TOP TEN FILMS OF ALL TIME?? Advice for a budding film fan please...

[marcoddy]

Hi, I am interested to know... what you, the fellow film fan, would consider ten films that ANYONE who dares to call themselves a movie fan simply HAS to have seen....?

[bernardo]

Titanic
The Sound of Music
Triumph of the Will
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Airplane!
The Day of the Jackal
Terminator 2
Monty Python's the Meaning of Life
Theatre of Blood
Schindler's List
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1978 version)
2001: A Space Odyssey

[orange-gnome]

To be honest I wouldn't like to commit myself to naming 10 and then naming the most watched films of all time just because I couldnt think of anything else when I got to number 4! Oh and I am not saying that is what Bernado has done! Of all the movies I have seen one stands out simply for the beauty and vividness of it and that is "Kundun" (I hope that is the way it is spelt!). Also David Lynch movies are interesting to watch for the way they convey the story and are put together; "Lost Highway", "Mulholland Drive", "Blue Velvet" etc However when I watched Lost highway it took me a couple of attempts to get through it just because it freaked me out a bit but I am no good with stuff like that, you will see what I mean! Also "Fargo" which you have most likely seen but I love the simplicity with which such a grim story is told.

I hope that maybe I have mentioned just one movie you haven't yet seen! I would be interested to hear your opinion on any of them.

Merry viewing : )

 

 

[Xollob]

Blue Velvet
Brazil
Cassablanca
Clockwork Orange
Ghandi
Goodfellas
Fritz Lang's Metropolis
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Moulin Rouge
Titanic

[Personica]

As an answer to your complete question, bernardo has just about hit the nail on the head. also include...

• The Italian Job (Original version)
• Quadrophenia
• Wuthering Heights (Laurence Olivier Version)
• Quatermass
• All 1970's Dracula films
• Beetleguise
• Highlander
• The Green Mile (Must see)
• Scary movie
• Debbie Does Dallas

[blueeyedlass]

hey you have missed out grease , dirty dancing and pulp fiction.

[tonymclark]

It is all down to personal preference.

I'm sure those people who love musicals will call themselves a "movie fan", and so too will those that love Science-Fiction films. I know there must be some films that will top most peoples top ten, and ticket sales will back this up. Titanic has already been mentioned twice in replies. Brazil is mentioned, but isn't to everybody's taste ( I love the film ).

Planet of the Apes is one of my all-time favourites. Most of the rest of my top ten may well change with time. Nightmare Before Christmas and Carry On Screaming will be in there too.

I hope you can draw up a top ten of the top tens.

[waiglet]

Wouldn't like to try to pick 10 � it would run to almost 100 � but I can pick my all-time top three which never seem to change:

Psycho,
Lawrence of Arabia
The Fisher King.

[littleoldme]

To add to the list:

The Shawshank Redemption - for its daringly slow and thoughtful build-up of characterisation and tale of hope and determination through adversity.

Withnail And I - so many quotable lines, you can almost sing along with the script. The two Richards (E. Grant and Griffiths) shamelessly hamming it up more blatantly than Mariah Carey and Celine Dion having a Who Is The Most Sincere? contest.

Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? - a chilling story of madness and psychological cruelty, greatly helped by the real-life animosity between its two stars.

Police Academy 5 - its surface wackiness belying its undercurrent of cutting edge satire and deep sociological study of the seedy underbelly of modern society.

Actually, I may be lying about the last one.

[Sooper]

Hey Guys,
Well heres another ten to consider, sorry if any of them have already been mentioned. 

Platoon

Carlittos way

JFK

Leaving Las Vegas

Leon

The Big Blue

The Matrix

Empire Strikes Back

Gladiator

Donnie Darko
 

[OBonio]

I'd just like to add One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Must see doesn't describe it.

[The_Mac_Lad]

Once Upon A Time In America

One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

Jaws

The Good The Bad And The Ugly

Halloween

Assault On Precint 13 (Original Version)

The Long Good Friday

Goodfellas

Dirty Harry

Platoon

[Skellen]

cant believe no one has put

12 angry men, cinematic genius and a must see movie

[lissyl78]

Lilya 4 Ever

Breaking the Waves

Dancer in the Dark

Secretary

Love Liza

City of God

Moulin Rouge

My Own Private Idaho

Stand By Me

Romeo and Juliet (Baz Luhrmann) xxx

[Pinotage]

• The Searchers
• The Terminator
• Aliens
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Casablanca
• Hellzapopping
• The Good The Bad & The Ugly
• Seven Samurai
• Deep Throat
• Lawrence of Arabia

[Haj]

My top ten (subject to alteration  by the minute, and not necessarily in order)

Rocky 1

Bourne Identity

The Green Mile

Forest Gump

Gone with the wind

Stand by Me

Legends of the fall

Legally blonde

How to lose a guy in 10 days

Leon

[KittyGlitter]

In no particular order:

Once Upon A Time In The West
Amelie
Thelma and Louise
The Wizard of Oz (nostalgia)
A Simple Plan
The Night of the Hunter
Rear Window
Fargo
Aliens
Withnail and I

[spudqueen]

I'm no film buff but I would consider these must watch films:

Kind Hearts and Coronets
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Search
Saturday Night/Sunday Morning
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Conversation
Brief Encounter
Capricorn 1
Tremors
That'll Be The Day

[goldheart]

The Shawshank Redemption
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Scarface
Forest Gump
Monty Pythons Life of Brian
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Next
Legends of the Fall
Titanic
Weekend of Bernies - one of the funniest (rare to get hold of now) films to ever see (in my opinion)!!

[Cymru_Cowboy]

Cant't believe not one person has mentioned a Woody Allen film. 'Manhattan' and 'Annie Hall' are stunning works of comic and dramatic art. And 'Some Like It Hot' is missing....and 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'.....and 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind', 'True Romance', 'Magnolia' and 'Short Cuts' ...sigh. Glad 12 Angry men got a mention though. Oh.... and i watched 'Weekend at Bernies' about a year ago....there is a reason its pretty rare to find.......it was hysterical in like 1990 when i was 14.......not so anymore.