Your top 10 favourite movies.

[TheLuckyOne]

eatmyshorts said:

I don't really get why fight club is in almost every list! So dissapointing.

Edit: I really need to learn how to spell dissappointing.

Third time's the charm?


Disappointing.

-D

[Ms. Jellybean]

I hate picking favorite movies. Gar. But I couldn't resist.

Numbered but in no particular order, with a couple of explanations included!

1. The Princess Bride
2. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Fun soundtrack. Fun at midnight on Fridays. And I'm a low down cheap little punk. /end shameless plug)
3. V For Vendetta
4. Tombstone (Two words. Val Kilmer.)
5. Amadeus
6. Empire Records (They filmed this near my hometown. Ha.)
7. Almost Famous
8. Stranger Than Fiction (It's just that good.)
9. Rushmore
10. Little Miss Sunshine

[Ellielator]

This list pretty much changes all the time, but, hell (in no special order):


1. Primary Colors
2. I Spit on Your Grave
3. The Toy
4. The Birds II: Land's End
5. To Sir, with Love
6. Alice Adams
7. Cannibal Holocaust
8. Bambi
9. Fahrenheit 9/11
10. Please Don't Eat the Daisies

[RobOfTheDead]

As of now, what I can watch at any time.

10. The Thin Red Line
9. Spirited Away
8. Shaolin Soccer
7. Top Secret!
6. Dirty Work
5. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
4. A Tale of Two Sisters
3. The Departed (Love the original also)
2. Midnight Run (very underrated Robert De Niro movie)
1. The Happiness of the Katakuris (One of the most random films I've seen and a musical to boot.)

[sarahbot]

Despite my previous complaint, I'm procrastinating and feel the need to list. No particular order.

1. The Apartment. Forget Some Like it Hot, THIS is Billy Wilder's best movie.
2. Amelie
3. Die Hard
4. Much Ado About Nothing
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark
6. Crimewave, an unbelievably funny, very hard to find Canadian movie
7. Dogma
8. New Waterford Girl
9. In America
10. The Lion King

[DarthShady]

Well gosh darn. Ten. Heres my list for the moment.

10. Drop Dead Gorgeous
9. Rock & Roll High School
8. Snakes On A Plane
7. Dogma
6. The Warriors
5. Dazed and Confused
4. Empire Strikes Back
3. Breakfast At Tiffany's
2. Citizen Kane
1. The Graduate

It would've been mostly View Askew flicks and Star Wars, but I decided for more variety I'd just count my favorites of the series'.

[sirgallahad2]

My top 10

10. The Hills have eyes(remake)
9. Fight Club
8. Unleashed
7. Anchorman
6. Pink Floyd: The Wall
7. Thicker then water (AWESOME surfing movie)
6. The Descent
5. Grosse Pointe Blank
4. Aliens
3. Die Hard
2. Requiem For a Dream
1. The Crow

[DarthShady]

Wow. Thinking of The Wall made me remember how much I love that one too, but how I love The who's "Tommy" a bajillion times more than half my list....

Pretend DDG is knocked off there and put Tommy at #5.

[Ellielator]

Tommy was weird. At first, I dug it. But now... it's just... less than impressive. When I saw it on AMC or some such channel, I was in awe beyond awe. Especially the "Acid Queen" scene. I thought, this is some of the most amazing filmmaking I've ever experienced. Then, I excitedly bought the DVD and... I deflated. But I really think I know why. It's... the music. I can't believe how underwhelming and, ultimately, nauseating the music is. With the exception of "Acid Queen" I don't like 1 single song in that whole movie. Then, the movie made absolutely no sense. And now, I don't even get what the point was. Tommy... finds religion? Finds God? Feels God in the Sun somewhere? Me big time confused. I also thought it was really downright low to make the pervy Uncle character gay. Very unfair portrayal in my opinion. Makes the movie look like it's demonizing gay people, and the religious thing just sinches it by film's end. Then, the baked beans thing nearly made me physically ill. The "Amazing Journey" song was sonically ugly (my ears went "ewwww"). Oliver Reed was just playing the same charater he always plays in movies. The Ann-Margaret character came off genuinely as both caring and apathetic at the same time (so, I didn't get it... she was okay exploiting him only if he could see and hear?). The scene where the parents are killed is viciously inappropriate and feels stupid and nonsensical. And I hate that terrible Country/Folk type song about the Priest's daughter who runs away.

And The Wall... I hate that movie more than words can say. That was one of the ugliest movies I've ever seen. It wasn't trippy, it was... sickening. It was just plain gross. And again... I was waiting desperately for any of the insanity onscreen to have some kind of point. It was one of the most uncomfortable viewing experiences of my life. It wasn't fun or interesting at all. I don't know, I guess these movies appeal to people who had messed up drug hallucinations when they listened for years to their records before these movies were made.

[DarthShady]

Just watched The Departed again and am debating whether I should put it in the top 10 or not. Awesome movie.

[starwenn]

I have "Tommy," but while I don't hate the movie I've found there are more coherent ways to get your Who fix, and it makes my current top 10...

10) Cars
9) Brain Donors
8) Clue
7) The Princess Bride
6) The Kids Are Alright
5) Head
4) The Rescuers
3) The Band Wagon
2) Casablanca
1) The Empire Strikes Back

Honorable Mention - Dreamgirls, The Pirate Movie, Superman II, Singin' In The Rain, A Hard Day's Night, Little Miss Sunshine, The Philadelphia Story, Supergirl, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Alice In Wonderland, Toy Story 2

[ironica728]

1 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2 Black Hawk Down
3 Lord of the Rings
4 Moulin Rouge
5 Tombstone
6 Clerks and the rest of the series
7 Peter Pan [2003]
8 Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels & Snatch
9 The Crow
10 Serenity

Honorable Mentions: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Gladiator, The Departed, Pan's Labyrinth, Chicago, Star Wars, Fight Club, American History X

[Hilasophy]

1. Star Wars
2. Indiana Jones
3. Fight Club
4. Empire Records
5. An Affair to Remember
6. Moulin Rouge
7. Romeo + Juliet
8. Good Will Hunting
9. The Royal Tenenbaums
10. Hook

Honorable mention:

The Princess Bride, Spy Game, Thomas Crown Affair, The Hustler, Boondock Saints, Poolhall Junkies and The Departed.

[drew]

Not in order of preference... I had enough trouble whittling this down to ten.

The Big Lebowski
Bull Durham
Chasing Amy
Do the Right Thing
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Dumbo
Full Metal Jacket
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1973... duh)
Trainspotting
The Usual Suspects

[doroanne55]

1.)Casablanca
2.)The Birds (from the guy with the blond fetish)
3.)Princess Bride
4.)The Red Balloon
5.)Dark Passage (yes, another from Bogie, this time with Bacall)
6.)Fifth Element
7.)Deep Impact (although the family bought Armaggeddon)
8.)Raiders of the Lost Ark
9.)Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail
10.)Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
I find I can also watch most of the musicals over and over, the old ones that is... not the new ones with gore and studied vulgarity. I especially love the classic: Fiddler on the Roof. It seems I have a thing for roofs, hhhmmm.
That's my ten most favorite
doroanne