Best Movies of All Time

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Okay all the talk of the Oscars has got me thinking about what films I'd vote for as the greatest ever made. So if you could vote for just five what would they be?

 

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I have tastes which don't always appeal to people but my top 5 films in no particular order are:

Ferris Buellers Day Off
Leon
Die Hard
Halloween
An American Werewolf in London

 

No particular order:

Casablanca
Seven Samurai
Star Wars
The Maltese Falcon
Singin' in the Rain
The Great Escape
The Wizard of Oz
Gone with the Wind
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Young Frankenstein

Remember, the thread is titled "Best Movies of *All* Time", not just most popular in the last ten years or so.

 

This is going to sound very cheesy but my favorite movie of all time Orange County with Jack Black and Colin Hanks. I know thats not the greatest movie of all time by far though.

I would say probobly:

Star Wars
Blazing Saddles
Casablanca
Psycho (original not remake)

not necessarily in that order

 

Mine are:

Independence Day
The Matrix
Star Wars (Empire Strikes Back)
Superman The Movie
Batman Begins
JFK
Spider-Man 2

And thats not the whole list lol...however I put JFK in the list cos I watched that 2 weeks ago and totally forgot just what a fantastic and gripping movie it is. So I am proud to have it in my list

 

Lord Of The Rings - I still watch it once every three months or so, and cannot believe what a fantastic job he made of bringing my favourite books to life
The Maltese Falcon - most quotable dialogue in a film ever
Double Indemnity - Barbara Stanwyck was the sexiest woman that ever lived
Snatch - funniest film I've ever seen - non-stop laughs, and the best British script for years
Scum - harrowing
The Village - I don't care if it was panned - I love it
The Machinist - just awesome
Silent Running - no-one else has heard of it, but its still the only film that can make me cry every time I see it
Any Marx Brothers film from the golden era (Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, A Day At The Races etc) - just because Grouch Mars makes me p*** myself laughing every time I watch them. A neat trick considering I've seen them all about fifty times
Silent Hill - by far the best adaptation of a videogame ever
The Thing - best use of atmosphere in a film ever
Vertigo - beautiful, fantastic performance from Jimmy Stewart and an awesome soundtrack
Goodfellas - well, its just Goodfellas. Genius
LA Confidential - best cast performance ever, except for...
Glengarry Glen Ross - just awesome
Pulp Fiction/Reservoir Dogs - Tarantino was brilliant before he disappeared up his own arse
Picnic At Hanging Rock - scared the shite out of me as a kid, now I watch it not for the fright, but for the eerieness of it - the most beautifully shot film I think I've ever seen
Ring/Grudge - can't separate them - the two most frightening films I can remember
The Big Heat - Glenn Ford cast completely against type and putting in the most memorable 'man pushed over the edge' performance you could ever wish for
Romeo Is Bleeding - Gary Oldman and Lena Olin make this film what it is - a twisted, dark, noir-extraordinaire
Blazing Saddles/Young Frankenstein - Mel Brooks is a genius
Fletch Lives - I can quote every single line verbatim - universally panned and, according to some critics the worst movie ever made. Utter nonsense - Chevy Chase achieves the almost impossible - equally making you want to be his best buddy whilst at the same time wanting to cave his head in with a shovel

There's tons more - I watch a LOT of films

 

I could maybe narrow it down to five in each genre.

Action

Die Hard
Equilibrium
Big Trouble in Little China
The Matrix
The Karate Kid

Adventure

Krull
Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Day After Tomorrow
Deep Impact

Comedy

BIG
Stir Crazy
Good Morning Vietnam
Something About Mary
You Got Mail

Crime/Gangster

Casino
Goodfellas
American Psyco
Silence of the Lambs

Drama

The Shawshank Redemption
Forrest Gump
Beaches
Philadelphia
Men of Honour

Epics/Historical

Gladiator
Kingdom of Heaven
Braveheart
Troy
Lord of the Rings - Return of the king
The Passion of Christ

Horror

Halloween
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Poltigist
The Mothman Prophecies
Nightmare on Elm Street (1)


Musicals

Phantom of the Opera
Rigoletto
Annie


Science Fiction

Forbidden Planet
Bicentennial Man
Brave New World
Aliens
Star Wars - A New Hope
Terminator


War

Schindler's List
The Pianist
Saving Private Ryan
Platoon

Honorable mentions:

Groundhog Day
Cast Away
300
Leon

 

Most of the movies you all are listing are fabulous and I can totally agree with your choices (some, I've never seen and a few *suk*, IMHO).

Actually Lauren Bacall is the sexist woman in film based on her role in To Have or Have Not. She was only 19 when she played opposite Bogart, but man oh man, she was incredible. The line she delivered that brought it home was "If you need me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you. Just put your lips together...and blow".

Bogart's lines in the Maltese Falcon were fantastic. You really have to watch closely when he's winding up the bad guys and laughing about it afterwards (the last part only lasts a few seconds so if you blink, you miss it).

I agree that Mel Brooks is a great director of comedic parodies and I just watched Blazing Saddles again last week. You have to know about 15 or 20 other films to get all of the lines and characters in the movie. Bar none, Young Frankenstein is his best film, though and ironically (and especially for a comedy), the story line is the closest of any film to the original novel.

I *have* heard of Silent Running. A very underratted film, in my opinion. Very early 1970s, environmentalist movie set on a ship in space. I remember watching it numerous times at a drive-in movie theatre (remember them?) decades ago. Another good unsung Science Fiction film is Dark Star.

I tried watching the Superman movie a few weeks back (especially after watching the first six seasons of Smallville on DVD), but I couldn't get past the "Can you read my mind..." part (yuck).

 

Hey Zeb the Ring/Grudge are brilliant as long as you are meaning the Japanese versions although Naomi watts & Sarah Michelle Gellar are worth watching any time, you can't beat the originals.

 

Good call on lauren Bacall - but I still think Barbara Stanwyck has her beat. Just that bit in Double Indemnity where she's sitting on the chair - Neff thinks he playing her, but you just know from the look in her eye that she has him absolutely wrapped round her finger...

I know the bit you mean in The Maltese Falcon - just after he smashes the glass in Gutman's hotel room, then storms out - you catch him smiling as he saunters off to the lift. Class. My favourite lines are:
"I hope you're not letting yourself be influenced by the guns these pocket edition desperadoes are waving around"
"The cheaper the crook the gaudier the patter", and my all time favourite:
"What do you want me to do, learn to stutter?"

The coolest man that ever lived.

 

100% Japanese original. US remakes were toss. I also really liked Dark Water - not quite as frightening as Ring or The Grudge, but still very, very eerie. That bnit where Sadako comes out of the TV in 'Ring' almost had me chewing my fist off in fear!

If you like oriental movies, you should check out Gwoemul (The Host). its a Korean monster movie - and is utterly awesome

 

Not seen Gwoemul I'll check it out

I thought Ringu was brilliant but it was the kid in the grudge that freaked me out. Another good Japanese film is Battle Royale not scary but but bloody.

I even have all the Godzilla movies

Edit: dark water was good too.

 

I never really 'got' BR. I've watched it a good few times as well - too me, it always just seemed gratuitously violent. I know that's what the director was aiming for, and I understand all the references to the way Japanese culture is going, the nihilism of modern Japanese youth and the ultra-conservatism of their politics, it just doesn't 'do' anything for me. A similar film (though from much, much earlier) is 'If...' with Malcolm McDowell - that didn't do anything for me either.

i soooo wanted Godzilla (the modern one) not to be pants... sadly it was

PS: I know what you mean about the kid in The Grudge - the bit under the sheets really REALLY freaked me - but I just can't get past Sadako's eye for freakiness... (oooh, I'm shivering thinking about it!)

 

ahh you can't beat the original Godzillas heh heh. The bit that freaked me in the grudge was the sheets bit, but what about the bit in the car in the grudge 2? I nearly crapped my pants when the camera reveals the kid under that dashboard.

 

LotR
Leon
The Usual Suspects
Fight Club
Blade
V for Vendetta
Ghost

 

In no particular order:

It's a Wonderful Life
Terminator
Lord of the Rings
The Ring
Highlander (the first one with Sean Connery)
The Rock
Shallow Hal
any Agatha Christie film with Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple
Sideways
Holiday Inn

 

hmm for me it would be in order!

1 the wicker man (the original)
2 falling down
3 battlestar galactica (reimaged 3hr pilot ep)
4 ST the wrath of khan
5 firefox

I've got loads of films that I love but off the top of my head but the above 4 stand out to me as being the most solid in every way.

 

I love movies a lot so choosing a definitive list is just an impossible task for me. I'll go ahead and list a few of my favourites 'off-the-cuff' but by no means at all is this my definitive list of favourite movies of all time. I'd be constantly reviewing the list, adding titles I'd forgotten to add or changing them round etc.

Anyway, here's some of my favourites:

100 Days With Mr. Arrogant
Back To The Future I, II and III
The Godfather I and II
Watch Out We're Mad
Somewhere In Time
Terminator I and II
Dawn Of The Dead (197
LA Twister
Rocky I, II, III and VI
Lost Horizon
...ing
Barefoot In The Park
Naked Gun
Pulp Fiction
The Shawshank Redemption
Grindhouse
Il Mare
Natural City
The Karate Kid
Hard Boiled
Akira
Catch Me If You Can
Sixteen Candles
Ghost In The Shell
Big
The Breakfast Club
Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom
Crank
The Warriors
Knocked Up
The World's Fastest Indian
Lucky Number Slevin
Human Traffic
Patlabor
Apocalypse Now (the 5 hr long workprint)
Top Secret
Airport
Lost In Translation
Schindler's List
City Of God
Goodfellas
Metropolis
Mr Smith Goes To Washington
Napoleon Dynamite
Fight Club
Braindead
Bad Taste
La Haine
Kill Bill Volume 1
Groundhog Day
Once
Tetsuo
Any Godzilla, Gamera and 'sentai' movie
There Will Be Blood


I'll probably edit this post in the next 20 minutes or so haha!

 

What, no love for Pixar flicks? They're my favorite, particularly Toy Story. Even Blue Sky, the makers of Ice Age, are excellent as well (they made Robots too, I think).

Anything with Schwarzenegger, Hanks, Ford, or Bale is good too. Too many to list, really, and most good ones have already been mentioned.