw in any movie. maaan... isabelle. adjani. she rocked my world.