Top 10 Favorite Movies

[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
jnd wrote:
Obviously none of you have seen The Godfather. If Godfather I & II are not on your list, then you need to revise and resubmit.

jnd

I saw part 1, I wasn’t that impressed. Ok movie, but nothing great. Casino was much better[/quote]

The Godfather is too subtle and requires too much thinking for some people to like it. It’s a cerebral movie with many subtleties and huge twists in the plot and Coppola doesn’t hit you over the head with a ton of music, fast-paced editing or fancy camerawork to let you know something important just happened. The scene when Vito Corleone tells Tom Hagen after the big meeting with the 5 Families that “it was Barzini all along” is a huge turn, but it happens in a way too subtle for people growing up on Transformers and Fast and the Furious to catch it. The scene when Tessio asks Michael to meet with Barzini is another that comes to mind.

The Godfather is the king of all movies, in my opinion. It’s brilliant directing, superb acting, a great plot about a universal theme (family) set against a great backdrop (the mafia) and Coppola showed uncanny restraint in keeping it a “subtle” movie. It gets better with each viewing. I agree, JND, revise and resubmit if Part 1 and 2 don’t top the list.

As for Casino, it was a good movie, but if you’ve seen Goodfellas, then you’ve practically already seen Casino. Scorsese’s great, but after Goodfellas, Casino seemed like a retread, same techniques, same basic characters, same basic plot (wise guy makes it big, wise guy fucks it all up) just a different setting.

my 10th pick would have to be Pirates of the Caribbean series 1st and 3rd notably

the big lebowski
mo betta blues
casino
brazil
dead man
the matrix
friday
predator
the abyss
reservoir dogs

wait a minute. i forgot batman begins. do over.

Shawshank Redemption
Forrest Gump
The Lion King
Children Of Men
Terminator 2
American History X
Full Metal Jacket
Saving Private Ryan
Good Will Hunting
Jurassic Park

Heat
The Departed
The Godfather
Borat
The Matrix
Pulp Fiction
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Slingblade
Bad Santa
Love Actually (blow it out your ass, it’s a good movie)

Could probably live off these ten, plus the Indiana Jones Trilogy.

[quote]jnd wrote:
Obviously none of you have seen The Godfather. If Godfather I & II are not on your list, then you need to revise and resubmit.

jnd[/quote]

I thought they were great movies, they just didn’t really move me like the ones I mentioned (other than the comedies, they were just funny). Those two movies are pretty much perfect films, but as impressive as they are they don’t really pop into my mind when I think of favoruite movies. That’s all.

No Particular Order

Good Will Hunting
The Departed
The Dark Knight
The Right Stuff
The Prestige
Iron Man
Apollo 13
The Ghost and The Darkness
Remember The Titans
Ladder 49

Honorable mention

The Punisher
The Mummy
Jurassic Park
Spiderman
Angels and Demons
Ace Ventura
All Rocky movies
Star Wars Movies

Ghost and the darness is a really under-rated film… As is The Right Stuff

Step Brothers
Matrix
Spiderman
Breakfast Club
Rocky
Aceventura
Rounders
The Hangover
Xmen
Batman

Clerks
Forrest Gump
Cinderella Man
The Big Lebowski
Airplane
Remember the Titans
A League of Their Own
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Knocked Up
Caddyshack

Honorable Mention
American Pie
The Breakfast Club
Empire Records
Spiderman
Friday Night Lights
Pulp Fiction
Superbad

#1 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

  • Pulp Fiction
  • Fight Club
  • Collateral
  • Man on Fire (2004)
  • Memento
  • Snatch
  • Life of David Gale
  • Unbreakable
  • The Prestige

[quote]Sloth wrote:
The Elephant Man
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You, sir, have good taste in movies.

[quote]elusive wrote:
#1 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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Is this the Jim Carrey one? that movie was downright awful, I think I turned it off after 15 mins

Braveheart
Batman Begins
Superbad
Remember the titans
Inglorious bastards

I could come up with 5 in no order, my memory is that bad.

[quote]artw wrote:
jehovasfitness wrote:
jnd wrote:
Obviously none of you have seen The Godfather. If Godfather I & II are not on your list, then you need to revise and resubmit.

jnd

I saw part 1, I wasn’t that impressed. Ok movie, but nothing great. Casino was much better

The Godfather is too subtle and requires too much thinking for some people to like it. It’s a cerebral movie with many subtleties and huge twists in the plot and Coppola doesn’t hit you over the head with a ton of music, fast-paced editing or fancy camerawork to let you know something important just happened. The scene when Vito Corleone tells Tom Hagen after the big meeting with the 5 Families that “it was Barzini all along” is a huge turn, but it happens in a way too subtle for people growing up on Transformers and Fast and the Furious to catch it. The scene when Tessio asks Michael to meet with Barzini is another that comes to mind.

The Godfather is the king of all movies, in my opinion. It’s brilliant directing, superb acting, a great plot about a universal theme (family) set against a great backdrop (the mafia) and Coppola showed uncanny restraint in keeping it a “subtle” movie. It gets better with each viewing. I agree, JND, revise and resubmit if Part 1 and 2 don’t top the list.

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Agreed Godfather I & II are all-time movies. They are tops on my list, I have seen each of them 5-10 times and continue to rewatch them every couple years.

I also don’t see a lot of Hitchcock films here. Easily one of the greatest directors to-date, Vertigo and North by Northwest both make my top 10 as well.

[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
elusive wrote:
#1 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Is this the Jim Carrey one? that movie was downright awful, I think I turned it off after 15 mins[/quote]

you get a meeehhh in my book.

-Where the Buffalo Roam
-Drunken Master 1&2
-Last of the Mohicans
-The Big Lebowski
-Pale Rider
-Full Metal Jacket
-Platoon
-Unforgiven
-Lord of the Rings trilogy
-Fight Club

Half of those are no doubters, but some were tough to call over others.

Honorable mention would have to go to Lonesome Dove. Great movie if you have 8 hours to watch tv.

Airplane
Die Hard
Shawshank Redemption
Dr Strangelove
Rocky
It’s a Wonderful Life
Batman Begins
Office Space
Pulp Fiction
The Wire

[quote]Anonymity wrote:
artw wrote:
jehovasfitness wrote:
jnd wrote:
Obviously none of you have seen The Godfather. If Godfather I & II are not on your list, then you need to revise and resubmit.

jnd

I saw part 1, I wasn’t that impressed. Ok movie, but nothing great. Casino was much better

The Godfather is too subtle and requires too much thinking for some people to like it. It’s a cerebral movie with many subtleties and huge twists in the plot and Coppola doesn’t hit you over the head with a ton of music, fast-paced editing or fancy camerawork to let you know something important just happened. The scene when Vito Corleone tells Tom Hagen after the big meeting with the 5 Families that “it was Barzini all along” is a huge turn, but it happens in a way too subtle for people growing up on Transformers and Fast and the Furious to catch it. The scene when Tessio asks Michael to meet with Barzini is another that comes to mind.

The Godfather is the king of all movies, in my opinion. It’s brilliant directing, superb acting, a great plot about a universal theme (family) set against a great backdrop (the mafia) and Coppola showed uncanny restraint in keeping it a “subtle” movie. It gets better with each viewing. I agree, JND, revise and resubmit if Part 1 and 2 don’t top the list.

Agreed Godfather I & II are all-time movies. They are tops on my list, I have seen each of them 5-10 times and continue to rewatch them every couple years.

I also don’t see a lot of Hitchcock films here. Easily one of the greatest directors to-date, Vertigo and North by Northwest both make my top 10 as well.[/quote]

Rear Window, Psycho, Vertigo and N by NW all make my top 30, but not Top 10. I haven’t seen a lot of the great directors listed here (early Oliver Stone, Kubrick, Scorsese, shit I don’t think there’s been more than a couple of Speilberg films either). I guess favorite movies versus greatest movies is a big difference. There are a lot of “great” movies that I just never got into, like Gone With the Wind or Titanic. I suppose those movies are “great” but they’re fucking gay, too.

[quote]Bondslave wrote:
-Where the Buffalo Roam
-Drunken Master 1&2
-Last of the Mohicans
-The Big Lebowski
-Pale Rider
-Full Metal Jacket
-Platoon
-Unforgiven
-Lord of the Rings trilogy
-Fight Club

Half of those are no doubters, but some were tough to call over others.

Honorable mention would have to go to Lonesome Dove. Great movie if you have 8 hours to watch tv.
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Where The Buffalo Roam makes it but Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas doesn’t?