Top 8 Favorite Movies Ever.
This is your own opinion list.
God I love Top 5 Lists...but my favorite number is 8 so I had to go with it.
(In no particular order)
8: Wonder Boys: It's strange but I don't really really care for any of the actors in this movie, yet I love them all in this movie. Douglas and Maguire are hilarious. The bit with the dog, and "Vernon Hardapple" are classic. And the scene where they read the typewriter while Maguire is changing makes me kick myself for not writing more every single time I see it.
7: Almost Famous. Cameron Crowe is my favorite director...in part because of his ability to tell a great story and the other part because of his ability to capture the essence of a scene, of a moment, of a feeling through the music. This movie is the culmination of all of that.
6: Pulp Fiction. Great cast, great script, and a okay story done greatly. Favorite scene(s) "Man, I just shot Marvin in the face." and "I'm a mushroom cloud laying motherfucker, motherfucker."
5: High Fidelity. My favorite actor is John Cusack and you can't get much better than this. The first time I saw this movie, the character, his method of analyzing life and relationships, the musical moron twins that he works with, and the way that he more or less contradicts himself with what he says he believes, I said "Holy shit it's me."
4: Stand By Me. On so many levels this movie just hits me. It's got humor, yet sorrow. It's got the coming of age element, but it's got the seperation of the lost innocence. It's got archairc 80's actors (who would have thought that Vern would have been the most succesful kid as an actor) and it's just one of those stories that most everyone can relate to in one way or another.
3: The Goonies. How the hell can someone not love this movie? The Truffle shuffle, "Baby Ruth," "Sloth Love Chunk," "Fifty dowwa bill," the list goes on and on. It's got great adventure, great comedy, a setting which holds the story perfectly, and a Sloth. How can you go wrong?
2: Fight Club. What can I say that hasn't already been said here before? It still amazes me how a great story was captured, and enchanced, so greatly, so perfectly, and so passionately. The Raymond K. Hessel scene is my favorite scene of any movie ever.
1: Braveheart. The greatest epic that I've ever seen. This movie has two of my all time favorite characters...William Wallace and Stephen...and the history of this man is so compelling, and Mel Gibson did such a fantastic job with it, every time I watch it I'm still blown away by it.
Honorable Mention... The Big Lebowski, Rocky II, Wizard of Oz, The Godfather, and Scarface.
I'd make a full post but it would only be for the sake of including 8 1/2 as an honourable mention at the 8 1/2 spot, that and I'd probably put Se7en at 7. I guess by default that makes that Jet Li movie my facourite movie of all time.
My faves would include (in no particular order): Fight Club, Detroit Rock City, Wonderboys, High Fidelity, A Clockwork Orange, Snatch, American History X.
Mother Superior: "Would sir care for a starter? Some garlic bread perhaps?"
Renton: "No, thank you. I'll proceed directly to the intravenous injection of hard drugs, please."
There's just never enough room for all the quotes that seem necessary.
Damn. It's tough to only have 8. And I forgot Trainspotting. And Silence of the Lambs.
Mother Superior: "Would sir care for a starter? Some garlic bread perhaps?"
Renton: "No, thank you. I'll proceed directly to the intravenous injection of hard drugs, please."
There's just never enough room for all the quotes that seem necessary.
Snatch. Great movie.
8 huh? hmm maybe (in no order)...
seven, fight club, city of lost children, sex and lucia, reservoir dogs, akira, dark city
i'm not too sure due to so many, dont quote me
crap i need one more and i forgot night of living dead
Jesse, sorry but I thought Dark City sucked. Kiefer ruled though.
There's only one film older than 1980 on this list. Does that make me a godless heathen?
in no particular order...
Donnie Darko - If you haven't seen it, see it. Disturbed boy in late 80s suburbia sees killer bunny who tells him the end of the world is nigh. Everything in this movie is a clue and the whole thing is one big paradox... but what really gets me is that it's also a PERFECT representation of Bush I era life. The small details are what matters, from the troupe of dancing JonBenet Ramsey clones to the motivational speaker to... yeah. Mad points for NOT wrapping everything up into a neat little package at the end of the movie.
Braveheart - An epic with a killer Scottish soundtrack, mad bloodletting, British bashing, and Angus MacFayden. Word to your haggis.
Dead Poet's Society - Yes, that's the Dad from THAT 70's SHOW as the evil dad. I dunno why exactly I like this movie, but every so often I neeeeeed to watch this thing. Screw you, The Emperor's Club... you'll never be Tawanda!
Good Will Hunting - because I'm from Boston and no other movie has so captured the subtleties and nuances of the phrase "wicked pissah"
Trainspotting - Introduced Ewan MacGregor to the world. Made you really not want to do heroin. Revitalised the careers of Iggy Pop and New Order. Fed my druggie schoolgirl fetish. What's not to like?
Monty Python and the Holy Grail - oh, come on. Just because every geeky kid you know can quote the whole thing doesn't make it less of a work of comic genius. Don't playa hate.
Run Lola Run - mmm... Franke Portente. mmm... time warping. mmm... German techno. mmm... Franke Portente...
24 Hour Party People - the story of the Manchester scene in England from the first Sex Pistols show to the last really good rave, all told in snarky wonder by Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson, "a minor character in his own story." As self-obsessed and decadent as the scene itself was.
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8. I've packed all five of the Star Wars movies into one slot. Don't think I can do that? Well bugger off.
7. Good Will Hunting
6. 25th Hour
5. Signs
4. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Fight Club
2. The Green Mile
1. Donnie Darko
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Wings of Desire
Harold and Maude
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
It's A Wonderful Life
Badlands
The Godfather
Godfather 2
Brazil
Random order:
Boogie Nights
Blue Velvet
Notorious
Femme Fatale
Goodfellas
North by Northwest
The Big Lebowski
Barton Fink
It's funny seeing these types of lists, and how each person is different, yet some titles seem to pop up quite frequently.
Plus, if for nothing else, I guess it kind of gives a recommendation list for the movies people haven't seen. I for one haven't seen a lot of what people are mentioning, but I want to now.
Donnie Darko
American History X
Fight Club
Se7en (big on Fincher)
Big(hooray for the 80s)
E.T(ditto)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off(ditto...said Patrick Swayze)
The People Vs Larry Flint
Happy to see Donnie Darko representin'... the first cult smash of the new millenium.
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in vertical order:
The Big Labowski
Buffalo '66
The Goonies
Mallrats
Fight Club
Magnolia
Punch-Drunk Love
Six-String Samurai
and they all have great soundtracks.
All i have are these [i]Action Bills[/i].
I believe we may have done this already but hey...
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
2. Superman
3. A Boy Named Charlie Brown
4. Raging Bull
5. Jules and Jim
6. Shoot the Piano Player
7. The Paper Chase
8. The Graduate
9 and 10 would be The 400 Blows and...I dunno, Notorious. Favorites from recent years include The Ice Storm and Rushmore.
P.S. I like your style Mirkah. It's nice to know there are people still watching Wings of Desire and Badlands.
andy
orange jews, have you seen the rest of the movies in the Antoine Doinel series? I'm not sure which of them is my favorite. 400 Blows (and Antoine and Collete) is definitely in the lead, with Bed and Board probably coming in second, Stolen Kisses third, and ... Love on the Run in last place, because half of that movie is made up of clips from the others. Still, what a great series.
For the record, I like Wings of Desire too. The new transfer is amazing.
I love the Doinel movies. I have that box set from Criterion and it is the bombtrack...my god, too cool. I've tried to convince people to see them but they shrug and figure they're a bunch of old boring foreign films, which isn't so. They're some of the most charming and funny movies you're likely to see. Bed and Board is probably my second favorite after 400 Blows also. Claude Jade is so damn cute...Jesus...the toothpaste scene. Oooh, and the scene where they're reading in bed and she's wearing those big eyeglasses...ouch.
Truffaut really knew his stuff. If I had to chose an absolute favorite filmmaker, it would probably be him. His movies are priceless.
andy
"Made you really not want to do heroin."
Actually, it had just the opposite effect on me.
ok i have no clue which order to do these by..so I'll list some of my favorite movies..Fight Club,Run Lola Run, Memento,High Fidelty,The Goonies,The Breakfast Club, The Godfather parts 1 and 2, Casino, Breakfast at Tiffanys,Seven Year Itch,Seven,Donnie Darko, Friday, all the Micheal Myers and Jason movies..cause theres plenty of em~!
did I forgetto mention Magnolia and American Beauty..I love these two..Kevin Spacey in American Beauty is funnier than shit.Magnolia was a great movie, with somegood music,Aimee Mann really didit with this one
ok if we're going with our favorite numbers mine is going to be a top 12 list. so there.
12. Halloween series
11. Braveheart
10. Forrest Gump
9. Good Will Hunting
8. Gladiator
7. Les Visiteurs (original French version)
6. 9/11: Director's Cut
5. Nine Inch Nails live: And All That Could Have Been
4. Se7en
3. The Matrix (I and II, third will probably be included)
2. Fight Club
1. American Beauty
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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by orange jews [/i]
[B]They're some of the most charming and funny movies you're likely to see. Bed and Board is probably my second favorite after 400 Blows also. Claude Jade is so damn cute...Jesus...the toothpaste scene. Oooh, and the scene where they're reading in bed and she's wearing those big eyeglasses...ouch. Truffaut really knew his stuff. If I had to chose an absolute favorite filmmaker, it would probably be him. His movies are priceless.[/B][/QUOTE]
Yeah, you really fall in love with the idea of them as a couple, and then it all goes to shit. The dialogue is the best in Bed and Board too, especially in that scene where they walk out on the street together at night.
And I completely agree about them being old French films and disdained for it. I told someone about my buying the Criterion set and she completely dismissed them — "Oh, great, wow" — in that way that people always do. It's so disappointing. Watching them, you know that these should be shared with another person, and not many people are interested.
I haven't seen his most famous one yet.. my brain's fried from the day, so I can't remember the title.. .. well, the one where they're running on the cover? I'll remember the title as soon as I post this.
Jules et Jim has a relatively famous running scene...I'm not sure if it's on the cover though.
andy
That's it. I was thinking of the Fox Lorber DVD.
I think this might require more brain power than I'm capable of right now, now having consumed enough caffeine but it seems like fun so I'll take a stab at it.
In no particular order:
Contact
Wonderboys
Fight Club
Pollock
Bringing Up Baby
Nightmare Before Christmas (and pretty much anything by Tim Burton)
Signs
Drugstore Cowboy
Wow...choosing just 8 is tough...
There are no mistakes.
I see someone mentioned Casino as a favorite.
Is there a greater scene that Joe Pesci jabbing the hell out of that guy with the pen? That rocked.
umm... no order but here's 6 I can think of:
Uhaul
Ryder
Two Guys in a Van
A & M Movers
Penske
Mayflower
“If you can quit, probably you should.”
-Alexander Blackburn, then editor of Writer’s Forum in Colorado
Oh yeah. That bit about him yelling something along the lines of 'what do you think I am, a fucking clown?!?' Or was that not Casino... ?
I don't know if that was from Casino.
The scene I was referring to was when DeNiro asked the guy at the bar if the pen lying there was his and the guy said, "Stick it up your fucking ass," and Pesci grabbed it and went OJ on that guy's neck.
That scene with the "What am I a clown? I amuse you?" is from Goodfellas, Pesce wrote and directed that scene at Scorsese's request.
Yeah, yeah. Where he shot the kid from the Sopranos in the foot.
In [u]no[/u] order.
[b][color=red]Snatch[/color][/b]
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[b][color=red]Gladiator[/color][/b]
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[b][color=red]Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels[/color][/b]
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[b][color=red]Passion of Joan of Arc[/color][/b]
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[b][color=red]Lawrence of Arabia[/color][/b]
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[b][color=red]Fellowship of the Ring[/color][/b]
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[b][color=red]Equilibrium[/color][/b]
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[b][color=red]Princess Bride[/color][/b]
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Way too hard. So I picked the titles out of what I had most recently seen(repeat viewings included).
Princess Bride kicks ass.
"Stop it, I mean it!
Anybody want a peanut?"
"Maaarridge is what bwings us togevvvva toooday."
"Wuv....truuuue wuv."
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Dr. Strangelove
The Big Lebowski
Jackass: The Movie
Amelie
Barton Fink
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
1941
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[B]hollywood shuffle
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branded to kill
alphaville
seven samurai
akira
memento
edward scissorhands [/B][/QUOTE]
Branded to Kill I tired watching but could not get into it. Alphaville is a favorite and my favorite French New Wave. The film is awesome. Finally, Seven Samurai asks for too much from it's audience. The film is tediously and agonizingly boring. I can not see how anyone can handle subsequent viewings of this the worst Kurosawa and most overrated film ever.
Not bad choices. It could be worse! I especially dig 1,2,4 and 6.