WarEagleFL 0 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 Name your top 5. I'm basing mine on repeat viewings. Might not be the most important film, but ones that I can watch over and over and still love.. 1. Psycho(best horror film ever made and contains my favorite movie line.. "We all go a little mad sometimes" - can't find the DVD though) 2. Moulin Rouge(I'm expecting to be made fun of about this one, but I think it's a great movie - watched about 30 times) 3. Say Anything.. (I got the DVD from someone really special and it instantly became one of my favorites. John Cusack at his best) 4. Scream(I've watched this about 50 times and still think it set the standard for the way horror films are made in the 90's and 00's.) 5. The Princess Bride(Cheesy as hell, but also funny as hell. The quote in my sig is from this movie) Take a shot at it... I hope this wasn't already done and I missed it, if so.. sorry for the repeat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerlifer3 0 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 Here is mine: 1. Remember the Titans 2. Top Gun 3. Days of Thunder 4. The Godfather Part 1&2 Part 3 sucked 5. Is a Tie Between all of the Jason and Freddie Movies Honorable Mention: 1. Above the Rim 2. Field of Dreams 3. Beverly Hills Cops series 4. Die hard Series 5. Friday with Ice Cube and Chris Tucker 6. Scarface Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CShine 0 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 The Godfather There's Something About Mary Blue Velvet Rocky The Exorcist Dr. Zhivago Fast Times at Ridgemont High To Kill A Mockingbird Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid Casablanca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerlifer3 0 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 The GodfatherThere's Something About Mary Blue Velvet Rocky The Exorcist Dr. Zhivago Fast Times at Ridgemont High To Kill A Mockingbird Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid Casablanca The Exorcist is a good choice, first time I seen that movie I was little, I had nightmares for about a month after I seen that movie. Another movie that freaked me out when I was little was the Original Version of Texas Chainsaw massacre (sp). Also I forgot about the Rocky Movies or I probably would've added those to My Honorable mention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUloggerhead 2,252 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 1. The Godfather 2. Saving Private Ryan (easily Spielberg’s best film to date.) 3. The Three Musketeers & Four Musketeers (early 70’s version with Rachel Welch & Michael York) I put these two films together because that’s the way they were filmed. The studio just marketed them as two separate films. Fantastic historical detail – you have to watch what’s going on in the background scenes to catch it all. The screenplay was written by George MacDonald Fraser, my favorite author (any Flashman fans out there?) 4. Breaker Morant Excellent courtroom drama. Kind of an obscure period piece but an all around great film: camera angles, acting, pace, costumes, plot, everything. 5. Caddyshack O.K. Comic relief after all the serious drama, but still one of the all-time most quoted films. "Be ... the ball." A couple others I would like to mention: Young Frankenstein This is Spinal Tap The Day of the Jackal (1973 version with Edward Fox) Hoosiers The Man Who Would be King Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Al 0 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 1. Meet Joe Black 2. American Beauty 3. Lord of the Rings trilogy 4. Field of Dreams 5. O Brother, Where Art Thou? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny AU-92 0 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 (No particular order) Harold & Maude Monty Python & The Holy Grail Fargo Gone With The Wind O Brother, Where Art Thou The Pink Panther Movies Rudy I like "different" movies - preferrably bizarre or black comedy, as my choices show. HATE horror films of all types. HATE deliberate tear jerkers - Rudy being the exception, but is that really a tear jerker?? - am probably the only person on the planet that has never seen Titanic, and I plan to die having never seen Titanic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AuNuma1 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 What's so horrible about Titanic? You already know the dang thing sinks so what's to cry about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny AU-92 0 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 What's so horrible about Titanic? You already know the dang thing sinks so what's to cry about? DELIBERATE Tear jerker - that is my point. Sad is fine - watching one's true love die an agonizing death being swallowed up by the frozen seas... And yeah - you know how it ends before it begins - so what's the point of watching. Boat sinks. People die. End of story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigermike 3,050 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 It's hard to cut down to a top 10 so I will offer these in no particular order. I like movies. These three would have to be tied for #1 for me. Saving Private Ryan, 1998 Unforgiven, 1992 Lawrence of Arabia, 1962 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Easy Rider, 1969 The Godfather, (all of them) Gone With The Wind, 1939 The Searchers, 1956 The Wizard of Oz, 1939 The Graduate, 1967 Schindler's List, 1993 Star Wars, 1977 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, 1975 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, 1982 Dr. Strangelove, 1964 Bonnie and Clyde, 1967 Apocalypse Now, 1979 High Noon, 1952 Doctor Zhivago, 1965 Jaws, 1975 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969 Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981 Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977 The Silence of the Lambs, 1991 Shane, 1953 The French Connection, 1971 Forrest Gump, 1994 Ben-Hur, 1959 Dances With Wolves, 1990 American Graffiti, 1973 Rocky, 1976 The Deer Hunter, 1978 The Wild Bunch, 1969 Giant, 1956 Platoon, 1986 Fargo, 1996 Patton, 1970 Goodfellas, 1990 Pulp Fiction, 1994 Full Metal Jacket, 1987 There's Something About Mary, 1998 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDM4AU 336 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 In no particular order: Tombstone Nat. Lampoon's Christmas Vacation PCU Rainmaker A Time To Kill Double Jeopardy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarolinaTiger 0 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 my favorite movie is 'The Sound of Music'. they don't make 'em like that anymore. ct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCTAU 3,341 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 Name your top 5. I'm basing mine on repeat viewings. Might not be the most important film, but ones that I can watch over and over and still love..1. Psycho(best horror film ever made and contains my favorite movie line.. "We all go a little mad sometimes" - can't find the DVD though) 2. Moulin Rouge(I'm expecting to be made fun of about this one, but I think it's a great movie - watched about 30 times) 3. Say Anything.. (I got the DVD from someone really special and it instantly became one of my favorites. John Cusack at his best) 4. Scream(I've watched this about 50 times and still think it set the standard for the way horror films are made in the 90's and 00's.) 5. The Princess Bride(Cheesy as hell, but also funny as hell. The quote in my sig is from this movie) Take a shot at it... I hope this wasn't already done and I missed it, if so.. sorry for the repeat. The Princess Bride is the only one I ever promote. It has somthing fo everyone and the whole family can watch it. "Have fun storm'in the castle". I could watch Armegeddon over and over and over....... Star Wars is always fun to watch. Also Indiana Jones 1 and 3. And just about ANY western with Clint Eastwood in it. "Dying ain't much of a liv'in, boy". And "A League of Their Own," always traps me when its on. "There's no cry'in in baseball." And Pirates of the Caribbean is slowly creeping its way up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AuNuma1 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 Pirates of the Caribbean would've been better if it were shorter...way too long. Quality movie though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigermike 3,050 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 A movie that has not been on anyones list (including mine) that I really liked is The Shawshank Redemption, (1994) Great acting and a good story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarEagleFL 0 Posted January 27, 2004 Author Share Posted January 27, 2004 Pirates of the Caribbean would've been better if it were shorter...way too long. Quality movie though. I agree, it was my second favorite of 2003. If only it was about 25 - 30 minutes shorter. Johnny Depp is the man though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCTAU 3,341 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 A movie that has not been on anyones list (including mine) that I really liked is The Shawshank Redemption, (1994)Great acting and a good story. I try to avoid Robbins, Penn, Sarandon, Streep, Baldwin, etc. These people may be good actors, but their idea of reallity and mine are way too different. That would be OK if they would just keep their mouth shut and act. But they think they have to be politicians too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BamaGrad03 0 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 Scent Of A Woman - Pacino's best movie ever. High Fidelity Seven Independence Day - I know I know Pulp Fiction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDM4AU 336 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 I failed to list: Shawshank Redemption Seven LA Confidential Memento What Lies Beneath Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenny AU-92 0 Posted January 27, 2004 Share Posted January 27, 2004 Independence Day - I know I know Hey, I loved that movie too!! No apology necessary. I loved The Shawshank Redemption mainly because it was a Steven King novella first - one of my favorite things that he ever wrote - and it was one of my favorites before the movie came out. Nothing supernatural or anything in it - just a great story. And the movie was damn sure right on the money - only two changes - one, making the character of Red a black man (but still highly plausible and made no change to the basic plot) and two, killing off the young guy that could have cleared Andy Duquesne - in the story, they bought him off with a reduced sentence on a work farm, where he could see his wife and young child on the weekend. Not a huge change, and did add some drama to the movie, but I didn't think the original plot line was too bad. Tim Robbins is a pinko, but he was great in that movie - like someone said, if he would just stick to what he does best and shut up about the rest of it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarEagleFL 0 Posted January 28, 2004 Author Share Posted January 28, 2004 Speaking of movies from novellas. Another one of my favorites would be Legends of the Fall written by Jim Harrison. There was quite a few changes to the movie that I wish weren't changed, but I still love the movie. A few more of my favorites are... Rounders Jaws Top Gun Cocktail I have really high hopes that Troy will be on this list come May. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKW 86 7,440 Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 What's so horrible about Titanic? You already know the dang thing sinks so what's to cry about? DELIBERATE Tear jerker - that is my point. Sad is fine - watching one's true love die an agonizing death being swallowed up by the frozen seas... And yeah - you know how it ends before it begins - so what's the point of watching. Boat sinks. People die. End of story. BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR is it just me or did it get cold in here just now? Romeo and Juliet-A Couple too young fall in love and a tragedy happens, end of story. My faves: No particular order.....Wrath of Khan, Titanic, To Kill a Mocking Bird (wanted to name Ethan, Atticus), In Harm's Way, The Thomas Crown Affair(II), Zhivago, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Rudy, Titans, Caddy Shack, Seven, LA Confidential, Patton, Schindler's List, Shane, GWTW and many more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarEagleFL 0 Posted January 28, 2004 Author Share Posted January 28, 2004 The Thomas Crown Affair was very good.. good pick David. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKW 86 7,440 Posted January 28, 2004 Share Posted January 28, 2004 Dude, I bought TCA(II)(Rene Russo) on video the day after I rented it(Rene Russo). Very well written,(Rene Russo) I also forgot to mention one other movie that I bought the day after I rented it. True Lies (Jamie Leigh Curtis) It has very good storyline(Jamie Leigh Curtis). And has a well written script(Jamie Leigh Curtis). There now, I think I will go take a shower....a cold shower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarEagleFL 0 Posted January 28, 2004 Author Share Posted January 28, 2004 Me thinks you like Rene Russo and the original scream queen TCA was very well written and had me guessing the whole way through. Pierce Brosnan was made for that role. I'm not a big fan of Jamie Lee Curtis but I have a few of the Halloween movies on DVD. True Lies was good though. I don't think she has the same effect on me that she does on you though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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