I was thinking about my top ten favourite films last night so I thought I would write them down.
In no particular order.
1. The Usual Suspects
2. Fight Club
3. Star Wars
4. Rocky
5. Clockwise
6. The Ring (Hollywood version)
7. Quadraphenia
8. Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
9. Terminator 2
10. Se7en
Close contenders were Crouching Tiger, Escape to Victory and the new one Kung Fu Hustle which is absolutely brilliant.
Those are all pretty good picks. My mate is lending me "Kung Fu Hustle" when I get back from Britain the week after next as he raves about it all the time.
"The Usual Suspects" was great - one of my favourites. I like anything with Kevin Spacey in it.
I'm not sure I can pick ten..lets see how many I can pick.
Amelie
Star Wars (4)
Napoleon Dynamite
The Sting
Das Boot
Trading Places
Witness
I'm sure there are a few greats that I can't think of right now.
hmmm... lets see
these are in no particular order
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Elizabeth
Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Hope and Glory
Restoration (I like historical dramas.. can you tell?)
The Bishops Wife (original with Cary Grant and David Nevin)
Shadowlands (bawl my eyes out every time)
The Ref
Under the Tuscan Sun (have no clue why)
My ten (well....what I can think of right now anyways) are
1 - Cradle Will Rock
2 - High Plains Drifter
3 - The Great Escape
4 - Zulu
5 - The Big Lebowski
6 - Amelie
7 - The Barbarian Invasions
8 - Ed Wood
9 - Happiness
10 - Leon
Just missing out are Bullit, American History X, Liar (Deceiver in the US), Nil By Mouth, Castle, Man Bites Dog, Swimming With Sharks, The Insider and maybe Run Lola Run.
1. Lion in Winter
The rest in no particular order.
Red October
Hope and Glory (I was there)
Alfie (Michael Caine)
The Sting
The man who Would be King
The Lavender Hill Mob
A Christmas Carol (It's not Christmas till I've seen it)
The Tower of London (memories of Sunday afternoon flics)
Blackbeard the Pirate (Robert Newton) There wuz a jully miller oo lived along the dee....
The GodFather Part 1
The Godfather Part 2.
Once Upon a Time in America.
Dances with Wolves.
Bridge on the River Kwai
Cinema Paradiso
Il Postino
In a new catergory my Top 3 'bad movies but I like them'.
Escape to Victory.
Hawk the Slayer.
Yesterday's Hero
'Escape to Victory
Doctor Zhivago
Apocalypse Now
Rio Bravo
Some of mine in no particular order or preferance or genra
just a few .....
Some like it hot .
Casablanca .
I spit on your grave .
Taxi driver .
Misery .
The shining .
Lock stock and ........
Holy grail
life of brian
Fish called wanda .
Texas chain saw .
freaks.
Psyhco .
The birds .
The accused .
Vera drake .
heres some of mine
Akira
Cutters Way
Solaris
Diva
Dawn of the Dead
The Likely Lads
Wicker Man
The Big Easy
Italian Job (orig)
Seven Samurai
Dogs in Space
North by North-west
to name but a few..
I'm not sure I can pick ten..lets see how many I can pick....
Napoleon Dynamite.....
Just saw that last night and loved it.
Very off-beat but hillarious. Great soundtrack too with the mix of 80's pop and Mr Hammond's Organ/Jon Bontempi.
Hmmmmm, let me think.
Misery
Fried Green Tomatoes
The Commitments
Grease (shame on me oops )
The Posiedon Adventure (just get so excited every time I watch it)
Towering Inferno (just get so excited every time I watch this one too)
Scrooge (with Albert Finney)
The Bridges of Madison County
The Horse Whisperer
American Pie (pmsl every time)
These are just the ones that popped into my head right now. They are probably not my all time faves, but for now, they'll do. roll
Don't watch alot of movies, but have my fav's just as the rest of you.
1.Schindlers List
2.Braveheart
3.Beautiful Mind
4.Saving Private Ryan
5. Biloxi Blues
6. American Pie (all three)
7.Full Metal Jacket
8.Officer and a Gentleman (don't care if it is a chic flick great movie)
9.Eight Seconds
10.Conquest (yeah the one with Jenna Jameson)
11. Brokeback Mo opps I almost let everyone know lol
I am sure there are better movies than these that I will want to change after thinking of movies that have moved me. Just a quick list. 1-5, 7 &9 are locks though.
Edit After seeing mr bungles "High Plains Drifter", I was reminded how much I love Clints Westerns.
And Fast Times at Ridgemont High can't forget that.
I just sat here whilst listening to the radio and just went through a lot of my favourite films. Theyre in no particular order........
The Ipcress File
Inherit The Wind
The Shawshank Redemption
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Star Wars films
Dirty Harry
Star Trek The Motion Picture
Quiz Show
Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
MASH
Napolean Dynamite
Ghostbusters
Benny & Joon
12 Angry Men
The Searchers
Apocalypse Now (and doc. Hearts Of Darkness)
The Godfather
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Clueless
Caddyshack
Mr Roberts
Operation Petticoat
Clerks
JFK
Where Eagles Dare
Play Misty For Me
Goodfellas
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Anchorman The Legend Of Ron Burgundy
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Midnight Cowboy
Southpark Bigger Longer And Uncut
Bladerunner
On The Waterfront
Stalag 17
Singing In The Rain
Alien
A Matter Of Life And Death
Empire Falls
Monte Carlo Or Bust
The Legend Of Hellhouse
Van Helsing
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Two Way Stretch
Gregory's Girl
Get Carter
The Ladykillers
The Titfield Thunderbolt
Scary Movie 1 & 2
Airplane!
Sleepy Hollow
The Thing
Carry On At Your Convenience
The first 10 that come to mind right now (after a few months of the above post!) are...
- High Plains Drifter
- Nil By Mouth
- Cradle Will Rock
- The Great Escape
- Amelie
- The Barbarian Invasions
- Groundhog Day
- The House of Sand and Fog
- Run Lola Run
- Sexy Beast
The Shawshank Redemption
I need to add that one to my list too, how I forgot it I have no idea. Oh and one more I need to add, Ass Like," Whoa", the series- from the back room of any respectable video store. Never seen it, just like the title.