Top 10 Lists - Movies

[txa1265]

OK, since almost no one stuck with just one movie in the 'favorite movie' (or favourite or liebling as the case may be), I figured - top 10 list time.

The rules:
- Only 10 on the list.
- Numbered or not, who cares.
- No 'cheating' i.e. LotR = 3 movies, Star Wars = 6, etc.

Go!

[Icefire]

American Graffitti
King Kong (Peter Jackson)
Goodfellas
Smokey and the Bandit
Caddyshack
Original Pink Panther series
Die Hard
The Godfather Part 2
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Lord Of the Rings Trilogy

[Arhu]

Avalon
Braveheart
Dark Crystal
Indiana Jones
Last Unicorn
Lord of the Rings
Matrix
Musa
Princess Bride
Serendipity

Those are movies that had a lasting impression on me for one reason or another.
I could easily add 10 more, but Mike was very strict with his rules. :shy:

[txa1265]

I guess I have to reply at some point ...

- Star Wars
- The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
- Real Genius
- Better Off Dead
- Monty Python & The Holy Grail
- Eraserhead
- Blue Velvet
- Zelig
- Airplane
- Blade Runner

Like everyone else, that is just what strikes my whimsy at the moment ... could be a whole different list tomorrow

[dteowner]

Hmmm, 10 movies. Based on number of times I've decided to watch them over the years, probably something like this:

16 Candles
Grease
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Princess Bride
Revenge of the Nerds
Die Hard 1
Battle of the Bulge
Pink Panther Strikes Again
Grosse Point Blank
Home for the Holidays

I can quickly think of another 5 that deserve honorable mention, but the roolz sez 10.

[Dez]

Star wars episode V: Empire strikes back
Apocalypse now redux
Gattaca
The good, the bad & the ugly
The Gladiator
A beautifull mind
Lost in translation
Blade Runner
The silence of the lambs
Lotr : The fellowship of the ring

[curious]

aliens
american beauty
princess bride
evil dead 2
forrest gump
tales from the crypt: demon knight
the fifth element
willow
neverending story
ghostbusters

[Lucky Day]

Lawrence of Arabia
Citizen Kane
Gone With the Wind
Silence of the Lambs
Star Wars (1st one in glorious analog)
Princess Bride
Dune (original with Kyle McClaughlin)
Star Trek: First Contact (2nd Next Gen film)

*holds two in reserve*

[Lucky Day]

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neverending story
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the biggest problem with that movie is it was just too long

[Lucky Day]

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Dark Crystal
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a desperately underrated film

[Lucky Day]

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- Zelig
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What was it? "...Cole Porter wrote a song for him, You're the Top, You're Leonard Zelig. The problem was he couldn't find a word to rhyme with 'Zelig'"

[Corwin]

Lucky, please avoid the multi-posts and use the EDIT button!!

[Arhu]

There's also the Quote+ button which lets you mark multiple posts which are then quoted at the same time. :)

[Jaz]

My top ten movie picks of this morning are...


The Empire Strikes Back
Natural City
Fight Club
Team America: World Police
Dodgeball
Hero
Assassin
Hellraiser: Hellbound
Aliens
Der Wixxer

[Corwin]

Let me try:
Singing in the Rain
Sound of Music
The Bandwagon
Carousel
West Side Story
Oklahoma
The Gay Divorcee
Princess Bride
Ben Hur
Quo Vadis

[Dr. A]

Wow Corwin, you must be a relic. :p

[Ionstormsucks]

Pirates of the Caribbean - Curse of the Black Pearl
The Three Musketeers (1974)
The Four Musketeers (1975)
Aliens
Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Arc
Sleepy Hollow
Conan the Barbarian
Mad Max - Beyond Thunderdome
Hellboy
Star Wars - The Empire strikes back

[Hindukönig]

Princess Mononoke
Tokyo Godfathers
Ghost in the Shell
Spongebob - The Movie
The 'burbs
The Truman Show
Ghostbusters
Oldboy
Kung Fu Hustle
Shark Skin Man & Peach Hip Girl

edit: How could I forget The Incredibles? But, oh well, now the list is full. :(

[spars]

autonomous, ever-shifting, globular mass

the exterminating angel (bunuel)
through a glass darkly (bergman)
the saragossa manuscript (has)
smell of camphor, frangrance of jasmin (farmanara)
week end (godard)
delicatessen (jeunet)
santa sangre (jodorowski)
nights of cabiria (fellini)
phantom of liberty (bunuel)
children of paradise (carne)

[Lucky Day]

Lucky, please avoid the multi-posts and use the EDIT button!!

There's also the Quote+ button which lets you mark multiple posts which are then quoted at the same time. :)

sorry Corwin, it was just easier at the time

Arhu, that's what that's for. alrighty then ty.

Corwin..that's a pretty sappy list you have there. ;)

[magerette]

Fort Apache
Fort Apache:The Bronx
The Shining ( with Nicholson)
Conan the Barbarian
Terminator
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Bonnie & Clyde
Grand Hotel (W.C. Fields)
Seven Samurai

The Marx Brothers need to be there, but I couldn't pick. :)

[txa1265]

The Marx Brothers need to be there, but I couldn't pick. :)

Absolutely agree ... but is it Duck Soup or A Day at the Races or ... well, y'know ...

Or even Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein ... another childhood fave!

[magerette]

Absolutely agree ... but is it Duck Soup or A Day at the Races or ... well, y'know ...

Or even Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein ... another childhood fave!

Now I really feel bad at leaving "Godzilla versus Mothra" out. :(

[txa1265]

Now I really feel bad at leaving "Godzilla versus Mothra" out. :(

And don't forget Gamera!

[dteowner]

Now you two are cheating. One of my 5 "unmentioned" was Brain Donors, a remake of the Marx Bros' Night at the Opera.

[txa1265]

Now you two are cheating.
No cheating, just citing examples of how hard it is to stick to 10 ;)

[Corwin]

Night at the Opera is my favourite Marx Brothers film. Finding 10 was not easy; I've been around for longer than the rest of you!! :)

Lucky, they are not sappy; I just enjoy musicals. Many years ago I was a professional performer for a short time while working my way through University. Evenyually I had to choose whether to go on tour, or stick with my studies, so I stopped performing, but I've always loved the genre.

[dteowner]

I didn't actually count the votes, but it looks like Princess Bride is currently leading the pack, although pulling the Star Wars series into a single block might push them into the lead.

Roolz be damned, here's the 5 "unmentioned". I think I could have been happy with a top 15, you topic nazis...
Brain Donors
Real Genius
The Thing (Kurt Russell remake)
Escape from New York
Better Off Dead

Now I've got to decide which of the 15 I'm going to fire up tonight. Divine Divinity, personal hygiene, and sleep are all out the window thanks to Mike's brilliant little topic. ;)

[txa1265]

10 is as arbitrary as anything - because if I did 15 then I would have put in more Star Wars, Khan, several silent movies and Marx Bros and ... oops, up to 25 now!

[curious]

the thing has been on my top ten movies i 'need to watch' for nearly 5 years now. some day. personally i always preferred 'one crazy summer' to 'better off dead' but i never saw either of them 'til recent years. the '2 dollars' bit though was a high point and a recurring joke for over a few years now with me and my significant other.

[curious]

i've always wanted to rewatch 'wrath of khan' as i think it was my first star trek experience as a kid and that ear scene scared the 'bejesus' out of me.

[Asbjoern]

1. Gattaca
- American Beauty
- Once Upon A Time In America
- Before Sunset
- Shindler's List
- The Gladiator
- Apocalypse Now Redux
- Heat
- Blade Runner
- Deadwood (the television series)

And Dez. Good list. ;)

[Lucky Day]

Lucky, they are not sappy; I just enjoy musicals.


West Side Story has a great scene where Tony runs to the Tenement hall and shouts "Maria" and she opens her window. This wouldn't be so interesting until you realized this was Spanish Harlem. Why did only one window open?
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I just got back from London and I took the wife to Les Miserables. I knew the story and setting the scenes to music was spectacular. A Concert video was made for this as well. I imagine you know it well Corwin.

The London version is 3 hours long which I understand is longer than the Broadway version. And its now the longest continually running stage musical of all time.

It really needs to be made into a movie musical. Its been made into movies several times starting in 1905. The most famous being the 1978 TV Movie with Anthony Perkins as Javert.

Its probably the most complicated story of any musical short of a real opera. And unlike your standard opera it actually makes sense.

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There were 3 great Star Trek films really. Wrath of Khan, the 4th one, and First Contact. The 4th one's only problem was all the hippiness and those stupid whales. It was the episode which most mainstream viewers could relate to because it was literally "down to earth". Nimoy got rave reviews for his writing and directing here. The First movie was good too but its just too long. First Contact was so good I understand that Rick Berman fired the writer.

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Other great movies

Strange Brew
Slap Shot (edited for television)

[curious]

star trek iv was a great movie. i think that's the only 'original' star trek movie i ever saw in the theatres. personally i love san francisco, and i thought the whales were one of the better parts of the movie myself. i enjoyed the movie long before i even knew what a 'hippie' was but that 'hippieness' is a part of all star trek at its core. the next generation may have been the only show that embodied it, but gene roddenberry is one of my 'utopion' heros. in retrospect i think that star trek iv helped out shatner alot in his non star trek career as it enabled him to be seen in a setting other than the enterprise or with purple alien women.

strange brew...rick moranis where you at.
slap shot...that movie and happy gilmore are two of my favourite 'sports' movies. what's special about the tv version Lucky Day?

[dteowner]

You ought to give "Mystery, Alaska" a spin next time you're in a mood for sports movies, curious. That one finished just outside my top 15. ;)

[Arhu]

I wonder if everyone could come up with a top 100 list... It would probably be like, if you can remember its name, it goes on the list. ^^

And then sort it by popularity. ;)

[curious]

i remember really looking forward to that movie coming out. i saw it when it came out on dvd or was it vhs?:) i enjoyed it but although i thought the movie was enjoyable/funny i actually thought the hockey part was a huge letdown.

speaking of alaska movies i would have to rank 'the edge' as my favourite alaska movie and a great movie otherwise. probably my favourite performances by alec baldwin and athony hopskins as well. a top notch thriller, and unlike most quite cinematicly breathtaking. my family and idrove up to alaska when i was 16 so i look forward to any movie that 'brings me back'.

[Corwin]

Speaking of Alaska movies, what did people think of Insomnia? Despite the stellar cast, I didn't really enjoy it!!

[curious]

wasn't that another one of the umpteen bad movies robin williams has made since his last good one 'good will hunting'?

[Sir Markus]

Blade Runner
The Empire Strikes Back
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Alien
2001: A Space Odyssey
John Carpenter's 'The Thing'
The Graduate
Dirty Rotten Scoundrel's
The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2)
Rushmore

[Zaleukos]

In no particular order:

Dr Strangelove (Great for those of us who remember the world pre -89)
Being John Malkovich
The Big Lebowski
Dune (David Lynch version)
From Hell
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Der Untergang
La femme Nikita
The pianist
The ten commandments

[curious]

i can't believe i forgot about the dude. and while i'm at it i also forgot back that back to the future belongs somewhere with the big lebowski on my top ten, a dude, and a flux capacitor list

[Kendrik]

Even top 10 is difficult but I'll give it a try;

American Beauty
Bladerunner
Sin City
Akira
Batman Begins
Blues Brothers
Kill Bill (Part 1)
Star Wars - Episode 3 - Revenge of the Sith (or Episode 4 - A New Hope) - (Can't decide but Star Wars had to in the list somewhere)
LA Confidential
Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring (Extended Cut)

[dteowner]

I forgot about the Blues Brothers. Crud. I also noticed a couple days ago that I skipped over Blazing Saddles. Any chance we can go to "top 20", Mike? :please:

[Arhu]

Just make a second top 10 list, dte, and hope nobody notices. ^^

[Dez]

Asbjoern: thanks! yours is looking great too :). I wish more people would know about gattaca..it sure gives a lot to think about! And how the ending can be so beautifull and sad at the same time.

Deadwood is also my favorite tv-series! Ian McShane is one of the finest actors alive!

Dune (David Lynch version)


heh funny how tastes differ. I just couldn't stand Lynch's version...Wooden acting in particular drove me away.

btw i wonder why hasn't anyone mentioned Alfred hitchcock films. The rear window and a man who knew too much are great pieces of cinema.

And a sidenote. Conan the barbarian is tremendously good film! :biggrin: Its shame Arnold went into politics! Few days ago i watched total recall and laughed my ass off. They just don't make those kind of movies anymore! "consider that a divorce" Classic stuff :)

[Arhu]

I know Gattaca! Good film. And as for Dune, it's been some time since I saw Lynch's version, but I remember that the desert atmosphere came across very well. Compared to the mini series anyway, in which the dunes looked like plastic... At least the mini series was pretty close to the books. Wish they'd adapt the other four books too.

Here's two more very interesting movies that maybe not everyone knows about: Dark City (trailer (http://www.movie-list.com/d/dark-city.html)) and City of Lost Children (trailer (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6062939985816090449)).

Thinking back, both seemed like Nightmare on Elm Street meets Bladerunner. Or Sin City. Don't remember much of the stories, but both films were very atmospheric.

[Dez]

I've seen dark city few times. I think it was more like matrix, atleast they both had a similar type of idea of all people being puppets who are not really free and the idea of fake reality and yep Its worth watching :)

speaking of scifi movies.. Have you seen Equilibrium? Christian bale did excellent job in a leading role, and the script was quite terrific!

[Arhu]

Regarding your spoiler: Yeah, probably, but as I said - I remember the mood more than anything else. :)

And yes, I've seen Equilibrium. I totally dig such flicks! Let's see if I can come up with a top 10 lists of "certain movies" (what are they, Ambient Cyberpunk?), in no particular order...

- The Matrix
- Dark City
- Equilibrium
- City of Lost Children
- Gattaca
- Blade Runner
- Bicentennial Man
- Sin City
- Avalon
- eXistenZ
- The 13th Floor
- Immortal (ad vitam)
- The Crow
- Ghost in the Shell
- Metropolis (Anime, haven't seen the original yet)
- (The Fountain)
- (The Game)

Did anyone count? Might have been one or two more than 10, but hush :shh:, don't tell anyone.
I haven't seen The Fountain yet, but have high hopes it will fit into this list. Some of those like the Bicentennial Man were maybe mediocre as movies, but they still stirred.. something. The Game is a bit of an outsider, taking place in our normal reality, but then again.. nothing is ever as real as it seems, is it?

[Jaz]

Oh, I love most of the flicks on your list, Arhu... especially Dark City, 13th Floor, Ghost in the Shell and Immortal (but I am a fan of Bilal, anyway).

[Asbjoern]

Gattaca is perhaps the most overlooked film that I know of. It's so emotional and thoughtful and the sci-fi setting is one of the most original and atmospehric settings I've seen in a long time. And not to mention the soundtrack.
And with a cast of Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law it's incredible that hardly no one knows about it (or that I know of that knows about it).
But yes, very recommendable.

Ian McShane does an incredible job in Deadwood as "Swedgin". He reminded me of an unknown Robert De Niro. :)
Not to mention Timothy Olyphant's (Seth Bullock) great acting when letting his rage flow or trying to use a kind of pseudo-selfcontrol. He literally looked like someone ready to burst/explode.

Regards Asbjørn

EDIT: I've just heard that Timothy Olyphant is going to play agent 47 in the upcoming Hitman film.

[Kendrik]

Hmm this may be a good place to delve peoples knowledge without creating a new thread (Scary button that it is)

So I've given my top 10 and having read Arhu's post I'd say my list of Cyber punk films that I have seen (fromthe top of my head) include

- Bladerunner
- Matrix (et al.)
- Robojox (pants film but big stompy robots included)
- Akira
- Ghost in the Shell
- Total Recall
- Running Man
- Equilibrium
- Lawnmower Man
- I, Robot
- Minority Report
- Johnny Mnemonic
- Judge Dread
- Demolition man

But what I want to know is does anyone out there now of any good Steampunk movies. I have seen Wild Wild West & Laputa but anyone got any more ideas?

[Arhu]

But what I want to know is does anyone out there now of any good Steampunk movies. I have seen Wild Wild West & Laputa but anyone got any more ideas?
There's a whole lot of steampunk in animes -

Howl's Moving Castle, the last film by Miyazaki (who also did Laputa) is a bit steampunkish, but not that much if I recall correctly.

Last EXILE is an awesome Anime series (26 episodes), which may very well be the epitome of steampunk, as far as I'm concerned. Absolutely recommended.

Then there's Vision of Escaflowne (Anime series, 26 episodes) or Escaflowne - The Movie. More fantasy, less steam compared to Last Exile though, iirc.

Full Metal Alchemist is yet another Anime series, in which alchemists transform matter into other matter by use of pseudo-science. Good series.

You probably know the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a movie based on a comic book series, with Sean Connery et al. - ok movie.


Out of those examples, I'd probably go with the three anime series. If steampunk is your thing, you'll love them. :)

[Kendrik]

Cheers Arhu - yup forgot to put LOEG on the list (the movie was OK but nowhere near the Graphic Novels).

I'll try to hunt down the Anime:)

[Zaleukos]

Though normally not a fan of anime I second Arhus recommendations. The league is imho so-so (a "hangover movie"). There should also be a ton of old adaptations of Jules Verne novels, so you might want to search the internet movie database for them. www.imdb.com.

[Hindukönig]

Does "Steamboy" count as Steampunk?

[Kendrik]

Does "Steamboy" count as Steampunk?

Yup it sure does but then I've already seen that one. Seems Anime is the best source of steampunk (then again it's also the best source of Cyberpunk as well). I'm hoping they will release Cyber City Oedo 808 on DVD Region 2 at some point as they were superb.