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25 July 2007

Your Favourite Films? Mine: →[More:]

12 Angry Men#
21 Grams
8 ½
2001: A Space Oddessy
A Christmas Story
A Clockwork Orange
A Fish Called Wanda
A Mighty Wind
A Streetcar Named Desire
Alien
All About Eve
Amadeus
Amélie (Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)
American Beauty
American Graffiti
American History X
American Psycho
Angel Heart
Animal House
Annie Hall
Apocalypse Now
Band Of Brothers (box set)
Barfly
Barry Lyndon
Batman Begins
Being John Malkovich
Being There
Best In Show
Birth
Bladerunner (Director's Cut)
Blood Simple
Blue Velvet
Boogie Nights
Bottle Rocket
Brazil
Broken Flowers
Bullitt
Bus 174
Casablanca
Casino Royale
Children of Men
Chinatown
Cidade de Deus
Citizen Kane
Clerks
Dangerous Liasons
Das Leben der Anderen
Dead Man Walking
Do The Right Thing
Dogville
Donnie Darko
Down By Law
Downfall
Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb)
Drugstore Cowboy
Ed Wood
Edward Scissorhands
Election
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fantasia
Fargo
Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
Fellowship Of The Ring (4-disc set)
Ferris Beuller's Day Off
Fight Club
Finding Nemo
Full Metal Jacket
Gattaca
Ghost World
Goodfellas
Gosford Park
Grave of the Fireflies (Hotaru no haka)
Harold And Maude
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban
Heathers
Help!
Hero
Hidden
High Fidelity
His Girl Friday
I Heart Huckabee's
Il Buono, il brutto, il cattivo
Insomnia
L.A. Confidential
Lawrence Of Arabia
La Femme Nikita
La Cité des enfants perdus
Leaving Las Vegas
Léon (The Professional)
Life Of Brian
Lolita
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Magnolia
Manhattan
MASH
Memento
Miller's Crossing
Minority Report
Modern Times
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Mulholland Drive
Nashville
Network
North By Northwest
O Brother, Where Art Thou
Ocean's Eleven
On The Waterfront
Once Upon a Time In America
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Pan's Labyrinth
Papillon
Paris, Texas
Pi
Primer
Psycho
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raising Arizona
Ray
Rear Window
Requiem For A Dream
Reservoir Dogs
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Rosemary's Baby
Run Lola Run
Rushmore
Schindler's List
Se7en
Serenity
Seven Samurai
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Shallow Grave
Short Cuts
Shaun of the Dead
Shichinin no samurai
Sideways
Sleeper
Sling Blade
Snatch
Some Like It Hot
Spartacus
Star Wars, Episode V
Sunset Boulevard
Taxi Driver
Team America - World Police
The Adventures Of Baron Von Munchausen
The Beatles – A Hard Day's Night
The Big Lebowski
The Birds
The Bounty
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
The Deer Hunter
The Departed
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Elephant Man
The Fifth Element
The Five Obstructions (De Fem benspænd)
The French Connection
The Godfather (and part II)
The Hustler
The Last Temptation Of Christ
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Limey
The Maltese Falcon
The Manchurian Candidate
The Matrix
The Meaning Of Life
The New World
The Player
The Prestige
The Princess Bride
The Proposition
The Royal Tennenbaums
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
The Silence Of The Lambs
The Sixth Sense
The Sting
The Straight Story
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
The Usual Suspects
This Is Spinal Tap
Time Bandits
To Die For
To Kill A Mockingbird
Touch Of Evil
Toy Story
Trainspotting
True Romance
Twelve Monkeys
Unforgiven
Untold Scandal
Vampire's Kiss
Vertigo
Wallace And Gromit - The Curse Of The Were Rabbit
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolfe?
Wild at Heart
Wonder Boys
Yellow Submarine
Young Frankenstein

*this is a working list

post by: chuckdarwin at: 09:22 | 31 comments

I've been collecting my movie 'rankings' on this website called Criticker that SassHat turned me on to. Here's a link to my rankings--though I don't know if this will work correctly. Anyway, I'm no film expert, I just like making lists.

posted by mullacc 25 July | 09:28

Limiting it to 10:

The Big Lebowski
This Is Spinal Tap
Lost in Translation
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2001
Ghost World
Spirited Away
Children of Men
Citizen Kane
Manhattan

with a closing plug for Wrath of Khan, which is way, way better than any Star Trek movie has a right to be.

posted by cobra! 25 July | 09:48

We have many of the same faves, but I'm with Corbal on limiting it to 10. It makes you commit a bit more. But if I just kept going we'd have very similar lists.

Off the top of my head, they are (in order of them coming to me - the first few are ALWAYS the first few):

A Hard Days Night
the Great Escape
Goodfellas
Raising Arizona
the Philadelphia Story
Arsenic and Old Lace
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Die Hard
the Godfather

Tomorrow there might be a change of one or two, but generally these are the ones I almost always fall back on and could watch anytime over and over. Bull Durham was there for a second, but as I was about to hit post I remembered the Godfather. And Spinal Tap not being on there is just wrong. See, it can go on foever. I love making lists, but I labor over them so damn much as if there was a prize or something at the end.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 25 July | 10:07

Some of my favorites:

The Muppet Movie
Harvey
Skidoo!
The Big Lebowski
M
Animal Crackers
Dr. Strangelove
True Stories
Brazil
The Adventures of the Baron Munchausen
Evil Dead 2
North by Northwest
Top Secret!
The Manchurian Candidate (the original, I haven't seen the new one)
Delicatessen
Yojimbo
Seven Samurai
Ed Wood
Magnolia
Bubba Hotep
The Conversation
The Cat Returns
Zardoz
Super Troopers
Angel Heart
Blue Velvet
The Princess Bride
Star Trek II

... that's off the top of my head. I'm sure there are more.

posted by the great big mulp 25 July | 10:44

oh!

I seem to have forgotten Wings of Desire and Casablanca.

posted by the great big mulp 25 July | 10:50

Crap, yeah, I really should have Strangelove in place of 2001. By a nose.

And really, I keep wanting burst out another 20 or so.

posted by cobra! 25 July | 10:52

Off the top of my head, stopping at ten no matter what:

Ghost Dog
Millhouse!
Salesman
Over the Edge
Jails, Hospitals and Hip-Hop
Scratch
The qatsi movies
Baraka
The Big Lebowski
Glengarry Glen Ross

posted by box 25 July | 10:55

Some I forgot:

I Know Who Killed Me (2007)
Georgia Rule (2007)
Chapter 27 (2007)
Bobby (2006)
Just My Luck (2006)
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
Herbie Fully Loaded
Mean Girls (2004)
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004)
Freaky Friday (2003)
The Parent Trap (1998)

KIDDING! Ow. Stop. Hitting. Me. Ouch.

OK. I take it back. She's a great actress. Fucking stellar. She could give Meryl Streep acting lessons!

*wink*

posted by chuckdarwin 25 July | 11:00

Empire Strikes Back
Ghostbusters
Die Hard
Once Upon a Time in the West

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 25 July | 11:22

And all three LotR flicks I suppose. Don't see many movies. Have not seen more than a few a year since my mid-teens.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 25 July | 11:23

Oh go away, chuckdarwin. You are not cute as you think.

When I think of "favorite" movies, I think of comfort movies, like "A League of Their Own", "Ten Things I Hate About You", other silly teen flicks. I've certainly enjoyed other movies- some Bollywood flicks, some hard-hitting dramas, but I wouldn't think of them as my "favorites".

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 25 July | 11:36

You are not cute as you think.

I was just jerking your chain. Honest.

Taste is subjective. Mine isn't better than yours.

posted by chuckdarwin 25 July | 12:08

You're hella cute, chuckdarwin, and funny to boot. Don't go away.

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Das Boot
Super Troopers
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Battle of Algiers
Miller's Crossing
White Heat
Casablanca
Zatôichi
Clueless

That's neither complete nor particularly representative.

posted by Hugh Janus 25 July | 12:21

La Grande Illusion or Ladri Di Biciclette, I can never decide

posted by matteo 25 July | 12:34

This is from the opening scene of one of my favourite movies. I defy you not to strut!

posted by essexjan 25 July | 13:07

Ten from the top of my head, not including things like Mothra on the Island of the Mecha Monsters or CrocodileOSaurus Eats Teenagers By The Score of which I am deeply fond but more in a sort of, you know, genre way rather than an individual movie way because basically, one Gamara movie is more or less indistinguishable from the next Gamara movie. Just take it as a given that if there's a giant monster movie out I will so be there and also, I am always perfectly happy to lie on the couch and watch Planet of the Prehistoric Women.

The Man Who Would Be King
The Secret of Roan Inish
Coca Cola Kid
Repo Man
Casablanca
The Thin Man
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Pink Flamingos
Scotland, PA
Raising Arizona

posted by mygothlaundry 25 July | 13:24

Ah! How could I have forgotten Repo Man?

posted by the great big mulp 25 July | 13:32

mygothlaundry - Scotland, PA! Wow. I forgot that.

Ever seen Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1989) ?

posted by chuckdarwin 25 July | 13:33

Hugh, Miller's Crossing is the finest organised crime film ever made. IMO, of course.

Yer pretty cute yerself. In a guy way. Ahem.

posted by chuckdarwin 25 July | 13:34

REPO MAN. What a deeply, deeply subversive film. If 'the man' could understand that flick, it would've been banned.

Goddamn-dipshit-Rodriguez-gypsy-dildo-punks! I'll get your ass!

posted by chuckdarwin 25 July | 13:38

ThePinkSuperhero - Have you ever seen Ghost World?

posted by chuckdarwin 25 July | 13:42

cobra! you have a tasty list. Manhattan is a recent favourite, but I think it may be the best-photographed film ever.

posted by chuckdarwin 25 July | 13:44

Yeah, Manhattan's the only Woody Allen film that I love without reservations (I like a lot of the rest of his stuff, but there's usually an asterisk involved), and I think the look is a big part of it.

posted by cobra! 25 July | 14:13

Hrm. An off-the-top of my head list in no particular order with some left off no doubt:

The Graduate (my all time #1)
A Bout de Souffle
Mean Streets
Maltese Falcon
Double Indemnity
Sunset Boulevard
Best in Show
Touch of Evil
Bring it On
and the LOTR movies.

posted by gaspode 25 July | 14:21

Night of the Comet. That's it.

posted by Divine_Wino 25 July | 14:40

I also like Night of the Hunter and Night on Earth.

posted by box 25 July | 14:46

Night of the Comet. That's it.

God, I had forgotten that movie even existed.

posted by jrossi4r 25 July | 14:58

LOTR x3
Star Wars (the original - it was all downhill from there, IMHO)
The Wall (of course)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Life of Brian
Ice Age
The Incredibles
A Fish Called Wanda (and pretty much anything with John Cleese)

There's lots more - I can never remember names of movies off the top of my head but, when I see the title, I often think "oh yeah, great movie, must see that again some time and then promptly forget.

posted by dg 25 July | 15:59

Here are the ones I have remebered to add to my IMDB list. Not complete but about 200 of them.

posted by arse_hat 25 July | 17:05

Gaspode aside, don't any of you people watch anything made before 1980?

My list can smack down your list filter: Pick any several by Hitchcock, Wilder and Sturges. (I will allow a few "modern" slots for Messrs Altman, Scorsese, Coppola.)

* nose resumes regular altitude *

posted by rob511 25 July | 20:01

But ... but over half of mine are pre-1980. And I've just realized that I've forgotten Fitzcaraldo. And Aguirre: The Wrath of God.

posted by the great big mulp 26 July | 13:40

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