What do you think are the ten best movies ever made? My picks: 1. Casablanca 2. The Godfather 3. Schindler's List 4. Memento 5. Psycho 6. The Shawshank Redemption 7. The Godfather, Part II 8. Apocalypse Now 9. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love the Bomb 10. The Wizard of Oz Honorable mentions: Twelve Angry Men, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pulp Fiction, Some Like It Hot, It Happened One Night, M, City of God, Nosferatu. I'm also told by my friend that Citizen Kane and Seven Samurai deserve some place on this list, but personally I hated the former and have never seen the latter.
Here are some of 'em (In no order) American History X Clerks Godfather series Scarface Apollo 13 Braveheart Pulp Fiction Usaul Suspects Life and Death of David Gale Fight Club Trainspotting That's eleven..... too bad
1. M 2. Vertigo 3. American Beauty 4. It's A Wonderful Life 5. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly 6. 2001: A Space Odessey 7. Nosferatu, Eine Symfonie Des Grauens 8. Trainspotting 9. Casablanca 10. A Clockwork Orange Honorable mentions to: sunset boulevard, dr.strangelove, 12 angry men, mr.smith goes to washington, frankenstein, metropolis and reservoir dogs.
1. Harold and Kumar go to white castle 2.fight club 3.jay and silent bob strike back 4.c&c up in smoke 5.c&c nice dreams 6.c&c still smokin' 7.team america: world police 8.scarface 9.half baked 10. Resevoir Dogs honarable mentions: blue streak, bad boys 1 & 2, the rest of the cheech & chong movies. worst movie of all time: Donnie Darko
You have horrible taste in movies. All of those suck except for Fight Club and Reservoir Dogs, and Donnie Darko is amazing.
wow, great way to start your forum career n00bie. thats your opinion. ill cut you some slack seeing as your new and all, i am basically the only person in this entire forum that hates the movie donnie darko. as for cheech and chong sucking???your out of your flippin mind man! h&K go to white castle, half baked, and jay and silent bob strike back?? you must not be a stoner. scarface, im a little partial seeing as i love al pacino movies. fight club and resevoir dogs you agreed. how cna anyone not like team america world police?? it makes fun of liberals and conservatives so both sides should get a few laughs AT LEAST.
Seeing as his name is Jointman, Im not suprised he likes to fall into the typical pothead streotype. This kid lost all respect on the Marijuana forums, as for some fucked up reason, him and his "non-noob" friends tried to all fake his death. Complete with doctored cnn articles, and oh so emotional "what am i going to do now god?" posts. Then everyone blamed it on each other, and a 2 week online argument between his "friends" cluttered up every post. Go onto those forums, and tell him he has bad tastes in movies. He wont say anything back to you. As far as Harold and Kumar go, it was hilarious. But I cant imagine it on anyones top ten list for christs sake.
This is hard. There are too many good movies out there, and I've forgotten half the ones I've seen. Ok, in no particular order: * American Beauty * 21 Grams * Lord of the Rings trilogy * High Fidelity * Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind * Shawshank Redemption * The Passion of the Christ * The Lost Boys * Zoolander * Pulp Fiction
Wow lots of good choices so far! In no order whatsoever: *American Beauty *The Usual Suspects *The Army of Darkness *Gone With the Wind *Casablanca *The Godfather (one and two, but not three) *Finding Nemo *The Life of David Gale *Red Dragon *Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Is that ten?? *counting* Yay! As you can see, I've got a bit of a Kevin Spacey theme going on. I absolutely love him, 100%. He's amazing, and my favourite actor. whoohooo!
donnie darko, fucking amal, amelie, lilja 4-ever, triplettes de belleville, simon, usual suspects, clockwork orange, reservoir dogs, pulp fiction, godfather 1 & 2, romeo and juliet, memento, gegen die wand, mulholland drive, trainspotting, my beautiful laundrette, goodbye lenin, hable con ella, vanilla sky (abre los ojos), la vita e bella... don't feel like counting, these are just my favourites...oh yeah and some movie about a guy trying to break the guinnessrecord for opening doors in 24 hours... it's a french-belgian movie and I saw about half an hour of it and it was pure genius, but i forgot the title and haven't seen the whole movie yet....
Dead Man Mystery Train Being There The Graduate Blue Velvet Fire Walk with Me Donnie Darko Godfathers 1 & 2 Croupier Stranger than Paradise Sunset Boulevard Drugstore Cowboy the Last Picture Show The Shining and more
I forgot that you are a fellow Jim Jarmusch fan Gary. I guess a rough estimate of what mine would be would be: 1. Dead Man 2. For A Few Dollars More 3. Hero 4. Triplets of Belleville 5. Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall... and Spring 6. Lord of the Rings 7. The Aristocats 8. Stranger than Paradise 9. Sideways 10. Paint Your Wagon
You should watch it for sure. I want to add The Road Home to my list. It didn't have that much of a story but it is the most beautiful nicest movie I've ever seen.
1. Dazed and Confused 2. Almost Famous 3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 4. The Notebook 5. How to Steal a Million 6. Empire Records 7. Breakfast at Tiffanys 8. Say Anything 9. United States of Leland 10. Gone With the Wind
ha, ha, ha wow, considering i have the respect of the MJ forum back i think its safe to say you can kiss my ass. you may not believe i had no part in the death thing but whatever, i know i didnt. id love to see that little fucker talk shit, cuz ill bitch him out too.
so far all these lists have been completely US-centric and that's disgusting to say the least. i'm an Indian, but if i keep only Indian movies in my top 10 list, i don't deserve to watch any more movies... well, here's my take on an international list... 1. Trois Couleurs: Bleu, Blanc et Rouge - Krzysztof Kieslowski, France/Poland 2. The Orphic Trilogy: Blood Of A Poet, Orpheus, Testament Of Orpheus - Jean Cocteau, France 3. The Silence Of God Trilogy: Through A Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence - Ingmar Bergman, Sweden 4. The Decalogue: I-X - Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland 5. Pierrot Le Fou - Jean-Luc Goddard, France 6. The Apu Trilogy: Pather Panchali (Song Of The Road), Aparajito, Apur Sanshar (The World of Apu) - Satyajit Ray, India 7. Amadeus - Milos Forman, U.S./Poland 8. Kumonosu Jo (The Throne of Blood) - Akira Kurosawa, Japan 9. Blow Up - Michelangelo Antonioni, England/Italy 10. The Wind Will Carry Us - Abbas Kiarostami, Iran i know some of the classics are missing: Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein), Stagecoach (John Ford), Citizen Kane (Orson Welles), The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir), The Seventh Seal (Bergman), Charulata (Satyajit Ray), Breathless (Goddard), 400 blows (Francois Trouffaut), Hiroshima, Mon Amour (Alain Resnais), M (Fritz Lang), The Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica), Le Terra Trema (Lucino Visconti), L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni), Belle du Jour (Luis Bunuel), The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese), Rashomon and The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa), Manhattan (Woody Allen), Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock), 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick), Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino), All About My Mother (Pedro Almodovar), Last Tango In Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci), A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan), City of God (Fernando Meirelles), La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini), Tokyo story (Yasijiro Ozu), Mephisto (Istvan Szabo), Salo (Pier Paolo Pasolini) and so on.. and all the great Chaplin movies too. Some of my personal favorites missing on the top ten list would be: The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer); La Strada (Fellini); Macbeth (Orson Welles); Night and Fog (Resnais); Julet et Jim (Trouffaut); Vivre Sa Vie (Goddard); The Black Orpheus (Marcel Camus), Budapest Tales (Szabo), Z (Costa-Gavras), Rear Window (Hitchcock), Subarnarekha (Ritwik Ghatak), Jukti, Takko Ar Gappo (Ritwik Ghatak), Bhuban Some (Mrinal Sen), Kanchanjangha (Satyajit Ray), Macbeth (Roman Polanski), Il Grido (Antonioni), Wild Strawberries (Bergman); Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola); The Double Life Of Veronique (Kieslowski); Life Is Beatiful (Roberto Benigni); Run Lola Run (Tom Twyker); Dreams (Akira Kurosawa); The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme); American Beauty (Sam Mendes); One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman); Mulholand Drive (David Lynch); Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer); Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet). and such lists are merely made up of omissions, and not selections... this we need to keep in mind.
Rather than being unnecessarily PC for the sake of multiculturalism, I think it's fair that most lists are US-centric because Hollywood makes more quality movies than everywhere else in the world combined. That isn't ethnocentricism, it's just a fairly commonly accepted fact of the movie business. I'd love to see that change, but for now that's simply the way it is. I love Amelie, City of God, M, Run Lola Run, Seven Samurai, and a few other foreign flicks...but let's face it, no other country in the world is capable of turning out movies on par with Casablanca or The Godfather.
