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Dionysus 02-22-2006 08:19 PM

Your top ten movies of all time
 
List 'em!

irishpipes 02-22-2006 08:24 PM

In no particular order:

Gone With the Wind
The Quiet Man
My Cousin Vinny
Clueless
Say Anything
Pretty in Pink
Sound of Music
The Long, Long Trailer
Sixteen Candles
Lucas

Honorable Mention:
The Breakfast Club
Valley Girls
In the Name of the Father
Uncle Buck
The Outsiders

KSigkid 02-22-2006 08:24 PM

Just ten? Ok, here goes:

1) Platoon
2) The Godfather II
3) The Godfather
4) The Untouchables
5) The Natural
6) Glengarry Glen Ross
7) Goodfellas
8) Shawshank Redemption
9) Pulp Fiction
10) Reservoir Dogs

irishpipes 02-22-2006 08:26 PM

KSigKid, do you suffer from depression?

georgewallace3 02-22-2006 08:27 PM

Caddyshack
Shawshank Redemption
American Psycho
Crash
Saving Private Ryan
Fandango
Risky Business
Animal House
Top Gun
Back to the Future I II II
Giant
The Godgather
Goodfellas
Casino
The Untouchables
The Program
Major League
The Natural
Cobb

shinerbock 02-22-2006 09:22 PM

Shawshank
Field of Dreams
Friday Night Lights
TOMBSTONE
Days of Thunder
Almost Famous
Saving Private Ryan
Blackhawk Down
The Pelican Brief
Dazed and Confused

smiley21 02-22-2006 09:26 PM

no particular order:

1) The Three Musketeers (the one with Keifer Sutherland)
2) Clueless
3) The Pelican Brief
4) When A Man Loves A Woman
5) Crash
6) If Only (favorite tv movie)
7) Mystic River
8) 10 Things I Hate About You
9) Seven
10) O Brother Where Art Thou

Peaches-n-Cream 02-22-2006 09:27 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by KSigkid
Just ten? Ok, here goes:

1) Platoon
2) The Godfather II
3) The Godfather
4) The Untouchables
5) The Natural
6) Glengarry Glen Ross
7) Goodfellas
8) Shawshank Redemption
9) Pulp Fiction
10) Reservoir Dogs

I have most of those movies on my top ten list. I would add Casino and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Irishpipes, just a little useless info, my grandfather's friend and classmate wrote "The Quiet Man" and some other movies.

OPhiARen3 02-22-2006 09:37 PM

My favorite ten movies, in no order ... (it's an eclectic assortment):

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fight Club
Spirited Away
Mononoke Hime
Remember the Titans
Run Lola Run
Bamboozled
Hero
Grave of the Fireflies
Hotel Rwanda

Some fun movies that are almost on the list: Dogma, Saved, School Daze, Mean Girls, Shrek II ...

I luv movies
:D

KSigkid 02-22-2006 10:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by irishpipes
KSigKid, do you suffer from depression?
Nope - it's funny though, after I looked at my list, I saw that my top ten were pretty serious.

To be fair, I'd put Mallrats, Animal House, and Spies Like Us towards the top of my list if it were extended. They just don't make the top ten.

honeychile 02-22-2006 10:35 PM

Reds
Slap Shot
Steel Magnolias
Shining Through
Love, Actually
Dr. Zhivago
To Kill A Mockingbird
Cool Runnings
A Hard Day's Night
The Sound of Music


Honorable Mentions/Runners-Up:
Gone With The Wind
The Full Monty
Fiddler On The Roof
Animal House
Rain Man

NutBrnHair 02-22-2006 10:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by honeychile
Reds

I don't believe it -- Reds is always on my "list" too! I've seen it countless times. I used to show it to my European History classes when we studied the Russian Revolution. Great film.

honeychile 02-22-2006 11:04 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by NutBrnHair
I don't believe it -- Reds is always on my "list" too! I've seen it countless times. I used to show it to my European History classes when we studied the Russian Revolution. Great film.
What are the chances?!?! I think something like 8 people even saw Reds!! And the weird thing is, as celebrities go, both Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton are towards the bottom of my list!

Fantastic movie, though - if you look at them in depth, both Dr. Zhivago and Reds show the dichotomy of the Russian Revolution.


BTW, I forgot to mention anything by John Hughes (ie, Sixteen Candles).

Tippiechick 02-22-2006 11:36 PM

In no order:

The American President
Gone With the Wind
Dirty Dancing
Dazed and Confused
Wizard of Oz
Tootsie
The Sound of Music
Sense and Sensibility
Walk the Line
Pretty Woman

ADqtPiMel 02-22-2006 11:53 PM

Wet Hot American Summer
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Goodbye Lenin
Mallrats
SLC Punk
Can't Hardly Wait
Love Actually
Fight Club
Crash
The Village

deadbear80 02-23-2006 10:19 AM

In No Particular Order:

1. The Big Chill
2. Roman Holiday
3. Breakfast at Tiffany's
4. Finding Nemo
5. Fame
6. Dirty Dancing
7. Stand By Me
8. Garden State
9. The Breakfast Club
10. Mary Poppins

Although it doesn't make my Top 10, the scene from "Say Anything" where John Cusack holds up the boombox that's playing Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" is my most favorite movie scene ever.

AlphaFrog 02-23-2006 10:25 AM

The Phantom of the Opera
RENT
Dazed & Confused
Ever After
Coyote Ugly
Monty Python & The Holy Grail
10 Things I Hate About You
The Prince & Me
Shrek
Schindler's List (but I have to be in the mood, it's too heavy to just grab off the shelf & watch)

alum 02-23-2006 10:29 AM

Good Will Hunting is my absolute favorite of all time. Everything else was just a blur.

AlphaFrog 02-23-2006 10:31 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by alum
Good Will Hunting is my absolute favorite of all time. Everything else was just a blur.
It's a very acceptable movie, because MIT is definatly top-tier.

KSigkid 02-23-2006 10:34 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by alum
Good Will Hunting is my absolute favorite of all time. Everything else was just a blur.
That was just on TV last night - good film, watched it quite a bit for a year or two, but hadn't seen it again until yesterday.

ladypi 02-23-2006 12:09 PM

Movies are one of my favorite things!!!!

Gone with the Wind
Mean Girls
Pretty Woman
Rent
Animal House
Sound of Music
Pride and Predjudice
Clueless
The Notebook
Old School

And my two ALL time favorites that I can watch over and over again are....

ZOOLANDER
SHAG <-- an all time Southern Classic

alum 02-23-2006 12:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by AlphaFrog
It's a very acceptable movie, because MIT is definatly top-tier.
Absolutely, as is Harvard where Minnie Driver's character attends undergraduate school.:D

Now Southie, on the other hand, is a place that is truly scary....

wrigley 02-23-2006 12:29 PM

You Can't Take It With You
The Blues Brothers
Stage Door
200 Cigarettes
Steel Magnolias
Brian's Song
Walk The Line
Say Anything
The Women
Miracle

summer_gphib 02-23-2006 12:50 PM

Shattered Glass
Gone with the Wind
Life as a House
St. Elmos Fire
A Time to Kill
Steel Magnolias
Twister
50 First Dates
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Grease

mulattogyrl 02-23-2006 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by KSigkid
Just ten? Ok, here goes:

2) The Godfather II
3) The Godfather
8) Shawshank Redemption
9) Pulp Fiction
10) Reservoir Dogs

^ I like these too. Adding:

1) Scarface
2) The Color Purple
3) Love & Basketball
4) Love Jones
5) Planet of the Apes (original)
6) Malcolm X

jwright25 02-23-2006 12:58 PM

The Bourne Identity / The Bourne Supremacy
Love Actually
Top Gun
You've Got Mail
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (we quote it at work incessantly)
Any Star Wars movie
A Knight's Tale
Emma
Ocean's Eleven / Ocean's Twelve
Any Austin Powers movie

Hard to narrow down, and I'm sure I'll think of others! But these are movies I'll switch the channel to watch!

Rudey 02-23-2006 01:02 PM

"The masses have no taste."

-Rudey

Peaches-n-Cream 02-23-2006 01:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Rudey
"The masses have no taste."

-Rudey

I have to agree, but I like most of KSigkid's list.

I'd love to see your list.

KSigkid 02-23-2006 01:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Peaches-n-Cream
I have to agree, but I like most of KSigkid's list.

I'd love to see your list.

Thank you.

- KSigKid
-- You can call me Cultured with a capital C

Peaches-n-Cream 02-23-2006 01:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by KSigkid
Thank you.

- KSigKid
-- You can call me Cultured with a capital C

You're welcome, Cultured.

Rudey 02-23-2006 01:18 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Peaches-n-Cream
I have to agree, but I like most of KSigkid's list.

I'd love to see your list.

First of all, it's impossible to make a list of top 10 songs or movies. But if I had to, I would include these.

Cinema Paradiso
Hoosiers
Stripes
Ran
The Deer Hunter
Donnie Darko
Rushmore
Harold and Maude
Adaptation
Hable con ella (Talk to Her)

I would also consider adding American Psycho as a wildcard pick and the Paris Hilton tape for good measure.

-Rudey

mulattogyrl 02-23-2006 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Peaches-n-Cream
I have to agree, but I like most of KSigkid's list.

So do I. I just had to take some out to add some, but I like most of those movies.

irishpipes 02-23-2006 01:41 PM

Rudey is top-tier.

Rudey 02-23-2006 02:06 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by irishpipes
Rudey is top-tier.
With a cherry on top.

-Rudey

honeychile 02-23-2006 02:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by wrigley
You Can't Take It With You
The Blues Brothers
Stage Door
200 Cigarettes
Steel Magnolias
Brian's Song
Walk The Line
Say Anything
The Women
Miracle

I LOVE The Women!!!! That has to be one of the all time great campy movies!! I was also going to mentin Brian's Song, but I ran out of room. :(

Very Elite 02-23-2006 02:26 PM

Keep in mind that only Academy nominated flims are top tier.

valkyrie 02-23-2006 02:28 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Very Elite
Keep in mind that only Academy nominated flims are top tier.
A parody of a parody?

KSigkid 02-23-2006 02:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Rudey
First of all, it's impossible to make a list of top 10 songs or movies. But if I had to, I would include these.

Cinema Paradiso
Hoosiers
Stripes
Ran
The Deer Hunter
Donnie Darko
Rushmore
Harold and Maude
Adaptation
Hable con ella (Talk to Her)

I would also consider adding American Psycho as a wildcard pick and the Paris Hilton tape for good measure.

-Rudey

Hoosiers is great, as are Stripes and Rushmore. I agree though, it's difficult to pare anything down to a Top 10 or even Top 20.

KSig RC 02-23-2006 02:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Very Elite
Keep in mind that only Academy nominated flims are top tier.

Awful sock puppet - people should apply for a license for these things.

Also, Rudey - although I dig them both, I'd probably put Eternal Sunshine in front of Adaptation, even though it's been labeled 'romantic comedy' . . . while both are brilliantly written, I think I got more out of the actual film.

Rudey 02-23-2006 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by KSig RC
Awful sock puppet - people should apply for a license for these things.

Also, Rudey - although I dig them both, I'd probably put Eternal Sunshine in front of Adaptation, even though it's been labeled 'romantic comedy' . . . while both are brilliantly written, I think I got more out of the actual film.

Adaptation was darker, more twisted, and more witty to me.

Eternal Sunshine was his attempt at appealing to a more commercial audience. It was a good film, but nothing amazing.

I either like movies that are extremely simple and light or brutally dark. My psychiatrist is worried by this.

-Rudey


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