Top Ten Movies of all Time

michael furey wrote:

1. Pulp Fiction

2. Spirited Away

3. The Social Network

4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

5. Toy Story

6. District 9

7. Pan's Labyrinth

8. Howl's Moving Castle

9. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

10. Last of the Mohicans

Oh jeez, most of that's a bunch of p*ssywhip sh*t.

John Wayne was a terrible and limited actor. He was lucky that John Ford knew how to use him in the proper context, but please. He was not a good actor.

Did someone put "Cowboys and Aliens" on his list? Seriously?

Along with those mentioned, I'd put a couple of other films directed by David Lean near the top, "Great Expectations" and "Bridge on the River Kwai."

Clint Eastwood's done some really fine work "Letters from Iwo Jima" was in black and white, in Japanese, and was sympathetic to our WW2 enemies, which made it a gamble. One that paid off.

1. Legends of the fall

2. The godfather part 2

3. Unforgiven

4. Tombstone

5. Rocky

6. Full metal jacket

7. Brave heart

8. Empire of the sun

9. The godfather

10. Pulp fiction

Why has no-one mentioned Eli Kazan's two classics...Street Car Named Desire, and On the Waterfront? geesh i thought they were pretty good.

Also i'd like to put in a good word for Vertigo.

Any love out there for a Chaplin flick..?!

And, oh yes, while i'm at it...some of the Nouvelle Vague are memorable...Truffaut and Jean Luc Goddard!

And in the genre of comedy i must mention Animal House--it seems to have an enduring appeal; although one must absolutely see the complete and UNCUT version...not the muck up the TV shows

FORREST GUMP.....captured the whole baby boomer generation....I am not an emotional person, but I sat in a theatre at the end, stunned, and heard a few people crying...

Jeets wrote:

FORREST GUMP.....captured the whole baby boomer generation....I am not an emotional person, but I sat in a theatre at the end, stunned, and heard a few people crying...

Crying? Over Forrest Gump? Decent film, but....crying

I didn't say I was cring, but I guess your not a baby boomer.

The Birth of a Nation

1. The Godfather

2. Seven Samurai

3. Empire Strikes Back

4. Casablanca

5. Lawrence of Arabia

6. The Good the Bad and the Ugly

7. The Graduate

8. The Tree of Life

9. Apocalypse Now

10. Titanic

1. Blue Velvet

2. Aguirre, Wrath of God

3. Modern Times

4. Manhattan

5. Rear Window

6. Wild Strawberries

7. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

8. Lord of the Rings ( Fellowship of the Ring )

9. Dr. Strangelove

10. Taxi Driver

Top ten.. let's see...

Looper was good.

My 10 in no particular order -

The Godfather

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Gran Torino

Apocalypse Now

Cinema Paradiso

Unforgiven

Midnight Cowboy

Braveheart

Citizen Kane

Raging Bull

Not in my top ten but high on my list. Not many have seen the following film. It has a long name, and the movie runs 160 minutes.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443680/

Excellent acting by Brad Pitt, Mary-Louise Parker, Casey Affleck, Sam Rockwell, Jeremy Renner, and Sam Shepard.

Hard to Believe wrote:

Jeets wrote:

FORREST GUMP.....captured the whole baby boomer generation....I am not an emotional person, but I sat in a theatre at the end, stunned, and heard a few people crying...

Crying? Over Forrest Gump? Decent film, but....crying

Are you crying? ARE YOU CRYING? There's no crying! THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!

Worth Watching wrote:

Not in my top ten but high on my list. Not many have seen the following film. It has a long name, and the movie runs 160 minutes.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443680/

Excellent acting by Brad Pitt, Mary-Louise Parker, Casey Affleck, Sam Rockwell, Jeremy Renner, and Sam Shepard.

One of my personal favorites, but it shouldn't be high on your list. The movie is too long and loses focus several times. I understand what they were going for, but they whiffed at it. I didn't think Pitt did a particularly great job either. Casey Affleck held his own, but he's probably the only one who delivered a top-notch performance in that movie. I believe there's several things they would do to make the movie scores better, if given the chance to redo it.

I wouldn't quite put it in the top ten, but "Lone Star" by John Sayles, which no one has mentioned, comes pretty close.

I'll be honest: I really don't know enough about movies to have a credible opinion on what the top ten all-time are. My favorites are:

1) Casablanca

2) The Seventh Seal

3) The Sound of Music

4) Harvey

5) Roman Holiday

6) Yojimbo

7) The Tree of Life

8) Oh Brother Where Art Thou?

9) The African Queen

10) Fast Times at Ridgmont High

The Answer My Friend wrote:

It appears that many folks here haven't even seen a movie that's more than six years old.

Or made outside Hollywood