Top film list

[S4ur0n27]

Yes, Once upon A Time In China is really good, tho the 4h movie sucks. The 5th and 6th aren't out here yet in Canada.

I haven't read Name of the Rose yet, only seen it, Sean Connery is really impressive, I think it's his best movie. I have the book, but I always got something else to read, I've got this HUGE list of books to read.

You should check out all of Luis Bunuel's movies, it's all burlesque, funny, and a great criticism of the society and its institutions, ie the police, medecin, etc.

EDIT : What's Long Good Friday about? I never heard of it.

[Negadas]

Sean Connery is a great actor. All his movies are really good.

[Forty-six & Two]

My 3 favs in random order of goodness - Donnie Darko, Being John Malkowich and Fear and loathing in Las Vegas.

[atoga]

I made a similar list, Kharn, but I'm at school right now. I'll post it when I'm home later.

[Brother None]

rambo 3

Rambo *3*?!

Yes, Once upon A Time In China is really good, tho the 4h movie sucks. The 5th and 6th aren't out here yet in Canada.

The 5th and 6th are also bad.

I'm not partial the 3rd either.

But the first two are brilliant.

EDIT : What's Long Good Friday about? I never heard of it.

It's one of Britains two great gangster films, together with Get Carter (the original, obviously):
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0081070/

It's not your run-of-the-mill gangster film. It has no "wow what a kewl heist lol"-scenes or "wow that trick was kewl"-scenes or "wow that guy is kewl"-characters. It has interesting and generally round characters, stellar perfomances all around, and a concentrated and intelligent storyline, that doesn't focus at all on the old Godfather bullshit story of "you gotta respect, see"

Bob Hoskins is da man. And a genius.

EDIT:

I made a similar list, Kharn, but I'm at school right now. I'll post it when I'm home later.

Good, I'm curious.

[Jeff]

I've probably forgotten about all the great movies, but here's some that I could actually remember... I'm sure there's many flicks I've seen and deserve to be on this list more than some of these, but what can you do

• Amelie
  Requiem For A Dream
  Spun
  Fight Club
  The Matrix
  12 Monkeys
  Terminator 2
  Pulp Fiction
  Kill Bill
  Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
  Existenz
  Mad Max Road Warrior
  Lock Stock Two Smoking Barrels
  Snatch
  The Boondock Saints
  Leon
  Ghost in the Shell
  City of Lost Children
  Ed Wood
  Plan 9 From Outer Space
  Planet Of The Apes (the new one)
  Spinal Tap
  Clerks
  Beautiful Mind
  Human Traffic
  Traffic
  Night of the Living Dead
  Seven
  Full Metal Jacket
  Apocalypse Now
  Star Wars Trilogy
  Pi
  Minority Report
  American History X
  Alien & Aliens
  Escape from NY
  Taxi Driver
  Cube
  Monty Python and the Holy Grail

edit: the ones 46&2 mentioned are all cool

[Bridgeburner]

Planet Of The Apes (the new one)

hmmm, that's curious.

anyway i admit almost all my favourite movies have already been posted. some new ones:

transformers the movie
gi joe the movie
dune
fail safe
steel dawn
cowboy bebop the movie
oh my goddess the movie
lola rennt
dead or alive 1, 2 & 3
audition

[iohkus]

yeah, if your list is in numerical order then you suck

mad max > terminator
resevoir dogs > fight club
apocalypse now/full metal jacket/thin redline all > platoon

and taxi driver > all

[Jeff]

hmmm, that's curious.

hehe, I knew someone would comment on that one.
Anyway, here's the deal: all the cinematographic shit, like how a movie is shot and cut and whatever, doensn't really mean much me. Even the acting and the plot aren't always important. What I usually play a lot of attention to is the milieu and the music (Planet of the Apes, Amelie, City of the lost Children being prime examples, although I admit that the latter two are way better). So I can like a movie with a great plot, but I can also like a pretty movie with no real content. I don't want to know anything about the monkeys of a nature document either, I just want to see them make Teh Funnee, you know?

so what i'm saying is that I thought the new Apes film was pretty.

[Megatron]

I have an extended list (most of my dvd collection), so you can see it HEYAR for those that care.

I like most of the films lassie likes...mabye not planet of the apes or minority report, but they had some nice sets.

[S4ur0n27]

Yes, Amelie was incredibly great, especially theo riginal french version.

There is also the german movie The Tunnel, about the first guys who dug a tunnel under the Berlin Wall.

Clerks was hella good too.

I gotta check out long Good Friday, it looks good.

For anime lovers :

Princess Mononoke
Ghost in the Shell
Ninja Scroll
Metropolis (GREAT)

And the BEST I've seen : Spirited Away.

[iohkus]

i didn't want to do this but now i feel compelled by some outer worldy force

in no order

taxi driver
blade runner
blue velvet
clock work orange
full metal jacket
thin red line
apocalypse now
saving private ryan
requiem for a dream
pulp fiction
donnie darko
fail safe (the 1964 one, although the live made for tv one was actually okay)
mad max
traffic
threads
pink floyd's the wall
mulholland drive
baraka

[atoga]

I’m not going to list the year and other details, because if you’re so interested you can figure them out yourself. I won’t list *why* I like them either, because it takes too much time to do so. Also, I’m only listing stuff off the top of my head, so there probably are quite a few things I forgot, and movies which I’ve seen more than once are going to be most prominent. There are probably quite a few great movies I’ve overlooked, saw a few years ago and forgotten most the details of, or simply haven’t had a chance to watch. Sadly, a lot of lesser known cult movies which I like have probably slipped my mind, and this list, as well.

I hate compiling lists, but anyway, here goes:

Ten best:
1. North by Northwest
2. Pulp Fiction
3. 8½
4. Chinatown
5. La Dolce Vita
6. Dr. Strangelove
7. A Clockwork Orange
8. Withnail & I
9. A Night at the Opera
10. The Fisher King

A bunch of other good movies (alphabetical order):
Adam’s Rib
Airplane!
Amelie (though I hate people who say “it’s a hardcore French movie� – it’s not. It’s a French movie made solely for Hollywood.)
American Graffiti
American Splendor
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Ararat
Blazing Saddles
Blood Simple
Blue Velvet
Bullets Over Broadway
Brazil
Broadway Danny Rose
Casablanca
Chan is Missing
A Christmas Story
A Day at the Races
Deliverance
Duck Soup
Driving Miss Daisy
Edward Scissorhands
The Elephant Man
Eraserhead
Existenz
Fargo
The Fly
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Full Metal Jacket
Gallipoli
Get Shorty
The Godfather
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Grifters
Horse Feathers
Jackie Brown
Kill Bill
The Maltese Falcon
The Man Who Wasn’t There
The Man Without a Past
Mad Max
Manhattan
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Monty Python’s Wind and the Willows (any of you seen this one? Hilarious, but unknown)
Mulholland Drive
Naked Gun
Naked Gun 2½
Naked Lunch
Network
Nosferatu
Notorious
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Philadelphia Story
The Piano
Plan Nine From Outer Space
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Rear Window
Reservoir Dogs
The Road Warrior
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Royal Tenenbaums
Scarface (the greatest piece of trash EVER)
Sleeper
Sleuth
Spider
Sweet and Lowdown
Taxi Driver
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
To Catch a Thief
2001: A Space Odyssey
Wise Blood
Wizard of Oz
Young Frankenstein

[Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD]

whoa someone who actually liked traffic. that movie was horrible.

you all forgot Big Trouble in Little China.

Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? was one of the worst movies i ever sat through and the sound track made me want to kill myself with a dull machette.

[iohkus]

traffic owns,

and how the fuck could i forget fear and loathing in las vegas.. silly me

[atoga]

Oh yeah, can't forget Fear & Loathing Myself. Crap in a hat.

Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? was one of the worst movies i ever sat through and the sound track made me want to kill myself with a dull machette.

You haven't sat through much, have you, you little hyperactive piece of trash? So shut up please. Oh Brother is quite a good movie, very funny, and the Coen Brothers rule. Just because you can't take country music with a grain of salt doesn't mean it qualifies as shit.

[Franz Schubert]

you all forgot Big Trouble in Little China.

My favorite Carpenter movie of all time.

Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? was one of the worst movies i ever sat through and the sound track made me want to kill myself with a dull machette.

I liked that movie, very surreal.

Movies which are overrated:
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Jack Nicholson pwns, but I simply didn't think this was all that great. It certainly didn't deserve 5 oscars anyway. Watch Cool Hand Luke, with Paul Newman, he's the perfect, classic anti-hero.

Movies I own:
Big Trouble in Little China
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Fight Club
American History X
Blues Brothers
Ghost Busters
Mortal Kombat <-- Good movie
Gladiator
Stargate
Mad Max
Mad Max: Road Warrior
The Matrix
The Matrix: Revolutions
X-Men
Resident Evil
Blade
The Crow

[atoga]

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Jack Nicholson pwns, but I simply didn't think this was all that great. It certainly didn't deserve 5 oscars anyway. Watch Cool Hand Luke, with Paul Newman, he's the perfect, classic anti-hero.

I agree with you there Franzie, but it's still quite a good movie.

[S4ur0n27]

God, I forgot Fear and Loathing too, and American History X.

Mortal Kombat was REALLY bad tho.

[Franz Schubert]

No, it's a good action movie. Sure it's cheesy, but it's cheesy in a good way. The acting wasn't anything special, but there was some good onscreen chemistry between the characters. The special effects were good and original for the time, and the fight choreography is quite good, and the set design is great. Plus, Bridgette Wilson is hot.

PS: Goro pwns.