Movies: Your top 10 movies (in order)

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I tried putting together a list...it's hard. You can combine sagas since it'll make it easier, otherwise over half my top 10 would consist of LotR and Star wars

1. Lord of the Rings
2. Star Wars originals
3. Pulp Fiction
4. The Godfather
5. Kill Bill
6. Harry Potter
7. The Intouchables
8. The Breakfast Club
9. Planet of the Apes
10. The Big Short


Not a very original list, I haven't watched many movies clearly...4-10 are also subject to change as I've only put like 30 mins of thought into this.
 

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Honourable mentions:

Whiplash
Indiana Jones
Memento
Batman trilogy
Shawshank redemption
Forest Gump
Django Unchained
Zodiac
Easy A
Deadpool
Goodfellas
Mean Girls (lol)
Cinderella Man
Captain America
American Pie
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Shawshank Redemption
Goodfellas
The Great Dictator
Star Wars
Lord Of The Rings
Ocean's Eletwelvteen
Kingpin
Dog Day Afternoon
Braveheart
Shallow Grave
Apollo 13
Monthy Python's Holy Grail & Life Of Brian
 

Ainec

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I've been working on a list for awhile

Top 4 is locked in with:

Mulholland Drive
Adaptation
Oldboy
Memoirs of Murder

and then in random order:

City of God
Braveheart
Being John Malkovich
The Beach
Chungking Express
Gattaca
+ a bunch others ..

^ Greatest list of all time, yes I have The Beach
 

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1. Star Wars 4-7(Empire my favorite)
2. LotR(Fellowship my favorite)
3. Amadeus
4. Zootopia
5. The Lion King
6. Braveheart
7. The Big Lebowski
8. Master and Commander
9. Captain America Winter Soldier
10. Guardians of the Galaxy
 

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Sibiriada (Konchalovsky)
Hedgehog in the Fog (Norshteyn)
The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (Lipsky)
8 1/2 (Fellini)
Blade Runner (Scott)
Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)
Manoel's Destinies (Ruiz)
Manhattan (Allen)
My Neighbour Totoro (Miyazaki)
Yi yi (Yang)

Also, I really like Die Hard 2.
 

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Shawshank Redemption
Goodfellas
The Great Dictator
Star Wars
Lord Of The Rings
Ocean's Eletwelvteen
Kingpin
Dog Day Afternoon
Braveheart
Shallow Grave
Apollo 13
Monthy Python's Holy Grail & Life Of Brian

Looked up the great dictator since I'd never heard of it (along with kingpin, dog day afternoon, shallow grave and apollo 13) and realized the famous Charlie Chaplin speech is from that, will definitely have to give that movie a watch

I've been working on a list for awhile

Top 4 is locked in with:

Mulholland Drive
Adaptation
Oldboy
Memoirs of Murder

and then in random order:

City of God
Braveheart
Being John Malkovich
The Beach
Chungking Express
Gattaca
+ a bunch others ..

^ Greatest list of all time, yes I have The Beach

Of those I've only seen City of God, and heard of Braveheart...wtf are all those other movies :laugh:


Recommend me one of those

Sibiriada (Konchalovsky)
Hedgehog in the Fog (Norshteyn)
The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (Lipsky)
8 1/2 (Fellini)
Blade Runner (Scott)
Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)
Manoel's Destinies (Ruiz)
Manhattan (Allen)
My Neighbour Totoro (Miyazaki)
Yi yi (Yang)

Also, I really like Die Hard 2.

Only heard of Blade Runner here, which one would you recommend of the other 9 if you had to force someone to watch something at gunpoint
 
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Fantomas

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Only heard of Blade Runner here, which one would you recommend of the other 9 if you had to tell someone to watch something at gunpoint

The safest and most breezy picks would be either Manhattan or My Neighbor Totoro. A lot of these others ones require serious investment.
 

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Just realized that I did not include any Tarkovsky. But he is hard to watch. I save him for special occasions.
 

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I second the My Neighbor Totoro and Manhattan recommendation.

1. Tokyo Story by Yasujiro Ozu
2. A Brighter Summer Day by Edward Yang (Just added a couple days ago)
3. La Dolce Vita by Frederico Fellini
4. Children of Paradise by Marcel Carne
5. Dr. Strangelove by Stanley Kubrick
6. Charulata by Satyajit Ray
7. My Neighbor Totoro by Hayao Miyazaki
8. No Country For Old Men by The Coens Brothers
9. In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar Wai
10. Breathless by Jean Luc Godard
11. Three Colors by by Krzysztof Kieslowski
12. Uncle Boonmee Recalls His Past Lives by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
13. Late Spring by Yasujiro Ozu
14. 2001 A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick
15. Manhattan by Woody Allen

Seriously, watch My Neighbor Totoro..
 
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Of those I've only seen City of God, and heard of Braveheart...wtf are all those other movies :laugh:


Recommend me one of those

Meanwhile of the 31 films you mentioned in this thread I've seen all but 3. Indiana Jones, The Big Short, and Cinderella Man.

And then theres 2 other posters with top 10s where I've only seen 4 lol
 

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I've been working on a list for awhile

Top 4 is locked in with:

Mulholland Drive
Adaptation
Oldboy
Memoirs of Murder

and then in random order:

City of God
Braveheart
Being John Malkovich
The Beach
Chungking Express
Gattaca
+ a bunch others ..

^ Greatest list of all time, yes I have The Beach

Leonardo Di Caprio one or is there another one?
 

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Ottawa, how old are you? Can't say I've met too many people who don't know King Pin or Apollo 13.
 

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10. Inglorious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth (2009)
09. V for Vendetta By James McTeigue (2006)
08. Amelie by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (2001)
07. Wall-E by Andrew Stanton (2008)
06. The Princess Bride by Rob Reiner (1987)
05 Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro (2006)
04. M by Fritz Lang (1931)
03. Strangers On A Train by Alfred Hitchcock (1951)
02. The Jungle Book by Wolfgang Reitherman (1967)
01. Se7en by David Fincher (1995)

Those are my favorites... Ones that i can watch more than once. My top 10 movies as far as just being amazing would be a bunch of old and foreign films
 

darko

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Always hard to do these. Following are on my top-10 in no particular order:

Shawshank redemption
Terminator 2
Predator
LOTR trilogy
Bourne trilogy
Batman trilogy
Goodfellas
The Great Escape
 

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Armageddon
Tombstone
The Prestige
The Departed
Mystic River
Groundhog Day
Shutter Island
Wedding Crashers
Gone Baby Gone
Law Abiding Citizen
 

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Armageddon
Tombstone
The Prestige
The Departed
Mystic River
Groundhog Day
Shutter Island
Wedding Crashers
Gone Baby Gone
Law Abiding Citizen


Have you seen the Hong Kong original one (Internal Afairs)? IMO better than The Departed.
 

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I can't make an actual list in order but heres my favorite movies just off the top of my head

  1. Forest Gump (yes, yes, I've heard the criticism on here)
  2. Enemy of the State
  3. Gravity
  4. Lord of the Rings (not a fan of some of the CGI in the last one but still great)
  5. Men In Black (this movie blew my mind when I was a kid)
  6. Rumble in the Bronx
  7. Yojimbo
  8. Seven Samurai
  9. Drunken Master 2
  10. Armor of God 2

The numbering doesn't mean anything

HM

Man with no name movies
Snowpiercer (especially the first hour)
Remember the Titans
And of course the great christopher Nolan batman films

Pretty much nothing under the radar. Every non mainstream movie I see I hate.
 

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Always tough to do these kind of lists, because there are just so many good movies :laugh:
But right now I feel these are my favs.

  1. American Beauty (Mendes, 1999)
  2. The Best of Youth (Giordana, 2003)
  3. 3-Iron (Kim, 2004)
  4. Lilja 4-ever (Moodysson, 2002)
  5. Almost Famous (Crowe, 2000)
  6. Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1988)
  7. Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
  8. Amélie (Jeunet, 2001)
  9. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick, 1968)
  10. Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979)
  11. Eyes Wide Shut (Kubrick, 1999)
  12. About Elly (Farhadi, 2009)
  13. Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2001)
  14. Irreversible (Noé, 2002)
  15. Castaway on the Moon (Lee, 2009)
  16. Into the Wild (Penn, 2007)
  17. Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata, 1988)
  18. No Country For Old Men (Coen, 2007)
  19. Last Life in the Universe (Ratanaruang, 2003)
  20. Solaris (Tarkovsky, 1972)

Have you seen the Hong Kong original one (Internal Afairs)?

Infernal Affairs actually ;)
 

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Have you seen the Hong Kong original one (Internal Afairs)? IMO better than The Departed.
I have not, but I have actually heard that so I'll have to check it out. I feel like as good as it was in general the star power really added to it. So that'll hurt Infernal Affairs for me personally, but I have heard it's fantastic.
 

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Vertigo
In the Mood for Love
Oldboy (03)
Ugetsu
Harold and Maude
Requiem for a Heavyweight (56)
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There Will Be Blood
Yojimbo
2001: A Space Odyssey
Chinatown
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Taxi Driver
Rashomon
No Country For Old Men
 

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